5 3 I “s Spring-tooth Hauows: ‘ in nice shape for seetlin August [5, 1890. THE C3-.‘l.=?..A.1\'l'G-TE-.'£ VISITOR. r’ Do you want the BUYERS GUIDE? Weight‘, - - 2 lbs. Pages, - - - 540. Illustrations, - - 8,000. Articles Priced and I Accurately Described, 30,000. I L Most people say tlint it is worth $ to them as 3. Reference Book, asit enables them to make it comparative estimateof the Vulue of everything they buy. Sent upon receipt of 15 cents (stumps or otherwise), to pay postage or express-age. MONTGOMERY WARD 6:. Co., I I I to I I6 Michigan Ave., “THE ORIGINAL WHOLESALE Guns: sumau I-Iousz." CHICAGO. ‘THE EXTERMINATOR! ‘ Points of Merit THAT THE ~ ermina or HAS OVER ALL OTHER 1st. 11' \vill cut hard ground. ‘Ed. It will not (lodge or trail. 3d. It will EXTERMINATE weeds. 4th. It levels the ground and 0l':l.S(‘S all tooth in-.n'ks, leaving the s\ii'fuec cling But‘ back of the teeth. 9;, and is the only Spring-tootli llurr-nv that has :1 Lev- Sth. It is 2.3 per cent. lighter (lruft. \Ve make three Si’/.cs——7 beam, 6 ft.; 8 hcum, l5ft.l1 in.; lllln-:iiii,Sft.!.H1i. Qfé‘ For p1'ices, l(‘l‘lllS and other iliforintition, :1:l«l1'e<-1. WHIPPLE HARROW CO., “ fifth degree, set 0 by registered mail ...... __ “ combined degrees, per doxen ....... ._ 1 Blank “Articles of Association" for the incor- poration of subordinate granges, with cop of charter, all complete.... .... ...— .-—— -- 10 Notice to delinquent members, per I00 . . . . . . .. 40 Declaration of Purposes, per doz. 5c; per 100. . _ 40 American Manual of Parliamentary LaW.... . . . 50 “ “ etc. (Morocco tuck). 1 00 Digest of Laws and Rulings .......... .. 4" Roll books.......................... 15 Patrons’ badges (in lots 0:.‘ 15 or more). . 25 Officers‘ badges . . . . . . . . . . . . - . - — . - - — - - — - - - - - - -- 5" co-ornnarrvn LITERATURE. History and Objects of Crroperation. ._ _ _ 05 what is co-operation? .............. .. 02 Home of the Weaknesses of (‘o—operatio 02 Educational Funds; How to Use Them ()1 Associative Farming ............ .._— . "1 The Economic Aspect of Co—operat1oi 01 Association and Education 03 The Principles of Unity 01 The Peri1sufCred.it___._ .. 01 Fundamental Principles 1" Co-operation . . . . .. 01 J. T. COBB, Sec'y Michigan State Grange, Schoolcraft. Mich. Address, GERMAN HORSE AND COW POWDER ls of the highest value of horses, cattle, hogs, and poultry. It assists digestion and assimilation and thus converts feed into muscle. milk and fat which otherwise would be Wasted- MORTIMER WHITEHEAD Says: “German Horse and Cow Powder pays many times its cost in keeping all kinds of farm stock in good health. I have used it for years on my farm, buying a barrel at a time." . It is manufactured by Dr. L. Olu-rlxoltzer s Sou?! 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Send in your orders to the ojflce of this paper at once, as the demand is great. and the supply limited. We will forward all orders to the publishers and uarantee to iurnish the New York Week y for three months and a handsome hound copy of \Veh. star’: Dictionary, containing over 1600 pages, or 54. Send Post Oflice and Express address. \’Vc have decided to add this paper to the above offer at $4.35. ‘ GRANGE VISITOR. Pmv Paw. .\Iich. “lllEl)XLY PAPER IN THE ll'0lll.l).— Edited. Printed and mzulo ready for the mails for furincrs and by lzirine-r's—iii sliori, PUBLISHED RIGHT OUT ON A FARM. Is the Gl{.~\.\‘GF. Nrxvs, esmblislicrl in 1876: and pub- lished semi-monthly at 50 rents per yezir. To in- trorlurc the GR.-t.\'(;s Ni-zxvs into io.ooo new homes during 1890, we Wlll send it, on TRIAL To NEW sL'Hsci———§ A Plea. for the Birds. “The bonny, bonny littlc birds- lt is their hour of need. They have no power to beg for life, It is for them I plead.“ There is no more exquisite creature in the universe than the living bird. perched dziintily up- on the swaying branch of an elm, while from the little throat pours forth at gush of melody that car- ries our heart with his. straight to the mercy seat of God. But the same bird dead, transfixed by the skill of the taxidermist, in the agonized position that could only have been assumed in the little creatures lingering death struggles. is at sight to make one shudder. I saw in zt milliner‘s opening at bonnet trimmed with at band coin- posed of twenty birds‘ heads. It seems hardly credible that any woman could be found with a. taste so depraved as to think this beautiful. but. alas! there are many who would wear it as proudly as the savage wears the girdle of sculps at his waist. and with as little thought as he of the suffering of which these tiny heads are the token. Let us look at it for :1 moment-twenty birds" lieztds. That means twenty little lives gone out of the sunlight: twenty happy voices hushed for aye ; twenty little bodies gasp- ing their life out upon the ground: fifty baby birdies starving in the nest; millions of grubs and worms feasting on our crops and fruit. and the story is not yet told. Who could estimate it? And the senseless vanity of one woman is gratified, and at what a. cost! “Do you realize the horror of it? Why, there are our own dear little birds that we love. the wel- come visitors for whose coming we wait so anxiously in the spring. When their first glad notes are heard what a thrill of joy it sends through every nerve. We scatter crumbs for them and hope they will build again in the old elm tree near the porch. How gladly we announce some morning that three little blue eggs are in the nest. Then. bye and bye. what a pleasure it is to watch the happy little mother as she flies to and fro with the food for her darlings. this! The blue bird who awaken- whose song was so sweet that we hushed our breath to listen, there they are~twisted into some fantastic shape and sewed upon at bonnet. VVoman, woman, you can no longer plead ignorance or thoughtlessness for your barbar- ity; you know the cruelty of it; you know that without the birds man could not live upon the earth; you know that were it not for the birds. the growth of in- sect life would be so immense that vo,g"etuti0n would be entirely destroyed—yet you wilfully en- courage this wholesale slaughter of our feathered friends, and knowingly sanction this wicked destruction of the beautiful war- blers who fill our groves and fields with their sweet melodies of love. . From the Atlantic to the Pa- lcific, from Canada. to Florida, the 5 agents of the millinery firms are And it has come to. gush of joyful melody, the oriole‘ ed us in the morning with hisiupon which to begin it. ceaseless in their work of death and destruction. From early spring until late fall, at all times and at all seasons, the lovely. helpless creatures are pursued with relentless vigilzince—snur- ed, trapped. hunted with dogs, shot. killed with air-guns. bean- shooters, stones, no matter what, so long as the bright plumage -can bring a few pennies into the hunter’s pocket. Some species of birds are al- 1‘ea.(ly extinct and others fast be- coming so. From this immense destruction of bird-life. but one result can follow. The punish- ment of our sin will fall upon our chiltlren when, without let or hindrance. the grubs and worms can destroy the crops, blight the fruit and leave the shade trees but blackened skele- tons to mourn the death of the sweet birds that were wont to build in their branches. The women of the land should rise up and protest against this outrage by refusing indignantly to wear the plumage, that badge of cruelty that is the symbol of so much suffering and anguish. "The human cry to God is still For ‘mercy. mercy,’ solely; The birds sing only, ‘God be praised,’ And ‘holy, holy, holy.’ " Out—Door Botany —— A Suggestion from Experience. "The foolish man," says Emer- son, "wonders at the unusual: the wise man at the usuzil;" while Lowell more wittily words the some truth: ‘-VVe think lightly of nature‘s penny shows, and esti- mate what we see by the cost of the ticket.” With what dismay would the average hay—maker be likely to open his eyes at all that Mr. Ruskin finds to say about so in- significant objects as grass blos- soms: “Minute, granular, feath- ery or downy seed vessels. min- gling brown punctuation and’m'//. H1 .-lm. (/u;':."i'II. r----—--— < c > ——-— Progress of American Steel. An int-erestiiig feature of the recent-ly published stut.isticul re- port of the 1-XlTl(;‘l‘l(.‘.iLll Iron and Steel Association is the increas- ing percentage of steel in the to- tal production. About one—thi1'tl of the bur "iron" now manufac- tured in the United Stutes is steel, so is nearly half of the plate and sheet iron. and -10 per cent of the cut nails and spiltes. The rolled iron product. other than nails. only iiiereused 7.} per cent. last year. while the rolled steel product. apart from rails. increased :1-3;’ per cent. It needs not to say that steel rails are now repl2Lcin,g_r ‘thoseof iron on {Lll the i'uil1'ouds which are eificielitly 1’11ui1ug'etl. 1'\l‘t-t‘l'll1dl trliztiige is completed. what then‘: \\'ill the next 1'efo1'1n in order be whole- sale substitution of uluniinum for the ferric material. crowding that out of the way as the latter is (lisplziciiig wood for many st-ructural purposes? It is not improbable. Clay is much more plentiful than l1‘()I1 ore. and re- cent experiments at least indicate it as possible that the new metal will ere long be produced as cheaply per unit of volume, if not of weight. as its elder broth- er. Such a clizmge would revo- lutionize not a. few of our manu- facturing processes. and perhaps some of the habits of the civil- izetl human being. .lI<-Ia./I mul I‘.'i.s'("Il /.c[fI(u{/. <90- HEMP S1LK:—Mr. Nuyeinurzi Sukusuburo. udruggistof Hikonc. in Oini.Japa.n, has succeeded in converting wild hemp (yachyo) into £1. substance possessing all the essential qualities of silk. Nothing is said about the process. but it is asserted that trial of the threzul has been niude at the first silk-weaving estziblishnient in Kioto and other factories, with excellent results in every case. The plant in question grows on moors and hillsides. Its fiber is said. to be strong and glossy, in no Wise inferior to silk when properly prepared. Cultivation on an extended scale would )l‘O- sent no (lll'l'lCllll.l(,‘S. 1 _ __4__,-,_ _ HAPI>I1\'ESS.—Ti'ue liappiiiess is of a. retired 1ia.tu1'e. and an en- emy to pomp and noise; it arises. in the first place. from the on- joyment of one’s self. and. in the next, from the fricntlslnp and conversation of ti few select com- panions. Fulse liztppiness loves to be in a. crowd. and to draw the eyes of the world upon her. She does not receive any satisfaction from the applause which she gives herself, but from the ad- miration which she raises in oth- ers.—Ex.