“THE F.4RMER IS OF MORE CONSEQUENCE TH

THE FAR}!/I, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IMPROVED."

VOL. XIX, N0.  t

FARMERS ARE ORGASIZINI1‘.

Farmers see the Necessity of Organization.

The Grange Invites Them.

The movement to organize the local
Farmers’ Clubs into a State association for
the purpose of concentrating their forces
to give greater influence and power in cer-
tain directions. and to form a kind of fra-
ternal union that shall encourage and assist
each local club, is very suggestive. It
proves that there is a general and growing
feeling among the farmers of the state that
organization and cooperation are desirable
and essential. It proves that to have such
organization effectual and competent to
accomplish desirable ends there must be a
concentration of forces above and beyond
the neighborhood and co11nty associations.
This, certainly, is a step in the right di-
rection; but when the state union is com-
plete there will then be left the most. im-
portant move of all, i. P. The union of
states. Nothing short of it will accomplish
in any great degree, the objects sought.
Nothing short of it will place our great
agricultural interests in the just attitude
for influence before the nation. Nothing
short of it will place us on an equal ground
with other organized interests. Nothing
short of it will accomplish the greatest
good for the farmers’ interests either
socially, morally, intellectually, financially,
to influence legislation, or the protection
of our rights and privileges against attacks
from whatever source.

This is a day of organization of interests
and is made necessary by the sharp com-
petitive spirit of the people engaged in -_:»ll.
pursuits, and the great ambition and desire
for general improvement and progress. In
the light of the methods of the day the
interest that does not fall into line and use
the power of organization will suffer severe-
ly, and will fall far short of occupying that
position which justice would say was theirs.
Yes, the farmers’ clubs of the state will
greatly ncrease their usefulness by the
state union, but they should not stop there.
Their influence will still be local, where it
should be as broad as the nation.

In this union there will come up a
serious question; that of finance to pay
necessary expenses.

It will be difficult to secure and main-
tain well attended representative state
meetings unless delegates’ expenses are
paid, and with no fees or dues paid by
members of local clubs for the privile-
ges of membership and the impossibil-
ity of collecting dues from members where
meetings are open to all, the success of
the union can only be told as time will
demonstrate. One of the greatest obsta-
cles in the way of farmers exerting the
influence they should for matters pertain-
ingto their welfare, has been a lack of con-
centrated funds, when frequently other
combined interests with whom a contest
was being waged had enough and more at
command.

As much as all farmers will hope for the
success of the new union it is also an op-
portune time to ‘call the attention of all
who see and realize the necessity of a broad-
er and more comprehensive field of useful-
ness to an organization that is time tried
and is today stronger in influence than ever
before. Every year of its existence dem-
onstrates more fully the wisdom of its found-
ers. It is fully equipped with all of the es-
sentials. It is provided with local, county,
state and national organizations.  com-
plete system is provided for meeting all
necessary expenses, yet so small is the
amount to be paid by each member that
the poorest farm laborer is not excluded.
Each local body has ample funds in the
treasury. The county organization accomp-
lishes all local purposes and has money to
use. The state organization brings togeth-
er the elected representative farmers of the
state. Their expenses are paid, thus mak-
ing it possible for those without selfish
personal interests to attend, and to work
for the best interests of all. The state
body has a good substantial treasury and is
using it for the benefit of all farmers
throughout the state.

Then comes the union of states and a
great national organization is formed. In
this body nearly every state in the Union
is entitled to representation. From its

strong and well maintained treasury it 

the expenses of all delegates and expentfijri

large sums annually for the benefit of 

culture throughout the nation. ,-

Of all the farmer’s organizations that
have come into existence it is the only one
that has maintained a national existence.
and with an ample treasury, to insure its
success.

It is unnecessary for me to call this nov:
recognized representation of the agricult-
ural interests of our country by name, for
you all know it is the

PATRONS or HUSBANDRY,
more commonly called the Grange. .

This organization has not accomplished
ALL it set out to perform; no organization
ever has or ever will. It would, liowever,

fill volumes to tell of its successes and the’

the farmer and the farm.

It has not satisfied the selfish ambitions
and desires of many who became members,
and it is well that it did not for thereby the
life of the Grange has been preserved.
Best of all it has demonstrated its power
to live. and now in all the vigor of matuine
manhood it says to every farmer in the
land, come, take passage in‘: this staunch
old ship that has withstood the fury of
storms and has been safely piloted 0 or
and past the rocks upon which most other
farmers’ organizations have foiinderéd.
Come and make that which is now powerful
still more powerful, and in one united
band press forward and , accomplish vastly
more than can be done without your influ
ence and aid. i
GEO. B. Hoacron.

good it has accomplished for agriculture,

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A R-EJOINDER.

Some Stirring Remarks by One Who is a
Farmer.

DEAR V1s1roR——I desire to make a brief
reply to one criticism and two attacks upon
the Grange that make their appearance in
the VISITOR of January 18. The first,
written by “ Not a Farmer,” is kindly and
courteous in tone, but the writer has evi-
dently overlooked the agencies which have
created and maintain our civilization.
Special interests are promoted and pro-
tected by special eflorts. Every material
interest to be found in this broad land is
just as liable to the charge of being “a
close communion affair,” as the Grange.
One of the strongest of all these is the
Grand Army of the Republic association.
While the men who so bravely defended
the life of the republic like to mingle with
their fellow citizens in all of the general
relations of life, yet they sit on occasion
with closed doors, and properly exclude
from membership all who did not share
with them the hardships of camp and
perils of the battle field.

Physicians have their medical associa-
tions, where all except members of their
profession are carefully excluded, and this
is true of the lawyers, preachers. teachers,
millers, undertakers, surveyors, and all
others who follow a calling worthy of an
associated effort. The truth is that the
Grange, representing the farmers, is more
generous in extending the fraternal hand
than any other organization. But the
writer says to the Grange, “You want
books, magazines, and papers to be more
common. Very few farmers write books,
etc.” This is true of millers and members
of all other associations who read many
books and never write any. But the writer
makes a very serious mistake when he
charges that “the horny handed sons of
toil” take no important part i11 conducting
farmers’ institutes. It is a poor, lean in-
stitute where farmers do not furnish
one-half of the entertainment. Indeed, at
some of the best I ever attended the farm-
ers, with their wives, sons, and daughters,
furnished the whole of the literary enter-
tainment. I am sure that none of the pro-
fessors at the Agricultural College who
have attended farmers’ institutes during
the last twenty years will claim that the
farmers have not contributed their full
share to the interest and profit of the
occasion.

MR. HonoMAN’s ARTICLE.
But the article written by F. Hodgman

furnishes proof of the wisdom and fore-
sight of the founders of the Order in ex-

LANSING. MICHI‘ N, FEBRUARY 1, I894.

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cluding from membership those who are
not directly and strongly interested in
agricultural pursuits. Mr. Hodgman is a
surveyor and a writer of text books relat-
ing to that subject. His interest lies in the
direction of doing what Secretary Morton
calls “farming the farmer,” and this senti-
ment with him is so strong that it crops
out in almost every sentence of his brief
article. You have perhaps made a suffi-
cient reply to his unwarranted and un-
truthful attack upon the Grange for what
he charges as carelessness in relation to
educational affairs. \Vhy, bless his soul,
the strongest plank in its “Declaration of
Purposes” is that which declares for a
higher and broader education. And its
most constant and persistent efforts are
made with a view of stimulating to mental
activity the minds of all its members.
And for the purpose of benefiting the dis-
trict schools it unites with teachers and ed-
ucators in a common purpose to make
these more useful and efficient. It tries to
induce fathers, mothers, and guardians of
children who attend the common schools
to interest themselves by sending commit-
tees to visit the schools within its jurisdic-
tion. Thus it tries and often succeeds in
inducing others to do likewise. In this
way a bond is established between patrons,
teacher, and scholars. No greater service
can be rendered to the common schools
than this. You have so well told of other
work in the same direction that had been
entered upon by the State Grange that I
will not repeat. Yet all this and more has
been done by the Grange for the common
schools, and still F. Hodgman, surveyor of
Climax, sitting there in his little oflice,

" writing ‘books on surveying, confesses his

ignorance in relation to it all. But there
is one hopeful sign and that is that he ex-
presses a wish to be enlightened.

But there is another point upon which
my friend, the surveyor, is at variance
with the Grange, and I really think here
can be found the sore spot. He likes the
new road law. This is not to be wondered
at. His interests lie in this direction as I
shall endeavor to prove. The farmers in
the older settled counties of the state do
not like this law. This is not strange, for
their interests are not to be served by it,
as I shall attempt to maintain.

FASHION AND SAFETY.

In doing this I am aware that I am go-
ing counter to fashion, but fashion does
not always furnish the surest and safest
criterion of good, sound, common sense.
Neither does a boomed public sentiment
always point to the safest road to follow.
I know it is now fashionable for some
professional men and nearly all the city
newspapers to attack all opposition to an
adoption of the new road law, and to refer
sarcastically to the ignorance of the farm-
ers in opposing it. They are charged with
“standing in their own light,” and “fight-
ing their own interests.” It was just as
fashionable from last March until October
to ridicule them because of their general
opposition to the repeal of laws which
utilize silver as a basis of currency. News-
paper writers, as well as many members
of congress, insisted that the farmer was
standing in his own light; that wheat and
other farm products would be higher if the
bill repealing the law requiring the pur-
chase of silver could pass. It seemed to be
fashionable to say all of this and more,
just as it is now when the same expressions
are used in relation to the stupidity and
ignorance of farmers, and especially the
Grange, when referring to their attitude up-
on the road law. While the fashion has
spent its force and influence upon the silver
question, it is now at its height on the
road law. We are painfully impressed
with the fact that reform (?) does not
always bring improvement in its trail.
The silver legislation has not. Great
boasting was indulged in relation to what
it would do. No one boasts of what it
has done. Many indulge in flowery proph-
ecies in relation to the general adoption of
the new road law by the several counties
of this state. No one will ever boast of
what it has done, at least south of the
Detroit and Milwaukee railroad. I can
illustrate this claim as clearly with the
county of Kalamazoo, in which the home
of my surveyor friend is situated, as any
other. The average marketable agricult-

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ural products of that county are raised
within three miles of a railroad. During
eleven months of the year the roads in
that county are good". The produce of the
average farmer can be moved to the
railroad by one handand team in less than
ten days with comfort. During all of these
eleven months, except when the roads are
obstructed by snow drifts (and the new
law would not prevent this) the farmer
with his family can ride in his carriage to
church, to market. or to the Grange, with
entire comfort for himself, family, and
team, over roads constructed and cared for
under the present law. The least of all
the farmer’s trouble is found in getting
his products to the railroad station. He
must keep teams to till his land. He can
get his crops to market with the same teams
when it is better for them to work than
to stand idly in the barn. Of course there
are road districts where labor is squan-
dered, but this is true in the performance
of labor for the public under all laws,
road as well as others. It is true in cities
where it is supposed that none but the
most faithful and competent are selected
for street commissioners, and I undertake
to say here and now that there is more
money squandered in working and paving
the streets of the cities in this state than
there is in all of the country road districts,
at least south of the Detroit and Milwau-
kee road.

WE ARE OPPOSED TO THE NEW ROAD LAW.

We are opposed to the new road law
because it is not needed. We are opposed
to it because it removes the control to some
extent beyond the reach of the people and
centralizes power. We are opposed to
it because it contemplates adding greatly
to the expenses of an over-taxed people.
We are opposed to it because it creates
five new county offices. We are opposed
to it because working of the roads would
inevitably become an additional party
machine. We are opposed to it be-
cause the law contemplates an extensive
issue of county bonds. The scheme
when in full force and operation con-
ceives the expenditure in the construction
of stone roads of at least three thousand
dollars per mile. If this vast sum is used
on but a few miles it inflicts an unjustifi-
able wrong upon those that are not bene-
fited thereby. Kalamazoo has 1,152 miles
of country roads. At $3,000 per mile
would cost $3,456,000. This would re-
quire more team work to place the material
on the ground than it would to haul the
farm products to market for the next
thirty years. But its advocates say we do
not expect to do as much or as badly as the
law permits. This may be. But isn’t it
safer to keep the doors closed against the
possibilities. It is not the farmers, surely,
whose interests require the new road law.
Some suspicious people have imagined
that the services of surveyors would be in
increased demand, and that if we had all
graveled or stone roads that bicycles would
be in greater request. I am inclined to
think, if five new county oflicers are
wanted for this purpose, at least three of
them ought to be surveyors.

I was not a member of the last State
Grange, and do not know what action was
taken in relation to the road law, but I do
know that it has drawn the fire of several
newspapers.

Mr. Hodgman further attacks the mem-
bers of the Grange because they do not
patronize agricultural papers more gener-
ally. While I know he is mistaken in his
charge that not over one-fourth of the
members take an agricultural paper, yet I
hope that this boast of his will stimulate
the few who may be guilty to relieve them-
selves from the charge by at once subscrib-
ing for our own organ; and then if they
can, some other good agricultural paper.

But again, Uncle Reuben Goodrich has
had his say by attacking the Grange for
opposing the new road law in Grand Trav-
erse county. It isn’t singular that he
should feel badly about it. He is one of
the fathers of the scheme. It would be a
great stretch of the imagination to think
for a moment that his regret comes through
sympathy with the farmers. He has had
something out of this new road law
already. He always wants something and
almost always expects something, and I

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THE G-BIEISTGE-VISITOR.

FEBRUARY 1, 1894.

Field and Stock.

DAIRY INTERROGATION P0lN'l‘S.

J. H. BROWN.

Any cows’?

Do you make butter?

If so, do you find it profitable?

Do you know what it costs to feed a cow
for one week? And how many pounds of
butter she will make in that time?

Do you keep a cheap spring balance in
the stable, and weigh the milk, night and
morning, at stated intervals?

And, at the same time, do you feed her
liberally, on a well balanced ration, to find
whether it pays, or not? '

Have you tested the milk for butter fat.
to find how many pounds of milk it takes
to make one pound of butter?

Does your cow respond to liberal feed-
ing, by an increase in both quantity and
quality of milk and butter fat?

Then, would it not pay to gradually in-
crease her ration, using the milk tester and
scales daily, until she had reached her full
limit in milk production?

If your cow, on a liberal well balanced
ration, puts more of the feed on her back
than into the pail, What are you keeping her
for, when you claimed to be making butter?

Are you really. after all, making beef,
instead of butter, as you claimed at first?
And, if so, do you think you can compete
with the west in beef production, and on
high priced feed at that?

However, if your cow puts nearly all
her feed into the pail, do you put all the fat
into your butter, by an exhaustive system
of creaming and churning?

Or, do you put a fair share of the butter
fat into your pig trough, in order that the
pigs may put it on their backs? If so, do
you think this whole operation well “ put,”
in order to achieve your financial success
in the butter business‘?

Do you‘? Say?

Climax.

You have sent but two new names. Can’t you
get two more?

POULTRY NOTES.
. Get your hens to laying in winter,
when eggs are thirty cents per dozen. It
will pay you. -

Raise some early pullets; they will turn-
ish you eggs this fall and in early winter
when the old hens are moulting. If
hatched the first of March they will begin
laying in September;

Don’t breed from birds that have had
roup, or that have been long sufferers from
any disease. They will not breed strong,
healthy chicks.

Breed from your most vigorous chicks.
The hen that is always scratching and
working is always the best layer, and her
chicks are apt to be like her.

Use a male for breeding purposes that
likes to crow and fight. It is a sure sign
of vigor and strength. A logy, lazy male,
that likes to eat his own and the hen’s
share of the feed, makes good pot-pie, but
a poor sire of egg layers.

Give the poultry the same care you give
the horses, cows, and sheep, and your per
cent of profit will be greater on the chicks
than on any live stock -you raise.

Don’t build expensive coops. Not many
can afford it and no one needs them. What
chickens want in winter is a dry place, and
free from winds and cold air currents when
on the roosts at night.

Chickens need dust baths. That is the
only way they have of keeping themselves
clean. If they can't dust themselves they
will soon have vermin on them, and you
cannot get eggs from hens covered with
vermin. A hen can't raise vermin and
eggs both.

Don’t over-feed. Too much feeding is
just as bad as too little so far as the egg
basket is concerned. Never feed them
more than they will eat up clean. Feed
lightly early in the morning. Don’t fill
up their crops so they will not be hunting
and scratching for food afterwards.

If convenient feed soft food in the morn-
ing. Scald it the night before and let it
stand over night, and in the morning set it
in the oven and let it bake for ten or fifteen
minutes. For afternoon, feed different
kinds of whole grain. Through the day
feed them some meat scraps and table

ickings. Give them good water to drink.
ow and then a drop or two of iron in
their drinking water is good for them.
Give your chickens some care, some pro-
tection, and a little feed regularly, and
they will pay. Don’t expect them to live
on wind and snow in winter and lay eggs.
POULTRYMAN.

Get after that Patron who doesn't take the
VISITOR.

BEEKEEPING.

Stray Bee Notes.

also. E. HILTON.

Varro, 50 B. 0., recommends that hives
be made of basket work, wool, bark, hollow
trees, pottery, or reeds, also of transparent
stone, to enable persons to see the bees at
work. Cork hives are in use in some parts
of Europe, andin Greece and Turkey earth-
enware hives are used. The ancient Eng-
lish hives were baskets of unpeeled willows.
Pepys, in his diary, 1665, refers to glass

hives.

In Egypt they transport bees in hives
on boats from place to place along the Nile,
according to the succession of flowers.
This custom has long .been in vogue in
Persia, Asia Minor, and Greece, and in
Scotland when the heather is in bloom.
The same method has been tried on the
Mississippi river, but proved a failure.

Samson found bees in “the land that
flowed with milk and honey.” Under the
Levitical law honey was prohibited as an
offering on the altar; the first fruits were
presented for the use of the priests. Honey
was a favorite article of food in ancient

Egypt.

Emeritus, wrote a poem on bees 741 B. C.

The domestic bee was not introduced
west of the Mississippi river before 1797,
not in California before 1850. The first
importation of Italian bees into the United
States was in 1860.

There are 292 species of the apis genus.

Austria has 1,550,000 colonies of bees,
Germany has 1,450,000, France 950,000, the
Netherlands 240,000, Belgium 200,000,
Russia 110,000, Denmark 90,000, Greece
30,000, and reliable authorities place the
number of colonies in the United States
at three million, and the honey production
at two billion pounds annually.

The best thing we can do for our bees in
this latitude, at this time of the year, is to
give them a severe letting alone; but we
should at this time look over our supplies
and see what we shall need for the coming
season. which now bids fair to be a good
one. Order everything you need as soon
as possible. Get it from your nearest sup-
ply dealer and save freight. Buy every-

thing in the fiat, as knocked down, ‘and ’

thus save high rates of freight. Put your
hives together and give them two good
coats of paint while you have nothing else
to do. Put your frames together, wire
them and put in the foundation. Make up
your supers and fill them with full sheets
of thin foundations, and to insure straight
combs use sections two inches wide and
use separators between every two sections.
In fact have everything in readiness for
the coming season and you will be sur-
prised that your bees are so little trouble
during your otherwise busy season. If
you have everything in readiness you will
put your surplus cases on at the proper
time, which will insure you the best results
in honey, and you will have less swarming.
I will speak of spring management in
another article, and invite queries to be

answered in these columns.
Fremont.

Contest closes March 1.

THE 0['TLO0K FOR THE SHEEP.

EDITOR GRANGE V'1sI'roR——In reply to
your request for a short article on “ What
I am doing with my sheep,” and the out-
look, I will attempt to comply. And I
shall try in so doing to refrain from the
spirit of vindictiveness that prevails
among the sheep men, from one end of the
country to the other, towards the present
administration in their determination to
place all wools and mutton upon the free

ist.

I care not how much this may be dis-
guised for party’s sake, the intelligent and
well posted wool growers and mutton pro-
ducers of this country, all, or substantially
all, feel alike in condemning the policy
that puts wool upon the free list, and pro-
tects the manufacturer of woolens to the
amount of 30 to 40 per cent. If the farmer
is to have free wool, why not free woolens?
It will be difficult to make the wool grow-
ers of this country see the benefits they
are to derive from this policy. And if the
Wilson bill should become a law, putting
dressed mutton with all meats and wool on
the free list, the sheep industry of this
country will, if not substantially destroyed,
be permanently crippled, and the grandest
flocks of Merinoes the world ever saw will
become an infant again, to be nursed for
future usefulness, as one of the most bene-
ficial industries in our national progress.

This is no less true of the,different mut-
ton breeds of sheep that find adaptation in
our varied climate and soils, that so much
money has been expended for in their in-
troduction and development, comprising
nearly all the leading breeds of Europe.
The same results that must obtain to the

American Merino by placing wool upon
the free list, will have to be met with the
mutton breeds.

WE HAVE THE QUALITY BUT NOT THE QUAN-
TITY.

At the present time we are able to pro-
duce nearly, if not quite, all the different
grades and classifications of wool that our
consumptive demand requires—but not in
suficient quantities within 250,000,000 to
300,000,000 pounds in wool and woolens,
but who doubts our ability not only to
furnish the full amount we consume, but
of all the different grades and classifications
desired? The cheaper carpet wools we do
not raise, and certainly do not want to as
there is no profit in their production, and
unless they are used or brought in to take
the place of better wools no duty should be
charged on them.

So much for our present condition and
possibilities under the present law, which
so far as Lam able to determine furnishes
the most complete measure of protection,
through its specific rates of duty, of any
we have ever before had, not excepting the
much talked of law of 1867.

THE OUTLOOK.

As to the outlook in sheep husbandry
with the Wilson bill hanging over us,
nothing could be more discouraging. If the
effects of this bill should not be as disas-
trous as anticipated or should be still more
so than we can anticipate, the present con-
dition is not changed and the loss already
sustained and realized by the breeders
and wool growers of America, cannot help
but be of inestimable damage to the country
for years to come in the sacrifices already
made.

This can hardly be true as a rule
with manufacturing industries where in

many instances overproduction is claimed. .

While in wool products there is, as stated,
under production to the amount of at least
250,000,000 pounds. This may, however,
be considered, and is no doubt an encourag-
ing feature in the present outlook for
sheep husbandry with no protection. We
have large sheep ranges even in Michigan,
and plenty of cheap and unoccupied terri-
tory adapted to sheep husbandry, but we
have not the climate of Australia, Africa,
and the Argentine Republic, scarcely any-
where in the States.
CAN WE COMPETE?

The question then is, can we compete

with these countries in the open market?

Our lands cost the ranchmen considerable
investment, in the countries named scarcely

, r,;‘;t,l1ing, not to speak of the higher priced,

American labor and their higher order of
life. I say can we compete, for this now
seems to be the question. It ought not to
be the question’; it should be, is it necessary
for us to do so——is it in the interest of any
class that we should? But we must meet
the anticipated conditions. And to your
question, what are we doing? Why! dis-
posing of our sheep, reducing our numbers
from 90 breeding ewes to 30, retaining only
about one-fifth of the lamb crop for breed-
ing purposes.

This is not only what the majority of
breeders are doing, but wool growers as
well. We now have free wool or free trade
prices, and the wool growers know what it
means.

The same reason that has prompted the
shutting down of nearly all of the manu-
facturing plants, or running them on short
time, has prompted breeders and wool
growers to get from under'the fall of this
precipice.

If I believed wools would be admitted
into this country free, or that the Wilson
bill if enacted into law would be likely to
exist for a longer term than during this
administration, I would sell every sheep I
own at the first possible opportunity.

AN EXPENSIVE BUSINESS .

But the sheep breeders of Michigan as
in other states, have embarked in a busi-
ness at great expense, plenty of Merino
breeders having paid $100 and upwards
for the foundation of their flocks. They
are widely known through advertising
that has cost large outlays, and we feel
like waiting the result of this battle on
economic questions, having faith from long
ago experience that in the end we shall
win; and that American industries under
the supervision of as able and intelligent
business men and women, as any country
or government on earth ever contained,
will see to it, if not in this congress, yet
in another, that all and every industry
needed for our prosperity must and will be
sustained. The time may yet come when
we may be able and willing to compete
with the world in many of our industries
upon the free trade policy, but that time is
not yet, and any efiort to force such a con-
dition upon us under present conditions
puts this great philanthropic problem still
farther of. As before said we have large
tracts of cheap lands that can be usefully
and profitably utilized in the production
of wool and mutton, and will be fast
employed for that purpose if_ the present
policy of protection can be maintained.

WE HOPE FOR A CHANGE or POLICY.

It is the duty of our representatives in
congress to listen to our demands, each in
his own district, and he should remember

this, that with every petition that goes up
to congress the same claim is made, “ Take
care of our industry,” no additional bene-
fits asked and none challenged butlet us
alone; and under the present. law this is
the demand made by the business men of
our nation, and I have not lost faith in
them. The business interests of the
country substantially fix all other condi-
tions and they cannot safely be ignored.
To the sheep breeders and wool growers of
Michigan I would say, keep your best
sheep and wait the result, the elections
last fall meant business and not theory.
The hand writing is on the wall. Let
this congress take warning, the business
end of this government is aroused and the
politics will be moulded to its use. There
are too many intelligent freeholders
and laboring men in this country to-allow
political demagogues long in control of
their affairs, no matter to°what party they
may belong.
Grand Blane.

It takes four new names to get a prenrium.
SI.'tt‘Gl‘lS'l‘IOSS FOR COUNTY l".\ll{S.

First, I would suggest that the fair be
given a higher plane of action and opera-
tion. This will and can be accomplished
with less expense, and I think increased
income.

To begin with, the avertising expenses
of the average fair usually exceed rather
than fall below $200. The large poster
lithographs that are turned out, together
with their posting, cost usually $150, and
the item of printing alone over $100; the
object of course being to acquaint people
that the annual fair will be held on those
days and dates as therein announced. The
same result can beobt-ained atless expense,
and with a moral aim that will secure the
good will of every one in the county. Let
each association offer a scholarship in the
State Agricultural College for one year,
covering expenses to the amount of $200,
to the young man who will secure the best
results for the fair. The term best results
is a trifle hazy, but is explained in detail
as follows: In each township where a young
man can be secured to enter for the scholar-
ship, let this person do the advertising
and house to house canvassing, the adver-
tising being done with cheap circulars
rather than with the expensive lithographs.
This is the condition of entry for all com-
peting for the scholarship, and Whatever
the result may be the saving is accomp-
lislied that will pay some one the scholar-

ship. And whatever the experience may
be of this particular venture it has been
the experience of all solicitors that personal
application is the most effective. Then an
estimate can be made of the total tickets
required to be sold to pay expenses, as
shown by previous years’ operations.

Then an approximate apportionment to
townships and cities of the probable attend-
ance from each (this is necessary since a
district somewhat remote from the fair lo-
cation cannot be expected to contribute as
those nearer by). Then to the competitor_
whose district contributes the greatest per-
centage in excess of those apportionments
shall be awarded the scholarship. Supply
each contestant with certificates of canvass
and allow these certificates to be left at
each household in the presumed number
of tickets wanted, and then exchanged at
the treasurer’s office for tickets, and the
different colored certificates be credited to
each contestant. The objection to allow-
ing competitors to sell tickets is that peo-
ple will not buy tickets beforehand. Ex-
perience will show how to vary the plan
and to improve or substitute other plans,
perhaps more simple and available. The
result will be that each agricultural society
will be supporting a student at the State
Agricultural College at no increase of cost
than now exists, and the moral and material
gain will largely increase the influence and
financial condition of the society. This
will also send a trained man from the col-
lege into this or some other neighborhood,
and the competition between young men
to be thus honored and be maintained will
create a blaze of enthusiasm for the fair.
No doubt, after experience, the college
authorities would make some concessions
as to matriculation, etc., to these county
representatives, as now done with normal
pupils on the nomination of state repre-
sentatives.

The county fair is one of the especial
things American, and must be saved from
degeneration and decay. A low plane of
action has well nigh lost it the high regard
it should receive from the thoughtful friends
of agriculture, and there should be no
thought of its abandonment but rather the
concerted effort to revive and re-endow the
fair as a sort of feast of the after harvest—
intellectual as well as material.—Jas. N.
M cBrz'de, in Michigan Farmer:

February is a good month in which to work for
new names.

The experiment stations can help the
fafnner "1 5°,1Vmg P1‘8_lc_tical problems for
111311 9f the h1ghe§t utility. The room for
this is without limit. Like the story of
the fable, it is work that will never end ——
Mirror and Farmer. '

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PHE GRANGE VISITOR.

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Woman’s Work. »

THE TWO MYSTERIES.

. , _ p and still,

we know not what it is dear this ‘lee so dee ' ‘

ghhe §.°1de‘l h3~“}l5. theawful calm, fhe gheek so pale and chill,

The ids that will not lift again, thou h we may call and call,
9 Stranze White solitude of peace that settles over all.

We know not what it means dear this desolate heart '
. pain
'Iv‘Vhe dread to take our daily way, :did walk in it again; '
N 9 know not to what sphere the loved who leave us go,
0? Why We re left to wander still, nor why we do not know.

B“‘§:lS We know: Our loved and lost, if they should come this

Sh0|1la(fC0tne and ask us, \Vhat is life? not one of us could
S .

Life is amystery as_deep as death can ever be;

Yet» 0, how sweet it is to us, this life we live and see!

Then might they say, those vanished ones, and blessed is the
thought,

So  sweet to us, beloved, though we may tell you

We may not tell.it_to the quick, this mystery of death;
Ye m3V not tell it if ye would, the mystery of breath.

The child that enters life comes not with knowledge or intent:
So those _who enter death must go as little children sent.
Nothing_is known, but I believe that God is overhead;
And as ifc is to the living so death is to the dead.

‘-51 01:1’ .l[a}'r:.~‘ Dai1gn' in Bzmtort T;*«i11.»'rrI]>!.

DRESSMAKING.

MRS. E. STOCKWELL.

[\\'i'ittcii for \\'(iiii'.iii‘s l’.ditioii.j

_ It has been suggested to me- that a few
instructions about dressmaking might be
acceptable to some of the readers of the
VISITOR, and having had some years of
experience in that line, knowing also that
fine dressmaking is generally accomplished
away from the home, I will try and give
an outline of putting together and finish-
ing up a dress waist.

There are some ladies who have their
dresses cut and titted and finish them up
at home. There are also those that get
patterns and make the whole garment; so
I will begin with the pattern. Lay your
pattern on the lining and cut out, then
take your tracing wheel and follow each
line of the tracing on the pattern. If you
have no tracing wheel unthread your sew-
ing machine and use needle. Be very care-
ful to trace the waist line at the bottom
of the waist, then cut the dress goods and
baste directly on the tracing, that both
parts may be kept smoothly together, then
baste up the seams. Always put the waist
lines together and baste from them each
way, letting all irregularities come at top
or bottom as the case may be. Then after
fitting great care should be taken in
stitching the seams perfectly straight, as
you can never press a seam smooth if the
stitching is croooked. Next trim the seams
even and cut notches at waist line.
Now comes the finishing of the garment.
The first thing to do is to press the seams,
and this is a very important item.

A lady once said to me “I do not see
the sense of heating a flatiron and going
over all those seams?” I said to her, “My
friend, if you are simply going over those
seems you might as well excuse yourself
from putting in the sleeves or putting on
the collar.” Next you will either bind the
edges on each side of the seam with ribbon
or turn the edges together and overcast.
Trim basque around the bottom in order
to have both sides even. Trim one side to
suit, take off and pin waist lines together
and trim the other side to match. Sew
facing on, and before sewing down put on
the stays—-beginning at the bottom of the
basque~—do not stretch the goods but hold
smooth. Put stay on with feather stitch,
never overcast the stay on the goods; hem
down the facing and press thoroughly. If
you have collar press it before putting on.
Press cuffs also before putting on sleeves,
and let me impress this upon your minds:
all facings and hems, whether by hand or
machine, should be well pressed. I think
you cannot fail to see the beauty of finish-
ing an article in that manner. There are
a great many who think that this is such a
trifle it will not matter if it is left out,
it will be good enough, but my motto is,—
“ What is worth doing at all is worth doing

well.”
Portland.

WOMEN (IN OUR SCHOOL BOARDS.

CAROLINE B. KINGMAN.

[Written for Woman’s Edition.)

By reason of the ever growing and no-
bler influence of women, consequent upon
the removal of the fetters and prejudice of
custom, which have hindered the expan-
sion of her nature, we discover in her a
spontaneous development of capacity and
genius. Today her influence is omnipres-
ent. Its nearness to us, like all the great
values affecting our lives, is assimilated as
naturally and unconsciously as the air we
we breathe. No department of life, even
those farthest removed from her sphere,
but is permeated with her elevating pres-
ence and interest.

How the great philanthropies have grown
and reached down deeper into humanity,
to say nothing of the creations of helpful-
ness which are scattered along the byways
and through the darker corners of want
and immorality! Already the educational
forces are falling under her control, there-
by givin the obvious answer to my ques-
tion, “ hy should women be on our school
boards?” Let those who think otherwise
say why they should not.

A MATTER or DUTY.

The question of her right to fill such a
position has been answered by the ripest

intelligence of our age, and the question
has resolved itself into one of moral and
ethical duty, a position which is not only
.her birthright as the mother of humanity,
but the exigent moment has arisen out of
the demand of our public schools for in-
creased moral teaching. The rcmonstrants
may reply, “morals” is the business of the
home, but in how many homes are morals
taught, and is not the school the auxiliary
of the home, its aid and helper, as nothing
else in the character building of each and
every child in our republic? For to what
purpose is our system of education, and to
what ends does the republic exist, but to de-
volop and mature the highest form of life
and character? American children must
be educated in a way to fit them for Amer-
ican conditions. Success under such in-
stitutions as our government maintains
demands nothing less than the highest
moral ideals, and it is to the quickening
spirit of woman, her embracing love and
fitness, through her motherly instincts,
that she is called to this position. This
and nothing less is the high ground we
urge. Not school boards for women, but
women for school boards, fully realizing
that by practice woman must come into
the fullness of any knowledge.

It may be asked, what relation has her
ideal to teaching? It determines it, shapes
it, beckons it forward. It is the life and
soul of the work. There is no greater
work that we can do for another than to
show him or hera high ideal and teach
them to follow it. In the absence of this
the relation of the child to its teacher is
simply an abstraction.

SHOWN IN OUR sCHooi'.s.

Leading the child through an automatic
system of memorizing the words of some-
body else, leaves the possibilities of the
child unexplored, undeveloped. The moral
quality of such work under the synonym
of teaching is utterly absent, and it is to
this lack of fitness and conscientious over-
sight of paid service that confronts us with
so much “sham” in our public schools.

It is to be deplored that a field of such
dimensions, offering such momentous op-
portunities for woman’s work as our public
schools, should have been left to less fruit-
ful harvests on account of the limitations
that custom and traditions have hedged
about her. But the hour has struck and
we can no longer say that it is to our want
of knowledge that we do not know our own
best opportunities.

The inertia, the pampered appetite for
amusement, the lack of moral incitement

little girls are now relegated to the past
and known as young ladies. They discuss
parties, dress, and beaux quite as fluently
as their older sisters.

_ I was amused the other day, while pass-
ing down the avenue, to hear the conversa-
tion between two school girls of perhaps
ten and and thirteen summers. “Oh, Nell,”
said one, gushingly, “you just ought to read
the novel that I drew from the library last
week. It is perfectly lovely. One of these
stories where the hero is so dead in love
with the girl that he’d go through fire and
water but what he’d have her.” “ Did they
get married?” queried Nell anxiously, and
when answered in the affirmative contin-
ued: “Well, that’s the kind I like, a gen-
uine love story. Old prosy books are no
good,” and thus they chattered on like two
magpies.

The modern girl is versed in the ologies,
osophies and isms, combined with all the
arts pertaining to the progressive nine-
teenth century. The ancient girl was
trained in household affairs. She could
cook and sew, spin and weave. Her moth-
er realized in her a dutiful daughter and
cheerful companion.

PRISCILLA.

‘ \Vlienever I think of this old time girl,
the image of Priscilla rises before me, “seat-
ed beside her wheel, and the carded wool,
like a snow drift, piled at her knee, her
white hands feeding the ravenous spindle,
while with her foot on the treadle she
guided the wheel in its motion. She, the
Puritan girl, in the solitude of the forest,
making the humble house and the modest
apparel of homespun beautiful with her
beauty and rich with the wealth of her
being.”

Girls, bring about a radical change in
yourselves, make ydur mother your confi-
dante. Tell her all your troubles and
trials. She was once a girl herself and
knows all about these little difficulties.
You will feel so—much better after -a talk
with her.

TPUST YOUR MOTHER.

I once heard a mother say that she did
not really know her daughter, as she was
either at school or off with the girls, and
had no time to spend with mother. Dear
girls, do not forget mother in your round
of gaities. She enjoys your company, for
in you she sees glimpses of herself. She
lives her school days over again and for
the time is a girl once more. She is anx-
iously watching your development, earnest-
ly hoping that you will grow into useful
womanhood. Do not disappoint her. Be

to duty 011 the Part Of many 3 mother 371”\—~~-true, true to yourselves and to one another.

daughter, hang like a pall on the future
horizon of woman, but some day when the
mist,clears and the long black, night. pierc-
ed and riddled by the rays of advancing
thought, falls to pieces and is swallowed up,
we shall see an innumerable host of young
women, cultured, free, broad and rational
in thought, pure and powerful in spirit,
clad in the armor of a great purpose, lead-
ing the children of the coming generations
up toward the fulfillment of that prophecy
that awaits a nation whose chief concern is
in utilizing the moral forces in the up
building of all its children.
Battle Creek.

GIRLS, ANCIE‘i\"l‘ AND MODERN.

M. FANNIE SPRAGUE.

[Written for Woman's Edition.l

An author has said, “One could just as
well imagine the flowers without fragrance,
birds without voices, as a world without
girls.”

Truly, how dull this old earth would be
without them! They fill a place which
girls only can fill. But all girls are not ’
alike, each has an individuality of her own,
which is manifested in many ways. And
it is strikingly apparent that the girl of
the period differs vastly from the girl of
the olden times. Viewing her from one
standpoint she has pro ressed, in that she
has risen above the thraldom forced upon
the ancient girl, and is now educated as
well and as highly as her brother, and
stands on a level with him at home and in
society. In short, she is independent.

In other respects she has, I am sorry to
say, degenerated, and is still degenerating.
She is entirely deficient in good common
sense and forethought. She has lost those
sweet, gentle ways which are so charming
in a maid, and assumed those of a bolder
nature, and what is the result? She is not
treated with the respect and reverence
given her old-fashioned sister, but is joked
by the young men just as roughly as
though she wore the male attire. Her
name is often the subject of ridicule among
them. She flirts with Tom, Dick, an
Harry, “just for a lark, you know,” but
these larks only lower her in the estima-
tion of sensible people.

A LITTLE HYPOCRITICAL.

The modern girl possesses one quality
which makes her seem very unlovely to me.
That is hypocrisy, the quality which
causes her to deal her girl friends little
thrusts behind their backs, and to say very
unpleasant things about them. It is in
many cases aroused by envy.

There is another fact which is very no-
ticeable. The sweet bodies we knew as

Cultivate gentle, lovable ways. Reverence

God and strive to be like the flowers, but

let us have more violets and less poppies.
Battle Creek.

EDINBURGH CASTLE.

There watcliin high the least alarms,

Thy rough ru a fortress gleams afar:

Like some bold veteran, gray in arms.

And mark'd with many a seamy scar:

The pond‘rons wall and massy bar,

Grim rising o’er the rugged rock;

Have oft withstood assailing war.

And oft recalled the mvader‘s shock. B

w‘ ILTILS.

One of the greatest objects of interest in
“ Auld Reekie” (Edinburgh), is the old
grim castle, which crowns the highest
point in the city. This is situated on a
rock 300 feet high. It is strongly fortified,
and has accommodations for three battal-
ions; and as Edingurgli castle is one of the
four fortresses in Scotland which, by the
treaty of union, were to be kept fortified, it
is always occupied by some regiment of
the line. The curiosities are the crown of
Scotland, which is indeed regal, a scepter, a
sword of state, the silver rod of office sup-
posed to belong to the Lord Treas-
urer, a dagger whose hilt is set with pre-
cious stones, and some other jewels.

These things were long supposed to have
been lost, but after being hidden in an old
oaken chest for years, were finally brought
to light. And the Scotch may well be
proud of the regalia of Scotland, the glit-
tering symbols of their unconquered inde-
pendence. A part of this crown was on
the head of Robert Bruce, the hero of
Bannockburn. It also encircled the brow
of the beautiful Queen Mary, her son
James the VI, and her grandson Charles I;
but in the crown room of Edinburgh castle
it is strongly guarded, and one can only
obtain aview by looking through the grat-
ings of an iron fence.

QUEEN MARr’s ROOM.

Next the crown room are the apartments
of Queen Mary, where in 1566 James the
VI was born. Across the way from these
apartments, in another part of the castle,
is another room that Mary occupied; and
it was out of one of these windows that she
lowered her little son in a basket when
pursued by the enemy. It is a dizzy
hei ht, and it does not seem possible that
sue a. thing could be, but it is neverthe-
less a fact.

This perilous rock was actually scaled
one night, and the inmates of the castle
surprised and killed or taken prisoners.
This was during the contest for the crown
betwern Bruce and Baliol. The castle was
then in possession of the English.

A young man, whose sweetheart lived in
the grass market, had been in the habit of
visiting her frequently by stealth, and in

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order to do so had to descend the south
side of this rock. He offered to lead the
besieging party of thirty, commanded by
Lord Randolph, a brave Scottish knight,
up this perilous ascent. One by one they
clambered steadily along, the young guide
first, and finally surmounted the wallsdwith
scaling ladders, and succeeded in capturing
the castle.

Mounted on the bomb battery, from
which there is a magnificent view of the
city, particularly of the New Town, is
another curiosity——an old cannon called
Mons Meg, supposed to have been brought
here from Flanders in 1496.

A ROMANTIC VIEW.

I have a pleasant recollection of my
father taking me up on this parapet to see
this old cannon, for the scene is deeply im-
pressed upon my mind. There we stood,
on that great bulwark, with “ cannon to
right of us and cannon to left of us ;”
stretched out before us the broad street of
water bearing on its bosom a lordly ship
outward bound. Little boats with gleaming
sails full and rounded, danced along over
the rippling sea. Below us in a peaceful
valley, away from the din of the noisy city,
loom the towers of Holyrood, and in anoth-
er direction the Calton Hill. After view-
ing all this, who would iiot exclaim, “ Thou
Queen of the North," " Ediiia Scotia’s
Darling Seat!”

Yes, this ancient fortress has been the
theme of many a song and story, its dun-
geon walls have echoed to the wails of the
weary captive, and its gay courts have Wit-
nessed many a festive scene.

And that the day is not far distant when
I shall once more behold the towers of this
rocky fortress, and lave my feet in the blue
waters of the Firth as I used to in the
happy days of childhood, is the longing
wish of IVIARJORIE.

LE A \' ES FR-Ollrl HOLD OAKS.

Old Oalrs Farm , Jan. 34.

The library social last night, postponed
because of the storm, wasla happy event.
Those who came “merely to look on ”
were fittted out to represent books by the
Woman’s work committee, so there were
no wall flowers. During the evening
Ceres and Pomona served popped corn
balls and apples and at the close Flora gave
Allan Dreg, who had proven to be the cham-
pion guesser, a pretty bouquet of geraniums

and smilax.

Some of the titles of books and papers
were quite cleverly presented, some very
prettily, and none failed to excite our
curiosity. “Between the Gates” was Mrs.
B. with a paper gate pinned to each
shoulder; “Lock on the Understanding”
was a padlock on Thos. B’s head, while
“A Womaii’s Reason” was shown by a
Woman’s adorning her hair with a ribbon

on which was printed, “ Because.” Mother
was “ The Spectator.” She lifted her eye

glasses and looked at everyone who
approached. Mrs. T. had a China tiger on
her shoulder which excited some of us to
inquire, “ Is it the Lady or the Tiger?”
One man had tickets all over his clothes

which read, “fifty cent wheat,” “no
apples,” “ drouth.” “ grasshoppers,” “closed
mills,” “smokeless chimneys,” etc. His

general forlornness well agreed with “hard
times,” and we put him down so on our
guessing cards. “A Rebel Queen” was
Mrs Dreg in Queen " Lil.” costume, and
she was seen to be on very good terms
with Mr. Smith, who was labeled, “the
first man,” and woi'e an old style suit and
talked of nothing but crops, soils, and
stock. We puzzled long over him but
finally Hil exclaimed: “Adam Smith on
Agriculi‘m'e, to be sure!” Mr. and Mrs.
Gay were “The Newconies with wraps
on and grips in hand. Hilarius was
“Boots and Saddles” with tiny souvenir
boots and saddle from the world’s fair
fastened to his coat, and Allen D. Wore
on his lapels a scent sachet and a pen and
ink map showing Sicily. He was “Sweet
Cicely,” while Imadethe hazardous venture
of representing “ Black Beauty” by wear-
ing my riding habit and explaining that
what I lacked of the last of my title I

.made up for in the first.

A few of the others" were “Looking
Backward,” “Scarlet Letter,” “Pink and
White,” “ Rose inBloom,” “ Old Fashioned
Girls,” “Woman in White,” “Lucile,”
(loose heel) “ A Pair of Blue Eyes,”
“Nicholas Nickleby,” (a nickel S and a
nickel B) and a most comical one was
“ Samantha among the Brethern.” Among
the papers were the Rural Press, father
carrying a model cider press; The GRANGE
VISITOR, a gentleman from the Grange at
S., and Mr. T. with no label was the Mich-
igan Farmer. All in all it was as good as
the art loan socials we had a few years
ago, and at any rate our library became a
circulating one in our attempts to guess
every book.

Jan. 31.——So far I have written with my
new year’s ink, made according to the
Tribune, out of a ten cent pakage of slate
diamond dye and a pint of boiling water.
It flows so freely, a clear black. I could
divide every school child’s ink bill by four
with it and must not forget to tell our
teacher of the find.

RUTH L. RESTLY.


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OUR IWOI{.ll\'I. 

The following has been approved by the State
Grange as :1 fair statement of the objects the
Grange of Michigan has in view and the special
lines along which it purposes to work. We hope
every Grange in the state will work earnestly in
all of these departments, so that by :1 more united
effort we shall rapidly increase our numbers, ex-
tend our influence, and attain more and more com-
pletely those ends which we seek.

OUR OlB.lE("l’
is the Organization oi’ the Farnncrs l'or their
own Improvement.
Finaiiciully,
Socially,
Mentally,
.VIornll_v.
WE BELIEVI-I
that this Improvement (‘-an in Large Measure
be Brought About:

1. (a.) By wider individual study and general
discussion of the business side of farming and
home keeping.

(b.) By co-operation for financial advantage.

2. (a.) By frequent social gatherings, and
the mingling together of farmers with farmers,
and of farmers with people of other occupa-
tions. ’

(b.) By striving for a purer manhood, a nobler
womanhood, and a universal brotherhood.

3. (a.) By studying and promoting the im-
provement of our district schools.

(b.) By patronizing and aiding the Agricult-
ural Colleges and Experiment Stations in
their legitimate work of scientific investiga-
tion, practical experiment. and education for
rural pursuits.

tc.) By maintaining and attending farmers’
institutes; reading in the Reading Circle;
establishing and using circula.ting- libraries;
buying more and better magazines and papers
for the home.

4. (a.) By diffusing :1 knowledge of our civil
institutions and teaching the high duties of
citizenship.

(b.) By demanding the cnl'orceInent of ex-
isting statutes, and by discussing, advocating,
and trying to secure such other state and na-
tional laws as shall tend to the general jus-
tice, progress, and morality.

GRANGE NE IIKS.

We desire to make prominent our
Grange news column. And we ask for the
cooperation of Grange officers and mem-
bers. Send us little items of news that will
show what you are doing. If you have a
successful social, tell us of it in a few
lines. If you initiate a class, let us know
it. If you have a specially interesting dis-
cussion, briefly tell 11s the subject and
what the weight; of opinion seemed to be.
In this way we can have a most interesting
column of Grange news.

THE ANGLO—S'AXON UNION.

Lord Aberdeen, the new governor-general
of Canada, is quoted at some length in a
recent number of the Review of Reviews
from a speech made since his arrival in
Canada. He advances two novel ideas,
novel at least to most of us Americans.
He wants to see an agreement that will
allow a citizen of any English speaking
country to become :1 citizen in any other
English speaking country, merely by re-
moval. He also desires an international
court, a supreme tribunal, made up of
representatives from the English speaking
countries. In these j,ways he would ini-
tiate an Anglo-Saxon union. He believes
that the Anglo-Saxon is to rule the world.

A LITTLE EXASPERATING.

To those Patrons who are working hard
and constantly for the success of the
VISITOR, it is 9. little, yes very exasperating
to meet Patrons who will not take the
paper. There are a good many who make
some excuse for not supporting their
paper. Just now it is “ hard times.” “'9
we would not for the world take the last
half dollar a man has, but we believe that
there are not many Patrons, even in these
times, who cannot afford the paper. There
is one thing the non-supporters should do:

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

they should either take the VISITOR or
they should use their influence to have its
publication discontinued. In our opinion
it is not loyalty to the Grange to compel
our paper thus to plead its way along year
after year.

A MON MORE.

Our contest is proving fairly successful.
It has added many new names to our
list, and has stimulated interest in the
VISITOR. But there are scores of Granges
that have not yet responded, even with one
new name. It would seem as if 200 of the
Grangcs ought to secure in average of five
new names each, at the least, if proper
effort were put forth. We know that money
is close, but we know also that the expendi-
ture of a litle “ hustling ” works wonders.

Our contest closes March 1. There is
just a month more in which to work. VVill
not the Grauges put forth their very best
efforts for the VISITOR, during this next
month?

HARVEST DA Y.

Governor Flower of New York suggests
a Harvest Day, as a new holiday. Here is
what he says:

"The growing importance of the agricultural
interests of the state and the splendid record
which they made in the exhibits at the World's
Fair suggest the propriety of a new holiday, to be
known as Harvest Day. a day set apart for
stimulating interest in agricultural matters and
enjoying the season of harvest. Such a. holiday
might be of decided benefit to farmers and others
if proper provisions for its observance each year
should be made under the direction of the Com-
missioner of Agriculture in connection with the
State Fair at Syracuse. This fair is now estab-
lished in a permanent home, some of the buildings
have been built with State money, and it has been
the policy of the state to foster it by appropria-
tions of money for premiums and other purposes.
It is more distinctively a State Fair than other
large fairs to which the legislature has recently
appropriated public money. The State Agricult-
ural Society, under whose auspices it is managed,
would undoubtedly be willing to arrange the time
of its holding so as to include this proposed public
holiday, and any appropriations of money to the
fair could include provisions for its observance in
such a way as to be of greatest benefit to the farm-
ing interests.

Suppose this subject be discussed in the
Grange, and that we have some thoughts
on the question for the VISITOR.

THE C'ANVASS'IZ\'G ZIIUDDLE.

The innocent people of Michigan have
never suspected that there is rottenness at
the top of their electoral system. It never
surprises them to learn that error and
fraud have been committed at the polling
places, but there came a shock of surprise
and mortification when it became evident
that inexcusable error at least, and possibly
fraud, existed in a state canvass of the votes
on two different constitutional amend-
ments.

Michiga.n’s state government has been
her pride for many years. Partisan inter-
est or malignity have rarely had occasion
to glut in the exposure of crime or high
negligence at the capitol. But in this
canvassing affair the record is broken. No
matter whether the oflicers involved were
merely derelict in a. plain duty, or are
guilty of fraud, the stain will remain.

The state board of canvassers were un-
questionably negligent in failing to per-
sonally canvass the vote. The law con-
templates such personal canvass without
doubt. The members of the board are
guilty of neglect of duty, at least.
Whether guilty of intent to defraud re-
mains to be seen. They are men of high
reputation, and no one of honorable
thought wishes to unjustly impeach them
of criminality. We sincerely hope that
when all the facts are brought to light and
the truth known, the most that can be said
will be that they were careless and neglect-
ful of duty. But if guilty of fraud or of
knowingly permitting fraud, they should
suffer the severe penalty of a violated
law.

Secretary of State Jochim is quoted as
saying that he did not publish the result
of the canvass in a Lansing paper, although
that had been the “ custom.” It happens
that it is law and not custom that dictates
such 8. course with regard to the vote on
constitutional amendments although the law
does not specify that the returns by coun-
ties shall be published. Probably if the
latter provision were inserted in the law it
would be sufficient to correct errors.

Governor Rich has thus far taken the
only proper course, morally or politically,

and we think can be trusted to see the

matter to a wise termination, so far as he’

can aid. The grand jury soon to assemble,
should be prompt and thorough in their

‘ investigation.
OUR IVORK.

“ We believe in coopemtioii for financial
advantage.”

Co(")peration has been a favorite word
with many reformers, for years past. The

idea is sound. It. is entirely reasonable to
infer from the laws of trade that a body of
people, acting together, can buy, and per-
haps sell at an advantage over individuals.
That principle hold goods in most busi-
ness enterprises. Why not on the farm, in
the purchase of the necessaries of the field
and house, and in the disposal of the pro-
ducts of toil? Why not pool interests in
these matters, as are pooled the interests of
mines and railroads? The theory was good;
the application was difficult and sometimes
disastrous. The Grange was perhaps un-
fortunate in entering upon the attempted
application of the theory with a zest that
gave little room for experiment. If the
matter could have been tested, tried, and
the advantages and disadvantages, the
benefits and drawbacks, the good and the
poor features could have been discovered
and announced, it may be that the system
of co-operative stores would have been more
successful. However the experience has
been had, and apparently the Grange can
never hope to bring to a successful trial
any general system of cooperative stores
among the farmers.

But the theory still remains sound. Is
there any other way of applying it that the
experience of the past will show to be safe
to undertake and likely to succeed? The
Grange seems prepared to answer, yes.
In Pennsylvania, New York, and Ohio, 21
system of co-operative buying has been
put in execution, that seems to meet the
wants of the farmers and also to be suc-
cessful in operation. The plan is simple
and not new. The State Grange makes
contracts with wholesale or jobbing houses
to supply goods at wholesale or greatly re-
duced prices. The goods are furnished to
:2’.-:_;"'in(lividua.l belonging to the Grange at
the discounts agreed upon. That is all
there is to it. N 0 investment, no property,
no interest, no insurance, no abscondino,
no chances for mismanagement. Firms
are glad to make the contracts.

Patrons in those states report good re-
sults. They secure all lines of goods at an
actual saving, amounting to from three to
thirty per cent. Even staple groceries, on
which there is supposed to be but little
profit, are purchased to advantage. On
farm implements the saving is of course
much more. In addition to this there
come the good lessons of cash payments
and in methods of doing business, both in
themselves worth much. The Granges
in these states prosper exceedingly and
they credit it in no small degree to this
system of cooperative buying.

The Michigan State Grange is preparing
to make similar arrangements, and it is ex-
pected that the Grange of this state can
soon go before the farmers with an addi-
tional argument for their joining the
Grange. Practical co-opera.tion,then, is to
become an important and useful part of
our work. For it is an important, though
not the most important part of Grange
work that it shall enable its members to
attain better financial condition, because a
poor man is not half so likely to enjoy
the social and educational features as is
one who is well fed.

A VOICE FROM SPRING BROOK.

SPRING Bnoox FARM,
January 22, 18.94. 5

EDITOR or THE VISI’1‘OR——Find enclosed
cost for renewal of my subscription. Your
paper commends itself to all intelligent
Patrons.

Well, it seems one J . Sterling Morton
don’t like us. He has gone and put his
foot into our (Granger) pail of milk, and
hang the man, he seems indisposedto take
it out again. Whoa there my patient J or-
sey! Goll darn the luck!

When the great order of the Patrons of
Husbandry, after untiring effort, finally
succeeded in securing the legislation that
gave the farmers of America a bureau of
agriculture and cabinet officer, there was
joy in the thousands of Granges that dot
our broad land. But it was not long be-
fore our milk was soured by the thunder
of political iniquity. President Harrison
had the appointing of the first secretary of

FEBRUARY 1.’ 1894.

agriculture. He gave us noble-hearted
Uncle Jerry Rusk. But he was not a
farmer such as we had a right to expect—-
though he was a good poht_1c1a.n—thou-
sands of farmers were disappointed. I_‘l1ey
had hoped that the president, takinga ]l15t«
common sense view of the matter, would
have nominated as his secretary of agri-
culture an intelligent, practical farmer, _‘'to
the manor horn.” without any political
hump on his back. There are plenty of
such men in every state, who work. l1V€.
and have their being on the farm. But
Harrison failed to grasp the situation.

\Vell. after four years, there is a revolu-
tion~tl1e ins are out, and the outs in. A
new political deal takes place, and the
cards, or angry gods, give us J. Sterling
Morton in place of Uncle Jerry. It is my
opinion that President Cleveland does not
care a rush for farms-I's—it is only the toil-
ers in cities he pretends to be anxious
about-. and he went out to Nebraska and
found in the sand hills, among prairie dogs,
a lawyer, unknown to fame, a man after
his own heart. city reared (Detroit), not
understanding farmers and therefore hating
them. Ye gods! what 9. secretary of agri-
culture.’

Secretary Morton seems to have plenty
of nerve, and fights us Grangcrs with evi-
dent gusto. He may be like the bull that
stood on the track and butted the express
train. His courage may be great but
(lem’(l his discretion.

VVl1at shall Grangers do? Oh! keep
close wit-hin party lines and vote the reg-
ular ticket, of course’. And another thing
they had better try to do, take action and
undo their mistaken work, namely, the
Iegislation creatiiig the bureau of agricult-
ure. If Morton won't send out any more
Weavely peas and musty wheat from the
catacombs. his occupatioifs gone, and there
is no use for him. Send him back to his
Ne-bi‘:-Iska prairie do,t_rs.

Yours fraternally,
OLD DEMOCRAT AND GRANGER.

THE VISITOR .11‘ STATE flGrR.A;VlGE.

lt|“RO.\l .\I.-\sTI-:R’s .-\I)I>RI-:ss.]

This publication in accordance with its title goes
from Grange to Grange and from home to home
imparting to each the encouraging word.

It fills an important mission in our Grange work
as it is our principal means of communication. It is
probably of more importance to the Order in the
state, in keeping people in the line of Grange thought.
than any other single feature of our equipment.

It is encouraging to note that its usefulness has
been much increased during the _ve:1r past, by an ex-
tra amount of genuine Grange reading in its vol-
umes and :1 much increased circulation, all of which
has been accomplished by its enterprising and edi-
cient management, supported by willing workers in
nearly every Grange in the state.

VVhile it is not yet self-sustaining as it certainly
should be, and as I believe it will be in the near
future, it has considerably reduced its last _vear’s
shortage. Not so much as its increased subscription
list would indicate, for it has made some extra ex-
pense to gain an extended circulation. Its absolute
necessity for sustaining the Grangcs in I\Iichigan
should inspire every‘ true Patron to add it to his list
of papers and to encourage others to subscribe.

[I-‘ROW Lr.cTURI:R’s RI~:ronT.]

I have felt more keenly than ever our obligation
to the GRANGE VIsIToR for valuable assistance, ever
ready and willing to grant any favor, doing for us
more than we would ask, though we do regret that
so many a promise of correspondence and items have
been neglected. and more that its bright pages do not
meet the eyes of the lecturer of every Subordinate
Grange in the state.

|_FRO.\1 sI~:cRET,\R\"s Rl-Z1‘ORT.J

This statement bears the same warning that our
accounts for a few previous years have given. Re-
striction to one’s income is Grange precept. At the
same time, it must be remembered that, in view of
the acquired capital of the State Grange, it has been
deemed best by this body to invest at least a limited
amount if necessary to put the VISITOR on a paying
basis, for it is the expense of the publishing of our
state organ, that swells our account beyond our re-
ceipts. A comparison of statements shows the wis-
dom of this action, as we are overcoming the loss and
perseverance in this course will place the paper where
every Michigan Patron must wish to see it——on a
self paying basis, and enable it to become :1 weekly
visitor.

When we weigh what we have accomplished in the
year we find so much of unnoticed sacrifice on the
part of true—hearted members, all over the state, so
much of quiet effort, willingly given, so much of
unspoken influence radiating from the VISITOR, in
short, we find Grange principles and teachings per-
meating individual lives and families, and communi-
ties, with a power neither to be measured or stayed.

[FROM COMMITTEE ON GOOD OF THE ORDER.]

We feel that every Patron should do his utmost to
extend and maintain the circulation of the GRANGE
VISITOR, so that it may reach the home of every
Patron in the state. It is a clean sheet, filled with

— original matter direct from the rural homes of mem-

bers of the Order, is a model of its kind, of which too
many good words cannot be said.

 

[FROM COMMITTEE ON POMONA GRANGES.]

Your committee recommend that a committee be
appointed to solicit and pus/z subscriptions to the
GRANGE VISITOR in each Pomona consisting of one
member from each Subordinate Grange in the county.

[EROM COMMITTEE ON DORMANT GRANGESJ

That instructive and entertaining reading matter
shall be distributed by deputies using the VISITOR as
far as possible, such matter to be furnished by lect-
urer and committee on Woman’s Work of State
Grange.

[FROM COMMITTEE ox I-‘INANcI:.]

Your committee express their confidence in the
ability and discretion of the Executive committee in
using any portion of the Grange funds, not other-
wise appropriated, in enlarging the work of the
Worthy Lecturer and his deputies, also in extending
such financial aid to the GRANGE VISITOR as that
the good of the Order may be best served.

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FEBRUARY 1. 1894}

 

THE GRANGE V ISITOR.

5

The Lecture Field.

 

HOW TO BUOM THE (iRA.VGE.

1- Kfep bmltllllfil the young people to the front.

'1. Work for the best. interest of the Grange and
you will soon find that it is vvorkirg for you.

_ 3. bee that the Visrroa is read in every family
"-1 301"‘ D_9lRliborhood, then remember to send in
the news items frequently.

4.  the local papers constantly to advertise
meetings and to keep the ol jects and work of the
grange before the people,

5. _Hold occasional open meetings and person-
ally invite your neighbors to take part with you.

6. Begin a Grange library and museum, then
add to it each month.

7. Don't give up until the best: people in your
community join you.

_ sure that every member has something
doing.

9. Open and close your Grange on time.

10. Remember the Declaration of Purposes and
“ Our VVork.”

A. J. C.

One more montli tor contest.

’l‘0PI(S FOR I)I;‘i(‘l‘SSION.

GRADING OF THE DI.\TIlICT F-CHOOL.

Vllhat it is:
a. As a help to the teacher;
b. As an incentive and help to the student;
0. 1. As a means of outlining the future course
of the work of the students;
‘.2. Of marking correctly their comparative
progress and standing;
3. Of saving a common needless repetition of
the students’ work, caused by change of
teachers.

2. Are patrons of the schools receiving the benefits
which the plan contemplates?’

3. Are indifferent school boards and negligent or
incompetent teachers shirking a duty and keep-
ing a part of our schools out of the march of
progress?

-1. VVherein can the system be improved?

5. The opportunity and duty of the Grange in this
matter.

A. J. C.

It is to be hoped that this and other sim-
ilar school questions will be freely discuss-
ed in Grange. We suggest that each
Grange have a debate or discussion on the
subject of grading schools. There is plenty
of material to draw from. Send a card to
the office of the Superintendent of Public
Instruction asking for the reports of 1890,
’91, and ’92, and the manual of course of
study. In the report for 1690, pages 171
to 190, you will find the matter of grading
the district school ably discussed, pro and
con, in papers read by "Secretaries B. A.
Culver of Calhoun county, Orr Schurtz of
Eaton, and C. L. Bemis of Ionia. The
matter is also discussed in the reports of
several secretaries (commissioners) in the
report of 1891, pages 3 to 46, and in the

‘report of 1892, pages 3 to 57. The manual

explains fully the course and embodies the
aims of the department of public instruc-
tion. It also contains suggestions for
libraries, flag days, and oral lessons in phys-
iology.

It will be well to have these books in
every Grange hall, and especially if you
are to have discussions on these all import-
ant school topics. Following is a list of
topics that lecturers will find useful in
getting up programs.

Character building. _

Township school districts. _ _
Punct-utility as an element in moulding character.
Faults in teachers.

Value of history.

Kindergarten work. _
Examinations for promotions.
Teachers’ wages. _
Commissioners‘ duties.

That boy.

g.

The school grounds.

Recess? Yes.

Teaching, manners.

School a paratus.

. District braries.

Spelling. ' _

. Advantages of district schools.
The country school course of study.
. The rights of a school meeting.

A vali contract.

sssssasssssarrrrrrrrr

Read our premium ofier.

F. H.IiiTi"é.ii

Mo'r'ro———“ Begin; keep at it.”

The interest in the F. H. R. C. still con-
tinues. The course has only been in exist-
ence about one year, yet iii that time we
have received over 300 requests for more
detailed information than is contained in
the advance circulars. The readiness with
which farmers, and young farmers espec-
ially, take hold of the course is indeed
gratifying. There are at present over 100
readers in the course. Several have already
completed a part of the work outlined and
have requested blanks on which to make a
report. The members are not confined to
Michigan but are scattered all over the
United States; Maine, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illi-
nois, Wisconsin, Nebraska and California
all have enthusiastic members of F. H. R.

While the progress so far made is very
gratifying yet we are not at all satisfied.

a must have 1000 members in Michigan.
Only a very few, comparatively, are now
enjoying its benefits. A noticeable fact is
that those starting in the course are so well
pleased with the first books that many send
in largely increased orders the second time.
Bear in mind, the books are sold at just
enough to cover cost of postage and hand-
ling. The college gets nothing whatever
for its agency. The whole course is plan-
ned to benefit the reader. It is practical,

brief, and just as inexpensive as it is possi-

ble to make it and still furnish first class
books. \Ve will gladly send full informa-
tion to any one sending postal card. Don’t
fail to get our complete circular if you
have not yet received it. It gives all the
details and prices.
F. B. Muiiroan.
ilgricultm-ul College.

See page .ee>vw.

.-L\'.\'['AL REPORT

By a Serretaiy of ii Pomona (h'aiige.

Woiiriiv MASTER, BROTHER‘ AND SISTER
PATRONS —Not very much is expected of
the Secretary anyway. His business is to
carefully observe the proceedings of the
Grange and make an accurate record of the
same, collect moneys due the Grange and
pay the same over to the Treasurer. And
While he is to make an accurate record of
the proceedings, he must not cuiuber the
books with useless words. He may not
write down all he hears in the Grange, for
if he does, while it may testify to his ac-
curacy and fidelity, " when the recording
hand has crumbled into dust,” it. may also
testify to a lack of wisdom in some, no
lack of contentious spirit in others, and a
partial failure to appreciate the importance
of the Grange and its opportunities in all.

THE SECRETARY MUST NOT TALK.

The Secre.ta.ry is not to be reckoned as a
talking member. He’s not hired to make
speeches. Better for him and better for
the Grange if, for the most part, he keeps
his mouth shut. If, by any possibility,
ideas find their way to his brain, they may
slumber there. His duty is to catch and
hold for future use the results of other
ineu’s ideas. “ Mute but watchful.” should
be the motto deeply graven on the tablet
of his heart. But he must have knowledge
——lots of it. He must know every mem-
ber of the Grange, even though they at-
tend only one meeting in a year—perhaps
one in two years. He must recognize the
face and remember the name. surname, first
name, and middle letter, and be able to tell
just how the member stands on the book
at the first glance. And he must know all
about the laws of the Grange-—just what
changes have been made, and if he can’t
tell what changes are going to be made he
is hardly up to what a. Secretary ought to
be. But let him be silent; let him be a
very “ quiet, peaceful citizen,” speak when
he is spoken to, and be able to endure
abuse as a good hired man ought to.

A SUSPECT. .5 ,

He knows he is a suspected person from
the moment; of his installation, else why
should the law require two or more good
and sufiicient surcties to insure the Grange
against loss by him? When a dollar is
paid him the chances of misappropriation
or embezzlement form a legitimate prob-
lem for calculation.

The mark of Cain may not be upon his
brow, but the branding iron is hot, ready
for him and his brother suspect, the VVorthy
Treasurer.

But if the Secretary has been the care-
ful and discriminating observer that he
ought to be, he must have learned some-
thing in the twelveinonth gone, and if he
be able to trace the relations of cause and
effect and to draw just conclusions, and if he
understands how a. very great thing may be,
and always is, made up of an accumulation
of little things, he ought to be wiser.

WE ARE WISER AND BETTER.

He is wiser. VVhile not claiming to possess
the faculties mentioned in any degree above
those around him; he claims to have made,
and claims that his brothers and sisters
have made progress in the right direction.
The fact that all desirable good has not
been attained does not enter at all into the
calculation. Because monopoly has not
been entirely crushed is no proof that we
are less able to resist its encroachments.
Because co-operation is not complete and
perfect among farmers we are not to con-
clude that all efforts in that direction are
useless. Because Patrons have not all
knowledge and all power, we are not to
conclude that they are utterly ignorant
and utterly powerless. Because there is
sometimes lack of interest in the Grange
We are not to suppose that the whole thing
is going by the board. Because there is
sometimes strife among brethren it is not
fair or true to say that love has taken its
everlasting flight. Say, Patrons, is there
less or more true friendship in the Grange
than years ago? Is there less or more
charity? If less. then let it go down,
down to a miserable grave, the sooner
the better, unwept, unhonored and unsung,
a jeer, a lie, unworthy of the smallest place
on history’s page, only worthy of eternal
forgetfulness. If more, then cherish it,
guard it as the apple of your eye, love it
as you do your friend in whom you trust,
strive to make it better as you do the child
that is born of your flesh. You are a part
of it, let it be a part of you, and let it be a
means of developing in us every impulse
for good whether native or planted, and so
making us better and happier men and
women while we live.

SECRETARY.

W'e can't have a weekly until we have a larger
list.

EDUCATION.

We as individuals, as a Grange, as a na-
tiou, as a world, are trying to rise. In order
to do so we must know how it can be done,
what to do and how to do it, so as to ac-
complish the object in view. This suggests
the theme I write upon, Education.

By this term I mean notmerely book learn-
ing, a good thin-.,r in itself and something
farmers and their families are not likely to
have too much of; but I mean the proper
understanding of the duties of every day
life. Some may possibly think this to be
a narrow View to take; but it all depends
upon how we look at our duties. I think
if we rightly understood what they are, we
would be surprised at finding them so
much greater than we ever dreamed.

There is a good old book, written some
tell me j ust to lead men, and I think that
is very near a correct view, and I thank
God it is leading them; leading them to a
higher, nobler life. And in that book I
find written these words: “ Come now, let
us reason to etlierf’ and this thought I
ask you to carry with you as I reacl,—let
us reason together.

INTELLIGENT EFFORT.

‘Vs all desire both to rise ourselves,
and to help others to rise. In order that
the advancement may be permanent, it
must be intelligent, and in order to be in-
telligent inariy questions must be answered.
Between two nations, or persons. or theor-
ies, or practices, or beliefs, which is the
better one? What shall I take for my
;_:uide? This at once raises the question of
right and wrong. Here we find ourselves
in the domain of both politics and religion.
Or rather we have found that both politics
and religion enter into the minutest mat-
ters of every day life.

There is a i'iglit and wrong to every-
thing. But what is riglit? What is wrong?
And why is it right or wrong? Who shall
be the judge? Is there a man so much
above his fellows as to be able to impar-
tially decide‘? Mauifestly this is not the
case. There must be some criterion higher
than man, by which we can measure our
actions just as we do material things.
There is, there must be a higher law. Rea-
son tells us this; and more. It tells us that
we, together with all other visible objects,
both animate and inanimate, were created
and exist by reason of a law. And it also
tells us that where there is a law, there must
of necessity be a lawmaker. Is it unreason-
able to say that some knowledge of that
law and lawmaker is necessary for us to
gain the improvement we seek? And that
education to be perfect, must be a training
not only of the intellect, but of the morals
and affections? The intellectual education
received at school, is, so to speak, but the
awakening and training of our reasoning

powers; the teaching us how to learn; the 1

beginning of an education that should
never end.
THE OCEAN OF KNOWLEDGE.

The school girljust about to graduate,
after enumerating her many accomplish-
ments, said, “ Iwonder how such a little
head can contain so much;” but the sage at
the end of his threescore and ten years
spent in learning, said, “The more I learn
the plainer I can perceive that I know
nothing at all.” So it should be with us,
what we learn should teach us there is more
to follow, so much more that what we have
learned is as nothing in comparison. Our
education should go on; on to the bound
of time; on into eternity. And this of its-
self should tell us, that there is somewhere
a mind that posesses all this knowledge
now.

Again we speak of being good. We know
there is both a capability and need of our
growing better; we ought steadily to im-
prove until at last we arrive at perfection.
Then there is somewhere a perfect being
now. For good and better are compara-
tive terms; there must also be a best.
And tobe perfect he must possess, in the
highest degree, all those attributes which
are desirable,—wisdom, knowledge, good-
ness, purity, mercy, justice, love, and all
other qualities which are necessary to make
a perfect being.

All these qualities we recognize as good.
Is it not reasonable and appropriate, when
we find a being who combines all of these
in his own person, that we should, while
retaining the word, slightly change it_ to
show that combination, and call that being
God? .

It is said that education elevates. Have
you ever seen a father as he plays with his
child, raising it high above his head? El-
evated it certainly is. But there is noth-
ing there to stand on, or cling to; so it all
ends by the child settling back to where
he was before. ' There was nothing perma-
nent in it. So it is with some education.
It does not lift up to where there is any-
thing to cling to, hence is not permanent.

TRUE EDUCATION.

I said in the beginning that there was a
right and a wrong to everything. There
is to education. There is both a true edu-
cation and a false education. A vessel
may be of the stanchest kind, and the lad-
ing very precious; yet if it is all. on one
side of the ship, she will very likely go
down in the very first gale she meets.
When if it had‘ been rightly placed she

could have carried twice the load in per-
fect safety.

A false education does the same thing.
It teaches us to do certain things, because
they are proper. or genteel, or perhaps
even because they are right, without
giving the true reason why they are right,
and so leaves us without a balance. It
elevates without giving us anything to cling
to. VVhile true education teaches us that
things are right or wrong because an all-
wise God has bidden us to do or not to do
them. It lifts us up into the arms of a
loving Father, who holds us up and thus
makes the elevating a permanent one.

I have tried to confine myself strictly to
the realm of reason; if I go farther I shall
enter that of revelation, to which reason
leads us. Not wishing to go so far in this
paper, I close by expressing the hope that
we each of us may have, what we are taught
every good Patron has, faith in God.

T. HENDRICK-

I€'IIw7*.~:1'(le.

(‘O-OPE il.\TIVE STORES.

.-XGRICULTURAL COLLEGE,
January 22, 1894. i

Eorroa GRANGE Visiroa-Now that
the State Grange is coiitemplating coope-
ration in trade, it may be well to consider
the efforts in the past to establish and
inauage retail stores. While there were at
one time many, the writer now knows of
but one such left in the State, and perhaps
that would hardly deserve the name.

Probably it may be more than fifteen
years ago that Capital Grange in North
Lansing began a small store with a capital
of three hundred dollars. It was a new
thing and by some gratuitious work of
members of the Grange did well and in-
creased its stock. Some time after the stock
was increased, till for ten years or more it
has lice.-ii from $18,000 to -“$20,000. A fine
building was erected at a cost of about
$9.000, and one time a iniscellaneous stock
of merchandise invcntoried at about ‘.314,-
000. Some divideiids were paid for a time
though it is now believed by some that the
profits did not warrant the action. For
some six years past no dividends have been
paid, and to cut the story short, a few weeks
ago we were glad to sell out for about 47
cents on the dollar. To run a store suc-
cessfully requires a special training, and
none of our members possessed such
qualifications. In several cases managers
left to set up business for themselves in
Lansing. There was no chance to elect
experienced directors or auditors. Those
places were filled by persons always honest
and well-meaning, but they, to a man,  the
writer was for years a director) were un-
able to render aid or definitely advise a
manager. Very likely there was as much
of an inclination among members of the
Grange to cooperate as there could have
been with the same number of people
selected from any other occupation. Of
course there was misrnauagement in many
respects, which seemed unavoidable. The
venture, aside from the financial loss indi-
cated above, was beneficial in offering
merchandise at a reduced rate not only to
the stockholders, but to everybody who
purchased goods. Again, the long experi-
ence of the stockholders may be Worth
something, even though they may not be
inclined to count this of much value.

W. J. BEAL.

WHAT THEY THINK OF THE VISITOR.

_]anuar_v4. Big Paper. Grand. Just the thing
for field work.

A. J. CROSBY.

Of course you know, long ’ere this, that the
GRANGE VISITOR outdid itself in the issue of Jan-
uary 4.

ji':_\'Nii~: BUELL.

We all think that the January 4th number of the
VISITOR excelled all of its predecessors in point of

State Grange news.
VVM. A. Moxraoiwi-:RY.

A RBJOINDER.

Continued from page I.

shouldn't wonder if this very expectation on
his parthad something to do with the defeat
of the law when submitted to the voters of
Grand Traverse county last August. Now I
believe in good roads. I believe in faith-
ful, honest work on the roads. \Ve have
the township system, by and through
which bridges are constructed and larger
operations performed, and isn’t it better
to let well enough alone, in the main por-
tion of this state at least?
ONE WHO IS A FARMER.

HOW’S THIS!

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s
Catarrh Cure.

F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. 0.

We, the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney
for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly
honorable in all business transactions and finan-
cially able to carry out any obligations made by
their firm.

Wnsr & TRUAX, Wholesale Drugg-ists. Toledo, 0.

WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Drug-
gists, Toledo. 0.

Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 750
per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.

 


 

FEBRUARY 1, 1894.

ORKS

lngersolls Liquid Rubber Paints _
Indestructible Cottage and Barn Paints

6 ~ l‘HE GRANGE VISITOR.

ATRONS’ AINT

PATRONS’ PAINT WORKS have sold Ingersoll Paint to the Order P. of MICHIGAN PATRONS “Buy direct from
H since its organization House Paints and Cheap Paints for Burns and Ont- F"°t°"y" at fun “iholesale Prices and

_ _ _ save all l\Iid(1leinen’s Profits.
buildings, l0,00t) Farmers testify to their rner1ts.f (lirange ldattlllsi. C:hurchps. Schpffi O. w. I" G  LL’ Prop. sample Comr Cards‘ “Confidential” 
Houses, Dwellings, all over the land, some 0 t em pain e 1.) years ago, 51 l Oldest Paint House in America Discounts’ E“ “Bate; ‘mm truu particulars
looking well, prove them the most durable. 241-243 Plymouth-st., Brooklyn MAIL ED Fl{E.l*.. WI its at once. A

:6

Turkey red on cotton

l
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MICHIGAN STUCK BllEEllEllS., Granite NeWS- ...‘§§Z'§‘iEil“§;,§‘3f.d‘E3fii?§°:.fi.t pS.g‘..f.ZiiZ: Z‘.’.?.'”I5§,,...3¥...DT%'3.’.‘.1,.§..l.‘fri§§§$"M‘£?$...I.T?J,l You Dye In E'.‘.“.".”.,.,‘.‘.i}"..§§‘i{{fi".s.'i.‘3,.“;
- . A 1--—- e i‘ th \’l"h' - St. - 0- n e ll B .VI L- .\I'..~ “\i>ll' 'wi'n' s ‘d’ - "",".:'“- mt“-’~°
All those who wish to pmchase pure‘ I i\[- .h- $131 lxY1lg\.’€2lf!-‘. A Thilzgifgportluwas listeied at‘: A]ii)dyl i$ICE.:1;‘l:nllC.l “ Prbgi-‘fawn \‘f~a:nin‘f:i‘— j  m I n  zi._l:i5i'§ 
‘ ‘C lgnlh ' l woolorcotton,4lVc. BI8D!ll"AE9m-5 Wflle Qmclt -"W"

with interest. It showed that the Grange
is doing good work for farmers.

After plans and talks for the good of
the Order, Mrs. Mary A Mayo then in-
stalled the ofiicers of the county and Penn-
iicld Granges.

spersed by music furnished by North Burns
Grange. The afternoon and evening were 
spent in a pleasant and profitable manner, '
but it was resolved to hold the next ¢:ven- l
ing session of Pomona Grange in the fifth g
degree to initiate candidates in full form. t
Lecturers l\Iurgus and '-.\’IcDermid read .\':-r;-r.’rr/j‘r.  D. HAWLEY, Pres. WM. H. OWEN, Treas.
programs for next meeting and gave good ’ - g 0. MOORE. -5‘:!,I=’.7/- I l I _
. ' . .' ' . . . . ' ' v I 0' ‘ 1 77/1) z'.\'lI 8 VIC!
Sillilgs on incieasmg interest and meinbei-  FR0“ A ,.x..,. ,\,\,,_E' E  :)];\e::;ii;i'l\;ll(OEO§23(:{:)1§$;ttea:1afiiorlfljgg.
Miss Nellie hlavo gave a recitation, l Our Grange elected as otiic:ers for the  frflf,c:ieiT'on fiev§:‘efs.! By per
“ Great-Grandfathe'r’s Muskct,” after which ensuing 33381‘. M3-Slel‘. L. A- l‘-llilrjf; 560., , mission we refer iii Hon. H. H.Hinds, of Stan-
Grange closed to meet the second Thurs— C- M- 5la)’t0Y1§ I4eC'w _L«"11”‘i1 ( ltimon-‘. 3 ‘"“'
V\"ith our new staff of otiicers we hope to I

bred stock of any description, will find .5
it to their advantage to correspond PQSTAL 1oTTINGs.

with some of the f0]]0winQ~ we-11-? Our Worthy State Master, Geo. B. Hor-

‘ V ton, was recently elected first vice president
"known breederi , of the National Dairy Union, lately organ-
" , ized at a meeting of dairymeii in Chicago.

lion thin pttper‘. French D,V€ C0-‘V3553’: mien‘

Tliia Hand-lllaicle Harness Go... I

H. H. HINDS
Stanton, Montcalm Co
Breeder of

One of the “ long,” or four day farmer’s
Institutes is being held in Coldwater, com-
iinencing the evening of January 30, and
Shorthorn Cattle 7 closing the evening of February 2.
American Merino !

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.. ... ..,..- .-.-.., ...,..~.;_ f<'Lv:~.' an-.-.~.. '1’! ¢.\'.‘x4'.p.L.V.i_.\:.-21.3: -.

and Shropshire Sheep
BLACK MEADOW FARM.

Stavmlanl-lured Trotters".
Sliorllmrn tailli-

j Sclioolcraft Grange No. S, which has
 headed our list so long, gave up its charter,
I took demits for its faithful, and presented
‘ its property to the churches of the village.
The discussion of “ our duty to the poor,”

by Ypsilanti Grange, boded no leniency to

day in Februar_v with \Vorth_v Master Chi-
dester and wife.

Bl-ZRRI l-.f\' l"0M().\I.-\.

Bcrricii county Pomona Grange held its ,

annual session with Berrien Centre Grange
January 9 and Io. The delightful wcatlier

see our Grange once more resume its forni-
er encrgy and prosperity. There is plenty
of material for a good strong Grange in
3 our jurisdiction, if we could but get them
interested in the Grange ctuuse. Why
fnriiierzs are so opposed to orgzuii'/.9 for their
(irattan

ToN

   

  

$35.uiu-prupuruomteiyiov

Write for Slll‘0psllll't‘ Slirrp . mutual interest secuis a niv.sterv, .
V . . - . . . . , . called out a very general attendance Irom . _ - . ~ 1
Catalog [{,.1-ksjm-,. |'|.D»_‘- shiftless tramps, but Ietommemled UTCOW“ an parts of the L:O:’mv some parts of the (rrange has a good commodious liafil tfllltl 1   
' to :.lCCt)llllllO’ :1 e a I

F. 11. BRKER. Detroit.
69 Buhl Block.

Oailtlaiul Poultry Yzirds.

 

aging the learning of how to do more than
I one thing. self help and self respect.

The otiiccrs of \V'e.s:t Ilandy Grange No.
613. were installed January 8, at their hull,

county reported a 1-.1}-go addition to their
membership, nearly goo being reported in
the county, fifteen members taking the de-
gree of Pomona at this meeting. Berrien
Centre Grange extended a royal welcome

everything nec.cssai‘y
large membership, and we have almost
. completed some excellent sheds, which we
I shall prize very highly when done. All
! things are about ready for company and to

300 Fine Chicks .21 l1m‘dIiiiic in-iv.--, Biz-rt-_«l . by Brotlicr H. \V. Noble, in a very pleasing and a mo__, ,,,,,,m_O"S emeflainment to all  receive new members. There are many
Pl.Vm°“‘l‘ R‘“7l‘-"3 "‘ W “ Y""‘l‘”'“°‘- ”- ‘~- “ ‘manner. ' 5“ ' ' ,among the farmers who think the Grange

and S. C. B. I 'rlmrn.s, (iolllcn \\'v;1Iillntlc.s,
\Vill sell in any qu:uitit_v in suit purclm—;c~r.s.

MILL Eli BRO.\‘.,
Beddow, I\IicII.

COLBY STOCK FARM.

Buff ‘

.77 ‘ rw
Leghorns, Indian (nuncs, and Bl‘n!I/,c lI'.l‘l<'.k‘_\'\'.‘

Mzistei‘. George Allen; Lecturer, Carrie
‘ J. Bowers: Secretary, Etta Fear.

\Ve are having good meetings and the
,prospect is good for adding to our mem-
e bcrship.

The Grange interest in St Joe county is

members present.

The following olticers were installed for
I894:

.\I:1stL-I‘, .\li‘.~:._l. ll. Roycc, lf1ll’(\(lil..

Ovcrscer. Ellen Clark.

LL-cturcr, R V. Clark.

Stewzird, R. M. Hoguu.
Asst. S_t.cw:ir(l, \\', .\IcCi';u'l\cn.

     

fa good thing. yet they will not join to

,help sustain it, and what is the reason?:

l Are there greater attractions some where
;else? Perhaps. Yet we defy any organ-
 ization to produce a better code of princi-
E ples than is in our Declaration of Purposes.
VVith those for our guide the farmer surely

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Rambomuet Pm"-‘p' ("‘“°""‘-"(“"l’i' “ml Per’ rather 0” the 1llCr6a*9- There We ‘llllie 3 ’L‘ y H" J"‘-““l\}:ltlEl\\‘Tll1l‘l)l1\ lwould understand his business relations
cheron H0FF65- All Stock lI11l‘E‘- bfed and resis-‘ number of re-instatement:-:, also some new St \ . L. liunc. St.'_lu.s:~pli.  with the world better and 133 3 better Cm.

tered. Two Percheron Stallions for solo at a
bargain. Spring Rye for Seed.
Address. L. F. I10.-til, (‘-0LIir. Mina.
or L. B. 'I‘OW.\'SEND. IONIA. MICH.

M. II. WALWORTH
HILLSDALE. MICH

BREEDER OF

ESSEX, Vllillllill Allll SUFFULK SWINE?

OF THE BEST

Also American Merino Sheep of choice quality I

SHROPSHIRE HAl.L
STOCK FARM

Has now on sale 50 Registered yearling Raine.
25 Registered yearling Ewes. also imported
Ewes and Rams. 1-593 importation to arrive

in July.
L. S. DUNHAIVI,
Concord, l\IiclI.

SHBOPSHlRES FOR ’93

Imported. Registered and llnregistered

References: ex-Gov. Winans and C. S. Gregory, 5

Banker, Dexter, Mich.

Choice Yearling Ram and Ewe Lambs for sale ,
Tarms reasonable.
express.

VALENTINE BROS».

P. O. DEXTER, MICE. 3

\. II. \VAR.KE-'
Ovid, Mich.
‘Breeder of IMPROVED
- -- (‘llliSTl'.'R ll’lll'l'II SWIIVE
And Lincoln Sheep. A choice lot of stock
for sale at farmers’ prices. Breeding stockall

recorded. Reduced prices on fall Pigs. Write,
or come and look me over.

  
  
 

If you \VanI I-‘ii-.st—(fl-ass

MERINO SHEEP:

WHITE BRONEZE runxavsl

bred from prize wixiiicrs, of tin; Dark Bronze. at the

lndiana and Micliig-.tn !~'t:itc Fairs, ;1l>() :_it the 'l‘ri- f

State Fair -.it'1‘o!cdo, you r‘:lll get them of
(‘v. H. Fl-ILLO\\'S. Saliiie, Mich.

 

Olivct, )liulI..

Specialist in custriitixig r:iiI~ witlioul l-l.~L‘ of ropes,
cords, clamps, or fill‘ im:i.s, \'s r::c for circiilar,

ENGUBATQVFS &. Sli0l'illEFi."‘
2 . Z 6-72»? and che-apesl_:f -~
testimonial . ..  ; UM '

G. s. siucenfsox 537. Car-dluglon, o.

     

Meals for .
Five Cents .

We pay half of freight or I

G. BYRON STONE?

ones are knocking for adinittancc to our
noble Order. Parl-zville (haiige No. .32, has
just now a healthy boom. \Ve have finished
21 class of six and have six’ more on the rope
‘ for our next meeting.
. .\lumnia Grange No. 585, sends the
: VISITOR to all members less than six
-months in arrears. \\’hy do you not try
this plan?

Trent Grange has lost an etlicient mem-
‘ her by the death of Sister Johanna Bettis.

IIOPKINS GRANGI-Z No. 390.

Regardless of the fact that attractions
incidental upon Colombian year broke into
 our work in the early fall months, the past
year has been a prosperous one with_ us,
and we start out in a new year with effi-
cient oflicers and each member ‘ready to
, perform any duty assigned them with en-
thusiasm. Our little folks can quote choice
.bits from the best authors as readily as
their elders. We meet Saturdays, after-
noon and evening alternately’.

L.»\l'l-ZER l’O.\lO\'.\.

Lapeer county Pomona Grange met for
business with Pine Stub Grange January
II. A program had been prepared, con-
isisting of music, recitations, readings, and
discussions, in which all took a lively in-
terest. Brother Montgonierv, our delegate
to the State Grange, was present and gave
a lengthy report of that meeting. The
‘young people and children of Pine Stub
Grange did splendid work on the program.
The election of ofiicers resulted in Levi
Sowles for Master, and Ira Read for Sec-
retary. The next meeting will be with
Montgomery Grange, April 12.

Yours fraternally,
I—I. BR.\I)SH.-\\\‘,

MORENCI GRANGE.
Morenci Grange is having some ver_v
pleasant meetings. On Friday evening be-
fore Christmas we had two beautiful ever-
greens trimmed very tastefully and loaded
with presents for old and young. A fine
program was rendered. The report of our
Master’s wife, Alice VVoodworth, as to her
visit to the State Grange, claimed our un-
divided attention.
W'e are called to mourn the loss of one
i of our dear sisters, Fannie Coon. Last
spring she went to her father's home in
Dakota to see if the western breeze would
not restore her to health. but the much
dreaded disease, consumption, would not
release its hold, and her husband was
called the fore part of December to assist
in the last sad rites to a much beloved wife
5 and the mother of his two small children.
Our annual election resulted in the fol-
lowing officers: Master, G. Woodworth;
1 Lect., Mrs. B. G. Hoig; Sec., Geo. Marsh.
' Our State Master installed our oflicers
[January I3.

Lecturer.

CALHOUN POMONA.

, Calhoun county Grange assembled at
 Pennfield Grange hall January 11.

A large delegation was present from all
I the Subordinate Granges in the county.

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Gate Kccpcr, \’c-linc-r liusscll.

Poinonit, Mrs. C. (I. Bell.

Flora, .\lr.-, Cclia liiirker.

Ceres. .\lr.s Samuel Mzirs,

Lzicly Asst. Stc\\':u'Ll. .\Ir.~~. \\', l..:l§;inu.

Exc<'iiti\'c eoiiiiiiilttc‘, (l. C. Bvcll, Th0.~.. .\l:ii'.s.

The April session will be held with Ben-
ton Harbor Grange. '

\-V. L. KA.\'E,
S«'rrnlar}'.
“ KEENE" wonx.

E1)I'roR \’I.sIToR—If you will give space
I will try to tell you something of the grand
awakening we have had in Keene Grange.
It came about in this wise: Having read
of the wonders wrought in other Granges
as the outcome of the contest plan, and as
all expedients had failed to awaken the
sleepy ones, we concluded to try it for six
weeks, with the following result: One
hundred thirty-one names to VISITOR, one
class of nine have recc-iv_g._l the fourth de-
gree, and we are now ready to confer the
first degree on the second class, and best of
all the entire Grange is wide awake and
ready for business. The number of poets,
essayists, and orators that have developed
in Keene Grange in so short a time, rank
high. The defeated side provided the
Thanksgiving dinner, which would have
delighted the heart of an epicure. Last,
but not least, the Lecturer is now enjoying
the grippe, and if she were a man, it would
be attributed to that dinner.

I say to all inactive Granges, go and do
likewise,

Keene Grange has now a paid up mem-
bership of about 100 or more in splendid
working order. VVe aim to have our
Grange rank among the best.

MRS. LYDIA NIIDDAUGII,
Lac/znw‘.

H U RON POIVIONA.

The annual meeting of Huron county
Pomona Grange was held with North
Burns Grange December 21. The fol-
fowing oflicers were elected and installed
for the ensuing year.

Master, Dunc-an McKenzie: Overseer, Joseph
Donaldson; Lecturer, Mrs. Ellen Pangman; Slew-
ard, Richard Nu cnt; Asst. Steward, Geo. Pang’
man;Chaplain, onald M. Taggart; Trcas. John
Nugent, Secretary, Mrs. Richard Nugcnt; Gate
Keeper. Win. Burhans; Pomona, Mrs. .VIcKen;I.ie;
Flora, Mrs. Donaldson; Ceres, Alice Elliot; Lady
Asst. Steward, Angie Ecclcs.

There were four Subordinate Granges
represented, all of which reported favorably.
Topics for discussion were as follows:
“ How to manage the agricultural society
so as to make it more beneficial to the
farmer?” This proved a very interesting
topic, being assigned to John Nugent, and
followed by Henry Healy, Geo. Pangman.
A. M. Leitch, Mat. McIntyre and Donald
McTaggart. Bro. Matthew McIntyre was
complimented on being the means of pro-
curing a competent judge on stock at the
last fair in the person of Prof. Davenport.
The topic, “ What is the most profitable
kind of stock for the farmers of Huron
county to raise for the next few years,” was
assigned to Henry Healy, and followed by
John Pierce, and Matthew McIntyre. Bro.
S. S. Donaldson gave a very good report
from the State Grange. Recitations were
given by Geo. S. Pangman, Katie McIn-
tyre, Robert Hagean, Jr. Readings by
Miss VVilliams and Joseph Donaldson. A

l zen, for he would labor for the welfare of
1 country and mankind. WK: do wish that
.

l ization more than they do.
l _ ,,
3 liR.\\’Lill l’0.\l0N.\.

 The annual meeting of Brancli county
l Pomona Grange No. 22, was held Thurs
‘ da_v,January II, with a very large attend-
, ance. Coldwater Grange entertained the

multitude of Grzmgers. This was one of
the most. interesting meetings ever held in
the county. The reports from the Grange-s
were very flattering, the best of feeling pre-
vailing throughout the county.

The forenoon was given to reports from
the retiring ofiicers and many of them were
deserving of special notice; I40 Patrons
were served at dinner and between ()0 and
70 at supper, by Coldwatcr Grange.

The first after dinner was a very im-
pressive. memorial service to the memory
of our deceased brother. Joseph D. VV.
Fisk.

At 3 p. m., the annual election of otiicers
was ordered, which was completed in just
one hour. Harmony prevailed from first
to last. The general order was then taken
up and among the good things passed was
a resolution offering a prize of ten dollars,
divided into three premiums, of live, three,
and two dollars, to the Granges in the
county furnishing the largest number of
subscribers to the \-'IsIToR the coming year.
It is not so much the ten dollars that we
are after as the success of the Grange and
the GRANGE VISITOR. A nice class of 23
took the fifth degree in form at the evening
session. A. L. Smith was re-elected Mas-
ter, and Mrs. I. A. Martin, Secretary. Our

time is assured.

us a good report from the State Grange.
Also the ever welcome countenance of our

nature. _ _
well represented, and the general verdict

Granges of Branch county.
WAI.LAci~: E, VVRI(ill'l‘,

 

Peiiiisylraiiia.

Bro.J. T. Ailman, the State Lecturer,
has been out campaigning, and reports
good interest.

VVe recently met Bro. E. E. Critchtield,
of Pa. He is manager of the Chicago edi-
tion of the Nalianal Farmer and Stockm(m_

The VISITOR is not alone in its plead-
ings with its subscribers. The Farmers’
Friend, the ably conducted Grange paper
of Pennsylvania, makes an appeal for $5,.
000 that the subscribers owe for unpaid
subscriptions. Why will not the Grange
support the Grange press? The Pennsyl-
vania State Grange is especially taking up
the subject of unequal taxation, and is
strongly agitating the question. They have
an active legislative committee at work.

5 farmers would see the necessity for organ- - .,

l
<

4

086000 & TIIOMPSON, Bingbamtan. Al. I
-‘J. c. GOULD, Ag'l..., 1’-aw1’aw, Mich.

Going” to

Buy a Watch?

If so, buy one that cannot be stolen. The

only thief-proof Watches are those with

 

BOWS.
Here’s the Idea :

The bow has a groove
on each end. A collar
runs down inside the
gendent (stem) and
fi

 

ts into the grooves,
rmly locking the
bow to the pendent,
so that it cannot be
pulled or twisted ofi".

~.\ , -
To be sure of getting 1. Non-pull-out, see that
the case is stamped with this trade mark.
It cannot be had with any other kind.

Send I ponlnl in 1 watch can open: to the
llmouo Bou Flllod One makers.

Keystonewatch Case Co. ,
PHILADELPHIA

GRAND COLLECTION.

5 Niagara Grape. 10 Souhegan Rasp-

berry, 10 Turner Raspberry. 10 Bubach
No.5 Strawberry. 0 Parker Earle Straw-
berry. sent on receipt of 81.00.

Write for price list of Nursery Stock

in general.

(This collection \\ill l‘llllllfl'C nlzxt issiic.)

\VOL\'ERI.\'E .\'l7l"..\'l‘Il{\'. Paw Paw. Mich.

next meeting will be held with Girardl
Grange early in February, and a rousing

Brother Vanderbilt was present and gave ,
esteemed brother C. G. Luce, was to be _
seen among us beaming with joy and good ‘
Everv Grange in the county was _

was, that the financial panic or the \Vorld’s 
fair had not had any bad effect upon the

TIIETIIIIJIIPII or LOVE!

A Happy, Fruitful

Minnigan

A EVERY MAN ,,‘,‘;,,’if,’

.__...._____..
KNOW the GRAND
TRUTHS; the Plain
l .n I Facts- the Old Secrets
6, ow D:scove1-iesof Medical Science
as applied to Married Life, should write for
our wonderful little book, called
“PERFECT MANHOOD." To any earnest
man we will mail one copy Entirely
Free, in plain sealed cover. “A refuge
II-om the quncks.” Address

ERIE MEDICAL 60., numio, u, v.

‘This is a medical work FOR MEN wno
NEED IT, and Inere curiosity st-ukcrs should
not trouble themselves or the company b
ing_:idvantage of the above offer; 1:
will not interest the frivolous.-Edilfl

 
    

      

Cincinnati, Lv
Richmond .

finlamazoo, Ar.

Mackinaw, Ar ________ _.

GRAND RAPIDS and

Indiana Railroad
Dec. 24. l893.——Uent;ral Standard Time.

GOING NORTH. No. llNo. 3 No. 5 No 7

     
  
 

Fort Wayne, Ar .
Tort Wayne, Lv

  

  

   
 

  
 
 
  
 
  
  
 
 
 

  
 
  

   

Each I-gonleats on the ave,-ago y As it was the first meeting after the (yontinued on pagg 3,
.....,...'.:g*;.:.*.’,:,f.r:,:*.:.  ,     -- some som-
sayi cen woi_~_o nu, mo /1’ 1-1}; . , _ . , r
<=rv-t-ism Tm-ma mflez.r.e=-t- I ' Pb LVERIZING I ARROW LOD RUSHER AND EVELER Mackinaw city.
er outlay than if the other lands \J J _ ',\ Petogkey _‘_______ ,
_‘ _ “,',f,',f.e ‘:§‘,‘,’fi,' c3E,'é,.5,,,°,,e‘,‘,'i‘,fe:}"e‘:,‘f,',;'1 ,1 I 5 adapted to all soils and all VVOPK for which a TrBV6Y5°C1'>¥ -------- -- i
3  and pay for the luxuryof having ; - AGENTS HaPP0W 15 needed cadji_igc________________ 1 25 7 39
v ' o _ WANTED. 1 1; h‘ s 1 ‘ 1 1 1 C1 Grand Rapids,Ar  515 1055 I140
, _ , aamnv , __
Dlamond :~'  sm‘Z§m°€i§f§gl-'$‘3.n§,‘i,$i.li;‘a‘{‘i’{§§‘:a‘§.§2‘€?;n§‘é?...-Téa "r=;ndR:g"*,:;L’-- 233 3% “ 3° :23 '
 : coulters cultivate, cut. lift and turn the entire sur- an 10,LV_ 8 38 8 06 3 45
 C 1. 1 S  face of the SO1l. The backward slant of the coul- i,o:_€$$:.it\,i‘-,.  g g rlsg 1 15
2 S a a ters prevents tearing up rubbish and reduces the  d_'____ 3 45 3,0
3  ' \.'...;.-«._\- draft. Cificiniiiiti,Ar ________ __ 6 15 7 20 .
g‘ pisteagaolttttfiothegokiifilig. “ilgtfl the of -i‘/.e:. Made entirely of cast steel and wrought iron ‘-31- A-IL P-E !-l- V‘ ‘
mpor 11 1188 In 8 Der 2 suitable .- ' and therefore practically indestructible. Slee ins can for Petoskey and Mackinaw on ' ~
.- fl food ill h d l.‘ - . _ - _
i "°' ’°'" W “° 3” ‘- T: ‘or CHEAPEST RIDING HARROW ON EARTH N‘i>.".io?’i‘a(§'t?."$§'c"i§’ii§i.iw on No. 5from Grand I
allwork —sells for about the same as an ordinary drag— Ra id5._ _ l
eight dollars and upwards. O ‘fpmg °‘“'°- Gm“ Rapids to Cllioaao. on J
‘ not gotit. write to us. Ifyou make to I-espon5ib]e farmers to be returned Sleiaping cars, Grand Rapids to Cincinnati, on

butter. investigate our Dairy Salt.

there’s money in it.’ Address . . _

Diamond crystal salt 00., .’
ST. CLAIR. fllcfl. l

Sent 01] Trial‘ at my expense if not satisfactory. ‘,1,-Os-Jmd, daily south of Gmd Rapids N 
53nd 6 daily._ south of Grand Rapids, ' 0"

-— N. B.—I deliver free on board at convenient distributing points. All other t and ex t S as
 H  S I  MILLINGTON, - - - - - NEW asnszv. '°‘“‘‘ ’' C‘_’°f:_ L‘:-3037,-FOOD
. , 0 E I., a. No. so so. OANAL 51., - cl-IIGAOO, ILL. 9, p, 5 on A,“ Gnnd “Dias
MENTION THIS PAPER.

 

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‘FEBRUARY 131394.

 

THE GRANGE visrron. I 7

Is a book containing illustrations, prices and
descriptions of 30,000 articles in common use,
a book that will show you at a glance if you
are Daying too much for the goods you are

now buying,

WORTH ANYTHING TO YOU‘?

Is it worth the 15 CENTS in stamps re-
quired to pay postage or express charges on a

copy?

THE BUYERS GUIDE AND CATALOGUE ( issued
every March and September) is the book we
are talking about: you are not safe without a
copy of the latest edition in the house.

MONTGOMERY WARD & 80.,
I I I to I I6 Michigan Ave., chicagob

In writing mention THE GRANGE VISITOR.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY

Oflicers National Grange.

hlAs'1"ER—J. H. BPJGHAM ________ __Delta, Ohio
OVIBSEEB-—E. W. DAVIS ____ __Santa Rosa. Cal.
IiE0'1'UB.EB—ALPHA MESSER._-.B.ochester, Vt.
8'l'EWABD—M. B. HUNT  ...._Maine
Ass"i: S'1‘icwARI)-A. M. HELCHER Rhode Island
CEAPLAIN—S. L. WlLSON._.. ._ Mississippi
TBE.AsUl:EB—MBs. F. M. MCDOWELL._..N. Y.
Sl0ln:'i‘.uzY—JOHN TRIMBLE Washington. D.C

GATE Kicizzealr-W. E. aAilaAfIGH_  Missouri
CEkES—-MRS. M. 8. RHONE ____ _.Pennsylvania
POMONA—M RS. MARY REABDON ..... ..Kansas
FLORA—MRS. ANNIE L. BULL ____ ._Minuesol‘.a
LADY Ass"r S'i1:w'n-—MRS. AMANDA HORTON

Michigan.

Executive Committee.
LEONARD RHONE..Center Hall, Pennsylvania
R. R.HUTOHlNSON___.._.. __._ ._____Virginia
J. J. WOODMAN ......... _.Paw Paw. Michigan

Olficers Michigan State Grange.
MAs'i'1'.B——G. B. HORTON.-._.._.._.Fi'uit Ridge

  

0VlBSEEB—-M. T. COLE ____ __ _ _.-.Palmyra
Lno'rtnz1tlz——A. J. CROSBY, J 3. .-_Ypsilanti
S'1'EWABD—A. P. GRAY __________________ ..Archie

Ass"i' S'I'E'WAl?.D—J. H. MARTIN, Box 442,
pl s
Ci1.u>LAIx—MARY A. MAYO ____ __Battl_e Creek
TRl’.A5UREB—E. A. STRONG ________ __Vicksbui-g
SlwRll:'1‘AaY—J ENNIE BUELL _______ _.Ann Arbor
GATE KEEPER-GEO. L. CARLISLE..Kalkaska
CEnil‘3——MARY,C'. ALLIS .A ‘an
FLORA—MRS SARAH A. ST. CLAIR..Butt_ernut
Ponolu—MlIS. A. A. LEIGH’1‘0N_ _ .Old Mission
L. A. Si~itw‘n—MBS. J .H. MARTIN Grand Rapids

Executive Committee.

J , G. RAMSDELL, Chn ......... ._Traverse City
PLA ..... _ .'_. _ Ypsilanti

 
 
   

on  __Z'_ ____ _.SheIby
FERN ..........  . . ._.Maple Rapids

 g Ex Otficio g ....I;;I'lTl1t gilgge
-... ll 1' 1'

F.' W".
G. B.
JENNIE BUELL.

Committee on Woman's Work in the
e.

Mrs. Mary A. Mayo
Mrs. Mary Sherwood
Mrs. Belle Royce. ..__ ...Bar0d8

General Deputy Lecturers.

  

   
  

MARY A, MAYO __________________ __Bat-tle Creek
HON, J , J. WOODMAN _________ _.Paw Paw
}1()N, C, G. LUGE , _ , _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .. Goldwater

.._Battle Creek

n Center

County Deputies.

D. H. Stebbins ______ __ Atwood, Alltrilll C ‘.

C, V'_ _\';15h_____ __Bloomi gdzile, Allegan “
R. B. Reynolds .............. ..I11l«"i_“di 3911216 "
Geo. Bowser ............... .—D0Wlmg: 3411"" ”

jarnes D. Studley__ .-.Union City, Branch “

  
   
   
  
    

R_ V, C11“-k,___ _.Buchan:in, Bcrrien

j. VV. Elinert___ ___St. johns, Clinton “
Mary‘ A. Mayo,_ __Battle Creek, Calhoun “
\vm_ C1-,irk___ __Chzirlevoix, Charlcvoix “
E B_ \V:u-d __Charlevoix, Charlevoi.\' “
Virs. Binzi \’\ il _ ___,_,CassopollS. C51?‘-S “
A D_ B-‘ml. _______ __I.:inslil_g, Eaton “
[sax Rusggll ___ .,__Alina, Grlitiot “
John passmorc _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __Fliishin , Genesee “
E. O L2idd_.._Old Mission, Gran Traverse “

Mrs E. D. Nokes_.___\\'Ile;l.tl;ind, Ilillsdzilc
R j\_ Brown _____ __ __Sand Beach, Huron "
1):}-I, Eng'li5h___, ._. __Chandler, Ionia “
F, \V. I-Ia'vens,_,_ _.Fitcl*iburg, Ingham
J_ A, Courtright___ _Duck Lzike, Jackson “
Robert Dockerv _._..ROCkf0l'Cly Kent “
James Greasen_‘_,__ Kiilkaska, Kalkaska “
Hiram Bradshaw" A orth Branch, Lapeer “

 
   
  
  
   
  
  
    
  

Fred Dean ____ __ ,Brighton, Livingston
E_ \v_ A11is___ _____ "Adrian, Lenziwee "
Geo. I-I. Lester .......... -—C"Y5ml- Momcalm H

D, R. Van Amberg,____Bear Lake, Manistee
Jessie E.V\illiains___ ,Big Rapids. Mccosra “

_ 5_ Law5on__ _,_Disco, Macomb
“Flat Rock, Monroe “
Ravenna, Muskegon
,Ashland, Newaygo “

 

 
    
  
    
  
  
  

T. F. Rodgers
W’. VV. Carter.

Robert Alward Hudsonville, Ottawa “
R H_ Taylor _ _____Shelb , Oceana “
D: Murlin____ _V€l'fl0“i S laW“55ee “

____ __IIartsufi, St. Clair “
,Centerville, St. Joseph
___Birch Run, Saginaw
____Carsonville, Sanllac
Lawrence, Van Buren

A. \V. Can!ield__
\Vm_ B. Langley
-Geo. Edvgar s__
M. C. Kerr ____ -_
Helen A. Fiske_

Iohn E, Wilcox __________ _,Plym0uth. Wayne “
john A. McDougal "Ypsilanti, VVzishteiiaw “
R. C. Norris ............ -.CfidillaCl “vexfofd H

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. ____ ._$0 75

Secret-aryzs ledger .................... .. . -

Secretary s record

'.l.‘rsesurer’s orders, bound, per hundred ____ _ _

Secretary’s receipts for dues, per hundred. . .

Treasurer's receipts for dues, per hun

A plications for membership. per hundred. _ 50

withdrawal cards. per dozen .............. .. 25

Diniits, in envelo . per dozen._. . . . _ _ _ .___.. 25

By-Laws of the tate Grange, single copies.

1097 per down"'. ' ' ‘ ‘ ' ‘ “:" ": """" "."'

“ Glad Echoes," with music, single copies.

25c;perd0'L€_!I1.--; ........................ —— 3 00
e Melodies. single com. 40oz per down 4 00

Opening Son Card, 2!; each; 759 per 50; 100.. 1 35

Rituals, 7th edition (with combined degrees).
:B5ceach'pel'd0%9!1 ----- --; --------------- --

Rituals, scli deg:-ee._

Bituals. Juvenile, 8111519 GOD!"

Rituals, Juvenile. PM 89$ ------------------ --

Notice to delinquent members. D6!‘ 100.. . . .. .

American Manual of Parliamentary Law__

Diglest of Laws and Rul1n88-——
s.m“° "l2°"’ """ "a:.ii‘.5£.;e;;.;‘i. "mails
ac e c , — — —-— _
Wilts Torliyarices on gold pins badges, working
tools, stafi mountil_J85. flea-15v 03 b°1*’-'9 and“?
other gi-anse supplies-
Address MISS J ENNIE BUELL,
ANN Anson. MICE.

   

i’:i9.5«°E'i%$

  

      
 

I-A  Strawberry, REES Pear.

Blackberry, Apple,
Currants. Gooseberry, Peach, Chestnut,

Asparagus. Grapes, Walnut. Send

for Catalogue.
J. S. COLLINS‘ SON, Moor-estown, N, J,

. V Latest Novelty for
NI A R 37 H 1‘ L L E94. Magniifipient fruit.
‘ ar est an nest ever
S1   grovgvn. 14ber1-ies fill
a q uart. Took First Five Prizes from Mass.
Hort. Society, Boston, in 1892. and again in
1893. Deep red, solid, delicious flavor. Flower
perfect. $2.50 per 12. $16.50 per 100, postpaid.
Priced Catalogue of Strawberries and all Decora-
tive Hardy Plants. Shrubs and Trees at low rates.
sent free. Large stock. B. M. VVATSON,
Old Colony Nurseries, Plyinoutli, Mass.

   E All best varieties. Hifih-

esl. Grading. Small Fruits. Introducer of unriva ed
new lied Jacket I-‘iouseberi y .t S-‘air (‘_urrnnt.
"‘ "‘ "rue /‘rut (-is-o..\‘..lo.-i.~u.-ly no FrI'iIo:lla,.\'. Y

100,00

sery stock. Address
VVOLYERINE NURSERY,
Paw Paw, Mich.

WE WILL SEND
By Mail P"§.§’.?““ 80 cts.

Currant and Goose-
berry cuttings wanted
in exchange for Nur-

The following varieties of Seeds:
varieties Beet that will plant 50 feet of row,

.. Cum .. .. 100 I. ..

“ Cucumber " “ 50 hills.

“ Watermelon “ " 20 “

‘ ‘ Muskmelon ‘ ‘ " 80 ‘ ‘

“ Onion "‘ “ 100 feet of row.
“ Parsley ' “ 50 “ “

ll parsnip .. .. 50 .. H

.l R3-dish .. .. 100 .. ..

.. Spmage ll .. 50 .. ..

“ Squash " “ 50 hills

Turnip and Rate. Raga

2

2

2

2

2

3

1

1

2

1

2

2 ..

2 will plant 300 feet of row.
1
1
1
2
1
2
1
2
2
2

" Cabbage “ “ 1,000 plants.

“ Cauliflower “ " 50 “

.. Celery .. .. 100 it

“ Egg Plant " “ 50 "

“ Lettuce “ " 1,000 “

.. Pepper .. .. ; ..

“ Tomato “ “ 500 "

" i “ " 50 feet of row.
“ Choice Garden Peas 50 “ “
“ “ “ sans 50 hills.

.. .l .. Com 100 I.

10 assortinents as above, by freight,
charges prepaid (at one time), for $5.35.
This offer good only during our dull sea-
son to March 1. Hustle around and
get up your club orders.

HILL’S SEED STORE,

DETROIT, RIICH.

 cAiRF KNS

are strictly High-Grade Instruments, and

sold at LOW’ PRICES, quality considered,
for Cash or Instalhnents. and delivered at
your home, freight paid. Send for catalogue of
new designs to

E. P. CARPENTER COIVIPANY,

Home office: BRATTLEBORO, VT., U. S. A.
Western Oflice: J. Howard Foote.:20'7 and 209
I Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill.

THE NEW REGULATION BADGE

Adopted by the'lNational Grange Nov. 24,
1893, is manufactured by

TIIE VVIIITEIIEAD & HOAG C0,,
Newark, N. J.,

Under contract with the Executive Committee
of the National Grange. Sample sent to any
Secretary under seal of Grange. free of charge.
Write for catalogue.

bolwr HIRE
A LAWYER

BUT GET A COPY OF

LAW MADE EASY

By L.J. Robinson, LL B.

 

A Complete Law Libra:-,v
sN ONE VOLUME OF 600 PAGES. Tr:-atlng
fully ALL CASES and subjects known
In COMMON LAW.

A LAW BOOK for EVERY-DAY PE()Pl.F. l.‘J
EVERY-DAY LIFE, both business and doilllstlr.
teaching them how they may KEEP OUT OF
LEGAL DIFFICULTIES. 99per cent of all cases
tried in the courts of the country MIGI-l'l‘ HAVE
BEEN AVOIDED by the possession and exercise ot
a little correct information.

“Ignorantla Iegis nemlnem excusat."
Ignorance of law excuses no one.

ENDORSED BY EMINENT AUTHORITIES,
such as

Win. F. Warren, D.D., LL.D., Pres. Boston Univ ;
E. H. Bennett, LL.D., Dean of Boston Univ. Law
School; Hon. R. S. Greene, Chief justice, WasIl.;
Joel P. Bishop, I..L.B., author of noted works on law;
Melville M. Bigclow, LL.B.,_author of standard legal
works; I-Ion. Henry W. Paine, Att’y; Hon. I-l.‘T.
1-{¢]m_ An’ ;_]udge Thos. L. Nelson. of U. S. Dist.
Court in l\I’ass.; “ Milwaukee Sentinel”; “ Pl'I1l3.
Record."

‘will. BOUND m CLOTH, PREPAID, sa.5o.
See Premium List.

Brain Work. ' 

CONDUCTED BY “GRANITE Posaa.”

Open to all. Contributions and solutions sc?ic-
ited. Address all puzzle matter to F. ..>\R’i‘ili,'il
IVIETCALF, F.oi-rox OF Bx.u:< \\'olut, .’~‘ol"ru Ac-
woRTii, N. H.
XV.
ORIGINAL I‘L"ZZLl'IS.
A/'g_ .?(;,—Si1Imrr.
i_ Town of Sweden. 2. River of 'l‘ili‘k0_V. 3.
Anything which feeds. 4. To prance about in :1
riotous manner. 5. A daliher. 6. A line in ge-
ometry. 7. Stzirtlo:s.. (0(v.~‘.)
Park S111’.-, I//.
Np, .5‘;'.—D.Im;m/id.
l. A letter. 2. A word used by anglers. 3. 3
terlil applied to 21 certain salt. 4. Rolls. ;. A well ‘
known plant. 0. A de artliiciit of France. 7.‘
Plunderers. 3. Those \V o overlay with plaster.‘
9. Moliiits. lo. Is not. (()(=.v,) ii. A letter. I
I
l
I

I

Z\l\‘s'r.\<'.oGvl-2.

I’in-l.- Sills, I.’/. M\'s1‘.-\r,;om.'l:. ‘
lo. 85’. —170'I[’/P L.-/I.-»r E/zigimz.
Doii’t ONE, “ for TVVO,” the trolllvle gl'mv.~
V\'itli every "foolish fear-."—
Mi-ill will “resolve” to follow, so,
If Lzlhor “inakes thy" clit-er.

Yet each arises. clear, ornate.
On lllH.ll_\“ 21 stately hall,

In grace and finish intricate
As roll lll2i_\' find ill .»\l.L.

Sir/r-l//, :\«', /I, l'l{()l’E.l'.~i_
IVD. .$l,).—/'Ir.'// .S‘i,vmlr:'.
l. Postilllites. _*. Those who recount (O{'.~'.) 3,. I

King of Portugal. born l55.i. .1, Those who set}
traps to crltrll iiniliizils. _ 5. Duprives of spars. ii. A I
town of Italy. 7. lilnlrs. S. I-Ivening: ilieals. 9.3

Spore-case. lo E_ms._ Zl. Alt-tter. ;

IV/1il¢: I{01lx.‘, .\. y. C.-\l.\‘1.\‘. .
.\'u_ 9g,——1)[a/im/iii.
I. A. Letter. 2. To chirp. as l)ll'C'.>. 3. Cliques.

4, A. special pri\'ilcf_;e. 5. Si-ioothed over. 0. A
IIIlX‘I‘O\\.', molded pl:llik.a iiumlier of which are used
as :1 fence to the quarter-deck. 7. To keep up. 5.
Islets in the Czirllliieaul Sea. 9. One of the Script-
ure proper iiulilcs. lo. To li:ii':l.<.< with cl:lmoi'. ii.
A letter.
ll’/111:’ /Iim.~‘.-, .V. 3‘.
A7), oI,~zl‘,/U'Ir;'.LvI‘.».
The ONE benczitll this earth is fouml
By miners, in their hunt:
ALL petrifie-(I421 fossil, sounil,—
01‘, otllerwise, :1 mm.
The TVVO. I'm told. is not of gold.
As divers have their say;
I'm in the se:i—the hi'in_v cold~
\\'herc I have come to stziv.

CAI.\'IN.

So, poser, in your busy work,
Prziy li:u-c :1 care, you see:
For naught, I seldom have to work.
I hate this cruel sell.
Pnzd/(‘(1)1/:‘l'//H, Tsar.

i’Vu.«', (;2-Q3,‘lo-n.wzfis'i1'raI1.v_

BOl'RIiP.0l>.

I. An ancient puzzle, B. lSi9. 2 A much es-
teemed puzzler. 3. Viscous substances. 4. Ac.
6. A. body of civil oili-

cumulzlted. 5. A puzzler.
cers. 7. Conclusion. 3. Black iilinerzils. 9. To
accustoiil. lo. P1‘l\'3.C8‘sl.l‘I0(l€. ll. Most simple. 12.

A seaport of Russia. 13. To plant.
I. Akind of cloth. 2. Aflat Can(ip_\'. 3. Churches.

 

Sappho, Flactem, 2. Adelante, A. Noah,
Lily May, Nancy Lee, Dainty Dell, Grace
Darling, Canadian Boy, VVinnie Winn,
Picturesque Pete, Proteus, 1.

Total, 21.

Prize winners:
Mystagogue.

MYSTIC PENCILINGS.

“ Nancy Lee's” anagram, No. 38, con-
tained an error when first published. It
appears above as corrected, For prizes for
solutions see our last issue. VVhy not all
compete? Some good flats and forms
would meet with early insertion. Please
send your very best. Glad to note the con-
tinued success of our contemporaries and
only hope that the interest in mystic work
will never flag. GRANITE POSER.

First, Calvin; second,

A Pleasant Story of Napoleon.

Pleasant stories of Napoleon I are ex-
ceedingly scarce, but here is one: The
French Colonel, Varennes, had written sev-
eral confidential letters to a pretended
friend, in which he censured Napoleon
about some military actions. The pretend-
ed friend, expecting a good reward by pro-
motion or otherwise, sent the letters to the
Emperor. Varennes was summoned before
him. Napoleon showed him what he had
received, and asked sternly:

“ Are you not ashamed of these letters?”

“ No, sire,” he replied, “ but I am
ashamed of the address from which the let-.
ters last came."

Napoleon's manner brightened, and he
said:

“ You are right. Your communications
to your pretended friend were confidential,
but he has played the traitor on you. But
if in the future you want to subject my
orders to criticism, you ought to send your
opinion to a better address; that is to say,
to myself, and I hereby appoint you amem-
her of my Council of War.”

The pretended friend was transferred to
a subordinate position far away on the

frontier of the empire.”——E~c/range.

llly ll lllQ_l_llll More

Four Vveeks.

Ga.n’t You Get
one J..\Tevv Rraxne
A Vveek?

%Your Last chance.

Read the Rules
And Pitch In.

RULES.

1. At close of eolitest ea-ell Grl'allg'(‘ .~'e(~1ii'iiig' more than

four new NIlIIl(3.\' will be allowed to clioose sucli pi-elliiuiiis as it

lilay wish, T() THE VALUE OF 20 CEJTS FOR EACH NEW
FULL YEAR S'UBS(.‘-RIP'1‘IO.\' OB'[‘AI.\'EI).

2. A new nanlc is one not on our list Aligilst l, 1893, or
later.

3. Two six lliillitlis’ siibscl'iptioils i-oiliit as 21. full year.

4. To olitaiii prizes, full your slibsci-iptioils iuust be for 50
ceilts each, half year for 25 cellts (‘fl(‘ll.

5. Tliis is a Grmlge contest and is not iiiteiided for indi-
viililals. \Ve want to give the (i‘ri-ml,-.-,'(>.~' ii chalice to see what
they can do.

6. This 1-oiitestis opcll to ANY GRANGE IN THE UNITED
STATES, with the exceptioil in tile special pi-elllium oifer
below, which is open only to lllicliig.-;a.ii Gi'ailg'e.~'.

7. CON’[‘ES'l‘ \VILL (‘LOSE IVIARCH 1, 1894.

ELECFINT PREMIUMS.

  

     

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IIIISCE LLAN E0 US.

Grauges can choose from the list of supplies printed on page seven of the
VISITOR. We will have to add 10% to the prices there given, when ordered as
premiums, for postage and packing.

The “Gem” ice cream freezer, receiver to pay express charges_____ g 3 quart’ 3g 38

The “Grange Token” .................................................... -- 1 50

SPECIHL PREWIIUMS.

An earnest Patron, who wishes to see the VISITOR a

weekly, has donated $25 for the use of the VISITOR in this

contest. This enables us to be even more liberal than We had

intended, and as a further incentive to the securing of large

lists we will give these special premiums to Michigan Granges,

in addition to what the Granges will secure by the regular ofi°e'r.

I. To the Grange getting‘ the largest list of subscribers, in
addition to the regular premiums due them, we will give
the choice of

1. An elegant set of Badges (for Oflicers and 25 Mem-
bers) made by the Wliitellead & [long 00., New-
ark, N. J.

2. An Improved Companion Oi-gall.

II. To the Grange getting the second largest list, choice of
1. A fine 20 foot flag.
2. Webster’s International Dictionary.

III. A Special Prize to each Grange‘ in that County from
whose Subordinate Grangcs shall be sent the largest num-
ber of new names.

 


    

8

I‘I:IE GRANGE VISITOR.

FEBRUARY 1, 1894.

Nofices of Meaiiings.

THE LOWELL DISTRICT COUNCIL

will be held at the Keene Grange hall,
February 10, 1894, at which time the new
oflicers will be installed by Bro. D. H.
English.

0. E.JENNlNGS, Sec.

KENT COUNTY I’OMO.\"A GRANGE

will hold its next meeting at Harmony
Grange hall, February 14, 1894, at I0 o’-
clock a. in. Business meeting in forenoon.
Program for afternoon session:

Music, Harmony Grange choir.

Address of welcome, Sister H. C. Hogadonc.

Response, Brother Norton of Rockord.

" Business depression and its effects upon farm-
ers,” Brotherjohn Preston, S. I’. Peterson, and
Henry I-Iogadone; Sisters lames ."Ial‘Illl, and A. A.
VVilson.

Select reading, Sister Thomas Graham.

Music, Harmony Grange choir.

Essay, Sister Ellis L‘. Maynard.

Recitation, SisterM rtie Preston. _ _ ,

" American citizens ip. its respoirsibilities and
duties," Brothers J. Best, R. Dockerv. and Jarvis
Brown; Sisters S. C. Petersen, and Martha Edison.

Recitation, Sisterjohn Graham.

Music.

Members of Pomona Grange are ex-
pected to be prepared to speak on any sub-
ject before the Grange. Fourth degree
members are cordially invited to be present
and take part in the exercises.

Evening session will be devoted to volun-
teer songs, recitations, and five minute
speeches. Let all come prepared to do
their part. Fifth degree will be conferred.

Bro. Thos. Mars, Past Master of the
State Grange, will be present at this meet-
ing. All surrounding Granges are invited.
Harmony will furnish dinner and supper
for all.

‘-\'.\l. T. -\ll.\_\is, /.rr1.

E .\ TO.\' l’O.\I()X A .

Eaton county Pomona Grange, will rnect
with Charlotte Grange, February 10, at

io:30 a. in. All fourth degree nieriibers
invited.
I’RO(}R:\.\l.
.\‘Iornin_g scssiorl, hlisiricss, C0llfL’l'l'lll2’ lifth de-
gree, etc.

Dinner, l.‘. in. Call to order r:_i<i p. nr_, slrnrp.

Roll call. response by quotittiorrs.

Select reading, niinlreld (:vl‘:I.l‘l_*_"t‘.

Recitation, Miss huggliec, (llivet.

Paper, “ Visible Inflirerires, " .\[rs.. XL-llic .\:l\~
ton.

Discussion, ied by (‘liar lotte Grange.

Recitation, Miss jcirriie Hull, \'i'iridsur.

Paper, “ Our jury svsfem.” F. S. Osborn.-.

Discussion, led Ivy Bellevue Grange.

Exercise, Harry Carr. liaton Rapids.

Informal talk, led by John Hull, \\-' .VI. \\'indsor;
subject, “ Opportiiriities and possibilities of young
men.”

Music, under the care of Miss Loula
Pray of \Vindsor, will intersperse all exer-
cises.

Come early and brine‘ your basket.

Miss O.  CARPENTER, Ln‘/.

 

A GOOD POIl\'TER.

V‘Vhy should you be idle for one hour.‘ No use
in the world for it. Every moment of the working
part of each day ought to be employed. The busy
peo le are the happy people. B. F._lolinson Sr Co.',
of ichmond, \'a., are offering in today's paper to
show you how to turn every hour into solid cash.

Grange. News.
Continued from page 6.

New York.

St. Lawrence county practices co-opera-
tion to a considerable extent, and finds it
profitable and economical.

Oneida county Pomona passed strong
resolutions regarding the passage of the
bill before congress relative to the sale of
oleomargarine, so that it may come under
state laws.

The State Grange meets in Utica, Feb-
ruary 6-9. The prospects are good for a
most interesting session. The New York
legislature is in session this winter, and the
Grange has several ofiensive and defensive
measures to push.

The Herkimer county agricultural soci-
ety have elected their entire set of oflicers
from among the Patrons, and it will now
be a Grange fair.

 

.“IlS(‘eIl:lIl90llS.

The Connecticut State Grange re-elected
Master Geo. A. Bowen; resolved upon a
campaign of tax reform; urged a widening
of the scope of the office of dairy comrnis-
sioner; endorsed heartily the action of the
National Grange = n woman suffrage; and
continued the committee on \Voman’s
\Vork.

A novel feature of the Grange work in
Connecticut is the formation of degree
teams for the purpose of making the degree
work more impressive and efficient in all
parts of the state. There are four degree
teams which have been selected and drilled
hy State Master Bowen. These teams are
attired in the proper costume and regalia
of the Order.

\Vorthy Master Belcherof Rhode Island,
closed his address at State Grange as fol-
lows.

“I believe the principles of the Grange
and its real objects were never better ap-
preciated than now, Labor has compelled
the earth to yield up its treasures, and has
made her more productive. Our mission
is to educate, protect and elevate that
labor. I find the conviction growing upon
me that the Grange has become and will
continue to be a permanent institution. I
know that a bright future is in store for
those who follow its precepts, and that as
time passes our Order will growin strength
and honor,"

Bro, W, R. Williams. Master of the
North Carolina State Grange, delivered a
very able address at their last session. He
took occasion to recommend the GRA_\'(;r-:
VISITOR to the farmers and Patrons of his
state.

OUR ADVERTISE RS.

Notice the illustrated notice we will give
next week.

You are going to buy seeds this spring;
‘why not patronize our advertisers. Look

  

  

their advertisements over and write to them
for catalogues. Tell them you saw their
advertisement in the VISITOR.

\Ve would suggest that you look over
the advertisement of Mr. B. F. Foster, of
Allegan. He can give you prices on bug-
gies, harness, and farm tools in general.

LIST OF GRANGES
which have sent in new names for the
Grange contest. Please correct errors
at once.
New
Granges. names.
Keene No. 270 _________________ __ 131
White Oak No. 241______________ 38
Butler No. 88 __________________ __ 18
Bowne Center No. 219 __________ __ 17%
Montgomery No. 549 ___________ __ 13
!Union No. 368 _________________ __ 11
Hesperia No. 495 ______________ __ 10
Alutnnia No. 585 _______________ __ 10
Adams No. ‘.286_--_,_,__-_-__,___ 9
Orion No. ‘.139 ______ __' ______ -_ 8
Peninsula No.663________,__,_____ 8
Lapeer No. ‘.246,___ ____________,_ 8
lapitolNo.5-10___-______-_,____, 71/2
C-learwater No.6T4-______,_______ 6
Excelsior No. 692 ______________ __ 5
Grattan No. 170 _______ __ ____ 3
Danby No.l85____,-_ _________,_ 5
Sodus No. l23______,_________,_, 4/1,4
Alpine No. 3-18 _________________ __ 4 T
Charity No. 417 _______________ __ .1
; Pennlield No 85 ________________ __ i
IR-ockford No. 110 ______________ __ 4
‘liinglrani No. 667 ______________ __ 3
Inland .\'o.503,_______,_________ :3
Fr-einont, No. -194 _______________ _ _ 3
Bradley No. 669 _____________ __ 2};
Rome Center No.293______________ 2 V
\/Vright: No. 307 _______ __ _ _______ __ 2
Wyandotte No. 618 ____________ __ 2
Pleasanton No. 55 ______________ __ 2
Iiarnartl No. 689 _______________ _ _ -3
Forest. No.361,___,_______,______ 3
Eliath No. 659 .................. __ 1/
‘ Mt-. Tabor No. -13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _ 1 T
Cascade No. (}3_________________‘ 1
Trent No.272__‘___‘____~_V ____ 1
Rural No. 37 __________________ __ 1
Cranston No. 393 ______________ __ 1
Bruce and Armada ____________ __ 1
Glass River No, 688 ____________ __ 1
Pipestone No, 194 ______________ __ 1

 

LIST 01*‘ COUNTIES
from which new names have been sent
in the Grange contest:

 

 

  
  

  

 
 

Ionia ......................... __ 136
Ingham ____ 45%
Kent __________________________ __ -35%
Branch ________________________ __ 13
17
13
Newaygo ______________________ __ 13
Kalkaska ______________________ __ 11
Muskegon .... _: ______________ __ 11
Hillsdale ______________________ __ 9
Grand Traverse ________________ _ _ 3
Oakland ___________________ _ _ _ 8
Lapeer__-____,_________________‘ 3
Clinton ________________________ _ _ 61/2
Berrien ________________ _ __ _ 61/2
Calhoun,,_______________________ 4
Huron ________________________ __ 3
Benzie ________________________ __ 3
Allegan _______________________ _ - 2%
Lenawee ______________________ __ 2' "
Manistee __ ___________ __ 2
Charlevoix____ __________________ 2
Gratiot ______________________ __ 2
Mecosta__ 2
Macomb _______________________ _ _ 1
ShiaWassee________ ______‘_______ 1

 

' THE MAGAZINES.

The February Atlmrlic has an interesting
article on Tammany Hall. Every one at all
interested in political questions will be re-
paid in securing this number of the Allanlic
lust for this one article. Single numbers
are 35 cents.

The Arena for February is a rnanificent
Midwinter issue, containing 164 pages
Among the contributors are Rev. M.
Siwagey Rev. Washington Gladden, D, D,;
Heinrich I-Iensoldt, Ph. 'D., Congressman
Jphn Davis, Stinson Jarvis, Rabbi summon
5Ch""dle". Helen Campbell, and Rev. Hi-
ram Vrooman. The editor contributes two
important papers; one dealing with unin-
vited poverty, the other an argument
againt medical m_onopol_v. A striking fea.
ture 15.3. symposium by six well known
American women on “ Rational Dress for
_\Vomen. ’ Fhis Symposium is profusely
illustrated. Altogether, no Review of the
month will be so attractive to progessive
persons as the Midwinter Arena. The pub-
lishers announce that hereafter The Arena
will contain 144 pages, making it the largest
monthly Review published.

1719 1.rzdies’ [lame :7'm(rmzl for February is
called the midwinter number. The editor
gives some wholesome advice to husbands,
not new husbands, which the wives of the
, respective husbands will appreciate. We
i notice that the men. as well as the ladies,
J like to read the /.¢1rz’."zr.s’ llume 7011101111.

The complete novel in the February
number of l.1'p}5z'ncott’s is “ The Picture of
Las‘Cruces,” by Christian Reid. The
scene is laid in Mexico, and chiefly in the
ancient house of a noble family, where an
American artist undergoes a curious ex-
perience.

Gilbert Parker’s serial story, “ The Tres-
passer,” reaches its sixth chapter, and makes
its hero acquainted with his uncle, who is
the villain of the tale, and with sundry
other factors in his new life.

PRAISE FROM GRANGE 545.

.\"rwrt_)'g'n C0., /Vic/1., A/‘av. 29, 1893.
Mn. 0. W. INGERSOLL:

DEAR Sin -Some eleven years ago, we
painted our house with your Liquid Rub-
ber Paint, and it has given us entire satis-
faction, the building always looked nice till
recently, and we now propose painting it
again, so write asking that you mail us
sample cards and particulars that we may
make and send you our order. I recom-
mend your paints to all whom I know in-
tend to paint, and say a good word when-
ever opportunity presents. VVith best
wishes, I am,

Fratcrnally yours,
Cr-ms BLODD.
[See Adv. Ingersoll's Liquid Rubber
Paints.—En.]

A BIG PAPER.

The (;/,,'.-"go Inler Oremz, that great Re-
publican newspaper, has not suffered by
the recent era of financial depression but
has gone right along adding to its founda-
tion stones—a large and substantial circu-
lation ‘_witha stride that under the circum-
stanccs"is truly wonderful. At one tiine
additions to the subscription list were com.
ing at the rate of 800 to 1,100 per day for
the daily issue, and as high as 1,500 per day
for the \Veeklv Inirr ()('F(lIl.

The result of this is to place it easily

at the head of the list of great Chicago‘
It is certainly a good, clean, ‘,

newspapers.
family ne\\'.spaper‘ of the highest order.

 

'l'Iil‘l l.‘Jl"I'l.0UK.
.\ I-'.\.\lII.\' l’.-\l‘l-ZR.

'/'/re’ ()l(!!ou/.' (New York City), will havc
for the coining V621)‘ many new features
and fresh attrat. , Since its change of
name it is :1 new series of the Christian
L'nion— it has gained perceptibly in popular
favor. and in I394. it will be stronger and
better than ever. “ Its lloliday Book Num-
ber”(l)cccrnber 2, 1893) contained 84 pages,

   

being one of the largest issues of a weekly ,

paper ever printed. Other special num-
bers of each year are the Midwinter and
Midsummer Outing Numbers, those for
Thaiiksgiviiig and Christmas, the Educa-
tional number and others as special occa-
sions arise. Illustrations are frequently
used. '1'/zr Olrfluwl-'.~' seI'i(ts‘ of “cover por-
traits” of distinguished men. drawn by .\'lr.
V. Gribayedoff, will be continued. Special
articles, fiction, sketches, poems, news,—
political, economic, social and religious—
sermons, papers on domestic problems, en-
tertaining talks and stories for children,
high class personal gossip, talks about new
books and their authors——these and many
other features help to make 7720 ()/(flank
an interesting and almost necessary family

paper.
THE WORLIYS FAIR FOR

LOOK AT IT. The Michigan Central
has arranged with one of the best publish-
ing houses in the United States for a bean-
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ures, to be known as the Michigan Cen-
tral’s Portfolio of Photographs of the
VVorld's Fair.

The original photographs would cost not
less than a dollar apiece, but the Michigan
Central enables you to get 16 pictures for
IO cents.

It’s the finest. It’s the most complete

It’s the best. It cannot be beaten.

If you saw the World's Fair, you want it
as a perpetual souvenir of a memorable
visit.

If you didn’t get there you want this to
see what you missed, and to fill your mind
with its beauty and glory of the \Vhite City.

Call on the nearest Michigan Central
ticket agent and he will furnish you with
the first part and tell you more about it.

SALE.

 

AN UPRISING

Invariably follows the planting of Salzer’s
Seeds of which an advertisement appears
on another page of this paper. A specialty
of the Salzer Seed Comprny are choice
Farm Seeds, Oats, Potatoes, etc. Of oats,
they have a variety which yielded 216 bush-
els from one bushel sown. Their vegetable
seeds are recognized as infallible. Our
readers will do well to send 5 cents for
postage on their handsome catalogue, 130
pages of pictures and pointers. Address
the John A. Salzer Seed C0,, La Crosse,
Wis.

Farms in Isabella Coiinty

Avi:R.—\r;l-: .-\BOl."l‘ SE\'E.V'T\' ACRES EA('ll.

Beautiful homes, large barns. fruitfui orchards,
neat country school houses and churches, thriv-
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rosperity of the people. The schools and col-
eges of Mt. Pleasant are excellent. Oats, CI0_\’6l‘.
sheep, potatoes and fruits for general farming;
corn, hay and rich pastures for (lairying and
stock raising, have made many farmers Well Off;
others are rospering, and so can you. Unpu-
proved lan s, valuable timber lands, partly im-
proved farms, and farms I'll hly improve(l,‘and
choice city roperty for sale or really low prices.

For szunp es of descriptions of such property
as ou may desire and feel able to buy, peleasc
adifi-ess COOK'S REAL ESTATE AGE CY,

Mt Pleasant, Mich.
TRIAL

,  500. sE1's.

sec B-16 pkts. Vegetable Seeds. -
“ E--'10 kts. Flowerseeds, - -
“ I-‘-10 oval Carnation Pinks,
“ G—l0 Prize hrysunthenriims.
" l{—4 Sn erb French Cannes.
“ -I-10 E egant Roses.
“ l|I—2-l Fine Gladloliliulbs, - -
“ P—6 Hardy Oi-narnentalshrubs.
“ R-6 Choice Grape Vines.
lé each of any two sets, - -
No two plants allke In these sets.

Any 3 Sets, $1.25; 5 I0I' $2-

By mall, postpaid. Sate arrlvaland
satisfaction (guaranteed. Order by the
letters from t is advt. NOW as these MB
introductory sets not in catalogue. an
elegant annual of 168 pages. free.
Eve:-ythlnfipf the best i‘or0I-chard.
Vlne ' rd. awn and Garden. 40th



year. .01) acres, 28 greenhouses.

STIIIIIIS & HARRISON 80..

PAINESVILLE, OHIO, Box 76

         

. _ ,, .
‘ F‘
SULII Ullht A GUARANTEE
trim lr. is po:l(l\"JIy sell‘-regulating
rind will Lalcli fully 50 per cent.
of fertile eggs, or it can be returned
'. and money i'elum_led. Reason-
able in price. Se-It-Regulating:
BROODRRS. Send 4 cents for catalogue.

H. M. SHEER G. Bi-"IO., Quincy, III.

  

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Michigan State Agricultural College.

I.EV\7IS

G. GOR.'I‘O1\T, President.

The institution has a teaching force of t.wenty-five professors and instructors,
and is fully equipped with apparatus for Scientific investigation and Practical
Agriculture. and wit.h machinery and tools for the use of students in the depart-

ment of Mecharrir; .-\ rts.

Library of 17,000 Volumes.

Finest special laboratories

in the State.
COURSES EH Bl{A(‘l<2:

Agi-icnltiin-, Botany. Englisll Langiiage llrnwiiig,
Dairying, ,t.iitomolog*y, and Literatiire. French,
Horticulture, Zoology, Engineering, German,
Florii-ulture. Yeti-riuar_v, Meizhariit-s. .\‘lilitar_v 'l‘a¢-tics.
Chenlistry,

Vext term be_:.-;iils Moii(la—y, Fe-bi°iiai'_v 19, 1894.
For catalogue and full information address,
IRA H. BUTTERFIELI), Secretary.

Agricultural College. Mich.

Roor-iiixic

GUM-ELASTIC R.O()l~‘ING FELT
costs only $2.00 per I00 square felt.
Makes a good roof for years, and any-
one can put it on. GUM-ELASTIC

P.-{INT costs only 120 cents per gal. in bbl. lots. or $4.50 for 5-gal. tubs. Color

dark red.

Will stop leaks in tin or iron roots that will last for years.

Try it.

Send stamp for salnples and full particulars.

(}Ul\'I—E I. A S’l‘I(.‘

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RUOFI.\'(r‘r C/0..
A39 and 41 VVest Broadway,
New York.

 

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We are the largest growers of farm and vegetable seeds in the world. _
_ Corn. Clover Timothy, Grasses, Potatoes. c-tc., in enormous quantities. 1,000.
~ 00'.‘ F.-cries and Plants. 35 pkgs. earliest Vegetable seeds, €:llOll|'_’Il for a_ garden,

- paid for 31.00. 18 pkgs. late Vegetable seeds. 50(- Say 0 i
yielded 216 bush. from one bush. sown! Did you -ever h
and vi-.tal~»;:\ie free upon receipt of 8c in stamps. 10 . _
Our great critalorrue. l3‘) pn::e.=, for an pns'Yfl2e.

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Write to-day.

LA-CR‘?S_SE.W|S.

 

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IS Drtlereut ll‘0Ill Others.
It is intended to aid the planter in selecting the seeds
best adapted for his needs and conditions and in getting

from them the best possible results. It is not, therefore, highly

colored

in either sense; and we have taken great care that
nothing worthless be put in, or nothing worthy be left out. We
invite». trial ofour Seeds. We know them because we grow them.

Every planter of Vegetables or Flowem ought to know about our

three warrants: our cash disco
papers to purchasers of our Seeds.
the catalogue, is copy of which can be yours for the asking.

J. J. H. GREGORY 6 SON,

unts: and our gift of agricultural
All of these are explained in

   

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60,300
. ——lN use-

BARREL ATTACHMENT.

  

A valuable illus. liotrk (wnrtlr $5.01)) given to each
purchaser. .*~‘A'I‘].\'FA("l‘l0N (-‘ITARANTEED
or Jloiiey Rcfundeil. lllns. Book on SP|'3)'1n§
Free. Rapid sellers One Agent has already solc
over 2,000. For full partrcrrlars and terms. address

- - . . -*3 AUTOMATIC MIXER. _
l"”  ’ Errilorsi-(l Iry tn.» ll’il".lllg limnnlologists of the Us

FARMERS,
ATTENTION

I sell direct and ship to all parts of
the United States.

I can Sure you Money
Buggies arid Harness

or any Tools wanted on the farm.

I am State agent for the C0llll‘llI)I&l
Scale and the Common Sense Post
Hole Digger. I manufacture and
sell Hewitt’s Aiitoniatic Adjust-
able Stock Iiuck.

I can Surprise You on Prices.

Write for circulars and state just’.
what. you want.

B. F. FOSTER,
.-\lleg':ui, Mich.

P. S.—I want agents for Hayward's
Sheep Dip.

GEM IEEHEAM IIIEEZEH.

  
      
      

lmitated by All. Eqiiulled by None.

Pails of best White Cedar.

Gearing completely covered.

Double action with self-adjusting
scraper.

Cans well made of heavy tin plate.

Inside parts coated with pure block tin.

Iron work thickly and smoothly gal-
vanized.

Requires smallest possible quantity of
ice, hence, economical in use.

See Premium List.

Gil GHIGKENS av sralmlit
.- “"°'°‘ Excelsior lncubalori

Simple. Pr,ry'ec!, Sr.’j_‘-}.‘r_r/ll»?
Iruim . Thousands in sac»:-
cessfiil operation. Guu.ran._(
_’, teed to hatch in larger per-'5
" cantage of fertile eggs at
' less cost than any other}
' Lowest priced“

  

   

Clrouluu free. ;
Sendflc fur

. Hatchet made
lllns. Catalogue.

L, QI|lney,Ill.

viii.-..spRAv l0 ACRES. PER DAY. P.     (‘.l1‘.,s“l)i"IIl.(fZN.Y‘

Never Fail I Why ?

Ilecausethelightseedisallwashecl
out and what is lelt. must row.
Oneirial willconvince on. .ata-

logue and Garden Gui is FREE.
Heman Glass. Seed Grower. Rochester, N.Y.

Water-

  

Grange Seed House.

For ten years I have supplied Patrons
of Husbandry with Seeds under a con-
tract with the »

New York State Grange,

and am now supplying Patrons in sev-
eral States on the same terms as those
in New York. My discounts to Patrons
are 10 to 331,,’ per cent from the regular
catalog prices.

All Seeds Fresh and True to Name,
and (lfl.l'eI'lllI_Y Tested.

Glass’ Illustrated Catalogue and Dis-
count Ciruular to Patrons sent FREE
on application.

Address
HEMAN GLASS.

Seed Grower,
Rochester, N. Y.

GRANGE iprnzcronvi

Patrons Will Find ThesemFiriiis Reliable and
Can Get Special Prices From Them.

flit: HAVE NO AGENTS

But Save You money on everything you eat. wear
1 or use. Send 8 cents for full catalogue.
H. R. EAGLE & co.,
. 68 Wabash Aye., Chicago.
Mention Grange Visitor.

The Smith Implement Jr, Bn (‘.o., 22 and 24
East 3d St. Cincinnati, 0. hagsgia contract with
Grange of Ohio and Indiana to supply their state
and furnish goods at wholesale rates when the
order comes under the seal of the Grange. We
extend tbe_ same invitation to the Grange of Mich-
igan. ~W rite for catalog and prices.

Special induc ments all th ti

P' A35 ° 5 3.:-:‘:.£::°*a*“l°*“e;' ‘$9?’ 5%‘?

rgan mm o.
Factory. York, Pa. Place seal
of your Grange on your letter paper, or send
trade card to sfscure benefit of special manufact-
urers‘ prices direct to Grangern.

Tlis Honey Creek Grange Nurseries have
been under contract with the State Grange of Ohio
for over ten years, and have dealt extensively in
Indiana and Michigan also. Special prices sent to
anyone under seal of the Grange, Give us 3 trial_
V\'e can save you money. Address

Isaac Freeman & Son, Rex, Ohio.

PATRONS' OIL WORKS. DERRICK OIL CO.
I"; G- BELT-AMY. Prop‘:-, Titusville, Pa.
Liibrieating and Burning Oils of the in heat
gualit_.v,at wholesale prices. Try our Elil-,9 um-
mg 011, made specially for family nae. Write for

prices. Address DERRICK OIL C0.,
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LANSING, NICE.

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