" THE FARMER IS OF MORE COJVSEQ UENCE ‘TH./1.7V‘ THE iF.4RM, .4JV'1) SHOULD BE FIRST IMPROVE ." VOLUMT. XII»-N0. 90. WHOLE NUMBER 358. l COLDWATER. MICH., OCTOBER 15, 1887. lp..m..t....om.. Published b A. J. ALDRICH O: CO.. OLDWATEB REPUBLIOAI. 0FFIC'I.4]. DIRECTOR Y. Oflica-rs National Grange. Has-ter—PU'I‘DARDEN.. M finstal gotfiugs. assachusetls . New jersey West Virginia Hampshire Ouerreer—]AM'ES (, DRAPER. l.Ictsrer—MORT. WI-II'I‘EI" F.Al &ew¢rd—j. E. HALL. . . . . . ‘ litfant Stezoa-rz'—\V.H S Cfiaflar'u—A. } ROSA. . . . . . . .Texas Trra.n¢rer—F_ M. McD4')\V New York .S'¢::rtt.:ry~_IN(_I TRl\IB[. Washington. Gate K¢'e’pev'—l-l. 'l‘l-{O;‘ii P$< . . .Delaware 'Ctre:—MRS. K.~\'I‘F. D.-\RD ..Mis-'i«.sippi na-—l\il{S. S. H. . . . . . . . .Kentucky Plmw EAL. . ,F'Iora—~‘.\1REw' _[.\\iES C IIRAPER . .lVi:is5achii..tli and 26th of Oct. The utter- noon ofihc first day will be zi public iiicvtiilg and all wlictlicr inoiiibcrs of the 0l‘(ll'l‘ or not are cordially invited to be prc.=cnt. and listen to the follow- ing progrnni prepared by Worthy Li:c:tiii'ei' Levi Sparks. PROGRAM Song.—Grange Choir. Arldress of Welccme.—G. F. Cunningham. Response. — R. C. Thziyer. Re<:itation.—Miss Adie Ruggles. Song.—By the Choir. :\ddress.—-Jason Woodman. Recitaticn.—-—Miss Mane Meach. Essay.--Miss Nettie Closson. Song. Ess:iy.~ “Comparative Dairying." Essay, “Our Farmers’ College.’’-—Rev. ], J. _]akeway. Volunteer Papers. The 5th Dcgrec will beconterrcd in the cw-ning of the first day. A large zitteinlziiicc is desired. CHARLES F. llows, Secretary. 'l‘iii-:ni-: will be it gem-i-al gathering on the Kent Coiinty or West Michigan Fair Ground of Ptlii'()ilS and others C(«Ill'Ci‘lltE(l in the lllIl‘l‘(‘z~‘l’. of Agricul- turc lillll the well living of the [I01-pie, on No\'cii1bcr 1, 1887. The nivcting will be addi'esscd by J. lllortiincr Whit:-licnd, Lecturer of the Niitioiiul lii'zlllg<,‘. Come one and :ill and learn more ofiind about the ()rdcr of Pat- rons of ilusbnndry. II. C. IIOGADONE, Com. The Assembly of the Degree of Cert-s will be held in Lansing, Michi- gan, during the Session of’ the Nntionztl Gi'niigc. Cuiididates for this, the Seventh Degree, are hereby notified to file theirappliczitions with the Anna» liit. The npplicutioii should have, in full, the naine of the iipplicfllli, the niuiies of the town, county, and State in which the candidate now l'(‘Si(lP8, and the time when and place \Vlif'|‘t! the applicniit i’(.‘C(.‘lVOCl the Sixth (6th) Do- grce. The application must be ac- conipuincd by the fee of $1.00. By or- der ofthc VVorth_v Priest Archon. JOHN TRIMBLE, Annaiist. AT at meeting of the Board of Agri- culture oii the 26th of October, the places for holding the Winter Farm- ers’ Institutes will probably be deci- ded upon. Applications for Institutes should be made before that time. Ad- dress, Henry G. Reynolds, Secretary, Agricultural College, Mich. Branch County Pomona Grange will meet. at Sherwood Grange Hull Mon- day, October 20, at 11 A. M. Much important business will come before the Grange at the morning session. The following program has been ar- ranged for the afternoon session to which the public will be cordially welcomed. After the welcome address and response the general subject for discus;-.-ion will be education and our schools, pertaining to which the fol- lowing topics have been assigned: Education and Schools forty years sgosnd no: few hobbies of 9. school teacher. The County Superintendent is coming, will he do me and iuy school any good 7 How to increase the efficiency of the distriu school. Education outside of the school. How can 1, IL young teacher, add to my imowltuigo and culture? The fair its nu educator. How i went to the fair and what I ienrried. The edenution and mission of the Grange. On the last topic there will be ii “free for all” disr.-iissioii. Music and imriliitioitsi will be inter- spersed in the above pi-o:.rr nu. J. D. W. Fisk, Lecturer. - - -—-- --——<10<}-——-———-——- The cxpcriciice of years furnishes the most convincing cvcdince that tlioiisuinls oflives rircziniiiuillv saved by the iisr,-of Ayer’:-i Clicrry I’cctor.————-—«——- Firnnk Jmtksoii, pruniim-rut .~‘l()t‘l\'I‘li{lII of Topcki. K-x, ll5l.!~' lIt‘l(l(-tlii1lSSlgLl- inent and skipped to C:in:n1a.. ; I . l 1 THE G-HANG-E V ISITOR. Oct. 15, 1887. gnmminiizafioiis. The Realist and the Novel. ’l‘he realist, having defined what a novel is or should be, has consequently couimitted himself to writing one that corresponds to his definition. But he makes his first mistake in attempting to give adefinition of a novel at all. For that kind of writing, like some other things, is very difiicult to define. But the realist knows, for has he not written a novel? And can he not tell what it is and how it is done? It is all a matter of study, persistent labor and talent. And, he continues, a man of talent can do anything in this line, if he only tries hard enough. There is nothing so hard in it but what labor will overcome. Yet the educated world has ever held that the works of our eminent novelists could only be pro- duced by authors who possessed geni- us. Hence our realist, being hard pushed in this direction, denies that there is sucha thing as genius. 'l‘he word is a misnomer. it is all done by talent. Consequently, these realistic writers have undertaken to write down genius and to write up talent. But they have got an impossible task on hand, for genius, “like Banquo’s ghost, will not down at their bidding.” Mr. Howells, who is at the head of‘ this r'eali.~stic inovciuent,in:iy railal and try to ignore genius, but it will be in vain; it is too ethereal for his touch or attack:-‘. If the biologist. is powerless to tell how the sap is drawn through- out the tisslles of’ the plant, if he can not explain the subtle tricks of vege- table life. why shall we expect the critic todescribe the occult pi-oce:-ses of‘ human genius? The flower has its per- fnme, but how does it generate it, and how does it send it to our nostrils? How does the wood Violet fling its blue into our eyes? "Everytliing in this materialistic age that can not be pho- tographed and touched, and dissected, is rejected as valueless, and tliercfore genius is laughed at; but yet, even in science, wherever genius has wrought, there is a fascinating something a literary perfume” —- says Maurice Thompson, “which certain specially endowed writers are able to emit through the medium of words.” Hugh Miller, Agassiz, Goethe, LaPlace, and Newton have influenced men thus in- explicably. To say that such men as these, or that Scott, Burns, or Byron, were men of talent is simply ridicu- lous. Such an expression recalls a scene in one ofCliarles Lamb’s literary clubs in London-. \Vhil9 the celebri- ties at one of these clubs were discuss-_ ing various topics. the Bard of Avon was nientioned,at which a gentleman present remarked that Sliakespearc was a man of talent! This was too uiucli for Lamb. He arose froui his self; and, turning his face to the wall. muttered by way of relief, “ilc_v-(lid- dle, high-diddle, hey-diddle-dee I" and then turning around. said, extending his hand, “Let me feel of that m:in’s head; I want to examine his bumps!” The man, alarmed, tried to hide from him when a friend called L.-unb into an adjoining room and quieted him somewliat, when he came back into the club room and the entertainment Went on. And now, at the close of the nine- teenth century, the leaderof American realism calls old Homer and the great Shakespeare-—men of talent! Shades of departed genius, what an estimate of your powers! But the realist’s low estimate of man’s intellectual powers comports with his views of fiction, Which, he says, is getting narrower, consequently talent plus industry can achieve every- thing in it. Ititill we regard Howells as a man of rare intellectual endowment, and, whether he will acknowledge it or not, we believe that “genius sits astride of his neck and writes through his hand.” It is a clear case of genius turned real- ist, as far as novel writing is concerned. But there is this difficulty in the mat- ter: Figs are not produced from this- ties; a realistic genius can only write his own peculiar kind of novel, because he eliminates f'rom his fiction the very qualities which would give life and interest to its characters. That is, he, asa novelist, discards the emotional and ‘the heroic, the romantic and the marvelous. Human nature, thus re- duced, is too meager to sustain strong characters and all hisattempts to make them entertaining result in a failure. It is like giving the play of Hamlet with the part of the Prince of Den- mark left out. There is not enough of such flction to give a zest to reading. The delicrht of the great romances is entirelyiackiug in them. It is a de- scriplion of manners and a dissection of character, over and over again, till it becomes monotonous and vapid. Again, the field, or the range of ac- tion, is narrowed down to mere ordi- dary life. The novelist reproduces hu- man life and in doing so it is his prov- ince, in the language of the poet, to “Epatiate free, o’er all this scene of man, A mighty maze, but not without a plan.” But our realist says that romance and heroism debaucli the reader and he will have nothing of’ them, that it is the barbarous element in us that leads us to delight in reading such nov- cls. \Ve should seek higher and better cl-rding——novels with the marvelous and heroic left out. Mr. Howells says the stories have all been told; hence we must have a new iiovel—-one without a story. But since M r. Howells said that the stories had all been told, “H. H.” has written Ra- mona, one of the bestand mostdclight- ful stories of t.-e present time. A nov- cl without a story is like a string of beads with the string withdrawn. From the child to the old man, the sto- ry is what holds, entertains, and im- proves. As well say that the songs have all been sung, the poems all written, the pictures all painted, the Witty things all said, the brave and heroic acts of man all ‘-played out,” as to say that the stories have all been told. The stories all been told! Human nature is as full of rich material f'or the novel- ist to-day as it ever was. All that is wanting is the man with the genius to tell the story. And no age has ever lacked such a genius long. Achilles found his Homer. }Eneas his Virgil, Greece her Herodotus, Rome her Livy, England hcr Hume, her Fielding and Jane Austin, her Scott, Dickens and Thackery. For the historianas well as the novelist is a story teller. Every age will have need of both. Human life will always afford thematerial for the narrative and will never lack the narrator. V. B. - ~ - ~»v Home Makers. The village of Cedar Springs, Kent Co., was highly honored and entertain- ed by the instructive address on agri- culture delivered by our brother Pat- ron and esteemed fellow citizen, Gov. Luce. Though not privileged to listen to his inspiring words, in the synopsis given me by one of his liearers, the ad- vice givcii to young people starting in life, scenicd the keynote of harmony and success in lil'c’s work. Tliongli given in :1 playful inanucr, it was none the less to the l\oint. As the fouudatioii of a siicccssfiil fiiriu life and the first essential to a pro.~'pcroiis, happy home. he urged the iie,i:e.-sity of getting the best iuipro\'cd ways of farming. 'l‘o begin with. "Young men, when you choose a wife. select from the best there is. I know by your faces that some of you here lo-day will be married inside ota year. And, young ladies, when you choose a husband don’t accept one whose breath smells of cinnamon and cloves, and you don’t know where he’s been.” This soundly practical advice is Wor- thy a place in every young person’s mind contemplating making a home in the future, and that is undoubtedly the honored place in life the majority of’ us will eventually fill. Are we preparing ourselves to be home makers in the noblest, truest sense of the word? We must remember “home is not merely four square walls,” and the hap- piness of its inmates is not dependent on wealth or aflineucc, but solely on the disposition to do our best. in the sphere we are placed in and on the love we have forour liomeand its dear ones and our efforts to make it the “dearest spot on earth.” It is the place where all our best af- fections center, and when the inmates are a united band of laborers, and ear- nestly and lovingly do what is for the best interest and liappiness, temporally and spiritually for the ones in the home nest, then will the palace or the cottage be a throne oflovo where kings or qnceiis might not be entertained more royally and loyall_v. Young 1nan.are tlie“pretty” face and gay manners of the young lady who.-e society you seek the only charms that keep you interested? Do you know her mind on the sober, practical side of life? Is she kind and helpful in her own home and willing to bear with grandma’s childish ways and to help the younger ones enjoy their childish sports, directing their thoughts into pure,healthful channels? Is she thoughtful of the comfort of those around her and willing to make sacrifices, if necessary, for the good of those she loves best? In short, is she one whose mind takes tlieethical views of life and makes the ideal parallel with the practical, one who will aid you in every good, whose advice _vou consider worth the asking, whose confidence you could trust in all the affairs of 1ife,one whom you consider yourequal, whose beauty of soul will grow lovelier to you as the years go by, leaving their impress on the bloom of youth? Dear young friend, are you in your maidenly heart eiithroiiing one whose winning manners and gallant ways have won your love? Oh, look deeper. “Keep the heart with all diligence. for out of it are the issues of life.” Look f‘or beauty of soul. See that his inner life is as blameless as his manners. Know that he is kind, forbearing, and obliging in his own home, respectful and loving to his parents, and gallant to his own sisters. Does he only indulge in an “occa- sional glass,” or “smoke once in a while(?) with a friend?” Does he not have the respect for himself to re- nounce these disgusting habits and the moral courage to bravely defend puri- ty and justice in any place? Then do not expect he will “reform” in mar- ried lif'c. He will be very likely to do as the man in the train did. His friend asked him why he sat in the smoking car and neglected to pay his wife the attention he did before mar- riage. “Do you run to catch the train after you are aboard? \Vhy, no, of course not. You just sit back and smoke,” was the significant reply. Dear sister, if you are a lovcrof puri- ty and virtue in the inner life, never accept the attentions of a young man whose propensities crop outside in to- bacco smoke and the character of a “wine bibbcr.” If he does not respect his manhood enough to proclaim against these evils and renounce them before marriage, you may expect he will “just sit back and smoke” after. These words do not come from expe- rience bought With disappointments, or a realized, happy wedded lite, but from “one of the young people” who loves home and its tender associations next to the Great Giver of‘ all these blessings and knows that the lives that are molded in the home extend in un- ending influence and make our nation what it is and is to be for weal or woe. Let us cultivate every noble virtue in our lives and weed out the bad in the garden of our hearts, and with a sense of the grandness and greatness of the responsibilities we may assume in the future home of our own make ourselves worthy of the best for a life companion. May we so live that we shall be capa- ble of guiding the buds of promise, that may be entrusted to our keeping, to a noble manhood and womanhood, socially, intéllectnallv,and religiously. Do not deceive the one who will eventually know all you r good and bad qualities, but be yourself in your courting days, ever striving to make your life what. you could wish others to believe it to be. Do not expect perfection in the one you love, but see that the major part of his or her nature tends upward. Be forbearing with minor faults and seek to correct them with a gentle charity “that. is kind” and “thinketh no evil.” Then shall we progress onward and up- ward to the ideal home life. Thus may our homes be the sunuiest places on earth and a preparation for the para- dise above. JULIA llirivrino. »---—-UIO-EI——- —' The Value of. and How to Manage a Reserved Tlmber Lot. 'I‘l1c-re comes a tiniein the history of each fiirmer, or at leastf,li<-i'e sliould, when the question ni'isos, -‘llow much of‘ my farm shall I in1prove?"' or in other words, "How much woodland should I l'(3S(.‘.l'Vtl for future use?" in treating this question we should llrsl take into consideration the condi- tion of' the r.-ountry regarding its tini- ber resource. If timber is abundant and cheap, and we are dcsirou;-i of‘.-c- curing all the available. land po_-'.-'iblc for agricultural purposes it would be well in such a case to reserve r'lf‘tceii of‘ each eighty acres of" the best timber, selecting that piece which n ill contain the greatest variety for f'uelandduild- ing purposes. The location of the reserved timber lot should be. if'not too inconvenient, on the highest elevation possible. The reasons for this are obvious and im- portant —f‘orests on higher lands pre- vent the rapid impoverishment of the soil by retaining the rain and melting snow and allowing it to percolate through the soil, thus gradually fur- nishing moisture to the growing crops; they also make better windbreaks than though they were left on the lower lands. In addition to this amount of wood- land the farlner should plant. one or two rows of trees along the front of his farm, by so doing he greatly improves the beauty of his place and the sur- rounding country, and at the 5-‘.‘1l‘ll(‘ time he is guarding himself'toa certain extent against the 'disa.~al1'on:-i Winds with which lie is sure to come occa- sionally in contact. In planting the trees we should select those kinds which are useful as well as <-rnamental, 5. e., for bees, the basswoods, maples and lo- custs; for fruit, some of the thrifty growing cultivated cherries; for nuts, those trees which grow best in the lo- cality, for instance in Michigan, hick- ories, butteruuts, walnuts and in some counties the chestnut. How shall We best preserve intact our wood-land lot? To many, in the- ory, this has been an easy question, but in practice a decidedly diflicult one. And our great trouble has been the injuries resulting f'rom fires, owing to the fact that the chosen place for the reserved timber has usually been at one corner of the farm and quite often joining the woods of a neighbor. As a consequence when that neighbor clears his adjoining land and burns the timber, the heat as a rule destroys the outside timber of the reserved lot, and frequently the fire runs over the whole piece burning out the leaves and muck, thus leaving the land in such poor con- dition that the trees soon die, and the whole piece is ultimately sacrificed to the axe. Again pasturing cattle and sheep in such places has often proved the ruination of reserved tim- ber; for they will finally destroy all the young trees and shrubs which are the great agents in retaining the mois- ture of the land. It is the young trees which take the place of the old men- archs of the forests, the sauie as each generation of young men and wouien soon take the place of the veterans in life’s battle. In our humble opinion hogs and calves, and perhaps horses, would be the only sat'e animals to pasture in such a place, and even then the hogs might require ringing‘. Hogs will do remarkably well in the Fall when the nuts are dropping; in the summer while pasture is scant, their regular food could be supplemented with grain. In such ii reserved wood lot all old logs and brlish should be cleared out. thus making the place attractive as well as useful. Fuel and building timber, if used economically can be gradually taken from such a piece of wood-land, being sure to select injured and decaying trees, and occasionally replanting thrifty young ones. If the country is old at time of clear- ing the farm, We Would advise leaving at least twenty of each eighty acres of timber. The rule of the Duke of'Bur- gundy was to leave one-third of the land to woods. Few of the farmers of our country realize as yet what a friend they have in the forest. Those some farmers will tell you as the country grows older and forests disappear, that droughts are common, whereas when the coun- try was wooded they were of‘ rare oc- cnrence. They say wind storms are more destructive and more frequent, and also that frosts do more damage than formerly. the accounts of the results of deforest- ation in Eastern countries to convince any of us of the liecessity of‘ each far- mer reserving and carefull y pl'0l.t'I.‘Llllg a certain portion of his timber. We beliew that no young man who ownes afarni,could devote a portion of‘ his time and invest a little money to better purpose to secure a recom- pense for old age, than by planting ten or fifteen acres of land to some of our valuable lumber varieties of trees. E. W. RI.-IDMAN. ---—‘ — Michigan Miller's State Association. [Extracts from an address delivered be- fore the associalion at a convention held at jacksoii, Mich., Wednesday, Sept. 2], r887, by the Secretary, Frank Little, of Kala- mazoo.] ‘ “ "‘ Man devotes the larger share of his time, energies and skill in the procurement of food, clothing and shelter to supply his bodily wants. * * * Food- nutrition, these are the synonyms of life. Want of food implies starvation, death. Among the essential elements of f'ood, bread, made ofvarious substances, but principally of grain, has always been held in high esteem and general use in all ages, among all people. It is denoininafcd “the staffot life.” Millers ofM ichigan l The graneries of the world are full of wheat and corn; and the flour, that you in com- mon with your follow-craftsmen in all the :5U,OU0 mills of the United States are inamil'a<-tnring, so pure and while-. lilcrally gocs to feed the nations of’ the earth with bread. Such is your mis- sion and high calling. First and f0l’(‘lll0i~‘i in importance and magnitude in its commercial and vital aspects, taking the most honored, well-dc.-‘crved rank, merchant flooring and the general grist mill business .-tands pre-eminently far in advance of all other Aincrican industries. Census returns show that of thirty- z~'CVt‘ll scheduled leading and most prominent industrial enterprises in the U. S. having an animal output of $30,- 000,000 and upwards, “fiouring and grist mills,” the business you rep- present in this convention to-day, stands at the head. To the cursory reader or listener, statistical facts and figures are general- ly considered dry and uninteresting, but the intelligent man, the philoso- pher and scientist, they have an ab- sorbing deep significance. There is a liindoo proverb, "that a snail, seeing its own shell, thinks it the graudest palace in the universe.” And there is an aspiration, a condition of knowledge so circumscribed, so pre- judicml and meagre; that one is re- minded oftlie anecdote of" the colored man, who h‘{il(i——“[ll{lt his brother, al- though seemingly wise and forward in his i(len.s was a very bigoted per-soil.” “How so”? he was asked. "Well, you see; he knows too uiueh for one nigger, but not quite enough for two”! How common :1. thing to meet per- sons whose vision and breadth of’ thought is narrowed to the limits of their own immediate surroundings, and the rcsiilts of seine personal busi- ness venture. Technical knowledge of any science or branch of industry is good; while a practical adaptation and use of such knowledge, coupled with successful experience, makes up the grand and complete sum of all human achieve- ment. Philosophers, statesmen and politi- cal economists have declared that the wealth and material welfare of nations and of people depends upon their nu- merical military strength, and finan- cial prosperity; and that these ele- ments of success are primarily deter- mined by the productive eapacitv and industrial forces each country possesse within itself. Here very properly may be given some statistical items showing the enormous resources and strength of the American Nation, and of our own State of Michigan. The most reliable census reports give the following leading estimates: exam AND sunmno STATISTICS, UNITED srsnas. Av'ge annual acreage of wheat 3'I,0(X),0GJ acres, " “ product “ 450000.000 bushels Number of flour and grist mills . S., '30 ................... .. 27,000 mills. Wheat ground u.nn’lly, U. 5., 301,775,737 bushels Other grain ground annually. . S., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334,907,220 bushels Average annual value of mill- ing pi‘oducts................. $505,185,712 [While the annual product of iron and steel is only $296,557,68Cv.] The experts of wheat and flour to Great Brit- lan estimated in bushels for the fiscal years ending J uv-e 30. Each year were: 1885, wheat and flour exported to Great Britian . . . . . . . . . . . . 132,570,366 bushels 1386, do do do do 94,565,793bushels 13257, do do do do 1.’-1,759,136 bushels Covering a period of 14 years from 1874, notwithstanding the talk of de- pressioii in trade and over production, our foreign shipments this year have been in excess of any previous year save that of18t50 and ’84. * * In the classification with reference to annual production of each of 14 principal wheat growing states. Michigan stands fourth in rank; illi- nois, and Ohio taking precedence in the order named. GRAIN AND KILLING STATISTICS, MICHIGAN. Average annual {acreage of wheat in Mich . . . . . . . . . . . . ..o.f. . 1,700,000 acres Average ~ annual product wheat in Mich . . . . . . . . . . .30,000,000bushels Estimated product, cr 0 1887 .......................... . 22,600,000 bushels Estimated old wheat unmark- et_ed Au . 1. 1887 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000,000 bushels Estimate average yield per acre, State '87 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 bushels Highest average yield per acre Alpena Co., '87 . . . . . . . . . . . 21 33-100 bu Lowest average yield per acre Oscoda Co , 87 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 7.’:-100 bu No. of flour and grist mills in Michigan (U. S. census) . . . . . 708 mills \Ve need but to read . ficcoti-ding tolspite Ctgzdotfteerg. 849 IIICI in‘ caplta nves ’. . census . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57509.“! Total number of runs,or their equivalent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.0"? "III De" } r-apacity...... . 204,4-5059059“ szniln. iced number mills of‘ 4 run» and upward capacity. .. 1150 Ill!!- Tln--e items show conclusively that the flooring and grist mill busineil outranks in magnitude all Anio.~riran industries, and the figuru given are approximately correct. A Kentuckian was once asked to G- timate as accurately as possible the annual aggregate yield of corn in his State. He said “That he could not say precisely in bushels, what it but this he knew, that they enough to make all the whiskey they wanted and sonic over that was wasted for bread.” " * ‘ In reference to the modern milling, time will not permit the enumeration of even the more prominent ideas and agencies that have contributed to the development‘ of this important in- dustry since the period more than eighteen hundred years ago, whm -‘two women sat grinding at a mill.” It is more than three hundred years ago since Galileo declared “that the earth moved,” and earlier than this, from barbaric times down through the centuries in the world’s history to these later days, man has marked his progress in the school of universal knowledge, by myriad appliances and inventions. More particularly in these modern times by raili'oads, canals, ste:iiiislxip.~i, occzin cablr.-s, telegraph and electric wires. .-‘ii.-pen-.-ioii bridges, mountain and river tunnels, and by :1 grand aggrt-gatioii of machinery and incclnmic.-il (lcvic(r:<, so «’livm‘.-‘e, so coin- plicalcd, so perfect and so admirably adapted to the usc-sdc.-igziml, that they sceni to be aiiiuiatc sentient beings en- dowed wilh siipern:itnr:il powers, and and to li.-ivc l)(‘(‘ll devi-cd :~...- it were by inspiration of the 1): ity himself. It is an old adage, ‘-you cannot turn the mill with the water that has gone by,” and the progressive successful miller and man of business must keep abreast of the times in all fhaf pertains to his art, or get decidedly left behind in the race. t it 3 ¥ 3 Young ladies are said to be divided into two distinct classes——those who chew gum, and those who do not. In like manner, inillers are divided into two classes-——those who believe in the advantages of association, and those who do not. No one can demonstrate with abso- lute exactness mathematically or otherwise the benefits to be derived f'roni associations, either general or particular in character. Brit lunch accrues to wide awake intelligent members by contact, a<*quaintange- .-‘hip, social intercourse, and the inter- change of ideas, practices and personal experiences; while the aggregate moral and material f'ort~e, actual and implied in fhe union ofany con.-idcrable iinm- bcr of intelligent, progressive cour- ngeous men seel-;iiig to promote their business interests, carries weight, and commands attention and respect. t I II I I We have not aspired to present new thoughts or new theories. \Vhile we follow beaten paths, we believe in earliest endeavor, honest Work. In this world of busy energy and active thought we must not stand still. The London Miller, an English magazine. in a recent number referring to the Qua-en’s jubilee of‘ fifty yean, sovereignty says: “In fifty years of progress, it agriculture has advanced an inch, milling has compassed I league. The venerable water mill has yielded to the power of steam. The roller rivals the millstonc, the new process has supplanted the old. \Vhile the centrifugals, the disinte- grates, the scalpers, the purifiersand scores of other machines, attest the progress of mechanical ingenuity and engineering skill, better and cheaper bread is the result; while a new force in nature electricity has been har- nessed to work side by side with the long established energies of air, water fire and steam. * "' ‘ As we avail ourselves of the genius of invention, the skill of‘ artisans, the hidden forces of nature and the ever widening discoveries in chemistry and philosophy; as we move around and upward in the scale of being and human development, We shall more fully realize the truth given by in- spiration “that man does not live by bread alone,” but, that in the great universe of God; in the midst ofa world of‘ beauty, of grandeur and in- exhaustible resources, he lives as Well in every thought, and word and deed, of‘ his moral and intellectual being. Remarkable Surgery. The science of surgery has made such wonderful progress in modern times that the most intricate and del- icate operations are now undertaken and carried to a successful issue. There are now several well authenti- cated cases of what is known as pneu- motony, that is to say, the removal of diseased portions of the lungs in cases of consumption. While, however, this delicate operation has sometimes been successfully performed, the risks at» tending it are so great, and the chancel of recovery so slight, that it is seldom resorted to. The safest plan in con- sumptive cases is to use Dr. Pierce’! Golden Medical Discovery. This will always cure the disease in its earlier stages, thoroughly arresting the rav- ages of the terrible malady, by remov- ing its cause and healing the lung ‘*-- ‘ We have no hesitation in recom- mending Hall‘s Vegetable Sicillian Hair Renewcr as a sure cure for dand- rufi, and to restore the natural color of the hair. other 5‘ ‘r l I :1 / J Oct. 15, I887. TIE-IE GRANGE VISITOR- 3 _‘, The Valley of Silence. ABHAM 1. RYAN. H the hush of the valley of silence, ‘I dream all the songs that I sing; And the music floats down the dim valley, Till each finds a word for a wing, Eat to hearts, like the dove of the deluge, A message of peace they may bring. X far on the deep there are billows, That never shall break on the beach; And I have heard songs in the silence, That never shall float into speech; And I have had dreams in the valley Too lofty for language to reach. And I have seen thoughts in the valley — Ah, me! how my spirit was stirred! And they wear holy veils on their faces—— Their footsteps can scarcely be heard; They pass through the valley like vii gins, Too pure for the touch of a word. by you ask me the place of the valley, Ye hearts that aie harrowed by care? ltlieth afar between mountains, And God and his angels are there; One is the dark mountain of sorrow, And one the bright mountain of prayer. MOLLlE'S REMEDY. “Please, Fred, don’t smoke. I can- not bear the smell of that tobacco !” “Pshaw, Mollie, yoii’ll soon get. ac- 3 onstomed to it. Thousuiids of women do. It isn't at all bad after you are used to it,” replied Fred, careless of any body’s conitort but his own. “But, Fred, once you wouldn’t have done what I asked you not to do." pleaded l\lollie.eriiestl_\’. “Just think. we haven’t been iiiarricd quite two inontlis yet, and you are so entirely disregarding my comfort. Fred, dear. please doii’t,” contiiiued Mollie taking her husb:in.l"s hand beseecliingly. ‘You know what tobacco has done tor Uncle Jake, and I d0ii’t want my husband to be like liiin.” Mr. VVoodman laughed loiidl_v and exclaimed, “Now, Mollie. really you aregetting too particular. Your deli- cate sense of smell will have to be‘ toned down a little. And the idea of your comparing me to old, crabbed Uncle Jake with his wife in the insane asylum, and his boy almost adesper- ado! They did tell me when I was beginning to go up to Deacon ()lark’s tosee you, they did used to say, ‘Mol- he Clark is as lively and smart a girl at you would wish for a wite, but. no- body would marry her, she has shown such a strong mind on that woiii2i.n’s right’s question.’ Really, my dear, you musn’t let me be called a hen- ked husband quite so soon.” And Fred took the cigar from his mouth, blew a cloud of smoke from his lips, and kissed his wife, notwitlistandiiig her wry face, as though he had been partaking of some balm of a tlioiisaiid flowers. Then, thinking, “I’ve settled that little ditference,” he departed to his otiice. The description Mr. W'oodinan had given of his wife was one most of her I I 7.considered such a “catch” by all the ‘hood were predicting awful conse- acquaintanees would have given before her marriage. But our mere acquain- tances judge usually by surface appear- ances, being unable to see our inner lives, motives or qualities. It is true, Mollie was called “a strong minded woman.” And when some of her friends remoiistrated with her, and assured her it was the “talk of the town,” she only replied, ‘Why, I think it is far from disgraceful not to be called weak-minded. To be called strong-minded is a. compliment !” She had aided in several ways the woman’s cause in its infancy. “Such a pity !” the neighbors said. “She was a good girl, so witty and smart, and a splendid housekeeper. It was too bad for her to do so, tor no one would mar- ry a girl with such a mind of her own.” So when Fred Woodman. who was mamnias in town, came and wanted this terrible Mollie to be his Wife, he was warned on every side. People told him with horror that she “emer- tained the siit’t'rage speaker who lec- tured in town I’-' And she was "taking a siitfrage paper!” But Fred was not disniayed. In spite of Mollieis uiipopularfiideas, she was pretty, kind, loving and lovable. So the day was tixed and the event came off. For a week afterward the neighbor- quciices. Ilut when Mollie’s :ippar- ently terrible qualities were disrobed and shown to the world minus I).-ime Ruinor’s dressing. her strong-niinded- ness appeared only righteousness. and her so-called love of power was sini- plv a love of fairness. Mollie had resolved that her lins- baiid should not be :1 slave to the hub- it of smoking, and the first step, as we have seen, was one of renioiistraiice That method failing in such an un- proniising way, Mollie set her strong mind to work in a way peculiar to llPI‘Sf,‘.lI, in order to find a remedy which should be quick and effectual. As she swept and dusted the cozy little sitting room, her face bore a pre- occupied look; as she put the chamber .iii order, on her face was a look of . quiet determination; and later, as she nicely washed the potatoes and put 1 them in the oven, there was a beam of , kindly satisfaction on her counteiiance. , \Vlien she had arranged the table and 5 everything was ready for dinner, she ‘ took ti. lamp in her hand : nl went down cellar. After a few uiiiiutes she appeared again in the kitchen, with * two moderate-sized, very respectable- looking onions in her hand. She smiled to herself as she prepared these two vegetables, which were raised iii Farmer Soinebody’s garden, with a destiny to be used as instru- ments of defense. After she had chopped one of them, she covered it i with vinegar, and proceeded to eat the not over-tempting mixture. It is only necessai'y to add that if there was any thing Mr. \Voodman detested, it was onions. Dinner was smoking hot. on the board when the master of the house returned. Mollie stood at the table, with her back to the door, as he came into the kitchen in great spirits. But he stopped suddenly, and exclaimed, “Oh, Moilie, you haven’t been cooking onions! Bah, they are the meanest of all smelling thiiigsl And what. is the matter, Mollie? You might welcome a tired, hungry fellow ina different style from this. Last week my wife used to kiss me when Icame home. l’ve been trained that way,” and the inconsistent fellow turned Mollie around, and kissed her. "Bahl” he snorted vociferously, ‘-have you been eating onions?” “Why, yes,” replied Mollie, with a. mischievous twinkle in her eye. “You’ll get accustomed to them. They aren’t at all bad when you are used to them.” Fred paused abruptly, and looked half displeased; but it was only his own words turned against. him, so he could not be offended. "Tliousiiiids of woni'en eat onions, Fred. Your delicate sense ot' smell will have to be toned down a little.” There was the sauie rognish twinkle in l\lollie’s eye, and Fred could only laugh foolishly, with a lialt-asliaiiicd look on his face. “I see. Mollie what you’ro trying to do,” said lie; “but really, this is only foolisliiiess. You never heard ofaiiy- body in your station iiiukiiig :1 prac- tice of eating such things.” “Oh, yes,” answered Mollie. "it’s going to be very womanly. After we woiiieiiliave been busy with our liouse- ‘ hold duties, we need sonietliiiig to quiet our iiervt-s.” Fred was thoroughly disconilited, but laugliiiigly turned the subject as they sat down to dine. After the meal was over, Mollie said, "Fred, if you are going to have a cigar before you go to the otlice, I’ll keep you company.and let my dinner dishes wait.” ‘ "\Vliat!” cried Fred, “you can’t siiioke?” “Oh no, Fred: I don’t like the smell of tobacco,” and she caiiie into the sit- ting rooui with the other onion in her hand. “Goodness!” exclaimed the victim, “You aren’t going to eat that! I’lcase don’t! Really the room will hold the scent, and I asked Lawyer Pitinan to step in and have a——’’ -‘()lil you asked him to come in and have a cigar! \Vell. glad you told uie Fred,” said the toriiieiiter. briskly; "l’ll wait till he comes!” “Now really, Mollie, this is t.o b.-id,” any thing! Mollie, please don't come into the room; your breath is so scented he can’t help smelling it.” “Well,” said cruel Mollie, “he is an- other of your men with a delicate sense of smell. What is this world coming to? P1! tone you both down. It isn’t riglit for you to have such sen- sitive noses!” At that moment the door-bell rang, and Fred went to the door, with a last iniploring look at Mollie, who, with :1 victorious little laugh, called atterhiiii, “I shall come in if I smell smoke.” Mollie felt confident that she had won the day, and went to her Work with a happy heart. She did not smell smoke. When the front door had closed after Mr. l’itinan, she heard her husband’s foot- steps. He came into the room and said, “M ollie, before I go to my Work, let’s ‘forgive and forget.’ We’ll have fair play after this. I’ve learned the lesson, ‘What is sauce t'or the goose is sauce for the gander.’ ” ‘‘That’s it, Fred. You’re a reasona- ble old fellow, attei-till. you. if you will me.” “All right, little wile. No more ci- gars, no more oiiioiis,” and he play- fully placed his lniiid over his nose, as he kissed her good-by. Mollie. woman-like. would have the last word, and called after him, “We-‘ll soon get act-ustoirietl to it."-L. E. B. in \Voiiian‘s Journal. ~————{(Oj——~" ~- by the private 'scc1'etaries of Mr. Lin- coln, Messi-s. Nicolay and Hay. will deal during the couiiiig year with the The Lincoln history in The Coiitury.. I . l 1 I I l’ll forgive I I v V 3 political and iiiilitnry history of the, early period of the war. will be thrown upon certain evciits of ' that period by the plIllll('.:llI0ll of cor- > iespoiitleiice and other docuuieiits never before printed, and uiikowii to but :1 small circle. 4 misc will be tlo.~ici'ibeti and explaiiied, I as well _as L_iii(~.olii’s policy’ coiiduct land coiilideiitial eorrespondeiice after é his election and previous to his innu- : gurutioii. The llIRi()i‘I:i.llS now eiiler l upon a more personal part of their nar- i rative. —— —> l "I Don‘t Want Relief But Cure.” .» is the exelaination of thousands suf- l fering from catarrh. To all such we ‘say: (Iatarrh can be cured by DIV‘ Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. it has been done in thousands of cases; why not in . yours? Your dniigerisin delay. En- for pamphlet on this (lisease. . - -—---——<¢oI>———---——~--- - ‘5 Speaker Carlisle will have an article 9 in the Forum for October. setting lfortli the grounds upon which the Wled D001‘ F1'°‘1- “Y"“ ‘vouldlft "Ml I)L‘lll()(7[‘2ItIt1]):tl'i-Y base.-i its cxpectatioii that before him! dreadfully sensitive IIOSC: he can’t bear wh}'a he 11513 “I that it will be continued in power at 1 VV2is|iiiigt0ii. New light . 3_ :isidu- :iiid forgotleii. The failure of couipro-‘ 5 close a stamp to World’s I)i.speiisary Medical Association, Iluti'alo, N. Y.,l The Chautauqua Literary aud Scien- tific Circle. The papers have been giving en- thusiastic reports about Bay View Assenibly, our Michigan Uhniitaiiqua, whicli has just held its first session at that inetropolis and most delighttul of all Michigan summer resorts, Bay View. And this leads us to enquire why weinay not have it Chautatiqiia Literary and Scientific Circle organized anion the young people in every place. For t at matter it is for evcrybody~— high school and college graduates and those who never entered a high school or college, for young people, teachers, merchants and inechanics, busy peo- ple who had to neglect their education and people of leisure means-anyone who desires the seholar’s accomplish- ment and outlook into the world 01 leariiiiig. The course is for four years. each terminating with awritten ex- amination and all with it diploma, and for those who can attend Bay View Assembly, graduation honors on (Join- niencenieiit Day. The course euihraces instructive and entertaining reading wisely selected by eminent people, which is to be systeniatically pursued at home and which is to be supple- mented by weekly or senii-moiitlily lIl€P.iIllgr) ot the members. Mr. John M. Hall, ot Flint, is Superiiitendeiit of the M ieliigan Departnient. Write him‘ and he will give you full infor- mation about the ainis and plans of the Cii-cle and how to org:inize one. 'l'lii.—'. is the season wlieii the i'e:uliiig bvn_riiis. in large [)li|('r}.s l'll't‘.l(’S are often foruied in cliurcbz-s and iieiglibor- hoods, all frequently ineetiiig in joint. sessioii. In small towns one circle. eiiibi'at-iiig everybody, is pl‘:‘.C[ll‘:ll)lo‘.. —- ——-,o)i.eheI thiglixict tails: graeatzxst medicine for complaints of like nature ' t dl'lt ‘c in in case. fie w°fld' .5 “ ac C ‘ e mag) A. STRENGSON, Bronson St. W. A. Jensen, 202 Griswold St. Having been greatlv M. I. S. T. cured me of Dyspepsia. . . cured me of anndice and Liver Com laint. H‘ 1' S T J N. WILl.IAMS,p200 Griswold St. a very had pain in my left side just above the hip for three . f M. I. S. T. Pills cured me. "‘“' ‘hm bms ° Wu. Dovi.i:, 90 Crawford 52., Detroit, Mich. I was laid up with Rhuemavism six months; four boxes of M. I. S. T. E. ROMHILT, No. 334 Mullett St.. Detroit, Mich. I have suffered for years with Asthma; four boxes of M. I. S. T. makes 1 work every day, I have a good appetite and am fiount of talking about M. I. S. T. I have had aandme me feel like a new man._ aionger and weigh heavier than for years. J. J. RAE, Engineer G. T. Ry-., Detroit. Mich. M I S T. cured me of Rheumatisin after the doctors and a number cf I ' I recommend it to everylinriy. Contractor and lluiltler, 136 'I‘rumb'ull Ave., Detroit, Mich. I had mood poison for over thirty years; tried everything that was rec» tried all the regular doctors and all the irregular oflcr remedies failed. ommended oi atlverlisetl; . .. ’ 1 r benefit ff'1ili any of them. _ p . ‘°"m”’ nacewm “J ]{uii1Nso.N, 652 Sixleenlli .\t., Detroit. made a perfect cure. l{ni‘I)l-‘.l.l., Fsq. - You are hereby iiotitierl that the driven wells upon your premises in 'l‘ekoiisli:i,.\licli., are infringements upon my patciii.-', granted January 1:1, 1868, No. 73,425; reissued May 9, I871, ha. 4 372, and patent l.\o. 218,875, Aiigust 26, I879. You are request d to call on me at Tekon— sha and procure a license for the same; if more convenient, money may be remitted to my address by draft. registered letter, or P. (J. order, with description of location of wells as to street, house, barn, yard, kitchen, field, etc. I will accept a royalty of fare on each 1% or IV, inch hand domestic well; and I will also accept on each 2-inch hand domes- tic well 515. if that amount is paid in either case in five days after this notice. After that time the royalty is $20 and 325 respectively, without discount. Larger wells in propor- tion. On single wells operated by machinery and used for manufacturing orother valuable purposes, the royalty is not less than $125. Gangs of wells will be rated according to value, after investigation. All wells made airtight by attaching a pump to the lining of the well are infringe- ments. N. W. GREEN, Patentee of the “American Driven Well” and “Water Supply System.” RUFUS OSBORN, Collector. On the back of this modest demand of "Itufus Osborn, Collector,” Nelson \V. Grecn shows up from the Hub, with as much assunied confidence as though he had placed an execution in the hands of the Slieriif on all the goods, chattels, and effects of the peo- ple of the State of Michigan. llear him. NOTICE. The long continued litigation as to my Driven Well l’alent—i{eissue No. 4,372, dat- ed May 9, i87i,—wasdecided by the Supreme Court of the United States, on May 23, I887, in two cases, sustaining the patent in full and overruling all objections urged against its validity (see Oflieial (iazeiie, vol. 39, pp‘. I3i9 and I326, of june I4, 1887.) i think all must now agree with me that my patent is v.Iliil beyond any question whatever. lliereliy call upon all u.-ers and ll1.‘ll-t€l"S of l)ri-.'eii Wells constructed prior to January, 14, 1885, to render an accouiit to me, stating the iiuinlier of such wells and where siinatrtl and \\llt;‘lllCl' Iipeirtterl liy piiuer or liy hand. It it ill be for the llllt‘l’t'\l of the Iiseis ofiny Wells to attend to this Cll'Clll."ll’ prouipily. as they uill iliereliy avoid toe expense and an- : Iioyaiice of litigiitioii, and, as will be clear uiiliout £‘lTj_‘_illl1t,'lll, they can settle more fa. \’(}l‘llily lief-irc suit lllilll zifteiwvziitls. ll-tiretofore the ciiciilars l\‘~'iiC(l relating to my llriveii \\'ell l’.ilent have been based up- on (lL’ClSlt)llS of the Circuit Courts, and this is the first circular l have issued based en- tirely upon the final decisions of the Su- preme Court of the United States, which is the Court of last resort in this country. lt is therefore my intention to give full and timely information to the public, that makers and users of wells may have a complete un- lderstanding of the questions involved and l have ample opportunity to pay without in- ‘. volving themselvesin unneces-ary expensive liiigat.on. Iufringers need not expect further notice. Respectlully. NELSON W. GREEN, I2 Pearl Street, Room 37, Boston, Mass. National Grange Meeting. The tweiity-fir.‘-‘t session of the Na- tional Grange of the Patrons of Hus- bandry will be held in the city of Ltinsiiig, Michigan, commencing at 11 o’clock A. M., on \Vediie;-idny, the 16th day of November next. All legisla- Fourth degree, and all Fourth degree members in good standing will be "ad- mitted iiiid welcomed to the daily sca- sions. They are also eligible to the higher degrees. The Fifth degree-is not, however, conferred in form in the National Grange, and candidates for the Sixth, who have not taken it, will be obligated in that degree, prepara- tory to the Sixth degree. This de- gree will be coiiferrcd at some time during the session deemed most con- venient for cmididiites, probably on Friday, the 18th of Novciiibcr, after- Iiooii and eveiiing. Tlllrl will no doubt be decided, and the time p1il)li.~ll(‘(l in next is.-‘tie ofthi: VIs'I'i‘oit. A fee ofsl is cluirgetl for the Sixili degree, and cnIidid:itcs l'(‘t.‘ClVt}:l- bviiiitilul cngriived (3t‘l'llliC2ll(.‘,0llll)ll‘lll:l[lC‘il of the dc-gi'ee, suitziblc for frziiiiiiig :iiid.v.-iliiaiblc as a ineiiieiito. Pziiroiis who have served one your in the Sixth ilegiec and 1‘<',‘l.‘lll1(‘(.l their good stiiiidiiig iii the h'lll)0l‘lllll£l.l.8 (iniiigc are eligible to the Seveiitli de- gree, which will also be coiiferrcd and the suine fee chiirged. (.‘:iiidid2Ite.=I for the Sixth or Seventh degree should bring with them certificates of good Sttilltllllg in the subordiiiiite Grange to which they belong, ofl‘iei:illy signed by the Master and St-erctrirv of the Graiige and sealed. This will. relieve the Master of the State Gmiige ot a very hirgeumoiiiit of labor, as it be. couies his duty to reeoinuiend all can- didates for the Sixth degree by en. dorsing their nppliciitioiis. which niust be iiiiide in writing, and must state whether the applitiint has re- ecived the Filth degree or not. lllzink :11)1)llC{lllt)ll~' will be pI'ep'1i'ed and eve- ry f:u:ility 2itl'orded e:iiidid:itcs to cm.- blc them to 1‘C(Cl\'C the le:-I.-oiis of this l)C£11lllllll and iiiiprcssivc degree with as little iiicoiiveiiicnce as possible. This will be 21 r:ire opportiiiiity for the l’:iti'oii.~i of Mieliigriii, who desire to do so, to llllelltl ii. S(‘iHl()ll of the Na- tional (imiige. It will be the first meeting of that body in the State. and it isiiot likely that another will be held here for 21 long iiiimbcr of years, as {L Iiiceting has never yet been dupli- czited to any State. Come out, Pa- trons, and greet your brotliei-i= and sisters from every State in the Union; and by your presence eiicoiii-age your chosen sei'v:i.nt.s in their dcliberzitioiis. J. J. Woomiim, Sec’y of the Executive Committee of the National Graiige, P. of H. Parnoxs Write to this office and write to the Governor asking WHEN the National Grange meets. How long it will be in session. Ask about rail- road fares, hotel fares, and :1 dozen oth- er things that they would know it they read the GRANGE Vrsiron. \Vi1l Masters or Secretaries of Graiiges please ascertain what number of fain- ilics in their Grange are dependent on somebody for all iiiforniation they seckso diligently in other quarters? And finding out the delinquency take such action at once as will add to our list of subscribers and restore this broken rehitioii between Patrons and the source of iiiforinntion on which they should rely. In short, we want. Patrons to get dollars’ worth of good reading matter together with facts they need to know by reading the Visiron instead of asking us questions by mail. Now, Patrons, what are you going to do about it? THE representative;-i to the next. session of the State Grange have been duly elected, and notices to that effect have been received at this ofllcc from Iiimiy eoiiiities. It is Iict:i)ss2ii'_V' to for- wzird all such Iiiiiiirs to the Secretary oftlio Shite (iI'.~iii;_rc iiiorder that ho Iiiuy furiii-li the t'l'(‘ll(‘llll2ll bl:iiiks and also to eoiiipletc the list of i'(-pi't-st-Iit:1- tires liel'orc the iiieetiiig. We hope this will be uttcndctl to in every couii- ty. Mr. T. A. llilton, well known gro- er-ryiiiiiii iii l.‘old\v:itei-, is 3ul(' iigciit for liriiiii-li (fouiity of M. l. S. 'l‘.; the ad- vrwlisciiit-iit of this Iiiediciiie to be found on the 3rd page. 119 has 3130 niadc sales in dilfcreiit pm-isoftlilssiiid other states and first took hold of it beciiusc it had, as he believed, been thg means of restoring him to health. tive work of that body is done in the V Oct. l5.|887. ".'l1"ZE-IE G-RANGE VISITOR. 5 A C0.\1l‘l.AlNT against Tllolllas Mason, of Chicago, was elltertzllned by the Wcsterli Pomona Grange alld the ac- tion taken tliereoll submitted by re- quest of said Grange to the Executive Committee of the State Grallge at its late meeting at Lansillzr. After full consideration of tlle matter the Com- mittee decided that no action on its part was necessary or proper—that it had been definitely annouilced tllat Mr. Mason had not been an agent of the State Grange of)/Iichigan sillce Decem- ber, 1886, and that the paper sublnit- ted taken in connection with repre- uiitations made by a member of the Committee to Whom the charges had been submitted and who had been in correspondence with the parties to the controversy did notjustify farther ac- tion on the part ofthc Coulmittec, alld the whole subject was therefore dis- missed. Co—operatlon. EDITOR Glusoi-: Vlslron:—l have been illuch interested ill reading the articlcs on co-operatioll ill your paper. The frequency with \Vlllt'.ll the sllhjcet is referred to ill colnlectioll with oth- ers shows that if l\‘1‘t‘g:ll'(ll'(l as llaving an iiltilnatc 1'l.‘l:lll0ll to illally of the prolilems of the f:ll'llll-l-’.-‘ life. 1 have had before me "The Report of the Nineteenth Annual (To-ope-l'.ltivv Collgl'es.~',” held at (,‘:lrli.oo0,0oo during the past year. "l.‘he Wholesale supplies the stores with :~ucll goods as they need; it is also eligaged .ill 00 operative lliallutacturilig, itsailn being toproduce,a.-l far as })t)§l.\‘ll)l(.‘, all tllc oods needed for the retail trade. The \Vllolesale is controlled by ll Central Board selected by representa- tives frolli the several societies. The profits, after paying expenses alld in- terest on the stock, are divided aniong the purchasers of the goods :lt'.COl'tlllIg' to the amount plli'cll:ls:-ll. The meth- od of c:lrl'_villg on their C0—(l[it,‘l‘211lVi' IHlll1llfllC[lll'l1lj_{' is the srlnle. 'l‘llc_v pay their workmen, who ill:l_v or lnay not be stockholders, ordinzlry \V:lges; tllcn to the cost of ill:llnlf.-lcturc they add the cost of dislributioll. not attempt- ing to ll1l(lPl‘.~‘t*ll other llealelns, and di- vide the profits entirely among the ul'l-li:lscl-s. This nu-lllod of dislrilillt- mg profits is calling fortll coil.-;idel'.-lbll- disclissioll. One school mfllllttllli‘tll!1tFll1C(!p1'l'~I- ent lab r is entirely (lt‘l)t,‘ll(ll?llt upon the t'rlllt of past labor .-l.~lrl:ll, that is. capital, all the products of labor, after paying the laborer a fair price f'orsilll- sistence, belong to capital. This is the inciplc applied by the \Vlloh-sale Eicioty in disposing of the goods manufactured on their own account. They receive these goods just as they receive ready made goods from other dealers, then add a price for retailillg and return the dill’:-l-cllee between this priceand the actual cost to the pllr- chasers as dividends on their pur- chases. They claim that as goods pur- chased become their property so the goods lnailllflctured by them become theirs when they have paid for the ma- terials and the cost of lli:lllul:lctul'illg, and they are entitled to all the profits to be got from their sale. The other school say that this is the mnciple ot the ordinary elnployer. rewards labor as a conilliodity to be bargained for at the market price, alld when this price is paid the product is his. The second school claims that as society progressed capital alld labor be- came SCp.‘ll'2|lCd into distillct classes, but this is contrary to ilatnl-e’s plan. which is that the means for workillg should be open to all \V ho can contrib- ute the capacity to work, and that the product belongs to the worker. To them the problem of productive co- ration is, how to follow the natur- plan alld secure to the worker the full benetlt. of his work, alld preserve the harmony with capital, and permit the accullllllotioli of wealth. This method seems to approach nluch near- er true co-operation than the other, and it is likely that ii change will soon take place ill their manner of distribut- rofits. in%i}')om their report I find that their distributive stores have lJt'CIl very suc- cessful, while tlleirco-opera! ive manu- fwtures have almost all proved tail- nres. The problem of co-operative production is a lunch more tlifliclllt one than co-operative distrihlltion. Lack of capital. l:lck of iilall:lgilig skill and want of ('.Ullll'll3lll:(? ill the lll=llll'lf_{t‘- ment set-in to lie the chief (lllll(:|llll('.'~‘. CU-()[)(§l'.lll\'U l:I1'll|l g ll‘H l'el-civell some atfclltion, but the high price of land alld rout i- .1 .~('1‘ll)ll.~% t)l).~l:l('l(l ill the \V.‘l_\' oftllis lir:lu<~llo1'mi-operllion. Good land (3Ul1llI):Illll.\' a l'l.‘lll <-l’-3;’-'i.UU per arrc. alld it is quite diflicult to securca piwe of l:lnll l!l\’<)l‘.ll)l_\' sitti- steal. hjllllll: of the co-opt-i':lti\'l: f'lrnl-i have l)c(,'ll ~lu-l-e-‘> was carried on would not be rented for other pllrposcs. that the >al1I\3 rllnollllt of whisky \\ olild be drzilik with the law as without it. that the city would only nii.~s the rcvc'liue, and that ii ivolllll bl: .1 dsalli blow to .\tlali1:’s pl'ogl'-:.~-- It has now been 18 nlolitlls Sllltit‘ the elect lion and I2 iiionths .\illC€ the law went inlll :ffcct. We are prepared thus from obscrvzi lion to nole results. Proliiliilioli ill this city does prohibit. The law is observed as well as the law ztgzlilisl C.1l‘l‘)'lllg coliccaled weapons. gambling, [lief and olller ollcilscs of like ClI£l.l’:1Clt‘l‘. lf therl; lllld been as niany people in f.iv-irofc:li‘ryilip_ coliccaled werlpolls, of theft, g.1l]ll)lillg, etc , .15 lflcrc: were ill favor of the retail of ilfiicll‘ \l)ll‘ll:i twelve months ago, law against tliese things would not h:1ve been C:l1‘1’lL‘tl out :1.» well as it -was against the liquor trade. In collsillcration of the small liiajority with which proliibition was czlriicd and the large number of people who were opposed to see- ing it prohibit, the law has been marvelously well oli.~erved. l’rohib lion has not injured the city finali- cirllly A :cor.iing to the assessliix‘ books. property in the cily has increased over lwu million dollars. faxes have not been in Cl’t’.”l.\L’(l. Two streets in this city, Decalnl and Peters, were known as liquor streets. ll was hardly Considered proper for :1 l:1dy to walk these slrecls without an e.~cort. l\'o\l they are just as orderly as any in the city. Property on them has advanced from lo il- 25 per cent. The loss of 540.000 revenue, l-oizsequcnt on closing the saloons, has ten dad in no degree lu impede the city's pro glcssin any direction. Luigc app1‘i)pl'l:l1li)ll~ h We been niede lo the -water works, the public SCl1UOl.~, the l'il:dlnoul fair, and olllel lllipmielliclils. lhc busilicss men have |'.l|hL“l ,-‘.~4oo,0(.o to build the Allallta. alld ll:1\\'l\lll>V'.llC l\';1ilro:ld. The ilunlbcr of cil_l blillks ls lo be increased to live. The coin ing of four new r.liil' ads has been settled llurlng the year. liifteeli lieu ':l\ll’L"S con taining house f.lrlii.-hing gxoods liave lil:ell .\l.Ll'l\:Ll sillcc prorlilutloll lvcllt into ell}-cl. These are doing \\ ell. .\lolc furlliture has been sold to 1l1L'Cll;1lllC\ and laboring men than in any twelve months during the history of the t‘. ty. The lll.illuf;lcturillg eslabllshllleiils of lhc city liavl: receivetl new life. A glass fat‘ Kory has been built. A cotton seed oil mill is being built, worth $125,000. All lI11l)rUVt:- lnenl companies with :1 basis in real (state have seen their stock doubled in value sine: the election on proliibitioli. Hot 5 iii which the liquor trade was con- ducud are not vacalit, but are now occupied by olher lilies of trade. Accurdilig to the real eszrlte men, more laborers and men of limited means are buying lots than ever be- fore. Rents are more promptly paid than formerly .\lore houses are rented by the sfilllc number of falnilics than heretofore. licforc prohibition, somctinies as many as three families would live ill one house. l‘h:: heads of those families, now mt spending their money for drink, are each able to rent cl house, lhus using three instead of one. Norkiugmen, who formerly spenta great part oftlleir money for liquor, now spend it in fo- d alld clothes for their families. The relail grocery men sell more goods, and collect their bills better than ever before. Thus they are able I0 settle more promptlywith the wholesale men. A perceptible increase has been noticed in the number of people who ride on the street cars. According to the coal dealers many people bought coal and stored it away last winter who had never been known to .10 so before. Ulhcrs V‘ ho had been accustolncd to liuy-ng two or three tons on time, this win- ter bought seven or eight and paid cash for it. A leading ploprietor of n. millinery store said lh-at he had sold more hats and bonnets to laboring men tor their wives and daughters than before in the history of his business. Contractors say their men do better work and on Saturday evenings when they receive their . w-eclfls wages, spend the same for flaur,hams, d.y goods, or other necessary things for their fdllllllei Thus lhey are in better spirits, have more hope, and are not inclined to strike and growl about higher wages. Attendance upon the public schools has increased. The Snpnintendelit of Public In- s ruction said in his report to the Board of Education, made Jan. i, 1887: "During the past year it has become a sub- ject M remark by teachers in the schools and by visitors that the children were more tidy, were better dressed, were better shod, alld pre:e ltcd a neater appcaraiice than ever be- fore. Les.» trouble has been experienced in having parents purchare books required by the rules. fewer children have been with- (l1’IU\ll iuaid in supporting the fcuilily, the higher classes ill the granillizlr schools have been fuller, and liiurc cllilllreil have been pronlolud lo the high .\L’ll'.Ul, bolli ni.i.‘e and fl.-lll;ll-:, llian ever lit for: in the history of the -cl'lllol.s. All the-c ill llL.‘2'l.lli)lls point ti tlic |lll.I't::l»L‘Il prosp-:rity of llic clty and to the gnllllllg il.l::l..-l ill llic cause of education on the part of Illr }Ie‘llllt‘.” Tm re lilis been 51 marked increase in at- lcilllalice upon the bunday schools of the cill. This is e~pe.:iully llUllCt‘&ll)l€ alll(Jl);,'_' llle suliurllall churches. Many children have started to the 5lllI(lCly-sCl’l1)Ul5, who were not able to attend for want of proper clothing. Attendance upon the different Churches is far better. From 1,500 to 2,000 have joined the various churches of the city during the year. The dctermiliziliun on the part of the peo- ple to prohibit the liquor tratiil: has stimu- latel it disposition to do away with other evil-'. The l:1\\'S1‘lg.‘lll'i>l Qanibling are Yi":‘lily enhirced. A clillsiderrlblc stock of gain- bles’ tools gathered together by the police for >,t:V€l"l1l years llhl, was recently used for ih: purpose of making zi large bonfire on one of the ulioccupiell squares of the city. The City Council has refused longer to grant li cense to bucket shops, thus putting the seal 0" it~ condemnation upon the trade ili futures Of.lll kinds. All these reforms have had a decided tzndency to diniinish crime. Two weeks were necessary formerly to get through with the criminal docket. During the present year it was closed out in two days. The chain-gang is almost left with nothing but the chains and the balls. The gang part would not be large enough to work the pub- lic roads of the country were it not liuglnenfed by fresh supplies from the surrounding coun ties Tile city governlnentis in the hands of our best citizens. Tle mzijori y in this county in favor of prohibition was only two hundred and thir- ty five. Such :i change has taken place in public sentiment, however, that now there is hardly a. respectable anti prohibitioniét in the city who favors a. return to bar rooms. There are some who would prefer high li celise, or its sale by the gallon, but it is a re- uiarkalile fact that there is no disposition to ll-ave the saloon opened again. The bar room has gone from :\lln:llJ. forever, and the people \\'il.l‘l rellizirkrible '.lri:lniniily.<;ly Anion! There i~ very little drilikili-,3 in the city. fliere liZ1Sl)€Cl’| 40 per cent. falling off in the nulliller of fll'lr.’§l$, lll.‘tk'0lll(‘.il'tlllL‘llili)1lllllllC:lllU\'l’lllCi>. We will ~l;-lnl you our “t .‘2ltalogue and l’l'icc Lin” true to any lllllllu-ss. 'l‘rll~'1- iw_r you will l':l\'or us with your or lh-r.-. with ollr pvrsoil.-l.l :l~slll'all<-c of "l)L‘.~l. .H'llt't‘L‘.\‘.~‘,” we i'elll.-lin, “Willi rc- _-_;.-li'll.~'," very truly _\'our.-, A. ll. llA.\'o, ‘-l’atl'ons'Slloe lloll=l~_." 1'21 Nllrtli Stll .~'tl'eet, l’llil:ldt-lplii.-l, Pa. —-—-—--—-—-—-uo—-—-————~----— Thonsllllds of f:lrlllel's could relate si.li‘.ilar alld far worse |‘.‘{[)l‘l'ir'1ll'(’ than llie followillg l'(‘(‘tI1‘tlt’(ll))' the (,'-lll(‘.‘l2'll '['l'ibuln.-: "A l-l-cicvel' ill this city for- w:lrded to :1 shipper ill Ncliraskajllsl five cents per buslicl as his sllare on a 13011‘-llglllllclll of corn. 'l‘lle property had been sold in store here at 27 ceilts per bushel, 22 of which welit to pay railroad costs of tra.llspol'tafio1i, the storage alld collllliissioll. lll anotlier case recently, the Nebraska shipper rc- cieved the lllagnitieent. sum of $26.51). being the wliolealnolllll coining to liilil f'rolll the sale of a car~load of some 550 l)Ll.~lll<'lS of corn, the railroad frieght on which to this city was $147.55). The average of cliarges on these two pa reels was five times, alld the warellousc charges alone olle-quarter, the sum re- mitted to the county sliippcl'ot'col'n.” —l\'ational View. ~————-?{~O}2——-———- The indications seem to be acclima- lating, that the great absorbing ques- tion bcfore the Aniericali Congress the ilicoilling session is to be, how to dis- pose of the millions of dollars already acculilulzitcd in the United States treasury and how to keep more from accnlnlllating there, so that the dear poor people will not have to pay so lliucli taxes. The party that does the most of this alld lliakes the most fuss about what they do, sllould elect the next president alld secure. the right to distribllte the surplus in the treasury t'or the next four years, sure, “Sicli is life.” ? The 10th animal American fat stock show takes placein the Chicago Expo- sition building, commencing Nov. 8 and closing Nov. 18. Low rates will he flirliished on all roads ellteringChi- cage. The exhibit includes cattle, horses, poultry, and dairy products. —?—-1vjj—~~— People inay well differ about the bl-.<... 3;; ;’riinc-~‘, Frvllch boxes, pcr lb.. . .;)§(u 5 “ I\cwTur'iiibci'.~: and a (:il0l(lt’ll Rod with a tine, I-irgc. pliiiiiy head is fit for any garden. I have seen such a plant, tall, stately. its oiie-si(lcd ra- cciiics drooping with loads ot_»~_\'clluw gold, light up its corner of a garden like a siiiisliiiie torch, if you can fancy such 9. thing. Close beside the Golden Rod iii the wood grew another composite, also ll.————-:- REMEMBER the National Grange will hold its next annual session in the city of Lansing in November next. Begin making calculations to attend if but for a day or two. Department National Grange. At different periods in the world’s liistoi-y, taking various forms and a variety of nanics, but always with the smite object in view, men and organi- zations have advocated and contended f'or a division of wealth, of property. At one time known as Agrarians, and in these later days as Socialists and Coiiimiiiiists. The Grange has ever iuitagoiiized and set its face_squarely against any such doctrines, its mem- bers believing that progress can only be made by building up and not by tearing down. in its “Declaration _of Purposes,” in all the many years of lti existence, it has ever said, “In our no- ble Order there is no communism, no agrariaiiism.” The latest Communist is Mr. Henry George, and the latest coiiiinunism is his land theory. He advocates, and his thousands of follow- ers advocate, that private ownership in land shall be abolished, that it shall be common property, belong in com- mon to the Government (the people). That he has followers is proven by the 6-‘5,UUO votes he received for mayor of the city of New York last Fall, and lie is now at the head of a. State ticket with papers, iiioiicy, preacliers and a party, advocating his coiiiniuuism, for it is cominiinism as far as land is con- cerned. A full Coiiimuiiist would abolish piivaie ownership in all pi'op— crty. llc applic.-i it, at present, to land only, and tlicrcforc it is it direct blow at t':ii'iiicrs, and leaves fariiicrs al- most alone to iiicct this old enemy in a new form, and do battle until he is again overthrown. A long ill‘_‘__’lllIl(‘lll, showing the [111- t'ziii'iic:<.s, the robbery, the piracy advo- cated by this new apostle of the Com- niunc is iiiipossiblc in a brief space. But that fai'iiii-rs may know just what is being said, may look upon the poi- son pure and simple, and so come to recognizc and know their latest enemy, fl. fcw extracts from the writings of llciiry George will be given, and so out of his own nioutli we will con- dcniii the wrong. And certainly it is no niisrcprcsciitatiou if his own words are used: “l’rivatc property in liind is doom- ed.” “We must therefore substitute for individual owiiersliip of land a common owiicrsliip. VVe must make laud coinmou property.” “There is no escape from it. We must make land common property.” Lectu rer's In another of his writings Henry" George says—“In the very nature of tliiiigs. land cannot riglitfully bc-made individual property. This principle is absolute.” 3;, “l’ropcrty in land is as indefensible as property in inaii,” and “the robber that takes all that is left is private property in laiid.” "If chattel slavery be unjust tlicii is property in land un- jiist.” In his “Lanil Qiicstioii,” he says —“Hci'e is a systciii wliicli rubs the producers of wealth as rcmorsclcssly and far more regulrrly and sys:iemr.t- ically than the pirate robs the incr- cliantmeu. “Land on which and from which all inust live. The recognition of the private individual pi'oprietoi'siiips of land is the denial of the natural right: of other individuals. For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal rights to the usc. of land is iie(:css:it'ily the do- nial of the right of labor to its pro- duce.” Mr. George’s plan for getting the land away from the pimple and mak- ing it common property is thatall pro- perty, except land, shall be cxcinpt from taxation, and the taxes will then be so great that f‘:iriiici's and landown- ers will gladly give up their private ownership rather than pay all the tax- es. In “Social Problems” he says: “Were land treated as the property of the whole people the ground rent ac- cruing to the community would suffico for public purposes and all other tax- ation might be dispciiscd with.” Again he says: “I do not propose either to purchase or to confiscate private pro- perty in land. The first would be im- just; the second needless. We may safely leave them the shell if we take the kernel. It is not necesmry to con- fiscate land; it is only necessary to con- flscate rent. We already take some rent in taxation. We have only to make some ('.l'tMl2‘P§ in modes of taxa- tion to take it all.” “To extirpate poverty we must therefore substitute for individual ownership of land a common owne- ship.” Are you md, desponderit, gloomy? . Are you sore distressed? Listen to the welcome bidding- “Be at rest.” Have you aches and pains unnumbered, Poisoning life's Golden Cup? Think not there's no balm in Gilead. and “Give it up." ' A Golden Remedy awaits you- Golden not alone in name-»— Reach, oh, suffering one, and grasp it. Health reclaim. There is but one “Golden” Remedy —I)r. I’icrcc’s Golden Medical Dis- covery. It stands alone as the great “Iilood-piii-iticr,” “strcngtli-i'ciicwcr” and “licaltli-rcstorcr,” oi’ the age! ' lic Livcr, it l‘f'gllllltCS, rcinoviiig all 1lll1)lll'll’lC.~‘. ' he Lungs it strciigtli- ens, clcansiiig and noiirisliiiig tlicin. The wliolc systciii it builds up, sup- plying that abovc all other things most needed-—purc, rich Blood. -—— — Ald. John Farber, of Mt. Clemens, has become insane, and will have to go to an asylum. @————o-——@- Fishing is the chief paying indus- try at Baraga. _ ...-, ~-~—.~u-.---..- Oct. l5,l887. TIEIE G-RANGE V I -SI'I‘OI?.. gbituaries. ROG EH8- WHEREAS, The grim Messenger. Death, has called from our Grange Bro. William Rog- ers, a worthy member of Ravenna Grange, No. 373, aged 7: years. Resolved, That in the death of Bro. Wm. Rogers the Grange has lost a worthy mem- her, the widowed sister at beloved and loving husband. the children a kind and indulgent parent,-and the community an honored and led citizen. Resolved, That our charter be draped in mourning for thirty days and that these reso- lutions be made a part of our Grange record and acopy be sent to the GRANGE VISITQR for publication. Com. ROGERS- On July I3, 1887, Sister Mary Rog- ers, of Alpine Grange, No. 348, having passed through the sunshine and shad- owui Slhty-itlgllt years in this world was (:'.lll__”____V_A>_> ,Express.lI§.x E: M‘ I..v Grand Rapids. . . . .- I ay Fl [7745 AME -7.15?! 5 «>0 M4 Ar White Pigeon. Ar Toledo. . . . . Ax Cleveland. . Ar Bittfalo. . . . . ArAIIeg:ui.... .-§go2“:55<_“ 930" A: Kalamazoo io 35 ' E 705 “ '12 35 5'31 Ar Schoolcraf. )io';7 " 7 35 ‘ I 195 " Ar Three Rivers iiin: “ I: 805 “ 3 320 " l '1-.'6iN‘¢ Noiirn: ' ‘“ " """“iWs*s,'fiTc =1?‘ & Mi.E:<2:sS3.i I .}n 55 A.M,‘,ll 4cAM'. l_..._ W ay Fl .f()A|7I'M-535" . .. Ar Toledo Jr‘ 0' " I 940 " 1 650 PM Ar White Pigeon. ...; o _s,_.-, AM‘. 22:: kw; 9.,5.un Ar Three Rivers . . . . . . . ..l 6 1;“ t .2 48 " ‘ii 05 " Arschoolcraft . . . . . . . . . ..E6n.9"§3i7" i2i5" All ruin: connect at White Pigeon with tmim on M, E. VVA1'I‘LB\‘. Supt. Kalamuoo Division. Kalamazoo. main line. MICHIGAN CENTRAL RA.II.R0.AD. DEIARTURE or nzztms mom rcAi.Ax.\zoo. 'I‘IME-TABLF.—M.AY 18. 138.4. Standard time—9oth merid.i:in._ WES'FWARD. 2A. M.;P. M. Kalamazoo Accoirimoainiion leaves. . .3 4 Kalarmxzoo Express xrives . ' . .- Evening Express . Pacific Express. Mail . . . . . . . . . . . Night Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Kalamazoo Accouunodation ‘.eava.. . .. Evening Express west and Night Express east daily ex- cept Saiurdays. All other trains daily except Sundays. Frei ht trains mrrying ngers out from Kalamazoo as fo lows: No. 29 (east at 5:10 P. M. and No. ac (west) at 8:10, bring passengers from east at X2145. P. M. H. B. Liznwum. Gen. Manager. Detroit. I. A. Quinn. General Freight Agent. Chicago. 0. W. RUGGLIS. G. P. &. T. A., Chicago. German Horse and Cow POWDERS! This powder has been in use many years. It is largel used lfy the farmers of Pennsyl. Vania, and the Patrons of that State have purchased over ioo,ooo pounds through their purchasing agents. Its composition is our se- cret. The recipe is on every box and 5-pound packs e. It is made by I)r. Oberholt2.er’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. '. HILL& CO., 115 Randolph St., Detroit; THOS. MASON, [81 Water St., Chicago, Ill.; and ALBERT STEGEMAN, Allegan. Put up in 60-lb. boxes (loose). Price EIGHT CENTS r 1b., 3o—lb. boxes of 6 5-11). packages, an Cams per lb. Allen Durfee, imiixisnixo FUNERAL DIIKEC-TOR» N 0. 103 Ottawa Street, Grand Rapids, - - Mich. Residence, 193 Jefferson n y PATE NTS. LUCIUS C. WEST, Solicitor ’of American and F orei :1 Patents, and Counsellor in Patent Causes, rade marks, Copyrights, Assign- ments, Caveats, Mechanical and Patent Drawings. Circulars free. 105 E. Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich. Branch office, London, Eng. Notary Public. i apritl AEENTS VIANTE 'r.*:::.r.*l*.° BEflT1l(lV‘9WV Elsl‘ilfi'éh£l:d"l‘l.1n|% ‘mm B . Moctllld " an-nu. *3v“r°'- E““"’“"'°“.6EllEVA iiunstnv 184 . ionthl w. "i~‘."'sM1'i~§', GENEVA. NowYork. Aurts I4 SPECIAL NOTICE I ‘I0 FARMERS AND USERS 0!‘ Rubber and Leather BELTING. We are the Michigan agents for the New York Belting and Packing Co., the oldest and largest manufacturers (in the United States) of Rubber Belting and Hose, and manufacture the very best goods in the mar- ket, and it will pay you to call on us when in want of any such goods. We manufac- ture from Hoyt’s stock the very best pure oak tanned, short lap leather belt. and to farmers as well as all users of such goods, we would say that it does not pay to buy poor goods; the best is always the cheapest. We carry in stock a full line of endless belts for threshers, both in standard and extra standard, and our standard is fully guaranteed as good as most makes of what is called extra standard. We solicit cone spondence, and to prove our assertion, Q our goods. E. G. Studley & Co., No.4 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, - - - Mich. Manufacturers and dealers in all kinds of . Mill and Fire Department Supplies; agents for A. G. Spaulding & Bro., sporting goods, and for Columbia and Victor Bicy- cles and Tricycles. julyi5t6 Current Rates on Chicago Market. Potatoes, No. i, ripe, bus 85 @ “ oil stock . . . . . . . . .40 (‘Zr ,4 Turiiips, yellow, "(B bu . .. .27 .2g Unions, choice, “ .. . . .85 @ .90 Apples, “ No. i, 19 bbl. 4.00 ‘Q 5.00 “ No. 2, stock, " .. @ 2.5;. Carlots sold at 5 per cent. coinrnission. Apples, dried, per ll» . . . . . 4 @ 6 Apples, evaporated, 19113.. 9 @ .12 Onions, selected. bbl. .. 2.50 @ 2.75 Rutabagas, _ “ @ 1.25 Turmps, white, “ .75 @ Loo Beans, navy, bu. . . .. 1.60 @ “ medium, “ 1.50 @ \VooI, washed, ‘lb . . . .. .30 @ .38 “ miwashed, “ .16 @ .28 Veal, choice, “ . . . .. .07 @ .09 Eggs, fresh, “ . . . .14 @ Butter. dairy, _ lb. . . .. i2 @ .i8 “ creamery “ . .i8 .3. .24 " roll _ " .i2 ab .18 Clover seed, 1_i,?‘bu . . . . . .. 4.35 @ 4.40 Timothy “ . . . . . . . L90 @ L9 Hides, salted, G, WI!) . . . . .07}4@ On produce not named write for prices. If you have anything l0 sell or ship write for inioriuation to THOMAS MASON, ‘ (jenernl Grange Agency (63 South Water St., Chicago. ThePERKlNSVVlNl)MlLL .14, Buy the Best, And Save Money It has been in constant use lor 16 rears, with a record equal by none. WARRANTED notto blow down. unless the Tower goes with it; or against any wind that does not disable substan- t.in.l farm buildings; to be perfect; to outlast and do better work than any other mill made. We manufacture both Pumping and Geared Mlills and carry a full line of Wind Mill Sup- p we. AGENTS WANTED. send {or Oataloguefcircular and Prices. Ad- dress PERKINS WlND MILL at AX CO., nlyltizz Mishawaltn, Indiana PRICE LIST OF SUPPLIES Kept in the oificc oi the Secretary ol the MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE, 4nd rent out Pa.rt— aid, on receipt of Carl Order, 011:7 I 2 Sta] of a Subordinate Grange, and (It: signature of in Marin or Serretawy. P rcelain ballot marbles, per hundred .. .. ... .. .3 Bank book, ledger ruled. for Secretary to keep accounts with members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I on Blank record books (express paid) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Order book, containing we order: on the Treauh rer, with stub. well bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Receipt book. con ' L, we receipts from Treas- urer to Secretary, with club, well bound. 9:: Blank receipis for dues, per xoo, bound . 50 Applications for membershi, , per we so Secretary’: account book (new nyle). 50 Withdrawal cards, per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Diniits, in envelopes. per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . as By-Laws of the State Grange, single copiu roe; per dozen .... ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 75 B ~Iaws bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. I0 “ lad Echoes." with music. single copy 25¢; per dozen. . ............. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. on The National Grange Choir, single copy coc; pe II-.......... .. fl Rituals. single copy.. . . 25 " rdozen... I40 “ a Fifth Degree, for Pomona Gran: per copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . no Blank “Articles of Association” for the incorpo- ration of Subordinate Grangcs, with copy of charter, all complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Io Notice to delinquent members. per roo ........ . . go Declaration of Purposes, per dozen 5c; per too. . 40 American Manual of Pnrlinmen Law . . . . . . . so " " “ mynorocco tuck) r Digest of Laws and Rulings . . 40 Roll books . . . . ... . . . . . .. x5 Patrons’ Badges. . :5 Ofliccis’badges.......... ...... ... ......... .. so C0-OPERATIVE i.i1'izru.-rumz. History and Objects of Co-operation. ._. . . . . . . . .. as What is Co-o ration? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 0:.- Some of the caknessas of Co-o ration .... .. oa Educational Funds; How to Use ' hem on Associative Farming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . or The Economic Aspect of Co operatic on Association and Education 05 The Principles of Unity.. or The Perils of Credit. . . . . . oi Fundamental Principles of Co-operation .... . ... oi J. T. COBB. Scc’y Michigan State Grange, Schoolcraft, Mich. Address Dr. William Rose, lllllllll lelriniy iiigu. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary Col- lege, Toronto, Canada. Will profes- sionally attend to all diseases of Horses and Cattle. Telephone No. 515. j2i8East Fulton St..Gd. Rapids, Mich. II|¥1!1 ---—TEE-4“- Patrons’llroceryHouse Under Contract with the Executive Committees of the Pennsylvania and New York State Granges and recognized by the state Granges of Ohio. New Jersey and Delaware to fuinish Granges with all kinds of Groceries. We carry a large and complete stock of all Groceries, Sugars, Syrups, Molasses, Coffees, Teas, Spices. etc. We all all orders from 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 - ment to be made within 30 days from date of bills. We are now film 0l‘d6l‘8 1'l'0lll Pa-trons 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 desire information in regard ta prices on any goods in our line of business or freight rates do not hesitate to write us. as we endeavor to answer all inquiries promptly and 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, 241 North ‘Water Street, marrgyi Philadelphia. Penn. year. paid without question. Montgomery Ward 6:. Co. 227 & 229 Wabash Ave., N. B.—After Septcrnber 1st, 1887, we will occupy 111, 112, 113 (E 114 Michigan Ave, 2 blocks north of Earposit-ion Building. MONTGOMERY WARD &. 00. our N E H’ S TORE, Trie: eiaiiaia. We issue the Buyers’ Guide in March and September of each It is now a book of 350 pages, 8% x ll inches in size, 32,35! square inches of information for the consumers. It 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 ID 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 Indie this their exclusive business, and no other house in the world carries as great a variety ofqoods 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 ID cents, let us know, and we will refund the amount CHICAGO. ILL. CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK RAI WAY TIME TABS, JUNE 4, 1887, TEAWO WB§V AL MERIDIAN ‘HMS. TRAINS lASTWARD—C8NTl.Al. IIBRIDIAII 1'3]. (No. :8. No. 4 No. 6. No. i. hit: , ,.,,_ 5 ! Express Express. Expires. ' MaiL Express, Exp‘ PortHurou.Lv . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7o5A.u.l755r.Ii. . 9054.11. 3u5r.u. 8 x5r.u. 831 u 93‘ -v u ,5 u 533 u Io’, .. 9 a6 " ro ro " 12 55 r. M. 6 5: " :2 or A. I. 9 35 u 10 ‘S u u 7 ,9 M X’ ‘.3 . . I0 30 " u so " “ ‘ . . . . . . . .. 1 07 "' . xiooP.u.r2a5A.Il. " Box " ray " _ H ‘S u , 20 in u 8 ,5 u , ‘J u “ Lv.. 6 3o 12 05 " i 25 " "; 8 55 " a 30 “ Vicksburg . . . . . . . . . 7 :8 in 45 " 2 at " "= 9 co " 2 35 " Schoolcraft. . . . . . . . . 7 30 i2 55 " 2 32 " " 9 43 " 3 gs 0 Marcellus ........ . . 1 52 x :6 " . . . . . . . .. ' to :4 " . no -4 Cassopolis . . . . . . . . . 3 17 x ga " 3 19 " " n o8 “ 5 03 “ South Bend. ..... . . 9 no 2 28 “ 4 o7 " " II 31 “ 5 4o " Valparaiso . . . . . . . .. to 30 4 oo " 5 52 ' " :2 01 A. I 6 :5 “ Chicago ......... .. :2 40 2. II. 6 3o “ S no " " r :6 " 1 35 " Way Freight carrying passenije:flg'oiug East, 3.30 P. M.: going west. 10.05 A. M. ‘Stop for passengers on sig Nos.3. 4,5nnd6rundaily. Tickets sold and baggage cbecltedto all For through rates and nine apply to G. of Canada and United States. . VVATSON. Local Agent. Schoolaufi: W. E. DAVIS, Aflnh an: Gen'I Passenger Agent. Chicano: W. l. SPICER. General Mannzer. Deuou. GRANGE o-o1vr1vrIss_ro1\I Housi 1 'r::-zomns MASON, General Commission Merchant, 163 South Water St., Chicago, ’ Respectfully Solicits Consignments oi Friits,Vtielah1ex,Bn'lvi,Eigs,Grass SBBII,RaWFlltHllBi,PBllt'hIlill,&l BONDED AGENT of the N’. Y. Produce Exchange Association, 4 Chartered Feb. i3, i878. All Orders Receive Proper-Attention. AT FFIEQENT DATES EACH MONTH mm CHICAGO, -; PEORIA 0* fsrtofiuaiis. EHOICE OF ROUTES; VIA iAliiuiN....:.°..E.l“.V..i.".?-.2, OMAHA. STJ OSEPH, ATCHISUN on KA N S A S CITY. For dates, rates. tickets or further information apply to Ticket Agents of connecting lines, or address PAUL MORTON, Gen. Pa.-'s.&Tkt.I,r_;t..Chicag'o, Ill- Marl5yl Make Your Money Easy! ARMERS and Farmers’ Sons can make more money by engaging with us than at anything else they can do. Why? lit. Because we publish only books which any- one can sell and which everyone buys. zd. We guarantee a salary larger than can be earned at anything else. $5.00 outfit frc. Write for particulars. Standard Publéshin House. FLIN . MICH. ' ii.°$'.'.°.'L‘i.t'i."’i‘.‘.”.‘i‘f.°.§‘_ CDW TIE ._. Pushes them lwzk when standing. ‘ : draws them forward when lying - % $?' ‘i~‘2°<':3‘u£°vl«‘ul'»°'?‘ia‘.’.‘¥..‘l‘i"s'z’xt July i, n6 i i E 8 , TI-IE G-RANGE VISITOR. Oct. I5. I887 gazing %Ullt5' glut.- Who First Peopled America? This continent was probably first peopled from Asia, the birthplace of man. Injustwliat way it happened is uncertain. Chinese vessels cortstiiig along the shore as was the custom among the early voyagers tiny have been driven across the Pacific Ocean by a storm, or parties waiidering across Behring Straits in search of ad- venture foniid this a pleasaiit. land and determined to make it their home. American antiquities in many parts of North America are found to con- tain the remains of a prehistoric peo- ple. In the Mississippi Valley, from the great lakes to the Gulf, there ex- tends it line ot defensive earthworks; the largest forest trees are found grow- ing upon these rainparts. The liuli:in.~ have no traditions as to the origin ot these strange structui-es._ Opposin- Newark, 0., is one of these strange mounds, or monuments. that covers nearly two square miles. It is ironi two to twenty feet in height. in the park in the city of KlII:ilII:iZl)0, in our owii State, is one of these straiigv mounds, and as I have looked at it I have wondered m.iny times wliose hands formed it. There isalsoa strange structure in Adains County, 0., timi represents very at-ciirnzeiy a -erpeiii 1,000 feet long. its body winds in gl'zlC0llll cu l'\’0~:lllll in its wide extend- ed jiws lies the li;_rnrc of an aniuial that it r(::.‘Iil:l about to sivnllow. 'l‘hc~t» l'IlUllilIl\‘ >0alll‘illll£’~' t-rowii steep hill- and Cuihlsl of tiilcln,-s anti t-inli:uik- ments which show quite an :unonnt «-1 skill in inilitary M‘ll'lll'l‘. 'l‘lu-1li.~‘lll are ti':ice-.il>lt: to 8 dis- ‘ll'lil‘_|l‘li condition of the blood. and in iuiiiiliei'lt-ss cases have lit-e1iciii'cd by taking a. few bottles of Ayci"s Sarsa- parilla. ——--———l_\?-. at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2 so ‘ .\lcu'.»' liioiul Calf l..l'.‘t: id liutton ai ion l ' C llriin-'1, llrzavy ."\lor;;I:t«'i at _ . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2* no \‘!L.I“i‘|€:‘\Y‘I ,1" ll,‘ ,3‘, _ 1! .. >»' Niliii gall Lila!‘ zit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. i 75 ‘ .\ltu’s l".ui-:y lir rnuiv,-vi l..i-:5 at . V I . . ' . . ' H l':"mC<. Pan‘ Kid ll ' 7- .\le-n’s Ezig‘i-I: lhess ‘liars at ~ . . ‘ . . I I ‘ H ;- "7 P"“""d I. , 3 to \Il'Il'5 Fmiicli Call Sit-it-s :1: . . . . . . . . . . . I ' - H :. l‘-'-‘‘‘L'‘J 1':‘l£4l"l‘ "W"‘”i~¢"l»'l"-‘w 2‘ ‘/5 I Mcnis Full l‘l’L\\ Ptition at . . . . . . . . . . ‘ . . - I . - . M ‘: '|-~i‘’-'-L‘»' UT‘:-<-ti ii’-"|\')'i‘-l.l[ 11'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2 es i\lcn's Fiiicsl Iiniid Made. . ' . - . ' . . - - - . . i 1 ‘ on l:u;i:s' Fix,-in h Kid Button at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3 go Men‘; Solid French Calf zit I . V . . H ‘ Ladies’ Best Pclzbl»: l.c;ithv;-i at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2 50 ‘ Mun’; Fiiicsl Calf Shoes at. .. ~ . . . . I 3 S. -4—-- W..- ,_ __,, l -"_l¢'},'5_ F!'¢‘_'1¢'h ‘_U-31!" Boots at.. . ' . - L:itlics’”Fl:in_iiel Shoes, all cloth, solid hand made Ladies‘ Cloth Slippers, Flannel Lining, at $1.00. ’ I P‘ . Buy the celebrated llauo Standard Tip Slices for your Children soled fin- wear and tear. all sizes, at $1.00. ‘Millions of airs hay b ’ ' universal l5‘2l[la'l'a.(.‘ti0ll.‘ P e can sold and gwen RUBBER GOODS In all styles, qualities and gmdesl First wholesale prices’ W'e are new com. pletely stockcdlrigbt up with Rubbers, and in order to give full ben- efit and satisfaction we intend selling at 3 per cent abovc the cost. Read the list: ! i - _ Men s Rubbers. ; Ladies’ Rubbers- V‘len’s Solid Gum Boots, best quality . . . . . . . . . . .32 75 } Ladies’ VVool Lined Gum Boots . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .31 do \len's Heavy Gum Boots, Solid Ball and Heel,. . 2 5o Ladies’ 2d quality Gum Boots . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1 .‘vien's Gum Boots, good quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 40 Misses Best Gum liools . . . . . . . . . . . . ' . . . I so .\Icn’s Gum Goodyc:ir's Rubber Boots. . 2 25 1 Childreus Solid Gum lioots . . . . . . . . . ‘ ' . ' ’ ' . - I H J \len's Gum VVoonsockct Rubber Hoots. . . . . 2 Go i Ladies’ Button-up Arctic.-s . . . . . . . . ’ - . . ‘ . - ‘ O . . . X :s .\Ien‘s Gum Caudee Riiiber Boots . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 275 1 Ladies’ \VoolAl:\skas . ‘B: ,‘.len's Solid (‘rum lit) its, heavy soles . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 25 Ladies’ Buckle -\ri:tics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Boys’ Solid Gum lioots . . . . . . . . . . _ 1,;;dig5' Hg.“-y R,,bbC,.S _ _ ' . _ _ _ _ H 9. Youths’ Solid Gum Boots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. i 65 Ladies’ Good Rubbers . . . . . . . . . . . . ‘I Men's Heavy \Vonl ,‘\l:|Sl{£l‘. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 95 .\lisse~ Buckie .-\nics . . . . . . . . . . _ _ :2 “°3"Y5 H‘=1“''Y 50”“ R‘|1i>b€T5- go Cliiltlreifs Buckle .-\rctic<. . . . ‘ . _ _ . . . 6° \len's lleavy Buu:i;leAictics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i 00 E M isscs I’I:iiu Rubbers, . . . , , . _ ' I . . U , .\Icn's Hem/y(lvcrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... 60 Children's Plain Rubber“...............: . . . ‘ N 1 Gossamers and Rubber Goats. SUI’Elil()R QUALITIES AN D IUAKES. Ladies’ Silver Electric Goasamcrs 40 to 55 in" 31.52 00 Men's Long Gossamer Coat :ii.. 3 5. Ladies’ Silver Newport; and Raglans at . . . . . . . . . 2 00 ‘M“-“'5 Rubbfl‘ C0-"5 3‘ - ’ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - I D Ladies Plain Rubber Gossamers at . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 50 The EXTREMELY LOW PRICES on all our goods is sufficient evidence to our way of doing business. Mcn’s Buckle Plow Shoes $1.35: Mcn’s Velvet Slippers 30¢ Mews Goat Slippers 90c. ’ Send for our Catalogue and Price List; sent tree to anyone. We believe that Honest, Fair Dealing is the only basis for perniaiient prospcritv Bu of the maker at Vlfholesale prices, and save an enormous retail p'i-.ofit._ {all inquiries cordially answered. Ans §- Patrons’ Shoe IIousc' oflicinlly endowed by th E ' ‘ ' nearly all the Griinges in the coniitry, wholdesalexttiiiildiie iI(I’0IrIlt)[:)]ll8tt(;el’£i(;.; and Rubbers of all kinds and descriptions, ‘.21 North 8th Street ’I’hil.3 delphia, Penn. ju’ue1 ' WI-IY WHITE LEAD does not last one quarter the time. INGERSOLUS LIQUID RUBBER PAINT does. W}, White Lead does not last as it formerly did, is answered in our Pamphlet. Every on their own Painter, which is full of other valuable information about PAINTING. Cola Cards and all mailed free. MASTERS and SECRETARIES should write for a supply 6: their GRANGE. PATRON’S PAINT WORKS, 64 Fulton Street, New York, The first concern that sold direct to Patrons and gave wholesale trade di t keeps it up. Don’t buy any Paint till you write us. .“ Senior Life Insurance. The American Mutual Life Ins. Co., of Elkhart, Ind., is the BEST Senior Life ins. Co. in the wo ld. Tl 1 one each month. No aiiniuil dues. No poolls. Eai‘ceh lon‘:lelsttIla]s):1e:'§:T}?en[;.l’ lhat month. ABSOLUTELY SAFE. Pays promptl without uibbl' 0' Will transfer members from other companies free. Ad rose the H‘c(i-i-eta -"IE3 Elkhart, Ind. Septlbti’ Sriiwiiirr GRE Ei.\'\VO0I) STOCK FARM. Poland China Swine a Specialty. Breeding Stock recorded in Ohio P. C. Record. Cor- responden c and inspection invited. B. G. BUELL, LITTLE _PRAIRIE RONDE, Cass Co., Mich ;.mcH|§;i:r.Pssir.in£E ADDRESS G: On HRWPTON. Detroit. Mich. June 1,1310 Oct. lm-'1‘, iLL§ "CH ICH ESTER’S ENGLISH." The Original! and only Genuine. Fiife nnd nlwavs itrlirihl -. Beware of Wurthlg-3 [mjmtgau India) s:ibl~t A IE5, A 1-_ - ,- “(lh}l):!Iieist:‘r’(:- hug All" and tau: n’J’:luhCi".’0rl'ni51£:xI.(‘.€:5$) 4’: (st.amp'i)I.o us li'I’ particulars in (utter by Ivan." luau. NAN‘-E PAPER’. Clllehestt-r (‘in-uilt-al Cu, -_ 2.511; .\li|dlnun hunnro, I-'hu;_-,;‘1u_, 5 Sold by Dru lit: eve II J ‘A"* l'- ‘- I-cu-‘os En-_rlh " P¢nfl;ZI:§'I;lrf;lus.M rlise iit'ii'v.ii’e’:'3" HIDDEN NAME CARDS,1jf:{'f"f_Tf;‘,;““;f“:"-= ”""' "'°“"‘ '"*~‘ “-4 W I-at-no a llnosl “W duds - x ’ ” '."'-I"".'*.~'|-.0! M at nun.-no... .i.ii reasons -um... b«..unLuswm..:m;on Am =3.--an. no.1... 0... x-up -i, ..»i...n.. nun r;Ix.mtJn|i««l ......,. i....muu-ics,tug 9.F.»...§il.‘l.l’.'.F-.i’.l . .9“. Pi! Minna. sun; 4: w.-- I» no ii» ::I..'-‘.£‘:""" knuini - ¢,-_- , “dumb . cum W .~»:i...