" THE F.6lR.MER IS OF MORE COJVSEQ UEJVCE THAN -THE

 

  

.-ERJII, .4JV'.D SHOULD BE FIRST IMPROVED.”

  

VOLUME X.I—No. 48 )
WHOLE NUMBER 248.

COLDWATER, MICH; DECEMBER 15, 1886.

. ALDRICH & CO.

Printed by A.
WATER REPUBLICAN.

Publishers of the CO

OFFICIAIJ DIRECTOR Y.

Omcei-s National Grange.
lI4.rter——PUT DARD EN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . .Mississippi

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Oven-ter——JAl\i ES L DRAPER... .M husem
Dctur2r—MOi{T. WHITEF EAD . . .New Jersey
&nuard—J. E. HALL . . . . . . . . . . . .West Virginia

‘ I-irtarrr Stewar-i——W, H ew. Ham hire

 

CIIa)lar'n—-A. J ROSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. exas
Tr-za.rur:r——F. M. MCDOWELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . .New York
S¢c1:tizr_y——JNO. TRIMBLE, 514 FSL,Washing!0n. D.C.
, Gate Keef¢r—-H. THOMPSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Delaware
Cn'::—-MRS. KATE DARDEN. . . . . ..Mississrppr
P rnm—l\IRS. S. H. NEAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Kentucky
FZora——MRS. JAMES C DRAPER . . . . . . .“ chusem

Lady Assistant Stc'rurIrd—MRS. E. M. LIPSCOM B,
South Carolina

Executive Cornmlftee.

. M. BLANTON, Ch'n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Virginii
J. H. BRIGHAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  .Ohio
I. J, WOODMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Michrgan

Ilflicei-R Mlclilgnn State Grange.

      
     
   

  

   
   
   

J!a:ter—C. G. LUCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gilead
0IIer.rt:r-JOHN HOLISRUOR . . .Lansing
Lecturer-)‘ERR\" MAYO . . . . . . . . attle Creek
Stru/ard—I-IARRISON BRAD. HAW North Branch
Assistant Steward ——A.  GREEN Walled Lake
Ckaplar'u—l. N. CARPENTER. .. ....Sherman
Tr:a.rurcr——E. A. STRON G . . . . . . . . . . . . .Vicl<sburg

Sgt,-(tar)/——-J, '1‘, COBB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Schoplcraft

Gate Ktzfer.—A. M. AGENS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LudingIon

Cgrg; . MRS,  \V, BELKNAP . . . . . . . . . . . .Greenvillc

P‘ arm MRS \V. T. REMINGTON. . . . . . . . . . . . lto

Flora -MRS C. G. LUCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Gile:id

L. A. Sttrilard--l\lRS. A. E. GREEN . . . . . . .V\'a.lled Lake
Executive Committee.
. . . . . . . .Ypsilanti
. . . . . .Adrian

.Traverse City
Bcrrien Center

. . . . . . .Tuscola

. . .Birmingham
w. 'r. ADAMS ......................... ..Gra.nd léapidg
C, G, LUCE, - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. r ea
;. '1‘. coins. l5"0-9""’i ............... .. Schoolcraft

State Business Agent.

 

THOMAS MASON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lhlcago, lll
. General Deputies.

PERRY MAYO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Battle Creek

MRS. PERRY MAYO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Battle Creek

Special Deputies.

WM. I-I. LEE. Harbor Springs, fpr Emmett County.
IOHN HOLBROOK. Lansing, for Ingham County.
IASON WOODMAN. Paw Paw, for Van Buren County.
BRONSON TURNER. Flushing, Genesee County.
FRANK H. DYER. Ferris, Montcalm County.

S. H. HYDE. Traverse City,Grand Traverse.AnLrim, Lee-

lanaw and Benzie Counties.

R. C. Tl-IAYER. Benton Harbor. for Berrien County.
GEO. VV. SHEFFIELD, Johnsiown. for Barry County.
LUTHER DEAN. North Star. for Gratiot County.

I. . A B RRINGTON. Tiiscola, for Tuscola County.

0 N TRUE, ackson, forjackson County.
[RAM AND EWS, Orion. for Oakland County.

M. \V. SCOTT, Hesperia, for Newaygo County.

[AMES A. MARSH. Constantine. for St. Joseph County.
M. V. B. MCALPINE. Munterey, for Allegan County.

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

naw County.
GEO. B HORTON, Fruit Ridge. for Lenawee County.
C. C. KNOWLTON, Old Mission. for Missaukee County.
G. C. LAVVRENCE, Belle Branch, for Wayne County.
COR«'I'LAND HILL, Bengal. for Clinton County.
Michigan Grange Stores.
L STEGEMAN, Allegan. .
C. GOODNOE. North Lansing.

PRICE LIST OF SUPPLIES

Kept in the office of the Secretary of the

MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE,
And Jmt out Par!-paid, on receipt of Carl: Or-
der, over Me Sm! of a Subordinate Grange,
and the signature of it: Master or Secretary.

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

6 keep accounts with members . . . . .. I 00
Blank record books (express paid) . . . . . . . . I 00
Order book, containing 100 orders on the

' Treasurer, with stub, well boun:_lr.o. . 50
Recei t book, containing Ioo receipts in
pTreasurer to Secretary, wilh stub,
well bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Blank receipts for dues, per Ioo, bound. . . 50
Applications for membership, per ioo. . . . 50
Secretary’s1acco(;rnt boolé (new style). . . . . 50
Withdrawa car s, per ozen . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Dirnits, in envelopes, r dozen . . . . . . . . . . 25
By-Laws of the grate range, single copies
Ioc per ozen..... . . . . . . . .  75
By-Lawg, bound’. . .: . . . . . ._. . . .: . . . . . . . . . 20
“Glad Echoes,’('x with music, single copy so
I5c per ozen . . . . . . .: . . . . . . . . . .. I
The Natioiial Gracpge Choir, single copy 40
cents per ozen . . . . . . . . . . 
Rituals, single copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
’ " rdozen . . . . . . . . . . ..'..........24o
“ or Fifth Degree, for Pomona
Granges, per copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Blank “Articles of Asociation” for the in-
corporation of Subordinate Granges,
with copy of charter, all complete. . Io
Notice to delinquent members, per I00. . . 40
Declaration of purposes, per dozen, 5c,
per Ioo . . . . . . . . . ._. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
American Manual of Parliamentary Law. . 59
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(Morocco Tuck) . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . ._ I oo

Di st of Laws and Rulings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

R0  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  I5

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

Oflicers’ “ . . . . . . . . . . . . .  so
CO-OPERATIVE I.I‘I‘1:itA'I‘Ur.It.
Histo and Objects of Co-operation” . . . . 05
WhatisCo-operation?..............:... 02
Some ‘of the \Veaknesses of Co-o ration . 02
Educational Funds; How to Use em. . . oi
Associative Farming . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . or
The Economic Aspect of Cooperation. . . . oi
Association .:md Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 03
ThePrinciplesofUnity.....l........... OI
TliePerilsofCredit..........;......... OI
Fundamental Principles of Cooperation. . 0!
How to Start Co-operation Stores . . . . . . . . oi
Log-ic_of Co-operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 03
Origin and Development of the Rochdale
Society . . . . . .  . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . .. 03
Addressa and Lectures by Eminent Men. . 03
Address, I. T. COBB,

SEC’Y Micir. STATE GRANGE,
Sclioolcraft. Mich.

AIAMAZOO NATIONAL BANK. Capital jxsomoo.
Surplus, $ro,ooo. Southwest cor. Main and Bendic
Streets. D:‘ru'tor.r— aoob Mitchell.-Jo_hri Den Ble lter,
Helancrhfin D. Wo ord, Melville . Bigelcw, J. ilfred
Tbompnfina, Slaimue ‘:1. GlIIa_S0E. Albert S.
White. win . . . urn rey, . base.
lnwnr . Pinus, Prnidart; Mp:i.v_n.u J. Bionow.
, .- ‘tuna: S. Coat. Culugr.

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gostal settings.

IOWA.

You may remember that last May Algona
Grange, No. I684, organized a sort of civil war,
or contest, the Grange dividing into two equal
sides, which were under the leadership of chosen
captains, 25 credit points being allowed for :1
song, declamation, essay or select reading, 75
for reinstatement of an old member, 100 for a
new member, etc.,——the losing side to furnish 2:.
dinner for the Grance. Nov. 28 the contest
closed, the winning side scoring 5,665 points
against the losing side which had 4.445.

It was decided that the losing side should also
buy a barrel of apples with which to treat the
Grange. Dec. 4, the day fixed upon for the
dinner, was bright, though cold, the thermome-
ter registering 20 degrees below zero. At an
early hour the Patrons and their families began
to assemble in the Grange hall, where the fore-
noon was passed very pleasantly in conversation,
music, etc. The dinner, which a king might
have envied us, was then prepared and eaten.
The number present was estimated at about I50.
It was not until a late hour that they dispersed
to their homes.

Now we think it would be well for every
Grange, not only in Iowa, but in every state in
the L7nion, to try this plan. It is the best tonic
yet discovered for sleepy Granges. Since start-
ing this contest we have taken in IS new mem-
bers, bcsides having had much entertainment
and amusement, each person trying to do some-
thing to help “our side." Try it. B

Algona, Iowa, Dec. 5, '86.

[Tins jotting should have appeared in the last
issue but was overlooked.—ED.]

OUR Grange is in a prosperous condition and
is increasing in numbers every meeting. We
went to Council Bluffs the I8th inst. to hear Bro.
Whitney. He talked for nearly two hours to
rather :1 small house, but wish every farmer in
the State of Iowzi could have heard that lecture.
It was worth going across the State to hear. I
wish we had more such workers for the Grange
as Bro. Whitney is. lle was on his way to Ne-
bI‘21Sl(£1 where he expects to be for about four
weeks. He promised to stop here on his way
back and deliver a lecture. Such work is what
we need if we can only get the people out to
listen to them. _ A. _ll.‘DSO!\‘.

Silver City, Iowa.

MICIIIGA-.\'.

WIIILI-2 reading Mr. Cortland lIill'.~; strictures
upon some words used in my article on political
prohibitionisls I felt more like thanking him for
the frank and kindly spirit in which they were
written, than replying to the strictures. The
term I used (anarchists) though a strong one,
has seemed to me and many others :1 fit one to
apply to those political prohibition leaders who
say that their object is .to_create revolt or confu-
sion in all temperance organizations that do not
join in with them and work with them on their
plan. But “let us agree to disagree,” and let
bygoncs be bygones. V. B

EDITOR V1sIToIi:~I would like to ask a few
questions through the medium of the VISITOR
about the Dayton Hedge Company of Ohio.
Has it made an assignment to a Mr. Somebody
called the Michigan Hedge Company? If so,
can the latter enforce a contract with a person
who contracted with the former? Or, vice versa,
can the person enforce a contract with the Mich-
igan Hedge Co. made by the Dayton?

These things kind of puzzle iny dim knowl-
edge box.

I presume there are hundreds of miles of
hedge set by the Dayton Hedge Company in
Michigan alone, and thousands of dollars col-
lected from farmers the first, second and third
years after planting. And as it was the fourth
year the company agreed to what they call
“splash,” and wire down, and then have a tight,
permanent fence, I for one (if rumors are true)
feel mighty" ’spicious" that there is a niggali on
de fence, or under it, or else on de side ob dc
fence.” Is this another eye-opener?

WILLIAM LEHR.

Athens, Calhoun Co., Mich.

GILEAD Grange is indeed forlorn at the pros-
pect of losing the hub, as it were, of our Grange
wheel. A. R. BONNEY.

IN our last VISITOR I notice ti call to remon-
strate against reissue of patents on spring tooth
barrows. Here I think is a chance for the
Granges to put in some good work. I suggest
that each Subordinate Grange appoint one or
more members to canvass each township thor-
oughly. It should be done in all the states
within the next month. Our State Grange can
do some good by becoming responsible for actual
expenses as allowed by Subordinate Granges.
Almost every citizen will sign a remonstrance in
this direction if somebody will take the trouble
to circulate it. Hoping we will be successful in
this work I remain, yours fraternally,

Bangor, Mich., Nov.’28. B. B. Gltoss.

ENCLOSED please find 9. P. 0. money order for
$io.5o to pay for the VISITOR to each family in
our Grange, in pursuance with an action taken
at the regular meeting of Madison Grange last
"night, the money to come from the Grange
treasury. ’

Would that all Grangcs would adopt the same
rule, that each Patron might have access to the
VISITOR and its financial strength be increased.
Otherwise those who need it most are least apt
to take it. . ‘ E. \V. ALLIS.

A COUNTRY like the United States, embracing
an area of 3,000,000 square miles, and with a
population of 55,ooo,ooo people, with diversified
climate and interests, requires a ruler of rare
wisdom and the most exalted talents. But few
men in the Republic can be found equal to the
task. And yet in this government it is said the
people rule! A man who can not write his
name can deposit :1 slip of paper, which he can
not read, in the ballot box and be numbered
among the rulers of a mighty nation! Bismarck
and Gladstone, the two giant statesmen of the
world, had to tax their utmost energies to devise
rules adapted to the ever-changing wants of a

mixed community. And yet in this country we

often choose men to fill high positions who can
not rule successfully their own households—men
who can not control iheiroxvn passions and ap-
petites. In the United States there have, always
been two parti‘s, and this is right, for no Repub-
lican government can be maintained any length
of time without two parties. Even the Great
Master above has never attempted to rule the
solar system without using two opposing forces.
These two forces are constantly operating against
each other, not for the purpose of destroying
each other, but to hold each in check so that
neither one shall destroy the system. The two
forces being equal and exactly balanced, the
endless perpetuity of the system is established.
50 it should be with political parties. They
should be as nearly equal in power and numbers
as possible, and instead of abusing and trying to
destroy each other, they should only strive to
hold each other in check and work together to
build up the government and make it perpetual.
But instead of this, n hen either party gets into
power the first thing they do is to turn out every
one who has had anything to do with the former
administration, and probably if they could do it
would forever prevent their bothering them any
more. Al d no matter what party it_ is, or what
they are made of, let them have full sweep, with
none to hold them in check or restrain them.
and in a short period they will run the best gov-
ernment on earth into the ground.
Clinton Co. C()R’l'l..-\.\'l) HILL.

RED WILI.ow Grange, No. 628, held the lhird
regular meeting last evening and had a. pleasant
and interesting meeting.

We begin to see the influence of our Order by
the applications for membership now coming in,
and we bespeak for Red Willow Grange :1 strong
working. membership in due time. '

We experienced on the I6th of Nov. one of the
hardest storms known here since the settlement
of this country. The snow came from the north
west, driven‘ by a wind that was almost a gale,
and it raged from 6 o'clock I‘. M. on the 15th un-
til 4 o'clock A. M. of the 17th. A: that time the
canyons and ravines we.e nearly full of snow,
and people living in them had to ‘dig their way
out.

The loss of cattle and hogs in this county ‘was
quite large, while south and west of us it was
very heavy. We have hapnpleasant days but
cold nights since the storm. 5 " ‘ ’

I rejoice with Michigan Patrons in the election
of Bro. Luce, and I hope that Michigan fanners
may realize through him their highest ambition.

Dec. 5. L. C. R001‘.

OUR Grange (I54) Watson, held its election
Saturday and transacted Grange business; be-
sides, we had a very nice picnic dinner in fami-
lies or groups,—-the dishes are easier to pick out
that way. Albert Hofimaster is our future Mas-
ter; A.  Lonsbury, Secretary. The best of
feeling prevailed. Forty-seven votes cast.

N. HAMPSHIRE.

I ENJOY the reading of the VISITOR very much
and heartily congratulate Michigan on the elec-
tion of Bro. Luce as Governor, and the selection
of Lansing as the next place of meeting for the
National Grange. I am confident it will be a
valuable meeting. With fraternal greetings from
New Hampshire Patrons, lam yours cordially,

VVM. H. STINSON, ,
Master N. H. State Grange.

gatirrs of geetings.

HILLSDALI-: County Pomona Grange will hold
its next session at Fayette Grange hall, Jones-
ville, January 5, commencing at to A‘. M.

Forenoon session devoted to the business of
the Order. Afternoon session will be devoted to
the installation of officers, question box, and as
much other work for the good of the Order as
time will allow. The program will be inter-
spersed with music.

We desire a full attendance of Patrons.

J. E. WAGNER, Lcc.

THE next meeting of Kent Co. Grange will be
held on the. 22d inst. at the W. C. T. U. hall,
Grand Rapids, east end of Pearl St. Bridge in-
stead of the Supervisors’ rooms, as previously
mentioned. Election of officers will take place,
and other important business. lorry PRESTON.

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THE annual meeting of Ncwaygo Co. Pomona
Grange, No. II, will be held at the Fremont
Grange hall Dec. 28 and 29. In addition to the
usual routine of reports of officers and commit-
tees and election of oflicers for the ensuing year,
the following reports, essays and topics for dis-
cussion will be taken up: .

I. Reports from the State Grange.

2. Report of committee on farm implements.

3. The best crop on my farm, and how I
raised it. Wm. Hilllnah and John Barnhard.

4. How strikes afiect the 'farmer. A. Ter-
willager.

5. What can our County Grange do toward
securing the passage of the bill now pending in
Congress, and known as the “Hatch Experimen-
tal Station Bill," and what benefits would farm-
ing derive from its passage? J. H. Macumber
and W. L. Stuart. - .

6. Select reading. T. Taylor.

7. Has the Grange done all that was rom-
ised in the -direction‘ of cooperation? I not.
why not? James Robertson and T. D. Cnrlisle.

8. Should the recommendations of the special
committee of Sparta Grange upon the question
of taxation, as reported in the GRANGE VISITOR
of October I5, r.886,‘(fi.rst. page, second column),
be adopted? J.ZV. Crandell and S. V. Walker.

9. as the Grange done all that was prom-
ised towards discountenancing the credit system
and the mortgage system (see “specific objects”
in the Declaration of Purposes)? If not, why
not? W. W. Carter and R. Clark.

M. W. SCOTT, Lee.

 

THE annual meeting of ' the Ionia County
Grange will be held at City Hall in thc- city of
Ionia on Wednesday, Dec. 522, at Io A. M.; the
election of officers and other important business
will come before the meet" . A full "attend-
ance of all members is d - 3’ “sd all, Fourth

D - . Y R“. I be
prigzelq‘ members are c wk. ‘flux: on _

      

THE next meeting of the Lowell District
Council will be held at Vergenues Hall on Sat-
urday, January 8, I887, at Io o'clock sharp.
Patrons,it is very necessary that you should hear
the sound of the gavel at this hour, as at this
meeting the election of oflicers will occur, and
our literary program should not be omitted.

D. H. EN(;I.IsH, Master.

ALL!-EGAN’ County Council will hold its annual
session at Allegan Grange Hall, December 2!.
The program is

I. Opening song by Allegan Grange ‘choir at
10 o'clock A. M.

2. Reading the minutes of last meeting.

3. Report of the standing of the Council by
the Secretary, Sister N. A. Dibble.

4. “The Grange and the Knights of l.:ibor,"
Bro. Myron Squiers, of Plainwell.

Afierdir-iner— I. Song by the choir.

2. Review of the work of the Council for the
past year and the outlook for the coming year,
by the Lecturer, Sarah Slegeman.

3. Report of the Trc:isurer, Sister Ellen Mc-
Alpine.

4. Election of .officers.

5. Report of delegates to State Grange.

6. Suggestions for the good of the Order, by
volunteers.

‘A good attendance is desirable. Come one,
come all, that are interested. Dinner will be
furnished by Allegan Grange.

MRS. N. A. DIBBLE, Sec y of Council.

Michigan Crop Report for
cember 2, I886.

For this report returns have been received
from 672 correspondents, representing 555 town-
ships. Four hundred and fifty-scvcn of these
returns are from 351 townships in the southern
four tiers of counties.

The condition of wheat in the southern four
tiers of counties is 95, in the northern counties
I02, and the average for the State is 97, too
representing vitality and growth of average
years. The condition in the southern counties
one year ago was 94, and in the northern coun-
ties 96. Damage by fly is ieported by I05 cor-
respondents in the southern four tiers of coun-
ties, and by only two in the northern counties.
As usual the damage is greatest in St. Joseph
County. Many oi the correspondents in this
county state that the crop is “badly injured."
The number of correspondents in each county
reporting damage by fly is as follows:

De-

Allegan . . . . . . . . . . .. 3'Kcnt . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3

Barry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Lapeer . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ben-icn . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Lenuwee . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Branch . . . .  . . . . . . 3 Livingston . . . . . . . . .. 3

Calhoun . . . .  4 Macomb . . . . . . . . . . .. 2

Cass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Monroe . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Clinton . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.0akland . . . . . . . . . . .. 2

Eaton . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2‘Ottawa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Genesee . . . . . . . . . . .. 3lShiawassee . . . . . . . . .. I

Hillsdale . . . . . . . . . .. 3‘St. Clair . . . . . . . . . . ..

Ingham . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3 St. Joseph . . . . . . . . ..Io

Ionia . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4lVan Buren . . . . . . . . .. 6

Jackson . , . . . . . _ . . . . . glwashtemuv . . . . . . . . . 8

Kalamazoo . . . . . . . .. 2§Wayiie............. I

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . io5

Reports have been received of theiquanlity of
fiheat ngarkctedsbylfarmers during the month of

ovem er at 25 e evators and mills. Of these
21}? age ifpftlie southernffgur tiers of couhties,
w ic is ty per cent 0 I ewhole number ofele-
vators and mills in these counties. The number of
bushels reported marketed is I,4II ,896, of which
312,777 bushels were marketed in the first or
southern tier of counties; 435,948 bushels in the
second tiar; 266,548 bushels in the third tier;
279.o6I bushels in the fourth tier; and II7,562
bushels in the counties north of the southern four
tiers. At 35 elevators and mills, or I4 per cent
of the whole number from which reports havci
been received, there was no wheat marketed
during the month.

The total number of bushels of wheat re-
ported marketed in_ August, September, Octo-
ber, and November, is 6, i25,754, which is 1,623,-
II6 bushels less than reported marketed during
the same months in 1885.

The yield of clover seed in the southern four
tiers of counties averages one and 56-hundredths
bushels, and in the northern counties two and
I3-hundredths bushels per _acre. Less than one-
half of the correspondents in the northern coun.
ties make any report on clover seed, but of these
a number report exceptionally large yields.
Horses, _cattle,'sheep and swine are generally re-
ported in "good, ealthy, and thrifty condi-
tion.

In answer to the question “Was the potato
crop injured by rot this year?" I8_I correspond-
ents in the southern counties and 90 in the
northern answer "Yes," and 220 correspondents
in the southern counties, and II2 in the north-
ern answer “No.” In the southern counties ten
per cent., and in the northern five per cent. of
the crop was destroyed.

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THE CENTURY for January will con-
tain a. brief biography of George Ban-
croft, the distinguished historian; The
article is written by Professor Sloane,
editor of the “Princeton Review,” and
formerly the historian’s private secre-
tary. The article is written, with the
assistance of Mr. Bancroft, and contains,
among other things, an account of his
career as Secretary of the Navy under
President Polk, and an authorized
statement of his interviews with Goethe
and Byron.

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We are in receipt of two copies of
new literary ventures, namely, 77:: La-
dies World and The American Farmer’:
Home journal. The one is edited by
Miss F. E Fryatt, the other by Dr. Geo.
E. Blakelee, formerly editor of the Ohio
Farmer; both are ibright original and
practical in their pages, freely illustrated
and pltogether pre-possessing in ap-
pearance. We welcome them to our
table and fraternity and commend them

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Santa Claus in Trouble.

How very much I've wondered,

And o’er the problem pondered,
While busy with my toys—-

If I should once grow sick or numb,

What ever could or would become
Of all the girls and boys!

Without a Christmas they can't live,

80 Santa Claus must work and give;
But oh! my labor's ponderous!

My wares, to gratify and please.

To give youth joy, and parents ease,
Must be both good and wondrous.

Rushing flood and wildcsl panic,
\Vhich startle banker and mechanic,
Dare never make me quail;

For not a girl nor any boys
Could hold esteem for Santa Claus,
If once /11‘: funds should fail.

But I am growing old, my dears,

And cares iucre:i:4mg with the years
That multiply so fast.

When I was young I took my case;

The children few nor hard to please-
How different was the past 5

I'm busy now both day and night,
I plan and work with all my might
From one year to another.

I've journeyman and ’prenIice, too,

A helpful and industrious crew
Who work like bees together.

I've many shops in every land,

Where busy head and busy hand
Fashion toys and fabrics rare;

I’ve ships in soil on every sea,

That bring the precious goods to me,
Through all weather foul and fair.

On Christmas eve I'd nc’er get through.
But for the help of an extra. crew
Who work with heart and hand;
Some on teams with coal and with wood,
Others on foot with baskets of food,
Hun'y along over the land.

- They hunt up the needy and starving poor
Whom I, in my basic from door to door,
May chance to overlook;
Making no noise for the world to hear,
They throw in a smile and word of cheer.
With here a toy and there a book.

And of such help I need much more—-
A fact I’ve hinted oft before
In sermon, prayer and book:
And here announce my need again,
As I, with worried thou lit and pain,
Survey the grim out ook

Of thousands with no laid-up stores,
0 cruel fate!‘ as near their doors

The wolf of hunger draws.
Then help me, all ye wise and good,
And endless, boundless gratitude

Is yours, from Santa Claus.

-—A!ar_v Wiley.

Threshing Corn Again.

GALESBURG, Dec. 3, 1886.

FRIEND J. T. CoBI::—Since writing
you some two weeks ago on this subject,
I have talked with some more of our
prominent farmers who have tried the
new experiment.

Thaddeus Clapp states that he has
threshed some 5oo bushels of his corn
by the new process and is pleased with
the result. Of course, the corn stalks
are very dry this season, and there will
be no trouble about their keeping. The
corn, he thinks, is cut considerable and
it might injure it for public sale,but not
for feeding, and this is what it is mostly
used for by the farmer or those who buy
it. In regard to the corn keeping, that
is yet to be determined. In small quan-
tities there would be no danger. Far-
mers can thresh-as they want to use the
feed. As regards “the indigestible part"
that Mr. Spaulding refers to, Mr. Clapp
says sheep and cattle will only eat what
they like of the stalks thus threshed,
and they surely will eat more than they
do of the com stalks fed the old way.
The threshers say they would as soon.
thresh corn as wheat. They say it is
not as dusty work.

Wm. A. Blake, one of our large far-
mers, is also pleased with the new way
of utilizing the corn crop. He confirms
substantially what you said in your
editorial in the VISITOR of December r.
He has threshed.6oo bushels of shelled
corn and is so much pleased with the
result that he intends threshing the re-
mainder of his entire corn crop, some
moo bushels. Thus you see that our
farmers aredecidedly in favor of this
new way of disposing of the coin crop.
Mr. Blake says the teeth in the concave
can be partly taken out so that the corn.
will be cut but little. He thinks this a
cheap, quick and safe way of utilizing
the corn crop after it is put in the
shock; it will save the farmer a great
deal of labor and expense.

J. D. Hart, one of our farmers, says
he lately saw a machine in Illinois that
harvested the corn in the field, tied it
into bundles as the wheat binder does
the sheaves. This machine, with the
new threshing process, will make corn
raising much easier and more profitable.

V. B.
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‘THE GRANGE] VISITOR.

DECEMBER 15, 1886,

gnnrmuuicatious.

“Whom the Gods would Destroy
they first Make Mad.”

J. B. Alexander in Nov. r 5th VISITOR
nys among other things: “It is a deep
aid damnable design that everything a
farmer sells is on the free list and there
i a high protective tariff on everything
we buy, almost." He then says, “A lit-
dc knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Drink deep or taste not," etc. Let us
see now if he has not learned just
enough of the present tariff law to make
Ire use of his knowledge of it one of the
Iaost dangerous weapons against his
ide of the question that he could possi-
bly find. As to every thing a farmer
sells being on the free list, I find by re-
Erring to the list as revised by Congress
Harch 3, 1883, (and if there has been
any material- change made since that
date I stand corrected) that there is a
duty or protective tariff on the follow-
ing articles that I have always supposed
were mostly raised and sold by farmers:
Animals, that is cattle, horses, hogs,

sheep, mules and goats; beef, pork,
hams, bacon, cheese, butter, lard,wheat,
rye, barley, corn, oats, corn meal, wheat
and rye flour, potatoes, hay, honey,
beeswax, hops, pickles, vegetables, vine-
gar, fruits, currants.walnuts of all kinds,
wood, wool, flax, rags, flaxseed, hemp,
hempseed, woolen yarn, baskets, feath-
ers, fur, grease, tallow,hats, human hair,
garden seeds, stone and all barks,beans,
berries, balsams, buds, gums, grains,
herbs, leaves, mosses, roots and vege-
tables used in dying, and many other
Iiiings that farmers have to sell at times.
He also says that poultry and eggs are
on the free list; that Canada furnishes
one-third of all that is used in the great
city of New York; that buyers are pay-
ing but four cents per pound for poultry.
Correct, Brother. By permitting the
people of other countries to bring these
things to us free of duty they destroy
our home markets and bring prices down
to such a low figure that we can not
compete with them, unless we are will-
ing to work for the starvation prices of
those countries. We can not sell poul-
ty at four cents per pound and pay the
present prices for labor. We must stop
the business. Why? Because it is not
protected. He has advanced a very
practical argument in favor of protec-
tion, which he evidently did by mis-
take. Now, do the same thing with the
articles named above and the result in
the near future will be the same. Our
markets will be filled with the products
of the pauper labor of the Old World
and Canada, and the laboring class of
this country will soon be as poorly paid,
fed and clothed as they are. Don‘t be
no selfish as to complain because there is
no duty on the poultry and eggs you
have to sell while ninety-nine-one-
hundredths of everything else you have
to sell is protected, and then scold so
becar.-c lumber is protected $2.00 per
fl10u~.r,‘.r(.l feet. I say protect every
Amer"-: an industry. Protect emigration
from .:.l foreign nations for the next
thirty years, and allow none but citizens
to own and convey real estate, and long
before that time has passed anarchists
and saloonists will be unknown, the
poor will become rich, and intelligent
men will not complain because others
enjoy the same blessings they do them-
selves.

Bro. Hill seems to have been as bad-
iy broken up by the cyclone that passed
over him Nov. 2 as Don Quixote was
when he made his famous charge on the
windmills. If his statements are true
he must live in a mighty mean part of
the country. We don’t run a campaign
In that way in Ingham County. He
says such vast sums of money were used
in deceiving the people that no one
could honestly tell how to vote: that it
is an established fact that county candi-
dates for office stand no chance of suc-
cess without paying three or four hun-
dred dollars into the corruption fund,
and on the higher officers of the State
runs up into the thousands; that in this
age of wickedness no man that will tell
the truth is allowed to stump the State;
men openly offer large sumsof money to
bribe men for their votes; there is so
much corruption in politics that no man
can enjoy religion and have anything to
do with it; it has been such a. wicked
campaign.

Now, what does this all mean? Bro.
Luce’ has,in his former communications.
beenhis ideal of an right and pure
man, and had he been pficed in the ‘high
position he now occupies by the Demo-
cratic party he would still have a friend
in the person of Bro. Hill.

This tirade against Bro. Luce would
never have been written if the great
friend of the traitor, Fitz John Porter,
and the enemy of my old commander
had been elected, The man who would
not consent when in Congress that U.
S. Grant, America's greatest general,
should have a few dollars of the people's
money to comfort him while dying in
poverty and want. Yes; I think our
high expectations as Republicans will be
realized. The first Republican Govern-
or of Michigan was a farmer and he

-filled the executive ofiice to the satisfac-

tion of all Republicans. The Repub-
lican party nominated and elected Mr.
Luce and they expect to stand by him
through one of the best administrations
that Michigan has ever had.
Patrons of Michigan will laugh at the
attempt of B10. Hill to read him out gt
the Grange. We-don't expect hi. ji.
ministration will always please th men

The I

that are so very frantic over prohibition
and at the same time always vote the
Bourbon ticket which is the only party
that is pledged against prohibition and
to the whiskey interests.

We do not expect to see his signature
to every bill that passes the Legislature
that makes it harder and more degrad-
ing for men to sell whiskey. That
makes it easier for laboring men to live
and educate their children; that tends
to-elevate the people of this common-
wealth, and make them happier, better
fed and better clothed. We haye no
other way of judging the future of Bro.
Luce except bv the past. In the past
we have found him honest, temperate,
a friend of education, of good laws, and
loyal to his country. We have found
him as a laborer dilligent,as a cultivator
faithful,‘ as a man honest and upright,
which recommendations are sufficient
to assure him favor. O. R. E.

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IN the VrsrroR's notices of meetings
of November 15, is a program contain-
ing among others, this question for dis-
cussion by a Grange: “What is the
cause of the present low prices of far-
mers’ productis"

I answer, supply and demand govern
all prices of all production. Should the
demand be greater than the supply,
prices go up; and vice versa. This is,
I think, the true solution of the rise and
fall of prices.

But under this lies a cause controling
the demand. Never has there been a
time when every ounce of grain, fruit,
and vegetables grown In the United
States, could not easily be consumed in
our own country. There have been, it
is true, many millions of bushels of
wheat shipped to Europe during the
past ten years; and at the same time
there were hundreds of thousands of
people actually compelled to do with-
out sullicient food,from inability to buy,
who otherwise would have made a bet-
ter market for the wheat here at home
and saved the large cost of transporta-
tion. '

These people are all around us, but
mostly in the larger cities. They are
compelled to economize in every pos-
sible way, even including sufficient food
to keep fairly alive. Many do actually
starve; in sight of millions of bushels of
the wheat that is made the subject of
wild speculation by the wolves of the
Boards of Trade, as in Chicago. These
people can not buy your wheat, your
vegetables, your fruit; consequently the
demand is slow and prices are down.
The debts you contracted in’ improving
your farms years ago, when money was
cheap, are crushing you now that money
has been made dear by the Solons of
the two grand old parties you have sup-
ported and always will support. I-lard
times for you means harder times
among the consumers who make and
unmake the prices of your products.
The tariff, or lack of it, on wool that
concerns you so, would not affect the
price either way if the two millions of
idle men and their families in the coun-
try to-day were able to buy clothing
enough to keep decently warm; the mar-
ket they would create for your wool
would soon lift many a mortgage now
driving their bearers into bankruptcy,
soon to transfer their farms into the
hands of a few money-lenders, who are
responsible for the hard times, and
making this country one of a landed
aristocracy and tenant farmers.

After all, low prices are the result of
your own blind adherence to party, my
farmer friends. You have it in your
power to raise them, if you will; but you
will not. KNIGHT.

Branch Co , Mich.

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A Rejoinde-r——“L'ess Hours for
the Farmer.”

TANGERINE, ORANGE Co. Fr.A.,
Dec. 6, 1886.

J. T. Conn, EsQ.,Enr'roR GRANGE Vrs
ITOR, Dear Sir and Brother:—I have
just received two marked copies of the
VISITOR, dated October 15 and Novem-
ber 1, and it seems like again taking .an
old friend by the hand. It is many years
since I have been permitted to take an
active part in Grange work and I assure
you it gives me sincere pleasure to be
remembered by one who was a co-work-
er and helped bear the burden and beat
of the day when the Order was young.
How few of the old familiar names now
appear in the records of passing events!
Some have joined the great majority,
others yielded the Sceptre to younger
hands and sought a well earned rest for
advanced age, while others still are
paactising what they preached and are
teaching by example.

The old war horse cannot keep still
when .he hears the trumpet call, so we
veteran Batrons are sometimes roused
from our quiet by the discussions of
vital questions affecting our calling.
When I wrote the article for the Hur-
banuman on “Less Hours Work )0)‘
Farmers," and which received the high
compliment of being republished in the
Vrsrrorz, I knew very Well what objec-
tions would be made' to the position
taken. I have heard them all, times
without number. I have advocated and
practised the ten-hour system ever since
lhave tilled the soil on my own ac-
count, and these same old objections
come up regularly and usually are made
by farmers. In my "article I indicated

j what they would be, and now \lr. Stod-

dard sends a letter to the \-'1s1'1'ou, cor-
roborating the correctncss ul my pre-

dictions and statements‘ 1" ‘*'*—*“ ""'

hay cocks weigh 130 lbs. each. Exactly!
In my article Isaid that to a 14-hour
man the hay-cocks looked awful large
and awful heavy, and Mr. Stoddard
kindly verifies my statement. I have
no doubt -his hay cocks do actually look
to him as though they weigh 150 lbs.
Now,rny hay cocks never seemed to me
to be so large or so heavy as that. My
ten-hour men never said they were so
heavy and it is my opinion they actual-
ly were much lighter. Mr. Stoddard
does not intimate they are too heavy
for his men, but he has a great lack of
confidence in Michigan forks to lift such
heavy looking cocks. I think this lack
of confidence well founded, for my ten-
hour men through an exuberance of
animal spirits (and perhaps alittle awk-
wardness) do sometimes snap a fork
handle on much lighter lifts.

Then I said “Farmers would hug
their chains and say as a clincher, ‘How
about the chores?” Here, again, Mr.
Stoddard comes forward and verifies
this prediction and grinds over again
the same old “chores” argument that I
have heard for more than thirty years.
He asks a long string ofqipstions about
when to milk the cows, wash the dishes,
feed the team and do many other very
necessary duties. In asking these ques-
tions it is plain to see that he imagines
he is questioning a man who is advocat-
ing a “very beautiful theory” (as he ex-
presses it) and he expects by these prac-
tical questions to corner the theorist. I
beg to disabuse his mind of any such
mistaken idea. What I wrote was not
only good theory, but the results in ac-
tual practice of a rather busy and not
wholly unsuccessful lifetime. I do not
claim unusual shrewdness,but I can find
a way to do the work on a farm in ten
hours per day. I have done it thirty-
three 3e~rs and am doing it now. I be-
lieve i“ .‘.‘.=. Stoddard would give him-
self o . .~;;orous shake and throw off
the c ;of old habits, he could find
a waj  do it too. Possibly it may
put him on the right track in the chore
business to say that it does not necessa-
rily follow that one who works ten
hours a day must begin at seven and
quit at six. Circumstances may be such
that in some branches of farming the
hours of commencing and closing the
day's work can be changed to advan-
tage.

Mr. Stoddard makes one remark in
parenthesis that leads me to offer him
my tenderest sympathies. Referring to
what I said about playing croquet with
the girls while the boys went fishing, he
says: “I think they would much prefer
to play with the boys.”

I suppose M:-“Stoddard has not come
tothis conclusion without good reason,
and I am sincerely sorry that his expe-
rience in playing croquet with the girls
has compelled him to come to such a
conclusion. If there is anything in the
climate of Michigan that brings about
such a sad state of affairs for the “old
gent," I would advise him to visit this
clinic where

“Everlasting spring abides
And never fading flowers."

I-Iere will be found the fountain of
perpetual youth and here the “old
gents” play croquet with the girls.

Fraternally yours,

DUDLEY M. ADAMS.
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From My Diarv.
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION CONSIDERED.

In our last article we gave as one
reason why so few young men, in com-
parison with young.ladies,graduate from
our public high schools, the worship of
the self-made man. Let us now notice
another fact, one not generally known,
and where known, often stoutly denied
It is this, that the course of study, the
methods of teaching and the mode of
training in the higher grades of the in-
termediate school, as well as in the high
school, are designed for and shaped ac-
cording to the needs and wants of the
girls and not the boys. While I readily
grant that it is oursolemn duty to give
to the girls the same amount of educa-
tion that we give to the boys, yet I
claim most emphatically (fully aware of
the opposition which I shall call forth
by this statement) that the two sexes
from twelve years upward,need a differ-
ent method of acquiring that education,
orin other words need a different train-
ing. I cannot go into details, but would
like to. The point is here. In schools
of this kind the girls largely predomi-
nate and are generally under the in
struction of a female teacher. Hence
the school rzgimc, the entire methods of
procedure are in conformity to the pe-
culiar combination of faculties in the
girls and the boys must needs keep step
with them, willing or unwilling. The
strong desire for exertion and applica-
tion of the boy's powers is thus often
held in check or suppressed and he is
made to progress as the girls do. He
sits side by side with them; they are
held up to him as examples,whose frail-
ty he, in his physically robust nature,
despises. Moreover, he in many cases,
has not even a male example in ‘his
teacher, and if he is a.weak character
he becomes elfeminate; ifheis a strong
character, he is soon filled with disgust
and quits school to find a better oppor-
tunity for the exertion of those powers
which find no satisfaction in a girls’
school. He wants a boy’s field to make
a boy’s racein, with no school-girl re.
gt’-1.: to contract his powers. He wants

.a field in which--«F can give full swing to

his arnl)é"'f"‘1'-* ‘me.’ ‘it does not obstruct

any pr0’gI,e:s'S '-but it-~.‘ul_agingly Opgns

up before him the boy’s full possibili-
ties. Surely the boy does not find all
this in a girl's school. Says one of our
able educators, who takes this view of a
boy’s education, and whose writings
have suggested these articles, “I know
this will be considered rank heresy
among many educational leaders in this
country; but it is my conviction, and I
have the courage to utter it.”

We have given this phase of the ques-
tion a more extended notice because we
think it will pay all-those who are inter-
ested -in boys’ education to give it a
thorough investigation. »

Permit me to add another reason wh
boys, and for that matter girls too, dis-
like school, dread their lessons and look
upon the school-room as a little peni-
tentiary. It is because there never has
been awakened in their minds an inter-
est in study and school work. And for
this parents and teachers are largely to
blame. The teacher must have the fac-
ulty to interest and entertain as well as
to instruct his pupils, if he would make
study a pleasant task for them. Many
teachers have all the talents for their
vocation but this most desirable one of
them all. The schoolboy has given his
reason for this general dislike‘ of study
in the following lines:

“Multiplication IS vexatlon,
Division is as bad,

The rule of_tl1ree puzzles me,
And fractions make me mad.”

One is sometimes tempted to think,
says Lowell, that all learning is as re-
pulsive to ingenuous youth as the multi-
plication table was to Scott's little
friend, Marjorie Fleming. “I am now
going to tell you,” writes Marjorie, “the
horrible and wretched plague that my
multiplication table gives me. You
can't conceive it; the most devilish
thing is eight times eight and seven
times seven; it is what nature itself can't
endure.” Now, this trouble with and
dread of “lessons" in the school-room
is due in great part to unnatural, me-
chanical methods of teaching. Says
Mr. Lowell on this subject, “I ‘know
that I am approaching treacherous
ashes, which cover burning coals, but I
must on.” Is not Greek,nay,even Latin,
more unendurable even than poor Mar-
jorie’s task? How many boys have not
sympathizecl with I-Ieine in hating the
Ron .-.ns because they invented Latin
grammar? Or what boy has not sym-
pathized with the young student who,
desponding over his Sophocles, threw
the book across his room, exclaiming,
“Curse the Greeksl” And the action
or disgust of these students was quite
right, “for we begin the study of the
languages at the wrong end, at the end
which nature does not offer us, and are
thoroughly tired of them before we ar-
rive at them, if you will allow the bull.”
Surely, this should tear’-. us to study
them the right way, for there is a right
way,a way in which a teacher can make
any study interesting t6 the pupil; and
when the teacher has found that way,
he has found the open sesame through
all the, sore trials and difficulties that
hedge in the young student in his edu-
cational career. Dogberry was right
there, when he said, “Reading and writ-
ing come by nature." Nature is the
only true teacher, and her way is the
right way.

The object in teaching the classic au-
thors should be to teach them in such
a way as to enable the pupil to assimi-
late somewhat of their thought, senti-
ment, and style, rather than to master
the minuter niceties oft e language in
which they wrote. To strike for their
matter,as Montaigne advised,who would
have men taught to love virtue instead
of learning how to decline zzirtur. Such
learning makes “language as it . should
be, aladder to literature,and not litera-
ture a ladder to language. How many
a boy has hated, and rightly hated, Ho-

mer and Horace, the pedagogues and .

grammarians,who would have loved Ho-
mer and Horace,the poets, had he been
allowed to make their acquaintance.” ,

V

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Rjemlniscences of Early Days in
Michigan. .

In the Vrsrroa of November 15 was a
brief jotting,bringing words of cheer" for
our paper from an early resident of

Kalamazoo County, nowan aged Cali- .

fornian. That jotting and theremarks
it drew from Brother Cobb in regard to
the “Big Harvester" of thirty years
ago, reminded us of events prior to that
date. In 1836-7 and 8, we worked in
harvest near Schoo-lcraft. We worked for
Messrs. Lyon, McKinstry, Beals and on
the Daniels farm. During the harvest of
one of these years and on the Daniels
farm, in a 95—acre field of wheat, and
under the supervision of our old friend
A. Y. Moore (if we remember correct-
ly) there was running a combined har-
vester and thresher, similar to, if not of
the same construction, as the one re-
ferred to by Brother Cobb. We think
the machine was built at Kalamazoo,
and probably was the first of the kind
ever constructed. How many years it
run or with what profit or loss, we are

"unable to say. After our little harvest

at Paw Paw was gathered, several of us
would take up our tools “and walk” to
the prairie and help in the harvest and
earn a little of the needful to help re-
plenish our meager store. We were
paid $L.5o per day, not for eight or ten
hours work, but for twelve to fifteen.
After the harvest was over,we rode back
home in like manner as we went. But

that was fifty years ago. long before our
labor-saving machinery made its advent

in our harvest fields. Wonderful, in-
deed, has been the improvement in
farm implements and machinery since
that early day. Our harvests, which
were formerly so very laborious, per-
plexing and expensive, have become a
pleasant pastime. We presume few yet
remain who worked in the harvests
around Schoolcraft in those early days.
Hope we shall hear more from our old
friend in California. D. Woonmzm.
Paw Paw.

K1=:LLocc, ALLEGAN Co.,MIcH., J_

Nov. 19, 1886. j
Brzo. COBB.—-I had always supposed
that the GRANGE Vrsrron to be a suc-
cess wasand should be non-partisan,but
to state a question and discuss it, on its
merits, ought not to be considered par-
tisan perhaps, but after election is ‘over
to triumph over the election of Gov-
ernor and a gain of two Congressmen

looks to me to be intensely partisan. ,

When Cornwallis surrendered to the
combined continental forces General
Washington forbade his men to hurrah
over a fallen foe, they would feel bad
enough without it; but if the British had
secceeded there would have been some
whooping. The right side whipped,
hence the gentlcmanly conduct; in this
instance we have hurrahing enough, any
one can draw their own conclusion.

What would a complete Republican
victory signify? When they did have
a decided majority they demonetized
silver they passed a law to retire all the
treasury notes, which meant a perpetual
national debt. They imposed a high
protective tariff on everything a. farmer
buys except tea, coffee, and spices, they
are a common necessity to all. They
condescended to give the farmer the
benefit of free trade on every thing he
sells, Canada furnishing 2o,ooo barrels
of eggs and a corresponding amount of
poultry to New York free of duty. If
the people could be allowed to settle
all these questions without party tram-
mel they would be settled right, but
party discipline holds the people in an
iron grasp.

How easy it is for averice and old
Shylock to crucify the farmers and com-
mon laborers between the two old party
thieves.

Just imagine the next Governor's
message to the Legislature of Michigan
to read somewhat as follows:

I hereby recommend that the Legis-
lature of Michigan enact that any oth-
cer elected or appointed,including Con-
gressmen, who accepts and rides on a
free pass in this State, or accepts of a
bribe in any other shape, that his oflice
shall be declared vacant, and the per-
son 50 offending to be disqualified from
ever holding an office in this State.
That the railroads being chartered by
the people and for the common good
shall have uniform rates for all. To
grant special rates to some and exact
higher rates from oth-"rs is in violation
of the statutes of Mir ligan, and if per-
sisted in their charter should be with-
drawn and the State mm the roads on
the principle ofequity. (See the statutes
in regard to common carrier.) That the
school-book monopoly shall be prac-
tically done away with by the Superin-

tendent of Public Instruction formulat- _

ing a set of primary school books and
let the job of printing and binding to
the lowest bidder, and furnish them to
the people of each district at the orig-
inal cost; it being intrinsically wrong
for a‘monopoly to stand between the
people and the means of education.
An'd;I further commit to your candid
consideration that it is a breach of car-
stitutional law to levy a public tax for
private purposes; therefore township

‘aid to railroads shows that it was for a

-public purpose. The right of eminent
domain, as is sometimes claimed for the
railroads, is a fallacy. The Legislature
has power to regulate freight and pass-
enger rates at their discretion.

Every good or bad man should stand
by any Governor who will leave the old
ruts and make an effort to do something
for the people.

In a letter of mine published in the
Vrsrron of Nov. 15 there are several
errors, if the copy I have at home is
any "good, which seems inexcusable.

rst. My post-olfice is withheld.

2d. = I am made to say “Brother
Solon” when there is no such brother.
It should have been Bro. D.,of Solon.

3d. I am made to say “75,ooo for-
eigners emigrate to this country some
years and go right to competing with
American labor.” when the fact is 750,-
ooo foreigners come to this country
some years (35o,ooo the year just closed)
tree of duty, and go right to competing
with American labor.

4th. My name is signed B. J. instead
of as it should be. J. B. ALEXANDER.

DR. LOUIS C. STARKEL, who has been
appointed analytical chemist in the In-
ternal Revenue Bureau to test oleomar-
garine and butter, was, in r88o, the
Democratic candidate for Auditor of
Illinois. He will be stationed in Wash-
ington. The salary is $2,550.

——iO}—-———-:—

TI-IE first half of George W. Cable's
two-part story, “Carancro,” a story of
the Louisiana Acadians, will appear in
the January Century, with illustrations
by Kemble, why recently visited
Louisiana to obtain sketches for the
work.

CLAREMON1‘ Colony in Virginia is growing

very rapidly. Send for free circulars and illus-
trated maps. J. F. MANCIIA, Claremont, Va.

.4...

 


DECEMBER is. 1.886. THE GRANGE v:l:sIu:'oR. s

’ the carp or they will mix an

. handle it better.

Carp Ponds——How they may 
Constructed.

The cultivation of carp is of snfiicient
importance to fully warrant the con-
struction of ponds for the purpose. But
there already exist, on many farms. ponds
used for the collection of ice and for wa-
tering live stock, which couldbc convert-
ed into carp ponds at a nominal cost.

There are alsomany hollows and depres-
sions in the land that, by throwing up a
breastwork. could be made to answer the
purpose admirably. It is very derirable
on several accounts to have your pond so
you can draw the water oil’ any time you
wish. so the fish can be sorted and for
destroying the enemies to carp. By
draining the ponds once a year the in-
truders can be removed. The best de-
vice to put ina pond todrain it.is a
cast-iron pipe (they are the cheapest) six
or more inches, according to the size of
your pond; get it lo enough to go clear
though your dam an project about two
or three feet at each end. Make a large
wooden plug. drive it in the pipe on the
inside of the dam, and when you want_to
drain your pond, get a Wis and drive
the plug out of the pipe. hen the pond
is dry you can drive it in again.

Never build a pond where a large
stream of water flows through it, be-
cause it is liable to break your dam and
wash all the spawn and small list away,
when there is a great amount of rainfall.
Build beside such a stream and let the
water in at the upper end of the pond.
through a tile with netting over it so
other kinds of fish can not et in with
be value-
less in a little while. In building a
breast, clay soil is the best, but other
soil will do. After you have decided
where to build your dam, get a scraper.
such as you use in working the roads.
A tongue scraper is the best, as you can
Plow up about eighteen
or twenty feet wide, the length of your
dam, and soil to the outside, then plow
again, and then scrape till your dam is
as high as you want it. Always keep the
clay, if there is any. on the inside of the
dam. When your dam is done seed it
down to white clover, as it will not freeze
out as quick as other kinds will, and when
it is in bloom its beauty alone will pay
you for your work without the profit on
the fish. When you make an overflow,
get apipe and put an elbow on it. The
pipe should be large enough to carry the
waste water ofi'. Put the long end of the
pipe in your pond and the short end
through the dam. It will draw the cold
water from the bottom of the pond in-
stead of warm water from the top of any
pond or vessel. Carp thrive best in warm
water. It should be shallow on the out
edge of the pond and three and a half to
four feet deep in the middle. sloping
gradually, so if there are any children
about they can not step oil‘ into a deep
hole suddenly. If a person makes any
size pond you can have a pleasure boat
on it, which is alone worth the cost of the
pond.——F. H. Israel, in Ohio Farmer.

 

Road Making in Michigan.

The country roads in Michigan have in
many sections made a good deal of im-
provement the past 15 or 20 years, as
may be pointed out on highways within
the observation of those acquainted with
the state of travel in almost any neigh-
borhood for that length of time. Owing
chiefly, perhaps, to the nature of the sur-
face and roadmaking materials. our State
is better oil‘ in the wet season than many
of its neighbors. Few will admit. how-
ever, that our roads are all that they
ought to be, or that the expenditure of
labor on them in any consecutive period
of five years has been used to the best
advantage. It is. in fact, frequently urg-
ed that tne system of road management
is itself at fault.

Good roads cost something, but they
cost a good deal less than poor ones.
They save time, which is the same thing
as money in any well-managed occupa-
tion. They save in the wear and tear of
running gear, both for freight loads and
family conveyances. They give reduc-
ers command of the market in a kinds
of weather, a large consideration some-
times. Whatever promises to bring bet-
ter roads for the present outlay, or even a
somewhat increased one, is worth atten-
tion and perhaps a trial. Anything re-
quiring a modification of the state law at
any point ought to receive prompt con-
sideration. as this is the winter the Legis-
lature is in session.

The present law contains many excel-
lent provisions, more than are generally
lived up to. One serious lack, however.
is the absence of any means to work to a
common purpose in a district larger than
the jurisdiction of each highway oom-
missioner. namely, his own township.
The work is most likely to be done on the
spur of local necessity or prompting.
But the highways are for the service of
a much larger district than any township.
Their use in transportation or travel from
one part of a county to another points to
the need of develop
roads as well. and not for neighborhood
use chiefly. ~ —

It would probably add to the economy
and good result of road buildingif the
Highway Commissioners were required,
every year, or on certain years. ‘to meet
at the county seat after their election and
decide on the work to be done for the
roads most serviceable for the whole
county. or in passing from one point to
another. The road laws in the State au-
thorize any township to do its work by a
tax contract for the work, where the vo-
ters desire. They require the work to be
done for permanent improvement. ex-
ceptin a case of urgent repairs. They
prescribe a betterment of the grade where
a highway needs it, and require that a
large portion of the work shall be devot-
ed to that object. The suggestion above
made, relative to some common pur ose
for the roads of a whole county. w‘ di-
rcct all the other outlay of labor and
money to better purpose.-Kalamazoo

Telegraph.

“Work and Habits.”

If the Knights of Labor can infuse in
the mass_ of the organization the same
ideas of personal habits as are voluntarily
acted on by the managers, they will do
much to improve the status of working-

 

 

ing them for county .

men, whether laborers or mechanics.
There has already been much improve-
ment in this the c being at-
tributsble to more intelligent estimates of
the value of good habits than those that
prevailed a generation ago. It was con-
sidered not unusual for a first class work-
man to have his periodical sprees. and
to be a free liver in the coarser meaning
of the term. Indeed, the union of loose
habits and the reputation of competence
todoagoodjoba pearcdto be natural
and expected. “ lue Mondays" were
col:umon.the best workmen not putting in
an appearance until Tuesday. requiring a
day to get over the weekly debauch.

Such men appeared to consider that their

skill as mechanics entitled them to a li-

cense that was injurious to themselves
and harmful to the employer's interests.»

But the employers tire of these prac-
tices, and the dissipated workman can
not so readily presume on kis skill as an
excuse for his bad habits. The old notion
of the union of drunkenness and duty, of
immorality and ability. or high pay and
low habits. is exploded. One of the most
competent and efliclent foundry fo men
the writer ever knew lost his pl in
an establishment where he managed
nearly fifty mcu.aud his caste in the com-
mnnity. by his persistent habit of intem-
perate drinking. Said the manager,short-
ly after his dismissal. “I hardly know
how to fill his place. There are not a half
dozen men in the country who are his
equals in the mixture of irons, the tem-
pering of sand, and the carefulness of
general management. I never lost a cast-
ing under him of the value of ten dol-
lars. But I needed him six days in the
week, and I paid for his coolness, his
judgment and his full capacity. I do not
require my men to become total abstain-
ers, although some might benefit by that
method; but I do want their intelligent
work."

It may be a necessity that employs un-
reliable skill aud presumptive talent. but
employers will apply aremedy as soon
as they can. The workman may be cer-
tain that pcrsonal good character and
personal good habits are compatible with
steadiness in work and skill in handling
tools. There is no proper show of inde-
pendence in working five days and leaf-
ing two days, because the man is a first
class mechanic and can assume. on that
fact and the forbearance of his employer.
One of the best. as well as the largest,
establishments for building machinery in
this country has its own temperance or-
ganization in the shape of a mutual im-
provement society, and the proprietors
jugtly boast that they have the best per-
souuel of any shop of an equal number
of hands. There are no “blue Mondays"
in this establishment.--Scientific Ameri-
can.

 

’ Thoreau’s Home.

I visited Walden Pond a fewdays since.
You know, Thoreau lived there alone in
a house he built for himself a whole mile
from the nearest neighbor, and in his
house he did the cooking. This was a
wonderful thing for a man to do in New
England, but a very common occurrence
west of the Rocky Mountains.where thou-
sands of lone men have lived twenty
miles from the nearest neighbor, year in
and year out. Thoreau wrote all about
it. and very pleasantly. too, and became
a notorious hermit, and was visited by
Emerson, Hawthorne, Alcott, and the
rest of the book-making gang of his
time, who wrote him up still more, so
surprised were they that a college bred
man could have the courage to sleep
alone in a house within a quarter of a
mile from the Eitchbnrg Railway track.
Somebody has been writing ever since
about this literary recluse. who hated
civilization so much that he went and
lived a whole mile from it. There is ev-
ery probability that Thoreau will be
written up and make his periodical ap-
pearance in the magazines for the next
half century.

He was a genuine lover of nature. The
mistake he made was in not going to
California in M49,” putting up a cabin
on the north fork of the Stanislaus, high
upin the mountains, where there is from
twelve to twenty feet of snow from De-
cember to April. N o neighbor on either
side for thirty miles, and no way out to
the settlement save on snow shoes. Then
he and his friends would have had some-
thing to brag about. Any old California
miner would have counted Thcreau's as
a “right lively" location. However, Tho-
reau did the best he could under the cir-
cumstances. Possibly if he had to do it
over again he would try a hermitage
where he would run no risk of becoming
a curiosity. There are islands in the Pa-
cific unknown. and unnamed. where he
could pull oblivion over himself and not
require even a suit of civil-.ization's hat-
ed raiment.

From Walden pond the solitude of 'I‘ho- ‘

reau’s time has departed. It is now a
picnic ground-a place subject toexcur-
sions o the city Apaches, male and fe-

male from Boston—a revel of swings, '

boats.peanuts.ice cream and inger beer,
while the well trcddeu w s echo with
the beast-like cries and yells of these city
savages, who are really very daglgerous
when half full of beer and arm with
the dollar revolvers and full set _of car-
tridgcsto bcbought at the cheap hard-
ware and notion stores. and unsafe when

fircd,both to the man in that and behind '

the wcapon.—Max Elton.

_ Srnar. Pira MAKING rs Br.inunr.—It
lsreportcd by the Berlin Eiscn-Zeitnng
that the new process for making steel pipe
employed at Burbauch is very ucccssful.
A syndicate has been formed to build
works at Burbach. the capital being 1,-
200,000 ks, of which 500,000 marks
are issu to the patentee. A. Marines-
rnanne, of Remseheidt. It is stated that
Funke & Ebers, of Hagar. Germany,
have also purchased patent rights, and a
lar firm in Pris propose to apply the
method to the manufacture of copper
tubing. As to the process: As soon as
the steel is cast into the round mold, a
core is thrust into the steel sothat a tube
is formed between it and the walls of the
mold. In order to prevent the cracking
of this annular casting during cooling.
the core is so made that it follows up the
shrinkage of the steel. The steel cup
thus obtained may then he rolled in an
ordinary train. ‘ ‘

 

A Deluge of Russian Petroleum.

With his customary promptuess. on the
announcement of any new feature of im-
portance in the development of the Bus-
i‘.‘.".;':’.§‘..f’.‘.°‘::.€‘i.?.".3" ”"‘ S'.::"°'.l“"i:

pump on e su

ject conveyed by the above title. The
author thinks that the Russian oil will
oompletly oust the American product
from the markets of the old world. The
wells around Baku do not need to be
bored more than one-fourth or so as deep
as the Pennsylvania wells, and the yield
of the former is incomparably greater
than that of the latter.

'.‘Iu America.” says the author, "it is
common to bore 2.000 feet for oil. and
sdine wells have a depth of 5,000 feet; at
Baku a well 700dorl800 feet is considered
a deep one, an ast year the average
lie °' =:*::;.::':: ":.';.°"l{.?.°.“i. 

rec yea as po a one
of the Baku wells was spouting daily
about 3,400 tons of petroleum. or more
than the aggregate outppt of all the 25.-
000 American wells. hen this report
reached England it was scarcely believed.
and those who did credit it thought that
such an enormous production was purely
exceptional and likely to be of short du-
ration. Since then; however, many nota-

-ble wells have been bored, many of them

yielding large quantities of oil. The
whole of these were thrown into the
shade by the Tagiefi "fountain," which
about a month since began to spout up
oil at the rate of 11,000 tons of petroleum
daily. This quantity is scarcely credible,
but from the details given appears to be
approximately correct. The oil was sent
up to a height of 224 feet. and the great
outburst began when the borers reached a
depth of 714 feet. The force with which
the oil rose may be gathered lrom the
height of the fountain. Nothing could be
done to stop the outflow. which covered
the whole district of Bybyibat with oil,
filled up all the cavities and hollows.
formed a lake, and on the fifth day began
pouring into the sea.

On the eighth day the maximum pro-
duction was reached; on the tenth day it
began to diminish, and by the fifteenth
day the engineers had it so far under con-
trol that the outflow was only 60,000
poods, or about 250.000 gallons daily.
Altogether about 10,000,000 gallons of oil
were ejected. and most. of it was lost for
want of storage. This, it should be re-
membered, is only one well. There are
many others in the Baku district which
have been wonderfully productive. Three
of the Nobel walls have yielded 143.000.-
000 gallons of oil. Many of the wells are
kept closedat present.in order to reserve
the oil until it becomes more valuable.
With the present copious supply the price
has been two copecks a pood, or eight
gallons for a penny, at Baku for some
time past. Even these figures are now
distanced, contracts having been made
last month to supply crude petroleum
throughout the whole of 1887 at one oo-
peck a pood,or one farthing per four gai-
lons. In the meantime, with the raw
material at these prices. “English con-
sumers.” says Mr. Marvin, “pay from
8d. to 1s. per gallon for the oil they
burn in their lamps." The quality of the
Russian oil is said to be likely to be
maintained,the Russian Government hav-
ing established a standard up to which
all lighting oils must come before they
are allowed to be classified. The enor-
mous quantity of oil available at Baku
renders it useful for a great variety of
purposes. and there are those who firmly
believe that at no distant date the residu-
als will be universally pmployed for heat-
ing purposes, particularly on board ship
and for locomotive engines. To facilitate
the shipment of the Russian oil, tank
steamers are being freely used and a
pipe line 600 miles long is projected to
be laid from Baku to Batonm or Poll.
The author of the pamphlet naturally
urges that British manufacturers should
lose no time in securing a lead -in fur-
nishing pipe for the new Russian pipe
line, tank steamers in which to transport
it. and that the lamp and oil stove tratiic
should not be forgotten.

A GREAT San On Fran -'I‘he shores of
the Caspian abound in naphtha springs
extending for miles under the sea. the
imprisoned gages of this volatile sub-
stance often escaping from fissures in its
bed and bubbling up in large volumes to
the surface. The circumstance has given
rise to the practice of “setting the sea on
fire” which is thus described by a mod-
ern traveler:

Hiring a steam barge. we put out to
sea, and, after a lengthy search, found
at last a suitable spot. Our boat having
moved round to windward. a sailor threw
a bundle of burning flax into the sea when-
floods of light dispelled the surrounding
darkness. No fireworks. no illumina-
tions, are to be compared to the sight
that presented itself to our gaze. It was
as though the sea trembled convulsively
amid thousands of shooting, dancing
tongues of flame of prodigious sine. Now
they emerged from the water. now they
disappeared. At one_ time they soared
aloft and melted away at another a gust
of wind divided them into bright streaks

 

of dams. the foaming. bubbling billows -

making music to the scene.

In compliance with the wishesof some
of the spectators our barge was steered
toward the flames, and passed right
through the midst of them. a somewhat
danggrous experiment, as the hargc was
emp yed in the transport of naplia. and
was pretty well saturated with the fluid.
However, we escaped without accident,
and gazed for an hour longer on His un-
wanted spectacle of a sea on fire.

_________<..____.____._
A Town): Om:-Tmnn or A Minn Bron.
—A dispute has arisen as to the height
ofthe iron tower which is to be the fea-
ture of the Paris Exposition of 1886. It
was originally proposed to run it up
1500 feet, but it is objected that it would
dwarf every other structure in Paris. A
test is tobe made by sending up a captive
balloon to the proposed height and sus-
pending therefrom four cables. which will
represent the four edges of -the tower.
flags being amxed to mark the positions
of the several stories. All the estimates
for the construction have just been com-
pleted. The costis to amount to 7,500,000
francs, the state contributing 1,500,000
francs and the contractors furnishing the
remaining 6,000,000 francs. in return for
which they are to have the revenues de-
rived from the tower the next 20 years.

 

,The Value of Acorns as Food

for Hogs.

It is generally understood by farmers
that an oak grove affords an excellent
pasture fer hogs during the autumn
months after the acorns begin to fall.

But just what their value is compared
to other foods, and whether all kinds of
acorns have a. like value, is not so gen-

erally known.

The following is the result of an
analysis made recently by myself at the
chemical laboratory of the Michigan
Agricultural College.

The result of analyses of cats, barley,
potatoes, peas, wheat middling: and corn
was taken from the excellent work of
E. W. Stewart on the “Feeding of Ani-

mals":
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sesfitsgs
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9* E: ' ' 3 E
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Ca-|\DLf|U3-¥‘O MN! b
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3-’_~_3 ‘_“_'______- - __ I4
g,_°c.,,_g,,,_,$,,o Fibre.
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i“ 5“ .°‘.". ‘:""‘ Curbo—Hydrates.

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_f_m..;‘\,,,, 9,0‘ Fat.
O\OU‘I\O NU!

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Food value of I00

_ _'''f‘,’‘.'‘‘_ , . lbs. of substance.
o~-- -8: N00
¢-_o- xoknoc

This analysis shows that red oak
acorns have nearly double the value of
white oak acorns.

It was suggested to me that hogs
would not eat red oak acorns, but this
is not true as the red oak acorns were
taken from under a. tree where a. hog
was making a bountiful repast on the
oily acorns. Unfortunately the red oak
is not abundant in Michigan.

An attempt was made to secure some
black oak acorns for analysis, but none
could be found which were not wormy.

About 1-5th oi the red oak acorns
were wormy and about I-roth of the
white oak.

In the analysis the acorns were taken
after they had lain on the ground some
time but before they had started to
sprout and hence might be called partly
dried. '

The shells were also removed before
the analysis was made.

In the case of the white oak the shell
constituted about % of the entire
weight of the acorn and in the red oak
a. little over 56.

W. L. SNYDER, Analyst.
~ —
ake an Effort for Sheep.

THE BEST FOOD.

There is an inconsistency with far-
mers about sheep husbandry, Many
owners of sheep will ‘ find fault with
the manufacturers of wool because they
want to get wool as cheap as possible,
and condemn them for lack of patriotism
and liberal feeling,and at the same time
do nothing themselves to help on the
cause or to sustain the very business in
which they are engaged. Does this come
from shortsightedness,or from prejudice,
or a. willful ignorance? Let us see. Sheep
owners ought to know that demand in-
creases sales,that the more wool is worn,
the more of the same material will be
required to fill its place, or in other
words, consumption makes a market.
With this understanding of the ca.se,they
should use woolen goods as far as possi-
ble. This is only part of what they may
do. They can eat mutton. The meat
part of the sheep is an important factor
in the business and of more consequence
than the fleece,a.ud yet farmers as a class,
and even sheep owners, eat very little
mutton. They say they don't like it. A
great many of them don't really know
how it does taste. There is more preju-
dice in this kind of talk than sense. Mut-
ton is the most healthful of all meats.
Why? Because it is the easiest digested.
This is reason enough, but it is not all.
It is the purest, cleanest, and freest from
disease. Sheep are the daintiest of all
animals. They die before they will eat
or drink foul things. They do not have
the lingering and blood-poisoning dis-
eases cattle and hogs may have. When
sick, they get well speedily or die. Their
flesh will keep the longest in hot weath-
er without getting putrid. It is as nu-
tritious as beef or pork. The sick can
eat it first

Mutton can be cooked in all possible

.ways and be turned to the best account.

It is especially a hot-weather meat, and
just as good in cold weather. It is cheap-
er than beef. It must be ignorance of
all business principles and of the foun-
dation of success in his calling, which
will prompt a fanner to buy Texas beef,
knocked about for 2,000 miles, and to
pay for all this handling, when upon his
hill he might and should have a fat
lamb or sheep, which has not cost him
more than one-third he pays for the so-
called beef. The way to do it is to have
good mutton. This is easily obtained
by crossing a rain of any of the mutton

breeds on any sheep and feeding the:
well. The more of the mutton blood
there is, the better the meat.

Every farmer should buy this summer
a small flock of sheep, and fix up a lot
for them and let them run in it, drawirg
from the flock a. fat lamb or sheep as he
may want.This meat will not cost more
than three or four cents a. pound, and ‘I
no way can a farmer better supply hi
family with wholesome meat. A gener-
al effort of this kind would lift sheep hus-
bandry out of its depressed state, and
start the smile of prosperity in many
homes. Maybe the manufacturers might
warm up and lend a helping hand, so
that our country will not be a. more (it-
pendency on Africa,Austra.lia, and South
America for clothes.

We say, make every possible effort,
one and all, to keep the sheep, and be
an independent people as far as we can.
—.Exthaage.

_.  —

Mllimiirls FOR Bovs.—In the street.-
Hat lifted when saying “good-bye," or
“How do you do?" Also when offering
a. lady a seat or acknowledging a favor.
Keep step with any one you walk with.
Always precede a lady up stairs, but ask
if you shall precede her in going through
a crowd or public pla.ce.——At the street
door.—Hat oil’ the moment you step
into a private hall or oflice. Let a. lady
pass first always, unless she asks you to
precede her.——-In the par1or.—Staud till
every lady in the room, also older peo-
ple are seated.-—Rise, if a. lady enters
the room after you are seated, and stand
till she takes a seat.—Look people
straight in the face when they are speak-
ing to you.—Let ladies pass through
the door first, standing aside for them.
—In the dining room.——Take your seat
after ladies and elders.——Never play
with your knife, ring or spoon.—Do not
take your napkin up in a bunch in your
hand.—Eat as fast or as slow as others.
and finish the course when they do.—
Do not ask to be excused before the
others unless the reason is imperative.
—Rise when ladies leave the room, and
stand till they are out. If all go to-
gether, the gentlemen stand by the door
till ladies pass.—Special rules for the
mouth.—Smacking the lips and all noise
should be avoided.—If obliged to take
anything from the mouth, cover it with
your hand or na.pkin.——Always knock at
a bed-room door, or at that of any pri-
vate room.—These rules are imperative.
There are many other little things that
add to the grace of a. gentleman, but to
break any of these is almost unpa.rdona-
ble. — C/zrirtiart Irlltl/zlgmter.

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‘ ‘The Ideal Magazine"

for young people is what the pa ers call Sr. Nrm
OLAS. Do you know about lt,— ow good it is, how
clean and pure and helpful? If there are any boy!
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ST NICHOLAS

For 1886-87.

Stories by Louisa M. Alcott and Frank E.
Stocktou—several by each author.

A short serial story by Mrs. Burnett, whose
charming "Little Lord Fauntleroy" has been a
great feature in the past year of Sr. NICHOLAS.

War stories for boys and girls. Gen. 3:-
deau. chief‘-of-stall’. biogra her, and confidential
friend of General Grant, an one of the ablest and
most popular of living military writers. will con-
tribute a number of apers describing in clear and
vivid s is souls of t e leading battles of the dvll
war. ev will be panoramic descriptions of uln-
gle contests or short campaigns. presenting a sort
of llteralapictulwe gpllery of the grand and hcoric
contests which eparents of many a boy and
girl of to-day took . .

The serial sto es include “Juan and Juanita,"
an admirably written story of Xexican lifeé 2
Frances Courtenay Baylor. author of “

Sides”; also, "Jenn ‘s Boarding-House." by James
Otis. a story of life a great city. ,
short articles, instructive and entertaining,
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Wells," with a number of striking pictures: “Child.
Sketches from George Eliot." by ulia llagrudc
“Victor -ugo's Tales to his Grandchildren." re-

counted b rander Matthews,‘ Historic Girls." by
E. 8. Broo Also interesting contributions from
Nora Pe . Harriet Prescott Spolford. J uin
Miller, E . Bo es».n. Washington Gladden. A

Wellington Roi ins. I T. Troworidge, Lieutenast

Fleder ck Schwatka, Noah Brooks. Grace Denlc

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1887.

Harper’s Young People
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Barperll Young People has been called “he
model of what a periodical air young readcrsoufl
to be.” and the justice of this commeudationham-
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fliesnselves to the judgment of parents. no ls: than
to the. tastes of chlldren—narnely. by an east
and well sustained effort to provide the best and
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'A eekl feast fgoodthi' toth boyand
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An examination of the above list will show
that our clubbing combinations olfer very low
rates on first-class literature. Ozily t/ze but pe-
riodicals and newspapers are (; «oted. Low rates
are given on them in order siat farmers may
supply their families with first .ass reading and
secure the greatest good foi the least outlay.

n

VISITOR began to urge the farmers of
Michigan to ‘act politically with some
independence, some regard for their own
interests as farmers. We insisted that

tlreycshould make themselves felt at cau-
cuses and conventions in the several
parties to which they belonged. We
showed that the interests of farmers
had been neglected by farmers and that
it was the fault of farmers themselves
that they were not represented in the
law-making bodies of the country and
in executive positions. We made the
matter of a “Farmer for Governor” a
sort of hobby and have persisted in
keeping it before the people for all these
years. In I880 two farmers were nomi-
nated and we have but to give the fig-
ures to show that what we had said was
heeded.

Bro. Holloway received at the elec-
tion of that year for the oflice of Gov-
ernor, r37,67I votes, while the Lieuten-
ant Governor on the same ticket had
1337 less, and that number represents
the number of Patrons in the Repub-
lican party who voted for Bro. Hollo-
way at that election, Bro. Woodman
receiving 31,085 on the Greenback
ticket.

We think all now see that some pro-
gress has been made and that the work
of the VISITOR has had practical recog-
nition. There has been some little ir
ritation, some complaining at the course
ofthe VISITOR. In 1880 some good
tender-footed Patrons thought we had
too much to say about politics. Two
years ago some of our Republican
friends insisted that we were hurting
the Republican party, and this year we
have been assailed for advocating the

election of a Republican farmer for

Governor. To all ofwhich we answer,
the VISITOR in this matter has never

been partisan, but has advised farmers

by independent voting to prove their
interest in the elevation of their own

class and asserting in a practical way
their claims to recognition.

 
A jotting from Athens calls for an

 

answer to several questions. We cannot

75 say as to the status of the Dayton
90 Hedge Co.; will leave that and the le-
,0 gal questions involved to some one who
,0 knows or thinks he does.

But as this

40 matter of a hedge fence is called up we
take occasion to repeat substantially
what we said in the VISITOR some years
so ago.

As many as 35 years ago we got seed,

'9 raised hedge plants and set about one
Ioo rods of hedge.
50 much as some other farmers have and
50 will in the future, and we had a fair sort
5° ofa fence about one third of the time.
With proper attention and treatment on
good rich soil it is often proved a very
good fence, when in full leaf and against
animals that are not given to an excess
of curiosity. But assuming it may be
made a good fence, before we advise
its use, we think it wise to look at all

We trimmed very

Clubbing with the VISITOR wi pay. Try it.

It is well to perfect your plans and determine
at an early day what your reading matter for the

next year will be.

See. I, _Art. 5, By laws of the State Grange-
This Grange shall hold its regular annual meet-
ing on the second Tuesday in December of each

year.

“As the first dayof December was on
Wednesday the annual meeting com-
This

-Michigan Patrons cannot attend these

mences at the latest day possible.
made it necessary to issue the VISITOR
in advance of the Session.

If practicable we should have pre-
ferred to have delayed this issue that
some account of the happenings of the
Session might have reached subscrib-
ers before January 1st; but a week’s
del iy we thought too much and so de-
termined to make no change in time of
issue.

The next number should be loaded
with Jottings from visiting members and
we shall be disappointed ifit is not. All

annual Sessions and it is due those who
remain at home that matters of interest
that attract the attention of our visit-
ingfriends should be reported, and if
not done while fresh in their minds will
most likely be lost. We hope this di

rect hint will be sufficient to ensure an
unusual supply of jotting and short arti-
cles for the VISITOR of January-. Ist.- ‘

That number may be under other
maiiagement,but if it is contributions to
the paper will be just as necessary to its
readers and we doubt not acceptable to
its editor. _ ’

There are, we think, more than 2,000
subscribers whose time expires with this
number and we wish to remind all such
that you cannot renew your subscription
too soon. Remember you s/zoultl not do
without the Viritor and 11:0 Visitor can
not do wit/zout jail.

If Patrons do not stand by their State
paper who will? This is a question
every Patron who is not a subscriber
should be called on to answer, and ev
eryone who is should see to it that his
renewal is attended to without delay.

Fai-mers will not pass for good busi-
ness men until they attend promptly. to
these matters that seem small but which
collectively go to make up the sum total

of the alfairs of our lives. Promptness impa,i,.ed_

in business is a cardinal virtue, and
should be taught at home by precept
and example, at school by teachers, in
the pulpit by preachers, and everwhere K
by  who aim to be leaders and feel
that they are a little in advance at the
great majority of their fellows.

the conditions that bear upon success
or failure. The adverse conditions
impoverishes the land from I5 to 30 feet
on each side ofit. But that objection
Is considered of little weight by the
large farmer and we will let it pass as
of little value. Thef objection belongs
to the habits of farmers as a. class.
We know of mile: of hedge with cor-
responding rrd: of fence. The average
farmer will plant some and harvest at
reasonable times of the year. It is his
habit, or ways. But the average farmer
of this country will not cultivate, trim,
slash, wire down, do and perform each,
all and everything necessary to grow
and maintain a hedge fence, and it is
less expensive and less annoying to take
into account these facts and let the
Osage Orange hedge fence business, and
the Dayton Hedge Company, their
heirs and assigns entirely alone. We
would not give them or any other good
talkers apenny or a rod to set out,
cultivate, do and perform all they pro-
pose to do under a. contract covering
three years of time.
— 
Our faith in the feasibility of harvest-

ing corn by the thrieshing process has
not been weakened by two weeks more
with the threshed crop of this year.
Both corn and fodder remain in prime
condition and we have no apprehension
of damage. Farmers of the enquiring
and progressive sort are well pleased to
have found out that the improvements of
the age have reached corn harvest-
ing We have been doing that sort of
farm work substantially as our fathers
and our grandfathers did, the only im-
provement being a husking peg of metal
or wood and some partial protection to
the hands that while protecting was an
uncouth incumbrance. Michigan far-
mers can safelyplant a little more, can
keep a little more stock, sow a little less
wheat and the chance will be favorable
to maintaining the fertility of our farms.
 

FOR the information of our friend,
Mont. Spaulding, and others of an ap-
prehensive turn of mind we are pleased
to say that both corn fodder and corn
are still in good condition and our faith
in the new method of harvesting corn
by the threshing process is in no way

 

RETIRING secntiries’ will bear in
mind that it devolves upon them to re-
port the names and addrts es of the
newly eleclel Ma<tcTS and Stcretaries
to the Secretary of State Grange.

Be prompt in doing so.

THE legisl iture of Michigan will soon
be in session. Until settled the elec-
tion of a United States Senator will take
precedence. Legislation must, wait.

One political party has such a decided
preponderance ofstrength thatit ought
not to take long to dispose ofthat busi-
ness. But it is by no means certain
that it will not take some time to get
the friends of the different candidates
ready to surrender their chances and
so far unite as to elect.

We have all along since the subject
was first presented been in favor of sub-
mitting the question of amending the
Constitution in accordance with the
original ‘demand of_ the Prohibition
party. It is not desired that more than
75,coo, people of this State. have peti-
tioned the legislature to authorize such
submission by legislative enactment,
and yet in this representatve govern-
ment of the people as is alleged it has
been impossible to secure the necessa-
ry two thirds vote.

How any legislator can refuse to let
the people pass upon that question when
such large numbers have asked for it is
more‘ than we can understand except
when it became a test question at the
polls and a majority of a legislator’s con-
stituency declared against such sub-
mission.

From our stand point we can justify
no man except as stated, who assumed
to rise superior to the spirit and prin-
ciples of the government under which
he lives and which as a people we unit-
edly proclaim “the best on earth" in
refusing by his vote to let the people
pass upon that question.

As we said before the late-election,:no
man who voted to deny the right ofthe
people in their sovereign capacity to
pass upon this question or any other,
where demanded by anv -msiderable
number of people is eutim--~ to support
for any official positioi . '4-‘re the in-
terests of the people are .r ~ -ll/Eli.

For our part we are n s i solicitous
for constitutional prohibition as we are
for an awakened interest on the part of
the people in enforcing what laws we
have, and a higher regard for official
duty on the part ofofiicials charged with
the duty of executing the laws we have
and for such amendments to existing
laws as will ‘give the prosecutor for
alleged infractions of law something
like an even chance in court with the
defence.

We hope to see the legislature when
it has disposed of the senatorship
give early attention to this standing de—
mand for submission. The outcome of
the vote of the people is not to be con
sidcred by the legislature, but simply
the right of the people to express in a
manner provide by law their opinion
upon a question that has occupied a
prominent place in the politics of the
country for years, as wellas in organiza-
tions having for their professed object
the protection of the moral welfare of
the people.

 

THIS is the month for the election of
officers for the subordinate Granges of
Michigan. This work has been attend

ed to in some Granges already and we
hope there has been more regard for the
good of the Order than to gratify per-
sonal ambition.

In every live Grange there are some
live members, whose names we expect
to find on our subscription book, and
we wi'sli to say privately to such, please
ascertain whether the officers you have
elected are subscribers to the VI.<:IToR.
We find that sometimes a Patron is
elected Master of a Grange and possi-
bly sent as a representative to the State
Grange, who does not take the State
paper of the Order and in some iii-
stances never has taken it. Well, there
are some things hard to explain and
still harder to justify, and we shall as
sign these delinquent patrons to that
class for want of better disposition. But
perhaps this is bu’ the result of a care-
less habit and if some good Patron will
look after this matter it will be set
right. We hope so, and with charity
for all, will await the result of the laud-

 

-able woik of solicitors-self-appointed or

otherwise. _
 
Wiiim in Coldwater the other day we

saw a farmer drivingifout of town with a’

load of coal drawn by three good farm
horses hitched up side by side as in
plowing. , '
We have seen the same thing before
_when our country roads were not in so
favorable a condition as they now are
for driving this sort of. a team. We're-
member when buggies were not much
used in Michigan, and-then except right
in our villages there were tracks with a
ridge between. Now there is so much
single driving that out of all our roads
the old center ridge has been worn
away and they are in condition for the

‘use of a three-horse team as well as two.

The extra cost of ‘heavy thills or a.
double tongue would not be very much
and would often, when the roads are
heavy,be found of real value. ‘We have
a pole and thills for light spring wagons
and with afiliitle use we should soon
find that heavy thills and a long neck-
yoke would be a. necessary complement
to the outfit of a lumber wagon. Who
says naj ?
 

Two women who were for years
sweepers on the Fulton street (New
York) f'rry boats died. recently worth
$8,ooo and $io,‘ooo.

 

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TZEEE-Gd-Ra.A.‘1.\'l'Ci3i-E VISITOR. - , .

ATHE world. moves. Years"ago the '

Annual Report of the Secretary
of the State Grange.
I‘Vortlzy Master and Fellow Palrom‘.--—

In obedience to a law of this State
Grange, the second Tuesday of Decem-
ber finds the representatives of the
Patrons of Michigan again assembled
to hear reports from those clothed with
official responsibility—to counsel to-
gether as brothers and sisters, and pro-
vide as best we may for the future ‘wel-
fare of the Patrons of ‘a great State.
This the 14th session is again held in its

Capitol Building, to which we have;

been made welcome at nine previous
sessions of the State Grange; and al-
though the Grange is not numerically as
strong as when it first assembled in the
old Capitol Building in December, 1375,
yet in the intervening years it has dis-
pelled the apprehensions of the merchant
and tradesman everywhere aroused
when the Order was first introduced,
aided ' the education of those who
were ling to accept proffered ‘oppor-
tunities, promoted the financial interests

,of farmers whether within or without

the gates, establislied its importance
and value to the agricultural class, and
become a recognized factor in State
and national affairs. To spread out be.
fore you the work performed to accom-
plish results already achieved would be
to write a book, and as that is no part
of the duty that lies immediately before
me, I will turn to that duty at once and
present a statement of the receipts and
disbursements of the Secretary's olhce
for the fiscal year I886:

RECEIPTS.

Fees and dues collected . . . . . . . . . . . .5 3,726.24
Fees ieceived from special deputies. . . 20.00
Subscriptions to Grange Visitor . . . . . . . 2,296.87
Advertising receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 72i .57
Amount received for supplies sold.. . . . 644.88
Interest on mortgage of C. C. Duncan 222.00

Total receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 7,63I .56

DISBURSEMENTS
For which orders were drawn on the Treasurer of
the State Grange:
Expenses of State Grange

session of I885 . . . . . . . ..$ I,5o4.2;
Per diem of Executive -
Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135.70

Printing proceedings and
other matter. . . . . . . . . . .

‘ I21 . 
Hills for Supplies . . . . . . . . . . 449.28
.IS;tationery, Sec’y's office... .‘ 28.2!
osta e, “ “ .. I . ‘
Oliiceg rent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
Stationery and postage,
Master's office . . . . . . . . . . r6_97

Salaries of officers, State .
Grange . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,450.00

Dues to Natiotial Grange. . 6 .
Amount of Lecture Fund 39 97
expended . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 252.40

Printing and mailing Visitor 2,639.36
Postage paid on Visitor. . .. 123.87,
Sundry expenses on account
of Visitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Miscellaneous expenses, in-
cluding freight, rlrayage,
exchange and traveling
expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. _

4r.o3

39-‘7

Total expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 7,581.85
Balance in favor of receipts. . . . 49.71

$7,631.56

It will be remembered that the bal--

ance sheet of one year ago showed dis
bursements in excess of receipts for the
fiscal year of $804 I4 and that the re-
port ofthe Finance Committee as adopt-
ed provided for a reduction in the sala-
ries of Master and Secretary of the
State Grange and of the per-diem of the
representatives composing this legisla-
tive body.

So much of the report as has been
referred to was adopted without dissent
or objection, but as it did not affect the
per-diem of the members of the State
Grange of that session the full econom-
ic value of the report of the Committee
does not appear in the current report
of expenditures. And again, although
the liberality of Grand Rapids business
men provided a hall for our meeting,yet
the creditable endeavor of the Commit-
tee to bring disbursements within the
limits of receipts, though not defeated,
was endangered by the mileage accounts
of the representatives, as shown by the
pay-rolls of the years named. That of
1883 was $iI34.36; that of I884 was
$i1I2.79; that of 1885, 31243 50.

The fourth section of the report of
the Finance Committee “recomended
that the Executive Committee dispense
with their fall session.” This recom-
mendation was not adopted, but the
Executive Committee were in full ac-
cord with the spirit of economy which
pervaded the report of the Finance
Committee and determinedat once to
comply with the recommendation. And
your Secretary was charged with the
duty of making all necessary arrange-
ments for holding this session at such
place as the best interests of the Order
seemed to demand. The figures given
determined the place without further-
enquiry.

The sixth recommendation was adopt-
ed, and reads: “We also recommend
that every means be taken towards mak-
ing the VISITOR self sustaining.” While
this desirable object has not been real-
ized, a good advance has been made in
that direction. A careful comparison
of the receipts and expenditures of the
years 1885 and 1886 gives the following
result: ' .

The cost of printing and mailing in I886

wasless by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 372.44
The postage was less by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Io6.~I4
The salary of the editor less by . . . . . . .. 200.00

Making total expenses less by . . . . . .8 678.58

On the other h'and the receipts
on subscription were less by..$ rot .42

Less collected for adveriis-ing.. . . I4o.86
Greater incidental expenses. . . . . 7.56
Deducting this . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : . . . . .3 249.84

and we have a net saving over the pre- —
vious year of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 428.74

There Is a noticeable falling off in the

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receipts for advertising. Newspaper
men agree that it has been a poor year
for this department of their business.
Hard times have made‘business men
restrict their expenditures in this direc-
tion. Still, if all our advertising bills
were collected this part of our report
would make a much better showing.

Under the action of the Executive
Committee at the last session the unex-
pended portion of

THE psi-‘is.\'sI-: I-‘UND

seems likely to become a permanent
Fund that shall stand as a warning to
all royalty robbers to steer clear of the
Patrons of Michigan. My last report
showed an unexpended balance of this
Drive well Fund of $r,445.oo, which by
the terms of the circular of the Execu-
tive Comniittee of October, 188:, was
subject to distribution “whenever the
matter in controversy should reach a
final issue and determination.” That
point having been reached we found the
unexpended balance would give back to
each contributor 60 per cent. of the
amount contributed. I was directed by
the Executive Committee to give Gm-
eaal A/'olz're in the VISITOR to all contrib-
utors that this 6o per cent. would be
paid by me on presentation of their
receipt at my ofiice; and in such notice
set forth the fact that contributors had
been protected at small cost and invite
them to surrender their claim to this
“unexpended balance” and consent to
its remaining in the treasury of the State
Grange as a Permanent Defense Fund
to be used only for the defense of con-
tributors to it who are proscuted in the
courts for alleged infringement of patent,
the same to be under control of the
Executive Committee of the State
Grange. The notice was given in the
VISITOR of Dec. 15, 1886, and the re-
quest has been so far regarded that the
total amount of the Fund has suffered
small loss.
Amount reported,Dec., I885 . . . . . . ..s I
Charged for General Notice, 5 21.60
Five receipts presented for

paymei t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 .00
Paid order of Moline Grange

No. 248 to Joseph H. Reall,
N. Y. City, by draft with

 

exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 .08
Note for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,400.00
91.42968
Balance in my hands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..$ I5.32

The $1,400.00 is on interest subject
to the order of the Executive Commit-
tee, and there is little liability of its
being drawn on by any of the parties
entitled to the fractional part of a dol-
lar against which they have a legal
claim. '

As I). C. & H. C. Reed 8: Co.,of Kala-
mazoo, had served notices on several
contributors to the Defense Fund, prior
to the last ii eeting of the State Grange
asserting a (Iaim tor $5.42 against these
parties for infringement of the Garver
patent owned by them, the Committee
instructed me to call on D. C. & H. C.
Reed & Co., and arrange fora test suit.
I called on the said company as directed
and they declined to enter into the pro-
posed arrangement, alleging that neatly
all infringers had paid the royalty de-
manded and the rest probably would.

Not satisfied with the profits secured
to David L. Garver and bought by this
company at small cost,which patent ex-
pired on the 5th of October last, this
company had bills introduced Into both
houses of Congress at the last session,
asking for an extension of this spring-
tooth harrow patent. And all this for
the relief of David L. Garver, who had
years before assigned all right, title and
interest present and prospective to the
said company. The farmers of the
county should not only sign remon-
strances against the re-issue of this pat-
ent or any extension of its life, but
should write their Member of Congress
such words of caution as would remind
him of his duty to those he represents.

The use of plaster by farmers has
fallen off considerably within the last
few years. why, I am not able to ex-
plain; but certain it is farmers da not
seem to think it soiudispensable as they
did a dozen years ago. But there is still
alarge amount of land—plaster used and

we must not lose sight of an ‘interest: _

that proved when brought to the test

the strength of the Order. 'In a long
struggle with a strong combination the

Patrons of the State as a body stood to-

gether manfully with entire confidence

in the inherent right of the position

taken and for once, at least, the right
did prevail. For the last two seasons
we have had a contract with the Michi-
gan Plaster Association and so far as
we know there has been little or no fric-
tion to mar the harmony of ourbusiness
relations. But the life of the last con-
tract has expired and as the season for
handling plaster will soon be here,some
action should be taken looking to a new
contract with anew association known
as the “Western Plaster Agency." I
am informed by Brother Day, a mem-

ber of the agency, that all manufac-
turers of stuccoand laud-plaster west of
Buffalo are in the new association. This
being the case,if we buy plaster at all
this next season, we'must buy of the
“Western Plaster Association.” With the
experience of ten" years before the
Grand Rapids manufacturers of plaster
I have little fear that the Association
will advance prices and renew an an-
tagonism that’ brought disaster and
financial ruin to several plaster manu-
facturers ofthe Grand River Valley and

brought no re urn on the investment of .

others for several years. I
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State Grange the VISITOR demands and
receives attention and if the good reso-
lutions then formed by individuals and
the recommendations adopted in reports
of committees were not so soon forgot-
ten there would be little occasion to
refer to a loss of subscribers.

It is nowhere alleged that the paper
is not equal to its cotemporaries of the
Grange press——nowhere alleged that it
does not meet the needs of the farmer's
family in presenting good and desirable
reading matter.

The Master and Executive Commit-
tee of the Iowa State Grange having
under consideration a year ago the sub-
ject of recommending to the Patrons of
that State some Grange paper decided
in favor of the G1zANoi-; VISITOR, since
which time we have had interesting cor-
respondence from able and earnest Iowa
Patrons, and when we take into ac-
count the few Granges in that State we
are well satisfied with the addition to
our subscription list from that source.

Yet notwithstanding the gain from
that quarter, for which we were truly
thankful, the falling off in the total re-
ceipts of $109.10 Ill(Ngl'l not a large
amount is not a pleasant feature, though
it corresponds very nearly with the loss
in fees and dues.

What we have stated. before and re-
peated more than once still holds true.
The loss on subscription is chargeable
to the want of a business habit of
promptness on the part of a large pro-
portion of the farmers of the country.
Their local paper is renewed either be-
cause it is sent until ordered stopped or
they are called on by the publisher or
other interested party; and so. of their
city paper if they take one. The post-
master looks after its renewal. The
patrons of the VISITOR do not renew if
not solicited to do so and as this work
falls on the few willing workers they
weary of continuing a task so thankless
at that end of the line and our thanks
are small compensation for continued
well doing.

The shortest and simplest method to
set aside this dilatory habit is by a vote
of the Grange to supply every family
with a copy and pay for the same from
the Grange treasury where its condi-
tion will warrant this course and take
advantage of all discounts offered. But
this plan has not found favor generally
though often recommended.

It is again left to the wisdom of this
body to devise new schemes or galvan-
ize old ones to greater activity.

The condition of the Order in this
State has been adverted to by theworihy
Master and pronounced "hopeful." Al-
though our report shows a slight falling
o'fi' in receipts for fees and dues, yet tak-
ing into account the low price of farm
produce, I am‘ ready to endorse his
statement.

Another Grange has been added since
the address of the Worthy Master was
written, making the eleventh for the
year and one Pomona Grange in this
State. These new Granges will need
the fostering care of the State Grange.
They are all in northern countieswhere
the farmers are comparatively poor,and
I suggest as probable that it will be no
loss to the State Grange treasury to sup-
ply each family with a copy of the
GRANGE VISITOR for thefiscal year 1887
and make the cost chargeable to the
lecture fund. As a lecturer its visits will
be regular and maintained at small
cost.

When by reference to the report of
the Treasurer of the National Grange
we find Michigan is second only in the
list of States paying dues to the Na-
tional Grange and far in advance of
Ohio with its Grange Bulletin, Pennsyl-
vania with its Farmers’ Friend and New
York with its Ifmlzandwan, all good
weekly Grange papers, we feel that our
labors Lave not been in vain. ln but
one State have more Granges been or-
ganized during the year than in Michi-
gan. Connecticut, for years without
representation in the National Grange,
leads all the States in the number of
new Granges organized, charters having
been issued to fifteen. '

In accordance with a resolution
adopted at the last session of the State
Grange, the Worthy Master proclaimed
June io, V

A CHILDREN'S DAY,

to be universal throughout the State.
The time appointed was propitious in
point of weather and, judging from the
scores of reports sent to us for the
GRANGE VISITOR, the inaugural of this
day in Michigan was, a complete suc-
cess. We do 'not know‘ that all the

Granges observed the day with exercises
appropriate for the children but, from ,
the motives that instigated its appoint» ’
merit and from the influence it was able
to exert on the Grange homes we believe, Q
that every Grange in the least alive to ;
its best interests should have kept the
day with profit.‘

One of the vital questions before us is, ,
How shall we engage our youth in the ?
work of the Order? In the judicious and 
enthusiastic keeping of such occasions as ;
June 10 last, lies a powerful factor in ,
bringing about a fruitful answer to this
question. The Grange must present an
attractive face to those it would win.
Children’s Days and kindred meetings
we believe, go far in establishing the»
Grange in the eyes of the younger mem- .
bers of the Grange families and out-
siders.

While it is true that there are not as -
many paying patrons in this or any
state outside of New England as there
wege five years ago, yet there is one tact .

that must not be overlooked. Go
where you will, you find unaffiliated
Patrons and 99 per cent. of this now
large class of farmers though careless of
the obligation assumed are still pat-
rons at heart, believe in and
defend the principles of the order when-
ever assailed. The farmer when once
converted remains orthodox in faith
though he does not maintain his mem-
bership relation to the order and con-
tribute to its financial strength and this
important fact must not be lost sight of.
The Order is stronger to day an hun-
dred fold than its numerical member-
ship indicates.

We have the influence of these thou-
sands in the communities where they
live all over this broad land, and that
influence together with our steadfast
membership has aided in bringing about
this important fact that the farmers of
this country have at last some influence
in congress. . Their first substantial

‘victory was in the passage of the Oleo-

margarine Bill and their influence is
now being felt in the national legisla-
ture in favor of an agricultural experi-
ment station. The Bill provides
for an appropiation of $t5,ooo an-

nually to each state for the maintainancei
_of an agricultural experiment station.

Say what you will the important fact is
recognized that the agricultural class
has been greatly improved and elevated
within the life ofthis Order. Although
the Grange is not entitled to the credit
for such improvement, yet it is undisput-
ed thatit has been an important, if notthe
most important factor in the results ac-
complished.

While other agents have been at work
the work of the Grange by organization
has been constant and unremitting, and
it is with no little satisfaction that in
this grand work by the confidence re-
posed in me by :1 representatives of
the Order, I have ‘~ -— 1-n assigned so im-
portant a part at '1 | returning bienni-
al session since ill; ..rganiz.it'on of the
State Grange.

In all these years friendships, cement-
ed by the ties of fraternity, have been
formed of present and lasting value that
shall not be forgotten when official
duties release me from attendance at
these annual reunions.

As I look over these years and recall
the names of those who were with us in
the early days of the Order, but who,
demitted by death,have joined the great
Grange above, I am reminded that we,
too, as the years come and go shall,
one after another,cease our labors here.
But while we remain, as we have faith
in the principles of the Grange and its
value to the class we represent, let us
not forget its claims upon us, and with
unyielding resolution maintain a living,
active faith in our noble Order,and give
to it our best thoughts and our best ef-
forts to increase its usefulness.

..-______. ..
Annnal Address of C. G. Luce,
W. M.. to the State Grange.

War!/iy Patron: am! Mernbtr: of the
fllaflezgran Slate Grange.-
To-day we meet in the 14th annual
session of this body. We come together

to consult with each otherin relation to
ourOrder,with the purpose of establish-
ing it more firmly in our liearts'affections
and making it a more eflicient agency
through which to promote the interests
of our calling by learning of its needs,
and heading its demands; with the pur-
pose, too, of devising ways and means
to improve the condition of the farmer
in his work and in his home, and to ele-
vate him in the social scale. We are
here to talk over the achievements and
the failures of the year and the years.
We are here, I trust, to pledge anew
our devotion to the undying principles
which underlie our Order; and to cause
our faith in its permanence and useful-
ness to glow with the promise of the
future. We are here to renew old ac-
quaintances and form new ones. We
come here to work as the chosen repre-
sentatives of the thousands of men and
women who comprise our noble Order
in this commonwealth of ours-——so

 

“God-blessed,” as Gov. Bagley was‘

accustomed to speak of it. We come
not as an army with fire and sword but
with the banner of peace and good will
floating over our heads and representing
the most tranquil calling known to
civilization.

It is through organization, however,
that the interests of the farmer as well
as those of all other industrial classes
are to be promoted and protected.
While our Order has not gr iwn so rap-
idly as we had fondly hoped yet we
have reason to rejoice that it has had an
influence beyond its own field and has
secured the attention of the people and
their representatives in the various gov-
ernments in the Republic to such a de-
gree that it has accomplished good in
society and in legislation, which is the
outgrowth .of society. Greater and
wurthier achievements are within our
reach; but to accomplish these we must
work ourselves and stimulate our mem-
bers to work as this is die only evidence
the world has of our faith in the pur-
poses of -our Order. If we expect to
enjoy the blessings of earth or heaven
(and we may make earth a heaven if we
will) we must place ourselves in posi-
tion to command .them. We must be
true to our Declaration of Purposes; any
m tterial deviation from these is fraught
wi:h dang :r. A quotation from them
may not be out of place here as they
can not be too often repeated nor too
firmly impressed upon our minds and

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imbedded in our -hearts. Our specific
purposes are these: .

“To develop a better and higher man-
hood and womanhood among ourselves.
To enhance the comforts and attrac-
tions of our homes, and strengthen our
attachments to our pursuits. To foster
mutual understanding and co-operation.
To maintain inviolate our laws, and to
emulate each other in labor, to'hasten
the good time coming. To reduce our
expenses, both individual and corporate.

“We shall advance the cause of edu-
cation among ourselves, and for our
children, by all just means within our
power. We especially advocate for our
agricultural and industrial colleges that
practical agriculture, domestic science,
and all the arts which adorn the home,
be taught in their courses of sfudy.

“We emphatically and sincerely assert
the oft-repeated truth taught in our or-
ganic law, the Grange-—National, State,
or Subordinate—is not a political or
party organization. No Grange, if true
to its obligations, can discuss political
or religious questions, nor call political
conventions, nor nominate candidates,
nor even discuss their merits in its meet-
ings.

“Yet the principles we teach underlie
all true politics, all true statesmanship,
and if properly carried out, will tend to
purify the whole political atmosphere of
our country, for we seek the greatest
good to the greatest number.

“We always bear in mind that no one,
by becoming a Patron of Husbandry,
gives up that inalienable right and duty
which belongs to every American citi-
zen, to take a proper interest in the poli-
tics of his country. ’

“On the contrary, it is right for every
member to do all in his power legitimate-
ly to influence for good the action of
any political party to which he belongs.
It is his duty to do all he can in his
own party to put down bribery, corrup-
tion, andtrickery; to see that none but
competent, faithful, and honest men,
who will unflinchingly stand by our in-
dustrial interests, are nominated for all
positions of trust; and to have carried
out the principle which should charac-
terize every Patron,‘ that the office should
seek the man and not the man the of-
fice.

“We acknowledge the broad principle,
that difference -f opinion is no crime,
and hold that "progress toward truth is
made by difference of opinion,” while
the “fault lies in bitterness of contro-
versy."

“We desire a proper equality, equity,
and fainness; protection for the weak;
restraints upon the strong; in short,just-
ly distributed burdens, and justly dis-
tributed power. These are American
ideas, the very essence of American in-
dependence, and to advocate the con-
trary is unworthy ofthe sons and daught-
ers of an American republic.

“We cherish the belief that sectional-
ism is, and of right should be dead and
buried with the past. Our work is for the
present and the future. In ouIr',agricul-

,tural bmtherhood and its purpb'se's, we

shall recognize no North, no South, no
East, no West. ,

“It is reserved by every Patron, as the
right ofa freeman to affiliate with any
partythat W-llal best carry out -his princi-
ples."

These declarations are broad and
comprehensive. They not .-only justify
but require our careful consideration of
all questions that affect us as farmers
and as citizens. They excuse us from
the discharge of no duty. Indeed, they
increase rather than dimi-nish our obli-
gation to society and to country. All
are patriots and citizens before becom-
ing Patrons. The work of the Order is
to make us all better citizens and more
earnest and devoted in our patriotism;
and hence no right is surrendered by
membership in the Order. The broad-
est latitude of political ‘opinion and ac-
tion is permitted and encouraged among
all the members; but a firm adherance
to their declaration will forever siler'ice
bitter words of criticism and unwarranted
suspicion of each other.

THE GENERAL CONDITION I

of the Order is hopeful. In. many 10-
calities the Grange is a power for good.
The financial situation of the State
Grange will be fully presented by. the
Executive Committee,the Secretary and
the Treasurer. ‘At the last session‘ an
earnest effort was made to reduce ex-
penses to the minimum; but it is pos-
sible that other changes must be made
at this session to‘ maintain a sound ba-
sis. The question pertaining to receipts
and expenditures must be carefully con-
sidered, and the wisest course to se
cure the prosperity of the Order should.
be pursued. The funds must not become
exhausted if we are to succeed.‘ Much
work has been done in the lectufe field
at a very small expense to the State
Grange Treasury. Brother and‘ Sister
Mayo have rendered valuable service
in the lecture field. ’ From January 5 to
June ioI devoted the greater part of
my time to this work. Brother ‘Jason
Woodman and Brother John Holbrook
have each devoted time and talent to it
also; and the entire expense to the State
Grange has been but $185. ‘

Te'n new Granges have been organ-
ized and seven dormant‘ ones revived.
Peaceful harmony generally prevails.
Several ciommodious Halls have been
built and dedicated during the year. All
of these features are. highly encourag-
ing. They stimulate us to work on and
hope on. Yet with all these favorable
indications, we have not been able to

 

increase" our membership during the

 

year. Many new members have been
admitted, but these have been balanced
with losses by death and removals from
the State. There has been no aggregate
increase of membership. With this fea-
ture of the situation we certainly are
not quite satisfied. We ought to in-
crease not only in interest but in num-
bers. And the aid of every member of
this Grange is earnestly invoked in
seeking for means to accomplish this
end. An influence for good has always
gone out from the sessions of the State
Grange, and let us strive to make this
an improvement upon its predecessors.
Our objects are good,our aims are high.
The machinery of our organization is
well adapted to the purpose for which
it is designed. The air we breathe is
cheap, the water that bubbles up from
the clear spring is cheap; but the
Grange is cheaper than these,for, finan-
cially, it is more than self-supporting.
With all these favorable -considerations,
why does it not grow? Will you here
and now apply your energies in search-
ing for means to accomplish the end?
And finally,will you not each and every
one during the coming year put forth
such an effort as shall insure our on-
ward march?

Education and the magnificent op-
portunities afforded by the Grange
economy will be ‘considered by the
appropriate committees and presented
to this body. The Agricultural College
ought to, and doubtless will, receive at-
tention at your hands. Foremost among
the educational agencies of the State
Grange is the VISITOR. It is the crea-
tion of this body and its future should
receive the most thoughtful and wise
consideration.

Dormant Granges~how to revive
and restore them——-are always a fruitful
theme for discussion in both National
and State Granges. It will claim the
best thought at this time. Some have
been revived and they are numbered
among the strongest subordinate
Granges we have; and I think continued
effort in this direction is advisable.
But to hope for success there must be
some latent life in the old members.
Unless this be so it is much easier to
organize a new Grange within the same
jurisdiction than to re-organize" the dead
one. The Pomona Granges are the
best antidotes against a proneness within
a Grange to dormancy. These have
saved many a subordinate Grange from
decay and death. ‘Most of the Pomona
Granges in this State are in excellent
condition and enlist the deepest interest
and the earnest efforts of the most self-
sacrificing among our members. They
should receive every encouragement
possible by the State Grange.

In my search after the elements which
favorably affect the condition of the Or-
der, I have been agreeably impressed
with the almost universal adoption of
literary exercises as a means of profit
and wholesome entertainment in the
meetings both in Pomona and Subordi-
nate Granges. Great good to he men-
tal and moral unfoldment of i‘.e mem-
bers must of necessity grow 01 1 of such
efforts. In some Granges a regular
course of study is prosecuted. All this
tends toward a substantial growth as it
stores the mind with useful knowledge
and trains it to independence and depth
of thought and a closer and more logi-
cal method of expression. In some
Granges a course is adopted that stimu-
lates to a generous rivalry. All this has
proved very beneficial, not only to the
individual members taking part, but to
those who hear,and has made the meet-
ings more interesting and thus attracted
others to become members of the Or-
der. While I am not prepared to formu-
late the plan here and explain it fully,
yet I may say that its foundation is a
scale of credit marks. The Grange is
formed into two classes and the aim is
for each side to secure as many credit
marks as possible; and,- then, some
kind of a prize is provided for the vic-
tor. It is hoped that the Committee on
the Good of the Order may present
this matter to the Grange in such tangi-
ble shape that the several Granges of
the State may be led to adopt it.

The National Grange met in the city
of Philadelphia on the 9th day of No-

‘vember in its zoth annual session, with

29 states represented. The general‘
condition of the Order throughout the
country is good. The increase in the
New England States is encouraging.
Rugged, rocky -Maine slightly surpasses
our own State in the number of mem-
bers reported. Michigan stands next
in the list.

I trust that the representatives of the
Order in this State Grange and the
members throughout the borders of our
commonwealthwill enjoy the satisfac-
tion of attending the National Grange
at itsinext session in Lansing, our
capital city. For it is with unal-
loyed pleasure that we are able to re-.
port that its zrst session will be held in
our own honored State. We assured
the members that we could not point to
Bunker‘ Hill, Faneuil Hall, or other
cherished spots of national historical
renown;- nor could we ask .them to
listen to the music of the Liberty Bell
which once rung out the notes of free-
dom that have been echoed around
the world for more than a hundred

warm welcome by the true-hearted
Patrons of a State that is illustrious in
thebisterhood of states for the intelli-
gence and true manliness and womanli-
ness ofits people. ‘They are coming;

_ and I know that you will ‘redeem the

 

years;,but we did promise them a .

pledges made at Philadelphia in the
name of the Brothers and Sisters of
Michigan.

But two amendments to the Constitu-
tion are this year submitted. The first
is to provide for the representation of
Pomona Granges in the State Grange,
as it has been decided that representa-
tion at present is in conflict with the
Constitution. This amendment is to
cure the defect.

The strand amendment proposed is to
authorize the conferring of the 6th de-
gree in the State Grange. This con-
templates, if adopted, the conferring of
the 5th degree exclusively by the Pomo-
na Granges. It is hoped that this
amendment will be carefully considered;
whether ratified or rejected, it is one of
considerable importance.

And now, Patrons, a parting word.
Six years ago the Gavel was placed in
my hands; four years andalso two years
ago the confidence of the State Grange
was again and again repeated. For
these kind expressions of confidence
and esteem I am and have been pro-
foundly grateful. In return for all this
I have brought to your service the best
efforts to which I was capable, although
realizing how far short of the ideal they
have been. I believe in this organiza-
tion, and am firmly convinced that it
did not come a day too soon; and it
cannot live. a day too long. I have
visited many of you in your homes.
Memories of the kindness received at
the hands of the members of the Order,
as I have gathered with them around
their liearthstones,will constantly cluster
along the line of happy thought so long
as the pulse continues to beat. And in
passing over to another the Master's
Gavel, the Constitution and Laws, and
the Secret Work of the Order, I shallnot
“bate one jot of heart or hope.” Wher-
ever the State Grange shall meet, while
life and health and strength hold out,
there shall I be also. Wherever my lot
may be cast, or whatever duties may be
assigned, still shall the Grange and its
work retain a foremost place in my’
thought and affection.

PHILADELPHIA MARKETS?‘

Fcorrected by Thornton Barnes. Wholesale Grocer
ma -.1-iinge Selling Agent, No. 231 North Water St,
Phil d 1 hi .Pa..J

‘ e P 3' PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 11, 1886.

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THE GRANGE vIs:r'I-OR.

      
 

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DECEMBER 15, 1896.

gratin’ gaps;-tmntt.

A woman's Complaint.

I know that, deep within your heart of hearts,
You hold me shrined apart from common
things,
And that my step, my voice, can bring to you
A gladness that no other presence brings.

And yet, dear love, through all the weary days
You never speak one wordof tenderness, ‘

Nor stroke my hair, nor softly clasp my hand
Within your own, in loving, mute caress.

You think, perhaps, I should be all content
To know so well the sacred place I hold

Within your life, and so you do not dream
How much I love to have the story told.

You cannot know, when we two sit alone,
And tranquil thoughts within your mind are
stirred,
My heart is crying like a tired child
For one fond look, one gentle, loving word.

It may be, when your eyes look into mine,
You only say, “How dear she is to me ! "

Oh! could I read.it in your softened glance,
How radiant this old world would be!

Perhaps, sometimes, you breathe a secret prayer
That choicest blessings unto me be given;

But if you said aloud, “God bless thee, dear !"
I should not ask a greater boon from heaven.

I weary sometimes of the rugged way,
But should you say, “Through thee my life is
sweet,”
‘Hie dreariest desert that our path could cross
“Would suddenly grow green beneath my feet.

‘Tis not the boundless waters ocean holds

That give refreshment to the thirsty flowers,
But just the drops that, rising to the skies,

From thence descend in softly falling showers.

Wliat matter that our graiieries are filled
‘Vim all the richest har'.'e.~;t’s golden stores,
If eve who own them czuiriot enter in,
But famished stand before the closebarred
doors?

And so, ’tis said that those who should be rich
In that true love which crowns our earthly lot,
Go praying with while lips from day to day
For love’s sweet tokens, and receive them not.
——/fer! /Hg/1'55.
————-—:—joj—-——:—A—-— — -
My Sweet Birdlings were
Flown.

As I sit me here in the twilight,
In my old armchair all alone,

I bethink me of days gone forever,
Before my sweet birdlings were flown.

Before

And as fancy the bright picture colors,
Two forms with disiinctness I see,

With their chairs drawn up close beside me,
And their loving arms thrown around me.

"I’.case mamma, now tell us some stories,"
From prattling lips quickly I hear.

And the stories so often repeated
Fall like music on each listening ear.

Anon-——and the scene quickly changes,
And a school girl so happy and bright

Now sits in her rocking chair reading,
VI/hile her brother is mending his kite.

mu the clock tells the hour for retiring,
And I accompany my darlings to rest;

And the sweet good-night kiss ne’er forgotten,
Is again on my lips fondly pressed. .

Yet another change comes o’er my picture:

In the girl a sweet maiden I see,
And the boy, with his kite and his marbles,
H25 outgrown both his father and me.

And now their young friends gather round
.them,
And the old house re-echoes with mirth;
‘Tfheir hearts, with pure joy overflowing,
In laughter and music ring forth.

‘Oh my children, how dearly I love you!
No fond words of mine can e’er tell;

And that you love and trust me as ever,
I know and appreciate well.

Ilay you cherish with fond recollection
The old home deserted and lone;

And the new ones that rise at your bidding,
May God’s blessing ’round them be thrown.

I fain with your path would strew roses-
Fain guard and protect you from ill—
But to his loving care I resign you,
'Our God, who hath done all things well.

‘Yet I love to sit here in the twilight,
And think of the days that are gone,
And. again hear those happy young voices
Before my sweet birdlings were flown.
—Mrr. M. A. Caléinr.

What Hath Love Wrought?

at beautiful baby, a boy,came to glad-
ilcn a home where love reigned supreme;
ahome beautiful and sacred in all its
relations, was made only more sacred
asthis bond of unity strengthened the
love that bound the parents to each
other.

The father looked with fondness upon
Yliis boy; how he was to be his strength,
his stay; the prop on which he would
lean when he became feeble by the
might of years; how carefully he would
train him; how tenderly care for him;
how cultivate and eduacate him and

father might look with pride! And the
mother, with tears of joy in her eyes,and
a. great pleasure in her heart; such as
mother love only brings, smiled and
questioned to herself; “Why this great
joy, and to me? Why this beautiful
child, flesh of my flesh and life of my
life?” And as if in answer to her in-
quiry there came these beautifiil words
of McDonald's to her mind,

“How did you come to me, my dear?
God thought about you and so I'm here."

Yes, a thought of God, and all her
soul went out in thanksgiving: “My
God, I thank thee.” Tenderly did she
shield him,carefully nurture him; watch-
ing, as only mothers watch, for smiles
and prattle and pretty baby ways: Giv-
ing him the best of herself, she saw him
growing -strong and vigorous; every day
improving, until to the eyes of the fond
parents he was sweet and winning as
only a baby can be.

Then came sickness; a dreadful sick-
ness; for days and nights that baby bat-
tled with death. It was strong and
vigorous, and it fought for life with all
the energy of its little being;

_{‘Give me my boy; oh, God, give me
my boy!” This was the one prayer of
the mother as she watched and waited,

and waited and watched, for some sign
of returning health.

“Doctor, tell me and tell me truly,
will my boy live? Tell me, and let it be
the truth, spare me not; I have waited
and watched until I can wait no longer;
will my boy live?" “Do you want to
know the truth, and can you bear it?"
“Yes;” and all the fortitude that she
could summon gave her strength. “Yes,
he will live; but he will be deaf and
blind." The words fell upon her heart
like lead, there was a strange sound in
her ears and the room darkened, but
she took up the burden of her life and
went on. She knew that the loss of
hearing meant loss of speech also. Deaf,
dumb and blind; but he would live,
would be hers to have and to hold.
God had thought of her and given her
her child again.

Returning health came slowly. He
was so feeble that he lay in her arms as
helpless as when first born. Again she
watched and waited for the cooing and
the sweet baby noises, but they came
not. His eyes, those windows of the
soul, were darkened, through them
gleamed not even the light of reason.
Slowly did it dawn upon the mother
that his mind was enfeebled as well as
his body. Deaf, dumb, blind, and en-
feebled in mind. The parents hoped
against hope. Would light never dawn
upon that mind? Would his ears ever
be opened to sound and his tongue
loosened? Again the cry came from
that mother’s heart, “Helper of the help-
less, give me my boy again!” God
thought upon her again, and the eyes
saw. What a day of gladness that was.
What joy came with the words “baby
can see; baby can see!”

Slowly did he begin to develop. Ev-
eryone looked with pity upon the child,
and some with disgust. Almost every-
one seemed to think the boy lacked all
natural endowment of intellect; but not
so. That grand endowment of /we
seemed more than usually developed.
Everything that was beautiful he loved:
flowers, birds, the animals,and especial-
ly little children; and the wonderful love
that he had toward his parents, that ex-
pressed itself in so many ways, was
touching in the extreme. One day, when
the lad was about sixteen years old, the
father died, and when the poor stricken
boy realized that his father would never
smile upon him again, never more shield
and care for him, never lead him out
again into the sunshine and the air, like
a wounded dove he crept away out of
sight to the garret and there they found
him with his face pressed to the window
pane and the tears frozen as they fell.

“Yes, this is my boy, my only child,”
and the fond mother tenderly put her
arm around the boy and drew him
closer to her. We looked at the boy
she so tenderly called her own, and saw
a dwarfed form, which was very feeble,
a pinched frame that showed the marks
of pain. We were especially attracted
by his face, and that was as the face of
an infant. It took no stretch of the im-
agination to put that face in a. cradle
and listen to the crowing and crooning
of a baby. In fact he was a baby, yet
twenty-two years old. All that money
and taste could do as to his dress had
been done. His attire was faultless,but
that face we shall never forget. Can
you conceive of a human face with all
stain of sin wiped away, a face that
gleamed and glowed with love, that
seemed more than of this world?
Though deaf and dumb, though enfee-
bled in mind he communicates all wants
and desires to his mother and to others
(though he can talk with mother the
best) and that by smiles; indeed, smiles
seem to be the best method he has of
communication. And love and care
and that of the greatest tenderness has
done all this; and so many times did
the thought come to us: If mother love
is so tender, so compassionate for her
stricken child, what must be the love of
Christ for the wild, wayward, sinful
children of men? If the mother heart
yearns so over her poor boy, how most
that great warm heart of Jesus go out
after his children? M. A R.

 —

DEAR VISITOR AND PATRONSI-01' I
might say “our VISITOR,” for I feel as
if it really ‘belonged to the Grange at
large, and as if all true Patrons should
feel as if it did really belong to them
so far as its principles of truth and fair
dealing with all are concerned, and its
being the avenue through which we may
converse with the Grange at large, not
only in our own State, but in others as
well. When we receive it at our home,
the first that attracts our attention is the
postal jottings, which are all carefully
read and generally all enjoyed; but I
am sorryto say that sometimes we read
one that does not leave the kindly feel-
ing towards the writer that our Grange
principles teach and that we as brothers
and sisters should feel towards one an-
other. I allude to the jotting in the
VISITOR of Nov. 15 from Cortland Hill.
Now, as a woman and sister, I think he
treats Brother Luce unfairly. Although
there may have been some cause for
his remarks (which, of course, I doubt)
but allow there was cause, is the postal
column in our Grange paper the proper
place to express such sentiments?

He says in this age of wickedness no
man is allowed to stump the county or
State in behalf of any political party,
who tells the truth about the opposite
party. Now is this not a broad asser-
tion? And then he goes on to say that*
it has become an established fact that 3.

even on a county ticket without paying
three or four hundred dollars into the
corruption fund, and the demand in
higher offices of the State runs into the
thousands. Now, I am sorry to say that
sometimes this may be a fact, but not
always; for at the convention called in
the second legislative district of this
county last fall the delegates almost
unanimously nominated in. man to rep-
resent them in the State Legislature
that did not even attend the convention.
I speak of William H. H. Pettit, of
Ransom, Hillsdale County; and the
first intimation he had of the fact was
when he was called on by a few of his
friends and informed of the fact. Now
here is one instance, at least, Bro.’Hill,
where “the office sought the man and
not the man the ofice;" and knowing
this fact, I think that there may be oth-
er instances of the same kind. Now,
do not infer that lam a woman's rights
woman in the common meaning of the
phrase, but a Grange sister, and that I
try to live its principles as taughtin the
constitution,and think the Grange is do-
ing for the agricultural class what no
other organization has done or can do,
and I think it the duty of all true Pat-
rons to try and appreciate it. Now, it
may be that Bro. Hill is a trifle sensi-
tive on some points that he does not
mention, for it has been said “Every
closet has its skeleton." I do not claim
this to be a certain fact,but we all know
that some are very sensitive in regard
to having their political opinions inter-
fered with. Again, he says that he can
not see how Bro. Luce can carry out
the established principles of the party
to which he has pledged himself and
still maintain his neutrality in the
Grange. Now, it seems to me as if
either Mr. Hill does not belong to the
Grange and understand its teachings,
or else he does not belong to or under-
stand the Republican party and its
teachings. Which is it?
In Faith,Hope and Charity, I remain,
MARY E. Piiii.i.1Ps.
Lickley Corners Grange, No. 274.

~~ 
Dr. Talmage on Christmas.

Christmas bells ring in family re-
unions! The ra.il—trains crowded with
children coming home. The poultry,
fed as never since they were born,
stand wondering at the farmer's gener-
osity. The markets are full of mas-
sacred barn-yards. The great table be
spread and crowded with two or four
generations. Plant the fork astride the
breast-bone, and with skilful twitch,
that we could never learn, give to all
the hungry lookers on a specimen of
holiday anatomy. Florence is dispos-
ed to soar, give her the wing. The boy
is fond of music, give him the drum-stick.
The minister is dining with you, give
him the parson’s nose. May the joy
reach from grandfather, who is so
dreadfully old that he can hardly find
the way to his plate, down to the baby
in the high-chair, who, with one smart
pull of the table-cloth, upsets the gravy
into the cranberry. Send from your
table a liberal portion to the table of
the poor, some of the white meat as
well as the dark, not confining your
generosity to gizzards and scraps. Do
not, as in some families, keep a plate
and chair for those who are dead and
gone. Your holiday feast would be but
poor fare for them; they are at a better
banquet in the skies. Let the whole
land be full of chime and carol. Let
bells, silver and brazen, take their sweet-
est voice, and all the towers of Chris-
tendom rain music.—-T. Dc IV!!! Tal-
magt, in C/zrirtmas Brooklyn Jllagazirzc.

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For Coughs.

A reader of the VISITOR writes that
the following for whooping cough is the
best cure she can find and, as she is a
druggist's wife,she has had ample oppor-
tunity to sample all the recommended
remedies. She says it is also the most
effectual and quickest cure for a. cough
of any kind.

“Slice liver, cover thickly with brown
sugar on each side, put in a dripping
pan with a very little water and cook
until thoroughly done in a slow oven.
Strain the syrup formed by the sugar and
juice of the liver and give occasionally
a teaspoonful. Give it every half hour
it the cough is severe."

‘ $1,000 Reward

for your labor, and more, can be earned
in a short time if you at once write to
Hallett & Co., Portland, Maine, for in-
formation about work which you can do
and live at home, whatever your locality
at a profit of from $5 to $25 and up-
wards daily. Some have made over 35o
in a day. All is new. Hallett & Co.
will start you. Capital not required.
All particulars free. Those who are
wise will write at once and learn for
themselves. Snug little fortunes await
every worker.
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“LET us have peace.” These are
memorable words and well adapted to
those farmers inclined to find fault with
each other, because one party was in-
dependent enough to vote for his broth-
er farmer without reference to political
bias, and because by the other party
prejudice was so strictly adhered to.
The interests of our country and calling
demands a cessation of such useless
and embittering ‘strife.

 

In Des Moins, Iowa, two sisters are
professional paper-hangers, hanging
paper at the regular rates charged by

candidate can have no hope of SUCCESS

 

Old Lady Spring.

People seem to have an idea that
Spring is always young and sweet and
lovely. They tell us how she comes
tripping over the hills-—how she arrays
herself in azure and gold-—how she
lingers in the lap of winter. To say the
least that looks to me like a very scan-
dalous proceeding on her part.

Now I don't believe a ingle word of
it. Dame N aturc is wrong y interpreted;
she is anything but young; on the con-
trary she is decidedly old and wrinkly;
and although most sentimental people
admire her way of housekeeping, I must
say that if humans were to imitate it,
they wouldn't be admired at all.

Tucking up her scanty skirts, she
scrubs things down in a most uncom-
fortable manner with her big broom, all
along the courses of the rivers and down
the hills; the wide borders of her white
cap flap around her wizened old face in
the most provokingly active and ag-
gressive manner; she whisks dirt and
dust into all our faces with her coquett-'
ish winds; and then, poking up the fires
of her basement kitchen among the
hills, she sends up a great steam cloud
and spatters us all over with rain, while
she does up her laundry work and hangs
things out to dry.

The old lady is an early riser at some
times in the year—especially in spring.
Up she gets before daybreak, routing all
the sleepy birds and flowers out of their-
warm beds with the utmost heartless-
ness,——-flying around and setting things
out of one place into another with the
utmost nonchalance and an utter disre-
gard for the wishes of her human sub-
jects.

So much must be done that every-
body has to help her do it. She is a
shrewd and rather stingy old lady, very
sparing of her worldly substance where
it would appear to do the most good, as,
for instance, in helping the spindling
corn, potatoes, currants, peaches and
grapes to grow and get a start ahead of
the bugs and things,—but very prodigal
in gifts to the vagabond weeds and
plagues of the garden generally,

I, myself, think that Dame Nature is
especially hard on agriculturists; the
woods actually run wild with useless
things, and nothing ever eats them,while
the poor farmers are sweating and hold-
ings associations and meetings, and run-
ning around vainly trying to find some
way of putting an end to cut-bugs and
beetle-worms and all that sort of thing.

Everything that's useless grows with-
out let or hindrance; it's only the nec-
essary things that have to wage war in
order to sustain a precarious existence
against the insect hordeyand that con-
firms me in the opinion that things are
not just as they ought to be, and quite
unlikely to become so in a long time.

In the fall,the old lady,Dame Nature.
grows lazy and in the winter she is actu-
ally shiftless. She puts all the buds and
flowers to bed early, and tucks them up
snugly; and whether they're sleepy or
not, makes them shut up their eyes and
lie still.

She puts up all her canned fruit long
before anybody else does, makes all her
comforters for cool weather, and mean-
while, goes to bed earlier and earlier
every evening, and gets up later and
later every morning, until, in midwin-
ter, she lies abed nearly the whole 24
hours. .

Now this is not at all consistent, and
as one of her subjects I beg leave to ob-
ject. Let us have a change of program
of the old lady's housekeeping and less
waste of raw material. Anybody can
be smart for a month or two, if they've
been getting ready for it all winter.

Let us have the grasshoppers eat up
the wild things, and a chance given to
the useful plants to grow. Let the
farmers stop warring against outside
enemies, and have a little time to quar-
rel sociably among themselves. Let
the bogus-butter man revive, poor fel-
low! What with the farmers,and the Con-
gressmen, and the laws,and the bills,and
the fuss made over him, he has become
quite hen-peeked. For pity’s sake,
boycott him and give us a rest from our
labOi'Sl——Q_U1ERE in Our Country Home.

Young Folk’s cidb.

D!-3AR_COUSINS:—-was pleased to

hear so many responses to the call and
to know there were so many willing
hands. '

I thank you heartily for the honor
you have conferred upon me by making
me President of the Young Folk’s Club,
and I most solemnly promise to do my
duty as Chief Executive, and will try to
prove myself worthy of the trust.

With such substantial supporters as
Sunflower for Vice President, Country
School Marin, Secretary, and Grace,
Chairman of Executive Committee, the
Club is sure to be a success.

You were promised a subject for dis-
cussion, and I know not of any that
comes nearer to the majority of us than
“Self Improvement.” How are the boys
and girls on the farm spending these
long winter evenings? Are you studying
history, biography, or science? If you
are, will you please give the Club the
benefit of your program that others may
be inspired and encouraged? It is not
impossible to acquire a classical educa-
tion by improving every opportunity for
study.

Hoping to hear from many of the
cousins on this subject, I am, with best
wishes for the welfare of the Club,

men in the same line.

Your cousin, MAE.

:CornIng Mutton.

‘I Farmers should take advantage of the
cheapncss of sheep,compared with beef
cattle,and buy a small flock of sheep in
good condition to grow into mutton for
the use of their families through the
winter. Mutton will keep as long fresh
as any other kind of meat, and perhaps
longer. A few sheep can be kept along
to kill as they may he wanted, and they
will be growing better all the time. An
excellent plan is to kill and corn or
salt the carcasses down in 3. weak brine.
Avery fat sheep is best this way, and
corned mutton will be found to digest
well and better than when fresh. The
meat may be packed in a clean bang
or in stone crocks,and the brine pour .
over it. Five pounds f salt to 100 of
meat will be about rig t in cool weath-
er. The salt should be dissolved in
clear water and then poured over the
mass until it is all covered. If any por-
tion should remain outside of the brine,
it will putrefy and taint the whole con-
tents. The blood should be drained out
of the necks and any bloody portions by
soaking them in water before the meat is
packed. Soaking s_ix hours is sufiicient.
The hams may be smoked and cut up
like dried beef, or they may be boiled.
Both ways they are excellent. The
corned mutton will make agood change
from sausage or spare—ribs. A good
deal of the peculiar mutton taste is
taken out of it when mutton is corned.
—-—Our Country Ilomc.

* * 

THE FAR NORTHWESt.——ThCrC is pub-
lished at Portland, Oregon. an ably ed-
ited and handsomely illustrated maga-
zine, portraying monthly the beautiful
scenery and the industries, resources,
and social features of the great Colum-
bia River region, including Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah,
British Columbia, and Alaska. Its il-
lustrations are artistic,printed in colors.
Its contents are entertaining to the gen-
eral reader, and the character of the
magazine is such as to make it welcome
in every family circle. Any one at all
interested in that great and rapidly de-
veloping country, eitner from having
visited it, having friends living there, or
from entertaining thoughts of joining
the throng annually moving thither from
every State in the Union, should be-
come a subscriber to this valuable maga-
zine. A grand Holiday number will be
issued in December, some of the en-
gravings being executed in five colors,
accompanying which will be a large
picture of Mount Hood, Oregon's fa-
mous snow peak, printed in eight colors
and embossed. All who subscribe now
for i887 will receive this Holiday num-
ber and the picture of Mount Hood as
a premium. The picture of Mount Hood
will be given to yearly subscribers only.
Subscription price,$2.oo per year. Sam-
ple copy, 25 cents. Address L. SAMUEL,
Publisher of The West Shore, Portland,
Oregon.

Holiday Excursion Rates.

The Chicago & Grand Trunk Rail-
way and Detroit, Grand Haven & Mil-
waukee Railway have arranged to sell
special holiday excursion tickets at sin-
gle fare between all stations on their
lines under the following arrangement:

Christmas tickets will be on sale from
December 24th to December 25th, in-
clusive, and good to return up to and
including January 3d, 1887.

New Years tickets will be on sale from
December 31st, 1886, to January rst,
1887, inclusive, and good to return up
to and including January 3d, 1887.

The Detroit Division of the Grand
Trunk Railway and the Michigan Air
Line Railway will sell special return
tickets on the above date and limit at
single fare between all stations on these
divisions.

The custom of making holiday excur-
sion rates was inaugurated some years
ago by these lines, and each year has
proved by an increase of sales that its
patrons fully appreciate the concessions-
accorded them during the holiday sea-
son.

THE best way to reach the hearts of
children—and some men—is through
their stomachs. Some people save alt
the eggs,butter and chickens to sell and-.
live on pork and beans from January r
to December 31. They think the little
bank account that comes from this sav-
ing is a. big thing. They would make
more in the end to sell the pork and
beans and have chicken three days out
of the seven. The children will be
healthier and better satifiied to stay "on
the farm. It is a good thing to remem-
ber every birthday by roastiiig the fat-
test goose or turkey on the place. Let
all the birthdays from father's down to
the baby's be remembered in this way.
Associate happiness with a good dinner
if you want your children to be home
folks.—1Y. C., in Rural1Vew Yorker.

“Tm; New Astronomy" papers, by
Prof. S. P. Langley, of Allegheny Uni-
versity, which were printed some time
ago in the The Century, will be supple-
mented by several additional papers by
the same author. The first of these, on
“Comets and Meteors," will appear in
the January .Century, with nine striking
illustrations.

IF you wish the VISITOR for 1887

renew early and save us the troubleof
striking out your name and then putting
it on again some time along toward

spring.

 

   
   
  

  

 


ll " MBIIR 15, 1886.

why our Prices?

One of the worst evils or trade in the
West is the general practice among re-
tailers of cutting and slashing prices We
are often at a loss to know why retailers
practice this suicidal policy so much;they
can have the trade of the country about
them anyway. Hpw senseless it is to sell
goods at cost, and often less than cost. in
order to injure and irnpoverish a rival
storekeeper over the way. He does the
same thing in order to impoverish you.
The practice is simply giving the profits
of your business, or what might be the
profits of your business,to the public. The
public does not understand or appreciate
your generosity. Ii it did understand it,
it would not think any more of you for it.
The public is always iv grateful.

A country merchant. in writing to an
Eastern commercial journal recently.said
that men who cut prices were “not hon-
est with themselves and would not be hon-
est with customers." There is an idea in
this remark. The man who cuts prices
on one commodity generally tries in some
manner to make it up by over-charging
on another class of goods. This method
of doing business is not strictly honest.
It is simply cheating a customer in order
to be able to seem liberal with him. A
merchant recently said: “Now, for in-
stance, Neighbor So and So will adver-
tise flour at clean cost; another sugar,
and even pat-ent medicines; some one
else prints, cottons, and so on. Now,
then, the result: My customers ask me,
‘Why can't you sell the above mentioned
articles the same as where I can buy
them?‘ What shall I tell them? They
may think, perhaps, I am not honest and
true, even when- they know I can not do
it and live. I tell them Ihave expenses
to meet. like them —a family to support,
taxes to pay, rent. etc., and want to pay
one hundred cents on a dollar, and lay
by something for a rainy day and old age.
Now, why not be manly and upright
about it. by putting a fair,living profit on
every thing, and have an honest, upright
principle about ill’ As it is almost all
are dissatisfied, and have but little confi-
dence in any retail dealer. And why
should they not be? It was not so thirty
or iorty years ago. Marchants were men
of staunch principle and no one seemed
to doubt their word. They kept good,
honest goods, were looked up to as wor-
thy men, and seldom failed. Another
thing: The way business is done nowa-
days causes the manufacture of impure,
unwholesonie food; so we have to con-
sume poisons. No wonder we have so
many new diseases that bathe the skill of
our best physicians and people die so
young, and sudden at that. Now, it
seems to me we have a set of—well, scal-
lawags—-or ire: of no principle, in our
retail trade, who do not care to inake a
cent, and don’t want any one else to, and
therefore buy the cheapest possible goods
to out people‘s throats with. I Wish. for
one.Congress would make stringent laws
to imprison for life, at hard labor, any
and all who adulterate any thing eatahle
or to drink. and then caiiw. the law to be
enforced to its t'nll extent "

The Criterion is glad to see retailers
begin to realize the folly of close cutting
and the responsibility of selling adul-
terated goods, There are few merchants
who have any morality who wisn to Bull
hurtful food products. Many do it un-
knowingly. for the compounders of such
stuff are able to defy detection in many
of their combinations. We believe mer-
chants are tirin of the present abuses
that are demoragzing the grocery trade.
and are anxious to return to the more
conservative and honest methods of their
ancestors.—Grccers‘ Criterion. '

Homes for the Workingmén.

Anarchy. socialism and communism
are rarely advocated by persons with
comfortable homes of their own, with
pleasant surroundings. The anarchist is
a man withouta home, and who ima-
gines that the only way to build up is by
tearing" down. The socialist and com-
munist are men who are thinking far
ahead of the times they live in. They
are anxious for a better state of things
for all mankind. They are losing present
opportunities by grasping at future pos-
sibilities. The world is progressing rap-
idly, and the wise men progress had grow
with it, making the must of everything.
With this in view, let. us work the shortest
possible number of hours that will pro-
duce for us the comforts we ought to
have. But don’t let us, in our struggle.
forget that the manufacturer is the same
kind of being that we are. He may like
work better than we do. For the tact
that he is forehanded proves that he has
worked harder and been more ambitious.
Property cannot be acquired without
either labor of the handsor brain. While
we are wasting time in agitation, the
manufacturer keeps right on with his
business, naturally becoming richer.
The most profitable 0l'fl'8Il'Z’t9I0n for the
laboring man is a building association.
which will enable him to get a home of
his own much sooner than he could with-
out the assistance ofsnch organization.
When he has a good home and a good
position. he dwells in the real sphere of
life and takes solid comfort as the days
roll by. He shuns the s xciety of the
VESIOIIBTY schemers who are seeking to
bring about in a day what should take a
century. In all places where the labor-
ing man owns his home, peace and con-
tentment reign. This tr it stands out
very prominent in the city of Philadel-
phia and the town of R nkvi‘le. Conn .
and in many other places wemightname.
Wherever we find a "city of homes,"
whether in E irope or A|ll~"|'I(‘.Dv "- Will 50
found that the capitalists. so called large-
lv come from viva.» ranks of labor.-
Wade’s Fibre and Fabric.

3-An irate female set-k~' admittance
to the editor's sanctum. - B-1! 1 veil yon,
madame," protested the attendant. --that
the editor is too ill to talk vo any one to
day." -‘Never mind. you let me in; I'll
do the talking."

b*“Pa'rick. you -oid n e you needed

‘ tbs alcohol to claim the mirror’: with. and

here I find you drinking it." ’ F: x. mum,
it's it drinkin’ it. azid _IlfM.l)Illg on the
glass 0.m duin’."

0

nnlir the Gm NOE Visiron

THE. Gi2}ANGE VISITOR.

German Horse and Cow

POWDERS I

This powder has been in use many ycars. It
is largely used by the farmers of Pennsylvania,
and the Patrons of that State have purchased
over 100,000 pounds through their purchasing
agents. Its composition is our secret. The reti-
pe is on every box and 5-pound ackage. It is
made by Dr. Oberholtzer’s Sons Co , Phoenix-
ville, Pa. It helps to digest and assimilate the
food. Horses will do more work with less food"
while using it. Cows will give more milk and
be in better condition. It keeps poultry healthy
and increases the production of eggs. It is also
of great value to them while melting. It is sold
at the lowest possible wholesale prices by R. E.
JAMES, Kalauiazoo; GEO. W. HILL & CO.,
115; Randol h St., Detroit; THOS. MASON,
i8i Water t., Chicago, Ill.; and ALBERT
STEGEMAN, Allcgan. Put up in 60-lb. boxes
. (loose). Price EIGHT CENTS per lb., 3olb.
boxes of 6 ;-lb. packages, TEN Cams per lb.

_E‘o:i: Dyspepsia
llailal and Physical Einauslion,
Neriuusneis, llaaieiei Energy

Indigestion, Etc.

HORSFOP.D’S

ACID PHOSPHATE

A liquid preparation of the phos-

phates and phosphoric acid.
Recommended by physicians.
It makes a. delicious drink.

Invigorating and strengthening.
Pamphlet free.
For sale by all dealers.

Biumlord Chemical Works, Providence,

Tf:2'.(-At IIl)lll)l‘S at all Great World's I-‘fxhibltlons for
B. I.

Y'ill"lAPIl ye.-ire. 100 styles, :22 to 8900. 1» or Clifill, I-Liisy
I‘a)‘:::» ms, or Rented. Catalogue, 46pp., -ito, frw.

PIANO8.

'I'h;- I".l;‘ii'0\'I‘lI Method of Etrlnirink.-introduced and
pert‘.-cu,-vi if,’ hlx.s«.ix_Jg I'I.lLILl)3 is conceded by com-
L_ s_ & M_ s_ R_ . R_ Egg’?:l;mlI;;"{;::€.i()£.f)ll.‘$I.4(uLU ii. ra lcai advance in Plano)
KALAMAZ00 DIVISION TIME TABLE. 1)(:)];tl):L'1‘(‘li) |.['i(.‘,‘-.f“u(l§Tl_(‘|~'  35 Piano;

a§'Bewa.re of imitations. jul_y15_vl

Standard time——9oth meridian. r V, ‘

GOING SOUTH. ___7 _- , . i .

' N Y &C N Y 81 B '

Express. Ex & M

7 45 AM 5 00 PM
9 02 .i

I0 35 "

miasi.,s .-isii llv_e., Chicago.
46 E. mi: St. (Union Sq.), F. Y.

GREENVVOOD

STOCK FARM

Poland china Swine a Specialty.

Breeders Stock recorded in Ohio P.  Record. Corra-
pondcncc and inspection inv-itcd.

B. G. BUELL,

- Lrrrriic PRAIRIE RONDE
Case 00., Mich.

Fenno Brothers & chills,
WOOL l.‘llll1lllSSI[lN MERCHANTS

117 Federal st... Boston.
MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD.

,,m,,,m 0, mm mm ~mmm Consignments Solicited, and Cash
Advances Made.

TIME-'1‘ABl..E—MAY is. 1354.
AGENTS

Standard time—9cth meridian.
WESTWARD.
WA N T E D
to sell the

MISSOURI’

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Active,hone_s person alloverthe

WASHE .......,..  

[Extracts from Reports 0/ Purcluiusv-3.]
' ‘LILY J. ‘f.‘\?"AN. Rlrv~¢oi.nI, Nun: They uerl all other washers I twi-
CI. JOHN R DODHH. JIL, NuI'.wui.. ILL: The best machine rvvr in:-rni l
hyman. H. H. DUTLINT, Coruuvu.u. 5. 0.: Evutjbihly lilsi.suieur_l
Curybody uiiu uiiiii.

S B ADAMS, Annex, D. ’I‘.: My wife would not his I quarter section
(‘ldlacns of land for ii-r machine. if this could no! -ct another.

mts..i savii swirr. STAT! INTII, lovni.: it. I'll!!! |:IQ'llI article
liboul the HliA‘hl.‘I|. ANNA RAMS Illilollu. Tu.; flu: thoroughly Iallail
It on Articles from hos dollars In ._iiiirs; gives enilrv: ntilnfution.

ST. CLAIR INKSFER, JIL. Est. . \\'.iaui-¢c'mi¢ ’I‘xix.: Ball: itsclfarttl can
nothespekranof toolii.',hly. Juilti PEl'l‘O¥. Biiiaiun Ci1'v.U‘nu.: flaw
given it in at severe I4=vn and it» ; -. i mphant every tima.

mo. it ‘Kaunas. xi-ma cir : ' y tine proved minim in
the families who secure-I main. A. 1''. Nil v ELEY, Tuxzm. Nlv.: Give: until!
Iallxfnotion. Rather handle the Wuhtr than anything I have NHL

1. ll. IIASEEY. lnaimui-, '1‘:-4:. mu «iv A I-titer Wulier lhln I over

154 Tr
Lv Grand Rapids . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ar Allcgan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ar Kalamazoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A.r Schoolcraft. . . . . .

GOING NORTH.

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Ex&M

.. ll 55 AM
. . 6 40 PM
.. u is "
.. 55oAM
. 6 16 "
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All trains connect at White Pigeon with trains on main
line. . E. WA'rri.Es.
Supt Kalamazoo Division. Kalamazoo.

Kalamazoo Accommodation leaves . . . . . . . .
Kalamazoo Express arrives . . . . . . . . . . .
Evening Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pacific Express. .

Mail . . . . . . . . . .

Night Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kalamazoo Accommodation leaves . . . . . . . . .

Kalamazoo Express arrives . . . . . . ..

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

Day Express . . . . . . .
New York Express
Atlruiic Express. .

New York, Atlantic and Pacific Expresses daily. Even-
ing Express west and Night Express east daily except Sat-
urdays All other trains daily except Sundays. Fnciglii
trains carrying passengers out from Kalamazoo as follows:
No. 29 (ens? at 5:10 P. M. and No. 20 (west) at 82:0, bring
passengers rom east at 12245, 9 H. eiiiii»,-ii: -mite ii. IIIVGIII-64. Joiiy c. vsxs.

man,
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I A G G . B. Lanv/inn. Gen. Manager. Detroit. 'v’;“.',§:§ .'K:2q ,
. . RIBR, cncral Freight Agent. Chicago. ‘ V A . Jr: _ verfect
o. w. Ruocnns. o P. & r. A.. Chicago. ',‘f;°;.;';,',:",“:,;’,,'“‘,,,‘_:,",:‘_:°,,‘_'*;L‘ "".“‘ “:l:';,,,,‘.’,,“,“§.‘.!,;.2‘°°""-
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on e 0 0 i....«  ii.......ii......i, i....;£%Ri.Y. -‘ii.-v gum

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«'1. irrzrr, sii..—ixi'ii, aiicini

I had rather give up my Janey cow iliui part vviih my Washer. '
ii I in ii i aicii d i-i §¢1"I'l

loan in sums of vehundred dollars or more, to w“‘yh'Io::?,::If:t:nf‘y “mo-3| neywwliqlnprhl on g
be SCCIHCG OD good improved farms. A tlnmuiund percent the bent washer-in
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Attorney at Law,
No. 121 South Bui-dick St.
Kalamazoo, Aug. 9, I886.

 G. SINDEN. SIIKIIIAK, N. Y.: r:iilIXd’nul. take ‘I0 for lulu If
_ c. w. -r . _ n ,
There has been placed in my hands money to ‘°"‘ ‘ -
X04 or Box 1988, New York Olly.

ERMAN CARP. Orders fillecl promptly, and
satisfaction guaranteed; address,
’ Stu. & REEVE. Dexter, Mich.

IteductioninPrice of Paints.

THE PATRONS’ PAINT WORKS have made another reduction in the price
of Paints, notwithstanding they are cheaper than any other Paints in the marks:
even if the others cost NOTHING. Why? Because TEN THOUSAND PAT
RONS TESTIFY THAT THEY LAST FOUR TIMES AS LONG AS WI-IITI
LEAD AND OIL MIXED IN THE OLD WAY.

Auglstf

WE DELIVER" io GALLON ORDERS FREIGHT PAID TO YOUR DE V

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 l :12 PATRONS’ PAINT WORKS, 64 Fulton St.. New York-

E  IV|——-3 C_______..."'°PPERs-
BEST IN THE WORLD.

GUARANTEED TO CIIOP,'NOT GRIND TIIE IVIEAT.

F03 cfloppmg Q No.  Cl'l0$lp0Il1'|(I i-minute.

rice. 8 .00.
SAUSAGE MEAT, Mme: '2 Chops 1 pound per minute-
, Pr cc, 82.50.
Msxr, Hlmaunc .a'rt:AK

22 cIl0])‘I;'2-‘|)0|lllgh:‘lllIIlllO
- 0 . .
ron DYSPr.PTlCS- BEEF  c.o§3‘lw“’.'nd_ per “mm
TEA roe INVALIDS, ac. cc. $6.00-
4

‘

Amerli-an ‘fi’I'l1‘.llIl|fl'IlI’I. iinyii r.

“We him: given ils Meat
Chopper is thorough .ial with
most satisfactory results. They
excel anything of tlw kind made

.-. in either hemisphere "

Farm and Fireside says:

“ It the only Meat Chopper
we ever saw that we would give
house room.‘ It has provoin such
a very useful machine that we
want our mailers to enjoy its
benefits uith us." """"““

p  , .- '  . _soi.n YTI-IE
30-“! 70? Glhlotue. llo. no I “ I ly sine. Pei, 88.90. Hardware Trade

ENTERPRISE ,|\ll’l-'-"'G,‘CO.. PHILADELPHIA, PA.

2

Wonderful Discovery in Laundry Soap.

One Bar of Inger-soll’s New Discovery Soap does a Wash with one
hour-’s light labor. This is.a saving of eight hour-’s hard labor. A
Box contains thirty-six Bari. thus saving this-‘,3 days of grinding
labor. It is estimated that the wear on clothe‘: by using the old
alkali soaps amounts to one hundred dollars a year, all of which is
saved by using Inger-so1l’s soap. It_is elegant for the toilet.

@133, .A. Bo7x.@n

Sample box delivered to you, freight paid, for only three dollars. Sample bar ‘mailed for the
postage, I4 cents. Patrons’ Soap Works, 64 Fulton St., New York. Our new book,_“Thc Grange,
its Work and Workers." containing ictures of , twenty-six leadiig Patrons,‘ and testimonials to the

'1
——-ran———

Under Contract with the Executive Committees of the
Pennsylvania and New York State Granges and recognized by
the State Granges of Ohio, New Jersey and Delaware to fur-
nish"Granges with all kinds of Groceries. We carry a large and complete
stock of all Groceries, Sugars, Syrups, Molasses, Coffees, Teas, Spices, etc. We
till all orders from Patrons when the order is under Seal of
Grange and signed by the Master and Secretary of the Grange, and
upon receipt of goods and found satisfactory payment to be made within 30
days from date of bills. We are now filling Order 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 Philadelpiiia.. If you desire information in regard to
prices on any goods in our line of business offreight 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 Grower and Grange Selling Agent,
241 North ‘Van-.r Street,

marxgyi

Philadelphia, Pen

we GUIDE.

We Issue the Buyers’ Guide in March and September of
each year. It is now a book of 304 pages, 8ixll inches in
size, 28,578 3 uare inches of information for the consumers.
It describes, ll iistrates and gives the rice of nearly all the
necessaries and luxuries in dai y use y all classes of peo-

Ic, and is sent free to any address upon receipt of IO cents
0 pay the cost of carriage. We charge nothing for the book.

A I of the goods quoted in the Guide we carry in stock,
which enables us to make shipments promptlyand as ordered.

We are the original Grange Supply House organized in
I872 to supply the consumer direc at wholesale prices, in
quantities to suit the purchaser. We are the only house in
existence who make this their exclusive business, and no
other house in the world carries as great a variety of code
as ourselves. Visitors are invited to call and veri our
statement. -

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

MGNTGOMERY WARD & CO.,
227 &. 229 Wabash Ave., (Near llxpoziitioii Building) CHICAGO, ILL

' E CHICAGO &fiRAND TRUNK RAILWAY TIME TABLE,
JUNE 26, 1886-

TRAES WBSTWARIJ - CILNTRAI. MERIDIAN TIME.

‘»‘\ ). i8, No. 6,
( Express Express.

TRAINS BASTWARD—C3N'l'RA.L MERIDIAN ‘Hill.

No. 4

No. 5.
Express.

No. x, No. 3
f Mail. Express.

7 55 P. M. Chicago. Lv . . . . . . . . . .. 8 05 A. M.
9 34 “ Valparaiso . . . . . . . . . . . . . to 30 “
" ,I0 ro " South Bend. . ... 12 oo "
“ no 48 " Cassopolis.

3251'. M.
532
65:

Portfltn-ou,Lv . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . .. .l

_ I35 '
Vicksburg . . . . . . ..  1 5o ‘
Battle Creek, Ar . . . . . .. 245

" Lv. . . . . 3 45 '

;i::;i:is::='

Way Freight carrying passengers going East, 3.30 P. M.: going west. rc.o5 A. M.

‘Stop for passengers on signal only.

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

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

For through rates and ume apply to G. M. WATSON. Local Agent, Schoolcraft; W. E. DAVIS.  Gin!

Passenger Agcnt.'Chicagc: W. I. SPICER. General Manager, Detroit.

GROOERIES!

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

Wholesaligiogery I-Iousxe
ARTHUR MEIGS 30 CO.

‘Have - Opened a.

Mammoth Retail Department,

and are selling all goods at much IIIWVER PRICES than any other dealers
' SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS will be given large purchasers. OUR
STOCK IS LARGE, and embraces everything in the
line of Groceries and Provisions. When‘ '
in town don't fail to call on us. -

.A,.RTIa:'UR':MEIc+s&:oc>-
Retail ZDe;pa.rt:n::i.ent, -

77 and 79 south Division‘ street.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ‘

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BUSINESS AGENT MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE.

THOMAS MASON,,

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

Respectfully Solicits Consignments oi .

liiili,l:gilii1ii,lillii,iggi,Erii: leal,lliwl'iii,Iliii,Pill:,'lillnii,la.

BONDED AGENT of the N. Y. Produce Exchange Association;
Chartered Feb. i 3”, I878.

«above etfect  hundreds, mailed rec. 1 ., ‘ " b N183!‘
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4 I '. ‘

£111 TO’:-dens Receive:-. Proper 

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H IS Ch nstmas Gift.

It seems like a hundred years ago,

That we travelled once through the drifted snow
To meet round the Christmas-tree.

Yen were a child, with a fair, round face,

And you hung- on the tree, with a shy, sweet
' ‘ grace,
Your Christmas present for ma.-.

‘Twas a scarlet, beaded pincushion heart,
-Brilliant and shiny -a triumph of art——

\Nith a bead bird on it—-a dovc.

’Twas bought of a “squaw” (who spoke with a
“ brogue),

Arid you said in your notc—<lcar little rogue-—

at you gave it to me with your love.

Well, that little red heart has been with me

Through distant countries far over the sea,
Crossed river, mountain and lake:

Though never a pin has its tough sides known ,

For the heart was as hard as l’hara.oh’s own,
But I loved it for your sake. .

W¢’re very much older and wiser now.

We meet with a formal word and bow,
, And many more things we know,

We don’t hang our hearts on trees, I belibvc.
Nor wear them, either, upon our sleeve;
I35 it better, I wonder, so?

~_The tree is laden with gifts to-night,
And the colored tapers are gleaming bright,
And the Christ-Child floats above;
But my hope-d.for gift isn't on the tree,
I want a heart,—will you give it me,
As you did before, “With your love"?
—Bt5.rie C/tam!/tr, in Brooklyn zllagnzine.

Holiday Helps.

The jolly, rollicking Christmas-tide is
almost here. By the time this reaches
y'ou.your plans will be made and the
hurry and bustle of the “last few days”
willbe upon many a household. Gifts
are in a feverish rush of completion in
the tedious hands of little folk; bills of
fare are materializing in the heads of
housewives and on pantry shelves and.
a. “something’s-goin'-on” air prevails.

There is company invited, or you are
invited out and some one must devise
entertainment. Who shall it be? Don't
leave all that to be “thought tip” when
all have arrived and are waiting to be
entertained. A wise forethought would
be to appoint some one or more of the
members of the family, not in charge of
the “substantials,” to prepare—not a
'program—but a few suggestions for
passing the time to the greatest delight
of;the guests. Let it be the dutv of
this committee to see that the game
boards are not broken—backed and are
at hand, that the cards are not rnislaid

_ or lost, that pencils and paper are

. rgady for games that may call for their

use, and let them arrange beforehand

. for charades, shadow games or any oth-

er amusement that requires time to
‘hunt up and bring together the necessa-
ry paraphernalia.

A pretty office for this committee to
take upon itself will be to prepare din
ner table souvenirs by writing or print-
ing Christmas sentiments on cards for
each plate. Let these be read by the
recipients in turn, when all are seated.
It may relieve the carver of that irk-
some sense of being too closely watched

,while discharging his momentous du-
ties and will. ward off the awkward
pauses that sometimes follow the seat-
ing of a large company at table.

This committee may also be pressed
into a decorative committee and fasten
buttonhole bouquets or a bright leaf to
each card with a knot of ribbon.

They may also prepare popcorn, nuts
and the home-made candies that are es-
sential in rounding olfin good style every
holiday festivity. Let them take pride
in all their arrangements and above all,

‘-keep in view the fact that entertaining
ever so elaborately does not put heart
into it. Be heartily sincere in striving
to make each guest the happiest.

One word to the holiday guest,—re-

~u it is the Christ-time, when

ity should abound. Determine to

entertained if need be at all cost of

if. Enter with zest into the proposed

‘ - sements of host and hostess. Assist

 veryway in your power to make the

y an agreeable one for others.

.Dwine's.advice in.—the -last VISITOR is
frgiely on this point. _

o
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CHRISTMAS SENTIMENTS.

_ ,i-  ’ Lo, now comes our joyful’st feast!

Let every man be jolly,

7 ‘ - '-  room with ivy leaves is dressed, -

And every post with holly. '

Now all our neighbors? chimneys smoke,
_ And Christmas blocks are burning;
'5 Their ovens they with baked meats choke,
~-. And all their spits are turning.

Without the door let sorrow lie,
And, if for cold it hap to die,
We'll bury it in Christmas pie,
And evermore be merry.
——Wit/zer’: 7u—.-mm.

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 ‘ ‘cf gnfroni sacred Bethlehem town I '
'- fain must keep our Christmas feast,

2: " _'-ile hearts that own the Christ-child's swav
_Tum longing thoughts toward the East."

§:A_ Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God
us-every one!”-— Cllar. Djckenr.

 in the name of the holy child Jesus, I

7 , upon you, this Christmas Day, to cast care

 winds, and trust to God; to receive the

-rnaage of peace and good will to rnen.——-Geo.
_ "Donald. - -

Oh! Christmas is here,
, V The best of the year,
, season of merrinient, charity, song-—
' Such mem’ries entwine it, _
Each heart shall enshrine it
the affections which grow green and strong!
—Le: C. Hafby, in Brooklyn Magazine.

last for the Christmas-tide! drink it in
_ ndnas—-

sltlpeace to the world, unto all men good-
theisunshine of joy pierce the shadows of
ness,

I»lfi"e,fm our quafiirig, its choice wines
.l _ =

“Yule’s come, and Yule’s gane,
An’. we hae feasted weel;
Sac Jock mum to his flail again,
An’ Jennie to her wheel."
, ——0ld Scott/i Songs.
“Merry Christmas to_the big folks,
Merry Christmas to the small,
Merry Christmas to the big folks,
Merry Christmas to you all."

“Behold, [bring you good tidings of great
Joy, that shall be to all people."

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carols play,

And wild and sweet

The words repeat
()f peace on earth, good-will to men.

—- Longfellow.

“God so loved the. world that he gave his
only begotten son, that whosoever believeth on
him should not perish,but have everlasting life."

“To all the children of this and other lands,
and to their parents and grandparents, we send
our wishes for the merricst of Christmas Days.”

cHuis'i'.\iAs CAl\’l)lE.S.

li':n'p:_for Caramelr. -— Half pint of rich milk,,
half a cake of Baker's chocolate softened on the
fire. Let the milk come to a boil, then stir in
the chocolate very hard, then add half pint best
white sugar and two tablespoonfuls of molasses.
Boil until very thick, taking care not to burn it.
Pour on btittered tins and when nearly cold cut
into squares. .

Soft Cmu1y.—-One pound good brown sugar,
three tablespoon fuls of water; while boiling,add
quarter of a pound of butter. Boil until thick
and ropy, then take it from the tire and stir un-
til it grains. Pour on buttered plates and let it
cool. Nuts put in while stirring impmveit very
much. '

Cream C/mculafn'.—One quart of fine white
sugar, half a pint of boiling water, and half a
pound of Baker's chocolate. Pour the water on
the sugar and leave it to boil ten minutes with-
out stirring, then place the saucepan in cold wa-
ter and stir briskly until it becomes thick enough
to handle. Mould into little balls and put_them
aside to cool. Break the chocolate into small
pieces and put it in a bowl on the top of a tea-
kettle of boiling water until melted, then re-
move tlie bowl and drop in the balls one at a
time. Take them out with It fork and place on
a buttered dish.

(‘amount Comfy.-—()nc and three—quarters of
a pound of brown sugar,one large cocoanut with
the milk, one tziblespoonful of butter. Let it
cook until quite stiff, then pour into a buttered
dish.

Glare .-\'u/: of all kinds are great favorites and
once you have the knack, very easy.

Boil one pound of sugar with a cup of water
until it “hairs,” then put to it half a tea cup of
vinegar and boil it rapidly until on trying it in
ice water it cracks between the teeth.
From this point watch it closely until you see it
begin to turn color, then remove it quickly and
set it on a hot brick or in boiling water while
you use it.

Glare lVr.vlrm(:. --You must have tin dishes or
plates greased, nuts ready cracked and a fork or
two greased, and then begin to work. As rap-
idity is necessary, it is well for a beginner to
have some one near to hold the plates and
change them, etc. ()n no account must they
be put on a warm place,althougli in cold weath-
er it is convenient to work from, or close to, the
stove, as the candy keeps hot longer.

Try never to stir the candy while the nut is
being taken out.

Have some split walnuts at your left hand,the
saucepan in front and a greased dish on your
right. Take great care that not a spot drops on
you, for it makes the worst kind of a‘ scald. For
this and other reasons, although you must work
as quickly as you can, you must do it steadily;
nervous haste will defeat your intentions.

Drop the nutfrom your left hand into the can-.
dy, turn it over with your fork once to make
sure it is covered, then take it out, drop it on
the tin and repeat the process with other nuts.
VVith practice, you will be able to drop with the
left hand as you. lift out with the right. As soon
as the candy begins to get stiff put it back on
the fire, and watch it until it is liquid again, re-
membering that it will burn very easily indeed.

It will only bear making hot once after that, it
will get harder instead of softer. This, indeed,
is the only difiiculty with thiskind ofwork. The
first time you may find that you have at least a
third of your candy hardened in the saucepan.
This you must dig off for the benefit of the
small fry, or if you have stirred it more than
necessary it may get cloudy, but after a little
practice you will find it remains bright to the
last, and you will also find you can use the last
bit of sugar.

Almonds must be blanched and thoroughly
dried before they are dropped into the candy,
and for those who like the flavor of scorched al-
monds they may be put into a sharp oven until
they begin to change color; watch them very
closely or they will get brown and lose flavor.
If more convenient, they may be scorched in a
frying—pan,shaking them about to prevent burn-
ing. When cool they should be dropped into
the candy in the same way as the walnuts. _

Hazel nuts should be put in a hot place (but
not scorched) until the skin will rub off between
a rough cloth, or you may leave it on, as it is
not disagreeable. They should then be dropped
twice into the candy. ‘

Peanuts may be treated the same way.

— 

FArmiai<‘s’ INSTITUTES.—Tlte farmers’ insti-

tutes for 1887 will be held at Grayling, Craw-

Dr. Kedzie, Prof. Beal, Prof. McLough, Presi-
dent Willets and Secretary Reynolds will cori-
duct the exercises; at Fremont, hewaygo county,
February 3 and 4, by Prof. Beal, Prof. Johnson,
Dr. Kedzie, President Willets and Secretary
Rey nolds; at Hanover, Jackson county, Febma
7 and 8, by Prof. McLough, Prof. Grange, Pr .
Bailey, President Willets and Secretary Rey-
nolds; at Three Oaks, Berrien county, February
10 and it, by Prof.
Grange, President Willets and Secretary Rey-
nolds; at Bancroft, Shiawassee county, February
14 and I 5, by Prof. Cook, Prof. Carpenter, Prof,
M_cEwan, President Willets and Secretary Rey-
nolds; at Charlotte, Eaton county, February 16
and I7, by Prof. Bailey, Prof. McEwan, Prof.
Carpenter, Prof‘. Willets and Secretary Reynolds.

..__{.—go;_j_.

breeders‘ association have- elected:President,
Prof. Samuel Johnson, of agricultural college;
treasurer, B. J. Cvibbins, of Detroit; secretary
J. H. Butterfield, of Lapeer; directors, W. S.
Bates, of Ionic; C. F. Moore, of St. Clair, and
L. L. Brooks, Ionia. ‘

— — —-

IT is stated that the Grange VISITOR,
of Michigan, has been assailed and
abused fois sustaining‘ farmers’ for public
ofiice. Our esteemed contemporary
may well court such opposition, for it is
the surest sign of effective service to the

Ohio.
______,_.__.____

IF you wish the VISITOR for 1887
renew early and save us the trouble of
striking out your name and then putting‘
it on again some time along toward
spring. ’

fort County, January 3! and February I, where ‘

Johnson, Prof. Cook, Pro_f. -

LANSING, Mich.. Dec. 8.——-The shorthorn V

farmers of Michigan.—Grange Bulletin‘

Qtuituaxies.

DINGMAN—-

Died, Nov. 4, 1886, Br». Makinzie Dingman,
a member of Fremont Grange, No. 494.

WHEREAS, It has pleased our Heavenly Father
to remove from us by the hand of death our
brother, Makinzie Dingman, we feel that we
have sustained a great loss; and

WILERFJIS, Our worthy and inuch esteemed
sister, Sophia. Dingman, has a great afiliction in
the death of a beloved husband, and each mem-'
ber of this Grange feels that a loss has fallen
upon him, which should cause the brothers and
sisters of this Older to express the common voice
of sympathy. ' ‘

/1'!!!)/7.'td, That we extend our sympathies to
Sister Dingman in her afiliction.

Rrrolwtl, That our charter be draped in
mourning for ninety days. and that a copy of
these resolutions be presented to_ the bereaved
family, and a copy be sent to the GRANGE Visi-
TOR for publication, and a copy be spread upon
the records of our Grange. Com.

GLEASON-—

\V-HEREAS, Our Divine Father who doeth all
things well took from our midst, ()ct. 17, I886,
our loved sister, Lucy L. Gleasm, than whom
few would leave a larger circle of friends to
mourn their loss.

1i’:.ur1z/:41, That in her early death at the age
of 28 the family have'lost a loving wife and af-
fectionate daughter and sister, and Sunfield
Grange, No. 260, an earnest worker and true
Patron.

lferolvzd, That this Grange tender its heartfelt
sympathy to the bereaved husband and family.

Resolved, That our charter be draped in
mourning for sixty days, and these resolutions be
spread on our record and a copy be sent to the
VISITOR for publication. COM.

GALLAND :  '

Oraiigeville Orange is once more called upon
to mourn the loss of one of its members. Sister
Gallanil, who has been a true sister of the Grange
ever since the organization, departed this life
Nov. 15, 1886.

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

VVitt«:RHAs, It has pleased the (Lreat Master to
remove from the scene of her earthly labors our
esteemed and worthy sister: therefore

Rerql:.'ea', That as brothers and sisters our
heartfelt syinpathies be extended to our brother
who has uiet with this great loss, and we can
only comniencl him to the Supreme. Master, be-
lieving, as we do, that trust in God is the only
safe refuge in the hour of aftlictinn.

/i’c:o/znrzl, That as a Grange we deeply and
sincerely mourn the death of a most worthy sis-
ter aiid friend, and hereby record our high esti-
mation of her character as a true sister and
Patron.

R350/Z'E(1', That a copy of these resolutions be
sent to the family of Bro. Galland, and also to
the GRANGI-‘.VlSlTOR for publication, and that
our charter be draped in mourning for the space
of thirty days. ‘ COM.

Current Rates on Chicago Mar-
ket.
Potatoes, No. I, ripe, '19 bu. . .$ .
“ unripe or 05 stock. .
Turnips, yellow,  bu . . . . . . .
Onions, choice, “ .65 ‘J .
Apples, choice, No. i, *3! bbl. 2.75 '1. 2.
“ No. 2, stock, “ .. ’ t.

Car lots sold at 5 per cent. commission.
Apples, evaporated, "ff? ll). . . . . . 8V;@
Onions, selected,  bhl . . . , .. 2.25 ,
Rutabagas, “ . . . . . . I .00
Turnjps, white, , “

Beans, navy, ‘
“ medium,
VVool, washed,

“ unwashed, .
Veal, choice, .
Turkey, choice, dressed,  ‘lb .07
Chickens, dressed, “ .06
Ducks, “ " .07
Geese, “  doz . . . . .. 6.00
Eggs, fresh, “ .2:

“ held stock, “ .16
Butter, dairy, ‘gr? II. . . . . . . . .12

“ Creamery “ . . . . . .  .22
Clover seed, {£1 bu . . . . . . . . .. 4.70
Timothy _ “ “ ’ I .70
Cranberries, {Q . _
Hides, salted, G, 7{.9.lt. . . . . . . . .o7}é@
Pelts, estd wool, .25 @ .
Hops .20 (E3 ' .
Honey, . io no
Beeswax, . t6 (gn-

On produce not named write for prices. '

I will advance on all car lots of choice winter
apples $1.50 per bbl; also 7c per lb. on all evap-
orated apples on their receipt and will also keep
posted on values here that will correspond with
me in relation to what they have to dispose of.
Ship from this on in lined or refrigerator cars.

Respectfully yours,
THOMAS MASON.
163 South Water St., Chicago.
Busisess Agent Michigan State Grange.

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Gamma OIL CAKE.
OLD PROCESS.
Now is the .time to buy the genuine article
~,chea.p. To be had in Michigan of
F." VAN DRIELE '& CO., Grand Rapids;
MAYOR RANNEY, Kalamazoo;
T. B. TAYIDR, Jackson City Mills, Judson;
W. S. PENFIELD, 2l9 Woodward Ave., Det.
_7oupli ‘H. H'u'g/t::,.-E.rg., Ft. FVa_7ne, Ind.
Sttt—I-laying used your Star brand of Old Pro-
cess Oil Cake Meal, 1- can cheerfully recommend
it to farmers and stockmen. Yours truly,
_ J. C. Srnnnrnc,
Sec‘y Mich. State Ag'l Society.
Ask for S'l'An§*' brand, manufactured only by

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Sketches. Essays, Poetry, sud Criticisms. two He-
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THE Slv.'C0zVl) SON,
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Pafrers on /lmeriran History’,
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A continuation of the admirable piirien comparing
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Essay: and Poems,

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Occasional Papers,
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