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LANSING, MICHIGAN, AUGUST

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VVSEQUENCE THANLTHE FARJII, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IMPROIIED.”

1, 1893.

WHOLE NO. 423.

   

OFFICIAL CIRCULAR.

An Important Coinmiinication from
the National Master.

I have received several letters of like im-
port to the following from the Master of
one of our State Granges:

‘_?’l(l_l' 6’, 1893.
Hon.  II. Brig/mm, NV. 41!. .\'al. Grunge,

Delta, 0/11.0.‘

Wonriiv BROTI-IER——I notice certain
opinions in the :i}ll(‘}‘1f1l)l (jnzizgu I)’:/llrlin
ofjune 29, also an article hearing date May
29, 1893, and published in the Farm I-‘rieml
in the Amerirmi (9i'(z;1gr BM]/0/in and also
in the Grmigc I'i.\‘i/or: said article purports
to be the “ Record of The National Grange
on the Currency Question and the “Free
Coinage of Gold and Silver,” and signed
by the Chairman of Executive Committee,
National Grange. and would like to ask a
question or two, and have your answer
through the Grange press.

1. \’Vas said article issued with approval
and by authority of Executive Committee?

2. Can the National Grange legislate on
such questions?

3. Does a resolution passed by the Na-
tional Grange commit the Order for or
against any such proposition as “ free sil-
ver,” “ free trade,” “ protection,” or an_v
such question?

4_ Does the passage of such resolution
on any such question commit the individ-
ual members of the Order to abide by and
work for the proposition as passed?

5. If vour answer to the 4th interrogatory

should be in the afiirmative——if it should so ‘-

happen that all the members of the Na-
tional Grange should all be members of
one party, and they should pass a resolu-
tion to indorse that party and its platform,
or any of the main principles of that party,

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,same right to express the views of those
1 who compose the membership thereof.
, This right has been frequently exercised,
land we find State Granges taking opposite
i sides upon these questions; and no sane
l man will deny the members of State and
‘_ Subordinate Granges the same freedom of
 opinion on public questions that is exer-
 cised by the members of the National
j Grange.

, \Vhenevcr the National Grange desires
l to speak authoritatively, the subject must
1 be one that pertains to Grange law or usage.
‘ \Vhen that body enters upon the discussion
, of questions of political economy, its pow-
' ers are limited to expressions of views and
jopinions which should be received and
l carefully considered by members of the
Order, but are not binding or clothed with
authority,

It is :1 misunderstanding, or improper
construction of law by unauthorized wri-
l ters or speakers. that has given rise to most

of the discussion, and I fear to some feeling
among our members. Let it be under-
, stood hereafter, that every member of the
l Order is free to think or act with refer-
jence to any public question such as tariff,
' finances, etc_, according to his own View of
l what is best and right without any restraint
lbecause of the views expressed by any offi-
j cial, or any representative body of the
. Order. This is low until reversed by my
successor; or by amendment of the consti-
tution, laws, declaration of purpose, charges
and pledges of the Order.
\Ve must tear up the foundation and
' build our house upon the sand before a
single gossamer thread of restriction can
be placed upon the religious or political
freedom of a member of the Order. Know-
ing that erroneous opinions were enter-
tained and had been expressed upon this
subject, I deemed it my duty to bring it to

Would not the Order be C0mmlU-ed 10 5115- l the attention of the National Grange in my

tain the party advocating the proposition
indorsed by the members of the National
Grange?

Yours fraternally,

———_____..

5 '.l""'"“"R'€é"6gnizing théright to can upon” the 0

Master of the National Grange for his de-
cision of some of the points raised, I will
attempt to make the answer as clear as
possible, so that no member of the Order
need be in doubt regarding his d
Order, or his privileges as a member thereof.

Answer to question 1 :

The circular sent out by the Chairman
was not submitted to the Executive Com-
mittee for approval, nor issued by author-
ity of the Committee. It gives part of the
record of the National Grange upon the
subjects mentioned, but is not complete
nor entirely free from errors.

Before proceeding to answer the ques-
tions propounded, I believe the “ Good of
the Order” requires something from me in
reference to the law and usage of the
Order. It seems that the circular issued
by the Chairman was sent out in response
to a request that he “ make a statement as
to the legislation of the National Grange
upon these subjects, as ‘C/zairman of [/16
National Grange Execulive Commitlee.’ ”

He seems to have regarded the request
as an appeal to “official authority for in-
formation.” The powers and duties of the
officers of the National Grange are quite
clearly defined in the laws of the Order.
(This is necessary in order to avoid con-
fusion, and confiict of authority). Nowhere
in the law is it made the duty of the Chair-
man of the Executive Committee to answer
ofiicially, or otherwise, questions in regard
to the legislation, laws or usages of the
Order.

The circular undoubtedly expresses the
views and opinions of the Chairman. He
has a perfect right to his own views and
opinions, and an unquestioned right to ex-
press the same; but they are in no sense
“official authority,” no more so than would
be the views and opinions of any member of
the Order.

I am not sensitive on the subject of [zer-
sonal rights or dz'gm'l_y, but as Master of the
National Grange, I can allow no one to
assume to exercise any of the powers or
duties which the law imposes upon that
official. In saying this, I do not intend in
any way to reflect upon the Chairman. He
IS one of the truest Patrons I ever
knew, and there is nothing on my part but
the best of fraternal regard for him. It is
necessary however for all to know
what source rulings and legal decisions
must come.

The Grange allows and encourages the
exercise of the largest personal freedom,
but very carefully restricts the exercise of
official authority.

Answer to question 2.

Legislation is “The act of making laws.”
Who clothed the National Grange with
power to make laws, to govern members of
the Order in forming opinions upon ques-
tions of politicai economy? The National
Grange never did and never can “legislate”
on any questions except such as pertain
alone to the working of the Order.

3. The National Grange can express the
opinions of those who at the time com-
pose that body, by resolution or otherwise,
upon almost any question of public interest,
unless it savors too much of partisanship
or sectarianism; but cannot commit the
Order, or any member thereof to such

propositson. The members of every State,

uty to the I

address delivered at the 25th annual session.

The subject was considered in committee

and the following reports were submitted
land adopted. This action of the National
l Grange should have ended all controversy
n this ‘subject 2‘

The following report was adopted by the strengthened by eac

Grange:

“ The Committee on Good of the Order

_,, , t ,5 g
a and Subordinate Grange have the 1 go straight to the pod: Hts of the poor and

like a veritable ‘ Willi‘ the wisp,’ forever
ade the clutches of} ie rich ”
“ It is an indisputabi‘ fact that our coun-
(try is now seriously Suffering from a de-
l rangement of finances We need not be at
 loss to know the cause. It is a solemn re-
; ality that our country? has passed through
l a most wasting civil". war. It cost us in
l, money, time lost, industry disturbed, ma-
; terial destroyed, production stopped, more
than ten billions of dollars. That immense
sum was in four yearfi subtracted from the
, wealth of the count_r§_‘ ' It was consumed,
land is forever gone. V, It made us compara-
l tively poor. To bri , 4 over this emergency
«,of the hour the guy: -rument issued great
i, volumes of irredeemfole paper currency,
‘, which we used as mo fey, and thus for a
ltime disguised andh'_~*,l our poverty. By
j using this cui-rencyqt‘-{judgment of values
I became more and ,,m';‘«,,ore confused as we
drifted further from wire world's standard.
l\Ve totally failed to realize our changed
circumstances and  inaugurate a corre-
l sponding system of eipnomy and industry,
and consequently, wi=h an inheritance of
debt, extravagant habits and distorted judg-
ment of values, we have been incessantly
' drifted to leeward. 7 Out of this trouble
‘ there is no royal road

“ Only by a return‘-to habits of industry
and economy guided by intelligence, can
we regain our wealtlt and remove our load
of debt. As an auxiliary to this, we want
a stable and sound éiirrency that shall be a
reliable measure of values and recognized
as such by all the iworld. For we may
gain this truth frounothers and our own
history, that an in-'edeemable fiuctuating
currency always favors speculators and
sharpers at the expense of those engaged
in productive industry.”

He again referred?) the subject in his
address at the ninth Session, as follows:

“ Regarding transportation and a sound
currency our memheys are deeply interest-
ed. My own viewsoiitliese questions have
been so fully given in former messages, I
need not trouble you with their reiteration
further than to sag‘ '-fljjat the convictions
‘.:..£c.-c c-.:p.-k.-.-.:*.'-.:.,-=..'-=.-»~_.1.5~.‘._, 3.-:: -=-:-—v‘ acr‘
h passing year.”

At the same session the following reso-
lutions were introduced by request of

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have considered such portions of the Brighton Grange of the state of Maryland.

\Vorthy Master’s address as were referred
to it, and report as follows:

“ In that portion reading as follows: ‘ Po-
litical and Religious Freedom of Meinbers.’

“ \Ve should not lose sight of the cardin-
al principles of our Order, viz.: The abso-
l lute political and religious freedom of the
individual. No official, not even our Na-
tional body, can place restrictions upon this
freedom.

“ Your Committee find this but a rea-
firining of the doctrines which have always
been taught in our Declaration of Purposes,
and we would recommend that this portion
of the address be cordially approved by the
Grange.”

“ Bro. Alpha Messer, Chairman, made
the following report for the Committee on
Resolutions, which was adopted:

“ \Vi-iniuzns, There exists an honest dif-
ference of opinion among members of the
Order in regard to their personal obliga-
tions, fealty to, and support of declarations
emanating from this body, in regard to
economic and political questions; and

“\Viii:REAs, The success of the Order
of Patrons of Husbandry depends upon the
hearty co—operation and united efforts of
its entire membership; and

“ \VHi-:ki«:As, The membership of the
Order embraces men and women from all
parts of our broad domain, with varied en-
vironments and different opinions, in regard
to the leading economic and political ques-
tions of the present time; and

“VVHEREAS, Our noble Declaration of
Purposes explicitly states that ‘difference
of opinion is no crime ;’ therefore be it

“ Rosa]-ued, That in all matters of fra-
ternity and Grange law and usage, the will
of the majority is of binding force upon all
themembership, but in all matters relating
to social, domestic, economic or political
questions, any declaration of this body
thereon does not in any way infringe upon
the entire freedom of thought and action of
any member of the order who cannot con-
scientiously support such declaration.”

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 The first reference to the currency ques-
tion which I have been able to find, is in
the annual address of Worthy Master
Adams, at the eighth session of the Nation-
al Grange. He used the following
language; to which no dissent was made
by any member:

“ A thousand years ago learned and
thoughtful chemists devoted the energies
of a lifetime to a vain search for the won-
derful philosopher‘s stone whose magic
touch should convert the baser metals into
purest gold, and thus fill the whole world
at once with wealth and luxury. Today
we have numerous citizens who are eagerly
pursuing the same phantom. They are
torturing their poor brains to devise some
plan whose talismanic power will transmute
bits of printed paper into countless millions
of actual money of such a subtle nature
that, true as the needle to the pole, it shall

FINANCIAL QUESTIONS.

 

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j “ i. Rosolimzi, That in the opinion of this
Grange, Congress should immediately re-
l peal the law fixing a day for specie redemp-
tion, and at the same time pass an act
making the greenbacks a true legal tender,
receivable for duties on imports, and inter-
changeable at pleasure in sums of one hun-
dred dollars, with government bonds bear-
ing currency interest at not over 3.65 per
cent per annum, thus increasing the value
of the greenbacks and bringing about an
honest and practicable redemption.

“ 2. Resolved, That the national bank act,
giving to the creditors of the nation, be-
sides the interest on their bonds to which
they are justly entitled, the additional priv-
ilege of an issue of paper money equal to
nine—tenths of the bonds held by them, is a
waste of the means of the people, and
should be repealed; and as we are one na-
tion, we should have but one money, and
that issued directly from the treasury with-
out the expensive intervention of the na-
tional bank.”

To the first resolution Bro. D. VVyatt
Aiken offered the following substitute,
which was adopted 18 to 13:

“Resolved, That the currency question
is rapidly becoming a political question,
and therefore should not be entertained by
this Grange "

Bro. Webster of California moved that
the second resolution lay on the table. Car-
ried.

At the eleventh session the following
I was introduced by Bro. Chambers, of Ala-
bama, and referred to committee on reso-
lutions:

“ The National Grange, representing as
it does the agricultural sentiment of every
part of the United States, without intending
to infringe that feature of its organic law
‘ which forbids the discussion within its fold

of any questions of party politics, believes
it to be not only its privilege, but its duty,
to give expression to the universal voice of
I its membership in condemnation of all such
l legislation, either on the part of the gen-
eral or state governments, as tends to the
injury of the great productive industries of
the country. In this spirit, and with no
purpose to take part in the partisan politics
of the country, we do hereby declare our
disapprobation of the law of demonetizing
silver, and committing the government
arbitrarily to any fixed day in the future
for their resumption of specie payments;
and do therefore hereby express our sym
pathy with the efforts now being made in
the Congress of the United States for the
repeal of these obnoxious measures. Re-
ferred to the Committee on Resolutions.”

The committee recommended that the
resolution be postponed indefinitely. Lost.
Resolution adopted. This action of the
National Grange was severely criticised by
many members, and by some of the Grange
press——notably the Cincinnati Grange Bul-
letin. It was thought to be partisan action.

At the twelfth session the following
resolution was reported favorably in the
committee, but the recommendation was
not concurred in:

“ The financial question is one of great

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liniportance. and discussion upon it will 1 pi-omded as to the amount, and c()]]d1t10nB

j‘ tend to enlighten us upon subjects of vital
:; importance to us, as well as the future pros-
‘; perity of the country, and is allowed by
the decisions above referred to.”
The National Grange made no further
, reference to national finances for eight
lyears.
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ported as follows:

“ Your committee on resolutions, to
whom was referred the following resolu-
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of such loans.”

“Your committee have considered the
resolution entitled Coinage and Money,
introduced by Bro. Clardy, and would
recommend that it be not concurred in.”

“ The resolution reads as follows:

“ Resolved, 1. That, while it is, under

. ~<€S-‘ion BF0- Gillerlunder the Constitution of the United
chairman of committee on resolutions 1‘e- jSta1-,eg, the

duty of congress to coin
money and fix its value, it is not the
duty of the general government. to loan
money to corporations or individuals.
“Resolved 2. That it is the duty of

mend the adoption of the same by the Na— l gong»,-e_g3_ acting in the interest of the

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al Grange:

Ifesolred, That we ask the United
States Government to furnish to the peo-
ple some convenient place of deposit for
their money, for which certificates shall be
given, making the
for the same.”

“ Adopted.”

At the twenty-secon
inittee on resolutions recommended the
adoption of the following resolution:

“Resolved, That we, the members of
this National Grange,believe that our pres-
ent banking system should be abolished,
and that the Government should issue its
own money and loan it out to the people,
through its own appointed agents, at the
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labor vigilantly for the passage of a law
that will bring about the desired result.”
The resolution was defeated by a vote of
36 to 13. At the same session a report in
favor of free coinage of silver was referred
to the next session without action.
At the tweiity—third session the following
resolution was adopted by a vote of 29 to 9.
“ Resolved, That we favor the free coin-
age of silver, and also favor the mainte-
nance in circulation of the paper money of
the United States, independent of the Na-
tional banks, in suflicient volume to pre-
vent any future contraction, and conse-
quent embarrassment to our prosperity.”
At the twenty-fourth session the legisla-

\ve urge upon members of Congress to-

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tive committee reported that ‘they had pre-
sented the action of the ‘National Grange
on silver, as well as other questions; which
report was approved. The committee on
resolutions also reported in favor of the
unlimited coinage of silver, striking out the
wordfrcc. The report was adopted, in-
dorsing unlimited coinage of silver instead
of free coinage as stated by the C hairnian
in his circular.

At this session the National Grange
adopted a report submitted by a majority
of the executive committee, in which fi-
nancial matters were discussed; and among
other things it was “ suggested” that the
National Government should refund iii-
terest-bearing bonds with non-interest-bean
ing demand notes; and also, that the notes
could be got into circulation by loaning the
same upon real estate at 2 per cent in-
terest. '

This action furnished the basis for
the claim that the National Grange had in-
dorsed the 2 per cent land loan scheme,
and adopted it as a financial platform for
the Grange.

This suggestion was not favorably re-
ceived by many members of the Order,
and at the twenty-fifth session it was dis-
cussed in the Master’s address and by the
Grange referred to a special committee for
consideration and report. The committee
after quoting the language of the executive
committee report, submitted the following:

“If is the opinion of your committee
that such portion of the executive com-
mittet->’s report adopted by this body at

financial matters, as above,

has sometimes been placed upon it, and
that the phraseology of that report does
not commit the order to any one single
proposition therein contained. Adopted.”

“ The committee on National Finance
reported the following resolutions, which
had been referred to the committee,
without recommendation:

WHEREAS, The National Grange does
not believe that we now have sufficient
currency in the nation for the legitimate
purposes of trade and to meet necessary
obligations; therefore be it

“ Resolved. That this National Grange‘
declares and expresses its opinion in favor
of free and unlimited coinage of gold
and silver just as it existed almost from

to 1873, when silver was demonetized.

“ 2. That we believe that the govern-
ment alone should issue money, and that
we demand that a sufficiency of legal
tender notes be issued.

“ The ayes and nays were demanded
on adopting the resolution reported by
the committee without recommendation,
and the resolution was adopted by the
following vote: “Ayes 26. Nays 10.”

The same committee made the follow-
ing reports which were adopted:

“Your committee, having had under
consideration the resolution introduced
by Bro. Levi Booth, relative to govern-
ment; loans, recommend that it be not
concurred in, which reads as follows:

“ Resolved, That we are in favor of
having our general government issue its
own money and loan it to its people at a.
low, but reasonable rate of interest upon
good and sufficient real estate securities,
reasonble and proper safe-guards being

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_ , ‘general discussion from
its last annual session, as relates to view, and many (now many,

_ is _Sl-1509Ptl' tell, nor does
ble of a more liberal construction, than their views,

the foundation of the government upl

urnish a staple currency,
d paper. of equal paying
tie, and in sufficient.
all the needs of our
not less than forty
ore than

people, to f
gold. silver an
or legal tender val
quantity to supply
increasing commerce,

fifty dollars per capita."

The following report was adopted,
mittee on National Finance:

“ Your committee have considered the
resolutions introduced by Bro. Rhone——
Subject: Legal Tender Currency: \Ve
recommend the adoption of the same,
which reads as follows:

“Resolved 1. It is right and just,
both to the debtor and the creditor, that
all legal tender money should stand upon
equal footing in its capacity and power
to pay debts.

“2. It is unjus
permit any creditor to con
debtor to compel him to pay i
form of legal tender money.

“ 3. It is the duty of all the States to
give equal value and recognition to all
the forms of lawful money, made legal
tender by the United States, and the
power to contract to debase one_form
thereof, is unpatriotic and practically
nullifies the power to coin money, given
by the constitution exclusively to the
general government.”

The action of the 25th session nullified
that in reference to government land
loans, had at the 24th session and put the
National Grange on record against such

t and burdensome to
tract with his
u only one

. policy.

At tliezt-it}. session no z’..:~.-ion  tiilzen
on the silver question, or other financial
legislation. It was discussed somewhat
among the members between sessions,
but no one seemed to desire to bring the
subject before the Grange. It was known
however that some who had favored free
coinage at. former sessions. had changed
their views. Others were in doubt, and
as the question was becoming more
partisan in character, I presume it was
ht the part of wisdom to let. it rest.

I think the above is a complete record
of the National Grange on financial
questions. If I have overlooked any-
thing it has been unintentional.

It will be noticed that there has been
some variation in the action of the
National Grange on financial questions.
This is not surprising as the member-
ship is constantly changing, and wise
men frequently change their views after
thorough investigation and discussion.
This has been the case on the silver
question, and what is true of the
members of the National Grange is true
of the order at large.

The subject was discussed for some
time entirely from the free coinage stand-
point, and many of our members
accepted the conclusions of those who
professed to be informed on the subject.

In recent years there has been a more
all points of
no one can
it matter), have changed
Those who believe in free
coinage have a right to do so. and advo-
cate it. Those who do not have the
same right. The National Grange can-
not abridge that right, which belongs to
the citizen, and will not try to do so.
Let us recognize the fact that this dif-
' ference of opinion exists, and allow each
member to decide for himself without
any attempt at interference’ by the
National, State or Subordinate Grange.
This course will strengthen our ranks
and not strain fraternal relations.
J. H. BRIC-HAM,
Master National Grange, P. of H.
Delta, 0., July 20, 1893.

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the Hon. Henry L. Dawes, recently sena-
tor from Massachusetts, has an important
paper on “Washington the VVinter before
the War,”——a paper giving his impressions
of the excited state of public feeling at
that time, when the rebellion was about
to burst into flame. Charles Egbert Crad-
dock’s vividly told story, “His Vanished
Star,” is continued and there is a clever
short story by Ellen Olney Kirk, entitled
“A Strategic Movement.” Mrs. Alice
Morse Earle, whose pictures of pre-Rev-
olutionary life are always entertaining
reading, has a paper called “A Boston
School-girl in 1771,” which will reward
attention; and the Rev. George E. Ellis,
President of the Massachusetts Histori-
cal Society, has an able paper on “J ohmi-
than Belcher, a Royal Governor of Massa-
chusetts.”

 

The prize bull is generally unapproach-
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In the Atlantic Monthly for August:


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THE GRANGJTVISITOR.

AUGUST 1, 1893.

Field and Stock.

FARM FERTILIZERS.

[Continued from last issue.]

In 1887 Dr. Kedzie made this,

statement at an Institute in Gray-
ling.

“ From neglect or lack of knowl-
edge of the real sources of waste, the
loss of valuable fertilizing consti-
tuents of barnyard manure under or-
dinary systems of management is
enormous, and there is no depart-
ment of farm economy in greater
need of improvement.”

The annual loss from this source
in Michigan alone is not less than
$15,000,000. To make a compost
heap and keep well stirred is no
doubt a good way, but few farmers
will be to the trouble of doing this.

Another good way is to draw to
the field nearly as fast as it accum-
ulates and spread on a clover sod
where you intend to pasture the
following summer, and by using
plenty of plaster in the stables you
will retain much of the ammonia
that would otherwise escape.

In putting in stable floors we
can readily see the necessity of
tight floors with plenty of absorb-
ents, instead of boring holes as
used to be practiced so much.

There is no doubt that stock '
properly managed are a benefit to
a farm but too much stock is as
bad or worse than none. They
injure the soil by constant tran1p-
ing in the spring and by eating too
closely in the summer when the
ground is parched and dry. By
mulching the pasture fields in the
spring you not only prevent the
stock from biting so close but pre-
vent the soil from becoming so
hard.

The coarse straw manure, if
properly spread, becomes a source
of great benefit. By feeding more
sowed corn, or the large southern
corn planted in hills, to the stock
in the latter part of the season. we
can avoid pasturing so closely or
turning stock on new seedings.

GREEN MANURE.

In no way can a farm be brought
to a paying condition so quickly
or cheaply as by plowing in grow-
ing crops, especially with the help
of yard manure or chemicals.
Many seem to ‘think it a grea‘.."w‘aste

remain on the land, claiming it a
much better way to cut and feed
to stock and return the yard ma-
nure. But by the ordinary meth-
ods of handling yard manure there
is much more wasted than most
people imagine, and it is not as
well distributed.

An argument often advanced is
that green manuring only returns
to the soil what it has taken from
the soil. But this is not true, es-
specially of clover and peas, which
I think draw largely from the free
nitrogen of the air, a fact per-
haps not thoroughly understood
but generally conceded.

A fair estimate of the value of
the nitrogen, phosphoric acid and
potash at the regular market price
of these goods, added to the soil by
one heavy crop of clover on one
acre estimating root and top is
not less than $40. The only trou-
ble is to get the heavy clover and
to get this we may sometimes have
to resort to yard manure or chem-
icals.

Now about commercial fertiliz-
ers. I do not know much about
them, although I have used nearly
three carloads, and it is quite evi-
dent that the people in this vicin-
ity are not much better informed
than I am from the fact that a car

’ gen,

load of Western Reserve from
Ohio was sold here for $20 per
ton, which is nothing but iron slag.
Dr. Kedzie pronounced it worth
25 cents per ton, or not quite‘
as good as common garden 
soil. And this subject was ar-
ranged for this time that we should 
receive the benefit or Dr. Kedzie’sI
knowledge on this subject. I aml
glad to say however, that I did not 
invest in the $20 slag phosphatef
and we should be grateful to a‘,
much abused and perhaps justly
abused legislature for passing a law 
to protect us from dishonest fer-1
tilizers.
As far as my experience hasj
gone in raising potatoes, commer- I
cial fertilizers have not been profit- 
able, as the potatoes do not seem‘
to receive much benefit with less:
than one-half ton to the acre of a
high grade goods and would be]
worth about $40 per ton, but on a‘
grain crop where clover is sown,
would use from 200 to 400 pounds

. portance.
5 important to be able to distinguish
3 them, it is probable that the chem-

per acre, as the grain ripens better
and the clover gets a good start.

I consider them better also in
raising fruit, especially the ground
bone and potash as yard manure
generally supplies too much nitro-
gen.

Some of the most successful
fruit growers in this country use
commercial fertilizers exclusively
in orchards; among them are the
Hale Brothers, of South Glaston-
bury, Conn., whose success in
raising peaches has been remark-
able. Still in using commercial
fertilizers we cannot be too careful.

Nitrate of soda is well recom-
mended by many for sowing on
grain in the spring, but for exten-
sive use in an orchard would be en-
tirely wrong.

By combining clover with chem-
icals very many have had excellent
success but have depended on some
crop consisting largely of water
for a money crop, such as potatoes
or garden truck.

Hundreds of farmers now real-
ize that it pays them to sell their
whole grain and buy waste or by
products like bran shorts or oil
meal.

The chemical farmer has gone
even farther and found that
it pays him to sell his nitro-
potash and phosphoric
acid combined with water in
the finished state and buy them
dry in the crude state; and to close
will quote from Mr. Collingwood
of the Rural New Yorker.

“ We are on the eve of a wonder-
ful development in scientific farin-
ing. Driven by ambition, by sci-
entific investigation or by poverty,
farmers are coming nearer and
nearer to the truths that underlie
a rational and profitable treatment
of the soil.

“ The faith that one inch added
to the tillable depth of one acre
of land is worth more than the
whole surface of five new acres, is
the rock upon which American
agriculture must fasten itself.

“There is hope and prosperity
in the future for the farmer who
will be true to his farm.”

TWO NEVV BULLETLVS.
Bulletins Nos. 96 and 9S of the

_Micli,igar_i station are just out. No.

96 embodies the results of honey
analyses conducted at the instance
of Prof. Cook. The contents are
briefly collated in the following

SUMMARY.

-‘We are thus assured by these
an lyses:

1. That chemists can easily de-
tect adulteration of honey by the
use of glucose, in all classes where
it is likely to be practiced. The
same would be true if cane sugar
syrup was mixed with the honey.

2. That a probable method to
distinguish honey dew honey from
honey adulterated with glucose has
been determined by these analyses.
The right-handed or slight left-
handed rotation, together with the
large amount of ash and small
amount of invert sugar, indicates
honey dew honey. As honey dew
honey will never be put onto the
market, this question is of scien-
tific rather than practical import-
ance.

3. As yet the chemist is unable
to distinguish between cane sugar
syrup honey, by which we mean
cane sugar syrup fed to the bees
and transformed by them into
honey, and not cane syrup mixed
with honey, which is adulteration
pure and simple, though a kind
not likely to be practiced, and
honey from flowers. As the best
cultivated taste cannot thus dis-
tinguish, this seems of slight im-
If it should prove to be

ist will discover the means, as

Ichemistry has very delicate eyes,

and can usually search out very
slight differences.

We see that there are yet un-
solved problems in this direction,
and it is desirable to follow up the
investigations. Prof. H. ‘V. Wiley

‘is desirous to do so till the last

fact is discovered. To better ac-
complish this he desires samples

fof three or four pounds each of

honeys from any known source,
especially honey dew honey, and
that gathered very rapidly. Sugar
syrup honey will also be very ac-
ceptable. Such samples may be

sent to Prof. H. W. Wiley, Divis-
ion of Chemistry, Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
The express will be paid by the
Department of Agriculture.

The other bulletin is by Mr. G.
C. Davis, on “ Locusts” and “ The
Horn Fly." The following are
extracts from the bulletin:

Owing to the large area over
which the locusts and other grass
feeding species are found, the sug-
gesting of a remedy is made rather
more diflicult. The use of remedies
in the usual limited way is entirely
impracticable and it is only by the
means of some inexpensive, whole-
sale destruction that we must look
for relief.

Molasses and bran make a
very attractive morsel for locusts,
and a little arsenic mixed with
the two and sprinkled through the
fields where the locusts feed, is
reported from some badly eaten
districts as being a very good
means of ridding the fields by kill-
ing the locusts by the thousand.
Such means might be used in
the oat field, meadow or cultivated
field, but not where stock is
pasturing. ‘

The best and most certain
method is to collect the locusts
mechanically. The best means of
doing this is by a collector known
as a “ hopper dozer.”

(After Smith.)

" Hopper donor,” for catching locusts and similar insects.

It is made of "'~l3.t sheet iron ten
to fifteen feet ledpjolwp about three
feet wide. The front should roll
up half an inch or an inch to
give a smooth face, while the back
should be from six inches to a foot
deep and side pieces to corres-
pond. The inside of the pan
should then be coated nearly half
an inch deep with coal tar, and with
a rope attached on either side the
dozer is ready for use. Two per-
sons can easily run such a pan,
but horses may readily be attached
to a larger one. The principle is
all that is necessary to suggest and
then each one can arrange details
to suit the occasion._ Whatever
is used to draw the hopper dozer
should be at either end, else the
locusts would be driven each side
before the tarred pan reached them.
Of course at the approach of the
machine the locusts leap and
usually alight on the tar. The
winged ones may fly entirely
over, and often a stifl’ wire or
stick placed a few inches in front
of the dozer will help, as the plants
will be stirred and start the locusts
up sooner and. drop them where
desired. If very numerous, the
insects will soon cover the tar, so
that an occasional new supply will
be needed. It is best of course to
use the hopper dozer on the locusts
as soon as they are noticed in num-
bers. At this time they will not
be full fledged and can be caught
easier. If they are mostly winged
ones, fewer would escape if taken
in the cooler parts of the day when
they are not so active and are
more apt to hop than fly. For
pastures, and meadows with short
grass, no runners are needed under
the hopper dozer, but for pepper-
mint and such plants that are
higher and more tender, runners
that will raise it high enough not
to break the plants may be easily
put on. They can be placed so
as to run between rows at any
distance desired. By going over
the badly affected fields in this

way several times at short inter- i

vals, a great deal is saved at a
slight expense. At the Iowa
station it is estimated that even
where all the help is hired, the
expense of each collecting does
not exceed ten cents per acre.

A good deal may be done in the
way of prevention by plowing and
cultivating land known to be breed-
ing ground for the locusts. Many

of the egg cases are broken by
plowing and working the soil, and
the eggs are much less liable to
hatch. Should they hatch, the
young are unable to penetrate
soil well packed over them, and for
this reason thorough cultivation
with frequent rolling of such
fields is to be commended. Dead
grass, rubbish, etc., serve as a
winter protection and should be
cleaned up or burned in the
autumn.

So far preventives or repellants
have been found to be preferable
to substances that will kill the
horn flies. Greasy substances of
almost any kind prove to be the
best preventives. Dr. Riley says:
“A number of experiments were
tried in the field with the result
that train oil alone, and train oil
with a little sulphur or carbolic
acid added, will keep the flies
away for five or six days, while
with a small proportion of carbolic
acid it will have a healing efiect
upon sores which may have
formed. * * * Train oil or
fish oil seems to be more lasting in
its effects than any other of the
substances used.”

“X. 0. Dust” is recommended
highly by Prof. Smith (loc. cit.)
for killing the flies by keeping the
cattle well dusted with it.

The most certain means of des-
truction is to kill the flies in the
early stage. This can be accom-
plished by throwing a shovel full
of lime or land plaster upon each
dropping made by the stock.
They will be found most common
in shady places that the cattle
frequent, and by treating them in
this way once in two or three
days, while the dung is yet fresh,
the fly will be destroyed in large
numbers while still in its infancy.

Prospects are that if we can stay
the fly ofi for a few years, it will
then not trouble us so seriously.
The following recently received
from Prof. Smith is encouraging.
“For the past two or three years
the horn fly has been no more
troublesome in this State (New
Jersey, where it first appeared),
than the ordinary cow fly, Stomowys
calcitrans. It is in new localities
that it seems to be most trouble-
some, becoming gradually less
abundant after the third or fourth
year.”

NORMAL YIELD OF WHEAT.

In reply to inquiries addressed
to the Secretary of Agriculture
asking for a definite expression, in
in bushels, of the value of a normal

crop of wheat, which is the basis
represented by 100, upon Wh1Cl1
the crop reporters of the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture are in-
structed to calculate their percent-
ages of impairment, the Statisti-
cian of the Department, Mr. H. A.
Robinson, has addressed to the
Secretary the following communi-
cation:
U. S. DEP'T or AGRICULTURE,
DIV'ISION OF STATISTICS,
H"as/zirzgtoiz, D. C., 7141313, 1893.

SIR—In answerto the inquiry referred
to me, asking the meaning of a normal or
full crop expressed in terms of “bushels
per acre” for the entire country. I have to
state that from the published tables of the
Department. as well as what appears to be
an answer made by my predecessor to in-
quiries of the same purport, I derive that
during the past ten years the normal stand-
ard has varied from I3.6_o to I5.69, aver-
aging about I4.5 bushels per acre.

Respectfully,
HENRY A. ROBINSON,
SlaliIslz'cz'an.
HON. J. STERLING MoRToN,
Secretary Qf Agriculturr.

THE HORN FLY.

[Bulletin Mississippi Station. I

The treatment for the horn fly
is mostly preventive in its nature
and consists of the application to
the cattle of odorous substances
which will keep the flies from the
animals. For this purpose a great
many substances have been recom-
mended but most of them have
proved of but little value. The fol-
lowing however, have given the
most satisfactory results at our
hands:

First, “Gnat oil” made as fol-
lows: Crude carbolic acid, 1 ounce;
pennyroyal, -5 to 1 ounce; sulphur;
pound; crude cotton seed oil,
1 gallon. Mix well and apply with
a brush or cloth to the back and
shoulders of the cattle. The crude
cotton seed oil is cheaper than the
other oils, although fish oil or lard
oil is equally as good in making
the above.

Second, Fish oil and tar mixed
and applied as above is equally
effective. The tar is mixed with the

fish oil so that the odor may last
longer and thus keep the flies away
from the animals for several days,
after which the application should
be repeated.

Third, The flies breed in fresh
manure. It us thus important that
the barnyards be kept as clean and
free from manure as possible. Lime
placed upon the manure will kill
the larvae.

 

Mr. Geo. E. Breck, ofThe Willows, Paw
Paw, Mich., received on July 29, 75 year-
ling rams and I50 yearling ewes from the
flocks of Bowen-Jones, Berry, Evans, But-
tar and Inge, and all are among the most
noted English breeders. These sheep have
been carefully selected as coming close to
the best type of the breed as established by
the most eminent English breeders, and
will do much to keep up the high standing
of The VVillows’ Shropshires.

Mr. Breck will make an exhibit at the
\Vorld’s Fair, and would be glad to meet
his friends at the sheep pens from Septem-
ber 25 to October I5, and has set his fourth
annual auction sale for Thursday, Septem-
ber 2I, when he will offer Ioo sheep to the
highest bidder. These sheep will be es-
pecially reserved for this sale and will not
be sold privately. He expects Mr. ].
Bowen-_]ones, who is President of the En-
glish Shropshire Association, to be present
at this sale and make an address, and he
invites Shropshire breeders to meet him at
that time.

MICHIGAN STUCK BIIEEDEHS.

All those who wish to purchase pure-
bred stock of any description, will find
it to their advantage to correspond
with some of the following well-

WHICH?

PROFIT MEANS MUTTUII I
AND AND \
LOSS  WUDI S
\Vc can furnish zinything _\'ull want in the
Shropshire Sllccp line. \Vritc. or come, or both.

H}<.‘I{l3El{T “'. M[.')IF()RD,
Most-ow. Mich.

EUGENE FIFIELD
BAY CITY, MICE -
Successor to MERRILL & FIFIELD
Importer and Breeder of
HEREFORD CATTLE
“"1 SHROPSHIRE SHEEP
Choice stock of both kinds for sale.
ziblc. Correspondence solicited.

HIGH CLASS SHROPSHIRES

\Vc now offer 75 yearling Rams and I50 Yearling
Ewes from the tlocks of Messrs. Rowcii-Jones,
Berry, Bllttllf, Inge and Ev:Ins,z1ll eminent Eng-
lish brccdcrs. These are grand sheep, and are
offered at I‘C1lS()n2lI)lL‘ peices. Sand for catalogue.
Fourth Annual Auction Sale Tliursday,
Septeniber 21st. Sheep reserved for sale will
not be sold privately.

THE \VILLO\VS,
Geo. E. Breck, Prop. Paw Paw, l\Iich.

SP'RINGDALE' FARM“

LANSING, MICHIGAN

JAMES M. TURNER, Prop

Shorthorn and Hereford Cattle
Clydesdale and Standard-Bred
Trotting Horses, Shetland Ponies
and Shropshire Sheep

FOR SALEg_..¢

A few good pigs from the Ilillsdulc Countv
Herd o Poland China Hogs. Can furnish
pairs or tries not akin. Inspection of our herd
solicited, or write, dcscriliin closely what
you want, and szitisfzxction willgbc guaranteed.

Stock recorded iII O. P. C. R.
JOHN BOWDITCH
Hillsdale, Michigan

H. H. HINDS

Stanton, Montcalm Co
Breeder of

Shorthorn Cattle
American Merino
and Shropshire Sheep

BLACK MEADOW FARM.

Standard-bred Trotters
Sliortliorn Cattle
Sliropsliire Sheep
Berkshire Pigs

F. R. BAKER, Detroit.
69 Buhl Block.

Oakland Poult_ry_ Yards.

Eggs for hatching per 13, Barred Plymouth
Rocks. Rose Comb White, and Single Comb
Brown Leghorns. $1.00 to $1.50, White Wynn-
dottes and Light Brahmas, $1.50,Mammoth Bronze
Turkeys. $2.00 per six. _ _

My yards are all headed by hifii-scoring‘ males,
hens and pullets score_90 to 95. y stock as won
premiums at all the principal shows in Michigan.

JAMES IVIIIIIIER. J1-.. Beddow. Mich.

COLBY STOCK FARM.

Rambouillet Sheep, Galloway Cattle, and Per-
cheron Horses. All stock pure bred and regis-
tered. Two Percheron Stallions for sale at a
bargain. Spring Rye for Seed.

Address, L. F. HOAG. Comar, MICH.. V
or L. B. TOWNSEND. IONIA. MICK.

M. H. WALWORTH
HILLSDALE, MICH
BREEDER OF

ESSEX, IIIEIIIHII IIIII SUIIIILII SWINE
OF THE BEST

Also American Merino Sheep of choice quality

SI-IROPSHIRE HALL
STOCK FARM

Has now on sale 50 Registered yearling Rams.
25 Registered yearling Ewes, also imported
Ewes and Rams. 1593 importation to arrive

inJuly.
L. S. DUNHANI,

Concord. Mich.

SHFIOPSHIRES FOR ’93

Imported. Registered and Unregistered

References: ex—Gov. Winans and C. 8. Gregory,
Banker, Dexter, Mich.

Choice Yearling Ram and Ewe Lambs for sale

Prices reason-

Wrlte for
Catalog.

Terms reasonable. We ay half of freight or
express. vnmdrmn 33.05..

P. O. Dxxrnn. MICE.

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AUGUST 1, 1893.

THE GRANGE VISITOR. 3

ATRONS’

PATRONS’ PAINT VVORKS have sold Ingersoll Paint to the Order P. of
H. since its organization. House Paints and Cheap Paints for Barns and Out-

buildings, 10,000 Farmers testify to their merits. Grange Halls, Churches, School
Houses, Dwellings. all over the land, some of them painted 15 years ago, still

looking well, prove them the most durable.

l HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS.

Postal doflings.

\Ve make a few characteristic quotations 1A Few Suggestions for the Good of

from letters received from time to time. i the Grange-
\\’e have not been in the habit of boasting E ..
of what We are d0iHg. but We have had 50  [Read at Clinton Poinoiiin at South. Riley, by Mrs.
many kind words that we deem it not out i C. 1-. Pearce of DUWHI-I

of place to show how some of our friends ' First’ I will speak about general ‘

regard the VisiToR. V - ~ -
\Ve feel, also,that if whatis quoted is true, ‘ §1ng1ngG1n the Gr%nfie- U_su3'%1y l
I'8.Ilg6 we 8. IDUSIC 01‘

we ought to have a continually increasing 5 In 011.1‘ .
list of subscribers among those whom We. opening and closing. Sometimes
are "Yl“3 ‘° b°“?fi" 5° “'5 PT” the“ l the organ alone; at other times one
words as “campaign thunder for our help- 1 .
erg an m er the State om Sam, h ‘or two voices would accompany the
v __ - “ nt a =
men,” for instance. lorgan. This spring we started a
1 new plan. A piece is selected that
“ We Can‘ get along “'i‘h0“t the V151‘  all can sing for opening and closing
TOR-”—-A “V-"DRED 0“ 5°‘ land the Lecturer puts the extra
ivocal and instrumental music on
, .
the VISITOR is the best of all of them."—A  hejr Pr0gr_3'm to be 1nter5per_Sed
VERY PROMINENT FARIVIER A.\’D CITIZEN. ,Wll3ll the literary work. I think
,so far it works well. A short time
“ You are doing more for the farmers of  ago I S€I1l3 t0 MISS Jellllle B11611,
Michigan than any or all of the other agri-  Secretary State Grange’ and got
cultural papers.”-—A CONTRIBUTOR. isome Opening ode cards_ The
',Grange sing from these cards for
“ The VisiToR was never better than {opening and for closing We Sing
this present moment. ~A GREAT MANY. ii“ God be with you till we meet
. ,, .
“ As long as your present policy of al— iagaln‘ Qve Tlfikesflie Ogle cirds
lowing fair and free discussion of all lead- Very muc - _ 9 I73 e ecre 81”)’
ing economic topics continues, I shall work ,wrote me asking what I thought
for 3'0“ heartily-”-A ‘V0RKER- !about having a closing ode placed
1 .
ion the back of the o enin ode
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“ I take a number of farm papers, but

 

 

 

“Long live the VisiToR.”—SEvERAi.
i»:_\'THi:siAsTs.

 

“I wish for you the very greatest of
success in your good -work.”——A PROFES-
son or AGRlCULTL'RE.

 

“ I admire the high plane on which the
VIsiToR moves. llike its broad, intelli-
gent and liberal tone.”-—A COUNTY SCHOOL
Co:\iMissio.\'ER.

 

-‘ It is the best Grange paper in the coun-
i-v."'—TIiE ExEcL'Tivi-: COMMITTEE.

Brain Work.

CONDUCTED BY “TYRO.”

IV.
Open to all subscribers. Contributions and solu-

tions solicited. Address all matter concerning this 1 b d 1 1 k h
-,n0t e a goo p an to co overt e
‘éburial service occasionally,

department to F. ARTHL'R l\IETC.-\LF, SOIJTH Ac-
woii-ni, N. H. ‘
ORIGLV.-XL PUZZLES.

SIX NEVV DIANIONDS BY KENARDO.

.\'o. i5.—i. A letter. 2. A disfigurement.
Certain linear lineasures.
which arrows might be discharged (Anc. Fort.). 7.
Limitation. S. Percolzites. 9. Pavements. i0.
Disinounted. ii. A letter.

No. i6.—I. Aletter.
Mediterraiiean sea. 3. Soots. (Obs.l. 4. Male In-
dians. §. To urge. 6. A pen with a reservoir in
the handle which furnishes :1 supply of ink. 7. An
order of fishes. S. Stretched over as an arch. 9.
Oozed. io. Avillage of the Netherlands. ii. A
letter.

.\'o. i7.—i. A letter. 2. A Step. 3. Mzirkets.
4 Connubial '. Those who pardon. 6. A green
pigment consisting, essentiallv, of a hydrous arsen-

ate of copper. 7. Most miscrly. S. A prophetess.
E). To attire. 10. To fit with music. ii. A letter.
No. IS.-—i. A letter. 2. Mothers. 3. Pies.

Occurring every third day (.\led.). 5. A feast oc-
curring on the nth of Nov. 6. Straps fastened to 21
horses girth, passing between his fore-legs, and
attached to the bit, 7. Any sting ray. 8. Scarfs.
9. Ale-houses. (Ol)s.) 10. To visit. it. A letter.

No. !9—-I, A letter. 2. To happen. 3. Sorrows.
4. Concentrates. 5. Places at :1 disadvantage. 6.
Of the nature and use of :1 participle. 7. Pertaining
to a tribe of fishes including the true perch. S. A
port on the sea share. 9. To spurt. io. Together.

(Obs.). ii. A letter.
No. .>o—i. Alettcr. 2. The higher part of the
scale (.VIus.). 3. Alto-singers. 4. Escapes (Obs.)

6. Offering :1 choice of two things.
free swimming l:1l‘\'(L' of B;iliiiio-
lossus. -S. Situation. 9. A st_v on he eve. io.
' ‘he evening before :1 holidziy. 11. A letter.
.~L)I.L"l'l().\'S T0 BRAIN WORK i AND Ii.

5. Reciprocal.

7. The peculiar

_\'o. i. T>Iflln}1fl, .\'o. 3. Hzirniattzin,
Sanders, Aphelion,
Intuiies, Rluitniiy,
Adulute, .\lcters,
.\lcn:icL-r, Alarm,
Prctext, Tins,
Asst-rts. Toy,
5.":
No 5. D, No. 7. Vcrtnmiiiis,
Pur. Eiiiersion,
I’:irL-d, Request,
Parapet, Triicst,
Duraiinater, Usest,
Repziced, Mist,
Deter, Not
Ted, Ilii,
R. S.
.\'o. 2. Sham-bled.
N0. 4. Ii-is_
No. 6. Enaniored.
No. 3. B-road.

Solvers and prize winners in next issue.

Diamond special this issue! Fine work, eh? Re-
nzirdo of Ardniore. Pzi., has the honors. For prizes
see Brain \Vork III. Contributors have thanks for
fine work sent. All will be published in due season.
Please help out the solving card, ye mystic knights
and ladies.

Trim.

_
IN MEMORIAM.

Died at his residence in Cannon, June 19,
1893, Bro. Thomas Sowerby, aged 62 years,
a member of Cortland Grange No. 563.

Resolved, That by the death of Brother
Sowerby, we have lost a worthy member
and an earnest worker in our Order.

Committee.

Paris Grange No._i9, lost by death June
Io, one of its strong ~ members, Bro. John
Porter.

RAM’s HORN: The moment a man

finds out he has been making afool of him-
self he has learned something valuable.”

3.
4. Believers in Moniin_ l
5. Ministerial (Obs.) 6. A narrow openingthrough I

 

écard. I think it would be a good
jidea and know of no better words
Ethan those just mentioned, “ God
lbe with you till we meet again.”
§It seems as if every word of this

i

song breathes a blessing and a
benediction on all present and who
could leave the hall with aught but
brotherly and sisterly feelings for
each other after the inspiration
these words give us? Wlieii we
have general singing in our Grange

I think we have better meetings

and everybody seems to liven up
and is more ready to take part in
the work. Please don’t misunder-

stand me and think I am not in
:favor of choir singing, for I am;
‘but let us have both.

Another suggestion. VVould it

and
also to repeat the Lord’s prayer in

 concert. For frequently the Grange

is required to go through with the
burial service for a member who
has been called from earth away,

,and by making ourselves familiar
2. A small island in theiwith it we can go through with it
< much better and more impressively.

It seems to me but’ fitting that our

‘,bI'0lZh€I‘S and sisters in the Grange,

and in whose presence we have

.passed so many pleasant hours,

should perform the last sad rites
for these poor perishing bodies

4' ‘when we are called to lay down our

:_ implements on earth and join the
‘throng on the evergreen shore.

, Let us live as close to the rules
i of the ritual as possible. Remem-
,ber if we but just vary a little the
'1 work loses much of its dignity,
3 and let us not forget the old saying

1“ What is worth doing at all is
‘_worth doing well,” and in your in-
,itiatoi-y work see that you have all
‘,the implements required for the
‘work. In some halls that we have

ivisited we are sorry to say many of

;them were conspicuous by their»

labsence. Their cost is but little
and they are a great help.
, Try and always go to your hall
lprepared to do something towards
Imaking the session interesting. If
:you can only repeat a quotation of
1a half dozen words you will feel
{better and will be better able next
 time to say more. The worst grum-
iblers I have ever known in the
,Grange are the very ones that
never do anything themselves to
make it interesting. I cannot see
any reason why a few should sit
back with their hands folded and
growl all the While because some-
body doesn’t do something to en-

itain somebody else and simply say

for that very reason the Grange
don’t amount to much any way.
Take hold ye grumblers and fault-
finders and make it amount to some-
thing. You surely can if you but
try. Again, let us try and treat
all alike. For, “ are ye not all
brethren?” Then let us help one
another instead of finding fault.
Who of us is always correct? Then
instead of censuring a sister or
brother because they happen to
make a mistake, stop and consider
whether we could have done any
better or as well even. It is far

AINT

IVIICHIGAN PATRONS “Buy direct from
Factory” at full Wholesale Prices and
save all Middleinen’s Profits.

ORKS

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Indestructible Cottage and Bani Paints

0. W. INGERSOLL, Prop.

Oldest Paint House in America
241-243 Plymouth-st., Brooklyn

Sainple Color Cards, “Confidential” Grange
Discounts, Est mates and full particulars
IVIAILED FREE. “’rite at once.

easier to think about doing a. thing 
right than it is to do it right. i,

Do not stay away from Grange:
when it is possible to go. By stay- l
ing away we lose our interest, and
soon do not care to go as we would
if we were in constant attendance. l
Try to be there as early as possi-l
ble. The young members may not 
care if it is a little late, but thei
older ones feel more like getting
home to rest. Some think Grange i
should be dismissed as early as ten .
or half past ten o’clock, at the l,
latest, unless something very im-3
portant is on hand. In order tol
do this it is necessary to call early 
if there is extra business and a2
program. We certainly should not I
be without a program each even—l
ing. Would it not be a good plan 
to quit work an hour earlier than»
common on Grange night so we‘
could get to Grange in good sea-
son? Yes, I know all about it. It
is not a very easy task, for farmers
especially, to drop their work. I
I live on a farm and know all
about the ups and downs of farm
life. But really do you not think
we would be the gainers? It would
give us a much needed rest from
labor, and the few hours passed
socially with our friends and the
literary work on the program would
give us food for thought so the
next week’s work would pass away
more brightly.

more friendly and sociable. Try
to do away with petty jealousies
and discord. Learn to bear and
forbear. Life is not so long that
we can afford to waste it in fault-
finding. Be faithful in all things.
Be hopeful that great good may
come to us all. Be charitable to
all. Extend a helping hand to all.
Let us not confine our help and
sympathy to our members alone,
but aid all to the extent of our
ability. Let usnot allow ourselves
to feel that on.“-.;_;;‘.ge or our creed
is the only correct one, but be will-
ing to render assistance wherever
needed, and may the time hasten
on when we shall all feel that we
are as “ a band of brothers and
sisters,” bound together by this
commandment “love thy neigh-
bor as thyself.” Let us remember
that the great Master of the Uni-
verse looks on the heart and not
to what order you belong, for the
Lord is no respecter of persons.
Let us not forget that one of our
greatest objects in the declaration
of purposes is to develop a better
and higher manhood and woman-

hood among ourselves, and let us
extend it to all with whom we may
come in contact. Let our lives be
such that when we are summoned
from this earth the world will be
,the better for our having lived in
L it.
“Let us live for those who love us

For those who know we’re true,

For the Heaven that smiles above us
And the good that we cziii do.”

 

LIVE STOCK AT CHICAGO.

Extracts from Rules of Live Stock
Department of the Exposition.

I. The Exhibition of Live Stock will
open August 21, and close October 28,
1893, and will comprise the following di-
visions:

A——Cattle.

B—Horses, Jacks, Jennets, and Mules.

C-«Sheep.

D—Swine.

E—-Dogs.

F——Poultry, Pigeons, and Pet Stock.

G—Fat Stock.

2. The dates for exhibits of the various
divisions are as follows:

Divisions A and B——Monday, August 21,
to Saturday, September 9, 1893, inclusive.

Divisions C and D——Monday, September
25, to Saturday, October 14, I893, inclu-
sive.

Division E-—Tuesday, September 19, to
Friday_. September 22, 1893, inclusive.

Division F—Monday, October 16, to
Saturday, October 21, I893, inclusive.

Division G——Monday, October I6, to
Saturday, October 28, 1893, inclusive.

3. Entries will close in the several divis-
ions of the Live Stock Department as fol-
lows:

Division A——]uly I5, 1893.

Division B—_]uly 15, 1893.

Division C—August I, 1893.

Division D——August 1, I893.

Division E—-September I0, 1893.

Division F—~August I5, 1893.

Division G--August I5, 1893.

 

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sheet.—Lo-well Courier. .

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WOOL!

Farmers who can bunch two or
three thousand pounds of Wool
will find it to their advantage to
correspond with C. Ainsworth,
Grand Rapids, Mich. As I ship
direct, the grower saves the com-
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Spay all kinds of domestic animals,
Capon Fowls; Dehorn Cattle, File
Horses’ Teeth and I will go any distance
provided a club of sufficient size is
secured to pay me. I guarantee satis-
faction in all cases or no charges. Write
for circular.

FOR SALE.

In the fuinoiis fruit belt of Micliigziii, Oceana
county. Fairni 200 acres, 180 clcrired, two fzirni
houses, three barns, two gr:-innrics, two good
wells, zoo apple trees bcariiig, I00 bearing plums,
S00 plums one to three years out. No waste land,
and all liczivy grass, grain or plum and pear land.
One and one-li:1lf miles from court house in Hart
the county seat.

Forty acres, fair house, good packing house,
wind engine and good water. Four thousand
trees plmited from two to ten years. Peach,
plum, apricot, apple nnd cherry. Sold 2,000
baskets peaches in iS9z. One and one-half miles
from water trniisportntiun.

Address, E. D. RICHMOND,
IIART, OCEANA Co., Micn.

The Hand-Made flal°ll6S8 60..

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4

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

AUGUST 1, 1893.

THE GRANGE VISITOR

Published on the 1st and 15th of every month.

Kenyon IA: Hutterfield. Fditor and llaiiazrer,
LANSING. llIlL‘H..

To whom all exchanges. communications. adver
tising business and Sl]l’)S(‘.I‘lptl0nS should be
sent.

Oflicc. Ronni 19. Old State Building.

TERMS 50 (‘ents a Y1-at, 25 Cents for Six
Montlxs. In Clubs of 20 or niore 40 cents
per year each. '
advance, and discontinued at expiration, unless
renewed.

§"Remittan(-es should be by Registered Letter,

Money Order or Draft. Do not send stamps.

Entered at the Postoliice at Lansing, Mich., as
Second Class Matter.

Graiige l{cadqii:ii'tci's

At the \\'0i‘lil‘.~‘ Fair, Clilcagn. Room.» 1), in, ii,
Live Stock l’:i\‘ilinn, iiczir .~oiilli\\'e.<t corner of '.lic
Implcmciit Dcp::rtiiici~i. 1\!|'l(‘(liilil':1l liiiildiiig‘.

Miss Alma Hinds, 0l‘lirc .\'ccrct.ir_\'.

Czill Llicrc for :11! lhf4l"il'|;l1lfV|l of itiu'i'c.~l in
Patrons, and for :1 li.idg'c of iilciilitiuitiuii.

One more month for Samantha.

Hon. Enos Goodrich desires us
to say for him that he meant what
he said in declining to discuss fur-
ther the single tax theory.

It is stated that the New York
Waiters will combine to force their
Wages up. A part of the program
is the abolition of “tips.” May the
gods be with them in the latter
endeavor!

The editor wishes to be present
at farmers’ day at Bay View Aug-
ust 1-1. To do so will require the
issue of the paper not later t.han
the 12th. Will you kindly send all
notices and articles for next issue
as early as possible"?

 

UNTIL SEPTEJIBER 1.

It was our plan to discontinue
Samantha as a premium August 15,
but the fact that there will be a
number of very large graiige meet-

ings soon after that date and the:

possibility trliat there will be more
time for canvassing than during
the past month. leads us to extend
the time until September 1.

We Want to say just a word to
our friends. We are straining ev-
ery nerve to place the VISITOR on
a sound and substantial basis. To
do this requires the constant help
of all Patrons. There are many
who are loyal and who help us ev-
ery time we ask. But there are too
many who, although they say they
want to see us succeed, will not lift
a finger to aid us. Self interest,
loyalty, pride, all ought to impel
them, but do not seem to.

Of course farmers are busy. \Ve
recognized that fact when we made

the offer, and we are gratified thatg
so good 5 response to our offer has‘

been made. But by our plan we
divided and systematized the work
so that the burden would fall light-
ly on all and yet all would do
something.

Now Patrons will you not all rally
to the support of your paper dur-
ing this month of August?

A GOOD TOPIC.

A splendid topic for discussion

at these August gatherings would
be, “What shall be the next legis-
lative policy of the State Grange?”
The Grange ought to and can exert
a more powerfulinfluence upon leg-
islation than it has. The measure of
the influence depends upon the
amount of earnest co-operation
among the members. Granges and

grange meetings can profitably dis- *

cuss the question, so that when the
time comes to take action there will

be harmony and decision. We take_
the liberty of appending a few‘

words along this line quoted from

a personal letter from Bro. R.,

V. Clark of Buchanan:

“At the session of'_our state grange
in 1891 Brother J. J. Murphy
introduced a. resolution which was
adopted asking that district crgan-
izations of two, three or more coun-
ties be formed for annual pic-nic
and business purposes. One of the
principal features of such organi-
zations was to secure the attend-
ance of the leading live members

Hubscriptions payable in:

of the order to discuss and prepare

work for following meetings of the
‘state grange and the legislature.
l The meeting of the state grange
lis not of siilficient length in point
'|of time to properly prepare much
,work that might be accomplished
i, by our order and it was thought that
l this scheme might be made very

 useful in this direction. The pic-

inic part of this arrangement was‘

!suggested by Bro. Murphy in our
county grunge and I added the sug-
gestion of a business conference to

lpromote the progressive interests!

lof the order, legislative and other-
iwise. It occurs to me that much
‘might be accomplished in this way

ltldat cannot well be accomplislied

lin any other way. Much more de-
Q liberation could be secured and the
‘. danger of hasty action avoided and
ithe demands of our people would
be presented to those outside the
gate as well as the legislature, di-
vested of superfluities and support-
ed by the aggregate influence of
the entire order, and we think this
would inspire the respect and con-
fidence of those with whom we are
to deal.”

VACA TION RIPPL ES’.

The editor of the VISITOR took
advantage of an opportunity to join
the Michigan Press Association in
a trip to the VVorld’s Fair by the
way of a boat ride from Detroit,
stopping at Mackinac Island.
Hence these meditations and remi-
niscences.

Detroit is a most open hearted
city. Her people know to a T how
to entertain. Of course editors
are easily entertained, but the
cfliorts of Detroit citizens were
fully appreciated. Woiiiierlaiid,
with its attractions; the House of
Correction and “Capt. J oe’s” lunch;
Belle Isle and the Casino; the river
ride to Ft. VVayne and the music
and dress parade; the very fine
music and the dancing in the even-
ing, these made a clay OV‘€I‘b1‘l1D-
ming with recreative pleasures.

,you ought to go, take one of the

lsteamers of p the Detroit and
Cleveland Steam Navigation
Co. Their boats are elegant,

prices low, ofiicers accommodating.
No liquor or wine is sold on their
boats. The “City of Alpena” is a
palace. 140 editors will tell you so.
‘ Everybody believes an editor any-
way; but if 140 of them say a thing
is so, it must be so.

Alpena is not a large city, about
15,000, but it is chock-full of hospi-
tality. Her citizens must have been
bottling it for some time and then
uncorked it for the editors. (We
are speaking of ho.~‘pi'fal2'i‘g, mind
you!) We came about 7 a. m.; we
saw the city in three hours; we were
conquered by the kindliness shown
us. May the “sawdust city” pros-

, p81‘.

Mackinac, the charmer! Gem of
the Lakes! Pearl of the Straits!
\Vizard of the North! Call her what
.you will, she wooes and wins your
laffections, and once entlialled you
iare forever her subject. Here is a
!strange mingling of the grand and
‘_the picturesque, the sublime and
,the lovely, the old and the new,
.the high and the low in life, the

‘isolated and the busy. There are,

other spots in earth with
grander scenery; there are other
*woods as shady, other heights as
towering, other air as pure, other
views as distant, other scenes as
romantic in history. But in this
*island God focused them all into
one of the richest gems of His
creating.

Pardon this rhetorical overflow,
but a beautiful cool summer day
spent at Mackinac Island inspires
even the unready pen. However,
write what we will, the half has
not been told, and one must see
and be convinced by his own senses,
for here seeing is believing; and
I few there are who can linger about
5 Mackinac and remain unresponsive

; to the weird spell of her rich, deep
beauty. And if there be any such
Heaven pity them!

3 We were most fortunate in se-
jcuring the very best steamers for
lour trip. As the new “City of Al-
lpena” is the queen of Lake Huron.
lso the new “Manitou” bears the
! laurel over Lake Michigan’s wate rs.
[Built on the ocean model, superbly
-furnished, she is all that can be
l desired by the tourist. The pleas-

l

‘ure of the trip from Mackinac to
lChicago was greatly enhanced by

If you ever go to Mackinac, and "

the satisfaction found in being
carried by such a staunch ship.
Chicago is a city of many aspects

None of them shows forth her
ibeauty as does the water aspect.
Not the genuine “Chicago water"
phase, for that material is horrible
‘stuff, but the View as one ap-
;proaches from up the lake. First,
you may distinguish a low cloud-
like form which is none other than
the mass of smoke that ever hangs
.over the city. It is forty miles

you can see of Chicago is “up in
smoke.” Then, quite suddenly,
. looms the black and indistinct form
of the Masonic Temple, with the
Auditorium and a few other lofty
structures flanking it. Not long
after this, the Manufactures build-
ing at the fair, the dome of the Ad-
ministration building and the Fer-
ris IVheel, gratify your curiosity
_for a first glimpse of the t.raveler’s
Mecca of ’93, the fair. Gradually
the city expands, the passengers
make ready to debark, a couple of
little tugs tow the huge ship up the
river. with their wheels stirring up
the filthy water, a few rough orders
are given, and we are in Chicago.

There are many ways of reaching
the fair grounds from center town.
For five cents you can take one of
two lines of street cars, or the
eleva ted railroad. For ten cents you
can ride on the Illinois Central su-
burban trains. For fifteen cents
you can have a pleasant little trip
by steamer. Facilities for handling
crowds are good and it is only for
short periods in the day that the
means of transportation are un-
comfortably crowded.

The ideal way to see the fair is
of course to study it. This means
considerable time in prepara-
tory reading. It means the
ability to spend several months,
at dili’erent times, on the
_ grounds, with intermediate
!time for continued reading and
thought. It means to View the
fair as a whole, by biiildiiigs, by
nations, by industries, by particular
exhibits. It means the collection
of a comprehensive set of notes,
which will aid in subsequent re-
search. It means a sufficiently
broad e(lucatio:!_‘_ho be able to give
things their relative importance
and a training that will enable one
to classify the knowledge gained.

Of course most of us are pre-
cluded from such advantages and
must content ourselves with less
preparation and a much more hasty
view. But to such we say stay as
long as you possibly can; plan to
go twice or more, if possible, and
make many sacrifices if necessary,
in order to see the fair and to see
it well. One stay of a week or so,
for getting the “lay of the land”
and gaining an idea of the fair as
a whole, with a subsequent visit of
ten days or two weeks for more
minute study of tlfat which is indi-
vidually more interesting, make a
very good division of time, and
will not prove exhausting to the
purses of many people in comfort-
able circumstances. Copious notes
taken at the first visit will serve as
a basis for considerable interme-
diate reading and the second visit
will be the more interesting and
pleasant because of the experience
gained at the first. Some may pre-
fer to change the method a little
by choosing in the beginning those
buildings in which they will spend
the most time, and so take the
buildings in course, giving to each
the proportionate attention.

But quite likely great numbers
of people will feel able to spend
little more than a week at the fair.
Such will need to economize time
in order to get the most out of the
fair. There have been some gratu-
itous programs offered that tell
you how to see the fair in six days.
But believe us, dear friends, for we
have tried it, such are a delusion
and a snare. VVhy, you can spend
three whole days in the manufact-
ures’ building, and keep walking
nine-tenths of the time, tool The
only satisfactory way to do is to
read all you can before you go,
co sulting frequently a good map
of the grounds. A guide book
might be ordered in advance,
Rand & McNally having a very
good one. The oflicial guide book
is not necessary except in making
critical studies. Talk with friends
who have been there and make up
your mind to devote four and a

away. and for an hour or more all ,

half or five days of the six to those l
three or four buildings which con- 1'
tain those lines of exhibits most‘,
interesting to you. It will payl
then to spend a day in visiting a}
few of the many special exhibits of i
which you have read. A half day!
on the Plaisance will let you see}
a half dozen of the best things§
there. This program may seem!
severely sacrificial to seeing the;
fair, but it is the honest conclusion I
of a seven day experience.

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i\Iuch has been written about the 
Plaisance. Some advise seeing‘
everything, some leave it for the
last half day. VVe incline to ad-
vise the latter course for our “stay
a week” friend, because it is so
curiously attractive that if he
began there he would probably
spend too great a proportion of his
six days there, and too much of his
money. VVe spoke of a half dozen
“best things" in the Midway.
Well, it is hard to classify. but we
would be inclined to place the
Libbey Glass VVorks, the Java vil-
lage, Cairo street, panorama of the
Swiss Alps, Hagenbecks animal
show, and the Dahomey village as
the most Worthy half dozen.
Others of different tastes would
judge differently no doubt. Other
exhibits of interest and value are
the Moorish palace, the ostrich
farm, Chinese theatre, Blarney
castle, the submarine diver, South
Sea Islanders. As to the Ferris
wheel, it all depends on the taste.
There is no danger, no unpleasant
sensation at all, a fine view is ob-
tained. Yet if you feel that you
would not enjoy it, probably you
woiildn’t. The Beauty show is val-
uable, chiefly as showing the cos-
tumes of different lands. rather
than the people of those countries.
If you go into the “Swiss Alps”
linger as long as you can. It is a
most wonderful panorama, and
every lover of natural scenery will
admire it. Do not confound this
with “a day in the Alps.” which
is very good but still inferior to
the panorama. There are two
Irish villages, Donegal castle and
Blarney castle. In the former our
suspicions were aroused when upon
your pen slinger requesting the
siiopositious Irish harpis‘. to play
“Kathleen Mavourneen,” she re-
plied that she “did not play it.”
She rendered “Suwanee River,”
quite well, but the incongruity of
tlie words “ Oh darkies,” mingling
with the sweet tones of the harp
that “ once thro’ Tara’s halls” was;
a little too much even for the staidl
and sober countenance of the afore-
said pen slinger. Take an evening
for “America” at the Auditorium
down town, buying your tickets
several days ahead, and go down
early enough to visit the panorama
of the Chicago fire on Michigan
avenue, before the play begins.
You may want to give one evening
also to Buffalo Bill’s wild west
show.

The money question is of course
very important to a visitor at the
fair. You can get reasonable rates
near the grounds, usually one dol-
lar a day’ for rooms. It is well
enough, though not necessary, to
get rooms in advance. If you
can’t find good rooms at a low
price within two or three blocks of
the grounds, get as near as that to
some street car line, for you must
save your walking for the grounds.
The rooms advertised in the VISI-
TOR for Patrons will be found all
that is claimed for them. Carry
your lunches on to the grounds
with you, and if you don’t like to
carry them about, check them at
the Michigan building if you are
to be in the north end of the
grounds that day, and at the
Grange headquarters if you are to
be in the south part. Prices for
lunches on the grounds are not ex-
cessive to those who are used to
them, but are more than we small
pursed people can stand. The
only real good drinking water we
found was at the Michigan build-
ing. The water at the drinking
fountains and the penny-in-the-
slot Waukesha water are pure and
good, but not cold. Lemonade as
well as any other soft drink is ten
cents.

We shall have to reserve “Im-
pressions of the Fair,” until the
next issue.

 

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girl he had ever loved.” "Bah! he
proposed to me three months ago.”
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said there were some unpleasant inci-
dents in his past.”—Chz'cago Inter-

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SILVER AGAIN.

A recent item in the Free Press says
“there has been too much shilly-shally-
ing by both parties on the silver ques-
tion.” \Ve were reminded of the item
when we read the triple headed article
on SILVER in the last Visiroa which ap-
peared to be founded on the “advice
given by the old lawyer to his student.”

Brother Ramsdell asks: “Where in any
of my writings can he find a sentence
which could be interpreted or tortured
into confining the issue of silver notes to
the bullion value of silver?" I answer:
VVhere he says “Congress in the passage
of the Sherman law substantially com-
plied with that request so far as the sil-
ver product extends by purchasing the
entire yield of the silver mines of the
United States at its commercial value
and issuing in payment therefor legal
tender treasury notes.” That is an ex-
pression of satisfaction with present con-
ditions. an abandonment of the difi"erence
between bullioii value and coinage value
let alone any further increase of legal
tender treasury notes which the present
treasury notes are only in part, 1". e., when
not contracted against.

Again he asks: “Cannot Mr. Benedict
see the difference between paying the
bullion or foreign coin holder twice as
much as his bullion or coin is worth and

the issuing of treasury notes to thc>full- —

extent of their coinage value." etc. Yes,
he can see. First, they are not issued to
the full extent of their coinage value;
second, the United States is the great
producer of silver, and during the year
ending May 1, 1893, exported $17,000,000
worth of silver more than it imported;
third, that whatever of benefit accrues
to the silver bullion or foreign coin hold-
or does not stop with them but flows
from them through the channels of trade
to others in other vocations; fourth and
last, but not least, the value of cotton,
wheat, corn, oats and dairy products in
the United States in 1890 was estimated
at 82,5l7,000,000 and of silver 52,000,000
ounces. The loss in price for each ‘.25
cents decline of silver is estimated for
the farm products at $637,000,000 per
year and for the silver owner it is only
$13,000,000 per year. How much greater
the decline in values of farm products
when silver declines 50 or 60 cents per
ounce, and that the decline in price of
farm products is not a theory butafact is
shown by a comparison of prices in 1873,
1883, and 1893.

In 1810 while England had suspended
specie payments and was considering the
adoption of the single gold standard
(which she did in 1816.) Ricardso wrote:
“The only objection to the use of silver
as the standard is its bulk, which renders
it unfit; for the large payments required
in a wealthy country; but this objection
is entirely removed by the substitution
of paper money as the general circulat-
ing medium of the country. Silver, too,
is much more steady in its value in con-
sequence of its demand and supply being
more regular, there can be no doubt that
on the whole silver is preferable to gold
as a standard, and should be permanent-
ly adopted for that purpose.”

The proposition to extend the use of
gold as the single standard of values took
form in the Conference of 1867, and in
1868 a memoir read before the French
Institute predicted that “the suppression
of silver would bring on a veritable rev-
olution. Gold would augment in value
with a rapid and constant progress,
which would break the faith of con-
tracts and_aggravate the situation of all
debtors. including the nation." In 1869
Rothschild said: "Whether gold or silver
derioininates for the time being it is
always true that the two metals concur
together in forming the monetary circu-
laticn of the world, and it is the general
mass of the two metals combined which
serves "as the measure of the value of
things. The suppression of silver would
amount to the veritable destruction of
values without any compensation.”

In 1873 the United States under the
manipulation of John Sherman stopped
the coinage of the dollar that our fore
fathers had adopted as the standard of
our currency and had imprinted the fact
in the edge of the coins; in 1874 when
revising the statutes the same malign in-
fluence changed the standard to the dol-
lar of 25.8 grains standard gold that had
never been coined till 1849 and whose
multiple had been altered in weight in1834
to conform to the standard silver dollar.
In 1878 the coinage of silver dollars was

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resumed butlnever was the silver restored
to its place as a standard, and John Sher-
man owns we are unda the gold stand-
ard. He acknowledges that the Sherman
silver law was passed to defeat free coin-
age, which would have restored silver to
its natural position and given a stable
value to all silver in this country.

After twenty years of shilly-shallying
What are the reults?

The Charlotte Republican of July 21
says: “Every hour brings the sad tidings
of the closing of some bank or the shut-
ing down of mines or manufactories, and
the consequent entailing of great loss and
misery on the laboring classes. Thou-
-sands of poor people have already lost
their few hard earned dollars and now
find themselves without the means of
earning a livlihood. From every quarter
-comes the wail of woe for labor and for

bread. Reader, stop a moment and con- ‘

sider our strange position. In the midst
of plenty we are on the verge of want.
With the eternal cry of the overproduction
of almost every article ever ringing in
our ears, we have thousands of unhappy
beings without the daily necessaries of
life. So great has this distress become
that in some places in our own enterpris-
ing state the officials of cities have ad-
vised the stopping of public improve-
ments that funds may be had for the
care of the poor who have been thrown
out of employment and reduced to paup-
erism.” '.L‘hen prospective free trade is
held up as the cause of distress. But the
Free Press of the next day with wider
vision says: “The present depressed con-
dition of finances is world wide. It pre-
vails in all the great commercial countries.
In the London market there is disorgan-
ization, rumors of failure and anxiety.
In Paris and Berlin there is depression
and uneasiness. The United States suf-
fers more sharply just at this time than
do some of the other nations, but it does
not suffer alone.” It disclaims the elec-
tion of Cleveland as the cause of so wide
spread adverse conditions. But the
Detroit Tribune of July 14 unwittingly
touches the true cause of those conditions
when it says: “The silver men have a
grievance, of course. The price of their
product has been steadily falling for the
last twenty years concurrently with the
price of many other commodities. Their
grievance is precisely that of the farmer,
the merchant, the manufacturer, and
producers and distributors generally.
We have arrived at an era of permanent-
ly low prices relatively to the prices of
some years ago.”
Judge Ramsdell acknowledges that
“ take from gold the ‘ fiat’ of comuiercial
nations making it a legal tender for
debts and its exchangable value would
fall to the place which supply and
demand for use in the arts would give
it.” Precisely what has been done with
silver and what the Sherman silver law
by its exceptions and administration does
not prevent. Gold has been made the
exclusive pricemarker and its supply is
unequal to the demand. hence its value
has appreciated and prices declined as
was predicted. “And what better remedy
could be applied than absolutely to re-
ye_rse_ that legislation and to put the

"monetary position of this country back

to exactly where it was when the wrong
was committed.” Shilly-shallying has
failed and its supporter hides himself
behind J. H. Brigham, but Col. Brigham
said in the campaign of last fall: " This
is our country, our government. We
can legislate for no other.” Sound doc-
trine certainly. Let us apply it to
national finances, even though in so do-
ing the silver bullion or foreign coin
holder should receive some measure of
benefit; agriculture would receive many
times more. Are not silver owners en-
titled tc a fair measure of consideration
rather than gold owners to a double
measure‘? Are not producers of articles
of value and utility of more consequence
to the nation and more entitled to its
protection and watch care than the
money changers‘? Brigham and Wood-
man are men of sufficient intellect to
recognize agriculture as the basis of our
national prosperity, and demand that its
interests shall stand equal before the law
with those of the manufacturer. Will
they draw the line at the money
changer? The lamented Garfield said
in 1877 that “our future prosperity re-
quires a solid, permanent basis on which
confidence can plant its feet and the
business of the country revive.” In 1878
he said: “The old theory of our fathers
who framed the constitution, the theories
of all the political parties that wielded and
managed the affairs of this country for
80 years was this: ‘It is the business of
congress to determine the quality of the
money that shall be issued, and then,
fixing that quality, allow the people who
own gold bars and silver bars to go and
have them coined at the public mint as
their money, just as much of it as they
please and just as little of it as they
please.’ ” “Congress was empowered to
coin money and to declare its value.”
“Congress decided on a standard to meas-
ure this value by. They, named it a dol-
lar.” “They took a couple of articles of
universally recognized value. They
found a pound of one of them was worth
about 16 times as much as the other.”

The same year John Sherman said:
“Silver money is the best and most con-
venient for the market and shopping
transactions of life. No form of paper
money can profitably take the place of
silver money. The largest possible use
of silver and its freest circulation are in-
dispensable to any system of money that
can be devised. The demonitization of
gold would be as great an injury as the
demonitization of silver. I am in favor
of so adjusting this matter that both
metals will circulate at par with each
other. This can be done while the mar-
ket value of silver is lower than its legal
ratio with gold. .

First, By limiting the amount of silver
tobe issued, (This has been tried and
and has failed.) _ _

Second, By readjusting the relative
weight of the two coins. either by increas-
ing the weight of the silver coin or low-
ering the weight _of the _gold coin, or
equalizing them byincreasing the weight
of silver and lowering the gold. .

(Well, as products keep their relative
value with silver while gold appreciates

relatively with both, and as gold has safe-
ly been altered once let us again try the
lowering of the gold coins.)

Third, By the international conference
between bimetallic nations. The last
method has always failed and always will.
Let us try Col. Brigham’s plan and “leg-
islate for our country.” Then Judge
Ramsdell’s if will not stand in the way
and the natural law of supply and de-
mand will apply equally to silver and
gold in our borders and that stability of
values, for which Garfield vainly hoped,
will be restored.

J udge I-tamsdell accuses me by implica-
tion ofjoining Wall street in demanding
the unconditional repeal of the Sherman
silver law. Read again the sentence:
“Its repeal is universally demanded but
must be accompanied by some measure
to take its place. A very large and con-
tinually increasing number of producers
are demanding that that something else
shall be free coinage, etc.” Who has as-
sumed a false position for his opponent?
For his surprise I care no more than for
his sophistry. Financial depression can
only be removed by removing its cause.
an appreciating standard of value, and
restoring one that is just and equitable
to both parties and at both ends of a con-
tract. \Vhen the government has done
this by restoring the coinage value of sil-
ver and rerating gold, whether either is
passed through the mint or not may well
be left as of yore to regulate itself. Then
if the government will issue treasury
notes to replace all other currency paper,
well and good. Then too if it issues that
currency to an excess over its specie to
an amount that has been proven safe in
financial matters, well and good too. If
it establishes postal savings banks for the
safe keeping of that currency, well and
good too. If it adopts the much needed
flexible element for that currency by the
“subtreasury plan" which is working well
in several places on earth in actual pract-
ice, well and good again. If it adopt
a system of land loans under proper
restrictions for certain purposes as
for drainage etc.. well and good.
But let us take the first step first
for it is most needed. Ours is
a government of the people by the
people and for the people, and if the
people’s interests are subserved we will
have but little use for the partisan
demagogery that holds up the Sherman
silver law as the substantial realization
of the resolutions of the Michigan State
Grange, that knows that attainable legis-
lation is and can be only national but
prates of an international currency; that
knows that foreign coins are rerated in
value in this country every three months
and our own are rated elsewhere like-
wise and that in most international
transactions coins like bullion are used
only by weight in proportion to fineness;
that notes the fall in silver but refuses
to note the fall in other things; that all
along covertly sustains the wishes of the
money changers, but ignores the needs of
the wealth makers: that holds up an in-
accessible credit currency but cries down
the truest measure of value the country
ever had jand the value currency it can
supply; that gave a clear exposition of
the relative value of silver to products
(giving a key of knowledge to one who
ever since refuses to ignore that relation)
and then, refusing to walk by that light,
follows his party off after make shifts and
subterfuges; posing as a leader of toilers
and trying to lead them among the hem-
lock stumps and cedar swamps after the
rushlight set up by the high priest of the
money changers. Should the present
congress repeal the tax on state banks
and adopt measures that would enlarge
the credit currency along that line, he
could with equal consistency stand up
and say it was the substantial realization
of the resolution of the Michigan State
Grange. That too would enlarge the
circulation even though it ignored the
relation of silver and products.

For myself I can not ignore the fact
that while my country has largely added
to its intrinsic value since the resump-
tion of specie payments in 1879, by clear-
ing and drainage, highways and bridges,
school houses and churches, courthouse
and halls, houses and barns, stores and
factories and many other items, the mar-
ket value of its homes is but little more
today than it was then, while the market
value of its products may be less, and
the decline has been brought about not
through any fault of its people or their
direct action, but by the appreciation of
the price marker the blood-thirsty dollar
of 25.8 grains of gold. The time has
come to stop shilly-shallying and cease
following the sophistries of the scribes
and lawyers who have loaded men with
burdens but refused to touch them with
the tips of their fingers.

B. E. BENEDICT.

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L‘-A'I‘EL‘I{[SE D.

EDITOR GRANGE VISITOR:

I believe it is no less than fair
to answer every fair question; so,
with your permission, I will try
to answer the questions asked by
Judge Ramsdell in the VISITOR of
July 15. Before doing so, how-
ever, I shall take the liberty to
make a few general remarks for
the purpose of <:loai'iiig ground.
After reading Brother I{amsdell’s
article, and without carefully re-
reading mine, some might be in-
clined to be unwilling to give my
sayiiigs much weiglit. For it is
apparent, even to me, that the
reasoning of a man holding the
opinions which I am credited with
entertaining, is nearly if not alto-
gether worthless.

My previous article must be its
own justification. It was written
to correct a false impression, not
to discuss any phase of the silver
question. It was merely What it
professed to be, “a few remarks
touching” Judge Rainsdell’s letter.

I may be allowed to say that itlage of silver, * * * and the
seems to have accomplished itsjfarmer will have better prices in
purpose. However, I regret thatihome and foreign markets,” etc.
in one particular it was not more ; The lecturer of the national grunge
explicit and that Brother Ramsdelliis amply able to defend his own
misunderstood and misquoted part , arguments, but it is impossible for
of it. I did not say he lied, “both 1 him to defend himself against mis-
by implication and in set terms.” Econstructions. And for myself, I
All that is necessary to do toiam willing to let my arguments
understand what Was said andistand or fall on their merits, but
meant is to read two sentences Ofifllll like Brother Wliitehead in
the letter which the brother sojbeing unable to prevent misquote-
carelessly quoted. ltion and misconstruction or to de-

Now to the questions; and thatgfend myself against them. I am
they may be clearly before l1lSiIIOl3 responsible for another’s mis-

It will be observed that I have
not been taken in the trap my
brother of the legal turn laid for
me. His first question contains
an assumption that is ii ntrue; the
second and third are based on that
false assumption; the fourth and
fifth are manifestly absurd, and
the sixth is like the first in being
based on an untruth.

If I have failed to answer any of
the questions asked, or if Brother
Ramsdell or any other brother
wants to ask other questions, I
shall be glad to have my attention
called to the omissions or to the

readers, I ask the editor to reprint inten-
tional are as bad as lies by impli-
cation and, when unintentional,
seem to be as bad.

them just as they were printed be-
fore, witli the addition of numbers
for convenience in reference.

Question first. “ The people of
the United States are now buying
silver with legal tender treasury
notes, and are getting one ounce
of silver for each seventy-five cents
in treasury notes. VVill Brother
\Vorking or any other advocate of
that kind of free silver coinage tell
the readers of the VISITOR why the
people of the United States should
obligate themselves by law to pay
$1.29 an ounce for all the silver
that may be offered at any sub-
treasury of the United States?”

Answer. No. It happens that
Brother "Working is not an advo-
cate of that kind of free coinage.
John Sherman is supposed to have
invented the present “free coiii-
age” law. The free coinage advo-
cates, as I understand them, ask
that silver shall be coined just as
gold is coined, without charge for
mintage, and that the ratio shall
be to gold as sixteen is to one. 1
do not contend that the United
States should buy silver, but that
the United States should coin
silver.

Question second. “ VVill he tell
the readers of the VISITOR why the
people of the United States should
obligate themselves by law to buy
all the silver product of the world
and pay twice the price that hold-
ers are willing to sell it for?”

Answer. He can not do it.
Moreover, he does not know any
one in Colorado who asks the
people of the United States to do
such a thing. The people ask that
silver be coined, not that it be
bought. They ask that it be
coined without charge and without
limit and at tlie*‘prescnt estab-
lished ratio.

Question third. “VVill he tell
us wherein the farmer would gain
by a law that would compel him to
give two bushels of wheat for an
ounce of silver when he can buy
the same ounce of silver with a
little over one bushel of wheat
now?”

Answer. He will never do it.
The fact is, that the farmers in
Colorado, like the farmers in Mich-
igan and elsewhere, do not want
silver, they want money. In Col-
orado, and other States as well, the
farmers want the best possible and
reasonable price for their wheat.
A great many of them believe that
an increase in the money supply
of the country would bring with it
an increase in prices of wheat and
other products. In the west we
are inclined to believe that the
easiest way to bring about that in-
crease in the quantity of money is
to induce congress to authorize
the “free and unlimited coinage of
silver” at the ratio of sixteen to
one.

Question fourth. “W0 uld
Brother Working obligate himself
to pay $129 for a horse that was
offered on the market for $62? ”

Answer. Not if in his right
mind. Curiously enough, such a
question has never been asked west
of the Mississippi river, so far as
my observation goes. There is
absolutely no excuse for such a
question. No one who seriously
advocates the free coinage of silver
has ever advocated such an absurd
idea.

Question fifth. “Does he advise
the farmers to do business in that
way? ”

Answer. He never has, and can
see no reason why he should do so.

Question sixth. “ If not, why
does he defend Brother Whitehead
for advising the people of the
United States to buy mules that
way ‘B ”

Answer. He does not defend
Brother VVhitehead for advising
people to buy mules that way,

and he h as not heretofore
defended him for doing such
a thing. Brother Whitehead

has never so advised. His words
will bear no such construction.
Here they are: “ Remonetize sil-
ver, * * * give us free coin-

quotations, which, when
new questions.
D. W. Woiziiibzs.

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AUGUST 1, 1893.

Woman’s Work.

SIMPLE HOME TREATMENTS WITH
WATER.

HELEN L. MANNING.

The following article which I
prepared for the F(w'm.ers’ Review
and which was published recently,
covers so exactly what I would say
t-o your readers about home treat-
ments and nursing that I take the
liberty of presenting it entire:

Living remote as the farmer does
from the aid of a physician, it is
certainly advisable that he shall
have such knowledge of simple
treatments for diseases and for in-
juries as shall at least serve a val-
uable purpose until skilled medical
aid can be summoned. In slight
maladies, home treatments rightly
given are often all that is needed
and certainly to be preferred to
the perpetual dosing in which so
many indulge.

VVater. as an aid to Nature in
ridding the body of disease, is of
great value and easy of application.
Iwill, therefore, present to your
readers some of the methods of
water treatment used by the phy-
sicians and nurses with great suc-
cess in the Battle Creek Sanita-
rium. I will endeavor to give
plain directions and also the ra-
tionale of each form of treatment,
for water may be misapplied as
well as medicine. However, if
more water was used, externally
and internally, there would be
much less need of medicine. If
the pores of the skin were kept
open by frequent and thorough
cool water baths and the stomach
and liver allowed the aid of plenty
of water to carry on the work of
digestion and carry off the impuri-
ties from the system, a vast amount
of suffering and ill health would
be avoided.

FOMENTATIONS.

One of the simplest and most
efl‘ective forms of local water treat-
ment are what are styled fomenta-
tioiis. They are especially good
for the relief of pain and soreness,
and invaluable in cases of recent
bruises and sprains where there is
damaged tissue. If applied di-
rectly, they will so stimulate ab-
sorption as to almost completely
prevent swelling and discoloration.
They are also effective for pain in
the stomach and bowels, as in colic,
dysentery, cholera morbus and for
pain resulting from indigestion.
Nothing will give quicker relief
for acute rheumatic pain. They
are good in all kinds of inflamma-
tion, like boils, as they make the best
kind of poultices. They are also
excellent in colds, pneumonia and
pleurisy. The only counter indi-
cation is in case the heart is affect-
ed, when the application of hot
fomentations to the stomach or
liver is apt to affect the action of
the heart. That being the case, it
is a good plan to put a cold cloth
or an ice bag over the heart while
giving the hot treatment.

When there is chronic torpidity
of the liver or inactivity of the
bowels and digestion is slow, hot
fomentations applied over the
stomach, liver and bowels daily for
a short time will prove very bene-
ficial, and in chronic rheumatism
they stimulate absorption and aid
in relaxing contracted tendons.

Now for the material and how
to give them. Any large pieces of
heavy flannel will answer for fo-
mentation cl-' -ths, but two pieces of
heavy blanketing, each one yard
square, are the best. If not at
hand, sew smaller pieces of old
flannel together to make pads of
the required size; the one to be
used wet should be two or three
thicknesses, if of common flannel,
but the one to be used dry need
not necessarily be so heavy unless
the skin is very tender or the water
is used very hot. However, there
is seldom danger of getting the
water too hot. The object in hav-
ing heavy flannel is that it best
retains the heat and the cloths have
to be changed less frequently.
Spread one of the fomentation
cloths dry over the seat of pain,
and dip the other, after folding it
into a long roll, into a pail of water
as near the boiling point as possi-
ble. Retain a hold upon the ex-
treme ends of the folded cloth, and
after the central portions are thor-
oughly saturated, begin to twist
and wring with a firm grip. With
a little practice, a cloth can be
wrung very dry in this way with-
out injury to the hands. Shake

it out a little and then place it up-

ion the dry flannel, quickly wrap-
':ping the dry cloth over the wet
;011€. By thus using a dry cloth to
"envelop the wet one, danger of

3 wetting the patient’s clothing and .

l, the bed clothing is avoided and the
lsteam heat through the dry cloth
‘ is more agreeable to the patient
and hotter water can be used than
‘if the wet fomentation was ap-
plied directly to the skin. In
about five minutes, wring the wet
cloth again from the hot water and
apply as before, and keep up the
process from about twenty minutes
to half an hour. The water in the
pail will need heating up once or
twice meantime in order that the
applications shall be sufficiently
hot. Woolen cloths may be heated
in a steamer and applied the same
way. Or, lacking other conveni-
ences, fold a wet cloth between
two newspapers and throw it on
the stove for a few minutes when
it will be found to be admirably
heated.

\Vlien the fomentations are re-
moved, sponge the surface by hand
in cool water for a minute or two
for the sake of toning up the skin.
This is a very important matter
and must not be neglected, for if
the skin is left relaxed, one will
be almost sure, to take cold. A
piece of ice wrapped in a thin cloth
may be used in place of cold water
if the fomentations have been pro-
longed. Dry carefully and guard
against exposures.

A few further practical treat-
ments will be given in a subsequent
article.

HOW TO BEAUTIFY THE HOME.

 

[Read at Farmers‘ Institute by Emma L. Loom-
is, of Bcottvillal

It has been said that “ man is
the bread-winner and woman the
home-keeper.”

Home not only means a dwell-
iing place but all that pertains to
a dwelling place. Dryden says,
“ Home is the sacred refuge of our
life.” \Vhile man may sow the
seed and reap the harvest, woman
must put the fine art of making
the bread and the many substan-
tials and delicacies pertaining
thereto, whereby the family food
is provided. Eatables being one
of the necessities of life, a thorough
knowledge of how to prepare food
is essential for the home-keeper.

The bread-winner depends large-
ly on nutritious food for the phys-
ical strength needed in his labor.

Near my childhood home lived
an old lady who was known as
“ Aunt Cinda.” In her early mar-
ried life she wanted her husband
to know that she was a good cook;
so constantly supplied her table
with rich cake and highly seasoned
pastries to the exclusion of meat
and vegetables. His work being
chopping in the woods he felt the
need of more substantial food. One
cold morning he said, “ Cinda, sup-
pose you boil the pot for dinner
today.” VVhen he came at the
inoon hour he found the big dinner
‘gpot boiling, but not the meat and
 vegetables that he expected; this
lbeing her way of proving to him
; she was able to plan her work with-
lout his dictating, a plan we would
i not recommend by any means.
1 The highly seasoned food had not
j given good digestion or sweet
‘ temper to the home.

1 Good health being one of the
‘iessentials to a well ordered home,
2 much thought should be given to
1 preparing health giving food. The
‘ability to work with hand or brain
 depends largely on the food we eat.
l Americans have neglected this
l subject perhaps more than any
‘other people. As they have been
lable to gain more of wealth their
1 tables have been loaded with costly
‘food without regard to health,
2, hence the poor classes, who could
‘;not afford such richly flavored
 viands, are strong and healthy, able
ito do hard work, without which we
 as a people could not prosper.

l The subject of healthy food is
being studied by our home-keepers
more these later years. Our Wo-
man’s Christian Temperance Union
with amembership of more than
154,000 in this country alone, has
for years had “ Health” as one of
its departments, which includes
the study of the laws of health, in
relation to food, dress, cleanliness,
exercise and ventilation. This so-
ciety reaches now all the countries
of the world, and women are mak-
ing a study of subjects which be-
fore only received a passing notice
at most. Clothing our bodies with
comfort and convenience for work
and exercise is a subject being
much agitated. And for home-

l

l

keepers the idea
to all parts of the body gives food
for much thought and brings into
activity woman’s ingenuity to plan
in a good cause. The adage,
“ Cleanliness is next to godliness,”
is an excellent watchword for home-
makers. Cleanliness goes far to-
ward good health, and each mem-
ber of the household needs to make
use of its advantages. The wife
and mother cannot be responsible
for all the misdeeds of the entire
family.

A farmer’s family usually take
sufficient exercise for health; a ju-
dicious study to know the right
kind of exercise and how to avoid
the opposite would be helpful. We
would warn against making or al-
lowing a weakly one in the family
to sit idly by and not take proper
exercise to assist nature in gaining
strength and health.

In many homes ventilation is
thought to be non-essential. It
takes so much fuel to warm the
house we can’t afford to warm out-
doors. Please remember it takes
more fuel to warm the feet than
the head. Let us keep the feet
warm and head cool if we have to
keep a window lowered at the top
to do it. Sleeping rooms should
be large and airy, even at the ex-
pense of small parlors.

Allowing that we have a good
home (the bread-winner of course
will provide that), and the mem-
bers of the household in good bod-
ily health, we find at healthy men-
tal growth requires more care than
physical health. Purity of thought
is harder to attain than purity of
action. Into this care we bring
school life. Teachers can seldom be
provided in the home, hence the
necessity and blessing of public
schools, where the mental develop-
ment is trained; this tests the home
influence in the way of obedience,
industry and choosing associates.

To provide happiness and pleas-
ure for the members of the home
is one of the responsibilities of the
home-keeper, yet she cannot do
this alone; one may plan many
little pleasures that need coopera-
tion to carry out.‘

A flower garden may be a source
of great pleasure, yet it needs
more care than mother or sister
can always give. We become in-
terested in whatrwc work for; so if
all work for a mutual pleasure they
will enjoy the work and its re-
sults.

The youth of the home add to
its pleasures as well as cares, and
keep the older ones from growing
old in heart if they do in grey hairs
and wrinkles.

A plain person looks better well
dressed, so a plain farm house
looks better well painted and furn-
ished, not necessarily expensive
furniture, but labor-saving ma-
chinery, convenient arrangement
and comforts for home life; these
with books and periodicals, and
give the home-keeper her share
that will be helpful to her as the
agricultural paper is to the farmer.
Music is a source of home pleas-
ure. In many of our ountry homes
we find musical instruments, but
where they are not there are al-
ways voices to give forth happy
and inspiring songs.

Pictures and fancy brie a brac
that loving hands like to make will
beautify the home and make hap-
piness and pleasure welcome guests.

No intruder of sin or vice would
find a welcome there. A home
beautified with health, physical and
mental, would surely partake of a
moral atmosphere where the guest
of divine love might abide, bless-
ing and beautifying the home, pre-
paring its inmates to dwell in that
home not made with hands eternal
in the heavens.

We were not asked to give a
model home, and have not tried to
do so, but have tried to give some
suggestions or thoughts that will
help to beautify our homes as we
find them in our own country.

Until twenty years of age my
life was spent on a farm, and to me
that particular place is one of the
clearest spots on earth. In some
homes we find worry and work fill
the place of peace and plenty. To
lessen worry and make work bring
plenty, to add to peace and make
plenty a pleasure we would sug-
gest a careful study of the topics
presented in this paper.

We hear it said tha “ as a peo-
ple we are growing weaker and
wiser,” but let us strive to grow
stronger and wiser, and be able to
beautify our homes in the best
sense of the term.

A beautiful dress will not hide

of equal warmthlan ugly disposition, a gold watch

land broadcloth Wlll not cover the

marks of vice and sin, neither will
costly furniture and draperies
alone beautify the home. Educa-
ted common sense will go farther
to reach happiness and prosperity.

 

THE EDUCATION OF A COUNTRY
GIRL BY HER OWN EFFORTS.

Read by Mrs. A. Ayers of Lansing at Capitol
Grange farmers’ institute.

The education of girls is not now
a problem unsolved. Since they
have been admitted to such colleges
as our State University they have
proved that what man can do,
woman can, and sometimes with an
advantage on the side of the woman.

Our professors will tell you that
the “ co-ed” will arrive at results
instantly by intuition or her own
natural brightness, that takes the
male student hours to reason out.

In these days most of our farmers
can send their girls to college, sup-
plying everything that is necessary
the same as professional men do in
our cities. Money seems to be the
open sesame, of course given aver-
age brain and intellect, almost mak-
ing what was once said there could
not be “A royal road to learning.”

In the first place what do We
mean by an educated girl? There
are so many lines, along any one of
which a girl might trace her course
of education. Shall we take one of
these and show how a country girl
can educate herself, or shall we
take an illustrious example of the
lady who during the next four years
is to be “ first lady in the land,”
who under all circumstances makes
no mistakes, and as an ideal, shows
that it may be attained.

Any one of our country girls may
aspire to that position in this age
of easy transition. “That should
be her training for that position,
and how attained? In the past this
position has been attained by
marriage with a President, but it
may in the future be attained by
Woman herself and conferred on
her husband making him, “ first
gentleman in the land.”

Let us see what has been the
training of the men in the highest
positions. If we look at their early
work it has almost invariably been
that of teaching. Then if the train-
ing of a man as a teacher fits for the
highest position, so will that of a
woman.

While in the ideal we have chosen
our future first lady has not been a
teacher, I know she is fitted for it,
but circumstances have not permit-
ted, until now she is both mother
and teacher.

Some day I will give you a paper
on ‘what I consider woman’s true
vocation, that of teaching. Then
how can the country girl by her
own efforts educate herself for the
vocation of teaching?

A country girl is the daughter of
a farmer. If that farmer is fortu-
nate enough to live in our vicinity
his daughter could easily educate
herself at our Agricultural College.
But supposing she is not near a
college, she can from our country
teachers get that assistance that
will enable her to pass the lowest
grade of examinations, and by
teaching a few terms get enough
money for her expenses at the
Normal School, and so learn the
art of teaching or imparting the
knowledge she has gained. VVith
a diploma from the State Normal
School she is eligible to the posi-
tion of teacher in any of our city
schools, or she can by confining
herself to one science and making
a specialty of it, become a professor
in an advanced college. So we see
the possibility of great things for
our country girl. It is true she
has a starting point in her home
with her parents. We will take
another case where a country girl
through some misfortune is thrown
entirely upon her own resources
and is without a home.

In this case she can go to one of
our cities and get a place as a
domestic (and our country girls
are in great demand). While earn-
ing money in this way she can at-
tend one of the public night schools
or the evening session of a business
college and work her way up-~—not
without a good deal of individual
effort——but those are the girls that
make their way, those are the girls
who are truly educated, and by
their own efforts. Those are the
girls that a business man wants in
his office, the girls that are of use
in the world, not the girls who have
had everything handed out to them
but those who have had this train-
ing and discipline. These are the

girls who will hold the high posi-
tions in the future, and if elected
president of this country or chosen
companion of a man who is presi-
dent will add lustre to the place.

A girl to succeed must get ‘the
marriage business out of her mind,
set her ideal higher than to be
housekeeper for a man, and aim for
the best. If marriage comes to her
in after years, it will be the union
of two persons, equal, conferring
equal favors, with the same ideals
and ambitions. But until it does
come to her in this way, push the
thought away in the future and
nothing is impossible to our Ameri-
can country girl. Our girls are at
a premium among the girls of the
nations, they are sought for every-
where, not only where they have
money, but for their bright intelli-
gence, their enterprise and the
training of their minds and char-
acters.

A young lady friend of mine in
Brantford Unt., Sarah Jeannette
Duncan, has worked her way up,
first through the different stages of
journalism. Now her books, “A So-
cial Departure,” and “An American
Girl in London” have a world wide
fame.

She has lately married the
British Consul at Calcutta, but I
think we shall hear from her again,
in the field of literature.

Another Brantford girl, an
Indian maiden whom I met when I
was East last month, is the daughter
of Chief Johnson of the reserva-
tion there, and is achieving a wide
reputation by her poems on Indian
life, and her rendering of them on
the stage shows the extent of her
perseverance in that specialty and
she is sought for by all the Cana-
dian cities. These are but two ex-
amples of my own knowledge and
many more might be cited.

The advantages for the education
of a girl are increasing every year.
Let her but just make the effort
and success will follow. The
Drexel Institute in Philadelphia,
and the future Armour Institute in
Chicago, afford advanced training
in the arts for both boys and girls.
Wealthy men are every year giving
fortunes for the education of our
girls and boys, the results of which
will be seen in the people of the na-
tion of which we are so proud.

VVhen the question is asked, canujl‘

a country girl educate herself with-
out assistance, we answer that she
can, and to any extent that she may
desire.

 

THE IDEAL GARRET.

II.1 some roomy old farm house,
even the atmosphere of which is
suggestive of antiquity, do we find
our ideal garret. Round, possibly
dusty windows furnish the neces-
sary amount of light, admitting it
through filmy, cobweb draperies;
broad old lounges and ancient
sleepy-holly chairs, minus legs or
arms, extend to you a cordial invi-
tation to make yourself at home
in their cozy depths, and read or
dream away a long rainy after-
noon. The dark corners are occu-
mied by mysterious looking trunks,
which seem fairly begging you to
examine their contents, and huge
chests with broken hinges and
bulging sides overflow with the
cast-off finery of many generations.
High, solemii-looking, four-posters
and queer old-fashioned desks
whisper stories of the time when
our great grandfather was young,
and first brought his bride to this
old home, which was then just en-
tering on the first years of a long
life.

Piles of books, many of them
coverless, and bearing the marks
of countless families of ravaging
mice and rats, adorn many shelves
and odd corners, the remains of
old libraries banished from the
lower regions to give place to new.

The rafters are hung with
bunches of herbs of every kind,
their delightful fragrance penetra-
ting to the most remote and se-
cluded corner, and making of this
garret of our dreams in all re-

spects an ideal.
L. M. ADAMS.

 

“ That Miss Hawkins never gets things
right,” growled Henderson, on the hotel
piazza. “ Do you see that tall tree over
there? Well, I told her I remembered
the time when that tree was so small I
could jump over it, and how do you sup-
pose she told it to Maud Jenkins? ”
“ How?” “ Said I told her there was a
time when I was big enough to jump
over it.”——Ha.rper’s Bazar.

 

Many show their teeth when they
grin, but few grin when they haveto
glyrow them to a dentist.—Philadelphia

zmes.

 


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Oificers Michigan State Grange.

.MASTEB-G. B. HORTON . _ _ . _ . _ “Fruit Ridge
. . .. ___Pal_myra

__.Ypsilanti
S'mwAi3i)~A. P. GRAY __________________ _.Archie
Ass"r STEWABD-J. H. MARTIN. Box 442,R(:['8._!1d

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CHAPLAIN—MARY A. MAYO ____ ._Battle Creek
TREASURER-E. A. STRONG ________ _.Vicksburg
Snonnr/mr—JENNIE BUELL ...... __Ann Arbor
GATE KEEPEB—GEO. L. CARLISLE.-Kalkaska
Ci:ans—MARY C. ALLIS ______________ ...Adrian
FLoaA—MRS. SARAH A. ST. CLAIR. .Butteri_iut
PoMoNA—MRS. A. A. LEIGHTON_..Old Mission
L. A. S'rr:w‘n—MBS. J .H. MARTIN Grand Rapids

Executive Committee.

E ....... _ . Connecticut

 

  
  

J. G. RAMSDELL, Chu ......... -.Traverse_ City
H. . PLATI‘ _______________________ .___-Ypsilanti
THOS. MARS_._-_ ...Berrien Center
W.  .-. - ____.Coldwate'r
( H. . HIN ..... -.Stanton
R. H. TAYLOR ____ __Shel y
EERRY MAYO Battle Cree

. B. HoR'i‘o'Sf,' -  ‘tR'd
JENNIE BUELL. I E‘ °fl‘°‘° l ._._A§ii Afbg:

Committee on Woman’s Work in the

 
  
  
 
 
 

Grange.
Mrs. Mary Sherwood Hinds ............ _.Stanton
‘ Mrs. Mar A. Mayo ................ -.Bat_tle Creek
Miss 0. . Carpenter ............... .. Dimondale
General Deputy Lecturers.

MARY A. MAYO .................. ._Bstt1e Creek
HON. J. J. WOODMAN._ ____ _.Paw Paw
HON. C. G. LUCE___. .._.. Goldwater
HON. PERRY MAYO _.Battle Creek
HON THOS. MARS Berrien Center
.Paw Paw

A. D. BA _______ _. ‘.‘__-Lansing
C. L. WHITNEY ................... ..Muskegon
County Deputies.

D. H. Stcbbins_ Atwood, Antrim Co.

   
   
   
 
 

C. V. Nash.-.“ .::§l0Ol'l'1l.l1,'d8l€, Allegan “
R. B. Reynolds. _________ -'i; ..ind, Benzic “
Geo. Bowser . . _ . _ _ . . _ _ ..Dawi.'- 5, Barr ' “

___Union City, Branc “

. C rk __ _,__.Buchanan, Berrien “

. W. Ennert_ ____ “St. Johns, Clinton “
Mary A. Mayo__ _Battle Creek, Calhoun “
Wm. Clark _________ ._Charlevoix, Charlevoix “
Mrs. Bina \Viley __________ __Cass.opolis, Cass “
A. D, Bank ________________ "Lansing, Eaton “
Isaac Russell _________________ __Alma, Gratiot “
John Passmore __________ __Flushin , Genesee “

E. O. Ladd____Old Mission, Gran Traverse “
Mrs, E. D. Nokes_.-,_\\’heatland, I-Iillsdale “
D. H. Eng1ish.___ ...... ._Chandler, Ionia “
F. W. I-Iavens____ __Fitchburg, Ingham “
J. A. Courtright___ _Duck Lake, Jackson “
Robert Dockery _________ _.Rockford, Kent “
J. T. Cobb___._ Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo “
-...Kalkaska, Kalkaska “
__North Branch, Lapecr "
Brighton, Livingston
__,_Adrian, Lenawee “
___Crystal, Montcalm “
_Bear Lake, Manistee “
Jessie E. V\ illiains_ Big Rapids, Mecosta “
J. S, Lawson _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __Disco, Macnmb “
Will G. Parish _ _ _ _ , _ _ _ __Flat Rock, Monroe “
T. F. Rodgers____ _Ravenna, Muskegon
W. VV. Carter_____ __Asl1land, Newaygo “
Robert Alward___, _l-Iudsonville, Ottawa “
R, H. Taylor _ _ _ _ , _ _ _ _ __Shelb , Ocezina “
D. Murlin ______ ,- Vernon, S inwassee
A. W’. Canfield___ ____ __Hartsufi, St. Clair “
Wm. B. Lari ley_. _Ccntervi1le, St. Joseph “
Geo. Edwar s____ -__Birch Run, Saginaw “
....Carsonville, Szinilac “
wrence, Van Buren
____PlymOuth, Wayne
'psilanti, V\'ashteiiaw “
R. C. Norris ____________ “Cadillac, VVextord “

  
  
 
  
  
  
  
   
   
 

 

James Greasen._
Hiram Bradsha
Fred Dean ____ _.
E. VI. Allis----
gee. H. Lester_-_.

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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. ____ __S0 75

Seer-etary’s ledger .......................... .. 85

8ecretary’s record .......................... .. 85
Treasurer’s orders, bound, per hundred__-. _ . 35
Secretary's receipts for dues, per hundred. _ . 35
Ti-easurer’s receipts for dues, per hundred. ._ 35

A plications for membership, per hundred” 50
Vdithdrnwal cards, per dozen .............. ..
Diinits, in envelo
By-Laws of the
10¢; per dozen...__ ...... -:_. ..: ........ .2...
" lad Echoes," with music, single copies.
25c;perdo7-«an---,---1 —————————— 
3””‘,..n.§g”§33‘§’E§.%m§c%§§ .’+s;‘.°°.2.‘.’°.t ‘i’o”6”’ i G
Rituals, 7th edition ‘(with coinbined deglrees).

s, per dowen._ ........ .. .
tate Grange, single cop

  

25¢ each - per dozen ...... -, ............... -. 2 75
Rituals, 5th degree,_set of nine... ___. 1 80
Bituals,Juven}1e. single copy-... .-.. 15
Ritugls, Juvenile, per set .................. _. I 

50

 

W-°*“°“":i°::s:e?.e:.P.::.‘°.9.;;;.:

Difipst of Laws and R
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9004) 1'8 IVS 1 1'8 l1l‘8_-_-..
Wix')it?alf:fihpai'igces onpgold pins badges, working
tools, stafi mountings. seals, 01; boxes and any

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°fl“i<fdi-e.§° '“’i£i_§'§ JENNIE BUELD,

,8ec'y Mich. State Gran e,
ANN Anson

ICE

Indiana Railroad
Jan‘y. 29, 1893.—Central Standard Time.

  
 
 
  

GOING NORTH. No. 1 No. 3 No. 5 No

P. M. ‘ A. M. P.M. A. M.
Cincinnati, Lv _____________ ,_ 8 05 9 10 ____ __
Richmond ____________ __ 2 20 110 55 11 -15 ____ __

P. M. A. M.
Fort Wayne,Ar ....... .. 6 00 2 15 3 05 ____ _.
Fort Wayne, Lv ............ __ 2 35 3 20 8 05
azoo. -. A. M. 6 05 6 50 11 40
Kalamazoo, Lv _______ __ 4 20 6 25 7 10 12 25
Grand Rapids,Ar ..... .. 6 45 8 10 9 O0 2 20
P. M.
Grand Rapids. Lv .... -. 7 20 i0 10 1 10 4 15
A. M.
Cadillac ______________ .. 11 25 2 30 5 00 9 00
P. M.
Traverse City _________ ._ 1 35 ____ ,_ 7 00 ____ __
Petoskey .................... .. 6 35 9 15 ____ _.
_ A. M.

Mackinaw, Ar ________ __ ,9. M. 8 05 10 35 P. M
GOING SOUTH. No. 2lNo. 6 No. 4 No 8
P. M. A. M. P. M. A M.
Mackinaw City, Lv._-__ 5 30 7 10 12 30 .... __
Petoskey ______________ _. 7 03 8 40 2 O5 _____ _.
Traverse City _______________ _. 11 00 4 30 ____ ._

A. III. P. M.

Cadillac ______________ __ 12 10 1 20 6 35 7 40
Grand Rapids, Ar ..... ._ 6 30 5 30 10 40 11 50
Grand Rapids, Lv. __ 7 00 6 00 11 20 2 00
Kalamazoo, Ar._._ . 8 50 8 00 12 55 3 40
Kalamazoo, Lv_.___ _ 8 55 8 O5 ____ __ 3 45
Fort Wayne, Ar. _ 12 40 11 50 A. M. 7 15
Fort Wayne, Lv ._ 1 00 12 10 5 45 .... ..
Richmond ____________ __ 4 20 3 40 9 15 ____ __
Cincinnati, Ar ________ __ 7 00 6 55 12 01 ____ _-
P. M. A. M. P. M. P. M.

Sleeping cars for Petoskey and Mackinaw on
No. 3 from Grand Rapids.
Nslpeping cars, Grand Rapids to Chicago, on
o. .
Nslgeping cars, Grand Rapids to Cincinnati. on

O. .
Nos. 1 and 4 daily south of Grand Rapids. Nos.
5 and 6 daily south of Grand Rapids.
All other trains daily except Sunday.
0. . LOCKWOOD

G. P. 65 T. Ag‘t, Grand Rapids.

The

People’s of
. Lansing
Savings met.

Bank

Capital, $150,000.00

W. J. BEAL, President
A. A. WILBUR, Vice President
C. H. OSBAND, Cashier]

 

\Ve transact adgeneral banking business. Pay
interest on time eposits. If you have any bank-
ing business come and see us.

In writing mention Tar: GRANGE Visrron.

SUCCESSFUL ADVERTISNGI

If you wish to makefand save money by
advertising an ' thing, any where, at any
time Success ully at reduced rates, be
sure to see or write.

JOHN DAWSON & C0”

General Newspaper Advertising
Agents.

ll-20 COLLOII BLOCK. MINNEAPOLIS, IIINN.

 

What is this

 

It is the only bow (ring) which
cannot be pulled from the watch.

To be had only with Jas. Boss
Filled and other watch cases @
stamped with this trade mark.

Ask your jeweler for pamphlet.

Keystonewatch Case Co. ,
PHILADELPHIA.

College‘ and Sfafion.

CORN.

[Bulletin Purdue University Station]

1. The earliest planting of corn
has given an average yield of about
two bushels more per acre than any
other planting, and over 12 bushels
more than the latest planting.

2. The highest average yield has
been obtained from the thickest
planting (stalks about eleven inches
apart in the drill-row), but if the
crop is to be husked it will be better
to have the stalks twelve to four-
teen inches apart.

3. The average results of a two
years’ experiment indicate: the de-
sirability of deep plowing of corn.

4. Shallow cultivation of corn
has given better results than either
medium or deep cultivation.

5. Shallowrunning corn culti-

P-vators have produced higher aver-

age yields than those which deeply
stir the soil.

6. A judicious rotation of crops,
involving grains and grasses, has
produced average yields of corn 13
per cent, of wheat 37 per cent, and
of cats 41 per cent larger than con-
tinuous grain growing.

7. Stable manure has produced
far better, and far more lasting
effects on the yield of corn than
commercial fertilizers.

8. In experiments thus far, ap-
plications of commercial fertilizers
to corn have generally proved un-
profitable.

9. Modern applications of stable
manure to corn have produced al-
most as good yields of corn the
first year as heavy dressings.

10. Stable manure has seldom
returned a profit from its use the
first year, butthe aggregate increase
in yield of the several crops bene-
fited has generally been sufficient
to insure handsome profits.

11. The date of planting in 1892
had little if any effect, here, on the
length of time required to mature
crops.

12. Varieties of corn dilfer much
in earliness, yield, proportions of
stalk, ear and shelled corn, as well
as in the per cent of barren and
smutted stalks; and these variations
in characteristics give a wide range
of adaptation to thsspecific pur-
poses of corn growers.

13. Two hundred and fifty lots
of beet seed were tested in every
part of Indiana during 1892, under
directions from the station.

14. Owing to the exceptionally
late spring, heavy rains, and dry
weather in summer, the conditions
for growth were unfavorable and
abnormal.

15. As high as 15 per cent of
sugar was developed in some beets,
though the average was much be-
low this.

16. Injury to beets by blister
beetles was remedied by sprinkling
the plants with one ounce of satu-
rated solution of ammonium arsenite
in ten quarts of water.

17. Best leaf-spot disease was
materially diminished by applica-
tions of Bordeaux mixture.

 

CAPONS.

[Bulletin Geneva. New York Station.]

.While capoiis continue to com-
mand so much higher prices than
the average of poultry of the same
weights it will probably be found
more profitable to caponize surplus
cockerels of the larger breeds after
the high broiler prices of spring and
early summer have dropped—es-
pecially where cheap food is availa-
ble. With the fancier, of course,
whose time is occupied in the pro-
duction of breeding and exhibition
stock,the earlier the surplus chicks
are disposed of, the better.

The labor required in feeding
capons is less than with young
chicks. The cost of caponizing is
small where expert services can be
obtained and an expert should be
employed where possible. The
methods of operation can be learn-
ed from the printed instructions
accompanying several of the dif-
ferent sets of instruments adver-
tised and sold, but anyone endeav-
oring to teach himself should
operate on several dead cockerels
before attempting to operate on a
live one.

The largest breeds will be found
the most profitable for capons, and
it is useless to caponize cockerels
of the smaller breeds. ‘

Skim-milk can be profitably fed
to capons and, if sweet, in large
quantities. If sour, very little
should be fed. It is very important
that the dishes from which milk is

fed should be cleaned often and
scalded occasionally.

A variety of food should be given
to capons as well as to other fowls,
and rations somewhat similar to
those fed in these experiments will
give good results. VVith equally
good lots of birds, rations differing
somewhat (but not excessively) in
the proportion of nitrogenous to
non-nitrogenous constituents will
not make much difference in the
growth. .

The cost of feeding capons after
they have nearly reached their full
size is approximately 5 cents per
day for each 100 pounds live weight.
The advisability of holding those
of middle weight breeds after
reaching seven to eight pounds
weight or the larger breeds after
reaching nine to ten pounds weight
will depend upon the prices to be
obtained.

VARIATIONS IN MILK.

[Bulletin Illinois Station.]

The object of this work was to
get an exact record of the perform-
ance of different cows: To note
what influence, if any, the changes
in weather, season and feed actually
had on these cows; their variation
in live weight and in quantity of
milk; the chemical composition of
the milk in different parts of the

period of lactation; how the com-

position was changed by any ac-
cidental or normal occurrence dur-
ing the every day life of a cow for
one year; the relative sensitiveness
of different cows to the same cause
or influence; to what extent the
richness of milk was changed by a
very large quantity of concentrated
feed; and whether any or all the
variations which might be noticed
in the quantity and quality of the
milk, applied to each of the cows
included in this trial.

The butter fat was the most
changeable constituent of the milk.
The per cent of solids not fat was
quite uniform. Both were higher
in the last part of the period of
lactation than in the first when the
cows were fresh and the maximum
quantity of milk was produced.
This was especially true of the fat.
As the activity of the milk glands
gradually declines until the flow of
milk ceases, the formation of the
fat seems to hold out better than
the other constituents of the milk.

Calculations of the total amount
of milk and of butter fat were made
from one, two, three, and four of the
weights and tests of each month.
The results so obtained were found
to be in many cases 99, and in no
case less than 90 per cent of the
totals found by the daily weights
and tests.

A gradual increase of the grain
feed from 12 to 24 lbs. a. day per
head and the change from stable to
pasture feed each increased the
yield of milk, but had very little if
any effect on its quality.

THE MOLE.

[Bulletin Oregon Station.]

The plan of the mole’s burrow is
exactly the same except that the
main runway may not be as deep,
and in addition to what is shown
in Fig. 4 there frequentlyis an ad-
ditional burrow close to the surface,
forming that characteristic ridge
often seen on our lawns and among
our garden plants. Furthermore
we have never found 9. mole’s
branch burrow open, except where
it has been made beneath the snow.
Upon the melting of the snow the
open hole is seen. This character-
istic, even if there is no ridge caused
by the surface burrow, will at once
enable one to tell whether he is
troubled with a gopher or mole, for
the last made branch burrow of the
gopher is often open, and in fact at
certain hours in the day the occu-
pant may be seen thrusting his
head out, while busily engaged in
getting rid of the earth which has
accumulated within. This the mole
does not do, and although we often
see his mound moving before our
eyes and visibly growing larger,
the little depredator is concealed
below. His minute bead like eyes,
concealed beneath the velvety fur,
but present nevertheless (this
applies to this particular species,
there are forms where the integu-
ment covers the rudimentary eye)
would be of little service to him
above ground; indeed it probably
avails him very little in his wander-
ings below the service, as his sensi-
tive snout and delicate sense of
smell are his chief guides in search-
ing for food. As a rule the mounds

of the mole consist of more finely
pulverized soil than do those of
the gopher, but they may be as
large or larger than those of the
latter. The burrows of the mole
are, of course, smaller than the
gopher burrows.

VALUE OF GOOD FEEDING.

[Bulletin Minnesota Station.)

To the farmer these results mean
that for every six and one-half
pounds of barley or corn fed to a
pig weighing 250 pounds, about
six pounds are used up me-
chanically, in the body, and only
about half a pound goes to make
flesh. The chief benefits that are
derived from the food, come from
the small amount that is in excess
of that required for maintenance.
These figures show how unprofit-
able it is to deal out small or un-
balanced rations for fattening
mature animals since a certain
amount must go for supplying fuel
and doing work, and nearly all
above this amount is made into
flesh. It is economical to feed a
liberal ration.

DAMAGE FROM RUSSIAN THISTLE.

[Bulletin U. S. Dept. Agriculture]

In the badly infested area more
than 640,000 acres are devoted to
wlieat-raising. The average loss
on this land that may be attributed
to the Russian thistle alone can
not be less than five bushels per
acre, and 3,200,000 bushels of wheat
at the minimum price of fifty cents
per bushel (which is considerably
less than the average price) indi-
cates 8. loss to the farmers in the
two Dakotas of $1,600,000. The
loss in other crops, the injuries
caused by the spines and the fires
caused by the plants jumping fire-
breaks will bring the total loss to
something more than $2,000,000
for the year 1892.

These figures may seem alarm-
ing, but they are based on con-
servative estimates. If they are
alarming to the farmers it is well,
for it is only when alarmed that
most men will take effective meas-
ures to avoid danger.

CARROTS FOR DAIRY COWS.

[Bulletin Oregon Station]

The question is often asked:
“Are carrots good for dairy cows?”
While we have never had an oppor-
tunity to use them in a. butter dairy,
they are constantly fed on the Col-
lege farm to cows which furnish
milk to the boarding hall, and no
complaint is made as to taint, or
quality of milk. It will be seen, in
the table showing the composition
of roots, that carrots do not contain
as high a proportion of digest-
able carbohydrates. Bran, shorts,
ground oats or oil meal would as-
sist in making a good milk ration,
when carrots are fed. For young
calves and colts, and for older horses,
carrots are a most excellent food to
keep the digestive organs in a.
healthy and vigorous condition.

 

VINEGAR EELS.

[Bulletin North Carolina Station.]

I send you a small bottle of
vinegar which has worms in it.
Please let me know if these are
always present in vinegar, or if
they are unwholesome.—J. S. D.,
Creek, N. C.

(Answered by Gerald McCarthy,
Botanist Experiment Station.)

The sample of vinegar contains
“vinegar eels” (Vibrones aceti.)
Their presence is caused by too
much exposure of vinegar to the
air, and probably by bad or un-
skillful handling of the fruit from
which the vinegar was made. Heat
the vinegar until it is scalding hot
—about 160 degrees F.-—at which
temperature keep it for half an
hour, then strain through cotton
sheeting, barrel and bung it
tightly. Do not boil the vinegar,
as that will injure the quality.
After being treated as indicated,
the vinegar will be perfectly whole-
some, though not quite so strong
as might be.

 

A match doesn’t know enough to keep
in when it rains. At all events, it is sure to
go out if it is wet.-—-Boston T rtmscripi.

 

Cadby: “ I’d like to marry Miss Riche
on one account.” Fadby: “ What's that?”
Cadby: “ Her bank account.”—Har-yard
Lzzmpoan.

 

HE: “ Do you think you could ever love
a poet enough to marry him?" “Well, I
might, if he were very rich and promised
to swear off."—Li'fe.

 


‘l‘iHE GRANGE VISITOR. AUGUST 1,1893.

The World’s Fair Grange

Corner of 93d Street and Saginaw Avenue, South Chicago.

France has declared ablockade against
Siam. The history of the trouble is
briefly that the French, who control
territory contiguous to Siam, began en-
croachments upon that country, which
were of course resented. The French
N . f M ll’. then ldemanged repgration for the

n 5. “insu ts’ in t e way 0 enormous sums
  ‘ of money, and a territory of about 100,000
square miles. Siam refused so large a

\VESTER.\' ro.\io.\*.\. concession. and war seems inevitable.

The next session of \Vcstern Pomona ‘ The Hflalrfieems ‘-0 be the ljeeulti of 3
Grange will be held with Hudsonville)Pu1'e1y Selfish and robber 5Plr1l3_011 the
Grange August 2.1, and 25 The following . P3” of The Ffenfihs deslgned Prlmanly
program Wm be p,.eSe,,,,.d, lto attract attention from the Panama

-i The Silo and its Contents,” L. Cliam— lscandals and also -"-- part of a i>0h_cy_ of
berlain. (Russia to cripple the English dominion

Essay‘ Sistm. Hus,in_ iin the east. How far Britain will act in

 

TVVENTY IVIINUTES RIDE FROIVI THE FAIR BY ELECTRIC CARS. 5 CTS. FARE.
NO DANGER FRONI FIRE.

NO OTHER BUILDING VVITHIN 500 FEET.
AND COOL.

PLENTY OF FITESII AIR. QUIET
 In order to meet the popular demand for low prices while visiting the
. ' Fair, we have made a large reduction in prices for rooms at the Grange
Apartment. Building. To all Grange members and their friends we will make the following reduced rates:
Rooms with 1 double Bed, $1.00 per day, 50 Cents each person.

. , , ,

“ Grange Legislation of the Future,"' C. the matter is 35 yet Purely e0n.leel'u1'e-
K. Hoyt.

How much can a farmer be benefited by
attending the \Vorld’s Fair?" Thomas Bet-
tis.

Feed and care of cows for butter and
cheese making,” H. E. lludson.

“ Essay, Sister Smith.

“ Market Gardening,” G. VV. Densmore.

“ How can we destroy the rose bug that
is eating our peaches?” T. M. Waite.

A special invitation to fourth degree
members.

.\IR.\‘. Tiios, \Vii.iii-:,
Liwlzlrm‘.
_——.

H1LLSD.\Lli UNION MI-lE'l‘l.\‘(9.

The Ynion meeting of Lenawce and
Hillsdale counties will be held at Bawbeese
Lake, Augiist 29, The following is the
program :

Music, by Wheatland K. 0. TM. band.

Call to order by Worthy Master
Haughey.

Music, Fruit Ridge Glee Club, Lena-
wee.

Prayer, Bro. Kirby.

Music, Glee Club.

Vllelcome address, Master Haughey. -

Response, Mrs. B. G. Hoig, Morenci.

Music, Band.

Paper, Bro. J. W. Hutchins, Hanover.

Recitation, Sister Mary C. Allis, Lena-

wee.

Music, Glee Club.

Paper Bro. G. B. Horton.

Recitation, Sister Mary Carter, Adams.

Music, Prof. H. F. Nokes.

Recitation, Sister Addie Daniels, Lena-
wee.

Music, Band.

Address by Bro. Mortimer Whitehead,
Lecturer of the National Grange.

Music Glee Club.

Resolutions and business.

Music, Band.

The forenoon will be spent in greet-
ings and visiting. Picnic dinner for
which there will be tables and hot water
upon the grounds.

Call to order at one o’clock sharp, for
exercises in the large pavilion.

Brother and Sister Patrons, make this
the one great day of the season, and rally
around your National Lecturer, and give
him a large audience.

Mas. E. D. Noxas,
County Lecturer.

{:.—__
VVORK IN TRAVERSE AND LEELANAW.

Brother Perry Mayo has been assigned
to lecture work in five counties of north-
ern Michigan. He will attend Farmer’s
Day at Bay View on Aug. 1-1, and begin
his work immediately afterwards. The
appointments for Grand Traverse and
Leelanaw counties are as follows:

Aug. 15, Williamsburg,
“ 16. Elk Lake.
“ 17, Old Mission,
" 18, Mapleton,
*‘ 19, Traverse City,
“ 21, Northport,
“ 22, Fife Lake,
“ 23, Summit City.
“ 24, Monroe Center.

The appointments for Benzie, Mauls-
tee and Wexford counties will be given
in the next issue of the Visrroa.

 

BASKET PICNIC.

When Bro. Whitehead is at Lansing,
Aug. 28, Clinton, Eaton and Ingham
counties will join in a basket picnic.
Further announcements later. Remem-
ber the date.

 

NEWS NOTES.

It is stated that 200 banks failed the
first six months of this year, as against
50 during the same period last year.
There is no question but that many of
these failures were brought about almost
solely by unnecessary panic among de-
positors. The Mitchell bank of Milwau-
kee, which had been a synonym for
solidity, was forced to close its doors be-
cause of an incessant run.

While the financial legislation no
doubt has much to do with this state of
affairs, the loss of confidence among the
people is a real thing and is responsible
for much of the trouble. Such an over-
whelming amount of the business of the
country is done on a credit basis, 97
per cent being the estimate, that the
ball of distrust needs but to be set roll-
ing slightly in order to cause real finan-
cial ditlicutly.

The papers are also filled with news of
the stopping of many industries. The
Elgin and Waltham watch companies,
employing nearly 6,000 men, will take a
vacation. The wire nail factories are all
closed. Cotton and silk manufacturers
are closing their doors. The trouble?
It seems to us that there is but one sat-
isfactory explanation. Such is the
elasticity of trade that it can in the aggre-
gate adapt itself to almost any line of
governmental policy, if time be given it.
But when that policy changes frequently
the effects must be disastrous. There is
no question in our minds but that the
uncertainty with regard to tariff legisla-
tion is the responsible factor in the
trouble. This is not necessarily because
the Democratic belief is in itself unwise,
but merely because that party has prom-
ised a revolutionary tariff policy. The
uncertain is the cause. Under similar

tarifl‘ and nancial laws as now, the bal-
ance of trade the first part of last year
was millions in our favor. For the same
period this year it is against us.

A free fight occurred in parliament the
other day, which would be a disgrace to
the most abandoned ward caucus in the
slums of any debauched city. The home
rule bill is on the home stretch. and from
all apparent indications the great light
will be waged against the House of
Lords. If Gladstone can triumph there
it will be one of the most stupendous
legislative victories ever won.

 

A CELERY PEST.

Mr. G. C. Davis of the entomo-
logical department of the Agricult-
ural College, has been investigat-
ing the ravages of a little black bug
which has been doing considerable
damage in the celery beds about Te-
cumseh, Jackson and Kalamazoo.
He found that it is a bug that has
heretofore worked mostly on weeds
and grass, and to some extent on
strawberries, but which seems just
now to have discovered the merits
of the celery plant as food. Its
work is quite cliaractei-istic. It does
not touch the celery imtil the plant
is half or three fourths grown, when
it begins at the top leaf, col-
lecting in bunches of 15 or 20.
These suck the sap until the leaf
wilts, and then they go down to the
next. They also destroy the plume.
N 0 general remedy has yet been de-
vised. Hot water will kill them and
not injure the plants, but it is dif-
ficult to apply it in large quantities.
Carbolized lime may be used, as
the odor is unpleasant to the bug.
It is to be hoped that the depart-
ment can devise an effective reme-
dy, for otherwise much damage will
be done. .

Chance for Our Readers.

If you can make eighty words from
letters contained in the word “MON-
TREAL” you can have a free trip
to the World's Fair and return, as the

ublishers of that well known magazine,
“DODIINION ILLUSTRATED”
offer to pay expenses to Chicago and
return to the first person in each State
sending a list of not less than eighty
words as above. This is a popular way
of attracting attention to a leading pub-
lication. A host of other valuable prizes
will be given to successful contestants,
and every one able to send a list of
sixty words or over will be awarded a
prize. As prizes are equitably divided
among the different States persons resid-
ing in any locality have an equal oppor-
tunity of securing the free trip to Chi-
cago, or one of the other valuable prizes
for their State. The publisher of
“Dominion Illustrated” has already
given away in previous contests seven
upright pianos, four Shetland ponies,
two trips to Europe, two to World's Fair,
and many other princely gifts. Thou-
sands of dollars are being expended for
the purpose of increasing our list of
yearly subscribers. “Dominion Illus-
trated” is the leading and longest estab-
lished magazine in British America
(larger than Harper's, Century, Scrib-
ner’ or Cosmopolitan). We have no un-
fulfilled promises to explain, having
never broken faith with the public.
Send twelve U. S. two-cent stamps with
list of words for sample number of this
elegant and profusely illustrated (96-
pages) magazine, containing full particu-
lars of this liberal prize distribution.
Send promptly as date of postmark de-
cides. Address “DOMINION IL-
LUSTRATED,” Y. M. C. A.
Building, Montreal, Que.

 

THE LAKE ROUTE TO THE WORLD'S FAIR
VIA PICTURESQUE MACKINAC.

Avoid the heat and dust by traveling
on the Floating Palaces of the Detroit &
Cleveland Steam Navigation Company.
Two new steel passen er steamers have
just been built for this pper Lake route,
costing $300,000 each, and are guaranteed
to be the grandest, largest, safest and
fastest steamers on the akes; speed 20
miles per hour, running time between
Cleveland, Toledo and Chicago less than
50 hours. Four trips per week between
Toledo, Detroit, Alpena, Mackinac, Petos-
key and Chicago. Daily trips between
Detroit and Cleveland; during July and
August double daily service will be main-
tained, giving a. daylight ride across Lake
Erie. Daily service between Cleveland
and Put-in-Bay. First-class stateroom
accommodations and menu. and exceed-
in ly low Round Trip Rates. The pala-
ti equipment, the luxury of the appoint-
ments makes traveling on these steamers
thoroughly enjoyable. Send for illus-
trated pamphlet. Address A. A. Schantz,
G. P. A., Detroit & Cleveland Steam Nov.
00., Detroit, Mich.

A Lesson in Filial Respect-—“ What is
your middle name?” “ Sir, no man who
respects the memory of his parents
should ever reveal his middle name, for
in it is always revealed the inci ient in-
sanity of those who bestowed t e name
upon their innocent ofispring.”—C'hicago

Record.

Rooms with

Rooms with 3 double Beds, $2

Suit of four rooms (three beds) furnished for housekeepi
six or seven rooms (nine beds) for larger parties, and will ma

week or more.

HOW TO REACH From the F
Stony Island
off at Burnside or Gran.-:1 Crossing, an
Southern R’y, get off at South Chicago station, and w

THE GRANGE.

Address,

lVIeals 25 Cents.

Ave. at 64th St. Fair gate.

2 double Beds, $1.75 per day, 44 Cents each person.
.25 per day, 38 Cents each person.

ng, $5.00 per day. Can make this suit five,
ke special rates to parties wishing to stay a

air grounds take a Grand Crossing & South Chicago Electric Car on
If coming in by Mich. Central R’y, get
(I take Electric Car to South Chicago.
alk four blocks west on 93d St.

If coming in by Mich.

3.. C. I)'[TIS'$I].V"(3'r,

93d St. and Sagiiiaw Ave., South Cliicago, Ill.

AT THE WORLl)’S
FAIR.

The passenger entering Chicago from
the east by any of the IVIICHIGAN CEI\‘TR.-\L
trains will observe, after passing Kensing-
ton and Grand Crossing, that the tracks
are gradually elevated until, from a point
of view some twenty feet above the level,
he sees to the right an assemblage of domes,
towers and spires rising above the trees
between the railroad and Lake Michigan.
These are some of the colossal and mag-
nificent palaces of the VVorld's Columbian
Exposition, far surpassing, not only in num-
ber and magnitude, but in beauty and ar-
tistic harmony of design, any assemblage of
buildings that the world has ever before
seen.

First to be noticed and directly in front
of the railway station where the l\IicriiG.\N
CENTRAL trains will enter the Exposition,
rise graridly the four square pavilions of
the Administration building, crowned by
its great dome, 260 feet above the ground,-
“ almost as lofty as that of St. Paul’s in
London,” says Mrs. Van Rensselaer, “ and
almost as graceful in outline as that of the
Florentine Cathedral.” In front of it stands
the magnificent bronze fountain b Mac-
Monnies, facing the great basin in t ‘e cen-
ter of the great court, upon which front the
Agricultural building and Machinery Hall
on the south, and the palaces of Mines and
Mining, Electricity, and of l\Ianufactures
and the Liberal Arts on the north. The
domes and towers of these buildings may
be seen in the distance, and particularly
the grert aTCh8d_A['OQf of the last named
building, the largest in the world. It cov-
ers an area of more than thirty acres—three
times that of the largest building of the
great Paris Exposition of 1889.

As the train approaches more closely to
the grounds, the Transportation building is
clearly seen to the left of the Administra-
tion building. It covers, with its annexes,
fourteen and a half acres of ground, and its
massive arched doorway,elaborately decor-
ated and known as the “ Golden Portal,” is
one of the most striking external features
of the Exposition.

Next to the left is the Horticultural
Building, a thousand feet in length, and
with a central pavilion, under the glass
dome of which is grouped the finest known
collection of bamboos, tree—ferns and palms.

Northward, and still nearer to the
train, is the W oman’s building, a chaste and
noble structure, first of all to be completed,
and the architect, artists and decorators of
which were all women. It will be filled
wtth the fruits of the genius, skill and labor
of the women of all nations.

Crossing the Midway Plaisance, which
connects Jackson Park on the east with
Washington Park on the west, and in which
are located a section of Paris, a street
of Cairo, Irish, German, Austrian and
Turkish villages, a Dutch East Indian set-
tlement, ice, sliding and spiral electric rail-
ways, and numerous other interesting feat-
ures, of some of which the traveler may
get a glimpse as he dashes by. On the
right, grouped at the north end of Jackson
Park, are the various State and Foreign
buildings of diversified architecture and
representing an expenditure of millions of
dollars.

No passing glimpse of the World’s Fair,
however, nor the most detailed and glow-
ing description that can be penned, can give
any idea of its surpassing size and extent,
the splendid harmony of its design, or of
its rich artistic sculpture and decorative
features. Nothing but frequent visits and
careful observation can do it. But while
every passing traveler will surely resolve
upon this, he will also surely be thankful
that he is journeying upon the MICHIGAN
CENTRAL, the only Eastern line that gives
him such a passing view, or that takes him
directly by and in full view of Niagara
Falls, the great natural wonder of the world.

—j—————_—___.—

A GLIMPSE

Jagson says we never realize how
much We owe to the citizens of a town
until we have to leave it.~Elmira
Gazette.

For Sale!

A LARGE

Peach and Plum Orchard

In Oceans County, near Shelby.

   

160, 120, 80 or 40 acres.

For terms and particulars address

THE GRANGE VISITOR,

Lansing, Mich.

  
 

  
 
  

Diamond
Crystal
~ Salt ~

TABLE SALT—Iii 3 lb. box——2,'/6,

  

  

For other information, address

HAS won another well merited victory.
At the

The best. butter in the show was salted with

Diainond Crystiil Suit.

The best butter niatlo from separator cream
was salted with Diaiiioiid (frystal Halt,

The best. butter iiiude troni ,L:llll€l‘e(l cream
was salted with lll2lliIOli(I('l‘)'S[f1lS2ll[.

Butter \\'lll('ll iiizidc
score in ear.-ii class \\'2l>' salied with Diuiiioiid

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This Salt lS flaky, has a coarse grain. dis-
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dissolvcd in butter.
tluce the same result, hence is cheaper.

BUTTER SALT—Packcd in 280 lb. bbls.—
224 lbs.—56 lb. and 14 lb. bags.

5 and I0 lb. bags, also in 320 lb. bbls.

Can be obtained from jobbers and dealers in the United States and Canada.

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DUBUQUE CONVENTION

the lilgliest uv(~ra_r:e

It takes. less to pro-

St. Clair, Michigan.

  

GRANGE DIRECTORY.

Patrons Will Find Tliose Firiiis Reliable and
Can Get Special I.’i'i<'e.~a From Tlieiii.

H. R. EAGLE & CO.,
Farmers’ Wholesale Supply House,
68 and 70 \\'ahasli .-\ve., Chicago. Save
money on cvcrytliiiig. SL’ll\l six cents for full

catulogiie.

The Smith Implement Av. Buggy Co., 22 and 24
East 3d St. Cincinnati, 0. has a contract with
Grange of Ohio and Indiana to supply their state

and furnish goods at wholesale rates when the '

order comes undi-r.the_ seal of the Grange. _We
extend the same invitation to the Grange of Mich-
igan. Write for catalog and prices.

A. R. HICKS 6.: CO., PALRIYRA, N. Y.

are the official furnishcrs of badges, working
tools. seals, stafi’ mountings, and all supplies.
Illustrated catalog on application. Send orders
to Jennie Buell, Secretary, Ann Arbor, or direct
to Palmyra, N. Y.

   

Special inducements all the time
P‘ AA$)o S Send for Catalogues, et_c. Direct
 “'eaver Organ 8; Piano Co.

Factory, York, Pa. Place seal
of your Grange on your letter paper, or send
trade card to secure benefit of special manufact-
urers’ prices direct to Grangers.

LU  GEO. WOODLEY,

242 South \Vater St,
Chicago, Ill. \\'linlcs:.ilc Liiinbcr dealer. Solic-
its correspondencc with iiicmbcrs of Nlicliigziii I’.
of II. and Alliances who coiitciiipliitc building.
\Vritc for price lists.

TIIS Honey Creek Gi'aii;;e Nurseries have
been under contract with the State Grange of Ohio
for over ten years, and have dealt extensively in
Iiidiiiiia and Micliigziii also. Special prices suit to
anyone under seal of the Grziiigc. Give us ii trial.
\\'c can save you money. Address

Isaac Freeman & Son, Rex, Ohio.

AJAX DYNAMITE l

FOR. STUMP BLABTING.
We are bound to introduce our AJAX in your
locality, and to do so will sell CHEAP. Goods
guaranteed. No better sold. Try us on prices.

Ajax Dynamite Works, BAY CITY, Mich

llRlllHlR Sllllll Pllllllll

ARE YOU COMING
TO THE WORLD’S FAIR!

THEN WRITE US.

We have first-class rooms on first and
second floors of brick residence; one
block from cable cars and good restaur-
ant. Within easy distance of Illinois
Central and elevated railways, all lead-
in to Fair entrances in 10 to 20 minutes
ri e. Prices moderate.

SARAH J. BLOUNT.
)Ieiiibei- Union Grange 368.
WAYNE MICH.

Address 287 E. 41st St., Chicago, Ill.

 

   

Manitoba and the Canadian Northwest

2oo,ooo,ooo acres of wheat and grazing lands open
for settlement in Manitoba and the Great North-
west, including the fzinious Edmonton District and
the great S:isk-utclicwaii Valley, which are now
opened by railroads.

THE FIN EST LANDS

to be had in North America, and good climate.
\Vlii.-re stock pick their living the year round and
thrive.

FREE FARMS OF 160 ACRES

‘van to every male adult of ei hteen years and
over; and every female head of a Family.

Special rates given to intending settlers.

For maps, pamphlets, testimonials of Michigan
farmers who ave been there, and further informa-
tion, address

A. R. CODE, Gen’1 Agt.,
Box 635, Saginaw, E. S,, Mich.

Favorite
Lines
to the Summer
Resorts

TRAVERSE CITY

ELIC RAPIDS

CHARLEVOIX

PETOSKEY

BAY VIENV

IVIACKINAC ISLAND
and TRAVERSE BAY

RESORTS

CHICAGO
and WEST MICHIGAN
RAILWAY

DETROIT
LANSING
and NORTHERN
RAILROAD
The West Michigan now in operation
to Bay View, is the
ONLY ALL RAIL LINE T0 GHARLEVIIIX

Through sleeping and parlor car ser-
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Grand Rapids to Petoskey and Bay View
during the summer months.

THE SCENIC LINE

Over forty miles of beautiful lake and
river views north of Traverse City.

Send a stamp for new Summer Book.
Till’ ll‘ WIIEN YOU G0 NORTH Tllls Slllfllill

FRANK TOWNSEND,
GEO. DEHAV'EN, Agent, Lansng.
Gen’l Pass’r Agt., Grand Rapids.

AGENTS WANTED

In every Grange throughout the
United States. Write at once
for full particulars. Address

FRATERNITY FINE ART CO.,
P. O. Box 1572, BOSTON, Mass.

§‘In reply to this adv. mention this paper.

   
   
      
    

   

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STAHL’S EXOELSIOR EVAPORATOR.
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PRESSES OF ROBERT SMITH & C0.‘

LANSING, KICK.

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