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A. C. GLIDDEN, Editor,
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A Good Education Within the
Reach of Every Young Man.
For 1liirty-thrccyears industri-

ous and faithful young 111cn have

been paying their own c.\'penses
while getting a thorough educa-
tion at the I\Iichigan State Agri-
cultural College. The education
obtained licrc fits men for practi-
cal life. About forty per cent.
of tlie graduates become farmers.
in which business they win good
success. Since the mechanical
course was introduced some be-
come mechanics. and here they
have success. for there is a de-
mand for really educated mechan-
ics. Some graduates become
civil engineers. some merchants.
some teachers, some lawyers.
some workers in the experiment
stations in the different states.

what-ever business they take up.

for their training at the Agricul- *
tux-al College gi1:c..:~‘ T-he-111 "me ‘ the practice of l;m'ticulture to be: . , .. ., ,
' - admitted to tile ;: _--,-:-niiriaii Class

practical touch. "

The course of education here
includes thorough training i11
algebra. "‘00I1l€l31‘_Y. trigonometry
and surveying: in English gram-
mar. rhetoric. composition and
literature: in chemistry, natural
philosophy. botany. anatomy,
physiology. zoology, entomology.
geology. veterinary; in drawing:
in history. political economy, the
laws of right conduct. and the
laws of right thinking. The me-
chanical students. instead of
some of" the studies above men-
tioned, give more attention to
mathematics. including the cal-
culus and its applications. and
the strength of materials, heat,
machine design, mechanics, etc.
The professors and instructors
are well—trained men. earnest in
their work. and have the enthu-
siasm in their work which rouses
enthusiasm in their students.

In addition to the training in
the class room, the lecture room
and the laboratory, students
have the manual training of the
farm. the stables. the garden.
the orchard. and the woodshop
and ‘ironshop. The farm has un-
der the plow about three hundred
acres. which are now getting in-
to good condition; it has all need-
ful stables for stock of every
kind. it is well supplied with dif-
ferent breeds of cattle, sheep and
swine. Such topics as fertilizers,
general farming. breeding and
feeding stock are taught by men
who have had success in their
work. About one hundred and
fifty acres are devoted to vegeta-
ble garden, fruit garden, or-
chard, lawns and groves, in
which all vegetables and fruit
adapted to our soil and climate
are tested and grown, and where
are found many of the plants and
trees that will grow in this cli-
mate. A thoroughly equipped
forcing-house gives facility for
most delicate experimental work.
That the training given fits men
for good work is proven by the
fact that twenty-six states of the
Union have obtained graduates
of this College for presidents and
professors in agricultural col-
leges, and workers in experiment-
al stations, and that distant Aus-
tralia took one of our graduates

for Secretary of Agriculture. to
organize colleges and exp<>ri1ncnt-
al stations.

The mechanical department
trains men to do work in wood
and iro11. so that when they have-
finish<_-,d the course they can
readily pick up any t1'ad<- in
which such work is dcinauded.
The class room instruction and
the workshop go forward under
thc same prof}-ssors: both arc
practical. both try to wed the
trained brain tothc trained hand.
The shops are supplied with en-
gim-s. lath:-s. plan<-,rs.- with all
tools and machines Iioetlotl in
such work.

The equipment now owni-d by
the College for all branches of
its educational a11d practical work
is large and excellent. The ag-
ricultural laboratory. built with
an appropriation made by the
legislature in lnhéi. gives to the
Professor of Agriculture a lec-
ture room. work rooms and of-

‘ficcs of the most s11pc1'i01' kind.‘
, and all fields. stable. barns. stock

and iniplemcnts are a part of his
laboratory equipment. The hor-
ticultural laboratory was built in

il>~’Hb'. with money given by the

legislature. It was planned and

;built with the practical needs of

 the department in view. and in 1
As a rule they succeed well at‘

;in the VV'est.
tanical lal)oratory was burned;

; other building.

connection with the forcinghouse. 1
ga1'de11s. orchards, lawns and

groves. enables the theories and‘
taught with success. The che1n- ;
ical laboratory is one of the best 1
The beautiful bo-

more than a year ago, but the
state legislature ha-s appropriat-
ed $10,000 to build a new one:,
meantime the work of this do-i
partinent goes forward in an—3
The veterinary,
laboratory gives every facilityl
for veterinary work. The zoolog- i
ical laboratory and museum en-i
ables instruction to be carried on 
by the best modern methods.)
The physical laboratory has;
much valuable apparatus forj
the lecture table. and its roomsl
and apparatus for exper-
imental work have recently
been improved and increased.
The library has about 14.000 vol-
umes. The reading room re-
ceives regularly a large number
of the leading papers. magazines

and scientific journals.

The farm, the buildings and a
large part of the equipment of
the College have been procured
through the generosity of the
State of Michigan. They have
cost about $1-lf>().0O0. A part of
the equipment has been bought
with the proceeds of grants from 1
the national government. Thel
salaries of professors and in-
structors are now paid from these ‘
national grants. Having this
assistance from state and nation
the College is able to offer its in-
valuable facilities at a very small
cost to students. Students from
Michigan pay no tuition. The
amount paid for the rent of a
warmed room scarcely more than
covers the cost of warming.
student’s expenses are mainly for
text-books, board and clothes.
One who exercises a wise econo-
my can make his expenses come
within $175 a year. Somewhat
more than this is desirable. but
many students get along with
less. Every year since the Col-
lege was organized some of the
students who stand among the
first in ability and honor have
paid their entire expenses by
their own labor. This is made
possible because the labor done
by the students on the farm and

‘ without examination.

‘ here

A ing glory of the institution— the

in the gardens receives a small
money conpensation, and by the

arrangement of the College terms
which enables a qualified student
to tcacha district school for a
winter tcrni of 3 or -1 months.
An industrious student can earn
by his labor at the College. dur-
ing the school year. $45. The
(jollegwycarbegins the last of
August. and the first term ex-
tends to the middle of November.
when the long vacation begins.
and lasts fourteen weeks. until
the last of February. By a
short absem-c from College du-
tics at the close of tlie fall term
and at the opening of the spring
tcrin a qualified student can teach
a four months’ term of school.
For this ‘icacliing the young men
l'(,‘(‘L‘l\'l3 1'1-on1$‘_‘.'> to $.31) a month.
dc-pending o11 their own ability
as l('il(_'ilUl'S and the ability of
lll(‘. schools to pay. Not a few
graduates who are now prosper-
ous far1n<-1's or business n1cn.~
successful teachers or workers‘
in cxpcriniciit stations. inliucn—‘
tial collcgc pro1'cssors or presi-
dents liavc. in this way “put
tliciiiselvcs through college." It
r<-quires some "grit". but it has
frcqucntly becn donc. Sonic of
the best students are doing it to-
day. I
For admission iotlic I<‘reshn1an 1
Class the applicant must pass ani

‘examination in reading. spelling. _
‘penmanship. geography, gram-1
1 111211‘ and arithmetic.

Graduatesi
of all rcputable hirrh schools are"

All young?
men having teachers’ certificates!
are admitted to the l<‘reshman1
Class without examination. Some 3
of those having high school di-j
plomas or first or second ‘grade;
certificates take advanced stand— !
ing in some studies by passing
an examinat-ion in those studies.
The examination for teachers‘
third grade cei,-tificates is very
nearly the same as that given at}
the College for admission to the’
Freshman Class. and hence it has
been determined to consider the
holding of such a certificate as
the equivalent of an examination

Sometimes young men past
eighteen years of age who have
had but small chance to go to
school and who cannot pass the
entrance examination would yet
be greatly benefited by attending
at the College to study special
branches. It has been determin-
ed to admit such without exami-
nation. at the beginning of the
fall term. to study such branches
as they can profitably pursue.
In case they should finally decide
to remain and graduate they can
take the entrance examination
at a later date.

The next College year begins
August :24, 1891, M8 p. m. For
catalogues giving full statement
as to course, admission,expenses.
etc., address 0. CLUTE, Pres‘t.
Agricultural College P. 0.. Mich.

July 1, 1891.

Little has been said in the
above artice, which We are‘ glad
to publish regarding the crown-

labor system, which supplements
the mental activities, by employ-
ment of the hands. Never has
this feature of the college been
so thoroughly useful to students
as at the present time. Labor
here is not mere motion of the
hands and feet. It is not pulling
weeds over a given space in two
and a half hours time. It is not
digging a ditch at a given depth
and angle nor sowing turnips in
rows exactly 30 inches apart. On
the contrary, each student is
given a certain line of work to

; solitary head.

perform, for which he is respon-
sible from start to finish. To il-

lustratc: an inquiry came to the

college this last spring regard-
i11g the cultivation of flax. The
professor to whom it was ad-
dressed might liavc looked up
the authorities and rcplicd iii a
satisfactory manner. but he gavc
the whole inattcr into the hands
of a student to ask of thc grow-
ing flax the queries. A plat was
assignrul and the study hogan.
The \\'l1oleq11cstio11 is bi-ing a11-
sws21'cd to-day o11 lllv grounds at
the college. Thick and thin
sccding: fcrtilixc1's: dcpth oi’ sci-d
inground and etc. .-\s tl1<-cxp<*-ri-
mcnt progrcsscs. ncw 1'4-aturi-s
1)l'('.\'(‘l1I lll(‘lll.\‘é‘l\'<‘.\' which 1ll'(‘
('()llSl(l1'l'(‘(l by the studciit in con-
sultation with the l,’rol'i-ssor oi"
-\grii-iilturc. Noics arc niade of
all the points lr-a1'n«-d. .-\nothcr

student has i11 chargc some wlicat.

cxpcrimcnts.design«-d to improve
by selection or cross 1'e1'tilizatio11.

l-V0 noticed a little plat of wint.cr~
wheat sown last spring. having a‘
_ and was assnrcd ,
that that one head was "watclicdi
and tciidcd" with zealous care, to}
of it. r\‘

see what would C()lll(‘
son of one of the professors lias

a large plat of potatoes for which

he is responsible: planting. cul-

tivation. bugging, and all the;

processes from spring ‘until the
crop is harvested. In this plat
(about four acres) are numerous
cxperiments——shallow and deep
planting; seed to the hill; drill
vs. hill pl‘mting; and all the sug-
gestive changes that are likely to
modify the yield. These are
only samples of what is being
done by the students. VVhen
labor hour comes there is a scur-
ryingof the students toward their
respective interests. and the four
most is that the allotcd time will
11ot be sufficient to accomplish
what seems necessary to be done.

Moreover these many interest-
ing questions that are being asked
of nature. serve as themes for
discussion among the students.
and each knows what is being
done by the others. so that a
general knowledge of plant
growth is being disseminated and
the methods practiced by all are
understood. and many form
the basis of criticism or com-
mendation. The Professor of
Agriculture and his Assistants
are in full sympathy with this
kind of training. Indeed the
system may be said to have
originated here. The difficulties
attending student labor have
entirely disappeared: every one
is interested. for he can see. that
he is learning something. and has

an opportunity to investigate for‘

himself. His investigations also

, are likely to prove oflasting value.
‘for his note book will be bound

into a volume sometime, along
with others in the same line. and
become authority on this subject.

, . — -Aoo>~.._..__ ._
Education, Crime and Pauperism.

E1). VISITOR: My article in
your paper of a recent date seems
to have involved me in a triangu-
lar contest. My critics. I. P.
Bates and G. A. Morgan, seem
to base their criticisms on sub-
stantially the same grounds;
therefore I will avoid tiresome
repetitions by answering them
collectively.

In my previous papers I had
reference solely to intellectual
and scientific education, as taught
in our schools. Few, if any of
them, teach morals otherwise
than incidentally. So far as I am
acquainted with the public
schools they have no text books
on morals, and only teach it by
punishing misconduct. So long
as most of the religious societies
consider morality as inextricably

(‘()lll1(‘(‘l(‘(l with their religious
i.('llUlS. and (lt1)(‘ll(i(‘lli. o11 their
intcrprctatioii of tho liiblu for
their authority. no text book or
systoiii oi’ inorality can bc agreed
upon for our public schools. The
most poicnt moral f(i1'c¢—' is in-
ll(‘l'llt‘(i it-11<h‘l1c_\'. six‘:-iigtlicned
by parcnial prcccpt and c.\':u11-
plc. 1'i-i11i'orce<l by religious in-
stinction and admonition.

The tc11dc11<-y oi" each of my
critics is to fall into «I jirinri rea-
soning. to \\'l1l('ll l ui)_]t'(‘t<*(l in
my last papa-r as inislcading and
having littlc \\‘<-iglit. it is ¢»a.<_v
to l'v*i1sn11 as Mr. .\lorga11do<,-s,
“i'rom the nature of thiiigs."
that education icnds to maki-
1n<-11\vis<-rznid lwtlcr, but as yi-I.
11¢,-,i1l1ci'ol' my critics have pro-
duced any c\'1d<-11cc that such is
its gx-nc1'al rcsiilts. We can
easily givc a great lllllIJl)(,‘l' oi"
cxainplcs \\'ln‘1'<_-i11 u /m‘m'i rea-
soning will very naturally and
surely lcad 11s from the truth‘.
and the subject undo-1' discussion
is one of them.

That education gives great.-1'
opportuiiities for eiiiployment is
fully conceded. but 1111l‘ortu1mtely
it often cxalts a man's sell‘-cs»
tccin so much as to prcveiit his
acceptance of the only availablc
‘opportunities for labor open to
illllll a11d lcavcs him so long dc-
pcndent on the assistance of
friends that finally his moral
stamina weakens a11d under the
joint iniluence of want. passion.
self-interest. heartcravings. etc.,
his sense of propriety a11d mor-
ality go by the board.and h+-co1n-
mits a crime or a inisdcincanor.
His many years of study with
lack of physical development.
niakes hard labor uncndurable to
him. and ol'tc11 crcatcs a disgust
for it as being l)c11<.,-ath his attain-
ments. An educated rogue is far
more dangerous to society than
one without education. (lnly an
educated knave like “Kid Navin. "
of Adrian. could get into posi-
tion to inake a large fortune by
signing and selling a. large
amount of city bonds.

John Bardsley. ex—city treas-
urer of Philadelphia. whose em-
bezzlement is placed by the dis-
trict attorney at $5;32-3.H:-l'.'), was an
educated man. and Judge Wilson
in his charge feelingly referred
to hispast associatio11.and friend-
ship for. him.

It would be easy to collect from
the newspapers a long list of ed-
ucated men who have made use
of their education to defraud
creditors. embezzlc trust funds.
and the funds of corporate bod-
ies, to defraud widows and minor
heirs, rob banks. and as govern-
ment officials to conspire tocheat
the government and sell official
honors and positions for personal
gain.

Mr. Hopkins. ex-superintend-
ent of schools of Indiana, says
the promise to the people that if
they would take on their shoul-
ders the additional burden of tax-
ation for support of schools, they
would be lightened by the diminu-
tion of crime, had not been real-
ized. He asks: “Is there any
perceptible decrease of crime in
Indiana‘? Is there any reasona-
ble probability that there will be‘?
It is becoming a grave question
among those who take a compre-
hensive view of the subject of
education, whether this intellect-
ual culture without moral, is not
rather an injury than a benefit.
Is it not giving teeth to the lion
and fangs to the serpent?”

This is a remarkable state-
ment by a friendly pen in the
hand of the chief official of the
educational department of Indi-
ana

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Summer Holiday Thoughts.
I wish that I were A flower to sway

In soiiicswz.-ct held. where a SlX('.'llIl was flowiiigz
To Il.'lVlt no lessons at all to say,

But to wzitcli how the whizc clouds flrziucrl aw:i_v. ’

And sweetened the sweet winds blowing.

I'd like to sail \\'il‘.| the bl’(t(:I(f,-’1il|'I blow

Through wide blue skies, where the clouds run
races;

To strew the orchards with summcr snow,

And murmur a lullaby. soft and low,
In the quiet and shady places.

I think the flowers can sue-—dnn‘t you?

And the soft white clouds, I am sure, arc play-

ink;
The wind can talk to the grzissz-s. mo.
For I've ]i,~.u,-tied and \\'IIICIl(:(I, and I'm sure tlu )-
do;

Ialinosl can tell what tiicy are; saying.
And when I sit in thc tiulxls. and wt.-

The long grass, wln-n thc lni~r.~zc.s blow it.
I'm just as ;.',l:i<l as a girl can I)L‘l
[and tin: rlasics arc glad,trm,iis«-1-xnsm IIH-,

And nod their hezitls to slim‘; it.

—-C. Ii. (ioing, in St. Nirtlxolzis.
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Beef and Butter.

Beef so.-ems inclined to go 11p to
war priccs. at lcast at retail. and
tile high price of cattle will have
an effect. indirectly. on tho price
of butter. and we may look for
good markets on all dairy pro-
ducts. One thing secins certain.
we shall have no more beef cattle
booms; the supply and demand
will in future regulate prices, and
it looks now as if the demand
would, in the not very far future.
overtake the supply. But man is
not necessarily bound to live on
beef alone. and the beef butchers.
by their exorbitant charges. will
injure themselves and corres-
pondingly help the hog and sheep
growers. While butter is
anything but a necessity in the
way of food. yet it is such a com-
mon. everyday luxury that it may
be considered in the same list as
necessities, and as such will keep
on a par with meats as they ad-
vance in price. And milk and
cheese, the most valuable dairy
food products (the latter ought to
be considered a necessity, even
more than beef). will probably
keep in the rear of butter in the
matter of advancing prices.

So much for the fashion, habit
orwhatever you maycall it. How
many workingmen out of a hun-
dred buy a pound of cheese a
week? Very few, I think; but the
same men will buy very high
priced beef and still higher priced
butter—and the latter could be
replaced. with advantage to the
buyer’s pocket, by the same num-
ber of pounds of fat in a cheaper
form. But butter is used as a
"lubricator" rather than a food,
and as a lubricator and as an ap-
petizer it will always be in de-
mand, and when the makers of
fraudulent butter are brought to
book, as they will be one of these
days. we may look for paying
prices all the year ‘round.

Taking into account the scarci-
ty of cattle and the consequent
high price. the attention that will
be diverted from dairying to beef
growing by many now chiefly in-
terested in the dairy. the outlook
for those who have strictly butter
cows does not seem so dark as it
did a year ago.—Crosby in Na-
tional Stockman.

_ Ammo

 

Watering Plants.

In a time of drought it is often
necessary to water plants. espec-
ially recently transplanted trees
and shrubs. Unless really need-
ed it is better not to begin, for
the application of water to the
surface as soon as it dries off
leaves a dry crust around the
plant, and the loss of moisture
from below becomes greater than
before, unless the ground is con-
stantly stirred up or water is
again applied. Instead of pour-
ing the water into a hollow space
on the surface a better way is to
make several holes around the
tree or shrub with an iron rod to
receive it and conduct it at once
down among the. roots. A still
better method to pursue with a
few favorities that may need con-
tinual watering for several days
is to sink to a level with the
surface near the tree one or more
of the cheap earthen flower pots
or old tin cans with a few small
holes punched through the bot-
tom. and fill them with water.
In this way the water will drain
out slowly just where it is want-
ed and keep the roots moist while
the surface remains comparative-
ly dry. In applying water to
plants it should be as warm as
the atmosphere, and an applica-
tion that will be slowly absorbed
is better than one poured on.
just as a. moderate rain is better
than a hard, dashing storm.

; Crops and the Demand for Them. G1-ee1ey's Visit to Lincoln after the

Advices from abroad indicate
3that the price of wheat is steadi-
ily advancing in Central Europe.
and the tendancy is upward in
England. Russia's crop this
year will scarcely be above. even M
if it comes up to the averageu
but the demand for wheat con-
tinues as great as ever. And. as:
usual. the surplus needed in Eu- ,
rope must be drawn largely from :
the United States. which. as the
years advance. come to be look--‘
ed upon more and more as the
food storehouse of Europe. 

Fortunately. there is every:
prospect of a remarkably good
crop in the United States this
year. reports to the agricultural
department showing that wheat
will be above the average in most
sections of the country where
it is the staple crop. It is re-
ported that all available space in
the vcssels of the great trans-
Atlantic lines was long ago re-
served for cargocs of grain for
many months to come»and yet
the regular lines do only a frac-
tion of the grain business, and
till far along into the winter the
ocean between Au1crica- and En-
1‘O1)o will be specked with
"tramp“ steamships carrying to
ports of the latter continent their
precious loads of bread-stuffs.
()thers will be carrying loads of
cotton. while those loaded with
petroleum will also be numerous.

And when the returns of these
vast shipments begin to come in.
as they will in the course of a
few months, the country will be
richer by hundreds of millions of
dollars. The seventy millions
of dollars in gold which we have
sent to Europe during the last
few weeks to relieve the financial
stress felt there, will not only
come back to us. but it will come
with big interest.—Albany Times.

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Improving Worn Lands.

Maj. Howard Swineford read
a paper on this subject at a

Southern institute. Among oth-

er things he said as regards
green manuring: The practice
of growing crops for the purpose
of plowing them under to fer-
tilize the soil is one that in my
opinion. has a much greater ad-
vantage than any other. and
there is no better way of cheaply

improving it than this. To pro-
curea sufiicient supply of ma-
nure is, at the best, a very costly
process, but a crop that may be
easily grown in a few months,
and then turned under, may fur-

nish to the soil as much fertiliz-

ing matter as eight or ten tons
of manure per acre, and this

process may be repeated several
times in one year. . Manurii.-g

with green crops is not only the

most economical. but. to most

lands. one of the surest and most

speedy means of improving the

texture and fertilizing properties
of the soil. Besides iurnishing
plant-food. the soil is made more

mellow and better fitted for pro-
ducing other crops. Various
crops are used for this purpose:
some, of course, are more valua-

ble than others. If we may be

permitted to place two at the
head of the list as most valuable,

we would name red clover and
the cow pea. the former for gen-
eral use and the latter as best
suited to this locality. Among
the numerous other crops used

for this purpose are buckwheat,

rye. oats. corn and millet. The

Hon. George Geddes, well known
throughout the United States as
a practical and scientific farmer,
says of the clover: “If our soils
require improving. we turn the
clover crop under and repeat the
operation until there is a suffi-
cient fertility to allow us to carry
the clover off. The oftener we
can fill the soil with roots, and
then plow them under, and thus
allow them to rot. the sooner do
we expect to get our land in con-
dition to bear a crop of grain.
A very considerable part of the
cultivated land in Central and
Western New York has never
had any other manuring than
this clover and gypsum. and its
fertility is not diminishing.” He
states that he had a field which
for 74 years had been manured
with nothing except clover grown
upon it and plowed in, and that
this field had produced wheat,
corn, oats, barley and grass.
The clover thus used had, for 50
years, been regularly treated
with gypsum. and that the land

‘lligereucy on our part.

was constantly increasing in fer-
tility.

Inauguration.

THE C3-IR.A.]Sl'G-E VISITOR.

I

In the most characteristic ad- '

dress by Horace Greeley. on,

Lincoln. which was written about 1

1865. and is now published for
the first time in the July Century,
the great editor says:

“I saw him for a short hour
about a fortnight after his inaug-
uration; and though the tidings
of General Twiggs treacherous

‘surrender of the larger portion

of our little army, hitherto em

ployed in guarding our Mexican
frontier. had been some days at
hand. I saw and heard nothing
that indicated or threatened be-
On the
contrary. the President sat listen-
ing to the endless whine of ofiicc-
seckers. and doling out village
post-otiicers to importunate or
lucky partizans just as though
we were sailing before land
breezes on a smiling. sunimcr
sea: and to my inquiry. ‘Mr.
President! do you know that you
will have to tight for thc place
in which you sit?‘ he answered
pleasantly. I will not say lightly
~but in words which intimated
his disbelief that any lighting
would transpire or be needed; and
I firmly believe that this dogged
resolution not to believe that our
country was about to be drenched
in fraternal blood is the solution
of his obstinate calmness through-
out the earlier stages of the war:
and especially. his patient listen-
ing to the demand of a deputation
from the Young Christians of
Baltimore as well as of the mayor
and of other city dignitaries, that
he should stipulate while blockad-
ed in Washington. and in immin-
ent danger oi expulsion. that no
more Northern volunteers should
cross the sacred soil of Maryland
in hastening to his relief. We
could not comprehened this at
the North—many of us have not
yet seen through it: most certain-
ly if he had required a committee
of ten thousand to kick the
bearers of this preposterous. im

pudent demand back to Baltimore.
the ranks of that committee
would have been filled in an hour
from any Northern city or coun-
try containing fifty thousand in-
habitants. ”

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Is the 8:3?-rfnexhaustible?

Some speculative philosophers
have of late years predicted that
the time will come when the soil
of the world will be exhausted
and the human race gradually
become extinct from our planet
for want of foodwbe “starved
out" as it were-—but the Ameri-
can Agriculturist does not take
readily to this melancholy view
of the case. It says: "One foot
in depth of a fairly good agri-
cultural soil contains 4. U(J() pounds
of phosphoric acid; H.()()() pounds
of potash: .1li.0()() pounds of ni-
trogen and lime. magnesia. soda.
chlorine. sulphur and silica to
afford food for all the crops
which these three elements can
feed per acre. After farmers.
by careful and skillful cultivation,
have exhausted all this great
store of plant food in the upper-
most foot of this soil, which will
require several centuries. will
the soil be exhausted? Not at
all. As the land is gradually
changed into vegetable growth.
and the surface is removed as
farm crops, as it gradually deep-
ens, the subsoil which contains
the very same elements becomes
fitted for plant food. And thus
the imperishable nature of mat-
ter applies to the soil. which can
never be exhausted during all
the ages that are to come. All
that mankind has to do is to use
its arts, under the instruction of
science. to develop this latent
fertility of the soil, and to go on
feeding the human race until the
end, if an end ever shall come,
when the earth will no longer
exist as a fit habitation for inan-
kind.”

_ _fi‘,,__ .

Give horses water before feed-
ing. In France some worthless
horses were killed for dissection
on purpose to determine the ef-
fect of giving water immediately
after eating. and some of the
grain was found undigested in
the intestines twenty feet beyond
the stomach, and it had caused
inflammation of the mucous mem-
brane. In driving, water often.
giving only a little at a time.
Give a horse all it will drink
when on the road and it will per-
spire more, and not drive as well
as though having a quart or two
every few miles.

JULY 15. 1891

Various Frauds. !

It is an old_ trick but neverthe- 
less one thatis still being \vo1'kc(l

country.
valuable patent rights of some.
kind go through the country and ‘
pick up in each township, per-
haps. some schemy farmers who‘
stand fairly well among their ac-
quaintances and induce them. for
a consideration. to accompanv
the former about and inti-oducvcl
them to the people. This gives?
the strangers a character of ap-3.
parent respectability. and cnablcs I
them all the more readily to
swindle the gullible. V\'l1en the}
locality has been siilticicntly
"worked." the agents settle with
their “aids" by giving them a
share of the notes: but are surl-
to retain all thc cash tln-iiisclvcs.
The patent "right" turns out to
be wortlilcssz or if it is a good
on:-. tlic assumed own:-rship is a
fraud and the "deeds" issui-ll arcs
lhrgcrics. Tlicsc strangt-r.<. sell‘
the notes 1'eceivcd for any [)I'I('(‘
they can get. and thou dccamp
for “pastures new." Two inc-n
went from Central Nmv York to‘
Ohio not long since on a bogus
patent fence "deal." and returned
with -ZV'_’.()()U each. They chuckle
over it mightily. and will bc
ready next winter to make a raid
in some other dircction.

Besides fraudulent patents of
various kinds. poor or obsolete
farm machinery of all descrip-
tions is disposed of in the same
way. One “game” being exten-
sively worked just now is the
man with samples of really good
cloth for men's wear. He "strikes
a town" with a case of his goods
and then proceeds to the country
on foot with his samples. by
which he sells and then delivers
with a team. His goods are really
worth more than he asks for
themzhe is always in a hurry,
because the goods were "smug-
gled,” and he is anxious to get
away before any revenue otiicer
gets on his track. Now these
goods are suppled by a “fence”
in some distant city and are the
results of store robberies. Their
purchase does not tally with any
honesty of the purchasers. but
the “smugglers" sell out all the
same. But there is another kind
of "smugglers.” They sell to
farmers’ wives and daughters
“figured velvet" dress—goods "so
cheap because they are smug-
gled." and consequently escaped
the customs duty of 100 per cent..
more or less. After these. goods
have been worn a few times the
‘‘figures'' disappear. for tlioy
were only stamped on. and
nothing is loft but some cotton
cloth worth about :35 cents a yard.
if indeed it is worth anything.
Ur.-\LE.\' \VILs0.\'. in Stockman
and Farincr.

-——<t>-——-- - — ——-

A Farmer‘s Holiday.

We do not mean a Sabbath
school picnic or a fair when we
speak of a farmers holiday.
These are good in their places.
but they are usually so much like
work that we cannot call it play,
as one must usually be bored by
either making a formal speech
or hearing one made. which is
equally as big as task. or else
some of the home products must
be taken to the fair to be dis-
played and bothered with. which
Icall work. WhatI mean is a
day of absolute rest. We farmers
work hard, and have too little
social enjoyment: we have al-
most forgotten how it would
seem to turn out in our
own green fields and woods with-
out a care on our minds. Now
to have a good time we want to
have a pleasant place not so far
nor expensive to reach that any
may be kept at home. An ex-
cursion by rail or steamer isa
very good thing. as there will be
no horses to be fed at the place
of gathering. And let there be
no care with picnic baskets. Go
to some public house and get a
dinner that you will have no hand
in preparing. and just see how
much it can be enjoyed.

We fell upon a party of this
kind not long ago encamped for
the day in a beautiful grove upon
the shore of one of our beautiful
lakes. They were enjoying them-
selves hugely. The ride and
change of scene were very re-
freshing to the company, and
they decided by vote to enjoy
more of nature and occasionally
take a. day of rest.

ONE or THEM.

1small

. work.

Small or Large Farms.

The iInp1'cssi()n prevails gener-

. . rillv. .~-1 :1 »x ~ .- -- 
Succesgtully In n]any1)zu.L\. Of the ;‘i(‘.uI \o.‘\ /rt ()I‘tIl\\ (isltlll r.

Men claiming to own 1 mm

turist. that only small farms
‘V be made profitable in the
I\orthwest. The facts are that

ewhere large farms are unprofit-
able.
ltilled and under the same condi-
1 tions are equally unprofitable.
‘If the large farm under equally
good management does not pay.

small ones equally well

the small farm does not pay. and
thcfarmcr is working for less
than he could command as a
farm lziborcr. A large farm. es-
pecially undcr conditions that
prevail in tho N«)i'tl'i\\'«~st. can be
run at lcsscost 1H‘l' acru than thc
(inc. and should show a
largcr not profit. In the use of

imachincry and tools. in utilizing
{buildings. in l‘o1'tili7.ingtlw land.
gin lcnr-ing and in

uilcmion to
planning and 1-xi-cuting dctails oi"
tlicrc can bc grcatcr
cconoiny on the l:11'_‘_';«* farm. and

.il' tlicrc is :1 rcvival in agricul-

turc. growing out of better prices
and profits. Iln-rv will at thc
sainc timc lw an ii1cr<-aso~ol' largo

‘farnis in tho rcgions \\'il(‘l'(‘ land

can lw obtained at a low price-.
A faruior that works till acres
must have a tr-am. and yct with
one team hc can easily work 1l>(>
acres or more. while the cost of
km-ping is the sauic. Two men.
whose labor is well planned. will
do more than double one man's
work. and any farmer with the
faculty to manage labor should
make a profit on all needed help
which he employs. It is a fact
that labor is often employed at a
loss. but it is equally true that
the loss is generally due to bad
management. The tendency is
to larger. rather than to smaller
farms in the Northwest. and pro-
vidcd the farmer buys and farms
land according to his capital. lil(‘
tendency is in the right direction.
and will not. in the long run.
prove an unprotitablo business.

_< . >_
Stock for Poor Men.

At a meeting of the Kansas
Improved Stock B1'<~c<lc1's' Asso-
ciation. hold in Topeka last win
ter, Mr. E. D. King, of Burling-
ton. i11 discussing the sheep i11
dustry. said: "Fill our unoccu-
pied land with sheep. and the
manufacturcr will come to where
the wool is ready for his spindle
and the food for his oi_)c1'ativcs.
By the side of the sugar and lincn
factories we will find the woolen
mill. The hum of tho merry
spindle will join the clu-cry mu-
sic of tho glad sicklc. lnstcad
of having to look with longing
eyes across the waters to tho
povertystricken of tho old world
to take our surplus. and lit,-ggiiig
them to eat some of our cl’wap
wheat. we will lind our market
among the thousand of oporativcs
who will fill our mills and cities
and ask for our dollar wheat:
who will consume all the sugar.
butter. milk and eggs. all the
pork, beef. mutton and wool we
can produce. With plenty of
work our mechanics will have
plenty of honest money to put
into circulation. The mortgage
and the usurer will leave us, for
we won't need them. Nobody
will suffer but our calamity ora-
tors; the seat of their pants will
lose its affinity for the old dry
goods box. and they will pass in-
to ‘innocuous desuetude’—their
occupation gone."

 

 

Comparative value of Phosphates.

For many years past the use of
commercial fertilizers has been
on the increase. notwithstanding
the fact that many farmers are
aware that they are often misled
and induced to use inferior grades
highly recommended only by
those directly interested. Too
much care can not be taken in
selecting grades composed prin-
cipally of raw animal matter.
which are adapted to all soils.
seasons and crops. Many farm-
ers consult their own interest by
forming clubs and buying high
grade ammoniated bone phos-
phates at prices ranging from $15
to $20 per ton. All who are in-
terested should address at once
(inclosing six cents to cover post-
age) to C. E. Rick, general agent.
Fairview, Pa... who will take
pleasure in mailing a valuable
treatise ' on Fertilizers. Whole-
sale prices to agents. Samples.
etc. One general agent wanted
in each county. 75

 


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JULY 15,1891

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I ' “ _
Combinesthe DestroyerofLiberty.,j What! says the radical one. islintluence upon the action of the

The law enacted by Congress  the Grange not going to assist in ; old parties.
fchanging the vicious trend of po- ‘ a fatal mistake.
Is it not going‘: find _that if the party becomes in
[to help the farmers to unload the i any degree successful. they willi

and some state legislatures with-
in afew years, to protect the pub-
lic against monopoly and extor-
tion of powerful trusts and com-
binations of wealth, and the man-
ufacture and sale of spurious and
adulterated articles of food. will
require amendments, and the vig-

litical matters‘.‘

In this it has made

lgrievous burdens that have been i have a harder task to keep these ;
lbound upon them by vicious leg-  enthusiasts within bounds than:

ilant power of the government '
must be exerted for their enforce- '

ineiit. The full effect of the or-

ganization of powerfiil inonopo-3

lies in the country is not yet
manifest: our nation is too young
and their growth too recent to
show their full possibilities.
erous as their exactions may he
to individuals, their greatest (lan-
ger will be political. The first
intention of their organization
was for an honest advantage in
business. But avarice knows no
bounds. and as they developed
and strengthened. new fields
opened and opportunities multi-
plied. Acciiiiiulated wealth must
be invested and greed must be
satisfied, even at the expense of
individuals and the public. Such
concerns. powerful in energy and
enorinous wealth, with the in-
spiring motives of money-getting
and the power which it controls,
seek only the main chance, re-
gardless of the siit'ferers, and it
has been charged that. to accoin—
plish their ends, they do not hes-
itate to corrupt and control leg-
islatures. It is no secret that
legislators are furnished with
railroad passes. and so 'flagrant
is this cheap corruption that in
some states laws have been en-
acted to prohibit the giving of]
railway passes, however much;
good such laws do! Observing
people know how easily great
corporations and moneyed nio-
nopolies can obtain whatever leg-
islation they require, and how
difficult it is for the people to se-
cure adverse legislation to re-
strain such corporations, and not[
content with controlling legisla-
tures for their pecuniary inter-
ests. newspapers have publicly
charged that some of the many
enormous moneyed corporations
have entered the political field in
support of special party meas-
ures, and even in the election of
United States senators. We boast
of wealth, and are proud that
onrs is the richest of all nations;
but if concentrated wealth op-
presses the people. corrupts leg-
islators and debases our politics,
it is high time we look at the
consequences, for history repeats
itself, and the germ of the de-
struction of our free institutions
may nestle in gold, stocks and
bonds, when held in unscrupu-
lous hands.

As business men and patriots.
farmers are interested equally
with other citizens in this import-
ant question, not only because of
the extortions of trusts,, but also
on account of the dangerous pos-
sibilities of enormous wealth.
Hence the continued condemna-
tion by farmers of monopolies
and their demand for timely leg-
islation to control and suppress
such powers before they become
too many and too strong.-— Pacific
Rural Press.

, . .,...<¢o--——~-———-

The Grange and Partisan Politics.

S. H. Ellis, Master of the Ohio
State Grange, writes as follows
on this subject:

I am asked by a good brother
whether their Grange shall ap-
point a delegate to the conven-
tion that is to meet in Spring-
field, 0., August 5th. I answer
him emphatically, no! This is a
party convention, to nominate
candidates for the various state
offices to be filled by election this
fall, and the Grange can take no
part in electing delegates to such
conventions.

It may be among the possibil-
ities (though not at all probable)
that every member of the Grange
in Ohio who is entitled to a vote
will meet with others in their re-
spective townships and assist in
electing delegates to this conven-
tion; but they do this in their in-
dividual capacity, as it should be
done, and the Grange has no
more to do with it than the Sab-
bath school or the church.

On-'

islation?

Most assuredly it  The

l
Grange has already schooled up.
in Ohio,

many thousand voters

until they are now ready to take?
their places as citi'/.eiis and fight.

the gigaiitic wrongs which are
OI)[’)l‘(}s‘.\‘lIl,L‘ us.
(Ji,-rtaiiily, any one talks with-

gout tliinkiiig. who talks of the

(Irl'2|llf_§(‘ sending delegates to a
political convention. That is not
what the Grange is for. liven
were it not prohibited by our
laws, in the verytitiiess of things
it would be improper. VVlien you
propose acting politically. you
want to meet as citizei1s—---as vot-
ers. and you want to meet under
such cii'(-iiiiistances as will induce
every other voter in your towii-
ship to iiieet with you. if possi-
ble. You don't want any ‘:pass—
words“ or anything of the kind;
you don‘t want the “(lraiige." but
if you expect to move on the ene-
my and establish right principles
you do want “G-rangers." and the
more the better.

Each iiieiiiber of the Grange is
just as free to afiiliate with "The
People's Party." Democratic, Re-
publican or Prohibition parties.
as he is to unite with the Presby-
terian. Methodist or any other
church.

Many persons are far more eth-
cient workers in the church from
the etfect of the training and
schooling they have had in the

lGrangc; so. also, in the political

parties, thousands of members of
the Grange will this fall vote as
intelligent citizens instead of
blind party adherents.

The ballot is the safeguard of
our liberties, and it is a trust of
a high order. May every farmer
in Ohio use his ballot this fall as
shall result in the betterment of
our condition, and not for the
advancement of any mere political
party.

, ...._-._.-

Grange Politics?

 

The Delaware Farm and Home
is level headed in its estimate of
the Grange and the following ex-
tract gives an opportunity “to
see oursel's as ithers see us“:

The Grange has had a strong
and constantly increasing influ-
ence upon public questions and
has accomplished more for far-
mers than all other organizations
put together; and yet it has at
times contained too many enthu-
siasts who have prevented con-
servative farmers from joining
its ranks. Now it has become a
solid, substantial order; the chaff
has been winnowed from it, the
dross has been consumed in the
furnace fires of experience. Its
attitude toward the Alliance and
the new party is significant. At
the last meeting of the National
Grange it even refused to send
fraternal delegates to the Ocala
convention, and has rigidly
avoided any afiiliation with the
new party movement. It is not
in favor of a “farmers party".
Members of the Alliance say the
Grange is too conservative, not
radical enough. But our opinion
is, judging from the actual facts
in its history, that wherein it has
been most conservative it has
Won its most signal victories and
that it has made its most dismal
failures in its most radical at-
tempts to change the existing or-
der of things.

When the Alliance first began
to gather strength it declared in
favor of exerting its influence
directly in local, state and na-
tional elections, not as a distinct
party. but working together as
an Alliance for the nomination
and election of good men. This
is precisely the Grange idea, and
the only criticism that can prop-
erly be applied to the Grange, is
that it has not carried its princi-
ples into active operation so uni-
versally as it might have done.
But on the other hand the Alli-
ance has gone into a new party
before it has had time to show its

they would to secure by organi- 
zation in their own name all that;
they can legitimately ask. f[n- Q
deed the danger to the country
was that the existing political;
parties would be so anxious to}
gain the support of the Alliance,
that they would be willing to i-ii-‘
dorse soini-of the wildest. sclieiiir-s,
of this orgaiiizatioii in order to,
gain its support. 
Now. this new party must take 1
its cliiiiices with all others ltl
stands upon an equal plane with;
the Deiiioi-i'atii:, the llepublicaii. i
the Proliihitioii and the various 3
other parties. To fuse with aiivj
other party would be ignoble: it?
would necessarily be surrender- 
ing principles for the spoils of‘
office. The Alliance is a strong?
organizatioii: strong in niiinbers:
strong in preseiit influence: -
strong in its power for good. 
But it Iizis eleiiients of weakiiess;
if not of dissolution. l\'otliing,
can hasten its dissolution so rap :
idly as to ally itself with a polit- f
ical party even though that par- 
ty he a farmers’ party.

C 9 > V —
Nonsense to the Rear.

Farnier friends. you are now
on trial before the public. All
eyes are turned on you in Incas-
uring the reasonableness of the
demands which you make respect-
ing legislation. If you prove
consistent with yourselves. and
so formulate the propositions
with which you intend to go be-
fore the public as to show a coiii-
prehensive understanding of all
the needs and equities of the case.
the people are ready to give you
the full assistance-'\;,':>u require.
There is. however. a strong dis-
position to look upon farmers’
demands with a jealous eye. and
in assuming anything like an
ultra position you are ui1doubted—
ly taking action prejudicial to
your own interests. Even with-
in the bounds of the Alliance it-
self there is a good deal of dis-
content over the situation, and
there are many claims that a po-
sition entirely too extreme is be-
ing assumed. This is resulting
here and there (as in Kansas, for
instance) in Alliances either
partly or entirely repudiating the
third party movement. In view
of all this it is imperative that if
farmers would succeed in their
undertaking. and not really make
their position worse than as if
nothing had been undertaken.
they must act with exceeding
wisdom and plain common sense.
—Stockman and Farmer.

——<o>—* ——~

Something of a. Compliment.

A distinguished partisan con-
temporary in speaking of the
efforts of farmers to obtain equal
rights says:

It is a thing to be glad of that
the farmers have been brought
to attention. The farmers do, in
fact, constitute an important part
of what is called the "middle
class.“ That is to say, of men
who are neither of the extreme
rich nor the extreme poor. They
ought to take a deep and steady
interest in politics. We believe
that while they are no less selfish
than men engaged in any other
occupation, and while they are
as ready as anybody else to form
combinations in their own inter-
est. they are just as able as any-
body else to comprehend the
effects of any economic system to
which they give laborious atten-
tion. They may be the easy prey
of demagogues for the moment,
but in their own time they see
things pretty much as things are.
If they put their minds on the
problems that have occupied the
attention of statesmen for many
years; if they can be induced to
consider these problems with a
sincere purpose. they will at
least learn enough to secure them

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 --, ._ In
More Interesting Wool Contro-
versy.
From the American Wool Reporter, Boston.

Someone has sent us a copy of
the Paw Paw, (Mich) Grange
Visitor. with the article marked
which we print elsewhere in this
issue of the Reporter as an illus-
tration of the misleading and
mischievous "rot" with which
agricultural papers of a certain
class prejudice the minds of their
readers. In the first place, no
intelligent wool merchant or
woolen manufacturer would eni-
ploy a buyer who could not tell
the difference between washed
and unwashed wool with his eyes
shut. The result of washing
wool is as preceptible to the
sense of touch and‘ smell as to
the sight. In the next place. if
the difference in intrinsic value
between wool charged with
worthless foreign matter and that
from which such matter has been
partially removed were not
equally as palpable in the cost
of manufacturing as it is to the
senses of the buyer. the range of
7 to 10 cents per pound between
washed and unwashed wools
would not continue to be paid. as
at present by the mills which use
the wools.

Just how the mistake occurred,
to which the Visitor alludes, of
quoting unwashed prices on the
samples of washed wools-—if it
ever occurred at all——can be best
explained by the Chicago house
to which allusion is made. Per-
haps the samples got mixed with
some unwashed wool, because
the Paw Paw man had neglected
to mark them properly, after the
careless manner of many farm-
ers.

With the concluding sentence
of the Visitor's article, to the ef-
fect that "the wool trade is in a
scandalous condition. brought
about and continued by the pres-
ent system of purchasing all
wool at the same figure, regard
less of condition or quality,” we
have a good deal of sympathy.
But the Paw Paw newspapers
course in falsely prejudicing its
agricultural constituency against
the very reform which suggest-s
itself in its own concluding sen-
tence, is certainly not the way to

bring about an improvement. If
the Paw Paw Visitor doesn’t en-
courage its readers to put up
wool better instead of worse, it
may eventually reflect that it has
had some share in driving manu-
facturers into the use of the well
preparedAustralian wools which
are now being so largely substi-
tuted for domestic fleeces.

The "Reporters" affectation of
indignation over our article which
it published, is a flutter that
shows that our shot was made
with some effect, as it is the or-
gan of the woolen and cotton
manufacturers of the United
States. Its rebuff for the igno-
rance of the woolbuyer however,
is rather severe, and shows how
little is really known by the Re-

porter about the quality of wool

Visiroiil

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TI-IE G-BANG-E VISITOR.

in Michigan markets. Wool buy- 1

ers here are a shrewd class and
their sense of touch and smell is
probably as acute as the average
of Boston dealers. yet these are
frequently "stumped" to tell the
difference between washed and
unwashed. not that the washed
is so dirty. but that the unwash-
ed is so clean. What farmers
are complaining of. is. that this
arbitrary distinction should be
made in Boston or Philadelphia
as an abstract rule, when its ap-
plication wrongs the seller and
all the profit inures to the pur-
chaser.

The Reporter comes to the re-
lief of the Chicago house by as-
suming that it was a “mistake‘‘.
that two samples “got mixed" or
that the story was “ready made"
for the illustration. We still
have samples from which those
were taken and should like to
submit them to the supersensit-ive
organs of the Reporter man for
his determination. Our wool
sold for 26 cents straight. which
is an evidence that the buyer
here thought it was washed.
however the Boston or the Chi-
cago parties may differ from his
judgment.

We are happy to have won the
“sympathy" of the Reporter in
some degree. yet can see that our
sympathies would diverge at
once when efforts at reform were
begun. Our friend of the Re-
porter would insist that dirt and
grease should all be removed and
the wool sold at the same price.
and we should insist that the
price of good clean wool should
be raised as an inducement for
such cleansing. In the first in-
stance the Reporter would ask
the farmer to take out (30 cents
from every fleece for the happy
conscienceness of doing as the
manufacturer would like to have
him do. and to win his benign
smile and we should ask the Re-
porter to use its influence to in-
duce manufacturers to pay for a
good thing when offered, as a
motive for a better handling of
farmers‘ wool. VVe should be
pleased to unite with the Report-
er iii any reform that would do
justice to all concerned. but shall
oppose a reform that only puts
money in the inanufactiii'ers'
pockets.

 

Wool Buyers and the Farmer.

A valued correspondent at Cli-
max, Mich.. writes The Tribune
as follows:

“I have read your article on the
Michigan wool question and it
seems to me that you and others
are at work at the wrong end
when you urge the farmer to
clean his wool better. Farmers,
like other people, are pretty apt
to follow the course which pays
them best and at present it does
not pay to cleanse the wool. It
does pay to sell dirt at twenty or
thirty cents per pound and the
supply is practically inexhaus-
tible. When the farmer can sell
clean wool for enough more to
pay him for the shrinkage and
the expense and trouble of clean-
ing it, he will clean it every time.
What is most wanted is honest
dealing on the part of the wool
buyer; that he shall pay for wool
just what it is actually worth and
not take in all sorts at the same
price. So long as those who pur-
chase wool froin the grower fail
to make the distinction there
really is between good wool and
poor wool, between wool and dirt.
so long they will get a good
supply of dirt. "

There is doubtless much truth
in our correspondents complaint
of the unfairness of the wool-
buyers in paying equal prices for
both good and indifferent qualities
of wool, or rather in scaling
down the price of good wool to
that of poor wool. The editor of
the Paw Paw GRANGE VISITOR,
after putting the matter to a
pratical test. says that the differ-
ence in price between washed and
unwashed fleeces is a “fast and
loose scheme to favor cheating
and fraud. by classing the clips

sent to dealers in the lower
grades. so as to get the differ-
ence in price to line the inside
pockets of the firms." Neverthe- 2
less, we do not think this accusa- 
tion can lie against all wool-buy--I
ers and all dealers. From all
accounts, there is a decided reac— 1
tion among wool-buyers against?
paying twenty and thirty cents a

the main causes of the depress 1.
ion in the Michigan wool maaket. 
—Detroit Tribune. ‘

If wool-buyers cannot afford tol
"pay twenty and thirty cents a;
pound fordirt,"wliy do they do it. 
It is evident that the wool (I1/(I:
the dirt are worth the money. ;
Now let the buyers pay inoi'e forl
wool zriilmur the dirt and the
relief forwhicli we are all looking
is at hand. It is strange how the
sympathies of all the cominercial
papers itl'(3(,‘l1ll1‘(3ly on the side of
the poor nianufactiirer and how
they take occasion to rasp the
farmer for an expedient to which
he is driven for self protection.
It is all right to mix shoddy with
goods to increase the profits and
the J weight of the stock and for
no other purpose, but all wrong
when the farmer does the same
thing. The closing paragraph
of the Tribune correspondent is
trite and true.

.—4-+>-—-

Hog Prospects.

C. VVood Davis, the Kansas
writer on agricultural statistics.
whom we have quite freely qiiot-
ed in previous issues. has this to
say in answer to a correspondent
in Country Gentleman, who was
criticising his conclusions. "To
show what will be done under
the stimulas of high prices, J. T.
L. instances the great supply of
hogs now being marketed, for-
getting that these hogs were
yeaned when hogs were lower in
price than in any other year dur-
ing the last eight. and that they
are not the resu lt of high prices but
on the confi-'2 ry of the two enor-
mous crops of low priced corn
grown in IHRH and 1885). when
the product was the greatest.
not only in the aggragate but as
proportioned to population. that
we have ever known. No. the
present crop of hogs is the very
reverse of being the stimulated
product of high prices. and he
will see. in due time. that the
prevailing high prices for corn
have greatly lessened the hog
crop. which is but a secondary
product of the soil.“

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Grange Song Book.

A letter of inquiry has been
received regarding the new
Grange song book. We are in-
formed that work on the book is
well under way, and that they
will be ready for distribution to
secretaries of State Granges
some time in August. We also
know something of the labor and
critical examination that has been
bestowed upon the work. Every
song has been submitted to com-
petent inspection, many of the
old songs discarded entirely, and
a large number of new ones ad-
ded, so that the new book will
rank well among the modern col-
lections, and be unique in that it
will have the rural flavor, and be
appropriate for all outdoor meet-
ings or club gatherings.

We shall announce its issue
when complete.

-~-— .. _—< 0 C} ——

Criticism and Appreciation.

Below is a sample of the mild
criticism which reaches us occas-
ionally through friendly sources.
Modesty prevents the mention of
the pleasant things that come to
us quite as frequently from those
who hold different opinions We
do not expect to please everybody,
however much we may desire it,
and shall continue to express our
opinions in favor of that policy
which to us seems to be best for

ED. _VisiToR. Please find en-
closed oOcts and continue the Visi- ‘
TOR another year.
quite awhile trying to get another -I
subscriber. some
back on the VISITOR on account
of the Land Loan question. and
others think our State Grange isi
too much in syinpathv I
monied men. I am sorry

I have waited ,

be.
much. Yours-

-—<~o¢——-

From the Chicago weekly wool 

report of Sherman Hall & (‘o..
we have the following:
The past week has

pi'eseiit conditions
the wool trade.

the last two or three weeks.

one-fourth combing or low me-
diiiin combing wool; the '¢l(l\'il.ll(,‘(‘
has equaled a full half emit. to-
gether with more liberty lll tak-
ing the wool.

Stocks are now quite large, as
is usual at this time. but contra-
ry to the usual run of things. the
market is stronger and firmer.
with a steady increasing demand
instead of a diminishing inquiry
as was usual.

The prospects appear to us
better for a good trade at an ad-
vanced price for the next ten
days or two weeks. Maniifac-
turers are more interested in the
market now than they have been
and the purchases are more lib-
eral.

The opinion of the Visitor re-
garding the future price of wool
as expressed in the June 15 num-
ber, seems to be corroborated by
the course of the market. In
conservation recently with the
agent of a large manufacturing
establishment we learned that
there was a very promising out-
look for the future of the wool
trade.

We surmise that our readers
are not particularly interested in
what a lot of editors may say or
do at their annual meeting. This
reunion was held last week in the
beautiful city of Kalamazoo, and
the fellows who slash at each
other while “flying words". were
the best of friends and would al-
most divide ice cream at the re-
ceptions and banquets. Free
trade Democrats and Republi-
cans with protection proclivities
rode vis-a-vis in close carriages
all over the city without slinging
expletives at each other, or mak-
ing wry faces.

They raise celery and make
buggies at Kalamazoo, as a
bunch of the one and a hub of
the other pictured on our badges
denoted, and to prove it. the edi-
tors were driven amile or two
between long rows of the one
and taken through a large estab-
lishment where the latter are
manufactured. Nearly all the
old slow hand processes are now
done by machinery, that turns
out every part exactly true and
perfect, making a better buggy
than could possibly be done by
hand labor.

Kalamazoo was made to shine
on this occasion and the editors
were made happy by the efforts
of the citizens to entertain their
guests. Every Michigan reader
will get a celery flavor to his pa-
per this week.

_ .,_‘..m

We made a flying trip through
Indiana as far as Evansville after
the last number of the Visitor
was out. We have not the space
for a detailed account of the trip.
There are some exceedingly fer-
tile lands, lying in large level
areas, making fine farms, well
fenced into fields. one half of
which, in some places, were in
wheat. The crop lying south of
the northern third of the state
was all in shock before the 4th
of July and threshing was in
progress in some localities. In-

the future of rural people:

diana has secured a magnificent

E crop of wheat both in qualit
sin yield.
. as is also oats.

shown *
‘quite an M-:1‘-9 mm-kpt fur g},,.§i‘iver people flock to .\'orthern
suri'oiiiidi1iglMichigan fora breath of fresli
The sales niade 1 am I

were considerably in excess of;
z\.\' ‘
anticipated in our last report. ll!
slight advance has occiirred in:

JULY 15, 1891

y and

Hay is a short crop.
I

Corn is no farth-

have gone 1 or advanced than in Southern
;i\Iichigan—the droutli of May
gcontinuing down to the evening
with E of 6th, when a fine rain fell.
myreleiving the parched condition
pound for dirt. and that is one of: state this. but however this may 10f both 50” and ‘1lm05l’h€l‘€‘- A-*

I like the Visiron verylwe came North on our return.

the flavor of the air steadily im-
proved and our judgment is that
a cubic foot of it is worth more
than an acre of Indiana ozone.
We are not sui'prised that Ohio

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Market Report and Indications.

l'lec(-ipts of live stock at the
(‘liicago iiizirket shows a decided
falling oil". as coinpared with a
year ago. with the L‘X(‘t*l)ll()l1 of
calves and slieep. the timely
rziins aii(l good pasturage having
a tendency to keep the sliipiiieiits
of country stock within reasoii-
able limits. Values of live stock
of good quality are fi rm, the poor
quality aiidthin fleslicd only, suf-
fering any decline. The free
marketing of lambs has brouglit
about the usual results, they hav-
ing depreciated T?) cts. per cwt.
on anything coininoii diiriiig the
past week. The receipts of hogs
at Chicago during the week end-
ing July ll, fell short from those
of corresponding date of lH$)(),
'.')3()3T head; the price ranging
from 8.90 to  per cwt. high-
er than at the same time last
year. and I see nothing but the
large stocks of hog products on
hand to prevent it still greater
difference.

The ‘following extract, if it
prove true, postpones indefinite-
ly the time when the yard
charges of the Union Stock yards
will be rediiced:

Bos'i‘o.\'. ;\Iass., July H——Cliica-
go will not lose its trio of dressed
beef niagnates. The Junction
railway and Stock Yards compa-
ny and Messrs. Arniour, Morris
and Swift have reached an un-
derstanding whereby tlie latter
will continue their
where it is now located. The ar-
rangements for the deal have not
all been completed, but they are
well under way. Said Mr. F. H.
Prince. a director of the Stock
Yards. "It is true that negotia-
tions are taking place between

Messrs. Armour, Morris and
Swift and our company. Furth-
ermore. it is true that these no-

gotiations are entirely satisfac-
tory aiid amicable to both sides.
and that those. big packers will
probably not leave Chicago."
Another director said: "'I‘ho
upshot of the niatter will proba-
bly be that our company will
own a little land down in Indiana,
just as an investment, you know.
and that Armour and his com pa-
nies will own something in the
Union Stock Yards."—Drovers’
Journal. E. A WILDEY.

 

A pertinent question just now
is, Will the voters support the can
didates in the future who hav the
courage to place themselves upon
a platform advocating the de-
mands of the people and pledg-
ing themselves. if elected. to use
their utmost efforts to carry out
these demands? There is no use
trying to rub out the fact that
the people have been fooled.
badly fooled, a number of times.
and the only way to put a stop to
present methods is to elect men
to office who will be true to their
promises, no matter what iii-
fluence may be employed to in-
duce them to go back on their
pledges.—Farmers Friend.

During the twenty five years‘
experience of the Grange as an
organization it has never been
scandalized. The funds of the
National Grange have always
been used in such a manner as to
give no cause for even a breath
of suspicion in th eir management.
This speaks volumes in favor of
those who have had charge of
the financial affairs of the order
and also for the membership who
have had the sagacity to select
the proper men to take these im-
portant matters in charge.-
Grange Homes.

 

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(From Jst pcrgc.)

It is quite generally claimed
that our people, as a whole. -are
becoming better educated than in
former times. If this be true.

.

then crime and pauperism should 5

decrease pan’ p(I.s'.s'11. with it.

Can any one discover a decrease
of crime as compared with pio-
neer times? Facts are not only
stranger than fiction. but they
are also more convincing than
any man's reasoning "from the
nature of things." Mr. Morgans
surprise that any one should
doubt the beneficent effect of ed-
ucation will not close my eyes to
the frequency with which edu-
cated people are arraigned as
criminals: nor to the further fact
referred to in my last paper. that
the most ignorant class of our
people (theinegroes) furnish the
fewest paupers.

(i. W. T()l‘l‘l.\’(‘..

DclVitt. Mich.. July 7. lhfll.

_. . ,_
Farmer Jones’ Orchard.
for thc \'uu'roi<.

Farmer Jones is fond of fruit
and years ago came to the con-
clusion that thcre was "millions
in it." hence he went to a “worn
out" nursery and bought a lot of
crooked. scabby trees. that were
hardly fit to put in a brush heap.
and set out an orchard.

Part of the trees lived to re-
mind Jones of his folly. and part
went the way that all ancient
things go sooner or later.

For years afterwards Jones
was anxiously beset by tree
agents. of high and low degree.
who urged him to buy trees to
fill in where the first had died
out. but Jones was heartily sick
of trees in general, and apple
trees in particular. so the agents
left him to plow around the liv-
ing trees and watch them as they
one by one faded away.

Once in a while an agent more
persistent than his brothers.
would persuade Jones to invest
in some wonderful trees that
would produce great quantities
of fine fruit. but the trees. like
the agents. always proved a de-
lusion and a snare, for the won-
derful fruit when it grew. proved
to be only a very ordinary kind;
and Jones ‘-blessed" the agents.
but failed to profit by his exper-
ience—alas. that so many follow
his example!

Some of the original trees still
remain to ornament the place by
forming a variety. a zigzag rail
fence being straight in compari-
son with them.

Taken. good and bad. there are
several hundred trees and some
years they produce quite an
amount of fruit and Jones feels
encouraged. then again the 
year will cause him to change his
mind and declare that it don‘t
pay to raise fruit.

He. like a good many other
people we all know, wants to get
twice as much as he pays for, so
he always has a crop of some
kind in his orchard. usually corn.‘
or some crop that must be culti-
vated. as it‘s such fun for a horse
to crowd under the trees. scratch
his back and the face of the hired
man on the low hanging limbs.
for the trees were not properly
pruned when young and are not
often pruned when they are no
longer young.

Jones don't believe in the the-
ory that trees require all the
strength of the land. but is con-
fident that the cultivation is good
for the trees. Tell him to try
the cultivation without the crop,
and he'll tell you it don't pay.
although he never tried it to see.

Jones thinks it a good plan to
prune every year. but usually fol-
lows out his idea once in five or
six years, and the result isn’t al-
ways gratifying. but Jones is al-
ways so busy that he cannot
spare the time to prune oftener.
When a limb or tree dies it is
left standing till it falls from de-
cay. then it is sometimes remov-
ed.

An orchard under proper care
may be made a thing of beauty
as well as of profit. but neglect-
ed, it becomes an eyesore to all
lovers of law and order.

There are agreat many J oneses

 who look upon a thing only for
, the dollars and cents it will pro-

duce. Heaven have pity on them!
How much of the beauty and
pleasure of life they miss! A
broad meadow with its velvety
carpet of green, bordered at the
lower end bv a light fringe of
willows that overshadow a bab-
bling brook, is to them only good

TI-IE GRANGE VISITOR-

5 pasture land. wellwatered. Blihd ‘
geyesi How true it might be said
of such. "Eyes they have but
they see not." Poor souls that
cannot see the beauty of the land-
scape that the Lord has spread
out so lavishly for them. They
only consider the dollars it will
bring. and yet there are things
of more value in the world than
gold and silver.

I have strayed from my sub-
ject

Jones has often been advised
to spray his trees and thus se-
cure fruit that isn‘t half worm. A
but he still clings to the old way‘
of letting the trees shift for?
themselves and palming off the]
product on an unsuspecting pub— ‘
lie that bargains for fruit and
gets fresh meat and fruit in about
equal quantities.

Is it any wonder that apples
are often a drug on the market‘:
People usually prefer to mix
their food to suit their own taste.
and object to buying coffee and
beans ready mixed. though both
are good in their way. People
prefer to buy their meat of a
butcher. and when they buy fruit
they want fruit.

He who will produce fruit that
may safely be eaten in the dark.
will supply a long felt want. not
only to the small boy who “shins
up" the tree and fills his pockets
and himself at the expense of
the orchardist. but to the people
who come by the fruit in a legiti-
mate way.

There is nothing so prone to
cause disgust. as to bite a worm
hole in two with the worm in-
side of it—be the biter a small
boy in ragged pants that are
supported by a string and one
hand, or a banker in broadcloth.
Both feel much alike. and both
use bad language—or want to.

It pays to raise good fruit. but
it needs care as well as any other
crop. Jones should not expect
"bricks without straw". those
who do are often disappointed.

A. L.. Eaton Rapids.

A Small Farm Well Tilled.

Mr. T. B. Terry is known
throughout the state as a suc-
cessful farmer. He has made
money at farming, and done it
too, during the last few years of
agricultural depression. He is
so much quoted that some may
have gained the idea that he is a
big farmer big in the sense that
he has broad fields. or several
quarter sections. or at least not
less than a quarter. Such is not
the case. His farm contains
fifty acres. about thirty-five of
which are plowed. H is land. barn.
improvements. and stock are
worth about 350.000.

He says: "We often lay up.
above our living and running ex-
penses. about $1.000 a year." and
he figures that his investment
pays him fifteen per cent. All
the talk in the world will not
make him think that farming
don‘t pay.

The way he has made farming
pay is told by himself in these
words: “It was finding out what
paid best on our soil, and then
doing two or three things
well rather than a large number
half way well. It was tile drain-
ing all land‘ that needed it and
"saving all manure, liquid and
solid, growing clover with
great care in short rotation and
doing our very best in the way of
tillage. It was by using machin-
ery to lessen cost of production.
and taking care of it, too. and
constant figuring on cost of crops
and to reduce the cost. It came
from having clean, pure seed of
the best varieties. and clean fields
and long rows and fighting weeds
systematically with no let-up. It
came from persistent work of
head and hand and reading the
papers and books to get new
ideas and suggestions.”--Country
Gentleman.

Agricultural College, Mich.,
July 6. l891.—I wish to thank
“Aunt Kate“, Gratton. Mich..
for her kind reference to me in
the last Grange Visitor, regard-
ing the honeysuckle moth, the
Lithocolletes Trifasciella. which
she kindly sent me last year in
the larva state. She will find in
the report of State Board of Ag-
ricultural for 1890, page 117. a
description of the insect in all its
stages, with a fine illustration of
the tiny moth. I supposed Mrs.
W. had the report or I should
have sent it to her, which I now
take pleasure in doing.

A. J . COOK.

My Old Stone Wall.

It stands as it stood in "auld lang sync."

liy the side of the lane that leads to the spring.
Over it clanibcrs the running vine.

And about it the brambles and lichens cling:
In the bushes that flank it on either hand.

The rolvins chirp and the blnejavs squ.-.11‘
\V'liilc stately cedars. a giant band,
' Arc standing guard o'er my old stone wall.

Men show me in triumph their fcnrtcs white,
Built by some youth with 3 beardless chin,
A5 mushrooms frail that grow in a night,
Or lilics that neithgr toil nor spin,
And granite deftly hammercdl sec
\\'ixli iron crowned like an cbon pall;
But paint:-rs are rare who can match for me
Thc hues of moss on my old stone wall.

\’\'hat sounds it has echoed in liygmic years-
Pcrchincc the sa\’a:.'c WilT‘h00P Sllfill.
Wliilc the homestead bin/.cd amid 5-hri:_»ks and
tears,
Or thc rainicms homning on Bunk:-r llill.
Tht» lwztr onrc haunt: d the sunny gladqg,
The dt-r—r wlten hc fled from the hnntr-r‘s ball
And the fox whcn hy mwmlight he slyly strayed
Rlay lime lurked in the _-hndc of my old 5l\)ll"
“all.

lwondt r soiiicliintzs what his name might be
\\'hr.roll:-ti u:,;««tln-rtln-->ixmssivr-s1um;s,

\\'hill his lll‘(l<‘1'l-1 ltztn rri igiliiliuttlie :14-ztxr-stir‘:-c;
\’\7a.- it Smith‘ or Thv mpmn‘ or Brown? or
jom-C‘
Dir’ hr Wt It!’ a (inc and u tlir:-c-rni'm~rs-«l hat"

\V:t~ his log hut f:t.~hionr-d from \1>\'ll(‘t:‘~‘ tall?
\‘\'as he long or slirirt‘ \\’asl1cl»:tnt.i' fat‘
This man who ronstructr-d my old stone wall’
I’:-rli.’Ip~ hc lnndt-d on Plyinoulli Rrxrl-c.
From the .\i;lytlo\v:,-r's bout with the pilgrim
hand.
And wandcrr-4i :i\.v.'iy from the little flock
To make him a home in this rugged lurid;
Perhaps he had rhildrcn who climbed his knee
\Vhcn the shades of evening began to fall.
\\'hile he told of his childhood beyond the sea,
And rested from building my old stone wall.

Hundreds of winters‘ snows since then
Have whitened the hills of the still old town;

The builder has gone from the haunts of men;
In the valley of death he has laid him down;

No hard has emblazoned his deeds in song.
His name tradition may not recall,

But behold his handiwork. staunch and strong,
The ancient relic, my old stone wall.

—-Boston lonrnal.
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VVAsH1.\*G'ro:v. D. C.. July 8391.
~The U. S. Department of Agri-
culture will presently issue
through the Forestry Division a
50 page bulletin (No. 5). entitled
“What is Forestry?" a compila-
tion and enlargement of several
addresses on this subject deliver-
ed by Prof. B. E. Fernow, Chief
of the Forestry Division.

It treats the subject in three
chapters. The first presents
briefly the important part which
our forest resources play in the
national economy. The second
shows the principles which un-
derlie a rational system of forest
management in a wooded coun-
try. giving especially and in suf-
ficient technical detail the con-
siderations involved in the prac
tice of "‘thinning". The third
part treats of forest planting in
the treeless country. discussing
the rationale of forest planting
in so far as it ditt'ers from mere
tree planting. and giving in de-
tail rules for the selection of va-
rious kinds of trees in "mixed"
planting. Two letters from tree
planters on the Dakota plains.
giving the results of actual ex-
perience with the methods com-
monly pursued. form an interest
ing appendix.

The bulletin is designed to
present the question of forestry
plainly. divested of the scientific
terms which must necessarily
accompany a technical discussion
and to serve. not only for the in-
formation of the owner of timber
lands. of the farmer whose farm
contains a certain area of wood-
land requiring intelligent treat-
ment or who desires to devote a
portion of his farm to timber,
and to the settler on the western
plains. but to the citizen with
whom forestry and the manage-
ment of our forest resources is
simply an important economic
question. In view of its general
character a large edition of this
bulletin will be published. Copies
are to be had on application to
the Secretary of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C.

— —?«

Now that the season of vaca-
tions has begun in earnest. an
article on How to Rest. by Dr.
Wm. A. Hammond. in the August
number of the North American
Review. is sure to be read with
the greatest interest.

The Hon. Charles A. Dana.
editor of the Sun. has written for
the August number of the North
American Review an article of
extraordinary interest and under
the head of the War—an Unpub-
lished Chapter. It describes the
extraordinary experience of a spy
during the Civil War.

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Ayer’s Hair Vigor has long held the
first place, as a hair dressing, in the es-
timation of the public. Ladies find

that this preparation gives a beautiful
gloss to the hair, and gentlemen use it
to prevent baldness and‘ cure humors
in the scalp.

Steady Progress.
And so from these two point-_
ers. each in a different state. we
can once more see the good prog-
ress being made by our order.
and the results of its teachings.
New Hampshire has organized
ten new Granges this year. Con-
necticut about the same number.
new recruits are coming in. the
order has the respect and confi-
dence of all classes, is kept in
the good safe line of our "De-
claration of Purposes." it works
for success. and gets it. it asks
and it receives. I was told in
New Hampshire that in the legis-
lature this past winter there \Verc
so many members of the C 1‘an};c—- —
some Democrats. sonic Republi-
cans—that if they just had every-

thing their own way. stcppt-<1
right up and took what they

wanted. and left the rest for the,
outside world. and they did noti
take anything unfair or hurt any-
one clse by doing it." l’atrons‘~
in every other state in this Union
can have the same things said of
them if they will.

It will take work to do it and
the work will be harder in some,
states than others. but "work
wins."

Massachusetts patrons secured
their oleomargarine law this last
session after being several times
defeated.

Pennsylvania patrons have not
yet secured their equalization of
taxes law. but they will. Frater-
nally MORTIMER VVHITEHEAD.

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The Ladies’ Home Journal.

It is true that "not one Ameri-
can in a hundred knows how to
take avacation". The July num-
ber of the Ladies‘ Home Journal
has a distinct educational value.
for it quite overflows with new
and good counsel for summering:
beside the hints for “The mother
in the country.” to which many
clever women have contribued.
there are helpful words from
Mrs. Margaret Bottome and l)r.
Talmage: while in the bright
page for "The women in the
city“. the lot of the stay at home
is shown not to be so terrible.
after all. Other attractive fea-
tures are Mrs. Henry lVard
Beecher's “Birds in the home."
the sketch and portrait of Mrs.
Joel Chandler Harris; Abride in
the Diamond Fields, by VV. P.
Pond. a bit of Switzerland. deli-
cately pictured by Mary J.
Holmes. and some very excellent
fiction in which ‘*lsabel‘s fath-
er." by Belle C. Greene. is given
a prominent place: “A. soul from
Pudges Corners.“ by Jessie l*‘.
O‘Donnell. and Mrs. lVhitncy's
"A Golden Gossip.“ are contin-
ued stories of exceptional
strength. One is conscious of
the July sunshine fioodiug the
department pages and. in fact.
the whole number: better suin-
mer reading would be hard to
find. One dollar a year; ten
cents a copy; issued by the Cur
tis Publishing Co.. 433-435 Arch
St., Philadelphia. Pa.

Some of the talk of a certain
school of social reformers is
cheap but catchy. illogical but
taking. sympathetic but danger-
ous. A sample is furnished in a
letter which we have recently
received. saying: "Nearly all of
the leading manufacturers of
New England are preparing to
spend the summer in Europe.
How many farmers could afford
to spend the summer in the same
way?" In the first place we doubt
whether the statement about the
manufacturers is true. Then.
again, the comparison is unjust
because it takes no account of the
relative amounts of money in-
vested. A manufacturer with
fifty thousand dollars in his bus-
iness who nets only two per cent.
on his investment has an income
of $1.000. But the average far-
mer’s investment is only five
thousand dollars, and if the‘
farmer has even seven per cent
on his investment it would be
only 83530. We wish every farm-
er could take a trip to Europe.
but we believe we help the cause
of agriculture by trying to pre-
sent facts just as they are rath-
er than by attempting to create
discontent through drawing false
comparisons. The situation is
serious enough when the exact
truth is told.—-Grange Homes.

C Rev? Washington Gladden, the
great divine, says of the farmers’
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but with apprehension. upon the
uprising of the farniers. Such a
spontaneous and general move-
ment is the clearest evidence of
something radically wrong in
the state. This whole class are
deeply conscious that it is suffer-
ing serious social and economic
injuries and it has risen up to re-
dress them. It is striking out
blindly this way and that: it is
grappling with the financial ques-
tion. the question of trusts and
combines. the question of the ex-
cessive cost of distribution

ithrough the multiplication of

middlemen. above all. the rail-
way qucstion: it will make des
peratc and even quixotic attempts
to solve some of these questions:
it will strenuously endeavor to
c1'c:llo:t wholc which shall be
twice as great as the sum of all
its parts: it will confidently coni-
mand the sun and moon to stand
still: and it will provith‘ costly
channels in which water will be
expcctcd to run up hill. in sev-
eral of these undertakings we
may safely predict that it will
fail of success. But it will cer-
taifly succeed. after such stam-
inering. in giving to its real
grievances an articulate expres-
sion. Outof thisconfusion some
clear issues will emerge. The
farmers will find out after awhile
what can be done and what is
possible. The rest of us may
learn something. also, of the l'(‘2ll
solidity of interests and of the
folly of permitting the produc-
tive classes to be made the prey
of monopolies."

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An extended canvass by the
New England Homestead shows
that the new People's party is
not endorsed by the farmers of
New England and New York.
The men interviewed are all
prominent citizens. VVhile some
favor more independent. political
action than heretofore. nearly all
oppose the ideaof a special farm-
ers‘ party. Oneor two go so far
as to say that this party. if very
conservative. and the right plat-
form is put forward. will draw l0
per cent. of the fartnm-s' \'<;tos in
their sections. Maine and New
York states. but the majority
place their numbers far lower.
from one to two per cent. being
the average.

The sub treasury bill and the
loaning of new issues of papers
by the government on land values
are looked upon as wild st-in-im-,s.
and the free coinage of silver has
b11t a small following. The
opinion in general shows the
strength of the position long held
by the (irangc and carried out
by the Farniors’ league. that the
count.rv will consist, more in in-
depentlt--nt action through the
old partit-s than in forming any
new party.

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It is not sufficient evidence of
good faith for a man wanting of-
fice to become lavish in his ex-
pressions of love for the farmers
and their cause. Before trust-
ing any man as a leader. or nom-
inating him for ofiice. farmers
should closely study his record
and see how he stood before it
became policy to espouse the
farmers‘ cause. There are men
calling themselves farmers. who
are anxious for office, who have
only recently found themselves
in sympathy with the farmers’
movement. Keep your eyes open
and study men’s actions. past
and present, rather than their
words. As a rule, it will be
found better to select an honest.
capable man who is not asking
for ofiice. and with him. displace
the man who is seeking ofiicial
position. The man who is al-
ways hunting for an office. be he
farmer. mechanic. lawyer or doc-
tor. is never seeking much else.
and cares more for the success of
his party than for the success of
a principle.‘Farmers Friend.

~- <¢>e~— -we

“By the way, Chicago. called
‘the windy city.’ is looking for-
ward to the day when some of
our great ocean steamers will be
anchored off her lake front.
Nothing is considered impossible
to the enterprising Americans.
and it is really to be regretted
that this great scheme cannot be
completed before the world's
fair is open.”——Railway Review.
London.

To stain floors oak. take strong
ley of wood ashes and add
enough copperas to make the re-
quired oak shade. Put this on

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Sables’ Department.

July, the Year's Sweetheart.

All things beautiful love her:

Th: buttctflics light and fleet.
The branches that bond above her.

The mosses that kiss her feet;
The ripening grain in the meadow,

The birds, singing sweet and near,
The open flowers in the shadow,

The brook, with its ripple clear;
The bee, in his clover sleeping.

The locusts, that drone and whir,
The rain from the hills, down sweeping,

And the clouds—are in love with her!
For she, oh, the shy new—comer,

So dear to the world. so dear!
ls heart of the heart of summer,

And sweetheart of all the year.
Altlatlelim:  Bridges, in The Ladies’ Home

journal.

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A Farmer-‘s Wife.’

I know an old time farmhouse miles remote
From shrick of SILIIIII arid tleafening noise of
.str<:t.-ts;
\\'ht';re out: may llt'.'ll' lllt: shy brown thrusl1'.s not!-
And sxnt-ll tltt: lmy-iit:ld‘s swt-I-t.

']‘}1.t;-pin \\'t_-]‘(jr)l'(ll‘['IlYl’lll'Illl1jllllll}',
\.'\.‘l1:-rc all lilr-‘S jarring tliscotds set-tn to ct-.'i~t-1
l"21r clf, thc world's lontl currcnt lmstr-m-,(l by.
lint they wci e c.'llu1;ttidpe:tct.-.
A soothing power cliztrnned that swt-ct pl.-trt-.
V\'ith gt-utlc prcscnce and scrcnt: control;
A giaciotts woman, with a still, palt: face.
A swcet and silent soul.
Such plncivl ways were ht-rs, such tcndr-r art,
As tnmlc hcr one of love's own ministt-rs;
She might almost have l1c.1l<-Ii :1 broken ht-art,
V\'ith that soft touch of licrs.
Yet if hcr own ht-:trt :tclu::l—:tml all licarts faint
An-l ache sotnctimes—-slit: said no mnrmnring
word;
Nor l:l't,.'llll of hlaxnc, of rcnsure or complaint
Frotn hcr still lips was hcartl.
Thc l'.'nincr and his turn cmnc in at noon,
Full of the open ait‘s frt.-slt vigorous lifc,
And had an hour of rest, it lilcsscd Loon
l)t-nit-.d the f;tnncr‘s wife.
Lvt in thc strong oxcn l't:\l('I‘l from their yokr:
\\'h»-n mirlrlay (‘..'lllI(', and when the sun dimmt-ll;
VVhcu did shc rest? At I‘t’ll'li('3'2 tlnwn she wol-tv,
Still tired and weary limbed.
To lift once: nlorc the hurdcn of the day,
And lu..'ir its hcavy weight as best she might;
Toiling not only the tl.'ty|ight's hour away,
llnt late into the night.
Today. her paticnt, nncomplaining brcast
Forgt-ts all grief and pain, life's golden howl
Is luokt-n: gone at lust to needed rest,
That. swcct and silent soul.
Year xtftcr year she \v.'tlkt:d her silent path,
Btirtlt-ncd with can: and toils for every (lay,
And many children gatltered round her hearth,
Grew up and went their way.
Calling ht-r “blcssed" as their tlmughtswent back
To her mild ministry, and still pale face,
Vvhich thc old home must now, forever luck,
And nothing can replace.
Faithful and patient mother, friend and wife!
Thy name shall still he dear while long years
roll;
Thy mission cndcd not with this poor life,
0 sweet and silent sottl!
-—Eliz;thetli Akers. in Home lVIal\'er.
— -- - %o>— - ~

Ill Temper.

\V'ith Henry Drummond‘s little
book. “The greatest thing in the
world." the most of you are fa-
miliar. While he proves to you
that love is more to be desired
than all else. he also proves ill
temper the greatest evil. At
the first thought we do not agree
with him. We have educated
ourselves to look upon bad tem
per as a trifling thing. like all
constant occurances. and all com-
mon things: we scarcely give it
a thought but to condemn the
fault as one to be “endured. be-
cause it can't be helped.” and
herein lies much of its dangerous
influence. .

We so familiarise ourselves
with it that we make no effort,
or only a half-excused. lazy one.
to eradicate the fault, but if once
you will give it your serious at-
tention you will be surprised to
see how its enormity will dawn
upon you in all its length and
breadth. until with Drummond
you will say. "No form of vice.
not worldliness. not greed of
gold. not drunkenness itself, does
more to unchristianise society.
than evil temper." for sheer gra-
tuitous misery producing power.
this inlluence stands alone.

It is written that "He that
ruleth his own spirit is greater
than he that taketh a city,” and
this was written ages ago. when
to take a city, to be mighty in
warlike undertaking. was more
to be desired than in this 19th
century.

In this as in other lines the ag-
gregate is made up of small
things and the little waggings.
petty and constant. go to make
up the sum of "a wretched life.
As a constant irritation produces
a great wound, which aside from
the pain of it, may prove fatal,
so evil temper withers up and
destroys all that makes the life
worth living. From Dr. Hedley
and from experience we find that
happiness is from Within and not
from our surroundings.

Temper helps to make our sur-
roundings pleasant or unpleasant.
We cannot live Within ourselves

lalone. but again and again must ,
see our state of mind. as from a‘
mirror, rellected back to us from _
those with whom we come in
contact.

We annoy our neighbors with;
look or tone, and then wonder
why they make themselves so
disagreeable. Temper. good or
bad, is "catching" and it don't
take nine days for the virus to
work either.

In the story of Black Beauty.
you remember how often evil
temper worked the downfall of
poor Ginger. A proper resent-
ment of injuries received often‘
brings greater injustice. and the
heat of passion destroys every
good impulse: promptings of a
noble nature are stilled. and the
whole being is changed. ruined
()ft(,‘.lllllll(’,S by the sway of cvll
temper.

\Vc givc so little ca1'c to this
feature of the child‘s character.
that bcforo we are aware its
growth has become soincthing
tllrt.-atoning and late we find its
hidconsncss was only inado per-
creptablc to us when its form had
gained giant proportions. Nor
docs its growth stop with the
growth of youth. and it is not
circumscribed to any condition
or set of circumstzincesz acquisi-
tion of wealth as often as the
loss of it cliangcs a sunny dispo-
sition to a nioi-use and jealous
one. and very often grave afflic-
tions chuston and refine. Don't
you remember Mrs. Browning
makes one of her characters in
Aurora Lcigh say. "The nail
that would hold the wood first
must pierce it."

A really good temper will rise
above all conditions and all cir-
cumstances. making a center
surrounded by the elements of
paradise.

VVc are constantly trying to
appear at our best to our acquain-
tances. and are often conscious
that there is much of our inner-
most selvcs that we would con-
ceal from even our most intimate
friends. yet with one flash of
temper we reveal our very selves.
stripped of all seeming and pre-
tense, and each listener merci-
lessly analyses and mentally pro-
nounces his .anathemas. Our
measure is taken. and much that
we had hoped to conceal has
been instantly revealed.

We have always called drunk-
enness and love of gold the
greatest of this worlds evils.
but great as these are, the evil
of ill temper outranks them.
because in many instances it is
the primary cause of these. and
its effects in many ways are par-
allel. and it is an evil so univer-
sal that it is in many more homes
than are reached by the other
ills.

The tongue is often called the
"unruly member" and the “or-
nament of iniquity." I have
thought that more was charged
to the fault of the tongue than
should rightly be. and less to the
controlling force of that member.
It would be wise to bridle the
tongue no doubt. and yet greater
wisdom to curb the temper. As
the one thing to be desired. as
the summum bonum of earthly
possessions I commend to you a
sunny disposition.

Mus. A. M. BANGS.
, _ _..>_ ,
Dear Home Friends.

A bundle of letters from
Grange Visitor readers reminds
me I am not forgotten. Did you
all receive the moss who sent for
it. One certain young man did.
I know. Just hold your ear
close while I whisper, for it is
too good to keep, even if the
joke is on me. Among the re-
quests for the moss I received
last winter was one from a cer-
tain young man. who stated he
wished me to send some as nice
as I could get, as he wished to
give it to his best girl. So I se-
lected anice roll of moss and
sent him. and in due time back
comes the paper I had used in
Wrapping the moss. with these
words written on the inside:
“Dear Mrs. Warner——I send back
the paper that you may have it
to wrap up some more grass to
send to some other green little
boy.” Well. it is needless to say
I laughed, and my folks laughed
at me; that this fellow was ver-
dant was evident. He had sent
for this moss thinking no doubt
it was altogether different, more
like northern mosses, and upon
receiving it found it so much dif-

ferent that he at once jumped at

the conclusion he had been vic-9
timized. and thought to evcn up:
with me with this withering,
home thrust: and we withered—;
with laughter. Yes. I will Stills
send the silvery moss to all whol
send stamps for postage. at the;
rate of 16 cents a pound. No. 
am not tired or sick of the work:
really. I think I enjoy the send- ,
ing quite as well as you do the
receiving. Yes. there are many
lovely curios here to be had for
the gathering. that I will send to
any one sending stamps to pay.
postage. I will name some ofl
them. First, from the seashore.
I can send you sea beans in dif- l
ft.-rent colors. beautiful white;
branch coral that washes ztcross i
from the West Indies; and. byl
the way. I liavo a lot of lovely‘
(-rteain colored coral brought from
the East Indics. The pint-cs are
small. but what I have to spare»
Iwilldivido with you. Then I
can send you the brilliant scarlet-
sea peas. and barnztclcs. (fan
also send a roll of sca moss that
comes floating in with the tide.
and a piece of the lovely Coquina
rock. such as they used for build-
ing purposes 2100 years ago whcn
other materials were scarce.
Some of thc Coquina houses.
built three centuries ago, stand
here to—day. grim reminders of
the hardy . 'pauiards who erected
them. Coquina is pretty and in-
tt-resting. lt is made of broken
bits of sea shells. firmly cement-
ed together by the action of the
sea water. Then I can st,-iitl you
avcgotable sponge; also a na-
tive Easter lily bulb. W'ould you
care fora bit of sand and a sea
shell from the SllOl'(‘. of the Med-
iterranean sea? A lady mission-
ary there sent me a package of
small shells and soil. and as I
have more of it than I care for, I
will divide with you as long as it
lasts. My wcstern correspond-
ent sent me more Indian money.
so I can send you a piece of that,
too. If you remember, when I
was living in Michigan I divided
a lot of this ancient money. or
Wampum. with you. I think it
just jolly fun to exchange this
way. Then I can send you huge
thorns from an orange tree. Gar
scales. and a piece of orange
wood; wood of the famous holly
and mistletoe: Palmetto saws
and the curious Palmetto bark.
As to seeds. I can send them.too.
Some of our grandest tropical
flowers are the Spanish dagger.
which bears a huge truss of hell
shaped flowers. creamy white.
stands erect. the whole truss be-
ing about the size of a large
churn. and exceedingly showy;
then there is the magnificent Par-
sons tlower. the size of a silver
dollar. deep fringed and exceed-
ingly beautiful in its royal coat
of purple and gold; and the ap-
ple of Sodom. Yes, I can also
send cotton seed, and do you
know if you plant it in pots and
treat as a house plant you will
soon have a real cotton bearing
plant. All these I have men-
tioned I can send seed of. and
they are well adapted to house
culture Then I can send seed
of the hardy Chinese Wisteria.
which certainly deserves a place
in every northern garden. It is
hardy. and every year the Wis-
teria vine grows larger and the
magnificent purple clusters of
flowers more perfect. If you do
not want any other thing I want
you to have this. Its a beauty.
and you are welcome to the seed.
only send a stamp for postage. I
wish Uncle Sam would let me
distribute seed awhile. I would
see some of our floral pets found
a place in northern gardens. Oh!
yes, I nearly forgot to tell you
what lovely sea. shell collar pins
I can make from pond lily sea
shells; some are pink striped and
tinted; others are a creamy
white. As I can make them so
quick and easy, I will send you
one of either color, or both col-
ors, if you wish.

 

 

You see I am on the giving
hand. Well. why not. I can get
them and you cannot; besides, I
remember how glad I once was
to get such things from the sun-
ny southland, and will send any-
thing I have mentioned if you
send postage. If you wish every-
thing here mentioned. send about
25 two—cent stamps (I think that
sufficient) and I will send them to
you by mail. Anyway I can
oblige I will do so. More anon.

MRS. F. A. WARNER.

St. Nicholas, Fla.

JULY 15. 1891

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So \ll.1ll my lips forget in t'r:imr-

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- And Hope smile fondly in thc l.tc<- of Sorrou‘. ‘

For if. tnt‘lc(:(l. it be but um» .sp.'1t‘t" ‘
l’.t-fore our parted stt.-ps again :iretnc¢:tit1g,
‘Twill cheat the hours to imstc tht-ir lagging
pace
If Mt-ttiorylingcr still on thought of greeting.

Or should our fect diverge through \\‘t'.'|l'}' days
And dreary niglits, the
bringing.
The flint)‘ sharpness of our lctirly w.t_\'s
\\'ill soincwlxztt stnoorli. while thus the htzznt
is singing.

changing st-asons

And if~-()s.1ddt-st t‘ll£lll(‘t'l —('}tnl‘spit_\itig hxtntls

Sliould wide as lif - (ind (lt'.‘llll out p:ttl;s «lis-

.\('\'(‘l',

\\‘l::it rlv-ztrvr thought ronlxl lllL‘llll tltc l5l'\1l\t'll
.~tr.mtls
Tlmn thus to wait. until wc tn’-n-t -ft-re-\'t 1?
liInslHll l’il<rt.
'—-C O W’

Forty Thousand College Girls.

'“l<‘ort_v thousand girls arc now
studying in the collcgcs of this
country  liasl. \\'cst. North and‘
South.“ said Mrs. .-\lico l*‘1'ct-1112111"

’almc1'. speaking before the ,\lcl—
1'().sc V\'on1au’s club the othcr day
o11 the relation of girls‘ collcgc
lifc to tho Auierican homc. It is
impossiblc that these ntnnbors of
well educated womcn. and the in-
creasing numl)crs yct to (‘()lIlt‘.
should not have a’ trcnioudous in-
llucnco in the homes of the1'u-
ture. Of course it is early yct to
judge much of tl1o.cl'fcct on tllc
hoincs of the collcgo education of
women. It is only twct1t_y-tivc
years since the first colleges wcro
opcncd to women. All. except
the few carlicst graduatcs. are
still young womcn. and really thc
answer to the qucstion lies cluel-
ly with the 40.l”)Ut) girls now
studying in all the women's and
co-education colleges. Mrs. Pal-
mer said that the question which
was once constantly asked: if it
"pays" to educate a girl. is by
no means pre-historic. "What
good will it do her if she gets
111ar1'lctl?" is still frequently asked
her by the parents of girls who
are asking to go to college. The
best that college does for a clever
girl. in Mrs. Palmer's opinion. is
to give her calm nerves, good
health, good friends. and a mod-
est opinion of herself. Her ac-
quirements, her contact with the
learning of the centuries. make
her broader minded. with re-
sources that keep her from being
bored. with lively interests of all
sorts. and with something at least
of the power of seeing great
things great and small things
small ~—Boston Transcript.

,<-,__ ,,
Farm Life.

There is poetry even in farm
labor if we only can find it. One
man sees only his tools. by which
he earns his daily bread. another
with the same tools performs his
tasks just as faithfully. but finds
joy in the beauty of his work.
and the refining influence it
exerts upon others. One
woman finds in her house only a
place where she can make a
martyr of herself. while another
with the very same conditions.
makes of home a beautiful center,
from which bright lights radiate.
and the inmates go forth strength-
ened and equipped for the battle
of life. The homely and prosaic
realties will disappear in the sun-
light of the poetry. which will
surely be found by a diligent
.search for it. It is the philosophy
of life to make the best of the
present. Let us cultivate our
little corner with care.

“Better to weave in the wcli of life
A bright and golden filling."

Not forgetting that only noble
thoughts and high aspirations
can ennoble any calling. Carlyle.
in his Sartor Resartus. I think,
says something about fitting the
man to the clothes. A satire. to
be sure, but all the same, if our
surroundings do not fit us, can
we not fit ourselves to our sur-
roundings? Many of our best
and brightest men and women
were born and bred upon a farm.
Emerson says: “Keep the town
for occasion.” but the habits
should be formed in retirement,
and after all, isn't the country
the very best place? That "man
made the town. but God made
the country” is evident.

Another correspondent says;
“Many would scorn to live upon
a farm.” True enough. but so
would a philosopher scorn to be
a merchant; a professor of Greek
or Latin to be a business man;
a poet to be a lawyer, and a true
farmer thinks his own calling
one of the noblest of the many,
by which men make their living,

for that is what it all amounts ‘to.
But that is not all. There is
work on every hand for us. aside
from our own trials in minister-
ing to others. Our own trials
will scent small when we look
around and find others bearing so
much greater burdens. Because
we live upon a farm is no reason
why we should not have our part
in life's great work. Let us de-
termine to make the most of farm
life. Let us realize the fact that
there  much as anywhere we
can enjoy opportunities of mak-
ing our lives wider and richer.
Lifc is not cas_v anywliore. It is not
all poetry and briglitncss in any
split,-rc. But let it be ()llI't‘l1(lI,‘ZL\'0l'
to make our homes so pleasant
lhat they will scrvc as encourage-
mcnt to all who :tl1'cz1(ly
livc upon thc farm. and awaken
ll dcsirc in olhcrs to try farm
lifc. Let us apprccizttc and bc
coutcut in lllu place in which wt-
liud onrsclvcs. bring all lilo f__r4u)tl
thcrc is in us to bear upon it. and

“.\’v»x:.r ximc. will u .'|ll lllx K lt-~-sons lmxc ln:-:1
1- .llI|1'(l.
;\ll4l sun flllll st:i:~ fwrz-\'t-i txwolv-l1.'t\'c-srt.
Tlic tltings‘ \\'lllt'll out xv» tk iutlglnt-nts lll 1c h.uv~
~.1>tllllt‘4l
\\'ill il.tsh ho-l'«u'z~ us out of lift-‘s :l.uk night.
.\s ~'.ll'~ sluinc must in tlt-I-pct‘ tint-; of lvlnc;
.r\nxl wv shall sm llH\‘.' .tll 4 }ml's plans wt rt; I iglii.

.‘-.ntl ii tlttnnult p.tti:-zit t-vil \\'n' rt'.'lf‘ll thc l.llltl
\\'l14 rc tirml 1'4-I-t with ‘-.lllll.|l> loo-st: may rcst,

\\'h- n ‘.\'t* *~ll.|ll cll 't|lv l\‘n<l\\' .tn:l nntlcrst.tn<l
llllllll'\ tlmt ww will -. :_v "(ithl knnwthc ln-st."
.‘.lts. \\'ni. l’. .\l.tt~.h.ill
o o >

On rural lifc in .-\rl<:ms:1s, Oc-
t:tvle'l‘l1:1ncl. in hcr pupcr in lllc
July 1\llil.llll('. "l’l:1utation Lilo-
in.\rk:n1sas." \v1'itcs-- -

Tho women havca lutrd lifc.
working in thc iiclds and in tho-
l1ousc.thcy age early. and (ilt‘
early. whcn uudcr happicr
chances thcywould be in their
prime. Thus it happens that so
many men have tlirec. or four, or
five wives “witl1out." as ono hon-
est fellow said. "ncvcr lighting
with none of ’en1." "I kep' _cm
all decent and buried ‘out all in it
store coffin." said he. An old
planter, alluding to the unheal-
thy region. said. "Why. right
down there I buried two or three
wives, and four children. and a
heap of niggers!"

They are very fond of their
children and kind to them. un-
wisely kind. perhaps. as we
Americans are inclined to be.
To all other hardships of a wom
anls life here is added her mourn-
ing for her little children; for
the careless life bears hard on
them. especially in overflow
seasons. Sometimes we are rc-
minded of this in a homely yet
affecting wa_y. as ycstortlay.
when, in buying some chickens:
and asking for more. the little
merchant said: “’l‘hoy ain‘t no
more. onlybut one old rooster:
and we don't aim to sell him.
’cat1se my little brother that died.
he always claimed him. and maw
sayed she never would sell him!"

A queer expression (which is
nevertheless a common one here)
used by a poor mother whose
little girl was burned to death.
sticks in my memory: “It ben
ten years. now. but I ain’t got
satisfied with it yit."

And a poor man. who clung
desperately to a wretched mort-
gaged little farm in a swamp, ex-
cused himself for unwisdom that
even he could see by the plea that
his two dead children were buried
there. and “My woman. she
hated terribly to have thcm die.
and she ca-yn’t git satisfietl to
leave ‘oni, nohowl"

“What a life!" our Northern
friends say. Yet it is a life with
huge ameliarations. In this
country. everyone has the cli-
mate to begin with. There are
only two months in the year
when we can be said to have
cold weather: and even through
these months are scattered lovely
days of truce, filled with sun-
shine. Neither need we pay for
our mild winters with hot sum-
mers. There are but two months
that are really uncomfortably
warm for more than a few days
at a time. These are August
and September. They tell us
that the nights are cool then. but
I receive this statement with a.
degree of apathy because I never
was in any climate so torrid that
Idid not hear it. or that two
blankets did not make a hand-
some figure in the story. We
sleep under two blankets like
the dwellers in St. Augustine.
-Nice, Algiers and I dare say all
the citizens of the equator that

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Lr-:c'rL'i<i-:r<—A. J. CR()SlSYJi<._ .....Novr
S1-r~;w.ucnvA. P. GRAY _ _ _ . . . . .. Archir

Ass'1' S'ri:wARr)—VV. Ii. ST()Cl\'IN(z .. Chelsea.
CHAl‘LAl!\'—JN(). E. l’ASSl\l0I\'l£ ._I“lushing
'l'si-:A:~;L'r<r;rr—l£. A. STR()N(}.___ _ _ .\'ickslrurg.

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CERF. IRS. VV. Ii. VVl<l(;lIT.
POMoNA~l\lRS. \‘V. C. STUAR ._
FLonA——MRS. C. C. l’0()l(MAN..._, ttle Creek.
L. A. STi«;\vi\I<i)~i\'lI{S. \V. I-Z. STOCKING (ilrelsea.
lrlxt-(-.utive Committee.

  
  
 
 
 
 
  

 

 

  
 
 
   

   

J. G. RAMSDELL. Chn............'l‘ravcrse City.
. . Tl _ . . _ . __Ypsilarrtr.
..Maple Rapids.
.._.I.itchhcld.
....Tuscola.
....,l\loline.
R . . . . . . . . . ..I“ruit Ridge.
THUS MA S. I ,~ _ -- ,- \ __._l5errir-n Corner
Jl;Nl\'Il£l5Ul£LL (L“"“‘“°‘r  Mzrrcellus
(£1-neral Deputies.
Hon. C. G. Luce....  ..   ..Coldwater
lion. J. J. \Voodrrran . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . ..l’aw l’:rw.
J. T. Cobb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Selroolcr:rl’t.
Jason \\’oodnr;in., . . . . . . . , , . . . . . . ..l‘2rw Pzrw.
Mary A. Mayo . _ . . . . . . _ . . . . . . . . . . . ..l‘l2ll(lL‘Cl'{.'t‘l£.
s‘pH~inl Deputies.
A. Luther . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..lS:rrry Co.
E \V. Allis. . . .. I.«:rr:r\' -e “
Sis. I5. I). l\'oke.-.
Sarrrricl Bruce...
J. I). l\l. l-'i.~;' .
R V. Clark IillCllEAll1lll.Iil‘l'l'll‘ll “

 
 
  
  
    

T. I’. I{oti;.'_ei':~, ..
Isaac .-‘.. \Vr-st __
James \ViIlianrs.
Robert Alw:rr'd. .

... .l<:rvt-rrrra. .\lu.~'kegon "
\’orth llrzrnrh, I-.'l})('l'l' "
 ..l;‘;rsLpor‘t, Antrirn “
...llu<l.<on\’ille. Otxzrwrr “
\Vrn. Clark . . . . . . .. .Charlevoix, Charlevoix “
Connnittq-0 on “'omun’n '“'oi-k in
the I-‘-ranxxe.
.\Irs. A. Gunnison ............... __North Lansing.
Mrs. J. C. Gorrlii___ .... ._Paw Paw.
Mrs. A. D. Mckac .............. ..Traverse City.

 
  

Revised List of Grange Supplies.
Kept in the Oflice of Sec‘y of the

Michigan State Grange

And sent out post—paid on receipt of Cash
Order. over the Seal of a Subordinate
Grange, and the signature of its
Master or Secretary.

Porcelain ballot marbles, per hundred ...... ..$ 75

   
    
  

Secretary’s ledger .................. .. . 1 00
Secretary‘s record ................ ._ . 1 00
Treasurer's orders, bound, per hundred. 1 O0
Secretary's receipts for dues, “ __ 50
Treasurer’s “ ................. . . 50
Applications for membership, per 100. 50
Withdrawal cards, per dozen ..... .. 25
Dimits, in envelopes, per dozen.... .... ‘.25
By-Laws of the State Grange, single copies, 10c;

per dozen ................................. . _ 75
“ Glad Echoes,” with music, single copies 250;

per dozen ................................. ._ 3 00
The National Grange Choir, single copy 40c;

per dozen ................................. ._ 4 00

Rituals, 7th edition (with combined degrees). . 25
It It It at It It per doz 2 
“ fifth degree, set of nine, __________ .. 1 80

  
   
  

Notice to delinquent members, per 100 40
American Manual of Parliamentary Law. 50
Digest of Laws and Rulings ........ .. 25
Roll books ....................... . . 15
Patrons’ badges (in lots or‘ 15 or more). _ 25

Oflicers‘ badges ...................... .. .
Sample package co—operative literature ...... __ 18

Write for prices on working tools, stati‘ mount-
ings, seals, ballot boxes and any other grunge sup-

plies.
Address, MISS JENNIE BUELL,
Sec’y Michigan State Grange,

Marcellus, Mich.

GERMAN
HORSE AND COW POWDER

Is of the highest value of horses, cattle, hogs, and
poultry. It assists digestion and assimilation and
thus converts feed into muscle, milk and fat which
otherwise would be wasted.

MORTIMER WHITEHEAD

Says: “German Horse and Cow Powder pays many
times its cost in keeping all kinds of farm stock in
good health. I have used it for years on my farm,
buying a barrel at a time."

It is manufactured by Dr. L. Oberholtzer’s Sons
& 00., Phcenixville, Pa, and sold at

Wholesale Prices--viz:

Bar-rels—'A0lbs in bulk, 7|/,4: per pound.
Boxes —— some “ “ 8c “ "
“ 30lbs—5lb pack. 10c. “

By ALBERT STEGEMAN, Allegan, Mich.
THORNTON BARNES, No. 241 North
Water St., Philadelphia, Pa.

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“ IV 5 55 7 20 I2 20
Grand Rapids . . , . , . ,.ar r, 5 I5 7 45 9 20 2 15
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Cadillac _ . ‘ 30 9
Traverse 55
Potoskty
l\Iackin.iw
GOING HOUTH.
Mackinaw Citv ....... .. Q R 45 7 45
Petoskt-y, . . _ 10 U5 9 15
Traverse City  __ l 4 on to 45
A. M P. M. P M
Cadillac _ _ _ . . . . . . _ . . . .. 2 047 0 30 1 25
Grand Rapids  ...ar 6 00 ‘Ill 51) 5 30 2 on
“ ‘I IV '7 III) ‘ll 05 1300
Kalarnuzoo,____...._.ar 8 45 .12 30 l I 55 341!
“ IV" 8 5|! A. Ill. H 05 3 45
Fort Wayne _ , , , , _ _ _ _.ar 12 25 -.1] fall 7 ‘J5
“ “ l\' 12 45 1;’ ll)
R1clrinonrl__,_ , , . _ .. 3 55 ‘.5 40 _
Cincinnati  7 U0 7 0|);
I’. M. A .M.‘

Nos. 5 and 4‘. daily between Grand Rapids and Cin-
cinnati.
Nos. ‘.2 and it carries through
tween Grand Rapids and Cincinnati.
No. 3 crirrit-,2-z sleeper. Grand Rapids to I\Iackin-
aw.
No. l‘- carries through sleeper, Grand Rapids and
Cincinnati.
No. £I7,going north, leaves at Kalamazoo 7 10 p. in.
No.98, going south, arrives at Kalzrnnizoo 12 U5 p.in.
C. L. LOCK WOOD,
G. P. K: T. Ag‘t, Grand Rapids.
E. BAKER, Agent, Kalamazoo.

chair ears be-

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CHICAGO &
WEST .lII(.‘HIGAN R’Y,

l‘2:vorite route to the Surrrnrvr resorts of
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_ 132 P .VL—.r{as FreoClrair Car to Grand Rap-
ids. corirrectirig with 5:25 P. M. Free Chair Car to
Marrrstee.

_d8 02 P .VK—\Vagner Buffet Car to Grand Rap-
] N‘

12 I0 A .VI—Free Chair Car to Chicago.
2 59 P )I—V\_/agner Buffet Car to Chicago.
Wagner Sleeping Cars on nisht trains to Chica-
go and Grand Rapids.
GEO DE HAVEN. Gen'l Pass‘r Agent.

an expenses par an
active person to sel
ods 040 a. Month to distribute circulars Salary paid

Sample of our goods and contract free.
end me. for postage, packing etc. We KI-IAN’ nusins
NION SUPPLY ('0. 26 :2 28 RIVER St. CHICAGO Ill

 

BETTER THAN A GOLD
MINE! No Capital needed!

H E L P
WANTE D I ;?.%£'f§“‘ '%~"..‘fJ.‘i.;‘.‘3.’;’5 “sf”:-"I

DI-ZNTR, Mrsrsrr-:R.~;, Bruour i\ll-IN and I.ADll-ZS
wanted in eve'y Town and County. No exper-
ience needed. Credit given if desired. lie early
this time and secure first choice of exclusive
territory on this grand ‘r\‘i-:w Boon.

I)()N’T BE A;\' (JSTRICHI \VRrrE AND GET
r-‘er.r. irqr-'ormA-i*ro_~x AND soul) FACTS Al}0l,"l‘

FOOTPRINTS OF THE
WORLD’S HISTORY.

By “Km. S. Hrymi and John Clark Ritlpatlt.
TAP. \VoRi.i) Ci:r.r-:i<RA"ri-:n }lrsroRiA.\'s.

Tm: Srorrr or 'rr-rr~: \'.\'r'io.\'s as told in the
l:RII.l.lA.\"l‘ r>r-;r»:r>s rind 1:1.‘ so ACillE\‘i-:\rE.\‘T5 of the
VVorld's Iier and Heroirres, A rich store-house
Of HISIDUI THM L. . I'l'Rl€. and the weired
and \\'ONl7ERFL'l.  . of the"tirrn-s that tried
men's souls.“ THkll.Ll.\'(3 sroi.-ii-Ls of the days of
clrivalry. startling heroic ZlClllt.’\'t'll1cIl(S ot"wArr-
Rinks nd CRL'SAl)l-IRS. Alsoa vast collection of
the rarest gerns of English and .-‘rnrericau Histori-
cal Literature. The rrrost wonderful New Book
of the day. TH!-ZGRI-LAT SI-LL)-'-h‘l)l_'C.-\TOR; just the
book the people want. Over 350 grand Hrsronrcai.
ILl.Ul\llNATIO.\'S. Halt‘ Tone Steel Engravings, and
brilliant Orr.-conmu-:1) PLAT!-25. Everybody finds
it a honanza of success. It sells without asking.
No Capital, no risk. Straight business and big
profits. Splendid illustrated circulars and full
particulars sent free.

Address, HISTORICAL PUB., CO.
Sr. Louis, Mo.

 
  

MICHIGAN FEMALE SEMINABY.
Opens Sept. 10. College Preparatory and ad-
vanced courses. Fine advantages in Music and
Art. Steam heat. Send for catalogue 1;.
ISABELLA G. FRENCH, Prin., Kalamazoo, Mich.

l “Papa, be True to Me.”

State Senator llc-nry J. Coggeshall, when ask»-d
'.vl1_\' Ill.‘ would not take 1; _ hing but .-Xppollirraris
 watt-r, It‘pllL:d in the toll wing verses.

\\'h.it rnakes rrn- refuse a social glass?
Well, I'll tell you the reason why.-
liecarrse a bonnie. l>lue-eyed lass

ls exer standing by:

And I hear her voice above the rroist:
(lf the jest and nrerry glee-.

A~ with baby grave she kisses my face,
And says. "Pzrpa, be true to me."

\\'lrat then can I do t‘) in)‘ lirss to be true
Iibller th:rn to let it pass by?

I know you'll not think my refuszrl to drink
A breath of your coiiru.-isy.

I‘or I hear her repeat in llCCt:lltS sweet.

And her dear little Iornr I >.t.'L',

A» with loving errrbmce she kiss: :. rny l.lC('.
And s.r).~., "l’.'rp;r. lac true to me."

I.<'t run: otter :1 toast to lllt‘UllL' I lo'.'<- rrrost,
\'{lro.s<- rlt-.ir little: will I oIré'."-
\\'lr-rw irrllrrvgrrvr .~'u‘t-M ls g1Ii<lir=.: my I(:t'(
Uver lift-':~'. lIJll\()lll(- \-.'.r_'.‘.
. Slay the .\1lllltVr'I‘€l1il:<*trllllll>l:t~>iL'(:IlHlllL',
I“:-inr st-r'ro\-.' rrr;r_\ slaw be free.
lwvr \'.irlr la.rl-_\' g:’.rr<- slrv lx'i\.~.e:l my fnrw-,
Anni said, “I';rp:r. lu true to nu 
- .\I1i_~~.l(‘l1ll>(*tts 1*1om.;;m_
.¢ . >_

How to Run Away,

Colno. my lad. but did you
ova-2' run zuvay from lrorrro? So!
.'l‘ln.-11rr'y the oxprwrrrierrt. The

boy who iirrzt,gim.-s that home is
no place for him. that the "old,
folks" are behind the a_«_:o. thutl
he is being kept down. that tho
outside world is ziclriiig to give
him a better show than his father-
will. should make up his mind to
run away. Ive been right tlrerc.
and I'll tell you just how to do it.
Some day. after your father lias
observed that you are getting 211-
together to high-headed, and that
he will shortly have at seanee with
you in the woodshed. go out be-
hind the house and sit down on
the frarne of the grindstone and
have a. talk with yourself as fol-
lows: “Am I too old to be lick;
ed‘."'——"You bet I arii."——"Is
father unreasonably tyrarrriical‘.‘”
—“Of course he is."—“Can a boy
of my ambition amount to any-
thing in this town‘."‘—‘*Not by a
jugfull."—"W1ll fatlrer rnakc a
slave of me as long as I stay
liere‘."'—“He will. “e ‘ ‘Isn't every
other boy in this town given a
better show than I lrave‘."‘—‘*Ev-
cry one.”—“Wouldn't any boy of
spirit. situated as I am. run away
and set up for hirrrsolfi”-—--"Ho
certainly w0uld."~—"Thcn you'll

U0. won't ou?"/*"I‘his vor Y
O. ., . .3
night. . Having come to this

conclusion you should set about
figuring on what to take with
you, the hour of leaving and the
direction in which you will go.
An outfit for a runaway boy of
14. at which age the swell-head
begins. is:

One package of salt.

Ono piece of cold ineut.

Ono loaf of bread. Two ap-
ples.

Two boiled egrgs. One jack-
knife.

About oloven cents in czrslr.

One bundle of (.-lollies.

The best hour of lezivi11_s: liomo.
(-specially if you lnrve to ch 111)
out of a window and drop on at
shed roof, is niidniglit. You
should leave a note in pencil in
your room, sayirig that ambition.
self—respect and personal dignity
have forced you to go away, but
in going you have no ill-will.
You will go away and never be
heard of more, but you will al-
ways think kindly of those left
behind. Before you go up to
bed kiss the baby, fondle the cat,
pat the dog and try to look pale
and weary. This latter trick
will worry your mother, and
next day, when she finds you
gone she will truthfully exclaim:
"That boy acted and looked so
queerly last night that I knew
something awful was going to
happen.” It may be a bit spook-
ish for you to start off at mid-
night. Everything is very quiet.
Even the cows in the dusty road
are asleep. You look back and
bid the woodhouse. and the old
cherry tree, and the smokehousc,
and the well pump, a fond adieu.
and you wonder how many years
it will be before you see the ci-
der-mill and the schoolhouse and
Tyler‘s spotted cow again. Looks
"pokerish” down the road, and
Goodliues dog begins to bark
and the sheep in Srnlths ten
acre lot take a run as you come
along, but don’t back out. Just
think of your father calling you
“young man” and saying that
he ached to take some of the con-
ceit out of you, and brace up and
push along.

A smart, ambitious. runaway
boy can get at least ten miles
away from home before he sees
that he has made a. dunce of him-
self, and before he turns to re-
trace his steps. He can meet a.

ldozen people who “sp0t" him forji

‘(L runaway. and advise him to gol
, bil(,‘l{——Zl. dozen fzu'rr1ei's' dogs who’
ilookzrt him in disgust. and at;
lleast one tin-peddler who says;
gtha-t if he was his father lied‘
' rnako him jump Jim Crow and no
mistake. The ocean which he is
_<_:oir1}_r to plow seems :1 long ways
off the plrilantliropists who
would give him a bank clerksliip
don't come along. and the fartlie1'
he walks the faster he is convinc-
ed that his fatlie-r isn‘t such a
bad man after‘ all. At llll'(‘(,'-
o‘('lock in the :rI'te-rrroori he is
home zrgairr. and the way he
walks into the (-hor'o.~; about the
house is 21- ,gr':rtvf1il s11r'pr'i.s'e to
his furlror and rrrothor. It \\'us :1
slrort trip, but he is ll1Hl)(‘ll(}l' for
it. He has bm-n rrrudo to sun»
tlrirrgs as ho r1<_-vor would with-
out. As ho, is lll('l\’t‘(l into bed
that niglrt ho srrr1_-.rs down and is
Il1:rrrkl'ul Yrorn the botlorn of his
Ire-art that ho turn:-d l)ll.(‘l\’. If I
had it hundr'<=d boys I'd let om-lr
and on-r'_\' one of 1hr-nr "cut
sticlrs" at his own sxvoet will.
and if one of them hold out for ‘.1
\\'(‘(.'l\' (>1'1Ll1lUl1lll he'd be all the
better for it when lu.-did 1'<-turn.
A littlo rubbirrgr z1;::1irrst the
sharp ('.()l'll¢_*l‘.\‘ and bilirrg <~tl_<__res
of the outside world rrrukes :1
git-21.11 Cllilllgfl in it b0y‘s itleus.——-
\Voi'ld.

-10}

A Letter Which Contains Much
Good Advice.

Following in a [otter from
Henry Wartl Bec.-e}ror' to his son
Herbert. for'rrie1'eolleeto1' at Port
Townsend:

Bl{()OKLY1\'. N. Y.. ()et. 18, ‘T8.

MY Drmrc HER}£l~}lt'l‘~-—Y()u are
now for the first time really
launched into life for yourself.
You go from your fatlrous house,
and from all family eorrneetions.
to make your own way in the
world. It is a good time to rnake
zr new start. to cast out faults of
which ovil you have had an ex-
perivneo, and take o11 habits the
want of which you have found to
be so tlzrrrizigirrg.

1. You rnust not go into debt.
Avoid debt as you would the

devil. 1\Iakc it 2|. funtlarrierrtal
rule. No tlt-bt—(-aslr or noth-
ing.

L’. M ake few promises. Ite-
ligiously observe even the small-
est prornise. A man who rneans
to keep his promises cannot af-
ford to make many.

2-}. Be scrupulously ca1'ol'ul in
all stzrtmrrorrts. A(:cr1r'zu-,y and
p(>1'fe<'Lfr':nrk1r<~ss. ll()§_.{‘ll(*SS-\\‘()l'l\'.
E11 her notlring or at-,e111':rto truth.

4. \'\'hc-n working for otlu~1's
sink yourself out of siglrt. work
for tlroir i1rI,<-1'o.~;t. I\l:rko your-
self 11oee.ss2t1'y to tlrose who our-
ploy you by industry. fidt-lit,\f
and .s«~rr1pulo1is irrtegrity. Sel-
llSllll(,‘.~‘H is fatal].

5. Hold yourself rosporrsilrlt-,
for {L lri_::licr' st:rnd:ir'd thzm any-
body else expat-ts of you. Keep
your persorial stzrutlard higli.
Never L‘X(,‘1lS(B you rself to your-
self. Never pity yourself. Be
21. hard n1a.sLer' to yourself, but
lenient to everybody else.

6. Concentrate your force on

your owp proper business: do
not turn off. Be constant, stead-
fast. persevering.
T. The art. of making ones
fortune is to spend nothing. In
this country any intelligent and
industrious young man may be-
come rich if he stops all leaks
and is not in a hurry. Do not
meike haste; be patient.

8. Do not speculate or gain-
ble. You go to a land where ev-
erybody is excited and strives to
make money. suddenly, largely
and without working for it-. They
blow soap-bubbles. Steady. pa-
tient industry is both the surest
and the safest way. Greediness
and Haste are two devils that de-
stroy tliousands every year.

9. In 1'ega.i'd to Mr. Bj. he
is a southern gentleman; he is re-
ceiving you as a favor to me; do
not let him regret it.

10. I beseech you to correct
one :fault—seve1'e speech of oth-
ers; never speak evil of any inan,
no matter. what the facts may be.
Hasty fault-finding and severe
speech of absent people. is not
honorable. is apt to be unjust and
cruel, makes enemies to yourself,
and is wicked.

11. You must remember that
you go to Mr. B—— not to learn
to manage a farm like his. One
or two hundred acres, not 40,000,
is to be your future homestead,
but you can learn the care of cat-
tle, sheep, the culture of Wheat,

the clirnato. country. rnanners
and c-ustorris and ti hundred
tliings that will be not-dful.

1;‘. If by integrity, industry
and well earned Sll(‘t't'SS you do-
serve well of your fellow citi-
zens, they may in years to come
ask you to Zl(’(.’('1)t honors. Do
not seek them. do not receive
them while you are yourrg—-wait:
but when you are establislred
you may make your fzttlr(>i".<.
rrarrre known with honor in halls
of lt-gislzttion. Lastly. do not
l()l'}J,’(’l your fat.lie1“s and your
irro*l1«-r"s (lod. Bt~ez1.11.~‘u you will
be lzrr'_:+*ly tlopr'i\'od of ('l1l1l'(‘ll
pr‘i\'il«-_-grus you in-ml all the norvo
to kot-p your ll¢‘Zll't lwforo (Rod.
lint do not (lospiso srrrull t-lrurt-lros
and humble pr't-in-lror's. "Mind
not lrigh tlrirrgs. but ('()ll(lt‘S(.‘(‘ll(l
to int-rr of low ostutr-.“

livirtloftorr the l’r'o\'or~b.<, the-
1)l'(,‘('l‘1ll.\'illl(l duties 0llJ()lll(‘(l in
the Now 'l‘es1::rrrorr1. May _f.'our'
i':r1lr<-us (ind ;:<>\\'lI<lr_Vm1:lll(lpt'()—
toot you.

—-<-C-—

Can’t Afford It.

"I—Ior'v. Dan. is .sorrn~tlrirr}.: that
Ill1l_\'llll(‘l'(‘>'t yo11."s:tid l"2rr'rrrm'
lirown. as he irund:-d the boy :1
bulky lotto)".

"Tho p()s1.rrr:rs’u-1' rnisst-d his
mark them. sure, said l)ari.;:l:11r(--
ing at the untout,-lrod stump.

"That will send 2» letter‘ to your
mother. Dan. and not rnuko you
any poorer, either. ariswer'ed the
furrner.

"I dare say it will." responded
the lad. as he pI'()('(!(3(l0(l to rnoist-
on it at the mouth of the stozuri-
ing tea-kettle.

"And you can have the two
cents you thus save for niurbles,"
suggcasttetl Mr. Brown. thought-

lessly.
“Tlldt would be ('ll('1lllllf_‘,', "
whispered I)zrn’s t-orist-rerrt-o.

“'I‘he starnp lrzrs a1r'oad_y done its
duty in trzrrryirrg one letter."

"It will carry itIl()lll(,‘l'. I1 is
not rrizrrrked," urgritstl I):rn.

"But you know that was :1 mis-
tziko." urge-d the monitor within.

“Tllitt was the postrrru,st<»r"s
fault. and not 1rrine,"wu.s l)2rn‘.<.
inward reply. “It is it very
small thing. and the govt-rrnrrorit
will not miss it. no, nor even
know it.“

"Will you not know it. znrrlezur
you affortl to be (lishonest for so
small an anrount." tho srrrzrll
voice wlrisporvtl.

Dan ll't‘l1]l)l1.‘(l. for it st-orrri-d
that sonic one had spokorr the
words riglit in lrisezir. l“lirr;:irr;_{
tho .<.t;rr'r’rp ho had l()(>.st-rrml into
the lll'('. he 4-xeluirrn-d. "No! I
<-unnot 2rtl'ord to sell rrrysr,-ll’ so
('ll(‘1l])."

"lVlr:1t‘s wr'<)ri_<_.r‘.“' ztsliml tho
l'zu'1r1er, glauit-irrgr up l'r-our his

pztpor. "Loso the stirrup zrflr-1'
all your lr'or1bl<~‘.’”

"Worse than tlrzrt." re-plir-(l the
boy slreopishly.

"V\'lrzrt! burnod your llll9;(‘l‘S
with tho stezrrrri” qru-stiorretl his
eniployor.

"No." said Dim. (lotor'rr1iri<-(lly.
"I sold my honor, or eurue rruur
doing so."

"What do you moan. boy? The
stamp is all riglrt. It never
would have been found out."

"But I knew it all the tirncxarrd
two cents is a small amount to
get for your self-respect: be-
sides"w

"Besides what?” queried the
menu‘.

“God knows about it. and He
looks upon the heart," answered
Dan.

“It's a mighty small thing to
worry over, I am sure, replied
Mr. Brown. “The post-oflieede
partment would not have been
much poorer, I assure you."

“It would have been I who
would have been poorer. Had I
sold my honor for two cents. I
should have made the worst bar-
gain I ever did.”.

And so Dan gairied zi victory.
and he was never sorry that he
had obeyed the voice of con-
science.-—Bella V. Chisholm, in
Sunday-School Times.

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Ingersoll Paint Question Again.

FREMONT Co. Iowa, June M11.
1891. Mr. 0. VV. Ingersoll. Dear
Sir:—The barrel] of paint came
all right, and the painter is at
work putting it on. It pleases
“muchly.” I have dealt‘witl1 you
many years, to my advantage.
Square dealing and good material
always, seems to be your motto.

Respectfully,
S. C. Donn.
See adv. Patrons’ Paint Works.

 


 

 
 

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Notices. of lllcetings. 

A1)1<IA.\'. Mic-li.. July 13th. The
Lenawee Co. Pomona Grange
will hold an out-door picnic in
Horton's Grove. Fruit Ridge.
Thursday Aug. 6th. A general
invitation is herewith extended
to all kindred organizations.

The occasion is intended to be
a general farmers gathering held
under the auspices of Lenawee
Co. Grange. There will be_a
band of music and a good pro-
gramme. State Lecturer Crosby
is expected to be present at the
meeting.

VVAYLANI) DOWLING. Sec‘y.

Rome Center. Mich.

-{9}-: '

St. Joseph county Grange will
hold its next meeting with Cen-
terville Grange Thursday. Aug.
2. 1891. All Patrons of Hus-
bandry are requested to be pre
sent and help make arrangements
fora county'picnic to be held
some time in August.

Mus. D. B. PURDY. Setfy.
.< . ,_

Lenawee Co. Pomona Grange
No. 15 meets with Fruit Ridge
Grange No. 276. Thursday, Aug.
(3. A good program will be pro-
vided. Come one. come all.

\V.\YLA1\'l) Dowi.i.\'(i, Sec.

Rome Center. Mich.

. .. . ,_ .
These Will Capture Europe.

Five special commissioners
will sail from New York the tirst
week in July. with the purposi-
ofarousing throughout Europe
an active interest in the Exposi-
tion. Much has been 1L(5(‘0l]1-
plished already in this direction
l)y the Department of Publicity
and Proinotion. but it has been
recognized from the beginning
that the best results could be ob-
tained only through personal
visitation by influential men. offi-
cially representing the Exposi-
tion. The time has come when
it is believed that the interests of
the Exposition abroad will sutfer
severely if there is any fui.'thei'
delay in dispatching these coin-
inissioners upon the mission indi-
cated. Accordingly. they will
start at once. Those who will go
are. Ex-Governor T. M. Waller.
of Connecticut. the lirst vice-
president of the National Coin-
mission; Hon. Benjamin Butter-
worth. Secretary of the Exposi-
tion: Ex-United States Senator
J. B. Eustis. of Louisiana. a fine
linguist and orator: Fred W.
Peck. President of the Auditori-
um Association. and one of the
Exposition directors; and Maj.
M. P. Handy. Chief of the De-
partiiieiit of Publicity and Pro-
motion. Tliese gentlemen. be-
tween them. will visit the capi-
tals and chief cities of all Euro-
pean nations. and will confer
with government ofiicials and
such foreign Exposition Coin-
niissioners as have been appoiiit—
ed. and will see that they fully
understand how great the Expo-
sition will be. and that they have
all desired information concern-
ing it. The party will be abroad
about two months. Meantime.
Gen. Grosvenor. of Ohio; Prof.
Ellis. of Oberlin College. and
John M. Butler. of Philadelphia.
as Special Commissioners of the
United States Treasury Depart-
ment. will make atour of Europe
to explain to oflicials and others
the customs regulations under
which foreign exhibits may be
brought into this country.

__ _‘,>_

Lady Macdonald as an Author.

Just before her bereavement,
Lady Macdonald, widow of the
late Sir John Macdonald. coin-
pleted her first ambitious literary
effort in a series of articles for
The Ladies‘ Home Journal. the

‘ first one of which will appear in

the August number of that peri-
odical. Last summer Lady Mac-
donald, with a party of friends.
traveled in her private car
through the most picturesque
parts of Canada, and in a delight-
fully fresh manner she describes
her experiences on this trip, in
these articles to Which she has
given the title of “An Unconven-
tional Holiday.” A series of
beautiful illustrations, furnished
by Lady Macdonald, will accom-
pany the articles.

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As there is no royal road to learning,
so there is no magical cure for disease.
The elfect, however, of taking Ayer’s
Szi.rsapa.rilla for blood disorders comes
as near magic as can be expected of
any mere human agency. This is due
to its purity and strength.

‘I‘I-IIEI  VISITOR.

Literary Note.
Life in the open air and adven-

ltures afloat and ashore make upi

Among the many good schoolsl
of the land. the Fayette l\'ormalé
University of Fayette. O.. de-

MuguZine~S Coments fm. _yu1y_1(:lean. pui'e town. meets the
Trout Fishing in the Laurantides. i_l’0l’ul‘1_7‘ delllandfi Of the ‘I353 “Dd
the Diamond Fields of South‘15 raiildlij growing into iiubllc.
Africa. Ostrich Farming in Cali- I fi1"01'- 590 ‘<1d\'t’1'US0I11t‘11t 1113
fornia. and Country Life in Hon— aI10the1' column.

duras. are descriptive titles ofi -—-<°*-~* A
S03190fth9S9l’1")fu59lYl”u5t1'3t'l The 32 Annual Fair of the
‘{d_"l’*“-I1 al1_'l73l7¢‘1‘5~ l11_‘¢id(litl0n» ‘Shiawassee County Agricultural
Elizabeth Bisland describes Lon- Ag-Soclation will be held at
(1011 Chalfiies in 3P3P91' m“5t1‘at‘ Ovvosso. September 1;‘). ll}. 17. 15’.
0d from PlCU11‘eSq119I’h0t0SF&Ph‘S 1891. The list of attractions this
and Charactel‘ S‘C1_1d1<3S§ 0- 9- year willbe greater than everbe-
“:add1€~t9l‘15‘_5h‘~f h1St01'.Y Of the fore. Our Premium List has
V§0_m3T1S Chrlsllal} T9mP9"_3nCe been thoroughly revised and
LIIIOD: JELIIIOS (rI‘a11t WUS011 enlarged. The Association will
\‘VI‘it0-S Of the dflflllf-'3 _?1Chl9"‘3' offer Speed Purses amounting to
merits of Lieut. Cushing and $]‘1(‘)Q_ ;\;0t._. 0urdme_—‘.‘ planm
General Custer. the boy heroes l be with 11g
of the war and navy of the Union: 1
and Lieut. W. S. Hughes de-l

a large part of the Cosmopolitan } Serves Slleclal 11"tlC'9- It is 111 3:

E. O. I)lC\\’l<1Y. Secreta1'y.

 
   

scribes the world‘s progress in * ' ' ~
the building of submarine war ’
handsomely illustrated from 1  N  I  | O N
original sources. and in the one? and Other
I i 'i' -i‘ ', '-)'I‘--i
cd tlu, f(.dlLll1l.s of an ex 1 l(.Sl . cured and prevented
history of embroidery forms thel by the Prompt
siibjectof a beautifullyillustrated :
’ I I
There is a thrilling story of re-;  S  
Alva Milton l{ei'i'. entitvlc-d at the} They
Dam of San Marko. for wliiclil
_ _ _ _ _ 1 cleanse the stomach,
tiiriiislied the illiist.ratioiis. while; and greatly assist
iiigs for Prof. .ioyescii‘s novel-;
ette. The Elixir of l’ain. of which. Dr_ J_ G. Aye.» & co.
Next month the Cosiiiopolitaiil
. - - l
promises to print the opening 7  V W
Amelie Rives. which she entitles:  IN
"According to St. John“ and ; _
from her pen. 
fit?
15 lllO  Of di IICVV allld ll2lI1Ll' Si.1tisti4‘s<lmw lll.'ll l<‘:irniiiig in (ii-iitrnl Michi-
:E.'lll pays ht-st l...ii-is .III' will up Illlil pi‘o:lii(‘iiv<-.
the :\Ii(;]1i(_i"a,n Celltl-aJl_ -Jfhg  § Sonic cl re lt.ii'-_;.iiiis (‘.’lll he h;i«_i. Tllosti iviiiitiiiu
‘ .. l .i l1(‘lll|f3\\‘l'l[L:llli' toi :1 saniple pl‘l(,‘I' list [,\.'llll[7llll 1.
gara Falls Route.
with just the details a tourist “T H H§_\\,,r MM“ 0) mm
wants. the summer resorts of ‘ ' ‘ " " ‘ ' C‘ I ‘  ‘
Niagara Falls and Thousand Is-
3 I I
lands and the St. Lawrence. the "
Berkshire Hills. Vermont resorts.
the White Mountains and the E

vessels. All these papers are

on trout-lisliing. will be i'ecogni7.- l bowe| comp|aint3

dent of the United States. Thel

use of
article by Alida C. Radcliffe. 
nunciation and self-saci'itlce by}
regulate the liver,

(.‘h:irles l*lo\vard Johnson has}

A. ll. lVen'/.ell has inade the draw- l _ _ ‘

l digestion.
the last cliapters are given. .
Lowell, Mass.
cliapters of a short. novel by
which is said to be the best work i
A Summer Note Book. 
Sonloly i“uStl.u‘te(1 l)ubli(:ati()n of i Scliools. i’:iilio.i-is Illill iii.ii‘l(«-ts’ aic iii-iirzit liiiiul.
It describes ; Sent int. 5;;
8. W. HOPK|NS,

l\'orthern Michigan and Canada.

Adirondacks. the Hudson. the

New England coast. It will be.

sent to any address upon appli _

cation to 0. VV. Ruggles, G. P. &

T. Agent. Chicago. . “LIL
, .,  ;4o.ii.p;s.‘A__n.a.77:..

Upon yoursummer tourtill you AA\“‘L\'['A]‘ [:\[7[’(7)R']‘AT[()A\"\‘_
have read A Summer Note Book
of the Michigan Central. “The
l\'iagara Falls Route" which will
give you the information you
want: about the summer resorts
of the north and east. from the Address, THE w”__i_o\/vs,
Mackinac Island to the New Eng- _
land Coast. It will be sent to Paw Paw’ M'Ch'
any address upon application to ’ ” ’ " ’ 
0. VV. Ruggles. G. P. & T. A.. FORLADIESONLY.;_f.ff;ll§‘,If{}.f3Z{{

1 ' secret. that e ).‘l I -£3.00. & ll kiiliher Sliivlil foriiui-i-iiu.
C'h1C'<18'0- MRS .i. A. A1lNl5'.\llA‘N ax co. 25 River SL, UHILTAGU, ILL

.-\liI-lion Sale (il‘(‘li0ive lh‘(*e(Iiii1.:' iuiil .\'hnw
SH I{0l‘.\'ll IRE SH Elil’. Sept. 2!), I 891.

\\’i: shall l\'('lI[l tilt‘ best blood of this the ll('.\[
breed of .\liittoii Sliecp coiistziiitly on \‘(llL‘.
lioth \'l’.‘(L‘.\' limit 4 inns’ to 2 yis old.

JO HN Ti.il3A| LEY & O CO..

C‘ORN EXCHANGE
BAG, ROPE AND TWINE MANUFACTORY.

Fucmliliillarlelpliia, Pa , llaltiniore. Md.  and  Marleet 
Pliiladelphia.

Biziiich ()ll'lC(::§ and Salesrooiiis
[IN Cliriiiilicrs S1,. New York,
Old Corn lixttliaiigc, llriltiiiiorc.

BINDf3,T3 TWINi3

Extra Klissiali l’ll‘llI]).- »This twine is \\'llll(1lllil(‘lll)[lllt‘ lwst in the inrirkl-I. hi-iiig inori- uni-
foriii in strwiigili and l‘\'(‘llll('S.\' lhiiii piiri- niaiiillii. :\l0\’t pt-oplc pri-fei the Riissiiiii, the ureiit iiiiiiibri‘
of it-stiiiioiiizils we have i'cccivcd being the best proof of its value Lengili. 533 fun‘! to i lh. llri,-iikiiig
strain on to ion pouiids.

liilssiaii Hemp “.\lix(-il."—-.\l:ide to meet the deiiiziml for n (:llt‘Zl]) yet strong, even twine.
l’ossL-ssiiig Zlll Kile‘ Cll«ll’£lL‘.i(‘.l’l.\'llC$ of the extra l\‘ussiaii. and being l':n- superior to any Stand:ii'tl .\lixcd,
Sisal. or any similar twins in the iiiarkct, iiicliidiniz, most of the so-calleil iiiaiiilla. Leiigtli, 525 fei-i
to l lb. lir(‘&|l\'lll;1 strain, 30 to ice pounds.

Imlia. Ht-nip.——Aiiioii;z India or jute [VV'ill£‘S, our India llr-mp has no equal it is inmle in
precisely the some way and has the sniiie style of tinisli as our Riissiaii Twiiies. which reiiders any ac-
cumulation of lint in the needle and cutting disc iiiipossilile. the latter being :i coninion coiiiplaint
whore ordinnny jute Twine is used. For strength and lllllf0l‘lllll\' it certainly stands far above all its
competitors, one of our friends eiithiisiastically writing. “Tlieilndia beats them all." Length. 5oo
feet to 1 lb. Breaking strain 70 to 85 lbs.

For tl.ie_p:ist two years our Binder Tw_ines have been used almost excliisively by (imnges in this
and adjoining States. the many testiiiioiiials we have received being the best proof of their value.
VVrite for prices and samples.

Mixed Russian, 8 1-2 e. per lb. Extra. India, 7 1-2 c. per lb.

"ii. RQALTREAD POWER

-A N 0- §:.l‘,‘;'.!{.':3‘:‘ii‘.¢.",‘Z‘$;:§é‘€‘..l’t'.?.1’.‘.i‘i’.1.‘,°,......i“"'
fave:-nor, light runninf. Ample room for
 Irgeat horses. Osn be t bwkwudii or {or-
wards. The best DOWC_l’ ‘OI’ running our
 American dz Hero lnrlndinx .MIlls,
Hero Ensilage 5; Fodder Cutters.
 %l,Iifi‘lSaell'-Fe‘e)d Col-en Shellen
0 . awsa rug . awn,
' Peck’: Hnuklnu & fihelllng Attach-
_‘ ""' Inent. etc. We uohnve the
BEST LEVEL TREAD POWER MADE.
It will pay you to send {or our handsome llliuitrlhd Gaul and reduced prloea of those celebrated goodl,

APPLETON DIANUFACTURING CO.. 19 So. Canal St.. CHICAGO. I141;

FAYETTE NORMAL .'.'.l.‘..'.L'.5".§..l.l.l.'.:

No saloons; Eqiiipuieiitii (’Xl'8lll‘lll', pure iissociiitioiiu. Teachers are specialists. Normal, Coninicrciiil.
Scientific, Shorthzmd. Typchwritiiig Elocutionary and Musical departments in additionlto regular collegi-
courses. $27 pays tuition. board and ruuui-rout for 10 weeks. Address J. E. Dotlda, President, luiyettc, t).

   

JULY 15. 189!

%ALABASTlNE%t

THE TIME TR|ED]°i-ND BE_7°cUTlFUls C30]°cTlj\lG
FOR W]°cLLS AND @E|lslj\l@S.

]°cLABAST|NE lS U]\lls|KE fclsls OT}-lEF{ W;°cLL @O;°cTl]\lGS.
It is rcconimended by Saiiitarians and is not Llt'1N*ll(li‘lll upon glue

for its adlicsiveiiess.

T " -' I - - I " . . -. ' ' . .

ll all: can be, (lP(0lZ1l€(l \\ ith Alabastiiic in any (legree of elabora-
tion. from plain tinting. plain tinting with stencil ornamen-
tations. to the most elaborate fresco. and decorating in relief.

Finer 0fi'c('ts can be prodiu-ed for the szinie nioiiogv with .-\labast'ine
than with wall paper.

Send for article taken lroni the report of the .\licliigzin State lloard
of Health. entitled *' Siiiiitary Walls and (‘eiliiigs." coiidt-nin-
ing wall paper and showing the evil results following its il.\w.

We will also send free. on applit-aiion. a set of colored (lesigi:<
showing how walls and ceilings inay be (l(‘('()l'llll‘(l with Ala
bastiiie and the stencils we inzinufactiii-l».

MAKE NO .\lIS'l‘.-\K.E.

Pui'cliaso no other wall <-outing titan .-\L.»\li.\.\"l‘l.\Il'I. put up in

.____.:...._
paper packages and piroperl_v labelled.

.\laiiiifactti:red only by

]°cLAB]°vSTl_N E GOM P]°cN Y,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

DOWAGIAC SHOE DRIL.

it--Ts:
 ‘ii:

 “ii

    

Id" SHITII C9 CH1 U.

This \\'.’1°.lll('lll"s'lVSll()]'i DRILL iii.'iiiiif;ir-tiircd. (Hill the ]Jl'l‘.\l lit l’l£l\'Fl£("l‘lil.‘ lJl\'ll.l. is lllf‘ll' -..li
of 22yi-:irs'z-xpi-rii-iict-;iii<l stiiilytoolinliii the most )H‘ll('(‘[(l1\'l(‘l' lorforiniiii: androw:riiigiliili f::r-
rows. As a lt'hl'.ll. ol this Sllltllillllll('X}i1'lll'llCi"v\‘1'llO‘»\'('0llllll('ll(l}'[)l:|(‘l:lJ(l(>l'('lll('[illlIll(‘

Tlic Liglitcst llriift llrill,
The Most Siiiiple, l’i'actical and Elll‘(‘ll\'(*. ,lll'lll,
and the Most Du ‘able llrill

lii the in ll'l~."l. lt «lo: s not rloir: ii «low not turn up sells: it iloes pill Ill!‘ ;:i;iiii in at t‘VI'll ll.-pill-. mi;
zill soils. illlll it pie-;i~'.i-s t-\'<-ryl>oil_\'.

M m/ In IIU ll'.l ’:'/.l 4' Nlllllif lIIi'Il, I, l'(I._/'r//' I'M/41/ogm, I‘/(Ix, ’I'i .~'{i'ii/vm/Vii’.
ruzrl )1/‘i'w.~'.

tr

“($70!

Here is the opportunity you have been looking for. A stylish.
durable top buggy. painted in lead and oil. no dip finish. The
buggy has been thoroughly tested for over ten years on all kinds
of roads and in all kinds of service. Its easy riding qualities and
adaptability to roads has been fully demonstrated.

The demand for a good side-spring buggy has been gradually
growing for several years. and there have been several new springs
put on the market in consequence. The most of these have proved
failures, the construction being such that there was no chance for
the side-spring to lengthen when loaded. hence the motion was
short and sharp. or the gear was thrown out of “track." In the
“VVo1verine" these objections are avoided. There are four springs
which are put together in such manner that each is allowed full
play without straining any part of the gear. It has a wrought
iron fifth wheel. clip kingbolt, and a double reach. Every buggy
should have a well braced reach to make it keep in “track.”

The GRANGE VISITOR has made arrangements with the manu-
facturer. Arthur Wood, of Grand Rapids, to sell to subscribers to
this paper the above buggy at a price within the reach of every
farmer who needs a buggy. We have examined every part of the
works. and stake the reputation of the VISITOR on the good quali-
ties of every job. A two-horse two-seated wagon with three
springs, just right to take the family to church, for $55.00.

Hear what those say who have used them:

After using one two years, Dr. H. H. Power, of Saranac, writes as follows: “There is nothing to

compare with the ‘Wolverine’ for ease, comfort and durability."

COLDWATER, Mich., April 24th, 189i—Some years ago I purchased two single buggies of Arthur
Wood. of Grand Rapids, and found them to be strong and durable. They have been in use eight or
ten years. and. have proved to be satisfactory in all respects. CYRUS G. LUCE.

PAW Paw, May 1st, x89r—In 1875 1 purchased an open buggy of Arthur Wood. It has been in con-
stant_use since and promises severalyears service. I have now ordered one of the Wolverine top
buggies on the reputation they sustain for excellence, workmanship and durability. J. C. GOULD.

Send the money to the editor of this paper, and the buggy will

 

be sent direct from the factory.