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vommzu XII——No. 18. 4
WHOLE NUMBER 156. ,

COLDWATER, MICH.,SEPTEMBE.1"lw15._ 1887. 1.-..............

Published b A. J. ALDRICH O

LDWATEB REPUB OAK.

OFFICI./41 DIRECTORY.

Oflicars National Grange.
Ataxia-—PU'1‘ DAKDEN . .

£4cttr:'r— .
§tward—j. E. HALL . . . . . . . . . .. .
Asxistaut $tewar4—W.H.§I'INSON. .N, Ham hire

 

 

Cha)1a1'u—A. J ROSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. exas
7’r¢a:urer—F. M. MCDOWELL . . . . . . . . . .New York
$¢cI'ei‘a:ry-_lNO. 'I'l’.l;'\l'l'li.l-L s. v; F SL. .VV1sh.ington.
Gar: K:eper—H. THOMPSON .......... ..
Cara-—MRS. KATE DARDEN. ..
Pbauma—MRS. S. H. NEAL . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kentucky

Flora—MRS. JAMES C DRAPER. . .Massachusets
Lady Assistant $t¢'.'curd—MRS. E. M. LIPSCOMB.
South Carolina

Executive Committee

. M. BLANTON. Ch’n.

J. H. BRIGHAM. . . ..
I. J. WOODMAN.. .. .

Umct-rs Michigan State (‘-range.

 
  

  

A£a:ter—(I. G. LUCE: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iansing
021er:eer-- OIIN HULI}ROOK.. . . . . . . .L':uising
Lgduyn-_ ASON W()()DM,\N. . . . . . .Paw Paw
.%"..vard-— \’M_ Sh A FFER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lansing

Assistant St:-wcnu’-——A. E. GR F.EN.. . Walled Lake
Cla)I:n'n—I. N. CARPENTER. .  .. . . . .Sherrnan

  
 

 

Tlrnuurrr--E. A. STRONG . . . . . . .Vicksburg
Surdary-—J. T. COBB . . . . . . . . .Schoolcx-aft
Gate I('eeper.—]. C. GOULD . . . . . . . .Paw Paw
Cert: —MRS S. L. BENTLEY . . . . . . . . .I?aton Rapids
Pomona MRS. PERRY MAYO. . .. .Baxtle Creek.
F1ora— MRS. . C. GOULD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Paw Paw
L. A. Strwar -MRS. A. E. GREEN.. .Walled Lake

Executive —C;Inmittee .
THOMAS MARS. Ch'n. .

 
  
 
   

 

H. D. PLA , . . . . . . . .. Ypsilanu
F_ W_ RED}-‘ER1\ ‘lrlaple Rapids
I. G RAMSDELL . . . . . . . . . . .. Traverse City
I. . A BURRINGTUN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Tuscola
W . SATERLEE. . . . Birmingham
GEO B HORTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fruilt Ridge
C. G. Ll'CE. - ....  .azring
5.1. COJBB. l’5“"fi“"‘l ............ . Schooldraft
General Deputy.
MRS. PERRY MAYO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Battie Creek

.~‘p«»cia1 Deptltlns.

P. H. GOELTZENCLEUCHTER. Birch Run, for
Saginaw Counry.

GEO. L. CAKLISLE. Kalkaska. for Kalkaska Co.

17. W. REDFERN Maple Rapids, for Clinton Co.

GEO. S. GIBBS Grecnville. for Montcalm Co.

HIRAM ANDREWS. Orion, A. J. CROSBY, Jr.,
Novi for Oakland County.

_|OI-IN WELLE, Flat Rock. for Wayne and Monroe
Counties.

THUS. MARS, B-zrrien Center. for Berrieu Co.

R. C. NORTON, Urtmgevill-2, for Barry Co.

j, E. \VAG.\'F.R__l ii.’-ville. f-<2 llillsdalv: Co.

E. S. BURNETT. Bancroft, for Shiawassee Ca.

C. A. LE‘ INARD, Manton, for \Vexford Co.

A, M. LEITCH. North Burns, Huron Co.

E. R. POUCHER. Adrian. Lenawee Co.

W H M.-\'I'I'ES().\l. lonia lonia Co. 7

HENRY B GEORGE. Coldwater. Branch Co.

A. FORD, Alton, Kent Co.

OHN MCK-\Y, Romeo, Macomb Co.

M. ROS!-‘ R‘--mmiv Lity Grand Traverse Co.

]AS_ WILIJALIS, l:Z:.s’port, tor Antrim and Charle-
voix Counties.

Michigan Grxiiige Stores.
A. STEGEMAN, Allegan.
E. R. OSBAND. North Lansing.

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genial gratings.

“H01 vacation days have come." No
more fighting Caesar’:-: battles over
again for a few weeks. Put that vex-
ing geometry, thstt Latin grammar out
of sight, yes, and this history. philoso-
phy, geography, and arithmetic—put
them all where we can not see them.
\Ve will not look at them or think of
them until vacation is over.

Now, if you have anything for our
hands to do we are ready, but do not
talk to us with interrogation points.
It there is a paradise for teachers dur-
ing vacation it is where there are no
questions asked. Do not even ask us
how long our vacation lasts. \Ve do
not want to be reminded that it has
an end. Of course, generally teachers
are models of good nature and pa-
tience(?) but lftheir vacation does not
come until the middle of August they
ought to be excused ifa little peevish.

At this date We tind our brief sum-
mer waning. cool nights and mornings
that require 9. tire nearly every day
since August mine, but as yet no frost
and for the sake of the thrifty Water-
melon vines in the garden we hope
Jack will be :1 little slow in coming.

Threshing machines are rapidly
devouring the shocks of grain that dot
the golden stubble on all sidt-s.

VVc:1rc not far enough north to sec
the midnight sun, but far enough to
see a llltll'l\'C(l ditlcrcnce in the length
and l)l‘lllliI.l](‘_\' oi the flowcr season.
Such :1 profusion of blossoms and such
coloring us are crowded into 11 few
brief months! The flowers must re-
alize their time is short as each v:1riety
overlaps its predecessor and thcrc
secnis to be ll strife as to which shall
put torth the greatest number of
blooms and the richest colors.

The cricket is about the only musical
bird left; but prairie chickens are plen-
tilul and appear to be in no haste to
fly out of range when frightened from
their coverts. Some one must have
told them that the protecting arm of
the law will shield them two weeks
longer this year. Not until September
first will the “slaughter ot the11mo-
cents” begin. Then the most pitiablc
object will be the man who has no dog
and gun. He will look at times as
though his burden was greater than
he could bear.

We have heard there has been a
change in the barometer and ther-
mometer down in Michigan and that
there is great rejoicing. We touch up-
on the subject but briefly for fear you
may be like the people who could not
bear the slightest hint of tire, and al-
lusions to caloric drew a “flood of sav-
age ire.” A. L. F.

Arthur, D. T.

Anormcit good old-fashioned Grange
meeting was held by Oakland Pomona
at Fzirinington on the 16th. Not the
heat and harvest, nor even the drouth
had taken away the interest in Grunge
work and every one seemed filled with
hope and ambition for the work ahead,
and every appearance points to grow-
ing progress in the near future.

“The Trespass of Hunters” was a
question which drew out much inter-
est and the turmers from every locality
tell the sainc story of the annoyance,
danger and damage done by this curse
of lawless prowlers, and :1 determina-
tion seems to prevail to unite as far-
mers and put at stop to it; and we hope
other localities will agitate the same
subject. That our boys should work
and wait in expectation ofa little sport
in its proper time with the game that
has been ted almost entirely by them,
only to find it snatched trom under
their very hands before sunrise at the
tirst opportunity to hunt thorn, by
lazy, thankless sports, is somewhat ir-
ritating, not to mention the choice
fruits, nuts and melons missed along
their pathway. Brothers and sisters,
the longer evenings are coming soon;
let us begin early to think, plan and
Work for the benefit and advziucciucnt
of our Order. A. J. C.

HAVING seen nothing in the VI5lT()l{
of lutc from this part of Iowa,I thought
I would writes. few line= and let you
know that the Granges are notall dead
in this part of the State. We have ti ve
Gr:tngcs in good working order in tliis
(Mill.-) county and more to follow. On
the 15th inst. the Grnngcs of tln- coun-
ty :lllUlllI(‘(l in :1 gmml picniu:.:tt lien-
tnllii1'<)v4}. 'I‘ho day w:1still tllzitt-oiihl
bc '.l|‘>ll'('il null llH't‘l'UW(l \vus p1'o’z):ibl_\
llw ln'_-_w.~ttl1.it c\'ci';l~-‘miilllv.-ll in B. ills

lloumy uusll-.'li :moc.':1~-‘ion, bl,-iIl_;‘ v:1—
ri«-u'-l_v 4--tim‘:l«:<l Ill from lUUU1o l;'«l4=.
Ii 1': l‘_‘»'l1<nl_V st,-,»~im~4l intent on lniving‘ :1

good Linn-, :1 purpose in which they

were eminently successful. Promptly
at 11 o’clock the audience was called to
order to listen to an address by Bro. J.
E. Blackford, Worthy Master of the
State Grange. Bro. Blackford stated
that he was it plain farmer and desired
to speak to those around him as a far-
mer. and would attempt nothing elo-
quent in the way of speech nmking.
As a consequence his talk was full of
practical suggestions pertaining to ev-
ery day uflhir.-' that are well worth the
thoughtful consideration of all who
heard him. Asidc trom Bro. Black-
ford’s address the program consisted of
good music and short addresses with
the usual picnic dinner. We feel just-
ly proud of the success of our so-ctmd
annual picnic which was a surprise to
many. We were anticipating a “good
time but did not look for quite such :1
multitude. However, we were equal
to the enicrgcncy, as I think all present
would testity. Last Friday Bro. Black-
ford organized Mills County Pomona
Grange with 30 charter members. This
is the first Pomona Grunge organized
in the State. Come, Pzttrons of Iowa,
let’s wake up and got to work and give
the Grange of this State the standing
in the Nzitiomil Grange that it should
have. Eighteen months ago there was
not 51 Grange in Mills County and now
we have four subordinate Grangcs and
one Pomon:1 Grange. It is hard, cur-
ncst work that lms brought about this
result. What has been done in Mills
County can be done in every county
in the State. A. J UDSON.

Silver City, Aug. 28.

THE hall ofllt. Tabor Grange, with
all its contcnlszuld burn,\vusdestroyed
by tire Suturdzty night, August 20.
about 12 o’clock. Loss $1600; insured
for $10.30 in thc Bcrricn County For-
mers’ Illutiml. Tho firc is supposed to
have bccn caused by at defcctivc flue.
The hall was ull in flzunes and the roof
had mostly fullcn in when (llS('0V(‘l‘t;‘(l.
There had bccn a meeting ofthe Grange
in the hull during the afternoon and :1
fire had been used in preparing it har-
vest feast. There was no fire in the
stove and everything was secure at the
close of the meeting about 7 o’clock.
It is :1 very unfortunate ntfliction for
us as we expected Sister Mayo to de-
liver :1 lccture at the hall on the 23d of
September and the October session of
Berrien County Pomona Grange was
to have been held at this hall, during
which Bro. Jason W'oodmun was ex-
pected to give an address. We have
held aspccial meeting and have con-
cluded to rebuild although the drouth
and short crops are against us.

G. V. W1LsoN, Sec’y.

Tun Shiawassee County Pomona
Grange mt-t August 30 at the Burns
Grange Hall and carried out 9. careful-
ly prepared program. Never lms great-
er interest bccn manifested or better
Grange work done in this county. The
open meeting in the evening was well
attended, the leading feature being :1
very instructive :uldress by the Rev.
C. B. Clark on “Unity of Action,” and
an oration by E. A. Burnett, a gradu-
ate of the Agricultural College, class
of 1887. The wants of the inner man
Were supplied by the ladies of Burns
Grange, No. 160, in a royal manner.

E. S. BURM-zrr, Sec. pro tem.

Bancroft, Sept. 1.

Tm: first literary contest of \Vork-
ing Grange, No. 509, has just closed.
Sisters Comstock and Kellogg were
leaders of the diilbrent sides. Sister
Kellogg claimed the victory by a. ma-
jority of 145 points. The contest was
conducted in an animated, straight-
forward and most interesting manner
throughout. Each member vicd with
the others in scoring points. Brothers
and sisters,who used to think it a great
trial to get up and makes. few remarks,
suddenly became cssayists, declalmers,
yes, and even delivered original ora-
tions. We held our last meeting in
our new ball, and at our next meeting
we (I say we, because mine was the
losing side) have to spread the board
and iurnish the ice cream and Water-
melon: for the company.

Lenawce Co. T. G. CHANDLER.

HERE we are among the hills and
rocks of the “Old Granite State” and
the scenes of our childhood, which

“present to our view
The orchard. the meadow, the deep tarigle-J
\‘. ild wood,
And every loved spot which my iniaucy
know.”

But of the old :i'~:sociatcs, m-my are
not licrc. W0, lriviug l)(‘t..‘ll 2ll>.'~l"l[ l\Vcn-
ty-on-.: ).‘~.-it-<, () H.‘ thing I uni vcry
;_r].ul to :-4,-1: '1-' tho llll('l'I'b‘i takvn in tho
Urrzuigc as that is oncofthc grout chun-

nela through which the people will
advance to 3 higher manhood and
womandoorl, bettereducation and pur-
er political economy. We have met
with two Gmnges and with members
of other Gmnges, and all are‘ interest-
ed in the work. They accept the Vis-
iron with pleasure and I have reason
to hope that they will report favor-
ably in tllcm-.H.r future. W'e had the
pleasure of attending the Merrimac
County Pomona
Peimscook Park recently, which was
very interesting and instructive. The
following were the exercises for the
afternoon, the forenoon being devoted
to :1 Grunge social. The Lecturer of
the Pomona Grange presided. First,
there was :1 song, then a short address
by George Drake. W'orthy Master of
Eastern N. H.P. G., followed by War-
ren Abbott, VVorthy Master of Merri-
muc P. G., and D. H. Thing, ofMaine,
Deputy Lecturer ot the Natioinl
Grange. These gave the main ad-
dresses. Short addresses ensued from
the following: Worthy Master N. H.
State Grunge, Clms. l\icl)anicls; Prof.
C. H. Pettcc,of the N. H. Agricultural
Collcge; N. J. Bzichcldor, Secretary
Board of Agriculture; Rcv. F. H. Ly-
ford, lion. Edwin Hicks, of Canrmdz I
gnu. N. Y., who spoke from the stand-
point ofn lawyer but advised the boys
to stick to the t'arm,and J. M. Con-
nor. Tlw a(l(ll‘C.'~\.~‘eS were interspersed
with 1'c-.'it:1tions and vocal and instru-
mental music. When the exercises
were concludcd with :1 parting word
from \Vorthy Master Abbott, the la-
bors of the day clo.-‘cal.
J. VV. I)icKF.nMAN.
379 P. of 11., (‘rrzmd Traverse.

Tm: Rev. C. C. Miller, pastor of the
Baptist Church :11 0.\‘ford, in un ud-
drcss before the (lxford F:'u‘mcr’s Club
rclerred to the Grange as having "pe-
tcred out.” Now the reverend gent lo-
msui ii-:1. profound tlicologiun, :1 logi-
c:1lre:1soiIci',:md :1 genial being. but
seems to be u little oil‘ on inioriimtion
i'cg£u'(ling the Grange, and I accord-
iugly ask that you S(.‘1l(l to his nd(li'c.<.~'
the Vlsiron until the inclosed amount
is "petcred out.” 395.

THERE are persons in this county
who are olfering to furnish seed wheat
of 21 new variety to Ihrnicrs and re-
ccive one-half of the product next
year delivered at the nearest railroad
.~:t:ition. and, strange to say, 2. good
many farmers are taking it in fair
sized doscs. Farming must be profit-
able when 3 man can make money
working his own land on shares. 395.

I wouu) like to have some one that
understands root grafting tell the
readers of the Vtsnon how it is done;
what time to secure the roots, when
to set the grafts, and how deep to set
the roots in the ground, and all that
can be told about it. Svnscmnsa.
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ing all Weztkiicsscs, bringing their sys-
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their children, untuiutcd, shall rise up
to call them blcsstxll

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But always keeps a stock on hand.

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Si;ct:nr: at least two names and $1.00
at your local fair this fall for the V15-
rron. You can scarcely do less and it
would not be :1 very heavy tax should
you do more. v »

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llflicn ~'_\'u1ptoius of Iil‘ll‘ll'l:l. :ipv_)cm‘,
in any liil'lll, L:il‘L(3 Ayi-r's .\;:‘u<*. (7u1't".
It will plrwnt. :1 il1‘\'(‘iI)i)llll‘lll. of thc
gI.*l'm~*.ol' lli.~'i*:1~(.'. and 1-iuniii-.:iI(: them
from ll1(‘$)’>ll?lll. A curo is w:n'r;uilcd
in every lllSl:illL‘(.‘.

Grange picnic at?

l gntitcs of gcctings.

Tm; Michigan State Horticultural
Society will make its usual exhibit at
the State Fair, in Jackson, September
J9-‘24, 1887. Arrangements are about
icompletod through which we are to
have displays of fruits from Ohio, In-
diana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska and
California. A wide range of exhibits
is promised from Michigan, and we
confidently expect nearly as fine an
opportunity for comparison of local-
ities and productions as at 9. National
exhibition.

One special feature will be 3 display
of one hundred and fifty varieties of
tomatoes from the Horticultural De-
partment of the State Agricultural
College.

The Florists of Jackson are to have
charge of the display of plants and
flowers, and the arrangement of the
ball will be especially suited to a com-
plcte exhibition of horticultural pro-
ducts.

EVENING IIEETINGS.

On Wednesday and Thursday even-
ings of the Fair, there will be meet-
ings of the Society, probably at the
Circuit Court room, for discussion;
and at these sessions it is especially
dcsii-able that new and promising
fruits be brought out for testing and
recommendation.

It is hoped that the Horticulturist:
of the State will take advantage of the
greatl y I'td lC(3(l railroad rites and at-
tend these meetings.

There will be no long papers, but
thc time will be taken up entirely
with the free discussion of the follow-
ing topics and such others as may be
suggested by those in attendance.

TOPICS.

1. New and Promising Varieties of the
Larger Fruits.

2. Value and Methods of Exhibiting Hor-
ticultural Products.

3. Renewing Old and Failing Apple Or-
chords.

4. Culture, Nomenclature and Varieties of
Toinalocs.

5. Returns from Fruit Plantations-—How
Soon to Expect Them.

6. l\1ichigan’s Future as 3 Fruit Growing
State.

7. Cultivation and drouth.

8. The Wage-worker’s Garden.

9. Suggestions Concerning
Homes.

10. Possibilities of our Low Lands for
Truck Gardening.

A cordial invitation is extended to
all. Correspondence concerning the
Fair and the meeting for discussion is
solicited.

Cass. W. GARFIELD, Sec’y.

Grand Rapids, August, 1887.

Suburban

Program for Calhoun County
Grunge, at Bcdford Grange Hall,
Thursday, Oct. 13, 1887.

'1. The Michigan Soldiers Homc.—Pen1
Mayo.

2. Patents and Patent Laws.—Edwud
White.

3. Selection or Essay.—Mrs. John Wood-
worth.

4. Essay—-“lfl only had the money."—
Mrs. lidviard White.

5. Is the Michigan system of managing
County affairs by means of Boards of Super-
visors, wise and economical?—Abram
Nimgcs, Richard Keeler, Wm. S. Simons.

6. Does it pay to make rag carpets? —Mrs.
C. C. Poorman, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. C. H.
Marvin.

7. Shall we husk. or thresh, our corn?—F'.
B. Garratt, jno. Woodworth, C. C. Poor-
man.

3. Notes from the State fair; by volunteers.

C. C. MCDERMID, Lect.

Tm: next meeting of Allegan Co.
Pomona Grange will be held Thurs-
rl:t_v,()ct. 6, 1887, at Otsego Grange
llall. All fourth degree members are
invited to attend. Any wishing to
come by railroad will please send word
to Ernest Hart at Otsego. Program
will be furnished.

ERNEST L. HART, Sec’y.

St. Clair and Sanilac County Grange
will meet with Marion Grange, at
Dcckcrville, Sept. ‘27, 1887.

F. W. TL§MPI.ETON, Edy.
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Rl<1.\1l~1.\11%l-ZR the 1\'.it.ion:1lGi-nn_~_v'c will
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I of L:m.:iu;: in Nm'nriilwi' uvxt. llvgin
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CEUEEEB <:}IR_et1fl1:}1E: TVTIEEICPCZZEK.

Sept l5,l88”.

gommnuicatinns.

From Cooler Cllmes.
PETOSKEY, l\li(:H., July 26, 1887.

The Michigan state camp meeting at
Petoskey has come and gone and sin-
ners are not saved. The meeting has
been in session just one week, and to-
day they are packing their tents and
baggage, or renting their cottages or
closing them up, to await the return
of another anniversary in 1888.

From my boyhood up, I have never
been to camp meeting _so slinily attend-
ed as this. The meetings are no longer
held in the grove, but on week days
and evenings in the chapel, and on an
average, through the entire week not
more than one fourth of the seats have
been occupied. July 24th was the big
Sunday, and the crowd was packed
into one anipitheater 85x100 feet
square, capable of seating 1500 people
with chairs and extra seats on the out-
side of the buiiding to acconiodufc 500
more, and so arranged that the speaker
on the platform could see every person
in the audience, whether in the build-
ing or out of it.

The attendance of ministers is very
meagre, not one being present from
Clinton county. Sister A. 1). Newton
from St. Johns, is here but her hus-

.band is at home. The clergy who are
here are none of them ranked in the
first-class except Dr. G. D. Watson
of Florida, who is claimed to be one
of their biggest guns and :1 divine of
eminent ability. Him they have
called to the platform twice every day
through the entire meeting, and filled
in the iiitervals with small fry just for
chinking.

Now in reporting the sayings and
sentiments ot' the meeting, I can only
repeat what Dr. Watson said, for no
one elsehas said anything f'or the best

V of reasons, that we have not had noth-

ing to say. Dr. VVatson is a srl1()l:11'
in the sciences, an orator in the pulpit,
fearless and independent everywhere,
Well blest with the gift of langiiage,
and well stocked with metaphors for
illustration. Yet With all his exalted
talent he very seldom drew out more
than 100 people on a week day to hear
him, although there were more than
that number in the cottages within
hearing of his voice. When Dr. ‘Nat-
son speaks he uses his own language
and constructs his own phrases witli-
out playing toadyism to any one.
Knowing his high standing in the
church he assumes the right to say
what he pleases without asking his iii-
teriors wlicther they believe it or not.
He told the people that when Moses
died God buried him so that no man
knew to this day where he was buried,
but soon after raised him from the
dead, gave him a new body and sent
him up to heaven to live with Jesus.
He told us that John the evangelist
never died, but was transplanted like
Enoch and was now in heaven wil Ii a.
glorified body. These things must be
so because Dr. \Vatsoii says so.

On the subject of having but one
idea his language was neither tame
nor stale but sublimely grand. He said
Paul was a man of one idea, and that
was to honor God in life or death and
everything else was subservient to
that. Christ had but one idea and
that was to save the race, no matter
what it cost, and it he had kept his
mouth shut he never would have been
crucified. He said that all great men
who ever accomplished anything in
the world worth naming were men of
one idea and bent all their energies to
accomplish some one noble purpose.
John Wesley was a man of but one
idea, the founding of the Methodist
church, and yet, he said you might cut
John Wesley up into mince meat and
every square inch of his sanctified
body would contain virtue enough to
make a statesman, an intellectual giant,
a ruler of empires

He slightly touched on temperance
and said that he was born a prohibi-
tionist, not a prohibition baby, but a
well matured full-grown prohibition-
ist, and he had no sympathy with the
temperance evangelist that filled the
country today. Well, I have heard
men talkjust so before but never knew
one ofthem to close a saloon or clrya
widoW’s tears. High license and regula-
tion is their motto and sorrow and ruin
the result. Thedoctor was also born a
Methodist, and his father and grand-
father and great-grand-father_. way
back to John Wesley, were all Meflio-
dists, and he wants every man and ev-
ery woman to be a red hot Methodist,
but not fanatical; no, he dispises a faii-
atic; but it the doctor will show a red
hot Methodist or Baptist or a red hot
politician who is not a fanatic, he will
do more than the Irishman could do
when he put his finger on the flea.
But the great motive power that pro-
pels this giant orator, who was intro-
duced on the platform as a man ofna-
tional fame, is sanctification, and so
thorough does he imbibe this doctrine
that he almost ignores all the other vir-
tues of a Christianlife and urges all be-
lievers however good, to pass on and at-
tain to the perfect sanctified state or
they yet will be lost. lIe tells the
members of his own church that they
are little, whining, puny babies, and do
not know how to read theii-Bibles but
jumble it all u , sanctification, regen-
eration, justi cation, new birth, like
the Dutcliman’s stew when he put in
onions, arlics, cabbage, potatoes, sour
krout, obsters and frogs. So, said he,
it is with many church people, they
know nothing about the Bible, but he,
the learned doctor, could take the most
diflicult, crooked, double twisted pas-

es and make them clear as mud.
hile the Dr. claimed for himself that
he was wholly sanctified and that every

impure desire and bitter feeling, and all
unkind temper has been sweetly moul-
dedinto the amiable and lovely temper
of Clirist; yet in the very sermon
where these words occur, he used the
most bitter, sarcastic and abusive lan-
guage towards other denominations
who do not think as he does.

\Vell, the Dr. has a right to his opiii-
ion and so have I to mine. For 60 years
I have heard santification preached and
have known a good many people who
have claimed to be sancti fied and I have
yet to find the first man or woman who
say they are sanctified, who show to the
world in their life any extra Chr-istian
virtue. '

From the 25th to the 27th the min-
isters’ institute was to be in session,but
the President of the institute, Dr. Fisk
of Albion college, not being pleased
with the ai'rangenieiif, got on his high
heeled shoes and adjourned the insti-
tute, sine die.

The Cliauitauqini Literary and Scien-
tific Circle coninieuced their second as-
sembly meeting oii the 27th with a
grand c0ncei'f and fire works on the
bay in the evening. For the purpose of‘
acconiniodating the large concourse of
people who attend these iiieetings an
anipitheatrc has been built on the
grounds at Bay View, capable of hold-
ing 1,500 or 2,000 people, and this eii-
tire structure has been reared without
:1 cliiscl or :iii auger. The entire build-
ing from top to bottom has been put to-
gether with nails. The posts that sup-
port the spacious roof are toe-nailed iii-
to cedar posts driven into the sand.
and the long joice that span a hundred
feet from side to side are made of three
one inch boards nailed together. To
this pleasant resort among the northern
lakes themosf gifted speakers, male and
female. and the brightest talent the na-
tion can produce are invited to spend a
gala day and shed the lustre of their
brilliant minds on smaller satelites that
gather around them. They conic from
Boston,Xew York, Philadelphia, from
the north and the south. to hold a jub-
ilee for the reform of the world. And
it is amusing to see men whom we
thought were siiiartaiid eloquent while
holding forth in country cliurches and
district school houses, as tame and si-
lent as the grave under the shadow of
these giant minds. As it will be im-
possible to relate one liuiidretli part of
what I lieard, I shall only aftenipt to
recite a few things that I can now call
to mind. Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, D.
D., of Philadelphia, delivered a mis-
sionary sermon on Sunday last to a
large au(lieiice. On the background of
the platform was a l:ll';_"t3 map of the
world with light and dark shades to
represent christianity and heatheiiisni,
and not more than one-fourth of the
world had any light of the gospel.
The speaker showed that the present
population of the globe was 1,l.'n0,000,
000 and that 950,000,000 were utterly
heathen, and out oftlie remaining .300,
000,000 only about fifty million were
protestant christians, and by those only
could the world be redeemed, and
under the present condition of'fliings
the redemption of the world was ini-
possible. And yet the speaker did not
despair of hope. He introduced a ge-
ometrical problem according to Which
every uiaii, woman and child on the
earth can be converted before the close
of the present century. He says. sup-
pose there is one man on earth to-da_v,
and by another year he got another one
to join him (an easy thing to do) and
they two get another two to join them
the second year, and so on, doubling
the number each year, the whole hu-
man race will be in the f'o1d of Christ
before the year 1900 shall commence
its rounds. An ordinary school boy
can work out this problem on his slate,
but no man for ages to come will see
its fullfilinent.

Another speaker I wish to notice in
this letter, Jahn DeWitt Miller, and as
he is a bachelor the subject given him
by the audience was, “Love. Courtship
and Marriage_.”a.iid if he had been mar-
ried a dozen times to a dozen different
women of difl‘erent temperaiiients it
seems to me he could not have gotten
the ins and outs, the ups and downs,
the good and ill of married life, so cor-
rectly as he described them. Some-
times his audience were in tears at the
relation of marital sorrows, to him to
be denied, and in a moment after burst-
ing iiito laughter at some of his funny
jokes. He controlledjhis delighted au-
dience for an hour and a half and ev-
ery word he uttered was fitly spoken
and every sentence trained to produce
the best effect. I heard it remarked
that there was but one Washington and
one Bonaparte, and also there is but one
J. DeWitt Miller.

There is one more speaker I wish to
mention and then close if'l wish to
write again before I leave. ltev. Miss
Annie H. Shaw of Boston was introdu-
ced on the platform as lecturer for the
VV. C. T. U., and no one who heard her
solemn words and earnest appeals for
higher manhood and womanhood can
regret the day they heard her. Her
theme was not temperance alone, but
social purity in life, <-hiirch and state.
Standing before an audience of 2,000 of
the elite of Pefoskey and the surround-
ing country, with presidents of col-
leges and ministers of fame, she tear-
lessly told them the way they were
pursuing would end in ruin. She
pointed to other republics once as
proudas ours but they had gone down
to forgetfulness and their names were
stricken t'rom the book of nations, and
we walking in their footsteps must not
hope to evade their doom. A low
grade of morality and social impurity
had sealed the destiny of other repub-
lics, and as sure as there is a God in
heaven or as effect follows cause, so
must we share the fate of dead repub-
lies. The eloquent speaker paid an

inglorious tribute to the statesiueii of
lilassacliuseffs. her native home. She
said that at the last session of the leg-
islature at the Hub the niembers of
that honorable body had the game law
before them for discussion and they en-
acteda law that any person who should
kill a bird or pick up a worm should
pay a fine of‘ $10, and any person who
should mash their little speckled eggs
should pay a fine of$20. They also
enacted that it should be finable to
drawa lobster out of the water less
than eight inches long. While these
wise statesman were so tender hearted
towards the little birds and the un-
thinking lobsters, the good women of
the W. f‘. T. U.: thought it a good
time to ask the legislature to pass a
law for the benefit of suffering human-
ity. So they drew up a petition set-
ting forfh that in the city of Boston
there were born every day one hun-
dred children in a state of beastly
drunkciiness. and that some of them
died at six months old in the terrible
throes of delirium tremens, and that
others who lived to be two years old
iiever drew a sober breath, not that
they had drank the intoxicating draft
tlieiiiselves, but this terrible curse was
stamped upon their pi-e-natal forms
before they saw the light. But those
wise salons had under coiisideration a
very important bill, whether they
should catch fish with a hook or a
siiare, and they could dcvotc no time
to suffering babies.
(_‘oR1'i.Axi> lln.i..

The Social Rank of Farmers.

In the short time I have been able to
give the subject I have found not the
least of my difficulties to get a defini-
tion of the social rank as understood
in this, ourbozistcd republic. \Ve know
what it meant in the South af'ew years
ago. We read what it means in the old
world where lords. knights. serfs, and
vassals are ranked as such. We know
what if iiieans in England and Ireland
with the tillers ofthe soil, wliei'e they
are little more than slaves to their
masters. “"9 know what it means in
l“rance. where the largest farm tilled
by its owner is not more than eleven
acres. But when we uiidcrtake to f'or-
niulatc a definition that will clearly
define Anierican social rank, either as
applied to agriculture or other voca-
tions, we fiiid ourselves in more than a
peek of trouble. ()ur farmers of to-
day are not living upon the soil of
iiiany generations of their fatliers: thus
the old definitions of social rank, as
applied to agriculture, must. gather
new iiieanings from the ages and coun-
tries in which tliey are used. The far-
niers and town people have iiiarried
and interniai'ried until the scparative
lines would be hard to fl'2I('l‘. and I do
not believe thcrearc very many boys
or girls who have thus come to matu-
rity on the farm and whose early life-
aiid growth have been assiiiiilafcd from
its surroundings but that will,so long‘
as life and reason last, point with pride
to the lionic of their youth. In the
cities and villages are to be found the
exti'ciiics_of' wealth and poverty. ()nly
a few. however. are rich, while the
great nuiss are the poorest of the na-
tives. Hut in the farniers of the coun-
try we find the great lIll(ldl01.'laSS, that
class neither within the tropical luxu-
riant growth, where niassive fortunes
shine down upon it. nor yet. clinging
to the barren rocks in the frigid zone
of poverty.

If there is anybody that thinks there
is no caste or rank in our society, it
must be that one who has never felt
the elbows of his iieigliboi-s:. like bat-
tering raiiis, plying away at his ribs,
and never seen the poor boy with his
patched pants and stone-bruised feet
made the butt of his schoolm:ifes’jeers.
Ask the girls whose hands have be-
come browned by the dishwafer and
washing and whose keen sensibilities
have so often been cut with the slights
and taunts of‘ their dandy. whiteliand-
ed ll(3lgl1bOl'S.

\Ve hold that all men are born free
and equal, but a large silver spoon in
the mouth of :1 baby will help im-
niensely to tip the beam ofour Ameri-
can scales. Social rank with us is of
two kinds-—thaf. which is real and that
Which is assiinicd. The real is that
which  built upon inherent worth.
It is composed of morality, persever-
ance, in the working of the mind as
well as of the body, and other qu:ili-
ties that go to make up a man. It mat-
ters not whether he was born of royal
blood, or Whether his father came
from the bogs of Ireland in the hold of
a ship and has carried the mortar bod
all his days. The influence and memo-
ry of the good have come from the
hovel as well as from the palace.

An assunied social rank is that which
glitters most and has the least sub-
stance. You may see it in silk umbrel-
las being walked all around by a
moustache and a pair of skiii-tiglit
pants. You can seeit in that woman
whose rustling skirts are drawn up
close and whose cliinanglcs a little up-
wards when she finds some poor woman
of the town seated in her pew on Sun-
day.

Let us consider the farnicr’s social
rank under two heads, first, collective-
ly, and second, individually.

By collectively Inieaii that it is not
simply a privilege which farmersliavc
to protect and advance their own iii-
terests morally  well as politically
by united effort, but that it is also an
iniperative duty which they owe their
profession, their posterity, and their
country. Not that duty points to an
aggressive war upon other trades and
occupations, but in a Republican form
of government, where man is a sover-
eign, and where every interest must
find within itself its own advancement
and defense, I believe it to be as truly

a duty for any honorable pursuit to ‘

guard its well being by individual or
united etlort. The rank agriculture
shall take in the list of callings in the
future depends much upon the united
efforts of those who follow it.

Nearly all the great national ques-
tions of the day are those resting n pon
the farmers of the country and their
ultimate good or evil will be for you
to reap or sufler. While this is true,
there should be none more interested
than the f'ariner himself in the legisla-
tion and government under which he
must live.

It farmers would elevate their call-
ing as such, they must as farmers as-
sert their strength, prove their sover-
eignty by the power they can wield
in Church and State to advance their
coiiiinon ideas.

The desire for wealth is no crime
and is almost, if not quite, universal.
Bu t when wealth becomes so richly at-
tired that the farmer in his overalls
and blouse is only noticed when the iii-
teresi upon hisiuortgage is due, or just
before an election, it must be under-
stood that the stony heart of that
wealth is not in sympathy with the
farnier. VVealth as a single ingredient
does not elevate socially among far-
niers as in other vocations of life, al-
though perhaps the one most potent
fJ.ctor.

If fathers and mothers would not
foil so hard to acquire lands for their
cliildren; but rather let them fill well
their cliildren’s iiiinds with seeds that
may be sown in the soil of any busi-
ness when lands and money have
failed. And let me say in conclusion.
there is only one way, and the only
place, besides our public schools, where
farmers‘ can prepare themselves and
their children to better fill the rank
and station assigiied to them from the
creation, :iiid that is the Grange.

H. K. BRINKMAN.

Grand Traverse Co.

—?-to-—————-— - -
The Modern Newspaper Reporter.

An editor ofa metropolitan journal,
being asked why he gave but one-quar-
ter of :1 column of his paper to the
proceedings of‘ an important educa-
tional convention held in his own city,
while he gave three columns to a mi-
nute telegraphic account ofa base ball
game held in another city, replied that
it was merely a matter of demand and
supply: that his business was to meet
the wants and coinpl_v with the tastes
of his readers; and concluded by saying
that when the public took more inter-
est iii edux-ation than in base ball. the
respective kind of information would
be proportioned to the demand. Now
this reasoning is not wholly fallacious,
but it shows that the editor lacks the
desire to discriminate between what is
good and what is not good for his
readers. \\"hile the demand does in a
sense create the supply. yet these joiir-
n:ilisfs_ are so persistently dull of ob-
servatioii as not to see that the supply
often excites and stimulates the de-
mand. Do they not see that low tastes
and viciousappetites are nourished and
kept alive. if not actually created, by
the offer and supply of the very pabu-
liiiii their paper furnishes? What a
role fliescjouriialists have established
for tlieiiisclves! One that dcbauches
its own public, and degrades the tastes
of its own patrons. And for what?
Because the most money lies in that
direction. And what a ridiculous plea
they offer in defense of their course,
that all the sensational and hurtful
reading in their columns isjustiiied on
the ground that it is demanded by the
taste of the public! Such a. plea isa
disgrace to the press and a dishonor to
a noble profession. The rumseller and
the gambler may not be ashamed to
put forth such a plea, but if is beneath
the high aim of‘ a respectable newspa-
per.

The simple truth is that while the
editorial department of the great
dailies is for the most. part in the hands
of u pright, judicious and riglit-minded
men. it often liappeiis that the reports
of the most important events of the
day are written by men who have no
true sense of responsibility, no real fit-
ness for the task, and no principle to
restrain them from giving an utterly
false coloring to facts which they un-
dertake to relate. Many of these ar-
ticles are written by able and brilliant
writers, which the paper that em-
ploys them electrotypes and then sells
to other papers for a third 01' the orig-
inal cost. They are thus accepted, al-
thougli the editor may deinur often to
the treatiiient of the subject; but they
have the flavor of genius and make
spicy and interesting reading t'or his
patrons. The ethics of these famous
correspondents is very questionable, if
not venal. To one who carefully stud-
ics their writings it seems evident
that their pens are ready for any kind
of work that pays best. Here we find
one nialigning the character of some
public man in order to please the pa-
per for which he writes, or as the whim
takes him, he will torture the facts and
twist the true and plain in order to
givepublic prominence to some unde-
serving man. A well known politician
and political writer says to a friend at
a convention: “Do you see that man
just across the hall? lie is an autocrat
with the pen and assumes to make and
unmake men at his will. He has ‘writ-
ten nie up’ among the celebrities of the
State; and now, as his paper has taken
‘another tack’ in politics, he has ‘writ-
ten me down,’ as undeserving public
consideration. He is chief correspond-
ent of a popular journal.”

A paper lies before me with atwo-
column article, taken from a leading
Philadelphia journal and written by
its favorite correspondent on a distin-
guished American lawyer orator and
politician. One can not read this sketch

of the life and character of a celebrated
Aiiicrican without growing indignam
at its iiiisstateineiits, wilful perversion

of facts and low estiniate of a distin-

guished professional career.

I have given but a few instaiices o:
the bad and hurtful work done by
these pi-otean reporters or correspond-
ents of newspapers. 1 could give many
more. The evil results of this repor-
torial writing is greater because it is
given a prominent place in the colunins
of the ablest newspapers where it is
emphasized and displayed by seiisa-
tional head lines and is often brilliant
and entertaining in inverse proportion
to its usefulness. Look at the repor-
torial staff of our great dailies and you
will find writers of’ rare gifts with the
pen, but Who are at the same time inch
of questionable habits and of no char-
acter whatever. These men are put in
charge of certain "bii.-iiiess*" of’ great
interest to the paper, their copy is sent
to press at the last nioinent, and the
next morning some distinguished
American “wakes up” to find liiinself
vilely slandered through the column.-
of a great daily. And what is written.
is written. The wrong, having a whole
day’s start, can not be overtaken by .i
modest “cori'ection,” hence a great and
irreparable injury is done to an lionor-
able public man.

It has been Well said that “the daily
newspaper is as absolute as a Legisla-
ture, and that the only appeal against
it lies in the tribunal of public opiii-
ion.” But the daily iieyvspaper often
prejudices public opinion beforehand
and often niakes any attempt to appeai
to the public iiisigiiificziiitaiid ineffect-
ive. Con-equeiitly, the simple fact is
that Bohemia. in multitudes of cases,
sits in judgment upon the gravest and
uiost nionienfous qucstioiis, and lllll-'.
by its (1(‘.('iSl0ll.‘~'. wroiig and di.-lionesty
are siistaiiied and right and ll0lle.~‘[_Y
are ignored. These i'cpoi'ters. who are
thus pervcrfing the truths and thet-
in the history ofpublic men and me. ;--
ures for selfish or mercenary piirposes,
should be exposed. They are all the
more dangerous in their nefarious work
on account of their ra.re intellectual en-
dowments aud brilliant careers as wri-
ters. Young, iii his Niglif Tliouglits.
has graphically described this ..-la:-.-= of
men, with “genius brighfand base,” in
the following lines:

‘ ‘talents angel-bright.

If wanting worth, are shining instrument-'

in false .-\mbition’s hand, to finish fault’-

Illusfrious, and give iiifaniy ienown.”

V. B.
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A Day with the Fruit Men of Lawton

By invitation of :1 friend I spent the
afternoon visiting fruit men of Law-
ton and rambling through their vine-
yards and peach 0l'Cll{ll'(lS.

Perhaps it may be well to state that
Lawton is sixfccii miles westerly from
Kzilamazoo on the 1\li<-higan Central
Railroad. in Van Bur:-n (Joinit_v. The
first place at which we called was {ob-
erfJones’s. Found the young man pack-
ing Delaware grapes with all the deft-
ness of finger that cliaractei'i7.e:~; the
girls in this kind of work. He has ten
acres of grapes-—Concords and Dela-
wares.

Next we found A. B. Jones in his
peach orchard, picking peaches, his
Barnards and Crawfords giving him a
fair crop; has also ten acres or so of
grapes——Concords and Delawares, very
nice.

Passed through the fruit tracts-
peaclies and grapes—-of Charles Lee
and C. Day, so to Cary l)nnhani’.-2.
Found him running his evaporator on
apples, the fallen, wormy apples mak-
ing some very good fruit as well as
much stuff that makes commercial jel-
ly. The apples are dropped into the
slicei' and go directly to the dryer.
worms and all. Don’t make a face at
this but make your own jelly. We
passed tliroii h his grapes—Concord.
Delaware an Salein--niostly on stakes.
and to our fancy, trained rather high.

Next we came to Mr. Atwood‘s
peaches and grapes, his peaches con-
sisting largely of Barnards. The trees
were loaded to breaking down with
fine, fair fruit. a little under size, but
their red cheeks and good quality will
give them a kindly reception on the
market and make his pockets laugh
with fatness.

When we came to the premises 0!
George Lawton we were confronted
by a very imposing and substantially
built wire fence. \Vhat was to be
done? My friend said we could crawl
through and I told him to go ahead,
and he did go, 1 following. This
proves to me that the imposing, thorny
wire fence is not an obstruction to boys
enjoying the delicious fruits so tempt-
ingly displayed on the other side. The
first attraction that greeted us was
some five hundred vines of the famoiis
Niagara grapes, bearing a good crop
of nice grapes. In this vineyard we
found Coiicords, Delawares, and Wor-
dens. ~

From here we came to Charles ‘D.
Lawton’s vineyard and found him
picking Delaware grapes for shipment.
He had just got returns. from a lot sent
to Chicago which were sold on that
market for 75 cents for five-pound bas-
kets. I am not informed what Cali-
fornia grapes brought on that niarket
at that time, nor need you ask if you
are so t'ortiinate as to have good Dela-
wares to sell. He has a lot of Niagaras,
well loaded, large in bunch and per-
fect in berry,just beginning to ripen
and showing in their bright faces the
richness within. He has quite a num-
ber of the newer grades, among which
the Pocktingtoii and Vcrgeus were car-
ryiiig heavy crops of good looking
fru it._ The Worden finds a place here.
I am inclined to think this grape is not
sufliciently appreciated. Most of his
vines are Concords; he also has peaches,

 

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

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His vinc_vard is rather a model in cul-
ture, trimming and training of vine on
the trellis. Thought he would have
forty tons of grapes.

Mrs. N. H. Bitely has a fine lot of
grapes—scveral acres of‘ Coricords,
Delawares and Salems.

And now we come to the genial
Frank E. Bitely, a young man who
seems to have riiade a good beginning
in f'ruit culture and whose success in
the future is assured by tliedcep iiiter-
est he takes in his vines and trees. We
found him with his tent pitched on the
hill amongst his vines, hard at work
gathering the rich clusters of Dela-
wares and Uoncords. The Worden as-
serts the right to prominence here. His
vines are weighted down with all the
fruit he can wish for; has quitea quan-
tity of peaches. Vines are well culti-
vated, trimmed andtrained on substan-
tial wire trellis. Brain work is ap-
parent with skilled‘ hands to execute.

Before we left here the shades of
night began to curtain the hills and
We were notable to visit other fruit
places which have a large crop of

rapes and peaches, of whom the fol-

owing are some of the parties: Henry
Ford, George Cook, L. Halstead, Mrs.
(Jonklin, Mrs. Baxter, Wm. Kellogg,
and many others.

These grapes are mostly on what the
farmer would call poor soil, very san-
dy, but perhaps they will findas much
money in their fruits as the farmer in
his seventy-cent Wheat. Most parties
have quite a growth of peaches; many
trees being located on high ground
have escaped the severe cold winters.
Most of the vineyards show good cul-
tivation, skill in priming and train-
ing of the vine--some on stakes. two
stakes to the vine, but iriost are on two
wire trelliscs.

Probably nine-tenths, if not uiore, of
these vines are the old, reliable Con-
cord aiid arc carryirig an enormous
crop of first class fruit. The Delaware
stands up proriiiiieiitly on these
grounds. tugging under a load of per-
fect fruit in bunch and berry. redeern-
ing its standard of merit accorded to
it years ago. The \V'oi-den. too, is re-
-reiving its deserved good word of
praise.

A And now you ask what I czui say of
the Niagara which was f'oulid in vari-
ous places? Am very f'a\'orably im-
pressed with the vine and more par-
ticularly with its large. compact bunch
and big, good quality berry, which

-omniands a high price on the market.
ln coiivcrsiiig with Charles Lawf.on
about the merits of various grapes, he
said he thought it the only white
grape worthy of cultivation that had
been sufficiently tested to determine its
‘value.

Large quantities of strawberries.
3":ispberi'ics and blackberries are raised
here. llundreds of bushels of rasp-
berries remained and dried on the
bushes for want. of fingers to pick
them. There are nearly f'our liundred
acres of vines in bearing in this viciiii-
ty. The railroad company furnish what
car.-‘ they want each day for tr:inspoi't:i-
tion of their fruit to Chicago or Dc-
troit at low freiglitrafes. From three
to six cars are used per day.

Eiiiioxs BL'l~‘.l.L.

Lawton, Aug. 23, 1587.

The Packing of Apples.

Mir. Eiinoir:-—Your card was re-
-ucivetl to-day, requesting rue to tell
the readers of the GRANGE VISITOR the
often told directions how to pack ap-
ples for winter keeping.

The request is timely, and if the di-
rections are followed they will benefit.
many farmers who are looking about
for a partial recompense f'or the loss
of their corn crop. The card also al-
ludes to the statement of’ Hon. S. L.
Fuller, of Grand Rapids, found on
page 4335 of the 1886 Horticultural Re-
port, whereiii he says, “Not one far-
mer iii a thousand—not one in a thou-
sand—wlio does not absolutely waste
the fruit he raises, so far as fitting it
for market is concerned.” Then he goes
on to say, ‘-*1 doii’t know of a person
in this city who will buy a barrel of
apples to put in store for winter use.
\Vhy? lit-cause they are not gathered
and packed so they will keep.”

Now, brother farmers, this is a seri-
ous accusation to be brought against
almost the entire number of a class of
men who have been reputed to be the
possessors of the honesty and integrity
of the nation.

Have we not more than one farmer
in a. thousund who will plead "not
guilty” to this wholesale charge of
criminal iueom peteiicy and waste of
this hard earned substance?

Have we not many farmers in a
thousand who handle their f'ruit crop
with the same care and skill that char-
acterize the other operations of their
farms, and does not our worthy fault-
finding brother in his visits among his
farmer friends on a Winter evening fre-
quently see a dish of perfect and well
kept apples placed before him to please
his eye and regale his palate?

I think our Worthy brother at the
time of making these statements was
mentally out of balance, caused possi-
bly by contact with a few farmers to
whom his remarks above quoted justly

plied; and his vivid imagination mul-
tiplied them to thousands.

Rough handling, bad management,
and ruinous waste are too generally the
rule in harvesting and caring for this
important product. In ordinar sea-
sons, about the first of October is the
best time to pick winter apples for
good keeping. Then most varieties
have matured sufficiently to be in the
best condition to develop, by subse-

quent proper treatment, into the most

valuable fruit grown in any climate,

and well named “King of Fruits.”
Pick by hand

from the tree when

there is no dew or wet upon them and
let all the handling be done as carefully
as you would handle eggs: put in boxes
or barrels; keep covers oil or heads out
for ventilation; place them in as cool,
dry and sheltered places as possible
until about the first of November, or
near the time there is danger of hard
frosts. Then as carefully repack them
in clean barrels, throwing out all de-
caying and imperfect samples; head
the barrels, if to remain where put up,
with very little pressure. lf to be
transported, shake the barrel several
times moderately during the process
of filling and press the heads in sutli-
ciently to prevent the apples frorii be-
coming loose in carrying. Apples put.
up in this manner and kept in cellars
of uniform temperature, as near the
freezing point as may be without dan-
ger of freezing, will ripen slowly and
perfectly so that your Baldwins,Gret-n-
ings, your Spys, Canatias, et<:.. will
keep until other causes than prema-
ture decay destroy them.
August 25. B. G. BL‘!-2|.L.
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How to Select a Wife.

Good health, good morals, good
sense and good temper, are the four es-
sentials for a. good wife. These are the
indispensables. After them come‘ the
minor advantages of good looks. ac-
complishments, family position, etc.
With the first four, married life will
be coiufortablc and happy. Lacking
either, it will be in more or less degree
a failure. Upon good health depends
largely good temper and good looks,
and to some extent good sense also, as
the best mind must be affected more
or less by the weaknesses and whims
attendant on trail health. Young
man, it your wife is falling into a state
of invalidism, first of all things try to
restore her health. If she is troubled
with debilitating female weaknesses,

uy Dr. Piert-.e’s Favorite Prescrip-
tion. It will cure her.

Lectu rer's Dgpartment National

range.

If the people who may be so uiif'or-
tunate as to live where the Grange is
not :1 siicu-css will fake the trouble to
investigate the matter outside their im-
mediate vicinity. they will soon be-
eoiue convinced that the G range is not
a failure, but one of the grandest suc-
cesses of' the fiiiies.— Rural Veriiioiitei:

"'\Vliat Patron but feclsthe enthusi-
:lS1ll of past year.-' returning when he
witiiesscs the uprising of our class in
belialf' of their calling. home and coun-
try? There are few (,i‘l‘:l.1lg('.~' now dor-
mant but that are capable of recuscita-
fion, and it is merely a question as to
time. Shall the few faitliful ones in
each dormant body do the necccssary
work promptly or wait for outside
help? Is it not true that if allour old
workers would determine that every
dormant Grange should be reorganized,
that the next six months would see
nine-tenths of all tllcsc in .-iicce.-.-'f'iil
working order.’ Deputies have an irri-
porfant duty to pref'oriu in this direc-
tion. and with them should start this
movement. They are the ones to su-
perintend the work. Much is being
done,but many times more can be done
by united efl'ort.”-—(,‘ri'aiigc Bulletin.

“There are other and most excellent
farmcrs‘ associations, but the Grange
has the high honor of being the oldest
and longest tried; it has gone through
its period of mushroom growth,witli
its consequent reaction and years of ap-
athy, and has now taken on the devel-
opment of mature years. In its adap-
tability to the largest number of far-
mers in all sections of the entire cori-
tiiiciit,tlie Grange is unrivalet .”—F:il'm
and Home (Massacliusctts).

“The reports of‘ new Graiiges, reor-
ganizations. large accessions of new
members, new halls being built.larger
Grange inectings, seaside, lakeside, and
picnic gatherings of Patrons and far-
mers more and larger then ever before;
the calls for lectures, the more liberal
space given to Grange news in local and
other papers, all plainly prove the pres-
ent advance of' the Grange, and its
growth in favor in all parts of the land.”
—Farmers’ Friend.

“The knowledge of success, of power
and of great works accomplished by
the Order of Patrons of l-Ius-
bandry witliin the past twenty years
has turned doubt and f'ear into conscious
worth, life and gaiety, wit and humor,
and grace and ease of rnanners not seen
in the early days of our existence and
deliberations as an Order.”-Grange
Homes.

- - ~—-

An ugly complexion made Nellie a fright
Her face was all pimply and red

Though her features were good, and her blue

eyes were bright,

“What a plain girl is Nellie"! they said.

But now, as by magic, plain Nellie has grown
As fair as an artist‘s bright dream;

Her face is as sweet as a. flower new~blown,
Her cheeks are like peaches and cream.

As Nellie walks out in the fair morning light,
Her beauty attracts every e e,

And as for the people who ca led herafright,
“Why, Nellie is handsome”; they cry.
And the reason of the change is that

Nellie took Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med-

ical Discovery, which regulated her

liver, cleared her complexion, made
her blood pure, her breath sweet, her
face fair and rosy, and removed the
defects that had obscured her beauty.
Sold by druggists.

- 
The author of “John Halifax, Gen-
tleman” (Mrs. Craik), will present in
the Forum for September, 8 woman’s
estimate of the distinctive mental and
moral characteristics of men.
--————--<o4>———————
Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets
Possess Powerful Potency, Pass Pairi-
lesaly, Promote Physical Prosperity.

A Grange Walcometo Col. James N.
LIDSCOYTIIC).

A number of representative Patron.-'
in Vlfasliirigton, D. (1., welcomed Col.
James N. Lipscomb, the newly ap-
pointed chief‘ clerktlie fo Patent ollicc.
to the National Capital, by setting
down with him to a banquet at the
Riggs House, Wednesday evening.

Bro. Lipscomb has been t'or several
years Master of the State Grange
of South Carolina, in which office he
succeeded our lamented brother, Hon.
D. Vfyatt Aiken.

The gentlemen tendering the coni-
pliuieiit were William Saundei-s,John
R. Thompson and John Trirnble re-
presenting the founders of the Order,
and llon. Norman J. Oolnian, Master,
Maj. Wm. M. King, Sen’y, and Dr.
II. It. Branliam, representing Potomac
Grange No. 1, the first Grange everor-
ganized.

After the bounties of the table had
been disposed of, Bro. Saunders, who
presidtd, extended the compliments
and congratulations of‘ the party in
the following remarks:

It is scarcely necessary for me to say that
the object of our meeting here this evening
is to recognize, in a. fraternal manner, the
coming among us of Brother  N. Lipscomb,
Master of the State Grange of South Caro-
lina; to extend him a welcome greeting, and
to express our gratification at his becoming
a resident of this beautiful city. To our
Worthy Brother, I would say that our iium
her is purposely limited, and does not repre-
sent, by any means, all ofyour friends in this
city would gladly havejoined us on this occa-
sion; but it was determined that this greeting
should be in the name of the Order of the
Patrons of Husbandry, and to you as a worthy,
zealous, and honored member of that Order.
Thismeeting therefore represents the National
Grange by the presence of three of the foun-
ders of the Order; the early apostles of the
Order by Bro. Curtiss, who introduced it in
various States, and zealously worked in Vir-
ginia until he successfully organizcd the State
Grange, and by three officers representing
Potomac Grange No. I, the first grange ever
organized, its present Master being llro. N.
_I. Colman. U. S.Commissiouer of Agriculture.
Brothers, it is particularly fitting that we
should thus mect as meinbcrs of the Grange
in Washington, the birth place of our Order,
to welcome a distinguished Brother from
South Carolina, a. State which was foremost
in developing and extending the principles
and purposes of the Grange, and mainly
through the strenuous and unlireing exertions
of our late and much lamented Bro. the Hon.
D. Wyatt Aiken, South Carolina was 8. pio-
neer in Grange work, and Bro. Aiken intel-
ligently led the van, not only in his own
State, but in neighboring States where he
undertook missionary work in behalf of
the cause. The first representative meeting
of the Natioiial Grange was held in this city
in 1872. It was a critical period in the life
history of the Order, and its future progress
depended wholly upon the wisdom of coun-
cillors at that meeting. I well remember how
much we felt indebted to South Carolina for
sending as her represeiitzitives, lirt. Thomas
Taylor, Mzister of the State Grange, and his
uife, also Bro. Aiken, as General Deputy of
the State, whose encouraging words and
valuable suggestions were largely instrumen-
tal in crcaiiiig the eiitliiisirisiii imparted to
members of that important meeting. It was
at this session that Bro. Aiken was elected a
iiietiiber of the Executive Committee of the
Nationaltirziuge, an office which he continued
to hold up to the time of his dccease. When
the National Grange held its annual session
in 1875 at; Charleston, S. C., it met with a
welcome which astonished, as it seemed to
me, some members from distant States.
Subordinate Granges from far and near in
the State sent their delegates to Charleston
to welcome the,Nation:il Grange which com-
prised representatives from every State
Grange in the country. Not only were we
met with hospitalities from members of the
Uroer, but the citizens generally vied with
each other in their efforts, not only by words
but by deeds, to make our visit pleasant and
agrealile, and in which they were eminently
successful. It was a notable session, and I
well remember that, upon reflection of the
doings of the body, suppression of individual
interests, and local prejudices, and the mani-
.est desire to work harmoniously, the thought
occured to me that it was an exemplification
of the first par. graph in the Declaration of
Purposes of the Grange; it United by the
stong and faithful tie of Agriculture, we mu-
tually resolve to labor for the good of our
Order, our country, and mankind.

It speaks much for the Intelligence of the
members of the Order in South Carolina,
that they have made so few changes in the
office of Master of the State Grange. Dur-
ing the 15 or more years since it was or-
ganized there has been but two Masters,
Bros. Taylor and Aiken, previous to the
installment of the present incumbent, who
here honors us with his presence.

Bro. Lipscomb responded as follows:

MR. CH.=ilR.\'lAN:—Duriiig 2. life shadowed
by disappointment, suffering, an lgricf,therc
have been bright spots ofhappiness, pleasure,
and complitiientury honors. Among the latter
I have most highly prized those conferred by
the different grades of the grand Order to
which we all belong and under the fostering
auspices of which this meeting is held. The
representative 0f‘l'lCCS I have held in it have
for more than ten years thrown me into fra-
ternal council and social intercourse with
great numbers of men and women from all
the different states of this great nation, thus
enabling me to realize and know of its ini-
meuse scope and power and how successfully
that power has been wielded for the good and
advancement educutionally, socially, and ma-
terially of not only its initiated members,
but of the whole agricultural classes and the
entire people.

You, Mr. Chairman, together with a small
band ofintelligenf, liberal and publicnspirited
men, some of whose familiar faces I see now
present, are the honored founders of this be-
neficent Order, for which the millions of men
and women who now belong to it thank and
bless you, and each succeeding generation
will continue it for years and years to come
You have built a monument for yourselves,
“more lasting than brass," and of which you,
individually and collectively, may be proud.
May you all live long to enjoy the honors you
have so nobly won.

The change of residence and business will,
of course, interrupt the close and long con-
tinued connection Ihave held to the State
organization,a.nd probably end my representa-
tive staius, but can not and will not in the
slightest degree lessen my interest in and de-
votion to the Order. And here in my new
field I shall be ready and anxious to add my
most zealous efforts to yours to in any way en-

hance and promote this grand Order and its
noble work.

In conclusion, Mr. Chairman, accept my
niost sincere and heartfelt thanks for the high
personal compliment and honor you have cori-

‘; ferretl upon me.

“Potomac Grange, No. 1." was re-
sponded to b_v its .\Iaster, Bro. Col,
Colman:

MR. CHAIRM.-V.\':——F0i' many years before
the organization of the Patrons of Husband-
ry, I had become thoroughly convinced that
if the farming interests ever received the rec-
ognition to whifzli they were entitled, some
closer and more compact form of organization
than the ordinaiy “Fariners’ Club" would
have to be adopted. When my attention was
called to the fact that such an organization,
now known as the Grange, had sprung into
existence, every item pertaining to it found :1
place in the Rural World. It \\8.S by my
special request that Mr. O. H. Kelley, then
engaged in organizing Granges, was invitcd
to come at my expense and or, anize the first
Grange in Missouri. The result of that ef-
fort and the subsequent work of ourlamented
Bro. T. R. Allen, the constant and continued
advocacy of the Order in the columns of my
paper, are also matters of history. At that
time, I advocated as I do now, the great need
of more attention on the part of farmers to
the great economic problems that affect their
elevation and tend to secure their proper rep
resentation and influence in National and
State affairs.

Whatever influence I have possessed has
been used in the effort to arouse farmers to a.
realization of the strength and power that
they actually possess —if they would but as-
sert and maintain it. The farmers, above all
others,on account of their numerical strength,
ought to take a hand in wisely directing the
policy of the Nation. I am glad to know
that to-day the Grange is more fully than ever
before realizing the grand possibilities pre-
dicted by thc founders of the Order. The
greatest achievements that yet remain to be-
come :1 part of its history are to be thought
out and worked out by means of the higher
and better education of farmers’ sons and
daughters. The development of the educa
tional feature of our Order will give to our
country a farming class worthy of its name
and grandeur and one well fitted to achieve
its magnificent destiny.

I am pleased to be with you this evening.
not only to enjoy the social amenities of the
evening, but to unite with you in extending
zi fraternal welcome to Bro. Lipscomb, and
by my presence to testify to my devotion to
the Order in whose name we have assembled.
For the same reasons :1 few months zigo [ac-
cepted the office of Master of Potomac Grange,
No. I, which has within its membership not
only several of the founders of and early
workers in the Order, but many gentlemen
of rare educational attainments, each a. spec-
ialist in some branch of agricultiiral science,
who are devoting their time and talents to the
interests of practical agriculture.

In response to “The Founders of the
Order,” Bro. Thompson spoke as fol-
lows:

MR. CH.-\lR?\IAI\’: —— It would seem to be
more in accordance with good taste and pro
priety that “Thc l“oiiiitlci‘s of our Order"
should be responded to by some one other
than themselves, for wliatever they may say
of their own work may seem to partake of the
innernio.-it nature of sclf-praise. So much has
been said by others, however, that we may
now. perhaps, be acquitted of the charge.
Our own work lias been for nearly twenty
years before the world and has been judged
by its fruit. Basing ourjudgment upon the
expressions of hundreds of tliousands of
thoughtful men and women who have partici
patetl in its bencficent results, we may be
justified in the reflection that however short
ourothcr aspirations may have fallen of ful-
fillment, and however fruitless our other ef
forts throughlifc have been, our work in giv-
ing the Grange to the world has conferred
benefits upon humanity that warrant the be-
lief that we have not lived in vain.

This is not the time or occasion to relate,
however briefly, the incidents or recall the
reiiiiniscences of the early history of the Or-
der. It may, however, not be out of place to
reniark that the apparently phenomenal char-
actcr of its origin, in springing like Minerva,
from the head of Jove, full armored and
ready for its work, was true only in appear-
ance. Like all things else, it was subject to
the universal law of evolution, and passed
through every stage of development and
growth. Before the Order attained sufficient
magnitude to attract the attention of the
world, its founders spent years of thoughtful
labor, devoting such time as could be spared
from their several avocations, in considering
the necessities of its existence, discussing
plans and principles of organization, con
structing its Constitution and Ritual, and by
personal correspondence,articlesforthe press,
and by tracts and circulars educating the
public niiud, prepari -g the ground for the
seed about to he sown. For nearly five years
they labored with slight encouragement of
success. But against indifference, opposition,
and discouragement, with a faith that never
faltered and a patience that never tired, they
worked on. At last their faith was justified
and their labors rewarded by the assembling
of the first representative body of the Na-
tional Grange in Georgetown in I872, to
whom they gladly transferred the ship, rep-
resenting their life work and hearing so
much of hope and promise to those for
whose benefit it had been constructed. Since
then they have watched it with an anxious
eye and followed it with parental solicitude
and believe that they have by an occasional
word of counsel or warning kept it at times
from drifting from its course or striking upon
dangerous rocks or reefs. So will they always
follow it, no longer in doubt or fear, but with
an unshaken faith, an undoubting hope and
an abiding confidence in its future. They
know, as does no one else, the principles up-
on which it is founded and the material of
which it is composed.

"W’e know what Master laid thy keel.
What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel.
Who made each mast and sail and rope.
\Vhat anvils rang, what hamnicrs beat,

In what a forge and what u hear
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope."

And they believe that though every one
now charged with its destiny were to grow
faint or faithless, weak or weary, other heads
and hearts and hands would resume and con-
tinue the work of the Order. They believe
in its motto and unite with you in praying,
“Esto perpetua.”

Bro. Trimble, Secretary of the Na-
tional Grange, spoke as follows:

MR. CHAIRMAN-It was not my intention
to make any remarks, but I cheerfully ac-
knowledge a pleasure in having the oppor-
tunity to state a fact and impress a thought.
In my judgment the man is self’-opinionated
who thinks he could run the ofiice of Secre-
tary of the National Gran e and discharge
its arduous and complicate duties satisfacto-

rily on his own judgement and knowledge
alone. Thus impressed, Ihzive, in the dis-
charge of my duties, officially and person-
ally, sniight the advice and council of the
able and experienced members of our Order
residing in Washirigton, and they have
cheerfully answered all my calls on their
time and labor.

Perhaps to no one has the Secretary been
more indebted than to the predecessor of our
distinguished guest in the .\laster's chair in
South Carolina, dear Brother Aiken. This
brings me to the thought which I wish to
impress on you. I well know that South
Carolina will suffer a. great loss in the remo-
val from active work of their able Master.
Mr. Chairman, we sympathize with the
brothers in the Palmetto State; and yet we
ask them to note well the fact that their
Worthy Master, by locating in Washington,
does not divest himself of work, and hard
work, in our beloved Order. In my opinion
Bro. Lipscomb is simply transferred to a lar-
ger field of usefulness in the Grange, and I
want you all to stand by me when I claim
from Bro. Lipscomb, for the use and service
of the Order, his ability, his experience, his
well known indomitable courage in defend-
ing the rights of the farmer and upholding
the grand principles of the Grange. Doubt-
less Col. Lipscomb has Iready found that
his plublic ofiice is no sinecure. Let me give
our onored guest fair warning that his po-
sition here as a Patron will not be a sinecure.
The Secretary’s office will claim his advice,
his counsel and his sympathies, and I know
thatlwill find him a. worthy successor to
Col. Aiken. I feel, Mr. Chairman, a. deeper
gratitude than I can express in the fact that
we have the good brother among us. Be-
lieving his residence here to be in the inter-
ests of the Order, I pray God that that res-
idence may cover many and many years.

Bro. Wm. M. King, Chief of the Seed
Division of the Department of Agriculture.
and Worthy Secretary of Potomac Grange
No. I, in response to “Influence of the
Grange,” said: Any organization that has for
its object the educational advancement, so-
cial refinement and purity of its members is
of inczilculable benefit to mankind. The
measureless value of the Order of Patrons of
Husbandry is best evidenced by the vast
work it has already accomplished in elevat-
ing the characters and increasing the influ-
ence of its members. -

One of the prominent features of our Or-
der is that of fraternity, of an earnest endea-
vor to suppress sectional prejudices and pro-
mote peace and harmony. The history of
the Grange shows that it has done more to
heal sectional dissensions than all other or-
ganizations combined. This organization
was formed soon after the cyclone of civil
war had swept remorselessly over our fair
Southern land. It went forth as it were
“with healing on its wings.” When the
representatives of the great agricultural
interests of the nation meet at the annual
reunions of our Order, they do not meet as
estranged brothers and sisters but as members
of one great family, loyal to the principles
of love, peace and good will. These annual
gatherings of Patrons from the widely separ-
ated States and Territories of the Union
have been fraught with best results, cement-
ing as they do the indissoluble ties of frater-
nity and love. Costly as these reunions have
been, the benefits to the cause of agriculture
and human progress have been immeasure
ably greater. The principle of fraternity and
association is one that is needed in home,
neighborhood, state and national affairs. In
the Grange we are linked together by a com
mon interest, in a. common cause, for the
common good.

The possibilities of our Order are compara-
tively boundless. The work that has been
accomplished during the first twenty years
of its existence has been, as it were, but a.
primary school, while the broad field for
more thorough educational work has contin-
ued to widen before us as we have moved
forward. No other occupation or calling of
fers. so wide 3. field for healthful intellectual
development as the farm. The increased at-
tendance at the agricultural colleges in those
states and territories that have the largest
representation in the National Orange is an
indication that the Order of the Patrons of
Husbandry is not without its influence for
lasting good. The Order is designed to
build up and make more attractive the great
basic industry of agriculture. The Grange
has come to stay. If so much has already
been accomplished in the comparatively brief
period of its existence, during which time it
has been seriously weakened by partisan po-
litical action, what may not be expected
when the educational feature shall be fully
develcped as contemplated by the founders
of the Order?

The Grange as a great force in guiding the
agricultural interests of the nation is becom-
ing|a. recognized fact. The educational idea
is the true one. It is this which will make
all things possible to the sons and daughters
of the soil. With the brain and hand thor-
oughly trained in the line of the mostimport-
antof all occupations—th:it of the farmer»
with a firm adherence to the imperishable
principles of our Order as enunciated in our
“Declarzitiori of Purposes,” nothing in, on
or under the earth, can hinder the mental,
moral, social and material advancement of
the only farmers’ organization that is destined
to be perpetual.

The irieeting adjourned at a late hour
and the brothers parted, feeling that
the bonds of friendship and fraternity
had been strengthened by the pleasant
occasion.

- 
It is not often that eight railroads
are at the same time under construction
to any one place, however iuiportant
it may be. And yet our correspondent,
writing from Estillville,Va., points
out the fact that eight roads are now
either actually being built, or soon
will be. all to meet at a place where a.
town has not yet been laid off even.
Big Stone Gap is the name of this re-
markable place. It is a. great gap in
the range of mountains dividing South-
west Virginia and Eastern Kentucky,
and of necessity the railroads building
in that direction must cross the moun-
taius at this place. It is one of nature’s
marvels. Just by the side of the riv-
er which has broken its way through
this great mountain range,there is said
to be a most beautiful site of 1200 acres
for a town. Here it is proposed to
build an industrial town, and with the
unlimited supplies of fine ore and the
Elkhorn cokeing coal and limestone in
abundance, this place ought to grow‘
very rapidly under judicious manage-
ment.—Manufacturers’ Record.

Powdered mfi will take out ti-eon
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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

Sept. I5, 1887.

@112 fifirangr fiigiitur.

Published on the First and Fifteenth
of every month,

AT 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.

Eleven Copies for $5.00.

 

J. T. COBB, Editor and Manager,

SCHOOLCRAFT, MICH.

fl‘Remitmnces should be by Registered Let-
ter, Money Order or Draft.

Entered at the Post Office at Coldwater,
I(ich., as Second Class matter.

To Subscribers and corres-
dents.

All subscriptions to the GRANGE
VISITOR, and all correspondence, ex-
cepting for advertising, should be ad-
dressed to

J. T. COBB, Editor,
o Schoolcraft, Mich.

To Advertisers.

All persons desiring to advertise
in the GRANGE VISITOR, should ad-
dress A. J. ALDRICH, & Co., Cold-
water, Mich., as they have assumed
complete charge of that department.
Prices will be furnished upon appli-
cation. Average circulation for 1886
has been over 6,800 copies. Regular
edition 6,000 copies. The paper
circulates in nearly every county in
the lower peninsula of Michigan and
into families of as intelligent a class
of people as can be found in any
state in the union. The VISITOR,
also has a good circulation among
the Patrons of Iowa.

A. J. ALDRICH & Co.,

Printers of the GRANGE VISITOR.

WE have arranged with Bro. I. B.
Hamilton, of Grandville, Mich., to so-
licit subscriptions and advertising for
flie Visnoa. We hope some of our
friends who have neglected to renew
w_i_l_l have a call.

To Subscribers.

Remittances may be made to us in post-
age stamps, or by postal note, money order,
or registered letter. If you receive copies of
the paper beyond your time of subscription
it is our loss not yours. \Ve aim to send
every number of the paper for the time paid
for, then strike out the name if not renewed.
Renewals made promptly are a matter of
much convenience, and we respectfully so-
licit such that no numbers be lost to you.

Advise this oflice at once of a change in

ill assemble in the State Capitol at
Lansing.

ANY ofonr friends who desire copies
of U. S. Agricultural Reports can have
them by sending their names and l’. 0.
address to this office.

WHEN at the Fair at Grand litlplflri
next week call at Grange llezulquaiu
ters, meet your friends and subscrilx-
for the GrRAN(iE Visiroii.

THOSE farmers who are disc-on i-age-<1
by successive loss of clover seed on ac-
count of droutli can sow timothy need
any time in’ September with a reason-
able prospect of finding a fair growth
next summer. VVe have never known
timothy to freeze out as clover often
does in the spring of the year. We
do not advise sowing timothy as it. is
an exhausting crop, but where this dry
season has burned up the clover, corn.
and potatoes, and left so much ground
bare, 1: may be good policy to seed to
timothy and get a reasonable assu rance
of agrasscrop in 1888.

A GOOD point made by Bro. Pray in
his essay was the necessity of more co-
operation among farmers now that the
price of farm produce is so reduced.
There are many Granges that might
consider and act upon this suggestion
with profit. We were glad to see that
each of the Granges we visited in An-
trim County were co-operating in the
purchase of some staple goods and we
heard no complaint of this being ini-
practicable. On the contrary, some ad-
vantage accrued to all who participat-
ed. Talk about this at Grange meet-
ings and co-operate whenever and

wherevergyou can see your way clear.
 

THE Western Michigan Agricultural
and Industrial Society has made exten-
sive preparations for a flrst class ex-
hibit in every department of its annual
Fair which joperis on the 19th inst.
This Society}; partaking of the go-
ahead character of the city of Grand
Rapids where its annual meetings are
held, will present inviting atti':ictions
this year. Its_:Executive Committee
have been doing some lively work. In-
spired by the general ambition which
prevails in the western part of the

 

State, the Visrroii will have a commo-
dious, well furnished TENT on the
grounds and we invite not only Pat-
rons but farmers to make this tent
lle{tdqll‘rll'tCl'S,tl.ll(l a place of rest. Leave
your parcels and wraps for security
with Bro. I. B. Hamilton, who will
be in charge himself or by deputy.

FARMERS who have apples will do
well to note the directibns for their
care and preservation given by B. G.
Buell, as he writes from the stand-
point of an experience of many years.
Those who don’t think the thin, sandy
land of Michigan has any value should
read the article headed, “A Day with
the Fruit Men of Lawton.” There are
thousands of Michigan farmers who
never have any berries or grapes of
their own raising, who really suppose
that these things cost more than they
are worth, when in fact a bushel of
grapes can be raised about as easily as
a bushel of potatoes, though it takes
a little longer to get the first bushel.

IN subordinate Grangcs the program
sometimes calls for select reading. It
is cert:iinly desirable that Patrons
should be posted in the early hiz-'tor_\‘
of that Order and know something of
the men who enlisted in the Work—of
their faith in its benefits to the farmers
of this country and of their high ap-
preciation of the accomplished results.
Some ideas in this line may be gath-
ered from the welcome given Col.
James N. Lipscomb at the National
Capital by some of the prominent
members of the Order, which find on
the third page of this number, and we
suggest that as very many mcm bers of
the Order do not take the VlSl1'0Il this
welcome be read at some suitable time
in our subordinate Grangcs. There are
aimost three columns ofexcellent read-
ing matter in it.

AND we still get letters asking what
to do about paying royalty on driven
wells. Answering that questionby let-
ter is getting rather monotonous. We
can think of no better answer now than
advising the treatment one of these
bull-dosers received in a neighboring
county. He proposed serving :1 notice
ot infringement on a farmer and was
as promptly served with a notice to
leave the pl'ClIllt5€S. Declining, he was
collared and led into the highway with
an injunction that may serve him for
future use. Again we say—l’ay no
man $10 royalty or any other sum.
The State Grange of Micliigan will do-
feiid in court contributors of one dollar
to its Defense Fund, be they Patrons
or not. W'c say this much on our own
l'(‘Sp0llSlbllli_V, as that is what it pro-
posed to do and did do in 1881. There
will soon be a meeting of the Execu-
tive Committee when such action as is
deemed iiecessary will be taken.

\Vi~; have clscivlicrc called attention
to :1 part of the third page ofthis num-
ber. There is :1l.~4o most excellent read-
ing in the Ladies’ Departiiiciit. Our
cstceinod correspondent,V. 13., hasjust-
ly criticised a cultured talent that is
to-d:iy doing a vast amount of educ:i-
tional miscliief—not so much in the in-
jury inflictcd on public men as in the
direction given to a taste for reading.
Tll(.‘SC reporters, of whom V. B. justly
complains, give news in such mixed
incaz-‘urc of truth and fiction and of’
such quantity and doubtful quality
that the reader finds but little real
wheat ina vast amount of chaff. It.
were better for the general public if it
knew less of much that finds place in
the newspapers of the period as in the
direction given to a taste for reading
these reporters, of whom V. B. so just-
ly complains, give character to the pa-
pers that are eagerly perused from
day to-day. And what does it all

amount to? A little grain with an end-
less amount of cliafl in such mixed
measure of truth and fiction and of
such doubtful value that We have come
to believe the news reporter is a pub-
iic enemy.

Wi-: are sorry the State Fair and the
Western Michigan Fair and the North-
Eaiat. Mich. Fflirflt Flint are to be held
the same week. There has been a
screw loose in the nianiigement some-
where or this condition of things
would not exist. Had it been other-
wise, in the interest of the GRANGE
Visrroii we should have attended both.
But we have placed the matter in
good hands at Grand Rapids and shall
put in our time at Jackson. We hope

to meet Patrons and farmers from dit'-
ferent parts of the State ready to sub-

scribe for,’or renew their subscription
to the VISITOR. We know the crops
are short but good Patrons who can
aflbrd to take in the Fair can certainly
afford to ’_subscribe for the Visrroa.

We shall make our headquarters on the
Fair grounds at the oflicc of the Secre-
tary of State, where we expect tomeet.
Bro. Robert L.Hewitt, who has charge
of the agricultural branch of the busi-
ness of that ,ofiice. In a circular just
received we find the following invita-
tion:

Crop correspondents attending the State
Fair are requested to meet at the office of the
Secretary of State, on the Fair grounds, on
Thursday at 1! o’clock. This meeting will
be informal, and held for the purpose of get-
ting acquainted, and for consultation. All
details will be made known at the time cor-
respondents receive their tickets.

The Secretary of State will have his office
in a tent erected on the grounds, which will
be made a headquarters for crop correspon-
dents.

For the courtesy extended it is
hoped crop correspon(le1its will iii-
duce one other person to attend the
Stafe or Western Michigan Fairs, at
0:tt‘ll of‘ which crop correspondents
will find lieadquartcrs provided by the
Seci'et:iry of State.

NATlONAL GRANGE —- ANNUAL
MEETING.
Lansing. November 9, 1887.

The highest legislative body of the
Patrons of Husbandry will hold its
twenty-first annual session in Repre-
sentative llall, Capitol Building, Lan-
sing. Eleven o"clock A. M.. Wednes-
day, .\'ovcinbcr 9, is the time designat-
ed for its first session. These annual
sessions of the National Grange extend
into the second week. The session of‘
1886 covered eight days. The extreme
states of our vast country answered to
the call. Far-ofi'()regon sent her Wor-
thy Master-—distant Texas. ever loyal
to the Order, and Maine, by her
noble (lovernor was represented, as
well as the ncarcr states, at the last an-
nual session hcld in the City of Broth-
erly Love. Like the sessions of‘ the
subordinate and State Grangcs, the
business of the Natioiial Grange is all
done in the fourth degree, and an mem-
bers of the Order who attend will be
most heartily welcomed. We believe
there are many Michigan Patrons who
intend to visit Lansing on this occasion
and we know that everytliing will be
done by those having the matter in
charge to make such visit pleasant.
We shall do what we can to secure the
lowest railway rates and we suggest
that all who think ofattcnding the Na-
tional Grangc meeting send us their
names and postotlicc address, and state-
over what roads they wish transpor-
tation. All this may not l)f_‘- iiccess:ii'_\'
btit there is more red tape about this
matter than there used to be and wt-
may be able to use this information to
your advantage. VVC shall arrange for
board for all who may come, on tilt‘
best tcrins that can be liad.

The Defense Fund.

VVe have received a few contribu-
tions to the Defense Fund since the
late d('ci.~ii0n of the United States Court
invited the royalty hunters to again
invade the State. We have also received
a letter from a brother Patroii object-
ing to zit-oiitiiiuatioii oftlic plan adopt-
ed in 18:51 by the E xccutivc U0lllllll[t(‘t’
of’ the lllichigan State (Frrange, which
gave us sucli a good Dcfciisc Fund that
the collectors of royalty soon found
that their collections would no longer
pay their board bills, and they left.
This office is witliout instruction from
the Executive Committee. Until in-
structed by the State Grange we shall
continue to receive and receipt contri-
butions to the Defense Fund sent us
from any quarter and shall assume that
such protection as the State Grange is
able to afford will be extended to each
and every contributor to the Driven
\Vell Defense Fund. The action of the
State Grange through its Executive
Committee was protective not only tot
Patrons but to farmers and all classes
of society, for driven wells were and
are still in general use. Accepting con-
tributions from all classes increased the
fund and by this general co-operation
made large payments from interested
Patrons less necessary, and in the out-
come gave the general public increased
contidence in the value of the Order
of Patrons of Husbandry. The course
adopted before worked well and we
now see no reason to adopt any other.
There are men who will stand back and
expect to profit by our organization
without extending aid in any way.
This can’t be helped. Every commu-
nity has men who want their neighbors
to pay their taxes and so far society
has failed to wholly protect itself
against those who selfishly seek to ob-
tain an advantage.- The Grange is
broad and liberal in its principles and
policy—-it has accepted and adopted
the spirit of progress which has char-
acterized this century and we believe
that fact is a most hopeful indication

of its successsul future.

Northern Michigan.
(,'onfinuc‘d.

Our stay in the vicinity of Elk Rap-
ids was very pleasant. and satisfactory.
That we might see more of the coun-
try, Bro. Sours made a circuit of some
ten miles to reach Elk Rapids, four
miles distant. The rain of the day be-
fore had scttled the dust, started the
plows and made the farmers hopeful
of a potato crop, which in that section
is one of great importance particularly
this year of general shortage of this
staple crop of the country. The route
we traveled was quite rolling and the
inost of it very good land. The high
lands are the best. The change from
strong clay land to light sand is found
in a few feet. Wherever clay comes to
the surface in sufficient extent to make
il. farm, there farming may be prosecut-
ed with reasonable hope of getting a
living‘ :but where the beach sand crops
out the farmer can depend on little rc-
ward for his labor. ()ur morning drive
was either half a mile too long or five
minutes too slow to carry out our pur-
pose of taking the good steamer Mor-
ley for Old Mission, so after dinner
we took the little “Ida” on Elk La ke,
boniid for Spencer Creek on the east
side of Torch Lake. Less than a mile
from the landing we found the Master
and Secretary of Helena Grange, No.
676. That evening and the next morn-
ing we met several members of the
Grange and were inspired with confi-
dence in the prosperity and good work
of that Grange for the reason that Bro.
John B. Hartwell, its Master, was so
heartily endorsed by every one. There
was general agreement that the Grange-
was doing its members good and at-
tendance at Grange meetings was the
rule lived up to by the mcinbcrs. VVc
returned the next day to carry outou r
pnrpose, but before c1'0>'si1ig‘ the beati-
tiful bay to Old Mission we must
switch off from the Grange for a ino-
ment to make brief mention of the
great industry that makes somewhat
famous the village of‘

ELK R.-\l‘IDS.

This is it town wcll located for a city
of several thousand iiihabitante. Situ-
ated on Traverse Bay, at the outlet. of
lakes whose aggregate length, includ-
ing short connecting rivci~s, is 7.5
miles, with a shore line ofnot less than
20U,aii(l all within a raditis of :20 iriilcs,
it is probably the best location in this
country for a charcoal iroiif'urnaco'- and
it has been well improved.

The Elk Rapids Iron Coiiipaiiy have
thirty clizircoal kilns in which are con-
verted annually into cliarcoal 50,000
cords of wood. These lakes furnish
easy access to the vast. l'l‘:1t‘tS of hard
wood tim bcr near their banks and froui
which this Iron Company draws sup-
plies.

Lest we make this article too long.
we must defer until another time a de-
.-u:i'ipti0n of‘ the extensive plant of this
lron Company that has with marked
success utilized the products of it.-
furniiccs and kilns to a gI‘(‘:!l(‘l‘ extent
than any other t"S[#{l)ll.~lllll(.'llt of its
kind iii this country.

The whistle of the Morley, an hour
late, was an order to start for the pier
that struck out into the bay 100 rods.
It was twilight when we reached the
landing at Old Mission and W] repair-
ed at once to the Rushmore House, a
liostclry of somewhat ancient build,
but comfortable and managed by an
obliging host. After dinner the next
day we made inquiry for Mr. Jerome
Pratt, whose wife, in the pioneer days
of our town, was for ten years a well
known resident of Si-hoolcraft. Wt-
found their doniicil but twenty rods
away and with her and liergenial hus-
band were soon revicwing the past-
the days and years when we were
_v0uiig. Persons and incidents, that

.had been lost in the dim distance of

added years, were recalled and a few
hours were pleasantly spent in a retro-

spect of that mingled light and shad-

ow that makes up the history ofa new
country.

Later in the day Mr. Pratt took us
to the house of Bro. II. K. Brinkman,
whose horse and carriage were soon
ready for a drive among the orchards
of Old Mission. As we were near the
famous Parmalee property we gave
that first attention. Mr. Parmalee
went to Old Mission about 25 years
ago, an experienced orchardist. But
his experience did not protect lllln
from the mistakes common to the men
who have done well and want to do
better. Buying 400 acres of land, he
commenced fruit culture on alarge
scale and twenty years later left evi-
dences of his mistakes spread out over
some of the finest fruit lands in North-
ern Michigan. What was once a splen-

did peach orchard we found a well
plowed field prcp:ired for wheat. The
pear 0l'(’ll:ll'(l will furnish this yeara
fair crop for about the last time.
Some of the trees were broken down,
dead limbs were plenty and it was ev-
erywhere evident that the pear blight
had taken possession of the orchard and
its utter ruin was not far distant. The
apples were a halt crop and looked
well. Bro. Brinkman has a fine show
of pears and some very fine apples. He,
too, has learned that it is safer to have
forty acres in fruit than four times as
much, and We elsewhere had abundant
evidence of attempting too much. His
orchard of Waggoner apples was a
pitiful sight. Over-bearing and the
cold winter of 12585 ruined it entirely.
It will soon all be pulled up root. and
branch to make room for some variety
pot so prolific. Plums are a good crop
and pay well, but sour cherries are the
most reliable and best paying crop
grown, so says Bro. Brinkmaii, and he
has been in the fruit business right
here for more than twenty years. His
corn was a fair crop and his eighteen
acres of potatoes seemed a bonanza
when we found the next day Bro. Bag-
ley' on the dock paying 75 cciitsabushel
f'or wagon loads of this staple.

The next day Bro. B. was on hand to
show us more of the north end of the
Peninsula and drove adozen miles be-
fore dinner, haltin,-_,r for a few minutes
here and there at the house of some
worthy Patron. \Vh.-itever mistakes
may have been made, there is no ques-
tion but the Grand Traverse region is
aclapted to fruit raising and that of
excellent quality. Taking this fact for
granted, very many of its frult far-
mers seem to have expected the busi-
ness would take care of itself if trees
were once set, and have neglected to
give the land and trees such attention
and cart: as indicate skill, industry and
that completeness of work which
inakes a man feel pleased to show his
premises to his friends. There are
some fruit farms, however, well cared
for, and among the very best is that of
Bro. E. (). Ladd. llis pear trees were
uninjured by blight and loaded with
luscious fruit.

\Vc inuch regretted that our plans
did not permit us to remain longer and
get better ar-quaiiitcd with the Patrons
who have shown such energy and de-
termination in Grange work. Penin-
.-'ular Grange built a hall last winter;
taking advaiitagc of that season of the
year when there was little work at
home, tllP.*~‘€ I’2iti'oiisjoiiicd in the work
and before spring ocou pied one of the
finest halls in the State. The indebt-
cdness incurred for niaterial has been
nearly extinguished during the sum-
uicr by the eiiterpriscand liberality of
nicinbcrs, of which our Jottings’ page
has made mention.

Old Missioii has a splendid harbor.
This, with f'avor:ible grounds for a
snninicr l‘(éi-‘()l't.ll5lH aitr.-tctcda company
that li:isl»oii;_rlit It'll) .‘lt‘l‘¢’.~l of land, built
utew (‘,()ll:lg(‘.~' this >‘('«‘l.S()ll, and expect
to l]l{ll\'(: this vqnal to any of the re-
sorts already faiiious in Northern
Micliigaii. This resort will be a good
thing for the fruit fariiiers of tliat vi-
cinity. Say what we will about low
prices and ll:ll‘tl times, a visit to the re-
sorts of' Northern 1\fichig:ui indicate
prosperity H(lYllC\Vll0l‘(‘. With summer
cottages by scores, costing from $300
to $3,000 each, large and luxurious ho-
tcls well pattroiiized by a transient
population, these resorts are pleasant
and healthful ceiitci-s for the redistri-
bution of‘ accuinulatccl wtallh, and We
are glad to know they attract people
in C0ll9lA'l(‘.l‘.‘lblC nnin hers from the large
cities of' the Souili and West.

Leaving Old Mission after dinner.’
under great obligations to Bro. Brink-
man for devoting so much time to pro-
mote our cnjoynieiit, we took the “Mor-
ley” f‘or 'I\'avcrse City, and while there
climbed the hill sides from which
Judge Ramsdell was daily gathering
and shipping most luscious plums.
This opinion of quality is not second-
handed but comes of a personal test of
several varieties. His pear crop looked
inviting and was liberal in amount.
The apple crop was good in quality,
but less than half a crop in quantity,
and his grapes will pay well for the
attcntiot they have received. We got
his opinion of the drive well racket
that is staring us in the face, and left
at seven A. M. on the fine steamer City
of Grand Rapids for Clinrlcvoix, and
a few days later started for home where
we arrived after an absence of nearly
four weeks in good condition for work.

 
 

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Sept.‘ i5,i887.

GENERAL NOTICE.
MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE,
Seciii-:TARY’s OI-‘FlCF.,
Sept. 1, 1887.

The books of this office show at this date
the following Granges entitled to elect dele-
gates to the County Convention to be held
on Tuesday, October 4, 1887, by virtue of
Section 3, Article 2, By-Laws of Michigan
State Grange: .

Allegan—~3 Representatives. Nos. 37, 53,
154, 238. 247. 248. 271. 296. 339. 364. 390.
4117, 520, 643, 669.

Antrirn-1 Rep. Nos. 470, 676.

Barry—2 Rep. Nos. 48, 55, 127, 128,
145: 2561 4241 4259 4729643-

Branch—2 Rep. Nos. 88, 91, 95, 96, 97,
136. 137. 152. 400.

Berrien—2 Rep. Nos. 14, 40, 43, 81, 84,
87. 104, 122, 188, 194.

Benzie—1 Rep. No. 503.

Callioun—1 Rep. Nos. 65, 66, 83, 85,
129, 292.

Cass—-1 Rep. Nos. 162, 427.

Crawford—Rep. 1 No. 673.

Clinton—2 Rep. Nos. 2oz, 225, 226, 358,
370. 439. 456. 459. 505.659. 677-

Emmett—1 Rep. No. 665.

Eaton——1 Rep. Nos. 134, 224, 260, 301.
315, 360, 619.

Genesee - 1 Rep. Nos. 387, 565.

Grand Traverse—1 Rep. Nos. 379, 469,
624, 655, 663, 672.

Gratiot~-1 Rep. Nos. 307, 391, 431, 521.

Hillsdale—2 Rep. Nos. 74, 78, 107, 108,
133. 182. 269. 273. 274. 286-

Huron—~1 Rep. Nos. 662, 666, 667, 668,
678, 680.

Ingliam——2 Rep. Nos. 115, 235, 262, 265,
289. 322. 347. 540-

Ionia—2 Rep. Nos. 158, 174, 175, 185.
186, 190, 192, 270, 272, 640.

_lackon——1 Rep. No. 45.

Kalama7.oo——1 Rep. Nos. 8, 11, 21, 24,

Q .
9Kalkaska—-1 Rep. Nos. 664. 674.
Kent-~—-3 Rep. Nos. 19. 39, 63, 110, 113,
170. 219. 221. 222.337. 348. 350. 353. 563.
64. 634-
5 Lapec-r— 1 Rep. Nos. 396, 448, 549.
Leelenaw-1 Rep. Nos. 667. 668.
Lenawee—~-2 Rep. Nos. 167, 212, 213,
276. 277. 278. 279. 280- 293. 384. 660. 509-
Livingston——1 Rep. Nos. 90, 336.
Macomb—1 Rep. Nos. 403, 657.
Manistee—-1 Rep. Nos. 557, 663.
Mecosta——1 Rep. No. 362.
Montc:i1m—1 Rep. Nos. 318, 354, 440,
441, 650. _
Muskeg0n—-—I Rep. i\os. 372. 373. 5,53-

Newaygo——1 Rep. Nos. 494, 495, 511,
544. 545- ,
0ceana—1 Rep. 1&0. 406.

Oakland—3 Rep. Nos. 141, 245, 257,
359, 267, 275, 283. 323. 328. 335. 377. 395.

443-
Oitawa--2 Rep. Nos. 30. 112, 313. 453,

63 .

gt. Clair—1 Rep. Nos. 491, 528.

St, Joseph—-3 Rep. NOS. 22, 76. I78,
1 , 2.15, 236; 337. 26$-0295:4303. 332. 333-

ag1naw—- ep. 1 . .
Sanilac——1 Rep. Nos. 417, 566. 541. 654.

Shiawassee-—l Rep. Nos. 180. 228. 229.
252.
Tuscola——1 Rep. Nos. 513, 523. 543. 661-
Van Buren-- 2 Rep. 6Ngs. 10, 23. 2. 35.
60. 89. 158. 159. 230. 34 ., 10
Washtenaw—1 Rep. Nos. 52, 56, 68, 92,

1.
3S\Vayne..2 Rep. Nos. 268, 298, 367, 368,
389, 618, 636. _

\V/exford - 1 Rep. :~.o:.|532, 633. 644.,

By the neglect of some secretaries, quite :1
miniher of Oranges stand now upon our
books disfranchised. _

For the purpose of securing representa-
tives to all delinquent Grauges we shall add
to the list all that may report up to the last
moment practicable, and delegates duly
elected who at the Convention show a receipt
for dues for the quarter ending March 31,
1887, on which is endorsed “entitled to rep-
resentation,” should be allowed to partici-
pate in the work of the Convention.

Vile give elsewhere so much of Article 4th.
By Laws of State Grange, as relates to the
make up of the legislative body of the State
Gauge.

The following Granges have not reported
for the quarter ending March 31_, 1387. and
that report must be made to entitle tn repre-
sentation.

Nos. 7, 16, 18, 28. 38. 67, 106. 108. N4.
125. 130. 163. 223. 229. 246. 251. 295. 325.
340. 342. 355. 361. 374. 396. 399. 421. 436.
437.479. 530. 542. 568. 582. 607. 613. 623.
671, 679. _

Reports covering March 31, from some
Granges will entitle. the county to an addi-
tional representative. We hope secretaries
whose duty it is to attend to this matter will
not by neglect cut off representation to the
State Grange. There is time to get in line
if improved. And we suggest that Masters
may very propeply look after this matter and
know that their Grange is entitled to repre-

sentation.

The Chicano lnter—State Exposition.

The great inland City of America
now conics to the front with its Fit‘-
teenth Consecutive Aiiriiial Inter-
State Exhibition of the products of
Science, Indu-itry and Art, _opeiiing
Wednesday, Sept. 7, and closing bat-
nrday, Oct. 22.

The mammoth building is now
crowded with exhibits from almost
every part of the civilized world, il-
lustratiiig every department of human
activity, with its latest and best prod-
acts. It is impossible to do this great
collection justice by noticing it in de-
tail. In some important respects it
has never been equaled at any tempo-
rary exhibition, and in scarcely any
respect has it ever been excelled. All
railway and transportation lines give
reduced rates to visitors, and there is
every indication that the usual atte_nd-
ance 01 50(),i)00 will be well _ nigh
doubled. it certainl__v_ will be if the
intelligent, enterprising, well-to-do
people of the Northwest properly ap-
preciate the opportunity it affords.

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett will
contribute a short serial to the con}-
lng volume of St. Nicholas, which 18
said to be a worthy successor of that
author’s famous “Little Lord Faunt-
leroy,” which appeared in St. Nicho-
las 21 ymr ago. Joel Chandler Harris,
John Burronglis, Frank lt. Stockton,
H, n_ Bo_\'(>son, T. Trowbridgp,
Col. Richai-d M. Johnstone, and Loui-
sa. M. Alcott are among the many dis-
tinguished writers who will contrib-
ute serial and short stories to St. Nich-

TI-IE G-BANG-E VISITOR.

By—Laws of State Grange Relating to
the Make-up of its Legislative Body.
ARTICLE IV.—VOTlNG MEMBERS.

Si-ZCTION I. The voting members of
the Michigan State Grange shall be
chosen from the members, in propor-
tion to one brother, and his wifc.(if a
Matron), to each five Subordinate
Grraiiges, or the major part thereof, in
each county; and one brother, and his
wife (if a Mutroii), chosen by each
county or district (Poinona) Grange in
the State.

SEO. 2. Counties in which there are
not the major portion of five Subordi-
nate Granges shall be entitled to :1 rep-
resciitation in the State Grange of one
brother and his wife (if :1. Matron.)
Sec. 3. The selection of voting
members by Subordinate Granges
shall take place on the first Tuesday of
October of each year, by a convention
of Subordinate Granges at the county
seat of each county, unless the place of
meeting has been elsewhere located by
the last preceding annual convention.
SEC. 4. At the annual convention
to elect. representatives or voting
members of the State Grange each
Subordiiizite Grange, not more than
two quarters in ai'ron's for dues or re-
ports to the State Graiige, shall be en-
titled to four delegates, and no more.
Sin-.h dclcgaiti-s shall be chosen by bal-
lot by the Subordinate Grange, which
may also choose alternate delegates.
Each delcgaic and alternate clioscii
should li:1\‘f) (‘i‘1~(ln1iti-ils l'1'0m his
Giniigc, sigiicd by the l\l:istci':i11d Scr-
i‘(‘lt1l’_\' thereof, and attested by the
seal of the Grange. A delegate can
have but one vote in the convention.
SEC. 5. Conventions of eight or
more (ii-aiigcs may, upon the rcqlicst
ot the mzijority oftlic (irl‘tlll‘="CS cniitlcd
to i'ep1'c.<eiit:ttioi1, divide the county or
districts into disti'icts oi" conii,-_1;1ioii.~'
Gi'angc.~‘, in which (‘:lS(' the i*cprcsciit:1-
tives of each such district shall be
clcctcd by the vote of the delegates of
the district so niade.

S1-1C. 6. A county or district con-
vention shall have the delegates of :1
majority of the Grange entitled to
rcpi'cseiit:1tio11 prcseiit, bctorc district-
ing or an election can take place.
Failing to have a inajority oi the
(iraiiges entitled to represciitatioii
present, the convention shall. after or-
ganization, adjourn to a iixcd time and
place, and send :1 notice of such time
and place to all unrepresciitcd Gi'ai1ges.
The delegates present at the adjourned
meeting of the convention shall have
power to elect i-cpi-e.se1itatives to the
State Grange.

SEC. 7. C0llVelllLl0llS may elect al-
ternative representatives to the State
Grange, or may empower the repre-
seiitativcs-elcct to appoint substitute
from among the Masters or Past Mas-
tcrs of Siilioi'din=itc Grange.-1 in the
district trom which they were elected.

Si-zo. 8. The l’re.~1ide11t and Secreta-
ry of each represeiitativc convention
sliall give each representative elect :1
crcdciitiul 1-1-i‘tii'_\'i11g his ulcctioii, to
be used at the rtitc G'l'zlllgiE, and said
Secretary .-ahall, iniinediatcly upon the
close of the convention, lot'Wu1'd a cer-
tified statement of the clcctioii, with
name and postofiicc of rcpi'csc1itativcs
elected. to the Secrct:iry of the State
Grange. Blank forms and ci'cde11ti:ils

and cc1'tiiic21tes shall be f1ir11i.'~'l1ed by
the Secretary of the State iiilflllgtf on
application.

At the last session of the State
(.‘ri'1ii1ge the Couiinittce 011 l’o11ion:i
Graiigc.-1 in its report, prcseiitcd the
following i'csolut.ioi1 which was adopt
ed by the State Graiigc.

Resolved, That it is for the best interests
of l'01u0n:1 Granges that their delegates to
the State Grange should i‘( ceive mileage and
per diem the same as delegates frmii Snlioiv
dinate Granges in oider to secure representa-
tion without fail.

If we construe the action of the
State Grang(- aright i'eprei-1ei1t:itivcs
from Pomona (irangcs will be entitled
to the same mileage and per dicni that
representatives troni Subordinate
Grraiiges receive. Several Pomona
Grangcs were not rcpresciited last year
on account as was alleged ot the pov-
erty of their treasury.

This will not be likely to occur
again under the operation of this reso-
lution.

Retained in perfect running order in
the United States Steamboat Inspec-
tor’s ofiicc in this city is an oscillating
engine constructed in 1809 by Daniel
French. It is only ot model size, and
is probably the first engine of the kind
ever constructed. Its dcscri tioii is
simple. Haviiigiits piston-r attach-
ed directly to the crank-pin, as the
crank revolves the cylinder oscillates
upon trunnions, one on each side of it,
through which the steam enters and
leaves the steam-chest. The valves
are within the stearn-chests,oscillating
with the cylinder. It is perhaps as
satisfactory an engine of this class as
has ever been built, for it is well
known that the mechanism of the act-
uating valves in oscillating steam en-
gines has seldom proved perfectly sat-
isfactory in its operation.-—Louisville
Courier-Journal.

A machine has beeii brought out for
cutting up old timber into firewood,
and tying it in bundles ready for sale.
It consists essentially of a chopping-
knifc actuiitod like a mortise chisel.
The timber is fed into the machine in
lengths oi about six inches, and the
chisel splits them up along the grain
of the wood. They pass out of the
machine into a box, which, by agita-
tion, settles them into the smallest
bulk. They are then formed into
bundles by mechanical means, com-
pressed, and bound by wire. A fire-
Wood-bundling machine, worked by a
pedal for smaller requirements, has al-

olas tor 1888.

so been introduced.-(.‘.s.ssell’s.

duce!
[From a paper read before Eaton County
Grange] A

But now how shall we best dispose
of our surplus products, is as 1 con-
sidera hard problem to solve. VVhilc
we as farmers and producers have dil-
igcntly toiled and labored to iinprove
and increase production, we have also
by common practice allowed some of
the so-called business men ofour coun-
try to dictate to us terms ot'sale,m:ikc
our prices tor us, so that all we have
to do is when We get our products
ready,draw them to the stations, turn
them over to the business men, take
What they decide to give, go home and
toil and labor on to produce more.
While we believe over-production
supply and demand have much to do
in establishing prices, yet 1 do not be-
licveit has half as much influence as
that association known as the Board
of Trade, with lie1n'lqii:11'tc1's in the
city 01' Oliicngo, and branches in every
city and village or note in the United
States. If any here has a doubt of
this he should visit the great Board of
Trade building in Chicago, and gaze
upon its niagiiificence; attend its open
board, and witness the turmoil and
contusion present there every day
which exhibits so much of :1 business
cli:iracter that it is impossible for a
t:1rnicr to coniprclicnd it. Although
We notice that once in a While
:1 f:ii'111oi'. or sonic one that thinks
lic is Iiierging into it l)llSlllCSS 1111111,
coiiiiriciii-cs .~‘1>L'('lll1l[l1)ll in option. and
with but very i':1i'c1-xvcptioiis (lo:--1 so
to his ruin :ii1(l<li.=1_ri‘:1cc. ]l:ii1icl\Vcb-
:~'1c1'once said. “tlmt the true ilcstiny
oi" the Nortliwt-s't was to become a
grczit niaiiiitht-ti11‘ii1g as well as :1 g1'e:it
:1;rriciilt11i':1l people." lt. S(‘(‘lllS to me
that this is the very key note to this
probloni.

The idea that we .~'houl1.l transport
the bulky. raw ni:1tci'i:il, nearly 50 per
cent. of whicli is 1'1-1'11:-ac or \\':ist:igc, to
the far cast to he niadc up into ditl'c1--
cnt. torins whereby it is adapted to the
use ot'in:i1i,ai1d then after it is manu-
i':ic-turcd be shipped back to be worn
or ii.~'(‘(l perhaps upon the very larni
where it was produced, while the
cl1:ii'g(3s' for trziiisportatioii both ways,
which perhaps are not always just.
have added from twenty-tive to fifty
per cent. to the cost 01 the article.
Not only this but We have also largely
to send the loud, the wheat. or flour
and meat upon the workmen have to
subsist While Working it tip. There
i.~'i1oc:1rtlily reason why this work-
ing-up could not be done right here
where the ni:itcri:ils are produced and
thus all tlicsc added i‘Xp('XiSeS saved.
This system would be an incentive to
bring in other i1ia111if:ict1ii'i1ig interests,
thus bringing the inaiiiifactorics into
the iniincdiate vicinity of the produc-
ers, thus enabling us to produce ni:ii1_v
articles which now We cannot on ac-
count of no inarket. Thus our soil
iniglit be resting froin coiistriiit crop-
ping in cxliuusting art iclcs which :11‘:-
now fa t iiiipovcrishiiig it. Thus all
would be bciiciitteil by the establish-
ment of i1i:11iiif:1cioi'ics unioug us.

You ask how this may be done? 1
an.~'wcr, it can be done through farin-
crs-’oi'gai1izcd co-operation. Are not
all the great moral ret'oi'111.sot the day.
by which vicc is coiiibattcd and virtue
encouraged, (‘2l.l‘l'li}(l forward by the
organizcd cll’ort<. of the friciids of
truth and good order; through organ-
izcd co-operation the sails of coin-
iiicrcc whiten cvery sea and convey
our produce ft-oin nation to nation.
Within our own country tlirough co-
<-pcrntion ovci‘8<),()t)il niilci-1 of railroad
have been constructed, opening thor-
(lll;Lllilll't‘!-11111‘ 1I‘2lI]~'p0l‘lti1l()li in every
direction and spaiiing the coiitincnt
froni 01-caii to ocean. In fact those en-
gaged in every departineiit of busi-
ness and in every p1'ol‘c-ssioii have long
since recognized the advziiitagcs of co-
operation and by organization have
developed and built up the intcresis
With which they were particularly
connected.

Will the t’:n'11ici's shake ofl their
letliargy, be more thorough in their
organization and protect and defend
their interests is my sincere wish.

G150. D. l’11Ar.
——————o>——————

Portland cement is an artificial pro-
duct, chemically proportioned by the
proper selection of the material enter-
ing into its composition. Tll(‘.l'~'(‘,
Whether chalk or clay, as in England;
marl or clay, as in Germany; or hy-
draulic limestones, as in this country,
are, in every case, reduced to the finest
powder by either wet or dry grinding,
nnl this powder moistened merely in
the dry process, or in the form of paste
in the wet process, becomes practically,
either by drying in large tanks or by
being molded intobricks, eggs or other
forms, :1 new stone, in which all the el-
ements are brought in close contract
and are in perfect chemical proportion.
This artiticially-made new stone,
burnt, as it is at high heat in close
kilns, has every element chemically
active, and the clinker represents prac-
ticzilly, when properly p1‘0p0i'ti0n0d
chemically, 9. composition of bi-basic
silicate of lime and aluminate of lime.
This ground clinker is the Portland
cement of commerce, 3. fixed uniforrn
product, sold under a warranty of its
strength and firmness, and depends
upon the controllable elements ofskill -
tul maiiufacture for its cliaracter and
uniformity.

4+

Canker humors of every dcsci iption,
whether in the mouth, throat, or
stoinach, are expelled from thc system
by the use of Ayer’s Sarsapai'illa. No
other remedy can compare with this,
as a cure for all diseases originating in

impure or impoverished blood.

l

"01" She“ We 01512956 of our Pr<'>— i PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.

lCOYTEC‘1Cd by vTh_0rntou Barnes. Wholesale Grocer
and (.range Selling Agent. No. 241 North Water
31,, Philadelphia, Pa ]
_ PHKLADELPHIA. Aug. 1, 1887.
, PURE SUGARS.
Cut lnal, per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..'7
Pulverized per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Standard granulated per lb. .
Standard A White per lb.
Best white soft A per lb. .
Good white soft A per lb.
Extra C white per lb. . . . .
Standard B per lb . . . . . . . .

Extra (3 yellow bright per lb . . . . . . . . .

C yellow per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Brown per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

New Orleans extra light per lb . . . . . . . . . . . .

SYRUP AND MOLASSES—In Barrels.
Sugar drips pure sugar per gallon . . . . . . . . . 29
Amber drips pure sugar per gallon. . . . .
Fancy white maple drips per gallon.. . .
Extra golden pure sugar per gallon . . . . . . .33
Fancy New Orleans new crop per gallon. .55

Good New Orleans. new crop per gallon. .53

White honey drip, vanilla flavor . . . . . . . . . . 9
IMl’ORTANT—The above quotafions are or syrup in
whole barrels only. All syrup in half barrels 4 cents
per gallon extra and no charge for ackage In 5 and
10 gallon packages 5 cents per galllon additional and
the cost of package.

COFFEES—-GREEN AND ROASTED.

Fancy Rio per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22@22%
Green Rio extra choice per lb. .21 %@22
Green Rio prime per lb. . .
Green Rio good per lb. . .
Green Rio common per lb.. .

Green Maracaibo choice per lb
Green Laguayra choice per lb. .
Green Java choice per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Roasted Rio best per lb. . . .
Roasted Rio No. 1 per lb. . .
Roasted Rio No. 2 per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Roasted Laguayra best er lb . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Roastedjava best per lbp )4
Barnes’ Golden Rio roasted In 1 lb p’k. .. . .2556

 
 
  

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TEAS.
imperial per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25, 35, 4o. 45. 50
\’tu1ii;lly.~o11 per lb 25, 35, 4:1, 45
()clon'_.1 per lb . . . . . .. 28, 32, 35, 45
_l.'1p:in per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22. 3o, 37. 4-2, 45
Gunpowder. per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . .31, 38, 42, 45. 5o
FOREIGN DRIED FRUIT.‘
Raisins, New Muscatells per box . . . . . . . . . .31 60

“ Old Muscatells, “ . . . . . . . . . .

" London layers “ . . . . . . . . . . 1 75

“ London layers M boxes . . . . . . . . . ..

“ Valencia per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6%@ 7
" Seedless. mats. so lbs per mat. . . . .
" Ondara. box. 28 lbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834
" “ " 14lbs.... .. 8,‘,-;
Prunes, French boxes, perlb. . B}4(g.io5-3
_“ New Turkey, per lb.. 3;‘/,,@4
Currants. new, per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6,3/4'@7
\VHOLE SPICES.
Black r, 1 lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
\\/hitepeppe pe“ . . . . . . . . . .
Ginger "
Cinnamon "
Cloves "
Allspice "
Mace "
Nutmegs " .... . . . . .. 
PVRF. GR0l,;I\-D .°.l’l(.ES.
Pure pepper, black, per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . no
“ African cayenne per lb........  21
“ cinnamon perlh.............. 17
" cloves per lb . . . . .. 29
" ginger per lb . . . . . . 13
“ allspice per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 15
GR()CERS' SUNDRIES.
Sal Soda, 112 lb kegs, per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . 1%

Flour sulphur per lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Bi-carb soda, loose, 112 lb kegs . . . . . . . . . 4

" " “ 25 lb boxes . . . . . . . . 5

" " “ 1:; lb boxes . . . . . . . . 6

" “ in lbpacl1ages............. 6,15

" " in 1/, lb packages. . 7
Com starch, Gilbert's. per lb . . . 655

“ Duryea’s, per lb. . 7
Starch.lunip,I?1iryea‘s,4o lb box , 3%

(;ill1crr’.s 4
Corn starch, new process, . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Starch, new process. lump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

“ " 6 lb boxes . . . . . . . . . 6
1 lb boxes . . . . . . . . . 6

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Miils.l.acey&Dickinson’s Pharmac
N. E. Cor. Monroe and Div. Sts.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

YES 1

You can get

Dairy Thermometers,
Hyirnmeieis for Mill illlll E11111.
Bitter Color,

Liquid Renal,

and in fact anything in the Drug and

Chemical line of

Mi11s,Lacey
and
Dickinson.

139-141 Monroe St., N. E. Cor.

Division .

We are Sole Agents tor

KASKI NE,

“The New Quinine.”

which we are having a great sale of

Send or call for descriptive sarnples.

Don’t mistake the location.

N. E. Corner of Mon-
roe and Division
Sts., Wenham Block.

J may 15

A E-

BOOTS, SHOES

of all Kinds and Descriptions.

We are the Largest
 and can ship goods by
in the country.
A trial order \‘.‘lll convince you.
5/Iver.

Men’s Farmin
Men’s Kip Boo

Calf in all Size: and WY.-1/I/75.
and $2.00.

Misses and Children's Shoes.

18781:-nd us Your Curd-:~rs.

We have everything
prices.

A. R. HAND,

121 North 8th St...

junei

York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maine
by the Granges of Ohio, Michigan and Iowa to supply the Patrons in Fine Shoes

At the Lovvest Vvholesale Prices.
Wholesalers, Retailers and Manufacturers of FI_'NE

Patx-0119s Shoe House!



121 1.\Torth 8th Street.

Philadelphia.

Wholesale Dealers and Manufacturers in

Penn.,

AND RUBBERS!

Under contract with the Executive Committees of the New

State Granges, and recognized

single pairs or in lots by freight to any point

By dealing with our house Patrons will find it greatly to their advantage.
A Spatial (I-rang: Dzlvcomzt taken of of every pair :1]
W’: /zime on £121//2171:: assortmtni of

LADIES’ AND MISSES SHOES, for Fine and Coarse Wear,

in Dress Kid, Pebble, Leather and Dongolas at $1.00, $1.50 and $2_OO,
up to $6.00 and $7.00.

MEN'S and BOYS’ SHOES, Solid Wearing, Good and Substantial,
at $1.35, $1.50, $2.00,

@Send for Our Catalogue and Price List.

answered. We

Men’s Solid Calfskin Shoes at $2.00. $2.50. $3.00 and $3.59.

and Plow Shoes at $1.15. 51.50.
3, Good Quality, at $225. $2 so and $2.75. _ _

A Large Assortment in Stock of Men’s Mining Boots, Heavy Cram and Final

up to $5.00 and $6.00.

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'I"IE-I]-II G-BANG-E VISITOR.

Sept. 15, 1887.

gabiefi éepartnicitt.

Finding Fault.

ln speaking of a. person's faults,
Pray don’t forget your own;

Remember those with homes ofglass
Should seldom throw a stone.

if you have nothing else to do
Than talk of those who sin,

‘Tis better we commence at home
And from that point begin.

We have no right to judge a man
Until he’s fairly tried:

Should we not like his coinpany.
We know the world is wide.

Some may have faults, and who has not?
The old as well as the young:

Perhaps we may, for all we know,
Have fifty to their one.

l‘ll tell you of a better plan,
And find it works full well,

To find your own defects and cure
Ere others’ faults you tell;

And though I sometimes hope to be
No worse than some I know,

M y own shortcomings bid me let
The faults of others go.

Now let us all, when we begin
To slander friend or foe,

Think of the harm one word may do
To those we little know;

Remember curses, chicken like,
Sometimes to roost come home,

l)on’t speak of others’ faults until
You have none of your own.

A Trip to Northern Michigan.

\Vliat can be more inspiring than a
journey by rail, on a bright summer
day, to the cool, shady retreats of
Nortliern Michigan, and so. escaping
for a few weeks from the midsummer
heat, we will away to the beauties of
Bay View and Muckiiiac; and, as our
good steed rushes wildly on, iiiiuiiiid-
ful of the landscape through which We
are passing, let us gather up the. bean-
ty which lies around us.

If we came into the world with our
iaviilties full_v developed. tliis earth
would seem like fairy-land, but we so
gradually learn of its beauties and the
grandeur of lite. that too often the
tendency is to pass on, heedless of the
subliinity and variety of the scenery
in which we spend our lives, and
which becomes to us almost a part of
our own existence, breathing the pure
air of the skies and receiving our iio1ir-
isliinciit from the lite-giving rays of
the sun and the fruit of Mother Earth
as a matter of course. But we will
study and appreciate this exquisite
iiiosaic spread out before us by the
Master s hand. Look 3 was ever a more
|ll:l[('lllC.~'.'~‘ scene. Green fields of wav-
ing corii. yellow outs with lieads bend-
ing low. patclie.< of brown earth, blue
sky above and golden sun. clear, liiii-
pid streams winding in and out, here
:-iiid there the sturdy oak, and graceful
elm. with its long branclics swinging
so lazily in the l,>ree7.c. the deep, rich
t'oli:igr,- of the maple, and the tall
straiglit. form of the f:1lll:ll‘t14'l( and
pine.

But, lest the sun go down upon our
path. we will hasten on. Ere long
we rcacli the Miiskegoii river. upon
which millions of logs are floating.
waiting for high water to bear them
on to the lake. Passiiig on, we soon
reach Mei-0-"ta 00., where at Paris zi
State tislicry is established, then on to
Osceola: C0,, a region of beautiful
i'.OllllI.l'_\'. lovely faruis and fine dwel-
lings, and through the picturesque vil-
lagc oi’ Cadillac, in \Vexi'ord Co., so
beautifully situated on Big Clam
Lake.

This may be said to be the nortlicrii
terniinus of agricultural prosperity on
the G. lt.& 1. ll. ll.. t'or a more (l(*.~'()-
late country than lies between this and
;\Iackiiiac it is ditiicnlt to conceive,
with a soil too poor to sustain animal
life, and nothing to be seen (as a rule)
but burnt trunks of pine trees. golds.-ii
rm] and terns. From Cadillac to
Miickiiiae there are no wheat houses
or cattle yards on the I{. ll. track.
From Mancelona to Bay View, a ills-
tance of i'oi'ty niiles, there is but one
straw stuck, and one school house, and
all the ,¢_ri'owing crops on the line of
the if. R. that whole distance, could
be grown on one fzii-in of two liuiidred
acres in Livingston Co. One secs
scores of deserted houses, whose for-
mer inhabitaiits fled the spot, unable
to secure a livelihood ironi the barren
-‘oil.

Possibly the It. It. runs through the
poorest portion of the country. It is
hoped that such is the case i'or one
realizes here, more forcibly than ever,
that the products of the soil are the
true source ofall prosperity.

But the light of day is fading and
here we are at Bay View. As we alight
from the train, we hear the splashing
of the wavesupoii the shore, and when
\ve seek our resting place are lulled to
sleep by the music of the waters. VVe
awake in the morning refreshed and
eager for the anticipated delights of
the Assembly. What a. lovely vision
greets our sight! On the terraced
ground above, the beautiful hotel with
its broad verandas, shady lawn and
sparkling fountains, picturesque cot-
tages on every hand; Harbor Springs
on the right crowning an eminence
rising from the water’s edge; Petos-
key on the left, nestling so peacefully
on the hillside; below the lovely bay,
which seems thrown into the land for
man’s supreme delight, feasting the
eye with its varying moods and chang-
ing colors, bringing in the swell of the
great lake, just in s‘ ht, with its busy
craftsplying to a fro—bearing on
their precious freight; and over all
this the sun blossoming so peacefully
across the sky.

As we gaze, entranced, we say to
ourselves:

“Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune,

it

And o'er it softly her warm ear l:1ys;‘
And whether we look, or whether we listen,
We hear life‘s murmur or see it glisten."

and we query whether we are not in a
second Eden: but soon boats come to
the dock, and trains arrive. bringing
the people by the liunilreds, and We
must away to the Ainpliitheater for
Alfred Wright. Dean of the Chautau-
qua University, is holding forth, and
that aiiiiou ncement is suflicient to draw
a crowd. He is the best Greek scholar
in the U. S., a cultured, polished gen-
tleman, and very Witty withal, and
while laughing at his jokes and trying
to delve into the depths of wisdom
which he brings up to you an hour
passes too quickly away.

The Assembly, under the capable
management of J. M. Hall, furnishes a
rare intellectual treat, and it speaks
well for the intelligence of the people
of Michigan that they so readily avail
themselves of its privileges, for no one
can attend the exercises without re-
ceiving enrichment of mind and noble
inspiring thoughts.

The opening of the Assembly was
very enthusiastic, giving a happ 2 ini-
pulse to the whole after procee ings.
The pu blic exercises were of the high!
est iiitellectiial merit. Dr. Pierson,
Bishop Gillespie, Mr. \Vilder, of Iii-
dia; Misses Hartwell and Olmstead, of
Siam: Francis Willard, \Vallace Bruce
and others of like renown participat-
ing and giving it high rank among
other Assemblies.

Dr. l<‘airiield’s lecture on Egypt and
Rome were of peculiar interest, as he
so vividly portrayed his visit to Alex-
andria and Cairo, his ascent of the pyr-
amids and the scenery of Rome, de-
scribing St. l’eter’s church which is of
such immense size that thirty of oui'
ordinary churches could be placed in
the entrance hall. the Coliseum, the
Uhurr-h of St. Clements, 1200 years
old: the Roman liuths, &c. Prof. Ra-
gan. the famous stereopticon, gave
three lectures, the last on picturesque
Ireland, bringing before us with won-
derful reality such scenes as the lakes
of liillarncy, the famous blarney stone
in Blarney Castle. historic Colleen
Bawn, the iiiysterious round tower
and many other of like interest. Then
there were concerts, receptions, and
various entcrtaininents, to amuse as
well as instruct, but all these must be
seen and heard to be fully enjoyed.

\Ve will resuine our journey, stop-
ping at Harbor Springs to view the
objects ofliistoric interest, the site of
the old inission established two liuii-
dred years ago, upon which a large
clini-cli now stands and an old Indian
burying-grouiid, with its crosses dec-
orated with paper tlowers. \Ve will
enter the old church, built more than
one hundred years ago. and step upon
the floor. worn tbiougli to the ground
by the tread of lndiaiis in olden times.
\Ve will Visit llarbor Point, and as-
cciid the tower of tlic liglit-lioiisc,
which coiitaiiis :i iiiagiiiiicciit lens cost-
ing ..~?'.’,:3oo in Paris.

M.-u-kiiiaw City, the terminus of the
ll. .li., is a town of little iniportancc.
with but two hundred inhabitants.
and we will board the steaiiier for
.\lackiii:i<- Island, nine miles away.
passing Round lslaiid, oiicc the scene
of war and bloodshed, and St. Igiiace,
settled in 1671, thirty years before
Cadillac founded Detroit. As we sail
across the straits, we wish the straits
were wider, that we might. longer
revel in the beauty of the scenery.

VVe soon descry the island, with the
Fort frowning down like another Al-
h:iinbrzi with its white walls. The first
building _voii see upon landing is the
John Jacob Astor House, and over
the door is this sign, "lle:idqiiartci's oi
the American l*‘ur Co.” In one room
of this hotel are five lcatherii covered
books. two hundred years old, con-
taining rccords of great historic inter-
est. The house occupied by the first
pliysiciziii oi the Island, is still stand-
ing, 150 years old, and a fence eiiclos-
iiig the old Indian burying ground,
built in the ancient stockade style, is
in good sliape yet, being only seventy
live years old. Three block houses in
the fort built in 1769, are in a good
state of preservation. and apparently
capable of withstanding the vicissi-
tudes of another century. These
houses are about twenty feet square,
the lower story of stone and the upper
one oi’ blocks or logs, jotting perhaps
two feet over the first story. They
are kept covered with a heavy coat of
whitewash, as are also the walls of the
tort which in some places are one
hundred feet high.

Making ii. tour of the Island, the
first object of interest is far-famed
“Arch Rock.” W'ords cannot describe
its grandeur. It is a magnificent nat-
ural arch, spanning a chasm f'orty or
fifty feet in width, and H9 feet high.
Through this, at its base are seen the
iiiajestic waters of Lake Huron. At
the foot of this arch, may be seen a
second arch, less majestic but none the
less curious and wonderful.

A short drive brings us to “Sugar
Loaf Rock,” an immense boulder of
conical shape, looming up 134 feet in
the air, standing there all alone on a
level plain, the silent witness of ages.
How come it here, and how came the
stupendous opening in Arch Rock?
The Island is full of geological won-
ders. There is indisputable evidence,
that the waters once prevailed to the
height of 250 feet above the present
level of the lake, and science tells us
that in the past ages this country was
covered with a coiitinental glacier and
during the time of the floods following
the hole in the rock was undoubtedly
worn through, and that during the
whirl and rush of‘ the waters, this
immense boulder was separated from
the adjacent ridge and landed in its
present position.

No one can behold this rock with-l

out feeliiigs of 8.(llllll':ll'.lOll and awe. as

Well as revcreiice for that Almiglity'

Power, “who nieasiiretli out the
waters in the hollow of his hanil.”
and who spake the earth into exis-
tence, -‘so that the things which were
not seen do appear.”

Passiiig on, we soon reach the fa-
mous rock known as L0vcr’s Leap.
This rises abruptly from the iv:rtei"s
edge, is similar in appearaiice and
height to Sugar Loaf and to rein-.li the
base of which we desceiid 175 steps.
The legend concerning this wonderful
rock is this:“A young Ojibway girl,
often wandered there, and gazing from
dizzy heights witnessed the receding
canoes of the large war parties of the
Ojibways and Ottawas. From this
blufl she often watched and listened
for the return of war parties, for
among them she knew was Ge-nin-e-
groon her lover, his head’ decorated
with war-eagle plumes, which none
but a brave could sport. One scasoii
when the war party returned, she
could not distinguish his familiar and
loved war shout. Her spirit told her
he had gone to the spirit-land of the
West. One morning her body was
found mangled at the foot of the bluff.
The soul had thrown aside its cover-
in ofeartli and had gone to join the
spirit of her beloved Ge-iiin-e-groon.”

The tradition of the Indians in re-
gard to the Island is this: A large
number of these people were once as-
sembled at- Point St. Ignace and while
intently gazing at the rising of the
sun, they behold the island suddenly
rise up from the water. assiimiiig its
present form. They called it “Mock-
clie-ne-inock-e-nung," from its fancied
resemblance to a turtle; this has come
down to us as Mat-kiiiac.

The iiat.ur:il scenery of the Island is
uiisiirpassed. One might spend days
and weeks there without tiring of its
loveliiiess, while the historic associa-
tions would fnrnisli ample food for
thought. A visit to the old French
village of Mackinac with its narrow
winding streets and ancient laiidinai'ks.
is an event in the liistory of :1. life
time. Mingled with the relics of old-
en times are the picturesque cottages.
and gay equip-ages of people of wealth
who spend their sumnicrs here. The
greater part of the Island is owned by
the Goveriiinciit, and set aside as a
National Park, and this gem of beati-
ty will rcinaiii as a public resort for
the coming gciicratioiis of Coliiinliia’s
sons and daugliters.

Mus. W’. K. Si-:xToN.
- ——————o——-2--M —
Summer Duties of the Farmer’s
Wife.

((Io7zc/mlcrl)

The fziriiici-‘s wife resilizes to-day
more fully than ever before that the
duty of picl<eliii;_r. prcserviiig. and
spiciiig her family into a state oi
chronic il_v:-'pcpsi:1 is not all tliiit is re-
quircd at liier li:iiid.~'.

(hitside iiitcrcsts are being bi-ouglit
to her mind and iiiipressed upon llt‘l'
iiiidci'staii<liiig. Tlie Bible and al-
iiianac no loiigei' lie in lonely state
within her home. They are supple-
mented b_v papers and In:lgfl7.lllC~‘ -it
v.~irioiis kinds calculated to meet th
needs of an awakened mind. She is
stiinulatcd to read and to think for
herself. In the p.-ist her time has been
fully occiipicd in the pcrforinaiice of
what she deemed duties, and now
with this added factor how shall the
problem be solved? The duties of
these siiiniiier uioii.‘;hs are so numerous
and varied. eiiumeriition of theui
would be useless; they are faiiiiliiir to
every liouscwife and your uiiiids
would outrun my tongue did I at-
tempt it; but if we sit down and calm-
1y review tlicui may we not find that
what we have called duties can be
scperated into two ClttSS€‘S.CSSel]tlil.lS and
iioii-essciitials, and make up our minds
that while we do with iaitlifuliiess the
former we will reject with firmness
the latter to the end that time may be
gained for that social recreation and
mental culture witboutwliicli we do
not fully live or fulfill the purpose of
our being.

Again in the perforiiiancc of the es-
sentials, we should study to learn oi,
or iiivciit ways of ecoiioiniziiig time
aiidstreiigtli. The farmer of to-day
avails himself of all the varied ma-
chinery invented to hasten and lighten
his labor. and his wii'c should not be
behind in this. While he rides his
sulky plow, she should not bend with
aching back and perspiring face above
a tub of steaming clothes, and, when
he mounts his model reaper and sits
with uncovered head beneath its pro-
tecting canopy, she should not roast
her tired body and remnant of brain
over the broad expanse of an iron
raiige,be it never so pleiitii'i1lly be-
decked with nickleplate.

In the winter she will find this en-
joyable, but in the heat of summer the
kitchen should be adorned by a vapor
stove,wherc one may accomplish the
same with a great accession of comfort
to the manipulator. Having this, one
can prepare food or f'ruit or whatever
is to be cooked before lighting the gas;
the work can then be quickly done
and one turn of the hand will extin-
guish the fire. This will all be a pre-
ciated by the cook, and the wiel er ‘of
the family ax will heave deep sighs of
relief. And thus all through the list
of household duties we may find helps
to lighten and expedite their accom-
plishment. If the purse strings seem
reluctant to loosen for such demands
their holder should remember the boy
who said his father “talked of savin’
wood and ile,but never spoke of savin’
mother.” Even this, if considered
a. little, might provea satisfactory sav-
ing. Having availed ourselves as far
as possible of the inventive genius let

1

us learn short and easy ways of doing
what. still remains of hand work, and
I trust that the discussioii following
this introduction of the subject will
bring to light IllllI'll in this direction
that can be appropriated from each
other and taken home for practii-e. In
bread making what weary liours have
we spent because we believed as did
the young liusbaiid who told his wife
that she must not expect good bread
unless she gave to it a trrcat deal of
time and attention, as did his inotlier:
but I have learned that thirty minutes
of actual labor and only one moulding
will give as good bread as any coni-
plicated method I ever tried. Quite a
quantity of pie-crust dough can be
mixed and placed upon ice or in some
cool place where it will keep for more
than a week. With this. and fruit of
some kinda pie can be put together
and baked while breakfast is cooking,
if pie we must have. I quite incline
to light, digestible puddings and con-
sider bread in some form and fresh
fruits to be the great reliance for the
hot months. Home-made graham
crackers are most excellent and will
keep a long time. In the line of cake
I consider sponge cake the mostquick-
ly made, most easily digested and the
most acceptable accompaniment of
fruit.

I am supposing that our farmers all
have an abundance of fruit. If any of
us liave not I think we should go
home and not only heed an admoni-
tion given iii our Grange work to "let.
no recurring springtime pass without
planting one vine and fruit tree,-"' but
duplicate it many times. "Oh," btit
some brother says, "we can buy the
little we use more cheaply than we
can bother to raise it." My husband
once eiitei-taiiied this fallacy in regard
to a kitchen garden, but since putting
the theory to practice one season and
depending for vegetables on a market
4 miles from the kitchen, I have heard
no more ofit. VVhilc the family purse
was not subjected to severe drains, yet
the saving of labor was largely over-
balaiiced by the loss of satisfaction.
Really the trouble of caring for fruit
is not ver_v much if the method is un-
derstood, and no work upon the farm
results in so much eiijoyineiit and so
much saving as this. If one depends
upon buying, :1 large quantity is pro-
cured two or three times and the re-
mainder of the time there is none.
llcavy foods are not needed or health-
f'ul during summer, and this fact, now
well known, makes lighter the task of
providing for the table and leaves
more inorniug liours tree i'or canning
and preserving the wiiiter’s supply 01
sweets.

A wise general before ciigaging in
battle makes c:ii'ciul pliins with due
:ll.I(‘lltlOll to details that he iii:i_v utilizi-
all the i'orces at his coniiiiaiid and coin-
pass his oliject with as little lt).~'.-
:lS possilile. So should the prudent
lioii:-rciviie map out the line of IllilI‘L'll
through the long cainpaigii she has iiii-
dertaken, and if by ussiduoiis use ofall
ibiizcs and helps she can perforiii her
manual labors in less time than is now
required and will use the hours thus
gaiiied for the culture of her better
self. she will still be in the line ofdiity
and her life will become more satis-
iuctory to herself, her family and that
portion oi the world in which she
niingles. Mus. J. C. GOULD.

—A~— *~
Charlotte Bronte.

In the VISITOR of Aug. 15, in an ar-
ticle written by “J. B.” a slight allu-
sion is made to Cliarlotte Bronte, in
the stateiiieiit tliat“her iiiouriiful home
by its sea of heather left its impress on
her life and works.” By the aid of
the pen of Sarah K. Bolton, who
visited the scenes of her childhood and
the spot where Charlotte knew every
bit oi' purple heather and fern leaf,
"we are able to learn a little of some-
thing oi'lier lite and habits now known
to an interested public: but ot'tlie real,
true inner life and thought known to
herself we doubtless shall remain quite
igiioraiit, iiotivitlistaiidiiig, ‘she wrote
out as with a pen dipped in her own
blood, the lives of herself and sisters.”
Biograpliers and historical skctclies
allow us an insight into her private
thought in regard to marriage and its
sacred relations by printing that which
she had written fourteen years previous
to her marriage, upon this subject, as
follows.

“I think if you can respect a person
before inarriage, moderate love,at least,
will couie after; and as to intense pas-
sion, 1 am convinced that that is no
desirable feeling. In the first place, it
seldom or never meets witha requittal,
and in the second place if it did, the
feeling would be only teniporary; it
would last the honeymoon, and then
perhaps, give place to disgust or in-
diii'ercnce,worse, perhaps, than disgust.
Certainly this would be the case in the
ina.n’s part.”

Are we not plunged into mystery and
doubt somewhat, as regards her true
seiitiments upon the cliarac'ter of love
and passion, when we embody the hero
of the tale of “Jane Eyre” with real
life and being? The lover of plain,
womanly “Jane” is portrayed as having
been blinded hv these forces to- that
degree he reasoned her ruin as just, de-
tied law, and shaped circumstances
to accord with his will, utterly re-
gardless of all obstacles in his way.
Thwarted in season by his insane wife’s
friends, and the timely escape of Miss
Eyre from his home, it remained for
after years, tinged with the deepest
sufferings and sorrow, to tame his
defiant nature, and develop a true
sense of manhood, and yet we are led

.by this story’s happy conclusion to

infer an undying, lasting affection
formed the basis of this ma.n’s passion
and love. We question ifs. mind, an-

; dowed with the native gift of expres-
l Sloli siifliciciit to concieve and em body
an ideal so fairly reprcsentiiig what
may be true of human life; unless so
decreed by a fate inevitable, could sat-
isfy itself with respect alone and await
after inarriage the coming of ~-’moder-
-ate love.”

Haworth, lonely and quaint. with
its old stone houses, is in the northwest
of England, near the English lakes.
- Here livedCharlotte and Emily Bronte
who with Mrs. Browning,” says Swin-
burne, “made for England the perfect
trinity of highest female fame.” The
two story, square, gray house Where
they lived is closed to strangers by the
present rector, who has also much
against the express Wish of‘the English
press renovated the old church out of
existence. The Bronte pew, where
Thackeray. Miss Martineau, George
Henry Lewis, and scores of other fain-
ons ones have sat, has been re-
moved. Rev. Patrick Bronte, the
father, lived to the age of eighty-four.
To Clia.rlotte,—mothei-less, her father
cold and unsympathetic, her brilliant
and only brother a drnnkard, life had
little to offer at the age of eight years
and she was sent with three sisters to
“Cowan’s Bridge” school. Her two
eldest sisters falling dangerously ill,
and dying a few days after their re-
moval thence, and the low situation
evidently disagreeing with Cha.rlotte’s
health, she was sent home when little
more than nine and remained there
till in 18:51 she was sent to Miss VVool-
er’s school at Roe Head where her re-
markable talents were duly ap-
preciated by her kind instructors and
friendships were formed with some of
her fellow pupils which lasted through
life. A few years later she became a
teacher in this school and also had
some sad experiences as governess in
one or two iamilies. Charlotte and
her sister Emily went to Brussels in
184:! to better qualify themselves as
teachers.

In 1844 a new shadow darkened the
Yorkshire parsonage. The father’s
sight was fast declining, and the sisters
turned their atteiition to literature. At
nineteen Cliai-lottr wrote to Southey
and sending some of her poems, after
three months this answer caine; “Lit-
era ture cannot be the business of a
woinaifs life, and it ought not to be.
The more she is engaged in her proper
duties the less leisure she will have for
it even as an accoiiiplisliiiiciit and rec-
reation: to those duties you have not
yet been called and when you are you
will be less eager for celebrity. Write
poetry for its own sake, not in a spirit
ofeiniilatioii. and not with a View to
celebi'it_v." flow maiiy women like
her. have been kept to sewing and
housework because somebody believed
it was not “woiii.-1ii’s spliert‘-" to rise to
the lieiglits wliich (‘rod ordaiiied for
her, and were won only tlirough severe
striigglcs and toil. Cliarlotte wrote
b‘outlic_v in reply: "I have ciidcavored
only not to attentively to observe all
the duties at woinan ought to fill but
to feel deeply interested in them. I
don’t always succeed. for SOIIlCtlllle~i
when I’m teacliing or sewing I would
ratlicr be readinrr or writing. but I try
to deny myself." She resorted to the
uso of men’s nanies in the publication
of her poems, and that her works
might be fliirly criticised she used the
money earned while teaching. Char-
lotte offered “The Professor” to several
publishing firms and it was declined
by all. In the meantime “Jane Eyre”
was making progress. lt took the piib—
lic by storm and Charlotte Bronte had
ii. two fold life as author and woin.-iii.
She also wrote ‘Shirley’ aiid‘Villette.’
In l.\‘.:'il she was married to her tlitlier’s
as'sistaiit in the miiiistry, Rev. Arthur
Nit-liolls, :iiid died the next Spring.
-“Perhaps this affection, a devoted one
on his side and a. respectful one on hers,
was best.”

“Just before she died she rallied from
delirium and seeing her husband bend-
ing over her as it praying for her de-
livery said: “O, 1 am not going to die,
am I? He will not scpai-ate us, we
have been so happy.” Tliiis ended the
life of one of Eiigland’s justly faiiied
writers, and though not of our coiiii—
try :ind.birth we feel that every ap-
preciative mind will tenderly value
her power and usefulness.

Mus. F. E. ODELL.
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Living Wltnessesl

Ask any one who has used Dr.
l’iercc’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets
as to their merits. They will tell you
that pimples, blotches and eruptions
disappear; that constipation--tliat
breeder of disorders—is relieved: that
the appetite is restored; that the whole
system is renovated and regulated be-
yond any conccption by these little
wonder-workers. Being purely vege-
table, they arc perfectly liai-iiiless: be-
ing composed of concentrated, active
ingredients, they are powerful!
Purge and purify the system and dis-
ease will be unknown. Of all drug-
gists.

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Senator Colquitt, recently, in an in-
terview witli the Washington corres-
pondent ot the “Voice,” said: “If we
had waited for constitutional prohibi-
tion in our one hundred odd counties
of Georgia that have adopted prohibi-
tion, we should have done nothing,
and if we had organized a distinct
party we would utterly have failed.

t is as much as I can do, as it is, to
keep my seat with the liquor men
against me. There is one thing I do
wish, and that is that people would
stop giving heed to the everlasting
false representations about the failure
of prohibition 111 Georgia and other
 of the South. They are utterly

 

   

 


 
 

Sept. 15, 1887.

THE

GRANGE VISITOR-

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Qistellancnus.

In Indiana the Republican House
favored high license and local option;
but tl1e Democratic Senate opposed.

“VVhat are you going to buy me for
Christmas. darling?” "I don’t hnow
exactly, dearwife. I am wavering DC-
tween a seal skin sacque and a bushel
of potatoes.”

The Agricultural Depzirtmcnt. esti-
mates that 10,000,000 acres of forest
are used yearly in this country for fuel
and lumber. Fires, it is calculated,de-
stroy about 10,000,000 acres more.
The forest area of the country is less
than 450.0lll),l)0O, acres, but young for-
ests grow up rapidly.

Save the Ashes.——Ashes are useful on
all crops, and one can never have too
many. An astonishing quantity may be
secured by having a place to accumu-
late all rubbish. and burning
in a dry time. liven weeds, if in seed,
may be burned here, if only partl_v dry.
After a burning collect the ashes. before
:1 rain, and store under cover for future
use.

Though charges of gross corruption
have been frequently made aga.inst the
Canadian government, no prominent
representative of the government has
ever made reply. The Minister ofthe
lnterior, the Hon. Thomas White. is
now taking up the cudgels. and in the
September number of the Forum will
undertake to show that the public af-
fairs of Canada are honestly and wise-
ly administered, and that the (lanadizni
people are making liealthy progress
toward a strong and homogeneous
nationality.

Those who oppose interference by
legislation with the consninplion of
liquors. claim that it would be an ill-
fringement of personal liberty not an-
thorized by the Constitution. This
claim can l1a1'dly be l1eld valid when it
is admitted that the Government has
the right to legislate for “the general
welfare,” because the general well'are
cannot be promoted if individual citi-
zens are permitted to render them-
selves unfit to di:-cliarge their l'ull du-
ty as citizens.

The classes in Yale Collegcarc divid-
ed into f'o11r divisions according 10
scholarship. In the junior class, sta-
tistics were recently taken in regard
to the use of tobacco. ( )f twenty-six
in the lowest division. all but f'our
smoked, of twenty-seven in the third,
all but seven smoked: of thirty-seven
in the second, eighteen smoked: of for-
ty in the first, only ten smoked. Now,
boys, what of the theory of tobacco
being a healthy stimulant to the intel-
lect, and the most brilliant having the.
greatest craving for it?

The measurement of the candle
power of electric or any other light is
accomplished by comparing the shad-
ow cast by a rod in the light of a stami-
ard candle with the shadow cast by the
light to be tested. By moving the lat-
ter toward or away from the rod a
point will be reached at which the
shadow of both will he of equal inten-
sity; and the intensity ofeach is direct-
l_v proportional to the squares of their
distance from the shadows: for instance,
if the light to be tested is ten times
the distance of the candle, its intensity
of light, or illuminating power, is 100
times as great.

For a whole generation the Ameri-
can Agriculturist has kept up the
warning, “Farmers, ncver sign your
name to anything for a stranger.” But
it has been disregarded, greatly to the
sorrow and loss of many farmers in
counties along the Hudson River. A
gang of swindlers have been there tak-
ing orders for a new patent pump and
a hay rake, to be sent by express and
paid for on delivery. This looked quite
safe, and so each unsuspecting farmer
signed an agreement. to take the articles
from the express oflice on their arrival.
These agreements have since reappeared
in the form of notes for various sums
ranging f'rom fifty to three hundred
dollars each.

We find no record of the tomato
farther back than the 16th century.
Parkinson mentions it as grown in
England in 10:30 for ornament and en-
riosity only. lts progress as an edible
was very slow. In 1771‘. it is described
as in frequent use in soups and sauces,
also fried and served with eggs, by
the Spaniards. Yet it was not a mar-
ketable edible in the United States un-
til l829. In 1839 a vine grew in our
front yard in Niagara County. N. Y._.
and the only name we then knew it by
was “love apple,” a.nd its only use was
ornamental. Any middle-aged person
has but to stroll through the market
places of large cities in this season of
the year to realize what a changea few
years has wrought in regard to this
refreshing hot-weather regs-tal)le.—
Prairie Farmer.

The man who can trust a. woman
with the honor of his name, and the
character and moral training of his
children, yet cannot trusther to spend
five dollars without accounting for it,
is one totally incompatible with my
ideal husband. I am fastidious: l

should wish said ideal to be as neat lll ,

his own person and attire as liee.\pec-
ted me to be; and to pay all those cour-
teous attentions to his wife, which
found him favor in my eyes before.
marriage. I should expect him to lift
his hat when he left me on the street,
to open a door and wait for me to pre-
cede him, to help me into a carriage
without waiting for me to climb in
nnaided,—-in short, at home or in pub-
lic, toexhibit the manners and good
breeding of a gentleman:-Beatrix, in
Michigan Farmer.

High license and local! option in
M on tana.

Scientific instruction
but no local option.

As to temperance California enacted
a law for scientific instruction.

Kansas brewery buildings are being
turned into canning factories.

\Visconsin did not favor temperance
measures this year.

Minnesota enacted temperance in-
struction, high license, and other laws
to restrict. intemperance.

Kansas druggists must. now lile
$1,000 bond to keep the statute and
sell liquor for medicinal purposes on-
ly, in plain sight of the door.

Only five votes in both houses op-
posed the Prohibition amendment
resolution in the Oregon Legislature.
The popular vote will be reached up-
on the eighth of Novem bcr.

The effect of prohibition in Kansas
is shown by an increase of half a mil-
lion in population since the law Went
into force. and an increase ot'-f~':}30,o0ll,-
000 in the as.-‘es.-ed valuation of the

in Colorado,

State.
‘Ohio lost the scientific instruction
bill. it amended the local option

clause of the Dow law, carried the
scientific instruction bill through the
House, fourteen democrats voting for
it. but was lost in the Senate.

it is claimed that three fourths of
the counties of Dakota will be carried
for local option, the question exciting
more attention even than the proposed
division of the Territ.or_\'. so heartily
do the people respond to the new law.

Democratic Prohibitionisls in the
Missouri Legisature gave a respecta-
ble vote for the amendment, passed a
high license and local option law, also
a Sunday law for St. Louis. which
has always kept Sunday lmtlcr than
Cliieago.

It is said in an editorial paragraph
ofthe Detroit Evening Journal: "The
forces of law, order. morality are ar-
raying themselves against the liquor
evil, and its final defeat is as certain as
the overthrow of any organized wrong
that ever challenged the conscience and
defiled the self-respect of mankind.
The saloon must go. The rallying cry
now sounded is no false alarm, no tim-
l(l and feeble protest ofsentinientalists
and dreainers, but the trumpet call of
earliest and resolute men. They will
not retreat, until the saloon and all its
Works are overtlu-own.”

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President Edwin Willits, in his ad-
dress at the Kansas agricultural coni-
mencenient. said that he had an im-
pression that he could not shake oil‘.
that our systein of education is too
diffusive: that we are trying not to do
too much. but too many things; that
the weary arm-loads of books are the
precursor of a Weary burden for the
mind as well: that we are chasing af-
ter too many small facts, m(-morizing
a host of worthless trash. He wants
our teachers to be in as dead earnest as
our lawyers. our doctors, our mer-
clinnts. Much is said about our teach-
ers getting int.o ruts. He believes in
rut.-2 every good lawyer has his rul.
lle travels over and ovc.r again in the
same tun: -.- and nlakes it a rut. But
let it be a rut of his own making: let
it be like the channel of :1 river which
makes its own banks: and let there be
enough of him occasionally to over-
flow.

. ,m___,____,.

The Albany day boat "New York"
made her first trip a few days ago, and
attained the remarkable speed of :24
miles an hour. She lel't New York at
4 minutes past 5), and nnule West. Point,
50 miles l'ron1 New York, at ll.ll), or
nearly '20 miles an hour. She had been
carrying in‘ or 30 pounds of steam. but
off Hampton point the hand on the
steam gauge traveled between :37 and
till pounds. and she i11c1'ea.~=ed her speed
from 28 to :‘.1 turns a minute. and ran
l'rom Hampton Point to Milton, .3
miles against tideand wind, in 1:‘. min-
utes. or at the rate of 22% miles and a
fraction an hour, and from Milton to
Poughkeepsie, 4 miles, in 10 minutes.
or at the rate of 24 miles an hour.
Her feathering buckets were making
280 dips a minute, and she squatted alt
until the bottom of her guard over the
rudder was within 2 feet of the Water.

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To the thrifl y (‘hinese iron and
steel are precious metals. A little bit
ofiron with an edge of steel welded
on is forged into a knife or tool, which,
however uncouth in :1ppearance, cer-
tainly answers the purpose l'or which
it was intended. l.'nablc to pay the.
prices at which British manufacturers
can supply tools. the Chinese import
such iron as they cannot supply from
their own mines, and they make their
own tools. Thus in ll-W5 four and
a-quarter million pounds of nail-rod
iron was imported and used for bolts.
for building purposes and for making
tools, the latter being principally for
thc iron- producing districts. Bar iron
for building purposes was imported
to the extent of half-a million pounds.
and about the same quant.it_v of wire
was taken to be made up into various
articles. lint old iron is one of the
most popular of the metal imports.
It is cheap and can be lnumnered into
fairly serviceable. tools. Last year
over ti ve million pounds weight ofold
horse shoe-, worn out parts of ma-

chinery,old bars and plates, bits of_

broken-up sl1ips,&c.,wel‘e taken by the
Chinese and made into hoes, rakes,
seytlies, plougli-sliares, spades and
tools of various descriptions. The im-
port of steel was not quite half-a-mil-
lion pounds. It is too costly to be
used rec-klessly,and is therefore spar-
ingly added to the native iron as a
strengthening tonic, and it supplies
the edges for knives, files and saws.
——-Shellicld Daily Telegraph.

The First Symptoms

Of all Lung diseases are much the same :
feverishness, loss of appetite, sore
throat, pains in the chest and back.
headache, etc. In a. few days you may
be well, or, on the other hand. you may
be down with Pneumonia or “ galloping
Consumption.” Bun no risks. but begin
immediately to take Ayer’s Cherry
Pectoral.

Several years ago, James Birehard, of
Darien, Conn., was severely ill. The
doctors said he was in Consumption,
and that they could do nothing for him,
but advised him, asa last resort, to try
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. After taking
this medicine, two or three months. he
was pronounced awell man. His h fllllll
remains good to the present day.

J. S. Bradley, Maiden, Mass, writes :
“ Three winters ago I took :1 severe. cold,
wliicli rapidly dc-velopeil into Brom:liilis
and Consumption. I was so weak that
I could not sit up. was mucli emaciated.
and coughed inccssantl_v. l consulted
several doctors. but they were power-
less. and all :l.§_'l‘l'l‘(l that I was in Con-
sumption. At last. a friend brought me
a bottle of Aye.r’s Clierry Peetoral.
From the first (lose, I found relief.
Two bottles cured me, and my health
has since been perfect."

Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral,
Pl-il-'.1’_\ItlCD BY

Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass.

Sold by allDruggis1s. Price $1; six bottles,$5.

KALAMAZOO DIVISION TIME TABLE.

Standard time—9oth meridian,
GOlNG SOUTH.
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Ar Allegan . . . . . . 9 02 " 5 55 ' 9 3o “
Ar Kalamazoo . . . . . .. IO :5 " 7 o5 “ 12 95 PM
Ar Schoolcraft . . . . . .. .. IO 37 “ l 7 35 " 1 50 “
Ar Three Rivers..... in 11 “ 1805 “ 320“
Ar \Vhitc Pigeon. . .. ; S 30 “ 4 2o “
Ar Toledo . . . . . . . . . .. . ._ 2 30

Ar Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 ; 8 30

Ar Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . 2 52

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Lv Buffalo . . . . . . . . .. '11 55 AM 11 4o AM].

Ar Cleveland 40 PM 5 35 " 1.

Ar Toledo . . . . . . . .. ‘11 15 “ 9 45 "

Ar White Pigeon . . . . . . . . I 6 55 AM 2 2o PM 9 45 AM

Ar Three Rivers . . . . . . . , .: 6 2" " 2 43 " 11 05 "

Ar Schoolcrafr . . . . . . . . .  6 49 “ 3 I7 " 12 15 “

AI Kalamazoo . . . . . . . . . .  7 20 " ' 4 oo " 1 55 PM

Ar Alleganp . . . . . . . . . . . . ..l, 828 " : 5 oo " 4 2o “

Grand Rapids . . . . . . . . . . ..l 945 “ - 6 15 ' 7 i5 "

All trains connect at White Pigeon with trains‘ on
main line. M. E. WA11-Lzs.
Supt. Kalamazoo Division, Kalamazoo.

MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD.

DEPARTURE or TRAINS FROM KALAMAZOO.
TIME-TABLE~—MAY 18. 1884.
Standard time—9oth meridian.‘

WESTWARD.
7'‘ ' T— T V  TM" ".A""l\T.il3‘ M
Kalamazoo Accomniodarioii leaves. . . . . 4 45 . . . . . .
Kalamazoo Express arrives . . . . . . *1 . . . . , . . . . . .3 9 4o

  
 

Evening Express . . . . . . . . . .
Pacific Express . . . . . .

 

Mall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Day Express, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ._._. . . . . . . . . . . ‘ 1 45
EASTVVARD.

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Night Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .' 3 17i, . . . . . .
Kalamazoo Accommodation leaves. .. .  6 5i . . . . . .
Kalamazoo Express arrives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .| 10 oo

Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Day Express . . . . . . . .
New York Express. . . . . . .
Atlantic Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

   
 

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Palrons’llroceryHouse

Under Contract with the Executive Committees of the
Penn.~ylva.1_1ia and New York State Granges and recognized
by the State Granges of Ohio, New Jersey and Delaware
to furnish Granges with all kinds of Groceries. We carry 3. large and
complete stock of all Groceries, Su ars, Syrups, Molasses, Coffees, Teas,
Spices. etc. We fill all orders om Patrons when the order is
under Seal of Grange and signed by the Master and Secreta-
ry of the Grange, and upon receipt of goods and found satisfactory pay-
ment to be made within 30 days from date of bills. We are now filling
Orders from Patrons in Michigan as the through rates from
Philadelphia are very reasonable, as the railroads are cutting through rates.
A trial order from Granges in Michigan will convince them that they can
Purchase Groceries to advantage in Philadelphia- If
you deire information in regard to prices on any goods in our line
of business or freight rates do not hesitate tr; write us. as we endeavor
to answer all inquiries promptly and satisfactorily. We will mail free upon
request our Complete Price List of Groceries, giving the wholesale prices
of all Goods in the Grocery Line.

THORNTON BARNES,

Wholesale Grocer and Grange Selling Agent,
2-ll North ‘Water Street,

Philadelphia. Penn.

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Trie: eenan.

We issue the Buyers’ Guide in March and September of each 4,
, year. It is now a book of 350 pages, 81/2 x ll inches in size.
l 32,35l square inches of information for the consumers. It
Fl describes, illustrates and gives the price of nearly all
“ the necessaries and luxuries in daily use by all classes of ..
people, and is sent free to any address by mail or express,
at our option, upon receipt of lo cents to pay the cost of car-
riage. We charge nothing for the book.

All of the goods quoted in the Guide we carry in stock,
which enables us to make shipments promptly and as ordered.

We are the original Grange Supply House, organized in I872
to supply the consumer direct 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 goods as ourselves. Visit-
ors are invited to call and verify our statement.

We are the authorized agents of the Illinois State Grange.

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
pain without question.

Montgomery Ward & Co.
' 227 & 229 Wabash Ave.,
CHICAGO. ILL.

N. B.-—Afler September 1st, 188 7, we will occupy
our NEW STORE. 111, 112, 113 dé 111 Jlichiyun
Ave., 2 blocks north of Exposition Building.

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New York, Atlantic and facific Expresses daily.
Evening Express west and Night Express east daily ex-
cept Saturdays. All other trains daily except Sundays.
Freight trains carrying passenge... out from Kalamazoo
as follows: No. 29 (cast) at 5:xo r. M. and No. 20 (west)
at Sun, bring pzssenge s from east at 12:45. P. M.

H. B. LEDYARD, Gen. Manager. Detroit.
1. A. Gnuxn, General Freight Agent, Chicago.
0. W. Runcuis. G. P. &. T. A., Chicago.

German Horse an'dWCoW

POWDERS!

This powder has been in use many years.
It is largely used b'y the farmers of Pennsyl.
Vania, and the Patrons of that State have
purchased over 100,000 pounds through their
purchasing agents. Its composition is our se-
cret. The recipe is on every box and 5—pound
package. It is made by Dr. Oberholtzer’s
Sons & Co., Phoenixville, Pa. It helps to di-
gest 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 in-
creases the production of eggs. It is also of
great value to them while molting. It is sold
at the lowest possible wholesale prices by R.
E. JAMES, Kalamazoo; GEO. VV. HILL &
C0., 115 Randolph St., Detroit; THOS.
MASON, I8! V\'ater St., Chicago, Ill.; and
ALBERT STEGEMAN, Allegan. Put up in
6o~lb. boxes (loose). Price EIGHT CENTS
per lh., 30-lb. boxes of 6 5-lb. packages,
TEN CENTS per lb.

Allen Durfee,

l“l' HNISHING
l<‘l*'.\'EI{AL I)lRE("I‘0R,
No. 103 Ottawa Street.

Grand Rapids, - - Mich.
Residence, 193 Jefferson Ave.

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and Foreign Patents, and Counsellor in Patent
Causes, Trade marks, Copyrights, Assign-
ments, Caveats, Mechanical and Patent
Drawings. Circulars free. 105 E. Main St.,

Kalamazoo, Mich. Branch oflice, London,
Eng. Notary Public. aprxtf

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31 " 9 34 “ 1 a paraiso. . . . ‘ 32 “ 10 2 "

906 “ 1o xo “ ‘. South Bend..  52 " 12 oi .\.n_
. , 9 35 ‘I0 4,8 “ f Cassopolis. ... .1 29 “ 12 43 ‘-
Lansing . . . :10 3o " ,1: 5o “ l Marcellus... . . l . . . . . . . .. 1 c7 "
Charlotte. . . . . . . . . . . I11 oo P. M.l12 25 A. M.; Schoolcraft . .  ox " x 27 “
Battle Creek, Ar. . . A. M. in 45 " ; 1 2o “ ’ Vicksburg . . . .. . ., 15 “ 1 43 "
" Lv....‘ 6 30 in 05 " l 1 25 “  Battle Creek, Ar. ...v 55 " 2 3:: "
Viclsburg . . . . . . . . . 7 18 ‘12 45 " ‘ 2 21 “ 3 “ Lv. . .l oo " 2 35 "

Schoolcrafl...  7 3a in 55 “ 2 32 “ i Charlene . . . . . . . . ..l g 43 “ 3 25

Mai-cellus.. .. 7 52 ‘ 1 16 " . . . . . . . . .‘ Lansing . . . . . . 1o 14 " 4 oo '

Cassopolis.... i 8 17  1 42 " 3 19 "  Durand . . . . .. ,1: 08 “ , 5 c3 "

South Bend..  9 oo 1 2 28 “ 4 07 " ; Flint . . . . . . . . 11 37 “ I 5 4,0 "

Valparaiso... . 10 o | 4 oo " 5 52 " > Lapecr . . . . . .. .. :2 07 A V, 6 15 "

Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . .12 go r. M.l 6 3o “ S to " ; Port Huron . . . . . . . .i1o no “ 1 26 " l 7 35 “

Way Freight carrying passengers going Eat, 3.30 P. M.: going west, 10.05 A. M.

‘Stop for passengers on signal only.

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

Tickets sold and baggage chcckedto all parts of Canada and United States.

For through rates and time apply to G. VV. WATSON. Local Agent, Schoolcraft; W. E. DAVIS, Assist-

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Sept. 15, I887.

Michigan. my Michigan.
DEAR COUSINSZ

We have had some quite good chats
on insects. _Ncllie’s article on “How
to preserve insects” was good; and is
the method generally in use by eiito-
mologists.

Suppose, now. we have some talks
about Micliigan. It is certainly one
of the most interesting of any in the
union. We should know all about it
because it is our own State.

Being composed of 2 peninsulas and
nearly surrounded by the Great Lakes
makes it a peculiar as well as beauti-
ful State. The Pictured Rocks are
wonderful formations, and are as re-
nowned as the Giant’s Causeway in
Ireland. Michigan is, also, famous for
her superior quality of iron, salt, cop-
per and fruits. Our statesmen aie
noted for their valor and our soldiers
tor their braveness.

Have We not every reason, then, for
knowing all we can learn of “Our
lilicliigaii?” Therefore. Nellie Mayo,
will you please give us a little talk on
Picturesque Michigan? Grace, will
you tell us about the legends connect-
ed with the names ot some important
rivers and cities, together with how
Michigan was named?

“fill not some of the cousins give us
the geology of the state? I will tell
about the Fruit Belt, and aiiswcr ques-
tioir-:., for we must have a question
box. \Ve would like to liear from any
one who will give us some iiiforinatioii
on the subject.

COUSIN Mas.
QUr;s'i‘io.\' nox.

How many counties in the state?

\Vas there any new ones made at the
last session of the legislature‘.’

If.-‘o. give their n:imcs.

How many inland lakes?

How many islands belong to the
slate?

Is there any good agricultural soil
in the lfpper Peninsula?

If there is, where?

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Give the Boys a Show

In answer to one of my correspond-
ents permit me to say that one great
rca-on why so many boys forsake a
farm as soon as old enough to earn a
living clsewlicre, is because their faili-
ers werc sucli unmitigated liars. This
may seem like aharsh stateiiient, but
in thousaiids ofinstanccs it is the exact
truth. Now, brotherfzirincr,just taki-
the V\'ltIlCI~‘.-l stand for a moment.
Didn‘t you say to your boy Tom,‘-Tom,
it’ you'll take that lamb and bring it up
by hand you niay have it.” I)idii’i
you say to George. "George. I'll give
you that pair ofycai'ling.-' it‘ you’ll takc
care of them and brcak them to the
yoke?” Didii’t you tell Lcvi that you
would give him the bay ui-.ii'c’.-‘ colt?
Did you not tcll ll‘ rank that if he would
take good care of the cows (luring thc
wintcrhe might have the choice of the
calves in the spring? 11;:

And when the boys after months of
patient, c.'ii‘cl'ul attention, had doubled
or treblcd the 'aluc of the gitt(?),
didn’t you slyly sell that lamb,
those steers, that colt, that call, and
put the money in your pocket?

You did, and you know it, and now
you Wonder why the boy left the fariii.

It isaiieverl.i.-ling pity that he liadifl
stayed with you a little longer—until
he was big enough to give you the
tli ‘aching you dc.-‘ci'vcd.

Few men have travled more exten-
sively, iii their own country at least,
than iiiyscll; few men have better fa-

cilities for observation, and inquir_v,

forming the acquaiiilancc of those who
have conic lroui the farm, and I give it
as my -:olcinn conviction that broken
promises have been a more potent factor
in causing the boys to leave the farm
than all other reasons and influences
combined. l’vc one other decided con-
viction which hinges here, and while
my fighting blood is up, l’ll give it:
It’s an almighty mean man that will
break a promise to any child, and a
downright heathen who will willfully
violate one given to his own oil’.-pi'ing.
Do you think it iieceessai'_v for me to
suggest a remedy for the cvil—and it is
an evil—couiplaiiicil of? When the
boy is 15 years old take him ii.t l:‘ art
nor.»-hip: let him have an interest in Llll.‘
stock, deed him a few acres of the farm,
a id cxcliaiige work with him in cul-
tivating it; consult him about all farm
in tttcrs; let him have a. full knowledge
of your financial situation; show that
you trust him, appreciate him, and
I guarantee you will not_be the poorer
for it. One thing more. Il.enieniber
that farniers, like poets, are born, not
made. If, after you have given the boy
an honest trial you find the bent of his
mind is in another direction,dcal with
him as liberally as you can, give him
your blessing and let him go. The
world needs other men than those with
hayseed in their hair, and the highest
and best have come from the old tarni-
house.—-J. Frank Locke, in the Farmer.
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The Texas State Grange at its recent
meeting wisely

Resolved, That farmers, together
with all other conservative l)l‘O(lLltt(.'l'N,
should exert the political iiiliucnce of
their great numerical strcngtli to
thwart the increasing to the indivu:il
and public iiitei-cr-is which t'0llit'.- froin
the iiiire.-'ti':iiiicd grccd ofthc inll lli’lll i:il
:tiuii'clii~'t, wlioilnrlics law and li‘;lllllJlv'.;.~J
upon all principles in his iin-il:o=.l- of
fl«‘~'_[1lii'lllg wealth that ollicr- <~i'c:iio;
and the l"§~' inlliiciili-il, lc.-'-' .-'ii«.-w:--- in].
but iiinrc (lC.ll<lll.~'ll'illi’lf ?lll‘ll'l‘lii~l,
Vfliii. iiii'<rll,~; -I

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Amendment to the Scientific In-
struction Law.

The people of the state of Michigan
enact, that section 15 of chapter 3 of
act number 164, ot the public acts of
1881,eiititled "An :l('i,l.U revise and con-
solidate the law.-' iclatiiig to public iii-
struction and primary schools, and to
repeal all statutes contraveiiiiig the
provisions of this not, approved May
21, 1.\'.«'i, as flllllllelltlvil by act number
‘J:-l.ol‘ the public acts of 158:5, approved
May 16, 1853, be and the same is here-
by aiiiended, so as to road as follows:

Sec. 1:’). The district board shall
specify the studies to be pursued in the
schools of the districts,and in addition
to the branches in which iiietruction
is now required by law to be given in
the public schools of the state, instruc-
tion shall be given in physiology and
hygiene with especial reference to the
nature of alcohol and narcotics and
their effects upon the human system.
Such instruction shall be given by the
aid of text books in the case of pupils
who are able to read, and as thorough-
l_v as in other studies pursued in the
same school. The text books to be
used for such instruction shall give, at
least, one-fourth of their space to the
consideration of the nature and eflects
of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and
the books used in the highest grade of
graded schools shall contain at least
twenty pages of matter relating to this
.-xiibjcct. Text books used in giving the
foregoing instruction shall first be ap-
proved by the State Board of Educa-
tion. Each school board making a se-
lectionof text books under the provis-
ions of this act, shall make. a record
thereof in their proceedings, and text
books once adopted under the provis-
ions of this act shall not be changed
within five years, except by the con-
<ent of the majority oi’ the qualified
voters of the district present at an an-
imal meeting. The district board shall
require each teaclier in the public
schools of such di-itrict. before placing
the school register in the liands of the
director as provided in section thir-
teen of this act. to certify thercin
whether or not instruction has been
given in the school or grade presided
over by such teacher, as required by
this act, and it shall be the duty of the
director of the district to file with tlic
township clerk a certified copy ofsuch
certificate. Any school board neg-
lecting or relusing to comply with any
of the provisions of this act, Rllflll be
subject to fine or forfeiture, the sanic
.‘l.S neglect of any other duty pcrt:iiiiing
to their ollire.

This act shall apply to all schoolsin
the state, lllrllltllllg cities or villages.
ivhcthcr iiicorporatcd under special
(‘.l]2lI‘ii_‘l' or under the general laws.

It was l):i..\‘:~'t3'.l Juno I0, and will conic
into l'-ircc as a l:iw Sept. 9, 1-557.

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The Gettysburg Panorama.
The i'eniov:il of the ,-_:i'«,--it p lllOl':llIllI'
pat-.tiii'e of thc llattlc ol' .\li.\’.~‘iUll:ll'_\'
llidgc rcczills the time when these rop-
rcscnt:it.ioiis of the gl'(‘ii,t*.~‘t evcnt.- in
Aiiicricaii history were lirst iiitroduccd
in our inidsl. “Gcltysbiii'g” has out-
livcd".\lissioii:iry I{idgc,"':iiid bids lair
to become a perennial institution in
Chicago. llardly a week passes that
does not bring hundreds of old con ‘-
l):l.t:llltS. Federal and Confedcrate, to
look once more upon the crucial field
of the mighty strugglc,and to live o’cr
again the hopeful, anxious, fateful day.
The first sen.-iiiioii ol' the visitor to
this extraoi'(liir.ii'y exhibition is one
that does not lose any ofits l'i'esliiio.~is
upon a subsequeiit inspection. Al-
though aware, beforc entering. that l e
is looking at a building of 134 feet in
diameter and 96 lcet high, he tindsliim-
self, after ascending the little narrow
.-tairs; in an open country stretching
many miles in every direction toward
the horizon. lt is impossible to break
the illusion involved in so splendida
triumph of perspective drawing.
Then the accuracy of the landscape
in every detail is such as to call forth
the special plaudits of the Pennsyl-
vanians, one of whom exclaimed the
other day, “My God! Look at our
Blue inouiitains.” The scenes of valor,
of dc.-:trnction, of carnage and of death
upon which the spectator looks down
seem never to lose their dreadful inter-
est. The real ground—withagun here,
a broken ammunition wagon there,
and a cavalry trumpet in the ditch—-
tlie real snake fence and the real stone
walls are so skillfully continued into
the canvas that on slightly lifting his
head one can hear the last agonizing
cry of the rebel General Armistead as
he falls in the moment of temporary
victory. On came the contending
hosts, despite the terrific gaps made in
them by the enemy’s artillery. Rid-
erless steeds,bewi1dci'cd, fly they know
not where; dead and dying strew the
field; innumerable instances of individ-
ual heroism till the on-lookcr with ad-
miration. Asa whole and in every de-
tail, the work is so unexceptioiiablc
that upon retiring from the bloody
field old heroes feel that they have
“fought their battles o’er again.”~—Chi-
cago Evening J ourn-.il, Aug. 30th.
The above description of the
Panorama of the famous battle of
Gettyspurg which for several years
has been onexliibition in Chicago is not
overdrawn. \Ve have several times
witnessed this wonderful achievement
of art. A visit to Chicago is incom-
pletc without seeing the Gettysburg
l’anorania.
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BOON——

()nce more we are called to mourn
the loss of a beloved sister, Mrs. J. C.
Boon, a charter member of Quincy
Grange, No. 152,who died at her home
in Quincy, July 19, 1887. As we gaze
upon our charter in its dress of mourn-
ing, we deeply feel that there is one
more vacant seat in our Grange and
another home robbed of ii loving coin-
panioii.

At the regular meeting, July 30, it
was ordered that in recognition of the
inembership of our L-iister, a page of
our Grange record should bear this no-
tice, and that our charter be draped in
mouriiiiig for sixty days. and a copy of
this be sent to our worthy brother
who. in this great atiliction, has our
warmest sympathy. Coiii.

CAll.RINGTON—

VVHEREAS, The Reaper, Death, at the
command of the Great Master of the liar
vcst, still continues to gather the “golden
sheaves” from Trent Grange, and has now,
in the eighteenth year of her age, gariicrcd
up in the great sloreliouse above by his ir-
revocable decree.our beloved sister, Jennie
Carrington: and,

Wiiiziu-:As. Sister Jennie, although weak in
body. was mentally strong and a. true daugh-
tor of ourlrateriial circle, one beloved by us
all and one of the purest jewels Zlillollg the
young matrons of Trent Grange; and,

VVHEREAS, In the sad departure of our be
loved sister, the fond parents have lost a lov-
ing and dutiful child, her .si.~"er an alfeclioii
ate charge and loving conipaiiiou, and Trent
Grunge a true and loyal member and one be-
loved by us all; therefore,

Resolved, That we, the members of Trent
Cvruiige, the brothers and sisters of the do
parted one, do tender our heartfelt synip;i-
thy to the sorrowing parents and assure them
that as they mourn the loss of a loved daugh
(er so we mourn the loss of a loved sister of
our fraternity. and further,

Resolved, That a. page of our record be
reserved and dedicated to the iiiciii(»:‘y ofour
-leparled sister, that our charter and our altar
be draped with appropriate emblems of
mourning for the period of thirty days, that
ii Copy of these resolutions be sent to the
Family ofllic departed and one be Still to llit
Visrros for [.)LllIllCI‘ll.l(,ll‘l. Con.

SllI'.\l\VAY—

l)icil. at his home in (Miser-, Aug. l.
1587, Mr. Sanlord Shuniway, a incin-
her of Lake Shore Grange, No. 407.
aged 63 _\'c:ir.-. '

The following resolutions of mspccl
‘lilll condolence were adopted by the
Graiigc.

Wlieicsis, I)c;ith has again invaded our
ranks‘ and taken from us our Brother; there;
fore

Resolved, That in the death of our Brotho r
ihiimway this Grange has lost an earnest
and consistent inemhar his, faiiiily a kind
and indulgent husband and f ‘her, and the
community a. vso. hr and i. eh resident.

Resolved, That our hea.lll\.iL siiiynipatliy
be extended to the family of our deceased
brother, realizing that no words of ours can
heal their sorrow or fill the vacant place in
the familyflciicle. We can only commend
ihem to Him who doeih all things well.

Resolved, That the ch rtrr of the Grange
he draped in mourning for sixty days, and
ihzse resolutions be placed upon the record
of our Grange. and a copy be presented to
the family, alsoone sent to the Gnimorz Visi-
'i‘oR for publication. COM.

ltOSSl\I AN—

When a good man passes into the
great un‘.tiiown, it is but meet to pay
a passing tribute to his memory. Such
is due Bro. Stephen Rossinan, who
died at his home in Eureka, Sunday
morning, July 24, 1887, aged 68 years.
He came to Greciiville when the whoop
of the Indian and the growl of the
wild beasts could be heard in the for-
csts, living there and in its vicinity
and bcingatiller of the soil and an
active member of society until his
untimely demise.

Bro. Rossinaii was Master of Mont-
calm Grange, No. 318, at its organiza-
tion March 9, 1874. and was always
prominent in its ati‘airs. Generations
yet to come will call him a good man
and point with pride to the works of
his mind and muscle that transmit his
name to the pulsations of coming
years.

VVHEREAS, Death has invaded our ranks
and taken from uso ir brother; therefore,

Resolved, That in the death ot Bro. Ste-
phen Rossnian this Grange has lost an earnest
member, his family atrue friend, and the
community a worthy and useful resident.

Resolved, That we extend our heartfelt
sympathy to the family of our deceased
brother.

Resolved. That the charter of our Grange
be draped in mourning for 6odays and these
resolutions be placed upon the records and a.
copy be presented to the family, also to
the Visiroii for publication. Com.

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J. S. BI'2Llllt‘)’, Mzililcii, l\l-.i.<s., writes:
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ivliich rapidly dcv--loped into llroiivliitis
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Also a large line Pictures, Picture
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julyité

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Manufacturers and dealers in all kinds of
Mill and Fire Department Supplies: agents
for A. (J. Spaulding & Bi'o., spoiling
goods, and for Columbia and Victor Bicy-
cles and Tricycles. jiilyx5t6

Current Rates on Chicago

Market.
Potatoes, No. 1, ripe, 39 bus 85 ({1}

“ off stock.. . . . . .. .40 @ .4;
Turnips, yellow,  bu. . .. .27 @ .2
Unions, choice, “ . . . . .85 @ .90
Apples, “ No. i,7{5l bbl. 4.00 @ 5.00

“ No. 2, stock, “ .. @ 2. 0

Car lots sold at 5 per cent. commission.

Apples, dried, per lb ..... 4 (Q
Apples, evaporated, 3911).. 9 @ .12
Onions, selected,  bbl. . . 2.50 @ 2.75
Rutabagas, “ @ I .25
Turnips, white, “ . . . .75 @ 1 .00
Beans, navy,  bu. . . .. i .60
“ medium, ‘f  1.50 ((3
W001, washed, 18 lb . . . . . .30 @ .38
“ unwashed, “ ..... .16 @ .18
Veal, choice, “ .. . .. . 7 @ .09
Eggs, fresh, “ .. .i4 (9
Butter, dairy.  . . .. .12 (go .18
“ Creamery “ ... .18 (a) .24
“ mli “  .12 (Q; .18
Clover seed,  bu . . . . . .. 4.25 (Q 4.40
Timothy ' “ . . . . . .. L90 @ 1.9
Hides, salted, G, ‘t:’J’ib.... .07}; ((1)

On produce not nriined write for prices.
If you h.~.'.'c- anything to sell or ship write
for inforniaiir,-n to

THOMAS MASON,

(icneral Grange Agency
163 South \Va.ter St., Chicago.

tin->iaiii;i.\*s\i«*iiiiiiiti.

lluy lhe Best,
And Save Money
5.

   
 

It has been in constant use
for ll} year-i, with ii. record
equaled by none.

WARRANTED

not to blow down, unless the
Tower goes with it; or

against any wind that does not disable substan-
tial tarm buildings: to be perfect; to outlast
and do better work than any other mill made.

We l1]tl.XiufH.CLl1l'6 both Pumping and Geared
Mills and carry a full line of Wind Mill Sup-
plies.

AGENTS W ANTED-

Sand for Cu.tn.1ogue,'Clrcular and Prices. Ad-
dress Pl-.Ki(iNS WlND MILL & AX C0.,
ulyltlz Mishawaka, Indian:

l5li{iliiCl3 l.lST_OF SUPPLIES

Kept in the office of the Secretary of the

MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE,

Ina’ sent out Post-paid, an retzipt of Cart
Order, over the Sm! af :1 Suéardinate
Grange, and the xignaturr of it: xllaxtd
or Surctary.

   

Porcelain ballot marbles, per hundred . . . . . . . .. .3 5
Blank book, ledger ruled. for Secretary to kcc
aCCOunls with members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 oo
Blank record books (express paid) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 00
Order book. conuiiiiing ioo orders on the Treasu-
rer. with stub. well hound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . so
Receipt book, containing ioo receipts from Treas-
urer to Secretary, with stub, well bound. . . . . . 50
Blank receipts for dues, per ioo. bound. . . . . .. . . so
Applitations for membership, per zoo. . . . . . . . . . . 50
Secretary's account book (new style) . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Withdrawal cards, per doten . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. . 25
Dirnits, in envelopes. per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
By-Laws of the State Grange, single copies ioc:
per dozen............ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 75
Bylaws bound . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. no
"Glad Echoes," with music 'ingle copy 25:; per
dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .._ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3 on
l‘hc National Grange Choir, single copy 4oc: per
dozen..... . . . . . . . . .  .................  goo
Rituals. single copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :5
“ r ozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2 ¢o
" fl; Fifth Degree, for Pomona Oranges,

per copy.....:.: . . . . . . . . . . .._. . . . . . .. in
Blank “Articles of Association" for the incorpo-
ration of Subordinate Granges. with copy of

  

charter. all complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Notice to delinquent members. per xoo . . . . . . .. . . 40
Declaration of Purposes. per dozen 5c; per 100. . 49
American Manual of Parliamentary Law . . . . . . . 50

" " " (morocco tuck) 1 on
DigesiofLawsandR\ilings.................... 40
Roll books . . . . .  . . . .  . 15
Patrons’ Badges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :5
0fiicers’badgcs...... . . . . . . . .  5o

(‘0—i)I’l£R vi-xvi: LITERATURE.
History and Objects of C0-Operation . . . . . . . . . . .. og

What is Co-operation? . . . . . . ._ . . . . . . . ._. . . . . . . . . on
Some of the \Ve:ikneSSeSS of (,0-operariom... .. on
Educational Funds; How to Use Them. . . . . . . . . oz

      
 
  

 

 

Associative Farming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘. . . . . in
The Economic Aspect of Co operation. g;
Association and Ediicauou . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
The Principles of Unity. . ox
The Perils of Credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .;
Fundamental Priniziples of Co-opciati 9.

address. j.'1. con ,
Sec‘y Michigan State Grange,
Schoolcraft, Mic4h.

Dr. William Rose,

II i
lleiiieil liliriiiiy lirg:ii.
Gmiliizitc of 0iii:ll'iu Vctvi'in:ii'_v (Jol-
lc_g'c, T0l‘t)liiI‘), (jllllrltlll. ‘\Vill pi‘ol'i--u

- .\‘l<)‘il’lll_\' nllcnil to all ilisczi-'1-.<i-l" lli,il‘.\(}S

and (Emilie. Ti-li-phonc No. 51.3.
j‘.3l’fi'E:L.~t l*'ulI«~'v .‘4i'..(_l~(l. lhpiils, Micli.
jiilylyl

Shoemaker Seed Wheat
For Sale.

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