“THE FARJIER IS OF MORE CONSEQCENCE THAN THE FARM, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IZPIPROVED."

Vol XV No.23

PAW

PAW, llIICH.l DECEMBER I

, 1890.

Whole Number 359

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Taxation.

thing is taxes. An impression
prevails that the farming com-
munity is unduly taxed. I

I think I am safe in saying thatf
the statement has been made a ;
hundred times in this county this
year "that the farmers own but
one ninth of the property, and yet
pay eighty per cent of the taxes.”
I think that in one of the Septem-
ber VISITORS occurs the state-
ment that farmers pay seventy-
five per cent of the taxes. The
per cent of property in the hands
of farmers can be better told af-
ter the census returns are in, but
we already have our tax reports
for this state and let us see what
they say.

But first allow me to say I do
not think that any of our officers,
town county or state. are admin-
istered as economically as they
might be. any more than I be-
lieve that there is one family in
a hundred but what spends more
than is really necessary. Also

7 tax was the same as the state tax. and that if the bill. as presented : pendent district if they want to.

jAssuming this ratio for all the
, counties. which we think is a fair
one. the aggregate county tax
‘would be $1,458,466.04. Against
this 3.866 liquor dealers paid $1,-
500,798.85, or 42,332.81 more

‘ than the entire County tax in the M

.2 State.
j Now I am not justifying a
, liquor tax. I wish the business,

‘tax and all could be blotted out. ‘here that being only a question of the s

two years ago were made a law

‘I would change that. so that

E

‘ appropriations.

l

consist of a series of astounding
No law has

and enforced with regard to the such a district could not becomejever been passed organizing the
school property now on hand, japartof the township unit.if theyisurvey or defining the duties of
that the farmerswould be a long did not want to, without the con-  its officers. It exists by implica-

way in arrears and would have sent of the rest of the township.  tion alone.

to “whack up" to get even; and
that is what they dont want to‘
do. That is a good
the farmers side, which will an-
swer further on and will only say;

That would take away all possi-

mans lives miserable.

‘ and the sellers obliged to go to M how to settle the preliminaries, it, work well in those states where

farming or something

else has no bearing on the question it is in operation.

But then i

Its only real root ap-

lpears to be a tiny line inserted in
A ble cause for that fear of village?
point from domination which makes some bill.

the sundry civil appropriation
Up to 1884 this law ran

I thus wise:
We are told by the opponents
ystem that it does noti

To continue the completion of
the geological map of the nation-
al domain.

Now, sir. what is the national

I for a living. but I wish to show ‘ as to whether a township. a sec- - again we are told by the ofiicial I domain? It is the public land——
Election is Over and the next that others pay taxes as well as tion or a single farm is the best authorities in those states that it’ the land belonging to the gener-

l farmers. But aside from this tax,
I think that one-half of the valua-
tion. on which our taxes are
based, is assessed to those who
do not own farms.

As to town taxes in our town.

~ I think the farmers pay the larger I

3 share, for I know of but one man}

, doing business in town but what ‘

i‘ is a farmer. and I do not know

but he is: but in more than one

hundred villages in our state. the i

tax payers pay their proportion‘

; of the town tax, besides their cor-

poration tax, while the taxes in ,

our cities would frightened the 

farmers. In conclusion I venture
the assertion. that taking school.
town. municipal. county and
state, the farmers do not pay
forty per cent of the taxes.

I. P. BATES. Arlington.

 

CLIMAX, Nov. 25. 1890.——ED.
VISITOR. -—Per1nit me 3. 1e w words
more on the school question. In
M my former article I gave my rea-

 

' unit for a school district.

that there is less chance to dodge 3 sons for favoring the township

The next argument is a sequeli
to the last one, to the effect that
villagers value good schoolsi
more highly than farmers. This
they prove by showing that they
pay out a good deal more in pro-
portion to their means to secure
such schools; as for instance, in
Paw Paw, where they have paid
$30,000 to the farmers $6,000, or
five to one. Hence. it is agreed,
if the village district were con-
solidated with the outlying town-
ship in those 125 townships, the
cost of the rural schools would
be increased at the farmers ex-
pense. In other words. those
who oppose the township unit are
afraid the villages would give
them better schools than they
are willing to pay for. and that
they would have to bear their
equal share of th«~u<J.;_\ense. This
also I will answer-1art1ier"on and‘
only say here; that for my part.
I want the best schools we are;
able to have for both country and;

_‘ does work well and is a vast im- 1 al government.

The words "na-

provement on the small district,'tional domain," therefore. did
system. The weight of evidence i not authorize an invasion of the
so far as I have seen it, is over- .‘ States. But they were invaded.
whelmingly in its favor. There They were brought within the

are exceptions and always will be.
No system will secure good
schools where the people them-
selves are indifferent and not in
earnest to have them.

Lastly, it is charged that those
who favor the change are partly
men who do not understand the
subject, and the others are
“pushI'.ng this ]rreci0u.s' scheine” un-
der false pretences “82'nlply tr: -
ing to work at big confidence game
on the rural co1mnunz'ties.” So far
as I know the persons who favor
the township unit, the statement
is an unjustified and unmitigated
slander. If there are any per-
sons to whom the charge truth-
fully applies. I ask that their
narnes and tho.-o.vh1e.nce be given
in order that they may be sum-
marily squelched.

F. HODGMAN.

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scope of the geological survey.
After 1884 the tiny line was al-
tered so as to read thus:

To continue the completion of
the geological map of the United
States

In that year this active direct-
or brought about the organiza-
tion of the United States Topo-
graphical Survey. This was
adding another head to the curi-
osity. Its capacity for absorbing
revenue was thus greatly in-
creased. The average annual
appropriation for the geological
survey proper is now about $180,-
000 a year. The balance of the
$600,000 goes into the maws of
the topographical survey, and
fm vlfiwbs 1-mboratory. mans and
other expenses.

Up to 1886 the printing alone
had cost about $600,000. Since

then it has not been less than
.-‘3250.000—§850,000 in all. My
friend from Kentucky day before

the supervisor than with many; as the unit for the school district. town. I am willing to pay my‘
other things. §I have read the opposing argu- , equal share with my neighbors.

An Interesting Bureau.

‘\

Farm property is not as easily

slipped intohis pocket, or onto a change my mind. My statement . cure such schools.

;ments and see I10 1'(:‘3ISOl’l l30i
, .

of either country or town, to se-
It would be

Having taken occasion recent-E
ly to point out the danger with‘

back shelf as some other taxable as to the condition of those rural 1 most profoundly humiliating to . which our agriculture is threat-E
,schools which are brought in- jme to be classed among thosefened through the plan unfortun-f
But now as to actual amount to competation with the villagejwho are not willing to do this:

things.

paid. First as to state taxes. ischools, I understand to be "em- jVarious changes

Our Auditor General reports June

30th. 1889, for the year closingwvas made on personal observa— 3that every argument in favor of

that day: General State taxes,

$1.458.-166.04.: Specific taxes, 35947.  man can judge for himself which  with equal force in favor of tak-

171.66. Making the Specific
taxes for that year a trifle less
than forty per cent of the whole,
if figured rightly. These specific

taxes are from Rail Roads. R1V'-'

ers. Plank Roads. Insurance,
Minning, Telegraph. Telephone,
and Express Companies. The
Rail Roads pay the most of this
$715, 526.66 while Insurance comes
next with $146,498.66.

The stock in these is held large-
ly outside of the‘ state, and so get
no return: while to the general
tax payers was refunded as prim-

ary school money for that same:
year $457,569.75 or not far from’

thirty per cent of their entire
tax. This year this county will
not pay the state 955,000 more than
it gets back. This does not look

like a very great extravagance oni way of the villages.

the part of the state.

Of this general tax we have no g

means of knowing how much is
paid by farmers, as the tax is
given by counties and not by
cities, but a comparison between

counties having cities,with those,

that have none, will aid in forming
an opinion. Tax 1888, Kent, $69,-
417.71; tax 1888, Kalamazoo, $37,-
022.78; tax 1888, Van Buren, $21,-
596.62. It will be seen that Kent
pays more than three and a fourth
times as much tax as Van Buren.
Looking over all these reports
we believe it is safe to say that
farmers do not pay more than
one-half of the general state tax,
which. reckoning in the specific
tax, would leave them only 30
per cent of the whole tax
to pay- instead of 75 as has been
generally believed.
As to County tax we have no
'figuI-es given. but last year our

, phaticly denied.” The statement E

3 tion and I re-affirm it. Every !
iis right within the limits of his‘
‘ observation. We are told that
i Michigan rural schools are equal
» to those of any state in this un-
ion; that may be. I have only
been into thirteen of them. so
my observation is not sufficiently
wide to enable me to deny it if I
wanted to. They as a whole are
not as good as they ought to be,
or might be with the money that
is paid for them. Now, as to the
opposing arguments. First, it
is asserted that in 125 townships,
the villagevote outnumbers the =
rural vote and hence would con-
trol the disposition of the school
funds in the interest of the ma-
jority; that this would be bad
for the rural districts as it would
put a dangerous temptation in the
Possibly.
I Admit that it would be so and let
us look a little further into this
‘ line of argument. If there are
only 125 townships where the vil-
lage vote preponderates, there
must be 1,000 to 1,500 where the
rural vote preponderates. If it
" is a bad thing for the farmers to
be in the minority, then it must
be a good thing for them to be in
the majority, and the total result
is about ten to one in the farmers
favor. I have heard no com-
plaints of the dangerous tempta-
tion the farmers would be sub-
jected to in the 1,000 or 1,500
townships where they preponder-
ate. Perhaps I will now that at-
tention is called to it. I am lis-
tening.
The next point urged is to the
effect that the villages have
 spent a great deal more, in pro

f portion to their means, for school
ipurposcs than the farmers have,

are rung on;
these arguments. one of which is

the township unit can be applied

ing all of a man's business out of
his own hands. If the assertion
had been confined to such busi-
ness as the man shares in com-
mon with all his countrymen, in
distinction from his private af-
fairs, I would have assented to it
and said yes sir, and they ought
to be applied as well in other of
our public concerns, especially
our road work. But when the
assertion is applied to the mans
distinctively private affairs, and
we are triumphantly asked
“would it not be a good idea to
have a township board to manage
our farm affairs" it becomes ab-
surd. and I only care to say in
reply. that I would rather have a
township board to manage them
than one of our little school dis-
trict boards. I would have a
wider range of selection and
stand a chance of getting a bet-
ter board. The sum and pith of
the whole matter is that those
who oppose the township unit do
so because they fear that if the
village is included in the town-
ship district, where the villagers
are in the majority. they will
vote more money for school pur-
poses than the farmers are will-
ing to pay their equal share of,
and that the money will be un-
justly used to advance the inter-
ests of the village schools. The
simple and conclusive reply to
this whole array of argument
from beginning to end is, that it
is not necessary even under the
bill of two years ago that the vil-
lage and rural districts shall be
put together in the same district.
Provision is made that any exist-

ately urged upon Congress by]
Maj. J. VV. Powell for a general

scheme of irrigating large areas

of public lands, now arid. at na-

tional expense (thus immensely
increasing the competition under
which every farmer in the coun-

try is laboring)—we are tempted
now to copy some extracts from a
speech on the subject delivered
in Congress last summer by Mr.

A J. Cummings, of New York.

The speaker did not attack the

scheme particularly. but took oc-

casion to pay his compliments to
Maj. Powell's geological survey-

ing bureau as below:

I know of nothing that needs a
thorough survey more than this
geological survey itself. Spread
out on a map it would make a
curiosity. Its marvelous growth
beats that of the bean of Jack
the Giant-Killer. Like Falstaff,
it has grown out of all compass.
and like Sir John it seems to be
not only a falsifier itself, but a
collaborator of untruths. So far
as I have been able to ascertain,
it has not a single land—mark or
guide that it is safe to tie to or
follow.

Falstalfs thirteen men in buck-
ram grown out of two were floti-
tious. They were conjured.
But here is a real growth and a
greater wonder. Let us analyze
this national fungus.

The United States Geological
Survey began under Clarence
King in 1879 on an appropriation
of $5,000. Director John W.
Powell swirled into it in March,
1881, on an appropriation of $25,
000 a year. In nine years the
appropriation has reached over
$600,000 annually.

I find the title “Director" at
tached to Major Powell in the
congressional directory, Where
he got it I do not know; possibly

ing district having 150 or more
scholars may remain an inde-

from some appropriation act.
The whole institution seems to

yesterday said that the director
had impressed him as possessing
"very remarkable ability. and
very unusual administrative ca-
pacity." He impresses me in
the same way. Having by his
wonderful tact got two horses to
ride instead of one, he performs
the feat of double equitation—
rides both horses at once. He
removes from the shoulders of
the geological survey the making
of the map for which the appro-
priations are made. These ap-
propriations are deftly turned
from the geological into the topo-
graphical survey. This survey
is also carried on without specific
law. It gets its life, like its run-
ning mate, from appropriation
bills.

Congress meant to have a geo-
logical map made by the geolog-
ical survey. The director is
having a topographical map
made for the use of the geologic-
al survey. Where does he get
the authority for the change?
Under his manipulation the mul-
tifarious lines of his administra
tion have become so involved
that it is extremely diflicult to
trace them. * * * * *

And right here comes in this
irrigation business—another head
and another mouth to feed. By
his policy of land reservation he
secures time to correct his mis-
takes. The thing is transformed
into a sort of Cerebus—it has
three heads, three mouths, six
ears, and tongues that always
find an echo in Congress. It has
become truly formidable. My
silver-haired friend from Ken-
tucky dignifies it by calling it a
bureau. If it is a bureau, never
was a bureau so curiously gotten
together. No idea of it is sug-
gested in Hugh Millers “Ves-
tiges of Creation.”

The globular conformation
seems to be entirely wanting.
but there is no denying that it is
getting to be what my friend

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THE G-HANG-E VISITOR.

Dec. 1, 1890

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l
T wo Farmers. .

Old Farmer Sour was very cross ‘ p

And rather ill at ease,

Declared that " farming was a loss,"
Dame Nature did not please,

For there were scores of creeping things,
Of worms and slimy slugs,

And all the atmosphere had wings,
“ ‘Twas just composed of bugs."

Some monster ate the cabbages:
Another swallowed beans,

And oh, alas. the ravages;
“I don't know what it means."

Thus murmured poor old Farmer Sour,
And set him down to cry,

“ There's something wrong in every hour,
And I no more will try."

Huge worms ate the tomatoes up,
The apples all fell off;

And then to fill this farmer's cup,
His cows began to cough;

And so he sat him there and wailed,
From sunrise until night,

Declared that farming “always failed,"
And groaned with all his might.

Across the way lived Farmer Sweet,
V\’ho had no better farm,

But who would all disaster meet
VVith sunny heart so warm

That nature's foes left no impress
Upon his happy face;

If things seemed wrong, he‘d smile and guess
He could the meaning trace.

He picked off all the ugly slugs,
Cremated manv worms,

Exterminated halt‘ the bugs;
just gave these pests their turns,

And so his crops were rather good,
VVhen Farmer Sour's were not,

For Farmer Sour worked not in cold,
Nor when 'twas very hot.

The weeds were such a heavy cross
For Farmer Sour to bear;

To Farmer Sweet they were no loss-
You saw none anywhere;

No brambles near the fences grew,
No thistle showed its head,

While on the other side the fields
With thistle tops were red,

Poor Farmer Sour sat down and whined,
The world was all awry,

While Farmer Sweet grew fat, and dined
On chickeu, cake and pie.

Old Farmer Sour ate pork and corn,
With little else beside;

He grimly wished he'd ne'er been born,
And then laid down and died,

The funeral was rather large:
The country folks seemed glad

To lay the poor old soul away,
He was so cross and sad.

But Farmer Sweet is living yet.
He owns both farms they say:
He bought the widow out of debt,

And then she moved away.

And how the old farm brightened then,
And how the thistles hid.

The cockleburs and burdocks fled,
Of pests the place was rid;

The appletrees were pruned and sprayed,
The fruit no more fell off;

The cattle in the meadows played,
The cows forgot to cough.

xx..- r:»,,-mm- Qw.--o ze nlrl -1---‘ F:‘“.'v
But still he loy es to laugh,
And says that “farming does not pay"
The man who garners chaff,
And lets the wheat all go to waste,
Farm tools lie out and rot.
\\'ho will not work when it is cold,
Nor when 'tis very hot.
—-.81-In-rm’.

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Rye for Fertilizing and ‘Pasture.

Mr. J. C Wiley writes that he
raises about 25 acres of corn each
year. and wants to know whether
it would be best sow rye in Aug.
or September between the corn
rows. “The object in view." he
says. “is not to obtain a crop of
rye, but to retain nitrogen. shade
the soil. prevent winter washing.
and perhaps use for sheep pas-
ture in the spring, and be plowed
under later for other crops.
followed by wheat in the fall.”

I would advise this by all means.
My rotation was such that I had
some land that would otherwise
be bare during the winter it was
a favorite practice of mine to sow
rye. even if I could not get _it in
until October. I want my land
busy-—something growing as
nearly all the time as possible.
Every square rod of my cultivat-
ed land will go into winter with
a. mass of live roots and the sur-
face well covered. There is no
waste and no washing then. Mr.
Wiley will find that his rye on
corn stubble will pay two or three
times over, if properly managed.
It will cost him but little more
than the seed.

Mr. W. sends other questions.
The drouth was so severe as to
kill out all young clover in patch-
es some of which are quite large.
"What is to be done?” I should
have harrowed lightly and sown
timothy seed in September, and
then clover early in the spring
again. I know of no other way.
unless one plows the land and
sows wheat again and reseeds.
It is too late now to sow the
timothy and I would sow both
very early next spring. "It is
our experience that where the
wheat is very heavy,” Mr. W.
writes. "the clover is small and1
rather puny and more easily kill-
ed by drouth. Do you not find
your best set of clover where the
wheat is only medium?" Yes and
no. When the wheat is first

 

wheat yielding 40 to 60 bushels
er acre the clover is very small
and feeble. But before winter.

with the treatment we give the
clover. where the best wheat was
it is always the rankest and best.

Frequently, after harvest. when
we have had a great wheat crop,

it has seemed as though we
should fail in our seeding; but
we mow it over twice. keeping
weeds down (they pump up mois-
ture and rob the young feeble
clover in amount more than some
would imagine) and stock all off.
and by winter we have a thick
perfect stand. all over. every
time. The drouth this year after
harvest, was very trying on the
young clover. but a finer stand or
thicker, ranker growth, man
could hardly _ask for. It looks
to-day like one magnificent lawn
of solid dark green. without a
break from end to end. I would
give $100 in a moment if I could
put a picture in the Farmer that
would show it just as the passer-
by sees it to-day. It has taken
the same work and care (we have
carefully top-dressed the poor
spots since harvest). but they
will pay enormously. This. after
tile draining where it was needed,
is the foundation of our success
——the heaviest clover sod we can
grow. And then the looks! A
gentlemen and his wife called
here yesterday on the way from
Chagrin Falls to the Akron fair,
and they were readers of the
Farmer. “Why.” he says, “you
have a pretty nice street along
back here.” Certainly we have.
All the stubbles are neatly mow-
ed and show great lawns of green
instead of brown acres of dead
weeds. for one thing. Beauty is
something costly, but in this case,
making our homes beautiful is
one of the most paying things
we can do.

Mr. W. also wishes to know if
it will “injure clover to any ex-
tent as a fertilizer to pasture the
aftermath in the fall previous
and plowing under in the spring,
if nothing heavier than sheep
are turned on.”

I do not like to answer that
question. He had better study
it out for himself. I turn nothing

on to my clover; but I get my
nnc-he-y fruxn Potatoes and \vl1o.a.f.

W. may get his main income from
sheep. The gain might be more
than the loss for him. I am
satisfied I could not buy sheep or
any stock and pasture the clover
off to my advantage. I had better
let it go back to the soil. I do
not want my land tramped at all
when not absolutely necessary,
nor the clover plants injured. till
they are turned under. You
might say sheep are lighter than
other stock and would not tramp
the soil much. Yes. but their
feet are proportionately smaller.
I think they would pack the soil
as much as cattle. Secretary
Bonl1am says he can "feel!" the
difference‘ in the resistance of the
clover roots when plowing a field
of clover that has been partly
pastured and partly not. It is
much greater where no stock
have been on the land. On his
bottom land the packing would
make little difference; the differ-
ence in growth of roots is the im-
portant point. On our heavier
soils the packing is as important
as the growth of roots. Much
land in Northeast Ohio has been
all but tramped to death.

Lastly, “Does it injure the
fertilizing qualities of clover, if
frozen out in the winter before
being plowed under in the spring,
as it is more apt to do if pastur-
ed?” If the roots are thrown out
by frost and lie on top of ground.
none of their substance that is of
value as a fertilizer will be wasted.
They will dry up. but only the
water will go up into the air. But
these dry roots would not decom-
pose when turned under and
make plant food that the crop on
the ground could use as readily
or quickly as if they had been
green. There is no actual loss
of fertility. but there may be in
the time when you will get it into
dollars. Green clover roots turn-
ed under. or tops either. are soon
taken up by the soil and crops.
The dry cloverhaulm from clover
seed, that we turned under this
spring. has in the ground now
almost unchanged. The pototoes
got little good from it, except as
a mulch to check the coming of
moisture to the surface: but the
wheat will feed on it most too

taken off the best growth of clover
is where thinnest wheat was.

In

much. I fear, making too great a
growth of straw.

Another point: When the
clover roots are on the surface
they are not gathering and
storing up every stray bit of plant
food in the soil. ready for the
next crop. Pasturing brings the
present dollar; let us study care-
fully that we do not get it so
near our eyes that it hides two
or three in the near future.—T.
B. Terry. in Ohio Farmeir.

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The Milking Stool. .

The milking stool is made to
sit on while milking.

Some suppose it is also made
to beat the cows.

Used in that way it is a very
profitable piece of stable furni-
ture.

Why is it that so many men
yell at a cow when they have oc-
casion to speak to her?

When they go to milk and tell
the cow to "stand over there"
you can hear them all over the
barnyard.

The cows get used to it and
don‘t mind it much.

But the cow that obeys the
gently spoken word is the prop-
erty of the man who understands
cow nature.

"3(r'j7c” and *‘28@‘38c.”
market report of butter.

A big difference in prof~—no in
“returns."

The "3@Tc" list includes those
who say, “dairyin’ don’t pay.”

Their grammar isn’t any better
than their butter.

We all make mistakes in gram-
mar (that is all but a few, and
they do, too. sometimes), but
bad grammar is not as bad as
bad butter.

Bad butter is bad all round-
bad for the seller and bad for the
buyer—and awful bad for the
consumer.

Even if the latter is an axle.

There is room in the world for
bad butter. but no demand for it.

Of course there is no profit in
making it.

It won’t do to tell a dairyman
that he makes bad butter.

Especially if he is a woman,

You can't reform him that way.
but you can hint that you believe
he would make more money if he
would make his butter a certain
way. 9;. .

Uret l’l1II1 interested In discuss-
ing the new way. make him mad
if you choose.

Then bet him that his butter
will sell for more if he follows
your directions.

He will take the bet.

And lose it.

But you will not only win the
bet. but a friend too. in the end.

Making good butter is a simple
and easily understood business.

There are not any trade secrets
about it.

Anyone can acquire all the
skill necessary.

But the great trouble is that
everyone thinks his butter is as
good as butter can be. _

When a man thinks he is at the’
top of the ladder it is hard to
persuade him that there are
many more rounds he has not
climbed.

But if you go up ahead of him
and drop something on him it
will cause him to look up.

The best thing to drop on him
is the price of good butter.

If that doesn't make him try to
climb from “3@7c” to “28@30c,"
then there is no hope for him.

But it will, as a general thing.
and he will be on the look-out
for other improvements that he
can make.

He will no longer listen to the
voice of the “3@Tc" politician.

But will hunt up the “28@30"
statesman.

And having found him will not
only vote for him (after he finds
that he is full weight and not too
salt) but get his neighbors to
vote for him also.

And when this cometh to pass
over the whole country we will
have a government that will be
quoted in the worlds market,
‘ “_’8((I 30c. ”—Sfor-lrmttn and Fu rmor.

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The Feeder.
Much depends upon the breed. I
much upon the feed. but mostl
depends upon the feeder. The)
best feeders are. like poets. borni
not made. but the poorest feeders
can improve very much if they
will study up a little on the sub-
ject. One mistake many feeders
make is in feeding according to
the size of the cows, giving the
big ones more than the little
ones merely because they are
big. Of course the big cow re-
quires more food for support than
the little one. but beyond that
the little cow may be the one
that will give the most profit
from a big ration. Each cow
should be watched and fed ac-
cording to her capacity to use
feed profitably. Some cows will
do better on one kind of feed
than on any other, and if the‘
kind they prefer can be fed, all
the better; but few dairymen can
afford to cater to the taste of
every individual cow. Fortu-
nately this is not necessary. for
if a good dairy ration is fed the
cows will soon adapt themselves
to it and learn to like it if care is
used when the feeding is begun.
Prof. Nicholson gives his views
on this subject in the Jersey Bul-
letin as follows:
“The feeder gives value to the
feed, over and above its chemical

Fall Marketing of Sheep.

The following points are
brought out by a correspondent
of the American (,'ultiL'ator: The
autumn demand for fat lambs is
always good and steady. and they
can be disposed of at fair prices
at a season of the year when the
farmers are in need of a little
money. A fault in sheep-breed-
ing on a small scale. however. is
frequently overlooked here. In
his haste to secure the high-rul-
ing prices for lambs the farmer
disposes of all of them. and runs
the risk of keeping the old sheep
over another year. The true way
is to dispose of the old ewes and
all of the lambs that can be sold
profitably. with the exception of
a few of the best ewe lambs for
breeding purposes. After lamb-
ing three or four times the ewes
begin to deteriorate. and they
should not be kept to more than
the age of four or five years.
Young ewes should take their
place before this time if the
quality of the flock is to be kept.
up. The lambs disposed of, at
tention should be t-urned to the
old sheep to work them off at a
profitable price. After being
brought up from the pasturage
in the fall. the work of graining
them lightly should begin. Sheep
fatten well in winter, for the
farmer has more time to attend

value. by skill in mixing and ad-
ministering it. The judgment of
the feeder should decide both as
to the articles to be fed, the
quantity and time of feeding.
The need for the exercise of
judgment is constant, since the
wants of the cow are constantly
changing.”

The feeder does “give value to
the feed, over and above its
chemical value.” We know a

to them and to watch their con-
dition. Wethers should be kept
through the winter and turned
off in early spring.

 

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Mutton Weight and Quality.

One of the points which have
been demonstrated to the satis
faction of mutton-raisers within
the last few years is that sheep
do not necessarily have to be
very heavy to command the high-

 

dairyman that got better results
from a limited quantity of feed

est prices. Of course if a bunch
of wethers can be gotten together

than any man we are acquainted
with. He was compelled to
practice strict economy, but his
cows looked well and yielded
well. The sole reason was that
he used good judgment in feed-
ing: his feed was the same that
others used. but he gave it addi-
tional value by the skill with
which he fed it. We must first
know what kind of feed to give.
then study the best way to feed
it and the most profitable quan-
tity to feed.——Stockman. and Farm.-
er.

, _,_<,,m.,,_-_
Farmers’ Progress.

In this day of organization
among farmers. if we hope for
good and beneficial results we
must go at it in a business way.
The farmers‘ gathering must be
an educational factor. that will
equip him. making him a better
farmer, better citizen. better

business men. and a hustler who l

has been educated by contact
with his fellow farmer and the
world, which will give him
knowledge and a breadth of un
derstanding that will make him
proud of his calling and not a
foot ball for politicians. Equip
him with these capabilities and
practicalities and make him an
educated man of the world. build
him up into a thinker. instead of
a follower of vagaries and non-
essentials and you will have so
fitted and prepared him that he
will lead and have a following
too, not because he is a farmer,
but because he respects his busi-
ness, is level headed and has ex-
tended his horizon; and this alone
will place him side by side with
professional and business men in
legislative halls and places of
trust, for merit in him will be
recognized as well as in other
vocations.~W. H. Morrison, Wis.

   

A Glorious Country.

Helen Hunt Jackson used to
say that we Americans took our
pleasure sadly. Reflecting on
the manifold discomforts of rail-
way travel twenty years ago. one
does not wonder that we were
saddest when we traveled. No
such objection is now heard from
the thousands of tourists on the
original overland road. the Union
Pacific where every detail for the
comfort of travelers has been
supplied to the utmost. The
California‘ trip of this winter is
one of the most charming in
America. The Union and South-
ern Pacific Railroads have made
vast improvements upon the line
via Ogden. and the journey now
to San Francisco is accomplished
with the greatest possible ease
and comforts, without the delay
formerly incident to winter

nicely ripened. evenly weighted
, throughout. and tipping the beam
lat considerably over 100 pounds,
they are a desirable purchase.
But a great many sheep averaging
about and often a little under 100
pounds prove to be as profitable
for the seller as the heavier
weights. It is not so much the
size of the animal as the condition
in which it is sold. If well flesh-
‘ed and perfectly ripened it is
sure to attract attention of good
buyers in market. A point to be
observed in placing good sheep
lon sale is to have the lot as even
,as possible. The presence of a
lfew animals of questionable
lquality will often prejudice the
lsa-lo of a car-load of first class
,stock. It will pay the shipper or
l the party who sells to the shipper
lto cull out everything which is
lcalculated to deteriorate the
' average of what he sells. and dis-
;pose of it separately. The allow-
lance made for inferior animals is
usually greater than it ought to
be, but it is one of those things
in which the buyer is usually
‘e obstinate. and the seller had better
accommodate himself to the situ-
ation by making separate sale
than interfere with the disposal
of his best stock by classing every-
thing together.——Stockman and
Fmmer.
-— ———~—- <¢> av»-
A Madison county. Iowa. sub-
scriber of the _‘‘Homestead’’ de-
scribes his method of dealing
with the Canada thistle as
follows: “I have a patch of
Canada thistles about fifty feet
by seventy-five. The seed was
introduced with some White
Russian oats brought from a dis-
tance. As soon as I discovered
them I covered the patch with
straw and set fire to it. burning
against the wind, then feed fod-
der on the patch and burned the
refuse off in the spring. and after
they started later covered the
patch with straw and burned
again. Since that I have had no
trouble."

——M—o>———-———

The thrifty farmer should cul-
tivate his fields close up to the
walls and fences. By so doing.
he has the benefit of crops on a
long narrow strip of land. that is
often given up to weeds and
brush, which produce an abund-
ant crop of seeds. and are a con
venient hiding place for vermin.

-- -—~—---———<-o¢———1-—-———

The Detroit Jovzrmzl has given awn)‘
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ivatt-hes to boys and girls within the
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1,000 more before Clu'istn1:ts. Auy boy
or girl can gctoue of thesehc:u1ti1'ul
watches without (I cent of cost. Send
your name and adtlress with :1 two cent
stanip to the Detroit Journal, Detroit,
Mich., and full particul:u's will be1n:til-

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A Greater Danger to be Avoided.
Mr. Stahl has mentioned among
the dangers to be avoided by
farmers organizations. first, too
radical action, or supporting silly
or vicious schemes. I suppose
he alludes to the measure pro-
posed by Mr. Whitehead, the
Lecturer of the National Grange,
for the general government to
loan money at a low rate of inter-
est to the state, and by the states
to be loaned to the counties. and
by the counties to the farmers on
the security of their real estate,
or prehaps to the project of the
Farmers’ Alliance for the govern-
ment to boild ware-houses and
receive such farm products as are
not soon perishable and advance
money thereon to farmers, the
idea being to prevent the markets
from being glutted and prices
ruined by those who are obliged
to sell their crops iminediately
after harvest. Such projects are
not necessarily silly or vicious
because they are new in the
world‘s history. and unsupported
by long-established precedents.
It should be remembered that
our banks. cleaning houses. and
produce exchanges. to say noth-
ing of our post office department.
things which are now considered
so necessary and beneficial, were
unknown to the ancients. Such
radical measures should be dis-
cussed a long time and their jus-
tice and practicability assured
before being adopted into the
creed of farmers’ organizations.

In the second place Mr. Stahl
would refuse membership to
"selfish. scheming men. who have
been repudiated by older organ-
izations." That is an excellent
suggestion. Too much care can-
not be taken to secure honest.
patriotic membership. Good
moral character should always
be insisted on; but bad men will
frequently creep in. no matter
how careful the scrutiny of their
cliaiacters may be. and once in
are capable of doing great harm.
There was a Judas among the
twelve disciples.

The dangers mentioned by Mr.
Stahl are dangers to be avoided.
but there is a still greater one
which he did not speak of—the
danger of strife. disseiitioiis and
divisions. These are what have
chiefly ruined the peace of neigh-
borhoods, disrupted societies.
broken up churches and destroyed
nations. Jesus Christ declared
(Matt. 12:25). “Every kingdom
divided against itself is brought
to desolation and every city or
house divided against itself shall

not stand." St. Paul warned the
Corinthians against “envying.
strife. and divisions." and

besouglit them "that there be
no divisions among you." It was
internal dissentions among the
Israelites after the death of Solo-
mon that caused the separation
of the ten tribes from the tribes
of Judah and Benjamin. the es-
tablishment of two rival king-
doms" the wars between them.
and the invasion of the county
by foreign nations. '

While the different states of
ancient Greece remained at peace
with each other they were in-
vulnerable to their foreign foes,
but when they began to quarrel
among themselves they fell an
easy prey to Philip, King of
Macedonia, and lost their liberty
forever. The Republic of Rome,
like Alexander the Great, con-
quered the whole world and laid
the subjected nations under
tribute, but fell herself by the
divisions among her people and
the civil wars between ambitious
generals.

There was always so much
anarchy and violence in Poland
when they elected their kings
that three neighboring nations
at length intefered, blotted the
kingdom from the map of
Europe and divided its provinces
between them.

One of the largest Christian
churches in the United States
disputed and divided on a point
of doctrine of little importance,
and after many years of separa-
tion wisely reunited. Another
large body of Christians separat-
ed on the question of church gov-
ernment. Our own country has

had the bitter experience of a
four years’ war, brought on by
the heated discussion of political
measures on the right of the
the states to withdraw from the
Union.

In the successful management
of farmers’ organizations (as of
all other orgianizations) there
must be the largest exercise of
Christian charity and generous
forbearance. There must be a
cheerful yielding of personal
opinion to the opinions of the
greater number and a willing
obedience to the decision of the
majority. Personal ambitions
should be subservient to the gen-
eral good and the highest aspira-
tion of every member to promote
the honor and prosperity of the
order. There should be no strife
for leadership or for the highest
oflices. “And whosoever of you
will be the chiefest, shall
be the servant of all.“—Mai'k.
41. J. ll’. lug/«um, in Sim.‘/.'/lzan
«mil I"z(rmcr.

—-<->—- —

The last meeting of Ingham
County Pomona Grange was held
with \Villiamston Grange the last
Friday and Saturday of October.

The program as printed was
well observed. beginning Friday
evening with a lecture by \Vorthy
Master Hewitt. who held a large
audience in close attention to
hear what he had to say of the
Patrons of Husbandry. or the
Grange—the causes of its origin
and growth. what it has accom-
plished and its aims and objects.

The next was a paper entitled.
“Tales of Pioneer Life.” by Bro.
W. M. Carr. one of the early set
tlers of Ingham county and a
charter member of the Grange.
Bro. Carr said that in the college
he graduated from, the main
studies were how to swing an ax.
handle a beetle and hold a break-
er

The paper was from remem-
brance of his past life, and
sketches from the writings of
others. well arranged and giving
a very authentic account of the
early history of this coun-
ty. At its conclusion the
brother was requested by the
president of the State Pioneer
society to present a paper to that
body at its next regular meeting.

Geo. H. l\lcEntyre next prom
seiited a paper on the uniformity
of school text books. and carried
the idea that if a law was passed
that the State should print itsl
own text books. it should be so
framed and guarded as to make
it impossible for any trickery or
jobbery to be connected with its
execution.

Following. though not on the
program. was presented a most
excellent paper by P. G. Holden.
of the Agricultural College, en-
titled, "Cooperation."

All were much interested in
this production, and Mr. Holden
has our sincere thanks and gen-
eral request to come again.

After a most bounteous repast,
such as grangers know so well
how to prepare. The afternoon
session was opened by an essay
by Mrs. J. E. Webb.

The writer of this beautiful
paper drew verbally a very pict-
uresque scene of those who live
in the country, and concluded as
follows;

“Give fools their gold and knaves their power,
Let fortune’s bnbble rise and fall,

Who sows a field, or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree, is more than all.

For soon or late to all who sow
A time of harvest shall be given;

The flowers shall bloom, the fruit. shall grow;
If not on earth, at least in Heaven.”

Bro. Forster next held the
large audience which had gath-
ered, very attentively to the sub-
ject he had chosen, “The True
Object of Education."

Bro. Forster said he presented
a paper that he had written
while convalescent, as he has
been along and patient sufferer
from la grippe.

He said we cannot all be or-
ators or statesmen, but what is
better, we may, at least, help
ourselves to manhood, and what
makes a man a masterful man is
the training which developes
him, and that we should bear in
mind that with all our gains,are

we getting wisdom, as not earth

only, but Heaven, also, is to be
That the true object of ed-
ucation should not be to make

W011.

the body more comfortable.

Bro. Forster was elected dele-
gate to to the next session of the

State Grange.

After recitations rendered by
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Towar and

Miss Mary Webb. with very ap-
propriate and well executed mu-
sic froin the choir. the meeting
adjourned feeling that a very en-
joyable time had been passed.
Yours very resp'y,
W. T. W.

. _.__.__..,____ ,
Dr. Talmage on Thanksgiving.
Only a few brief days and

there will be a table spread

across the top of the two great
ranges of mountains which ridge
this continent — a table reaching
from the Atlantic to the Pacific
seas. It is the Thanksgiving ta-
ble of the Nation. They come
from the East and the West and
the North and the South. and sit
at it. On it will be smoking the
products of all lands-— birds of

every aviary. cattle from everya, GRANGE VISITOR P
, aw Paw, Mich.

pasture. fish from every lake and
stream. feathered spoils from ev-
ery farm. The fruit baskets will
bend down under the products
plucked from the peach fields of
New Jersey. the apple orchards

of western New York. the orange _
groves of Florida, the vineyards:

of Ohio, and the nuts threshed
from New England woods. The
bread will be white from the
wheat fields of Michigan and Ill-
inois. the banqueters will be dec-
orated with California gold. and

the table will be a-gleain with:

Nevada silver. and the feast will
be warmed with the fire-grates
heaped high with Pennsylvania
coal. The halls will be spread
with carpets from the Lowell
mills, and when darkness comes
with its heavy draperies. lights

will flash from broiized brackets.

of Philadelphia manufacture. The

fingers of Massachusetts girls will ‘

have hung the enioi'oidei‘y: the
music will be the drumming of
ten thousand mills. accompanied
by the shouts of children turned
loose for play. and the gladness

of harvesters driving bariiward
and the:

the loads of sheaves.
thanksgi vings of the nation which

crowd the celestial gates withf
doxologies. until the oldest harp- :

er in Heaven will not be able to

tell where the terrestrial songl
ends and the celestial song he.

gins. Welcome. Thanksgiving-
Day3~'l'. 1)wll"itI‘ ,’I'«zlnm_r/1’. [)2 Liz-
«lic.s" 1l«.mu3 Jmzrnu/.

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Fix for 1892.

It is not too soon to commence
to figure on how the presidential
campaign of 1892 may affect
agriculture One thing is cer-
tain. however: if the movement
now on foot among farmers is
properly guided it can be the
means two years hence of com-
pelling the old parties to treat
agriculture fairly in their plat-
forms. We do not go much on
the abstract expressions of polit-

ical platforms, yet no party feels
free to altogether disregard what
it has placed before the people

to iusure its perpetuation in pow-
er or its restoration to power.

If farmers begin to work for that

end now, by streugthing organi-
zation. and quietly feeling the

popular pulse to learn just what

measures will receive the sup-

port of farmers as a class, there

is no question that the success-

ful candidate will be the man who

stands on the platform, which
more nearly promises, than any
other, to do what farmers want
done. This is as evident as any-
thing at this time connected with
politics, and beingso,plainfarm-
ers will make a great mistake if
they do not have such a platform
as they want adopted by the suc-
cessful political party in the next
campaign. ——Stockma n and Farmer.

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People don‘t believe in fairies
nowadays; nevertheless, good
spirits still exist, and help us in
our times of trouble better even
than the little people we used to
read about. One of these house-
hold spirits is called Love.——Ex-

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AN ii’ lletliod of Treating Disease
HOSPITAL REMEDIES.

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lection of the specifics used by noted specialists
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I nmru .rz‘immc//.v t/um aim/u/Z. A circular describing

these new remedies is sent free on receipt of
. stamp to pay postage by Hospital Remedy Compa-
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For the piirpose of introiliicing our goods throughout the
(loiini ry. and to ailveriiseoiir House,“-o will forashort
tiinesend any pi-rsonone oftlie following instruments
on rr -cipt of L-as 1 to pay for lsoximrund Slii ping. Itis
(‘X])i‘(‘iL‘(‘l that every person I‘(‘C('I\’IIl|.’. once these instru-
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Ulltlll. consisting: of Violin,Italian Strings, Map ,
pie Bridge, Ebonized Pegs and Tail-piece ln- ‘
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pieces of Choice and Latest Selections of Music. all pack-
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i $10 Celebrated Aimee Guitar, $3.

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ed lot that have have reached the States. We can
buy and sell better horses than any one in Ameri-
ca, and defy competition.

VVe are the only importers having a resident
partner abroad, who never lets a chance go by of
selecting the best that money can procure.

Fifty head are now offered for sale, and will be
sold at very little above cost price.

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Coach and General Purpose Horses. un-
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THE G‘:-IR.A.NC3-E VISITOR.

  

.III-«-. 1, 1890

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

Published on the is: and 15th of every month.
A T 50 CENTS PER ANNUJW.
A. C. GLIDDEN, Editor and Manager,

PAVV PA\V, MICH.

¥F‘Remittenc(-s should be by Registered Letter,
Money Order or Draft.

M-lrinterediatilie Post-Oficeiat Paw Paw, Mich., as
Second Class Matter. :

To Subscribers.

Send money when possible by
either postal note or money or-
der. We prefer a dollar bill for
two subscribers, to fifty cents in
stamps for one. The bank will
take the dollar, but they refuse
the stamps.

We shall send the paper only
so long as it is paid for. If you
wish it continued, a prompt re-
newal will keep it constantly
coming and save us the trouble
of making the changes. If num-
bers fail to reach you. or your
postofiice address is changed,
notify us at once and we will
gladly send another numberiand
make the desired change. Pack-
ages of papers will be sent to all
who desire them for distribution.

Send the names of your friends
on a postal card when you desire
to receive sample copies.

Farmers’ Institutes.

In the issue of the Visitor of
Nov. 1st we gave a list of the In-
stitutes so far as had been decid-
ed upon. We are now able to
give a complete list. but cannot
yet name the accurate dates for
them all. nor give the names of
the professors from the college
who will be in attendance.

Tne Institutes are arranged in
five series of four each. to occupy
a week for each series. The ser-
ies will begin at the point near-
est Lansing. on Monday evening.
the second will begin on Tues-
day evening. the third Wednes-
day. the fourth Thursday and
close Friday evening. There
will be four sessions for each In-
stitute. beginning and closing
with an evening session.

The series beginning at Alma.
Gratiot county, will include Tra-
verse City. ear Lake, Manistee
county. and Benzonia. Benzie
county, will be held in the order
named the last week of January
next and will be under the di-
rection of Prof. A. J. Cook, who
will attend the preliminary meet-
ing at each of these places, to ar-
range the program, assign the
speakers from the college and
the general management of the
meetings. All communications
hereafter. relating to these Insti-
tutes, should be addressed to him
at the Agricultural college.

The series beginning at.Union
City will be in charge of the -ed-
itor of this paper, and include

‘Concord, Napoleon and Adrian,

and will be held the same date as
the northern series.

The third series will begin at
Eaton Rapids, and include Hast-
ings, Alpine Grange Hall, and
will also be in charge of the
writer. This series will proba-
bly be held the second week in
February, beginning on the
evening of the ‘Jth.

The fourth series will be held
at the following places: Mt.
Clemens, Port Huron, Mariette
and East Saginaw. and be held

the first week in I4‘ebruary under ;
state of our columns compels us

the direction of Hon. I. H. But-
terfield, of Port Huron. to whom
all communications relating‘ to
the institutes at these places
should be addressed.

The fifth series will begin at
Howell, and include in the fol-
lowing order, Byron, Ovid and
Muir. The time for holding this
series will probably be the third
week in February, beginning the
evening of the 16th. Hon. C. W.
Garfield, of Grand Rapids, will

direct the series and should be

addressed for information. The ‘
weeks for holding the 3d, 4th:
and 5th series are subject to;
change, or shift—about, to meet
emergencies which may arise
later on. Several localities have
made application for institutes
too late to be accommodated, or
from places remote from lines of
action. The State Board of Ag-
riculture will ask for an appro-
priation of $1,000 to carry on the
Institutes for the two years be-
ginning with the coming series.
We have had only $800 before
and on this meager appropria-
tion of only $400 per year, have
held six Institutes before last
winter. and twelve at that time.

We think. by arranging the
meetings in a line, following the
above plan, we shall be able to
make the money go around for
the necesrary expenses—for trav-
eling and for board. None of
the persons who go in the inter-
est of the state get any pay for
their time. The Professors at
the college are paid a salary by
the year, and this is one of the
means employed to make them
earn their money. We make the
above explanation, as many
farmers do not fully understand
how the expenses of the Insti-
tute on the part of the State are
paid. The local expenses, such
as procuring hall. warming and
lighting it, is defrayed by those
interested at the place where the
institute is held.

Every locality will be notified
when to expect the representa-
tive of the Board. to make the
preliminary arrangements.

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Beet Sugar Again.

At the last meeting of the
State Board of Agriculture, it
was determined to enter upon
some investigations into the prac-
ticability of making sugar from
beets in our state. As a prelim-
inary move. Dr. Kedzie was di
rected to go to Grand Island,
Nebraska. to investigate the op-
erations now going on there in
the manufacture of sugar from
the beet. In a letter to the writer
upon another subject. just re-
ceived, he adds that the trip was
very satisfactory, and promised
further information later on. We
have received a package of pure
granulated sugar from the works
at Grand Island, which is pro-
nounced equal to anything in the
market. There is no doubt that
the climate of Michigan is well
adapted to the growth of the
beet, and if the experiments that
are to be tried next year show
that beets grown here have the

.required percentage of sugar,

some effort at making sugar on a
large scale ought to be tried. The
process will no doubt be simpli-
fied, so that it will not be neces-
sary to expend a million of dol-
lars upon a plant in order to ex-
tract the sugar in paying quan-
tities.

 

Union Meeting of Farmers Clubs.

The six Farmers Clubs of Van
Buren County held a union meet-
ing at Grange Hall. in Paw Paw.
in the afternoon and evening of
Nov. 25th. carrying out an ex-
tended program prepared by a
committee previously appointed.
We made copious notes of the
discussions. but the crowded

to omit a very interesting report
of the meeting. We shall pub-

= lish a few of the papers iI1 future

numbers of the Visiron.

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VVe place very little value up-

.on the nostrums advertised so

largely in all the papers, but
would encourage a general
knowledge of how to ‘preserve
herlth. A book of 344 pages has
come to our table on “How to
Preserve Health," which gives

simple directions about every day
matters pertaining to the preser-
vation of health and what to do
in emergencies that are likely to
arise. The chapter on “impedi-
ments to nutrition" discusses the
effect of tobacco and alcoholic
liquors upon the system, in a way
that makes it a strong temper-
ance sermon. It would be a use-
ful book in every family. It re-
tails at $1.00, bound in cloth.
Address. LoU1s BURKAN.
248 President St., Brooklyn, N. Y

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We see by the majority report
of the Executive Committee of
the National Grange. that they
favor the scheme of Government
furnishing money to farmers at a
low rate of interest-—say two per
cent, to relieve the depressed
condition of agriculture. This
is in line with the Stanford bill
recently before Congress, and is
akind of folly that will reflect
upon the good sense of farmers
and prevent such wise legislation
as might otherwise be secured.
Better say that we are opposed
to any scheme of lending money
by the Government, either to
banks or to individuals. Pay the
debt first, before lending money
to any one. We ere glad to see
that Mr. J. J .' Woodman, the
member of the Executive Com-
mittee from our State did not
sign the report.

 

The following is the report of
“Woman's Work in the Grange“
for the State of Michigan. made
to the National Grange at its re-
cent session. The report is
doubtless abbreviated. but is
much longer than those from
many of the other states:

Sisters are uniting the social
and financial features of the
Grange by giving frequent soci-
ables, where refreshments are
sold to add to the Grange fund,
used to pay for halls. and send
help to the needy sufferers.
They have a'rule of changing
Grange committees every three
months so that it stimulates each
committee to vie with the other
in work. decorating halls.prepar-
ing programs for instruction and
entertainment. revivinglanguish-
ing Granges and looking up new
members. Michigan wants juve-
nile Granges and wants Masters‘
wives to be made chairman of
State Committee.

M,“ _
No expression is more fre-
quently heard in rural house-
holds than this: "The men have
a machine to do everything, I
should think they might invent
something for woman—a dish
washing machine for instance."
We have it at last. Look in
our advertising columns for a de-
scription of it. You who go to
State Grange will have an op-
portunity to see one at work.
Mrs. John Passmore, of Flush
ing, will operate and ‘explain its
principle features. We saw it at
the-State Fair, always surround-
ed by an admiring crowd of la-
dies, and heard this satisfied ex-
pression often: Oh. my!

 

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The publishers of You.th‘s Com-
panion, Boston, Mass, have kept
their paper uniformly good.
Our readers will make no mistake
in selecting it to encourage a
taste for good reading in their
children. The stories are enter-
taining to every member of the
household. The general infor-
mation on all subjects. is a val-
uable aid to the young—who
ought early to require a habit of
retaining facts in the memory for
future use. The holiday num-
bers are magazines of art. and
will delight the whole family.
Send for sample copy.

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We are having a large number
of calls for packages of VISITORS
to distribute in neigeboring
states. and can fill orders for
calls in our own state by return
mail. We are located in rooms

in the post office block, diago-
nally across the street from the
publishing house of the True
Northerner, so that the opportun-
ity for expeditious work is fully
met by the conditions.

No pleasanter work can be fur-
nished than receiving new sub-
scribers by the dozen. We con-
tinue to send eleven numbers for
555.00.

MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE,
Secretary's ofiice, SCHOOLCRAFT,
Nov. 25th. Arrangements have
been made with the hotels in
Lansing to entertain Patrons
who attend the annual session of
the State Grange at the follow-
ing rates per day: Hotel Dow-
ney, one person $2.00. two occu-
pying one bed $1.50. Hudson
House, one person $1.50. two oc-
cupying one bed  Chap-
man House, one person $1.25,
two occupying one bed $1.00.
Commercial, New Kirkwood and
Everett Houses $1.00 each. The
Kirkwood and Everett are tem-
perance houses. The Kirkwood
is as convenient to reach as any
of the others, while the Everett
is situated about midway between
the Capitol and the Grand Trunk
depot. To all who see fit to pat-
ronize the Everett the proprietor
will provide car tickets without
charge on the street cars driven
by electricity to and from his
house. Arrangements have also
been made with the Railway As-
sociation of Michigan by which
representatives to the State
Grange, and visiting members,
can avail themselves of return
fare from Lansing to their home
stations on the certificate plan at
one—third fare. All patrons who
intend to avail themselves of this
reduced rate can do so by send-
ing to this office for certificates.
Get to your station in time to
have the agent sign and stamp
the certificate which will require
the payment of a full fare to
Lansing. If a through ticket to
Lansing cannot be bought at the
starting point, then as many cer-
tificates will be wanted as tickets
bought, to pay full fare on all
roads to reach Lansing. Buy a
through ticket if possible. Send
for certificates at once.

J. T. COBB, Sec‘y.

—<3>?—-—-A

On the question of who pays
the tariff there has seemed a dis-
position to cover the truth. One
side says the producer of the
foreign article. the other side
says the home Consumer; and
they argue shaply over the ques-
tion.

Which is right?

Well. it depends in a great
measure on the condition of the
market. The amount of prob-
able imports is also another ele-
ment. To illustrate: the new law
places the duty on eggs at five
cents per dozen. and the market
is now firm and prices are rising.
This is because the demand is
good and the supply small. In
so far as the diminution of the
supply is due to the fewer eggs
received from the provinces in so
far is the enchanced price due to
the tariff. If eggs that are sell-
ing today for 28 cents would not
bring over 26 cents with a full
provincial supply, then all domes-
tic consumers are paying two
cents more for eggs than they
would were it not for the tariff,
and our New England farmers
are getting two cents per dozen
more: While the Canadian farm-
ers who do send eggs here get.
three cents less by reason of the
tariff. As a matter of fact it is
the opinion of a number of deal-
ers with whom we talked in pre-
paring this article that the pres-
ent market is so firm that the
former usual amount of importa-
tions of provincial eggs would
not weaken it. If this is so the
only effect of the tariff on eggs
just at present is to take five cents
per dozen out of the Canadians.
In other words the tariff may
come entirely out of the foreign-
ers and that without increasing
the cost to the American consum-
ers or it may add to the cost here,
and that addition may or may
not be equal to the amount of the
tariff.—N‘Iv En_(/lmzd }r‘m'nzer.

   

 

Every year a layer of the entire
sea, fourteen feet thick. is taken
up into the clouds. The winds
bear their burden into the land
and the water comes down in rain
upon the fields. to flow back

through rivers.

One Man's Experience.

An old flockmaster whom I
have known many years as a
grower and dealer in sheep, who
has always kept them and made
more or less money out of them.
came a great distance to see me
last week to learn where he could
purchase a bunch of Dickinson
or Black-top Merinos. Knowing
that for years he had been wed-
ded to the Shropshire and South-
down breeds, my astonishment
at his change of base was com-
plete. Inquiring the reason he
replied by saying: "Years ago
when I kept Merinos they did
well for me; but I find the fre-
quent rains are too much for
open, coarse-wooled sheep. and
they drop off (die) one by one
quite too frequently for much
profit, and I shall change.” He
isa good feeder. has sufiicient
shelter and devotes much atten-
tion to his flocks. but there are
times of heavy. cold rains setting
in when he is perhaps at one side
of his large farm and the sheep
at the other. or he may be away
from home and the hired men
not attentive. and the animals in
consequence do not get housed
during some storms as they
should. The coarse wools are
not “rustlers" like Merinoes and
cannot withstand so much in-
clement weather. It is poor pol-
icy to endeavor to make any do-
mestic animals hardy. for that
means to subject them to neglect
and abuse.—Galen Wilson.

»~———<r>——-<-

The following is from Worthy
Master 'Brigham‘s address be-
fore the National Grange. The
address was not a lengthy one,
but he discussed several topics,
and this is what he said regard-
ing agriculture:

The period of low prices for
agricultural products seems about
to be succeeded by an era of fair
prices. which will afford the
farmer some profit from his la-
bor. The change will certainly
be welcomed by the farmer and
will add to the general prosperity
of our country. Fair prices for
what we buy are conditions al-
ways favorable to us.

Much has been published dur-
ing the past year in regard to
prices paid for farm implements
in this country aI_(l the prices
paid abroad. The charge has
been freely made that our manu-
facturers send their implements
to foreign countries. where they
are sold to farmers for less than
farmers pay here

I felt it my duty. as the execu-
tive head of a great farmers‘ or-
ganization. to investigate this
charge. and if true advise the
use of our power to remedy a
palpable wrong. I have receiv-
ed reliable information from
Canada and from several Euro-
pean countries. including Great
Britain. and have failed to learn
of a single instance where farm
implements manufactured in this
country are sold to foreign farm-
ers for a less price than is charg-
ed our farmers.

On the contrary, the prices are
from 25 to 75 per cent. higher
abroad than in this country. I
also obtained reliable information
in regard to the prices of farm
implements manufactured abroad
and sold to the farmers of Great
Britain. France. Italy, etc.. and
in every instance the price is
considerably above that paid
here.

The lowest retail price of
twine binders in England, France
and Italy is over $200; mowers
$70 to $90; hay rakes (sulky)
from $40 to $50: Oliver chilled
plows. $18 to $20; two horse
steel plows. foreign manufacture.
$25 the lowest price. Much more
could be said upon this subject.
but I submit these facts iii the
interest of truth alone. The
farmer has many grievances
which need attention. There are
wrongs that should be righted.
but we cannot afford to be de-
ceived by statements which are
not warranted by the facts. That
wholesale prices are less than re-
tail prices is true of every coun-
try. and it is probable that the
wholesale price at which imple-
ments are sold to both foreign
and home dealers has been con-
fused with retail prices to farm-
ers here. I can find no other ex-
planation of the alleged discrep-
ancy In prices.

 

 


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Dec. 1, 1890

From, 131‘ page.
from Ohio. Gen. Butterworth,
would call an all-around affair.
It certainly seems to have been
formed upon the nebular hypo-
thesis——it made itself. It grew
by accretions. If it could have
been in active operation when
the world began, and could have

made geology instead of survey- l
ing it. there is no doubt that the‘

world would have been a more
expensive if not a more gorgeous
institution. There would un-
doubtedly have been an Olympus
for the Jupiter of the survey.

My Kentucky friend, in his
speech on Friday, defined the in-
tent of the legislation of two
years ago. It was intended that
the expenditure should be limit-
ed to investigations and surveys.
It was not intended that Congress
should be committed to any plan
or scheme of irrigation. The di-
rector. however, seems to have
perverted this legislation into a
plan for expending $7,000,000 for
a topographical survey. $4.000,-
000 of which are to assist in the
completion of the geological map
of the United States.

Why, look at it. If the appro-
priation of $7.000,000 which he
is seeking for his irrigation—topo-
graphical work should be suffi-
cient to complete the geological
map that was begun on the
modest expenditure of $5,000 in
1879, the map will then have cost
the country at least $15,000,000.
But this sum will not be suffi-
cient. It begins to look as
though
000 and possibly $150,000,000 be-
fore it is completed. No wonder
that the Farmers‘ Allance begins
to show its teeth——its members
eternally taxed to sustain such
frivolous magnificent schemes as
this. * * * * *

Sir. looking at the importuni-
ties of the director, I am remind-
ed of the story of the wealthy
Jerseyman who suddenly failed
and went into" bankruptcy.
While telling the story of his
misfortunes to a sympathetic
friend. a map peddler approached
and wanted him to buy a map of
California. Turning his back
upon him he continued his tale
of woe. The peddler was per-
sistent. He said that the map
would cost only  Finally the
unfortunate bankrupt whirled
around and said. “Stranger. do I
look like a man that wants to
buy a map of California?“ With
a deficiency of Sl00.000.000. as
my friend from Alabama says.
staring the treasiiry full in the
face. and the hundred streams of
appropriations flowing from it.
it looks to me as if we ought to
exclaini with the Jersey banrupt:
"Mr. Director. does the treasury
look as though it could stand a
geological- topographical-paleon-
tological-irrigation map of the
L’. S. costing only «‘61:'i.000,000‘?

How to Roast a. Turkey.

Select a large. fat. tender tur-
key. and have it nicely dressed.
drawn. washed. wiped dry and
well singed. Rub it all over, in-
side and outside, with pepper and
salt. Make a stuffing of the follow-
ing ingredients: One pound of
light bread crumbs, half a pound
of butter, a heaping tablespoonful
of finely minced onion, salt and
pepper, one raw egg and enough
water to mix rather soft. Stuff
the breast first, and sew it up,
then stuff the body. Rub the
turkey all over with melted butter,
and dredge well with sifted flour.
Lay it in a pan on its breast, and
pour in a quart of cold water.
Have the oven well heated but
not too hot, as the turkey must
cook slowly to be done. Allow
a quarter of an hour to each pound.
Have some butter in a plate with
a larding mop. From time to
time baste the turkey with the
gravy in the pan. rub over with
the larding mop and dredge again
with flour. As it browns turn
from side to side. and last of all
brown the breast. Frequent bast-
ing. dredging and turning willin-
sure perfect cooking. When done
it should be a rich. dark brown
all over. and when a fork is stuck
deep into it no red juice should
run. Remove it to a hot dish
and, if the gravy is not quite
thick enough, add a teaspoonful
of flour creamed smooth with
some of the grease skimmed from
the gravy. If while cooking. the
gravy in the pan boils away too
much. more water should be add-
ed. When the turkey is done.

there should be a pint of gravy.

the map will cost $50000, -‘

l A God After All.

‘\Ve laid in a cell, Mr. judge, all night long.
Jimmie and me, waitin’ and wishin‘ for the morn-
l in‘ to dawn.
. 'Cause we couldn't sleep, Mr. Judge, in that cold,
l damp place,
| And Jimmie was scared to death by the wild, mad
1 race
‘That the rats kept runiiin' all through the dark
night.
‘That's why we were glad, Mr. Judge, to see the
l daylight. -
Please, Mr. Judge, we are not very had little boys,
And the policeman that took us said we're some
mother's joys.
He was wrong, Mr. Judge, and should only have
said
That we are two little outcasts, and our mother is
dead
And there isno one to care for us, at least here be-
low,
And no roof that shelters us from the rain and the
SHOW.

A preacher once told us that way up in the blue

There was a God that was watchin‘ all that little
boys do;

And that He loved little children; and His love it
was free; .

But I guess, Mr. judge, he don't love Jimmie or
me,

For I prayed and I prayed till Iwas most out of
breath,

For somethii:.' to eat to keep Jimmie from death.

And that‘s why we're here, Mr. Judge, for you
know

-There was no help from above, I
low.

‘Twas no use beggin‘ and be told in God I must
trust,

For I'd begged all the day and got never a crust;

And there was poor jimmie, holdin' his cold little
feet.

And cryin' and moanin‘ {or somethin’ to eat.

must find it be

So I went to 3 house that was not very far,

And saw, Mr. judge, that the door was ajar;

And a table was settin' right close to the door,

Just loaded with pies, about twenty or more.

So I quickly slipped in and grabbed one to my
breast-—

The policeman then caught us, and ltou know the
rest. '

Discharged. did you say, Mr. judge? both Jimmie
and 1?

And—and we ain't got to be jailed ‘cause I took a
pie?

And we can eat all we want?—how funny ‘(will
seem-

Say, jiinmie, pinch me. for I—I think its a dream,

And you'll give us work, all summer, winter and
fall—

Say, jiniinie, 1 think there's a God after alll

—<o>—-—-—- -«

Butter.

the subject of butter? And is it
to suggest a new theory or a new
method for making butter. Every
woman who has made butter for
any length of time is wedded to
her own way of doing it, thinks
her kind of churn the best made.

time and many words trying to
convince her neighbors that they
are wrong. and she is right.
Some are loud in their praises of
the creamery and others would
lnot use one on any account. but
prefer setting the milk in pans.
and it is the same with the news-
papers: we will read an article on

the subject to—day that flatly coii- ,

tradicts one we read yesterday.
and one will be forthcoming to-
morrow. widely differing from

butter maker to do who has no
clearly defined ideas of her own
on the subject. I would say here.
that my experience of several
years as a butter maker has led
me to the conclusion, that with
all the theorizing and learned
talk about butter making, one
very important factor is left out,
and that is. the cow from which
the butter is made. Last spring
it became necessary for us to
purchase a cow to furnish the
family supply of milk and butter.
After much journeying too and
fro and much deliberation pro
and con as to the merits of differ-
ent breeds of cows, my husband
came home one night and inform-
ed me that he had about decided
to buy a cow of Mr. Nameless.
My heart sank instantly, for I
felt like the doubters of old.
when they asked. "can any good
thing come out of Nazareth”? but
as usual I said "well you know
best,” and he purchased the cow.
a very ordinary looking animal,
very thin in flesh and not a sign
of pedigree I felt rather doubt-
ful. but only sighed and hoped
,for the best. but when the first
‘,pail of milk was brought in. I
lfelt more hopeful and as time
‘lpasscd my respect for that little
lcow increased. till I would not
3, part with her for twice the price
, paid: for she has not only furnish-
lled us with a large quantity of
‘: milk and butter. but it has been
‘l(>f the very best quality. and I
‘have been quite set up over the

many compliments paid to my

butter.

But the climax was reached at
.our annual picnic last summer
lwhen one of my contributions to

the dinner happened to be a rollof
' butter. I was dividing and plac-

'I‘ZE-IE] G-RAN

possible for any ordinary mortal . the patriotic Mr.

and will waste much precious ,sion

iing it on the table. when one of
‘:the ladies near by said. "I know
;who brought that butter." yes.
‘said another. “any one can tell
i Eliza W's butter the moment they
look at it. There is nothing like
Jersey cows and a creamery for
making first class butter. "I
smiled. thought of my poor cellar,
and scored one more for the little
cow without a pedigree. So my
sisters. take heart if your butter
is poor, it may be the fault of the
cow, and if it is good. give her
her share of the credit.

Mas. M. J. Cox.
~.————<—o-o———————
Practical Hypnotizing.

Since things began to be hyp-
notized a few weeks ago, little
has escaped. Amateur photo-
grapy has been laid aside and the
subject of hypnotizing taken up,
which shows our versatility as a
people. Nor is it confined to this
country: England is being hyp-
notized as well. one of the most
remarkable instances being re-
ported in the London. Spectator.

We learn from ’1'he b’pec-tater
that a Mr. E. T. Chaplin. living
near Birmingham, has for some
tin.e been interested in the sub-
ject of hypnotizing. Mr. Chap
lin has made a specialty of turn
ing it into practical benefit. For
instance, if he goes into a shop
to purchase a pound of butter he
hypnotizes the dealer and causes
him to sell the best butter he has
at a reasonable price. If he goes
after shoes he hypnotizes the
shoe dealer and makes him con-
fess that his soles are paper and
his uppers the cheapest of leath-
er. r. Chaplin long ago hyp-
notized all of his creditors. and
the sight of a bill collector hur
rying around Mr. Chaplin's house
time after time, under the im-
pression that he is engaged in a
walking match, is no uncommon
1thing;——t.he unfortunate bill col-
llector has simply been liypno-

ED. VISITOR: What is thereitized. Returning from a conv'i-
new under the sun to be said onlvial occasion not long ago at

‘about 3 o‘clock in the morning,

Chaplin stop-
iped on a corner and shouted
l,"God Save the Queen!" several
‘times in as loud a voice as he was

, able. A policeman came up who.
lwhile sympatliizing with the sen-

‘ timent could not favor its expres-
at the time and place. at-
iternpted to arrest Mr, Chaplin.
‘ Our worthy friend promptly hyp-

notized the officer.

I .
two or three times. snatched up

G-E VISITOR.

five or six pieces of gravel. and
returned to her charge. The re-
sult was four as fine and healthy
chickens as were ever seen in
Birmingham. There would pro-
bably have been seven had not
the able Mr. Chaplin in the hur-
ry of the preparations inadvert-
ently selected three china nest
eggs to make up the seven. The
hen seemed willing to stay by
these and make the effort of her
life. but Mrs. Chaplin‘s better
counsels prevailed.

If hens may be hypnotized
with such flattering results. why
not other animals? There are
balky mules, kicking cows and
many others. The hypnotized
mad dog may yet be left harm-
lessly gnawing a hydrant. Our
scientists, farmers. poulterers
and others interested should in-
stantly look into the matter.

o->—&_»-.._

 

Came up Smiling.

The farmers’ movement comes
up smiling after the November
elections. And well it may, for
it has elected more than 20 Con-
gressman. will choose Senator
Ingalls‘ successor. controls half
a dozen legislatures, has elected
two or three governors and minor
officers without number. It has
been an uprising of the common
people North and South, East
and West. The Democratic party
has naturally profited by the tidal
wave. But it is amighty solemn
lesson for -both political parties,
from a non partisan position.
The natural inference is that the
great majority of our farmers and
so-called working people~—the
Wealth-producers are profoundly
dissatisfied with the present con-
dition of affairs. They are sick
of being domineered over by any
ring of politicians in either party.
One reason why Massachusetts
elected a Democratic governor is
the way in which a moneyed
lobby has controlled a Republican
Senate and defeated the just de-
mands of the farmers for
adequate protection against
fraudulent dairy products. Re-
publicans in some instances add-
ing insult to injury by renominat—
ing the men who went back on
the farmers. as though they
owned the people of Massachu-

and left him Old Bay state just as in South

setts. This aristocratic ring has
been effectually rebuked in the

making vain efforts to take a Carolina the common peoplehave

jlamp post into custody. Not all
;of the facts are contained in
 '1'/m S/I(‘<‘f(lfm' account. but enough
iis given to warrant the belief
that they all are facts.

S[)(’('l‘((fuI‘. is really
another thing.

I-O1)ll1l0I1 of 1/14’
l .
‘remarkable is

the other two. so. what is a poor  Mr. Chaplin is a poultry farmer

jand keeps a number of fowls.
{Among others he has a large
‘speckled hen w
legs. A few weeks
that he had seven eggs which he
desired hatched. An inventory
showed that there was but one
hen at liberty for the work~the
large speckled one with the
feather trimming on her legs.
But this hen refused. As the
reader well knows. it is impossi
ble to set a hen that is not so in-
clined by any known mechanical
means. The only thing which is
harder of accomplishment is to
unset a hen, as it were. that is so
inclined. Still. Mr. Chaplin at-
tempted it. He deposited the
seven eggs. put the hen in posi-

over the front of the nest, so
that she‘ could not get off.
Though it is easier to sit than to
stand, nevertheless this hen
stood for four days. Then Mr.
Chaplin tied her down, but she
succeeded in raising her wings,
so as to establish a draught over
the eggs. and at the end of two
days they were no warmer than
lwhen she was first confined in
lposition. The intelligent Mr.
lChaplin (at the suggestion of his
‘wife) experimented for a day or
,two with iniicilage. but all to no
‘purpose. Then it suddenly oc-
‘-,curred to him, why not liypno-
‘-,tize the obstinate creature?
E was no sooner thought than done.
1As soon as she was under his
‘:_control he. in the words of '1’/to
ills'[)(’C'f(lt0I', “suggested to her to
lsit.” the result being that she sat
‘as never hen sat before. She
vlseeined to throw her whole soul
into it. Once in three days she
lgot off the nest clucking hyster-
lically,

tion and fastened a frame of glass ,

l
l

l

l

itli feathers on her ; tion of the new tariff law relating
ago he found to the

‘ ton.

thrown off the yoke of the cliquel
who liave run the Deinot-raticl
party so long as to believe tliuti
its little ring owned the party-
and state. In the same way. the‘

But the particular acliievenient : masses in Kansas adininistered a
‘of Mr. Chaplin which. in the‘

stinging rebuke to the bossism
in both pai'ties.~I<l/rm and Ilome.

"{0}

Maple Sugar.
Under a provision of that por-

production of domestic
sugars. the producers of maple
sugar, together with those who
manufacture sugar from cane,
beets and sorghum, are entitled
to a bounty of one and three-
fourths and two cents per pound
on the sugar produced. The pro-
vision of the act goes into effect
April 1st. 1891, and therefore all
maple sugar made the coming
season, in conformity with the
legal requirements. will get the
bounty.

To obtain the bounty tne pro-
ducer must obtain a license from
the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue before April 1st, and
must make not less than 500 lbs.
It is allowable for small produc-
ers to co-operate. and by having
the syrup carried to and manu-
factured at some central point.
earn the bounty.

Full information. with blanks
to be filled out to obtain a license.
will be sent free of cost by ap-
plication to the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue. at Wasliing-
Applications for licenses
should be sent in early. to avoid
the usual and inevitable de-
lays in all official biisiiiess.

The best sugar. that wliich tests

, ninety degrees by the polariscope.
It 1

is entitled to the full bounty of
two cents. Sugar which tests
ninety degrees by the polariscope.
is entitled to a full bounty of two
cents. Sugar which tests eighty

rushed around the yardlto

degrees is entitled to 1-} cents
bounty; while that testing below
eighty degrees gets no aid. It is
said the bulk of maple sugar of-
fered in market will test from 84%
86 degi'ees.——Mz'<-Iu'g«m Ivlzrmer.

5

Sound Business Conditions.

With regard in the condition of
business throughout the United
States, notwithstanding the
clouds that lower over the com-
mercial horizon. and the dangers
which may flow from disturbances
in Great Britain. this may with
truth be said: that. so far as the
country itself is concerned. there
never has been a period in its his-
tory when fewer disturbing ele-
ments were present to affect the
healthfulness of its trade‘ The
enormous extent of the transac-
tion consummated. as show by
the Clearing-House returns: the
great volume of internal com-
merce. as shown by the increased
railway and lake tonnage: the
rapid development of natural re-
sources; the creation of wealth
as illustrated by the 8.000.000
bales of cotton produced: the
variety and excellence of the
crops: the output of iron. oil. and
coal.-—all point to a condition in
which if safety does not reside,
there is no safety elsewhere in
the w0rld.——From “Over Prodm.--
tz'o'n. in .S'eczn‘1'fz'e=.s*," by Era.s-tu.s- Wi-
mrm, in The North American Itc-
Ii’evz'cic, for D€('t”I7tU(’J‘.

~———<o>—>~-~-—-

Parody on “Ten Little Injuns."

The following was one of the
prettiest features in a young folks‘
entertainment, and is not hard to
arrange and learn. A row of ten
sunflowers can be roughly painted
on coarse white muslin cutting
out the centers of the blossoms
the size of the faces of the little
girls, who stand behind the cur-
tain. They sing together these
lines, and at every couplet one
face disappears.

Ten little sunflowers blooming all the time,

One of them went to seed, and that left ninc.
Nine little sunflowers nodding o‘cr a gate,

One had its head snapped off and that left eiglit.
Eight little sunflowers looking up to Ileaven,

Ont: looked the other way and that left Sf‘\'t‘ll.
Scvcn little sunflowers all propped up with .~’ti<\ks,
One of tlzcin was blown down and that left six.
Six little siinflowt:i's iti tht- sun tliii iliiivc.

(me of them got sun struck and that it'll livt-.
l"i\'cli1tlt> $llllliO\\'L‘l'S in SI stc.'i4i_v pout‘.

One of them took cold and died. that lt,f't liuni‘.
Four little snnfloivt-rs \v:iving tall and [rt-t*.

The wind wlii.<pt:i'etl “conic to me" that left lill'('(‘,
'1‘lir(-c little sunflowers in the pvt-ning dun.

One got malaria and that left two.

Two little sunflowers liziving lots of fun.

One had too ninch of it. and that left one,

Oite little sunflower blooniing all alone,

It Fillll "good night" to Elli, and that it'll llflllt’.

During the singing of the
chorus, which should be suiig f rom
one to ten. then from ten to one.
each little sunflower head iippeais
and disappears in its turn.

Ono illllt‘. two little. 1l‘.lt‘t' liitlv, lull!’ litilw. lixe
little s\iiiiluwt;i' git ls‘.
Sit little, !~‘t‘\'(’l\ little, tight littit‘. nim: little. ten

little snnllowt-i‘ girls.
~<o>—— —

ll’/‘mi-wt.»-. The recent troubles-
at the University of Micliigaii
has again brougiit to the atten-
tion of its citizens the spirit of
"lawlessness“ on the part of some
of the students which prevades
many of the higher institutions
of learning and.

lV/iereas. We. as a State are
supporting, in a great measure
at least, two of those institutions
by direct taxation. and believing
that we. as law-abiding citizens

and tax payers have some rights.

which are entitled to considera-
tion. therefore,

Resolved, That we as a Grange‘

desire to enter our protest against
any management or system which
tacitly at least, winks at the com-
mon practice of “Hazing" and
kindred proceeding. and recom-
mend that our State Grange be
requested to take such action at
its coming meeting as the subject
demands, which will tend to
prevent or greatly diminish the
recurrence of such acts. and we
would further recommend that if
the present laws of the State and
the rules and regulations of the
management of such institutions
are not sufiicient to suppress
such outbreaks. that others be
enacted or present ones amended
to the effect of making *‘Ha'/.iiig"
and like offenses a criminal inat-
ter. and punishable by iniprisoii-
ment.

R('s()ll‘l.’(l, That a copy of these
resolutions be furnished our rep-
resentative to the State Grange.
with instructions to use his best
efforts to have them properly
presented to that body and also
to the GRANGE VISITOR for pub-
lication.

O. W. YOUNG.
Mas. N. H. BANGS.
W. C. WILDEY.
COMMITTEE.

 


TI-IE G'R..A.NG'E VISITOR.

 

Dec. 1, 1890

Sabics’ Department. 7

The Song at the Open Door.

My neighbor sits in her open door.
Under the leaves of the locust tree;
And the joy of life grows more and more
For the song she siiigs to me.
The song she sings is a song with wings.
And the blasts may beat and floods may pour,
But the skies are blue in the song she sings
As she sits in her open door.

My neighbor's cottage across the way
Is cozily builded of straws and strings,

Of sticks and featliers and love and clay.
And the beautiful song she sings;

But never a nest. tho’ ever so blest
Could hold her heart's divine outpour.

And Heaven bends down to the low brown nest
As she sings in her open door.

I wonder oft as I hear llL‘I' sing:

“ My little neighhui‘, have you no c.'.ii'e?"
A clierry ripe and a lll()!l1-(1-Wlll;.{

;\l'l’ all llt*I'(lllll'1(_V fare.
Fain “mild I do some S£‘I‘\'lCC true

For the song that has blcst inc o'er and o'er.
But llc.lV't‘ll does all that love can do

For the bird at the open door.

—/iii; U‘. /»‘i'z1/iii///. 1'11 /mt"/-i'm('.‘z1I‘.

 

, , -,_:___
Old Clothes and New.

There is a great ditfcreiicc be-
l\\'t‘<‘l1tll(‘SC‘. two classes of gar-
ments. as most of us know by
oxporieiicc. The new coat wriiik-
les somewhere. the new dress is
uncoin t'orta-bly tight. New boots
and shoes find out with uiicrring
certaiiity. the sensitive places in
the owiici-‘s feet. and one is in-
clincd to think Kiiig James of
England wise. on at least one oc-
casion. when he called for his old
shoes instead of his new. But
such discomforts are of short
duration. The new suit soon ad-
justs itself to its owiicr's figurc.
grows easy and coiiii'ortable then
shabby, and finally follows its
]_)1‘0(le(‘(}SS0l'S to the rag bag or
the paper mill. to reappear in
some new and useful form. And
in every life there is much laying
aside of old garmciits. in a not
lcss real. though less literal
seiiso. There is no line dividing
childhood from youth. youth
from maturity; the periods of
our lives shade gradually into
oncl another. cliaiiges come al-
most imperceptibly but none the
less surely. No one year brings
to the child the strciigtli, endur-
ance and judgment of maturity:
no one year. in most cases. takes
away these gifts from the man.
but there is gradual growth and
development. then decay.

Faults. petty weakiiesscs and
sins are not to be laid aside in
one hour of victory over self.
No door opens to admit the man
to :1 iiow life. and closes upon all
he would leave bcliind. Tlicso
things must be fought with. coii-
qiii-red. tlirust aside many tiiiies
l.wfoi'c they are tinzilly outgrown.
lilany a your iuust go in lc:iriiiiig
how to live. wliat to live for: in
pa-in’:--:*tiiig s‘:reiigtl1. <-oiii'agc and
1)illlt"ll(‘(.‘. iii failiirixs and partial
.'\'ll(‘(‘(‘.<.<i‘.\'. l)vfoi'c the man finds
out what he ("dllH‘ to (‘Zll'lll to do.

the founding. in an obscure Ju-
dean province. of a mightier
than any earthly empire, an em-
pire he never forsaw. never even
dreamed of but for which he un-
consciously prepared the way.
That books. too. are outgrown.
the ponderous. worm-eaten tomes
mouldering to dust in forgotten

witness. We have availed our-
selves of the knowledge of past
ages; added to it. brought scien-
tific theories nearer truth and
certainty. and have no longer
any use for its old records. So
schools of a late age will fling
our books aside. The gods of
the ancients have passed into
history with the people who wor-
ship them They are no longer
deities. no longer realities. but
myths whose recorded attributes
and ceremonies furnished mater-
ial for curious investigation and
study. _

Yet they did good in their way.
No nation can love and reverence
ideals of strci;gtli. courage and
wisdom more than human, and
not be ennobled thereby. So
true is it that we grow to the
licight- of that which we love.
Slowly. surely. earth is putting
away many things it should out-
grow. Ignorance. superstition.
pride in blood and birth. religious
intolerance. all t.li<.-sc are giving
way to better things. Changes
are measured not by days or by
years. by Ce11l3ll1‘l€‘.S or by ages;
they are seen not in thcir gradu-
al coming. but by those who look
on the present. then back on the
past. Fossils dug from the rocks

‘of the silurian age show us the

uncouth forms of life that exist-
ed then. and show. by contrast
with the higher organism. of
which we know, the advances
animal life has made. Ferns
from the carboniferous system
show in form and structure their
likeness to their more beautiful
and delicate kindred of to—day.

Song and tradition and history
have brought to us the records
of the struggles of men of past
ages. and we feel that the lives
of those who lived and died to
help the world onward and up-
ward are part of our lives; that
their cause is our cause; their
work in our hands. and that
somewhere in the ages yet to be
we shall meet them and give ac-
count of our stewardship.

Some things the world will
never outgrow. Courage. honor
and patriotisin will be to those
who shall follow us. what they
are to us: what they were to
tliosc who went before us: and
frcndoiii. j usticc and equal i'iglit-s
will be the rallying cry of honest
nicn until for the whole world
they are not drciiins. but reali-
tics. not -iiaiiics. but (.‘llilll0S.——
.lIm'.r/m'w/ 1;’:/.</ml [N Ii‘i'«/f//i’/mro

And there is little of youths
hope. pride and oiitliiisizisiii left
when one finds his l‘t*ill lifcniark.
“'0 make the lives of our friends
part of our own. we love them.
trust them. and forgot that there
was ever a bcgiiiiiiiig to our
fricndsliipz then. bye and bye
wake to the coiisciousiiess that
some whom we once called friends
are no longer ours. We may
have outgrown them. or they us.
as one or the other climbed to a
higher place. or new tics and in-
terests elsewhere may have
drawn our lives apart: but some-
how. somewhere. we have lost
our early friends and others have
taken their places.

As with individuals. so with
nations. That systems of gov
ernment. customs. religions, even
men themselves have their day.
do their destined work and give
place to others. is a truth as old
as history itself. And it is also
true that in many cases good has
come from the influence of things
which were unjust, false. or even
wrong in themselves. but which
still had a mission to fulfill. The
Roman government in the hands
of the emperors was a despotism.
The first Caesar veiled his own
unlimited power under the forms
of constitutional government. but
was. in reality. supreme. But
imperial Rome bound together
provinces and nations as repub-
lican Rome had failed to do; and
Caesar subdued, romanized and
civilized the savage tribes who
threatened to blot out Rome and
her civilization. then the highest,
if all things be considered, on
the earth. And the quiet and

peace secured to the civilized
world by the government Caesar

.’/I;I.'.w’/H//I/.

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Won1an’s Advancement.

Wonieii are successfully invad-
iiig all the profcssioiis, notwith-
standing the warning voices
which men are constantly raising
about the det-riniental effect of
this invasion on the future of the
race. There is reason to sup-
pose, says the Philadelphia Press.
that selfish motives may have
something to do with these alarm
signals. Perhaps the fear of
competition has an unconscious
effect on the minds of the alarm-
ists. For instance. a woman has
just taken the prize for the best
design for 21. soldiers.’ monument
to be erected by the State of
Iowa. As soon as the commis-
sion made the award it was
charged with favoritism. No ev-
idence has been furnished to sup-
port this charge, which is proba-
bly inspired by the belief that a
woman could not possibly design
a monument as well as a man.
If Mrs. Harriet Ketchuni. the
successful competitor, has any
children we may expect to see
them carefully watched. by some
of the unsuccessful competitors,
for signs of degeneracy. And
if one of them should ever be
unfortunate it will be proof pos-
itive of the evil effects of Mrs.
Ketchum’s interference with the
rights of men in designing mon-
uments.

There are no signs that the hu-
man race has suffered any from
the marked advancement which
women have made in modern
times. And no sane person will
claim that the race is‘ any better
physically or otherwise in those
nations where women are con-

founded gave timo and space for

fined exclusively to household

. . I
corners of great libraries, bear

affairs. There seems to be no
good reason why women should
not be successful in sculpture,
architecture and kindred pur-
suits. There is not wanted in-
tstances of such success. but it
lhas not been general. probably
ffor the reason that there has
:been no general effort in that di-
rection.

It is not many years since the
doors of all the universities and
of the leading colleges were
closed to women. The proposi-
tion to admit them was ridiculed
by the eminent men who conduct-
ed those institutions. The mag-
azines and newspapers were filled
with learned essays demonstrat-
ing to the satisfaction of their
authors that women were physi-
cally too weak to undergo the
strain of college life. Many em-
inent physicians shared iii this
belief. But the women triumph-
|ed. Ono after another of those
linstitutions have opened their
!doors to the sex until they are
tadmitted now to all the leading
lcollcges. ' Thousands of them
have graduated. but the ill effects
are not 3,‘-"ct. apparent and are not
likely to be.

If as much care was shown in
the pliysical development of
young women as of the opposite
sex there would be no need to
fear coinparison in college life or
elscwhere. Parents who ciicour-
age their sons to engage in all
kinds of athletic exercises think
it iiielcgant and unrefined for
their daugliters even to exercise
in a gymnasium. Fortunately.
this mistaken belief is dying out,
and woineirs gymnasiunis are
multiplying all over the land.
There are only a few colleges,
however. that yet offer such facil-
ities for physical development to
the women students. but they all
regard it as a necessary part of
the education of a young man.
VVhen this inequality is corrected
and women are trained physically
as well as mentally we may ex-
pect the sex to give their male
competitors more trouble than
they now expcrience.~E.r.

4<~oL»——

Domestic Uses for Ammonia.

In addition to taking out stains
of all sorts from various fabrics.
restoring the faded color of car-
pets and other materials. and in-
numerable other useful proper-
ties. ammonia. when mixed with
equal parts of turpentine. will
take paint out of clothing. even
if it be hard and dry. The spot
should be saturated as often as
iiccessai'y and washed out with
soapsuds. A tcaspooiiful of am-
monia iii a quart of water will
clca-use bruslics and combs from
all dirt and gi‘casc. Rinse. shake
and dry tlicni iii the sun or by the
iirc. Those who pcrspire freely
can most advaiitagcously use a
little ammonia in the water they
bathe in daily. as it keeps the
flesh sweet and clean. and takes
away any disagreeable odor. In
this age of athletic ganies flannel
is used more than it ever has
been. and those who frequently
had to discard their flannels in
consequence of shrinkagebefore
the material itself was half worn
out. will be glad to know that the
fabric can be washed by simply
soaking in a pail of water con-
taining onc tablespoonful of am-
monia and a little suds. Rub as
little as possible. and the flannels
will be white and clean and will
not shrink.

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Cainphor in various forms is
frequently recommended for cold
in’ the head, although Dr. Geo.
Johnson and others long since in-
dicated the dangers attending the
use of concentrated alcoholic so-
lutions. The following method
of application is suggested in a
Swiss pharmaceutical journal.
and certainly has the merit of
simplicity: A jug is half filled
with boiling water, into which a
teaspoonful of well - powdered
camphor is thrown. A funnel
shaped paper cap is then placed
on the top of the jug, and a hole
torn in it just fitting the nose.
The camphorated steam is in-
haled through the nose for ten or
fifteen minutes, the inhalation
being repeated if desired. every
four or five hours. If the patient
resolutely persists with the inha-
lation. in spite of its unpleasant-
ness, it is said that three repeti-
tions will always ctfect a cure.
however severe the coryza may
be.—Tlzc Il"unuoi's i\'vzv.s-.

Do O.ie Thing Well. The Arrangement of the Kitchen.

The question of a vocation for
girls has been agitated in many
forms for a long time. yet the
large number of young girls who

One of the first essentials of
the kitchen is that it shall be
well ventilated and large enough
are graduated yearly at our col- £9: {ts -purpo-Setsjx TOO -ioargi a
leges and other institutions ofieylittiéegtéig 1‘1:,i]Si(;lh:af1lb1)1eIaIJ1‘:L0i((91S
general learning are but ill-pre- , h h’ '- _
Pared to meetothe World “'e1'e»:)(zitd:. eII1Ilt1f(()eI'Il3(l)1(I)lIiliite1l:7 rel1O(i1OSI;1S
they called to do so by any ‘"1’ ibuilt by persons of wealth the
fortunate turn in their worldly : proper ariangement of the kitch_
affairs‘ M0St.p3‘rent’S Still de ienissometinies neglected, though
pend upon the” Own resources  this is not often true of recently

to care for their daughters’ and lbuilt houses. In one of the most

failto remember that the richest lpalatial mansions in New York
heritage they can give a daugh

t _ V“ M __ I, , 'lthere is a kitchen celled and
91’. as We 3” “l 50”’ 15 5”t'1'‘“mng ifloored with tiles. so that the
which shall enable her to be a

bread-winner. The mental train-‘floor and walls can be washed

. idown with a hose and their per-
ing necessary to enable a person

to do one thing well is of ines-
timable value in any position in
life. If the daughter is called
to a social throne. the power of
systematiziiig her time in attend-
ing to the niultifarioiis duties of
awonian of wealth will be iii-
valuable. If she is suddenly
thrown on her own resources
such a training will save her
from untold anxieties and proba-
ble siit't'criiig. If she should oc-
cupy a lowly position she will do
her housework better for such
training. The trouble with the
educational system. and especi-
ally with tlic free educational
system. is the utter failure to re-
gard thc individual or to train
the mind of each into the special
avenue for which it is l)<',-st fitted.
It is true that technical schools
are now rising up all over the
land, which supplement the elab-
orate higher education in the va-
rious schools and offer a special
training.

It is the parent's place. how-
ever. to judge of the aptitude and
bent of her daiiglit-er‘s mind. If
she have a taste for music that
taste should be thoroughly cul-
tivated. even at the expense of
othe ~ studies. It is better that
she should be a thorough musi-
cian than a mere smatterer in
many things. and even with the
most brilliant musical talent
training is necessary. The same
is the case with drawing. If the
child shows special proficiency in
this art make her stick to it. as
if she were training for a profes-
sion. Many clever artists look
back with the deepest regret—all
the deeper for its being unavail-
ing—at the failure of their pa-
rents to give them in childhood
that training which in age can
ncverbc acquired. If a child
shows a taste for caring for the
sick. as many do. a training as a
physician would be of untold
value. evcii if she should be
callcd upon to practice the pro-
fcssioii only in her own family.
Iiitclligciit progress is nowhere
so iiotcwortliy as in the classes
of medical schools. where girls
who have no intention ofentcring
the medical profession frequent-
ly go through the two-years’
training necessary.

IA.»

Murderous Millinery.

A lady told me the other day a
painful little incident relating to
wearing birds on your bonnets
and hats. I will try and give her
own words. She said:

"One day our pastor said. dur-
ing service. that when he was in
Florence. a lady came to him and
said: ‘Do come with me and hear
those birds sing. oh such niourn—
ful notes!’ There was a room
full of birds in very small cages.
and these birds were all blind;
they had had their eyes put out.
In the night the owners take
them outside the city and hang
the cages in trees. The trees
are then all smeared with tar.
These birds keep up their pitiful
singing. and other birds are at-
tracted to the cages. and they
get stuck on the tar. and then
they are caught, and their eyes
are put out. And these birds are
killed and sent to America for
ladies to wear on their bonnets!

“And I looked around the con-
gregation to see what ladies had
birds on their bonnets, and I was
glad there was none on mine;
and I don’t think I can ever wear
a bird again."—Wz'dc Awake.

——~——-—-<—o~}—-—~-—

To act with common sense, ac-
cording to the moment. is the
best wisdom I know, and the best
philosophy to do one‘s duties,
take the world as it comes. sub-
mit respectfully to one’s lot,bless
the goodness that has given us
so much happiness with it. what-
ever it is. and despise affectation.

—-—11oracc Walpole.

lfect cleanliness insured. Unfor:
‘-tunately no special study of ven-
-tilation is generally made in the

kitchen. so that it often interferes

with the draught of the range.
§The next csseiitial after perfect
veiitilatioii is pure. sweet. clean
‘walls. to which rhe odor of cook-
iing cannot cling. There is noth-
iiiigbetter than a whitewashed
‘wall for the kitchen. \Vhite\vash
jis itself a purifier. There should
be a wainscoting about four feet
thigh of hardwood. and a hard-
fwood floor in every kitchen. The
{ pretty hard pine that coines from
'placcs nearer by than Gcoigia.
iand is therefore less expensive.
Iiis within the reach of the purse
;of almost every lioiiscbiiildei'.
‘It needs only oil to bring out the
beaiity of its vciniiigs. A bor-
der of six-inch blue tilcs. two
tiles deep. should be aroiiud the
sink where water is splashed al-
most- continually and wood is
liable to rot. or at least become
discolored. If stationary tubs
are to be a part of the outfit of
the kitchen. reineinber that those
with white enamclled linings cost
little more than ordinary ones
and last much longer. A white
enamelled sink is always whole-
some looking. because it can be
kept clean easily. The most es-
sential furniture of the kitchen
is the stove. This should be of
the best manufacture. and there
‘are so many first-class manufac-
lturers of stoves that it would
5truly be a difficult matter to fail
to find one if one were in search
of a good stove. The same gen-
eral principle in di‘argli’s i;
adopted by all first-class stove
l1l£tl1l1fd.(ftlll'Ol'S. There are so
many patented articles for the
-,kitchen that one is in danger of
ffalling across at least several
inakeshifts which pretend to do
the work of more ordinary tliings
and only partially take their
placc. The wriiigcr and a few
[other iiivcntioiis are gt-'~iiiiiii<,~
booiis to the lioiisckoc~pi~i'. A
large hardwood table and. if pos-
sible. a small stoiic or inarblc
table should be in cvery kitclicii.
The wooden table should have
two or three drawers in place of
one. as they are far more conven-
ient. A kitchen dresser. with
shelves above and drawers be-
neath. is always a convenient
piece of furniture. A kitchen
should have. if possible. two
windows. which may have broad
windows seats. so that a kitchen
garden of herbs can be accom-
niodated in one of them. Kit-ch-
ens should be well supplied with
wire screens at the doors and
windows to keep out flies in suin-
mer. It is also a good plan to
have springs that shut the doors
autimatically whenever any one
passes through them. attached to
those doors which lead to the
main living portions of the house.
By this means the odors of cook-
ing are not allowed to penetrate
into the house. After all. each
person and family can judge best
what is needed in the kitchen.—
N. Y. Tribmic.

{.4.>—~-

The face is the outward visible
sign of the inward spiritual
grace. and there is no virtue so
beautiful as the one that makes
you a giver of good gifts in the
way of brightness. Your pres-
ence will be everywhere demand-
ed to make happiness. The
highest tribute to a woman is
when her family can say of her
that they never knew how she
looked with a frown or a scowl
on her face. Be such a woman,
so that though you may not have
a single plastic claim to beauty.
people will say. of you: “She is
such a bright faced woinan——it is
always a pleasure to look at
her. "-—E.r.

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Oflic-ers National Grange.
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J. J, WOODMAN.... ... . .....Paw Paw, Michigan.
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. G. RAMSDELL, Clin. Traverse City.
. D. PLATT... _....Ypsilanti
F. VV. REDFER aple Rapids

  

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1. Q. A. BURRINGTON. .._Tuscola
E. N. BATES _ . . . . _ _ . . _ . . . _ _ _ _ _ . . ..Moline.
’CI3Il:.‘!O.SB.Ml-lOR'l‘ON_... __._..__ ...Fruit Ridge.

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General Deputies.

MRS. PERRY MAYO.

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A. N. VV()ODRUFF.__
Special Deputies.

Reuben Straight ____________________ __l-Iillsdale Co
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George R. Bowser ____________ ._L)owling, Barry “
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Fort Wayne.. 40 l 2 25 8 05
Kalamazoo .. U5 , 5 20 .12 ‘mp
Grand .Rapids.. * , an 1 7 25 | 4 lllp
P. M.‘A. M. A. M. P. M.

Reed City .......... ..lv 2 40 1 03 l 9 45 7 35
4 15 2 15 .10 45 900

Walton .............. .. 5 05 3 00 ll 26 9 45
Traverse City ...... ..ar 6 40 .... .. 12 25p‘10 35p
Petoskey .......... ..ar 7 50 5 25 , 1 511 ____ ._
Mackinaw .......... ..ar 9 15 6 45 1 3 10 .... __

C. L. LOCK WOOD,
G. P. 8: T. Ag‘t, Grand Rapids.
E. BAKER, Agent, Kalamazoo.

C. & G. '1‘. RAILWAY.
Jan. 19, l890.——Ccnti‘al Meridian Time.
TRAINS WESTWARD.

 

  
  
 

  
  
  
 
 
  
  

No. 2 No. 18 No. 4
Exp. Exp. Exp.

Port Huron lv.. 7 16am 5 59am 724 pm
Lapeer.... 8 31 “ 7 28 “ 855 “
Flint_._. 9 U5 “ 8 U5 “ 9 45 "
Durand . . 9 35 “ 8 48 “ 10 30 “
Lansing 10 30 “ 1000 “ ll 30 “

Charlotte . ll 00 “ 10 3'! “ 12 05am
Battle Creek ar. - - - - — . .. ll 30 “ 12 60 “
“ “ lv .2 05pm ‘I 00pm 1 00 “
Vicksburg _  12 50 “ 1 48 " 1 48 “
Schoolcraft . 1 00 “ 1 58 “ 1 58 "
Marcellus _ 1 22 “ 2 20 “ 2 17 “
Cassopulls _ . 1 50 “ 2 5‘) “ 2 45 “
South Bend... 235 “ 340 “ 335 “
Valparaiso  .. 4 (J0 “ 5 20 “ 510 “
Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6 25 “ 1010 “ 7 30 “

TRAINS EASTVVARD.

No. 1 No. 3 No. 5
Mail. Exp. Exp.

Chicagolv_.............. 840nm 3l5pm 8l5pm
Valparaiso, .... _ .. ll 25 “ 5 20 “ ll) 30 “

South Bend ..... .. 1 00pm h 40 “ 12 00 am
Cassopolis _ .... ... 1 50 “ 7 17 “ 12 45 “
Marcellus _ .... .. 2 2|) “ _ . . . . _ .. 1 11 “
Schoolcraft . . . . . .. 2 42 “ ...... ._ 1 33 “
Vicksburg ...... .. 2 55 H 301 “ i 48 H
Battle Creek ai‘ ..... 3 45 “ 8 40 “ 2 30 “
H “ 1v  405 “ H45 “ 235 H
Charlotte . . . . . . . . . . . 5 01) “ 9 ‘)7 “ 3 25 “
Lansing. 5 37 “ 9 57 “ 4 00 “
Durand . 7 ‘:0 “ 1048 “ 503 “
Flii.it..... H 110 “ ll 17 “ 5 40 “
Lapeer H 55 “ ll 48 “ G 17 “
Port Huro 10 31 “  1 Ilfiani 7 35 “

No. 42, mixed, west, leaves Schoolcraft at 9:50 a.
in., and No. 43, east, at 3:40 p. ni.

Nos. 2, 3. 4 and 5 run daily.

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

For through rates and time apply to E. L.
Crull, Local Agt., Suhoolcraft; W. E. DAVIS, gen'l
passenger agent, Chicago; W. J. SPICER, gen‘l
manager Detroit.

0 THE DEAF.V—A Person cured of Deafness
and noises in the head of 23 years‘ standing by
asimple remedy, will send a description of it

FREE to any person who applies to NICHOLSON, x77
McDougal St., New York.

A Word for“The Deestrick Skule."

Would-be “progressive“ folk
are wont to poke fun at the old-
fashioned country school at the
cross-roads. Placed side by side
with the imposing schoolhouse

.of to—day. with its high-priced

teachers. elaborate equipment of
maps. charts. and otherfi appar-
atus, easy chairs and desks, the

log 01' frame structure in the P

rural district. with its severe-
visaged dominie,
benches and desks (2), and home-
spun—dressed pupils, may at first
sight appear at a great disadvan-
tage. Yet, we have a strong con-
viction that the men and women
who came from these ' ittle school-
houses were. as a body, much
more successful in life than are
the men and women of today
who receive their education in
the best schools of the land. Nor
is this wholly accounted for by
the fact that success was easier
then than now. ‘Tis true this is
an intellectual age. and know-
ledge is more wildely diffused
than it has ever been. Yet. why
is it that the best positions in the
learned professions have been,
and are. filled by those whose
early education was received in
the country schools? Can it be
that the public-school system, as
exemplified in the cities, is a
failure? Can it be that the un-
guarded countryschool is superior
to the city school, with its courses
all so carefully laid out? We do
not think so. We believe the
reason for the above state of af-
fairs is to be found elsewhere.

Thomas Carlyle‘s friend, John
Sterling, once said: "The worst
education which teaches self-
denial is better than the best
which teaches everything else
and not that.” Reader, we ask
you to ponder over this statement,
for it contains the explanation of
almost all the idleness and life
failures so commo .1 today. “Self-
denial"~—this is a word that has
no meaning for the spoiled and
petted children of our age—and
they seem to be in a majority.
We have known of scores of in-
stances where indulgent parents
have given their children. every
educational advantage. (so-called) ;
and never once forced them to
exercise a wholesome self-denial.
The result? Useless offspring.
utterly unfit to do anything but
indulge in the rlolcc for vrienfe to
which they have always been ac-
customed.

There never has been, is not
now, and never will be any royal
road to learning. Yet the public
has somehow been wheedled into
the belief that our public schools
of to-day are so perfect that the
boys and girls can acquire know-
ledge without any effort what-
ever. The youthful brain is to
be coddled or developed by the

_ h0t—h0use method. No lessons

to be learned at home; no need
for the pupil to do any downright
hard work. hardly even think:
study is a pastime. What won-
der that boys thus educated in
slothfulness prove a puzzle and
often a disgrace? How ill fitted
are they to achieve anything in
life, or even make a living! For
the girls there is some hope. By
virtue of their ability to play “A
Maiden's Prayer" or the "Mock-
ing Bird” on the piano, to dance,
and, perhaps, paint a little, they
can be disposed of in the matri-
monial market.

Children who are brought up
in an atmosphere of self-denial
rarely fail to achieve some meas-
ure of success in life. They are
compelled to -exert themselves.
The district school had little to
do with the success of its pupils.
The latter were energetic and
self-reliant. What little instruc-
tion they received in the three
R’s helped them to success, but
had much less to do with it than
their own determined efforts.
They acted on the motto :——Labor
’L'l7l(,‘[f omnia.—Boa7'¢l of Erlucation.

-———<—o->—~———
Literary Note.

The Christmas edition of the
C'osnmpolit(u2. magazine is one
hundred thousand copies. The
order, as originally given to the
printers was for 85,000 copies.
but while on the press it was
thought advisable to increase the
number to 100,000.

It contains a feature never be-
fore attempted by any magazine.
consisting of 123 cartoons from
the brush of Dan Beard. the now
famous artist who did such won-
derful illustrations in Mark

Twain‘s book, “The Yankee at‘

hacked—up P

the Court of King Arthur."

These cartoons are placed at
the bottom of each page of the
magazine and take for their sub-
ject-. "Christmas during the
Eighteen Centuries of the Chris-
tian Era,” with variations, show-
ing the way in which we modern
Christians carry out some of the
chief texts of the christian gos-
el.

Above, and at each side of the
age is a quaint border, the
whole effect being novel and ex-
tremely pleasinv, and with the
unusually varied table of con-
tents, will make such at Christ-
mas number as is worthy to go
into more than 100.000 house-
holds.

The frontispieces of the 0087/10.
politan have, of late, become not
ed for their beauty, some of them
having as many as four print-
ings. That for Christmas, while
in but two printings. is not be-
hind anything that has preceded
it in artistic merit.

An excellently illustrated arti-
cle is one on teapots, by Eliza
Ruhamah Scidmore. Literary
Boston is treated with numerous
portraits. and an article which
comes with the ninetieth birth
day of Von Moltke, sketches the
life of the great field marshal in
an interesting way, and is by
Gen. James Grant Wilson.
Elizabeth Bisland has one of her
cha"ming articles.

The Christmas issue contains
228 illustrations, nearly double
the number that have ever ap-
peared in any illustrated maga-
zine. Contents for December:
The passion play at Oberammer
gau, Elizabeth Bisland. The
race, George Edgar Montgomery.
The cruise of the Sonoma, T. H.
Stevens. Collections of teapots,
Elizabeth Ruhamah Scidmore.
The army of Japan, Arthur
Sherburne Hardy. Hymn. John
W. Weidmeyer. Field Marshal
Von -Moltke, James Grant Wil-
son. Mrs. Pendlet0n's four—in-
hand. Gertrude Franklyn Ather-

ton. Literary Boston, Lilian
Whiting. Equanimity, William
Wheeler. A famous fireplace.

Herbert Pierson. The birds of
Nazareth. Elizabeth Akers. The
pursuit of the Martyns. Richard
Malcolm Johnson. Hylas, Mar-
ion M. Miller. Review of cur-
rent events, Murat Halstead.
Social problems. Edward Everett
Hale.

How the Hous Flies Wifrter.

Some one has asked, Where do
flies go in the winter? This is a
question of some interest. for a
house fly is born fully grown and
of mature size, and there are no
little flies of the same species.
the small ones occasionally ob-
served being different in kind
from the large ones.‘ The house
fly does not bite or pierce the
skin. but gathers its food by a
comb or rake or brush - like
tongue. with which it is able to
scrape the varnish from covers
of books. and it thus tickles the
skin of persons upon whom it
alights to feed upon the perspira-
tion. A fly is a scavenger, and is
avehicle by which contagious
diseases are spread. It poisons
wouiids, and many carry deadly
virus from decaying organic mat-
ter into food. It retires from
the sight at the beginning of
winter. but where it goes Lew
persons know. If a Search of
the house be made they will be
found in great numbers secreted
in warm places in the roof, or be-
tween the partitions of floors.
Last winter we had occasion to
examine aroof, and found around
the chimney myriads of flies.
hibernating comfortably, and suf-
ficiently lively to fly when dis-
turbed ' ‘ in overpowering clouds.”
No doubt this is a favorite win-
ter resort for these creatures.—
UIr7‘2'.s~te'(rn pt Work.

————-<¢>————-
A New Paper.

The Young Amcricaar, a. large,
first-class, illustrated monthly
paper for boys and girls and the
family, will make its first appear-
ance December lst. It will be
carefully edited and its articles
will be written by the very best
authors. Its selections will cover
the freshest and best things in
the leading magazines and pa-
pers. It aims to furnish a sup-
ply of pure, wholesome. interest-
ing and instructive reading, sim-
ilar to that given in the Yorrz‘/r’s
Companirm, but ata much less
cost. Each issue will contain
ten first class short stories, and

   

several brilliant serials will be
given during 1801. A p'.rg(: de-
voted to the home will be sure to
please every lady. Those inter-
ested in ‘cycling will find some-
thing worth reading. In short.
every member of the family will
find something in it that will in-
terest. amuse and entei't'.rin.
Send ten cents and try it three
months. The Young American,
VVest Randolph. Vt.

«*4-

A Matter of Figures.

Manufacturers of almost every
staple market product. and pro-
ducers of nearly everything out-
side of agriculture, are prepared
to note from year to year with a
very close degree of approxima-
tion the scope of their production
and the demand by which it is
met. This very circumstance is
the very ground upon which
trusts. combinations and profita-
ble business schemes must rest.
VVithout such information and
the consequent ability furnished
for combining and holding pro:
ducts out of market and gauging
production to the needs of con-
sumption the great combinations

 

would be impossible. Here is a
hint to farmers. Situated as
they are, isolated, numerous,

with a wonderful range of pro-
ducts, depending largely upon
seasons and circumstances, it
would be difiicult, indeed, for
them to furnish each other in
close detail the information nec-
essary to carry out the plan
adopted by producers in other
lines. At the same time they
could much more nearly do this
than they do now.

We see no special need of ag-
riculture at this time which is
more apparent than the need of
additional information on the
points of production and con-
sumption. It strikes us that one
of the needs of the times is the
equipping of the Department of
Agriculture for doing much more
thorough work in gathering sta-
tistics, and then insisting that
the work be done in a vastly bet-
ter way than it has been done
heretofore. This is not saitl in
special criticism of the statistical
work given the country. but it
should be vastly better. and ap-
propriations should be made on
such a scale as to enable those in
charge of this work to do it in
such a way as.t0 make it of much
more positive value to the peo-
ple. To produce the right thing
in the right quantity. and to in-
sure that there shall be no dearth
this year of any particular pro-
duct. to be followed next year by
a glut that would destroy prices,
would be of more lasting good to
agriculture than any one thing
we can think of.~.S'tucl.‘n2mr «ml
Far‘)/1(";'.

-———-———+ o ¢—- ———-—— ~-—-

The Last Laugh.

There is lots of sense in that
old maxim. "He who laughs last,
etc." Sometimes it applies even
to railroads. There are sand
deserts on the south. and snow
on the north. but on the middle
route to the Pacific coast. the one
occupied by the original overland
road. the Union Pacific. there is
immunity from both. and this
line continues to be, as it always
has been and always will be. the
best practicable route to San
Francisco. The Southern Pacific
company have put their line Via
Ogden in perfect order so that
winter travel to California may
be enjoyed in the greatest possi-
ble comfort and without delay.

—---- —-—< o>—j ~'—

Developing Genius.

Genius unexerted is no more
genius than a bushel of acorns is
a forest of oaks. There may be
epics in men’s brains, just as there
are oaks in acorns. but the tree
and book must come out before
we can measure them. We very
naturally recall here that class
of grumblers and wishers who
spend their time in longiiig to be
higher than they are. while they
should be employed lll arlvzrncing
themselves. How many men
would fain to go to bed dunces
and wake up Solomons! You
reap what you have sown. Those
who sow dunce seed, vice seed,
laziness seed, usually get it crop.
They that sow wind. reap a whirl-
wind. A man of more "capacity
undeveloped" is only an organiz-
ed day dream, with a skin on it.
A flint and a genius that will not
strike fire are no better than wet
junkwood. -elialplr Waldo Enzmxs-on.

 


8

 

Dec. 1, 1890

ciommunications.

G-rattan Grange, 170.

Your committee on woinan‘s
work will report tliroiigli the Vis-

ITOR. if our worthy editor will’

permit.

The chairiiiaii of our commit-
tee being absent. and not expect-
ed home in time to make our re-
port. we have taken the respon-
sibility to make a brief report.

We are sorry that we cannot.

make a better showing. yet we
have not been altogether idle.
VVe have raised nearly $14. and
this is how it was done. We
bought good bleached muslin
enough to make 42 blocks. fyard
square. These the sisters em
broidered with the kensington
stitch: no blocks were of the
same pattern. Then we set them
t-ogetlier and lined it with the
same goods as the blocks. \Ve
then set a day to quilt it, which
was done by quilting only on
both sides of seams. This was
soon done. for many fingers make
light work. After it was bound
it was fiuislied and ready for
sale. We also worked a nice set
of pillow shains to go with the
spread. We had the quilting in
our Ginrige hall. and the broth-
ers were invited to dine with us
and assist in various ways, for
some of them are quite handy.
you know. We had a social and
sold the quilt and shams. They
brought $11.83. \Vith a part of
the money we bought two nice
rocking chairs for our hall. and
some other articles that we con-
sidered necessary to make our
hall more home like. We intend
to get something nice with which
to drape our altar. In fact, we
intend to make our hall as at-
tractive as our means will allow.
\Ve also purchased everlasting
flower seeds. and have been very
successful in growing a fine col-
lection of those. They are beau-
tiful iii winter wlieu there are but
few flowers, This. too. will help
to brighten up our Grange home.
Our Grange held only one contest,
aliterary one. We are all too
old in our Grange to compete for
the medals: too bad, though. but
we are thankful we are not too
old to labor both in and out of
the Grange. and this we intend
to do as long as possible. VVe
hope to see the Grange:-3 revive
this winter. and if our State
Grange decides to reduce the
ineiiibership fees. we predict a
good many will join who could
not for want of means heretofore.
We send fraternal greeting to
our co-workers of woinairs work
in the (il‘ELllf_';‘i3. and hope you have
not labored in vain. Yours truly,
1\Ins. O. P. IV.-\’l‘KIl\'S.
[The older read rs of the VIS-
ITOR will be delighted to hear
from Aunt Kate again. after so
long sileiice.—Ei).]
———W—¢O>
WiLLiA.\is"ro.\'. Nov. 1;’. ED.
VISITOR: In the report of Ing-
ham County Pomona Grange the
name of one of the participants
was not inserted. that of Mrs.
Post. of \Vhite Oak Grange; a
venerable lady. who gave an able
article on "Pillars of Grange."
paying many tributes to those
who have supported and upheld
the structure they are determin-
ed shall endure. and being her-
self one of those who. having
withstood the storms of three
score years and ten. are still will-
ing to do their best to help on
the organization under whose
banners they are enlisted.
W. T. W.

itstile;Siiiiieeiings.

The next regular meeting of
Newaygo County Pomona Grange
No. 11 will be held with Ash-
land Grange on Wednesday and
Thursday. Dec. 17 and 18. The
following program will be called:

Unfinished portion of last pro-
gram.

Report from the State Grange
by the delegate. A. L. Scott.

Pastimes. amusements and rec-
reations—Mrs. Belle VVhite.

Rotation of crops—A. L. Scott.

The UnitSchoolSystem; should
it prcvail'.’——Charlie Haskins.

The power of iiioncy~W. W.
Carter.

Recitation.

The farmer's wife. her labors
and rewards—.\Irs. Roddy.
Needed legislation for farmers
James Robertson.

Grange libi'ai'ics -—L. Reinaldt.

TIEIIEI G-RAN GE VISITOR-

Honie—;\lrs. C. Bloore.

Are county fairs a benefit to
farmers; if so. how can we best:
improve them '.’~Oscar Blood.

The day sessions will be open
to all who wish to join with us.
A closed session will be held in
the evening.

W. C. STUART, Lcct.

The annual meeting of Lena-
wee County Grange will be held
in VVorkingmen‘s hall. Adrian,
Dec. 4th. 1890. at 10 o'clock a. m.,
for the election of ofiicers. Yours
fraternally. E. 0. SMITH. Sec.

 

Mrs. Beecher’s Reminiscences.

Mrs. Henry Ward Beechei"s
"Reminiscences" of her late hus-
band. which she is now writing.
has been purchased by The L(I_r‘lI'('s'
Home Journal. of Philadelphia.
and the articles will shortly be-
gin in that periodical. The series
will have for its title "Mr.
Beecher as I Knew Him. “ and will
cover the entire period of his
fifty-seven years of married life,
from young Beec-her's first ac-
quaintance with his wife. his
college life, their courtship and
marriage. his first public speech.
the first year of married life with
an income of $300. and so all
through the great preacher's life
until his later triumphs. his last
sickness and days. and death.

————ooo%T 4-

M1‘. Stockton’s. “The House of
Martha." goes on merrily in the
.-lf/mm? for December. and cer-
tainly the author is at his best in
his description of the hero's new
amanuensis. a nun. separated
from him by a wire grating, who,
after days of irritating silence. is
finally induced to speak to him
by the appearance of an enraged
wasp. The Atlmitic is fortunate
in securing so clever a serial for
the new year. VVith its short
stories from Rudyard Kipling
and Henry James, its papers by
Mr. Lowell and Francis Parkman.
and the hitherto unpublished
letters from Charles and Mary
Lamb. 1891 will be a red-letter
year for the magazine. But to
continue—Mi'. Barge Harrison
gives an account of the new rival
of the French salon. the National
Society of Fine Arts. in a paper
entitled "The New Departure
in Parisian Art.” The Wife of
Mr. Secretary Pepys," a delight-
ful. gossiping article. with amus
ing quotations from the immortal
Diary. Mr. A. T. Mahan. in
"The United States Looking Oiit-
ward." show the isolation of the
country. not only in respect to
prositioii. but in regard to trade:

and prophesies a change in public 1

opinion. which will free us from
our indifference to foreign na-
tions. and open our eyes to the
necessity of the defense of our
own coasts. and a more active
policy of trade with other coun-
tries. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
contributes a two-page poem.
called "But One Talent." and a
well-known priest of the Episco-
pal Church reviews Hutton's
"Cardinal Newman." Miss Sophia
Kirk's pathetic and charming
little sketch. called “Heimweh,"
must not be forgotten; nor should
an essay in the Contributors’
Club be overlooked. on English
and American spelling. from one
who, if his name were known.
be recognized as of highest
authority.—Hou{/Icton. .l[{{flin A‘-
(,'o., l)o.s'fon.
-4oo >-—-

A British agricultural chemist
says that "Nitrate of soda tends
to exhaust soils. because by ad-
ding the important constituent of
plant food. nitrogen in combina-
tion. to the'soi1, it enables the
plant to seize upon the mineral
matter of the soil, and appropri-
ate it to its use. As nitrate of
soda contains only nitric acid and
sodium. the plant is induced to
take its supplies of lime. phos-
phoric acid. potash. etc.. from
the soil, and thus the tendency
of nitrate of soda is to exhaust
soils of their mineral constitu-
ents. The use of nitrate of soda
may be justified by experience.
as although the above tendency
exists. it appears to be very slow
indeed in producing any exhaus-
tion that aifects the growth of
crops." In our own experience
nitrate of soda has been found
useful in giving grass or cereals
a start in spring. It should be
used in smalls quantities just be-
fore rain falls. It must be re-
garded as a great help to cereals
when they are just commencing

to "wean" fsoin the original seedl
and draw their noiirishmeiit from

the soil. ..
—<~o>——
Agricultural and Classical Institu-
tions.

l‘l'e spoke recently in these col- I

uinns of the greater opportunity
for efficiency enjoyed by agricul-
tural colleges conducted entirely
separate from classical institu-
tions. The late government ap-
propriation made available for
colleges containing agricultural
features gives this subject espec-
ial interest just now. In Ver-
mont an effort is being made to
secure an act of legislation estab-
lishing a separate agricultural
college.and a delegation of farm-
ers made a powerful plea before
a legislative committee for the
change. The subject had been
carefully investigated and in-
stances were cited showing how
much more useful to farmers in-
stitutions of this class have been
than those in which agriculture
held a subordinate and somewhat
neglected position. VVe are glad
to see farmers "speak up" for
themselves in this way. It is one
of the many signs of the times
which augur a more dignified
and independent position for ag-
riculture in the days to come.-
Stoc/.'n2aii and Hiri2ici'.
_ _____.-»___ ._

The Van Dyne House. Lansing,
under the management of 0. IV.
Van Dyne. will be open for the
entertainment of all the old
Grange friends. and as many new
ones as accompany them. during
State Grange meeting. at  per
day.

(Dbituaries.

SPEARS.

Mrs. Aurilla Spears departed
this life Oct. 27th. 1890. in the
-15th year of her age. She was
a worthy and efficient member of
Eaton Rapids Grange No. 360. a
refined and cultivated woman.
highly respected and much be-
loved in the community in which
she resided and leaves a husband.
two sons and many friends to
mourn her loss. Therefore.

Iiesolverl. That as a token of re-
spect for her and of sympathy
for the bereaved family and
friends. the charter of the Grange
be draped in mourning for 30
days.

]h>soli:orI. That these resolu-
tions be placed upon our records
and a copy sent to the GRANGE
Visrron for publication.

Mus. S. T. DWINELL.

Mus. E. J. ROGERS.

Mic. F. A. OsBonN.
Committee.

Montana, Oregon and Washington,

Colonisis for Montana. Oregon. \Vnsliingion or
British Columbia points should take no other line
than the Northern Pacific railroad.

This railroad. with its main and branch lines,
I185 brought into comniuniczition with the east all
proniinent sections of the great northwest. It is
the only line traversiiig Moniriiin and Washington.
It is the only line running through trains from the
east to and through the state of Washington. It
is the short line from St. Paul to Butte City and
Helena. iVlom.. Spokane Falls. \Vash., and Port-
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