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Another question of public interest has
presented itself for discussion. Stanley
VV. Turner, Auditor General. has been
drawing salary at the rate of $3,000 per ‘
year, since May 27, 1893. There is now a
very serious question as to the validity of 3
the law granting him that salary, and it is
not impossible that he may have to return ,
to the state several hundred dollars illegally »
drawn. The legislature of 1883 passed the
following law regarding the salary of the ;
Auditor General. The italics are ours, iii- ,
serted because they have reference to a mat- f
ter of which we shall speak later. The
section is Howell §341a.
The Auditor General shall receive from and after ‘
the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred J
and eighty-three, an annual salary of lira I/musnmi =
dollars, payable quarterly, yearly, or monthly out of i
any monev in the state treasury belonging to the
general fuvnd not. otherwise appropriated: Paovinisn, l
He shall not (II.)'(’("/[gr or i'iut'z'ri.-r/If receive any _/ms, ,
mileage, or ;>:-rquz'si'lrs it’/Ialet'(7I' for the performance
of duties connected with his otlice excepting actual ,
personal expenses while away from llzcsral 43/ _.r_rn-in i
ernrncnf in the discharge of his oflficial duties. 1
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We are able to find no subsequent law
affecting this statute except act No. 128 of
l the public acts of 1893, which reads as
follows, the italics again being our own:
AN ACT to iix the salaries of the slate o_/7z‘rm'.»
ruzmeel in //Ir’ ro/1.~‘(ilI11ioII qf I/u'.s‘ slate.
SECTION i. Tiii-: PEOPLE OF THE S'|‘A'l‘l~Z or
I\IicHiGA_\' E.\'.\c'r, That certain State ofiicers l
named in the constitution of this State shall have and
receive annually the following salaries, respectively, ,
the same to be paid pro rata monthly, on the warrzmt 3
of the Auditor General, vi’/.: The Governor, four
thousand dollars-,tlie Lieutenant Governor, twelve 3
hundreddoll;u‘.\';1l‘ic Sccretar_v of State. two tlions- «
and dollars; the Coinmissioiier of the State l.:in'l
Ottice, two thousaiid dollars; I//r .lm/i/or (.mzwn1/
f/Irre I/mmum! t/r//lzu'.~'.' the b'upei'inteiidcnt of Piililic 5
Instruction, two thousand dollars.
Section 2 provides for an 21p}’)l‘Opl‘l1lll0ll of the
zibove amounts for the purposes naiiicd. ‘
This act is ordered to take immediate ellcct.
Approved i\Iav 27, 1893.
The question we raise is whether the :
Auditor Genei'al’s salary has been cousti— 5
tutionally increased. The act of 1895 is 3
unconstitutional, a re-canvass of votes show-
ing that the constitutional amendment on 2,
which it was based was defeated. VVith ,
reference to all of the state otficers men- ;.
tioned in the act of 1893 except the Audi- 3
tor General and Governor, the act is uncon- l
stitutioiial. Is it then constitutional with
reference to the two remaiiiiiig officials, the 5
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Governor and the Auditor General? _ 3
Again, the act of 1893 is “ An act to tix ‘
the salaries of the slate officers named 1’)! q
the constitution of this state." (‘an it be E
construed as an act to fix the svalary of the ‘J,
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Auditor General solely.’ V\ as_ that the
obfeci of the act, and was such obgect clear-
ly stated in the title? _
Another point that may not be one of 1
law but is undoubtedly one of fact, is the ',
proposition that the salary of the Auditoi :
(lmeral would not have been increased
last session had it not been that. the sala-
ries of the other otlicers were increased.
The Auditor General practically, and to all
intents and purposes, prof_ited_ by ill? Sl1p- j
posed passage of the constitutional amend- ;
ment.
Then should he alone, of all the p&,,y_
Mll.lUllNlll’S Sllllll.
, the latter, the law creating the telephone
* gave per (lien: to the Auditor General, was
s share of the act of 1893 is constitutional,
’ of its passage, the entire act of 1883, pro-
1 viso and all, is the following bill entii'e.ly
, months of January,_February. March, April, May, being
I hotel bills and traveling expenses. $92.10.
‘ fied by "being;” and yet as used in some
v nothing to assure us that tliese expenses A
V were incurred while “away from the seat
. of government.”
‘ prove that these expenses were legitimate
may possibly be explained, but that look
' rather queer, to say the least.
? instances.
~ R. R. Co. of $47.75.
‘ in the limit set by the law?
state f'I‘6((sltl'y «luring 18.93.
oflicers affected by the statute of 1893, 1‘9- i
ceive the benefit of an increased salary '.’_ 1
We should lilge to hear an oflit-1a_l op11i- 2
ion on these points. They may be 1I1S1lfl1-
cient to prove the increased salary 1incon- .
stitutional, but they are at least well worth
raising.
Aiiotlier Qiiestion.
There is also a most important question
that arises iii_coiinectioii with Mr. Iurners
bills for services. ‘Even if the law of 1893
is constitutional, with reference to the Au-
ditor Gent-:ral's salary, did that law repeal
the entire act of 1883? Or did it affect
merely the amount of the salary? Did it
repeal that proviso of the act that speaks)
so explicitly about fees and perquisites.
tirely unnecessary.”
: Tui'iier’s friends cl:iini were collected dur-
’ very transparent.
msitti,iiieamifi.i.iiicii ii-;. i
If it did not repeal the proviso how will
Mr. Turner explain those per (iir-in ex-
penses for services on various boards?
How could he legally draw per (limit for
lould he even
receive the per (limii allowed by the law
creating the board of review of telephone
and telegraph lines? And indeed, as to
board was passed in 1881. So far as it
it not repealed by the act of 1883, quoted
above. raising his salary and refusing him
perquisites?
.\ l“aiill._v Hill.
But suppose that the Auditor Geiieral’s%~_
and suppose that it repealed, by the fact
clear‘:
May ill). 1893, for services on various boards for the
The act of 1893 did not take effect until
May :27, 1893. Previous to that time the
act of 1883 was certainly in force. Now I
does the word services mean expenses? It
would seem so in this case because quali-
other of Mr. Turner’s bills it calls for a
per diem. Possibly this bill may‘_be per-
fectly proper, but it should have been more
explicit. And then again, we have really
“Hotel bills and travel-
ing expenses” is too indefinite a phrase to
under the law of 1883.
‘ some Queer Traiisactioiis.
We wish to point out a few facts that
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1. The law states, Howell S 368, that “all
vouchers for expenditures shall set forth
each and every item for which any dis-
bursements were made.” Here is one of
Mr. Tui'ner’s “itemized ” vouchers:
Nov. :31. 189?. To expenses collecting specific taxes. De-
troit. Flevelanrl. Saginaw. Jackson. etc.. $l‘!2.6n.
his looks like a clear violation of the
statute, and is but one of many similar
2. Nov. 24, 1893, is a bill for expenses in
collecting taxes of the Wisconsin Central
The taxes of this com-
pany were paid July 7, and the law allows
the railroads the month of July in which to
pay. Why this bill of expense four months
later? Also, why (my expense in collect-
ing these taxes, when they were paid witli-
Eight bills of the Auditor General and
his son Harry show expenses for collecting
mining taxes of $266.28, including the
Mountain Iron Co., which we suppose was
a mining concern. Inquiry at the office of
the State Treasurer reveals the fact that not
one cent of mi'm'7ig faxes was pttid info the
-I. There are numerous and heavy bills
allowed Mr. Turner for collecting specific
taxes. In conversation with a gentleman
who is well posted as to the workings of the
departments at the capitol he said: “ I can
not see the least advantage in Mr. Turner
traveling so much for the. collection of
these specific taxes. If the taxes are not
paid within a certain time they begin to
draw interest. Then if not paid on de-
mand of the Auditor General it is his duty
to begin suit for the recovery of the same
with interest, and the state has a first
lien upon the property of a derelict com-
A letter answers every purpose in
making demands, and a personal trip is en-
But how about those back taxes that Mr.
ing 1893'.’ was asked. “ Well, I happen to
know a little about that. The matter is
There were several rail-
roads that were hard pressed for funds
with which to pay their 1892 tax, due in
July, 1893, and allowed theirtaxes to accu-
mulate. But those who did not pay dur-
ing July were charged interest on their
taxes, after July 31, 1893, and when
later on they secured the money to pay the
taxes they also paid seven per cent interest
‘Q. assessment should have been made and the
— ,__-work of the board for the year practically I
._the fall for telephone and telegraph inat-
_,ters, some being dated as late as November.
‘railroad fare in those cases “actual ex- ,
7 ’.§:91 in si=hstam:e.nn:f_nl‘r2i':s' . ,
la matter of fact there was but one road
:~‘%Lhat during 1893 paid any taxes for any '
gyear previous to 1892, and the taxes of the j
’ latter year, as I said l)F’f0l't'. were not due
until July. 1893."
The law states that the assessiiient of
gtelegrapli and telephone lines shall l,1(“ made
'-during the month of July. We can 1‘a"B.(l- 1
‘ily see why, during that nioiith and some
ip1‘8C(‘(llll;_{lll01!lllS, it would be necessarv
to incur expenses for an examination of l
the lines. but we cannot see any necessity 3
for expense subsequent to July, when the
completed. Yet bills keep coming in all
ti. Mr. Turner has a bill allowed of $72 for
‘services on the land board in 1893. This
is probably the swamp land board; but we
can lind no provisions in the law creating
that board which allows any compensation
whatever to inenibers of the board.
7. W'ill Mr. Turner deny that he had
and used a pass on many of these trips for
‘which he charged railroad fare? ‘V8.8 his
ipense,” as stated in the law? .
It looks as if an official investigation of
Mr. Turner’s conduct of affairs is required. ,
WHAT 01110 l“.H{llIl-IRS W.\N'l‘.
The annual agricultural convention of the
state of Ohio, for the reorganization of the
state board of agriculture and the discussion
of subjects of importance to the agricult-
ural interests, adopted resolutions which
That all farmers should favor the teach-
ing of the elementary principles of agri-
culture in the common schools; that as a
practical means of increasing the wealth
and raising the tax duplicate a dairy de-
lfiln“ fr1s.
APPLE i~ArLEE+j.
R. M. KELLOGG.
The decline i11 Michigan orchards began
about 1858. About that time there went
over the state a regular mania for chop-
ping out the tops of apple trees. “ Pro-
fessionals” started out in every direction,
and the more they could cut away the bet-
ter. In many instances two-thirds, and
even more, were cut out at one time. The
balance between root and branch was so
disturbed that the trees became enfeebled
and were attacked by fungi and borers and
ceased to be fruitful, and finally disappear-
ed altogether. There are some principles
involved in pruning that can never be lost
sight of. The leaves are the lungs and
stomach of the tree. If these are cut away
so that the food taken up by the roots and
sent up could not be properly digested, the
whole system becomes disarranged in the
same manner as a gorged animal, and dis- i
ease follows. Fungi and insects always 5
attack a weak tree just the same as the
sickly animal.
The early orchards were quite generally
started as seedlings and afterwards top
grafted into the desired varieties. As a
rule seedlings are more hardy than the
average budded trees. The scions were
very generally taken from the best bearing
trees, were fully matured, and seldom failed
to come into fruiting early and continue
so for a number of years.
The demand for trees to take the place
of the declining orchards was very great,
and the eastern states, particularly western
New York, had quite a monopoly of the
business for a number of years, but the
west finally waked up and nurseries sprang
into existence in almost every direction.
The nurserymen’s directory now contains
something over ten thousand names and
firms. Competition was sharp and there
lost her prestige as an apple growing state
is quite erroneous. This impression was
largely brought about by the Columbian
exposition, where western land companies
and land subsidized railroads made large
expenditures for fruit exhibits as an adver-
tisement, much of their fruit display being
bought in Chicago markets. There was no
available money for Michigan growers, ex-
cept in their own pockets, until near the
close, and comparisons as actually made
were against us; but the fact remains and
is well understood by every state in the
Union that Michigan does possess advant-
ages for fruit growing not enjoyed by any
other states in the west. The lakes store
up great quantities of heat in the summer
to be given off in the winter, thus temper-
ing the blizzard, and later store up cold in
the shape of great ice fields to keep back
early spring growth until danger of frosts
has passed by. Michigan does suffer less
with spring frost than any other state, ex-
cept possibly New Jersey and Delaware.
Our orchards are now quite free from
fungus, are set heavily with fruit buds, are
recuperated, and prospects are decidedly
brighter for a large crop than for several
years. The grower who sprays his trees,
cultivates them properly and thins the fruit
so as to prevent overbearing, will reap a
harvest. The conditions which brought
about the failure of the last three years
are not likely to be repeated soon, and in
any event we have such facilities for de-
stroying fungus and insects that failure is
impossible.
/rmin.
SWINE NOTES.
A. H. WARREN.
Try more pasture for the pigs this year.
Fatten and market the boar that has
nothing but pedigree to recommend him.
The average period of gestation with the
sow is 112 days, the time however may
vary a little.
Dirt and filth may not always produce
disease, but cleanliness will always help to
ward itoff.
VVith good care hogs give returns so
quickly that even if only a small profit on
each lot is made. the results. are satisfactory.
A sow of a good breed that will bring
two good litters of pigs a year will pay a
better profit in proportion to the cost than
begana mad race.to see.wl1o could prr)dIi2i¢7.r"bl,I« any other animal,
the trees and put them on the market the
cheapest. Nurserymen who were skillful
and honest were soon crowded out.
THE TREE BROKER.
It is one thing to grow a large stock of
trees, but quite another to put them on the
market and let the world know it. It re-
broker” came to fill a “long felt want”
among that class who had grown trees but
could not sell. This festive broker buys
far and wide, furnishes each with splendid
a victim as his customers. The stock was
generally a conglomeration of everything,
some years. The scions were taken, as they
now are generally, from nursery rows, oft-
an immature, and more often set in pieces
of roots in such a way that the vigor is
destroyed or injured.
Nearly all trees now set out are “root
grafts,” and while persons high in author-
ity in the pomological world have endorsed
the practice, I am yet constrained to say
that it has a degenerating influence, and if
continued will end the apple industry.
The man or men who shall move in the
right direction do not appear to be in sight
at present, but they are coming.
The agents of these swindling “ tree
brokers” are getting some pretty hard
knocks and the time when a local nursery-
man can grow trees on good stocks with
“ fruiting scions” and sell for a price com-
mensurate with the cost, is not far distant.
Fruit growers in the past seem to have
belonged to that large “ get something for
nothing” class, but they are seeing their
mistake. The question for the future will
be, “ What are we getting for money paid?”
DISEASE UNDER CONTROL.
We have made wonderful pro ress in
mastering the insects and fungi. t is now
safe to say that we have them practically
under control. I believe there is in the
future a bright prospect for the orchardist
who starts his trees “ as of yore” and uses
modern methods and appliances for destroy-
ing the enemies; who sets his evergreen
wind breaks at the same time he does his
trees, or perhaps better several years be-
fore, and cultivates and prunes properly
and timely. Such a man will find in his
orchard a money getting piece of property.
The slovenly cultivator of the future must
take a back seat. It is intensive horticult-
ure that pays.
MICHIGAN STILL AN APPLE STATE.
\Vhile exercise is necessary for the brood
sow and growing pigs, they should not be
As the season for pigs is at hand it
should be remembered that the new born
pig is almost as sensitive to cold as a baby,
and if once thoroughly chilled there is a
stay in his progress and prosperity that, if
not fatal, is for a long time injurious.
Provide a feeding floor for the hogs
rather than feed in the mud; pile 11p the
refuge and manure and haul it out.
The boar is only half, and you cannot ex-
pect very fine thrifty pigs from an inferior
sow; so see that the sow is equal to the
sire and a good one.
Be sure and keep track of the time the
pigs are to come, as a few hours at the
start will often save a valuable litter. If
you do not know the exact date for her to
farrow, keep an eye on her, and when you
see her scraping up all the straw in her
reach be sure and make preparation for
little pigs.
Because a hog will eat most anything
that is given him when he is hungry is
hardly sufiicient reason why he should be
given filthy food. Good, clean, wholesome
food makes pork that is palatable and
delicious.
Ovid.
THE CARE OF SHEEP.
C. M. FELLOWS.
This month and next are very important
in the care and management of the flock;
breeding ewes will need especial care. They
must have good bright hay and a liberal
feed of grain; an excellent mixture is corn,
oats and bran. It is poor economy to neg-
lect the sheep because of the low prices
of wool and mutton. If you cannot keep
the whole flock well, better kill off the less
desirable, feed their flesh to the chickens,
and sell their pelts to buy grain for the
rest of the flock.
As warm daysfof spring will come, lang-
uor and lassitude will come with them, and
their effects will be felt with man and beast.
The sheep will show despondency the soon-
est of any animal, and what looks more for-
saken than a poor old sheep that can
scarcely get up? Such specimens are a
poor recommendation to the feeder and an
expense to the owner. Again we say,it does
The prevailing idea that Michigan has
not pay to keep such; kill them to
compelled to take it by foraging for a living. ;
get them out of this misery, and feed
the rest better. The flock during lambing
time needs especial attention. While plenty
of feed is essential it cannot fill all the
bill; lambs may come weak, or the flow of
milk may be retarded, when a bottle of
milk may save a lamb. _
The dams should be well tagged previous
to lambing time, but do not employ a man
to do this work who catches a sheep by the
wool, or handles it roughly on the bench.
Any man who catches a sheep by the wool
ought to be caught by his hair and made
to feel that kind of treatment. It is just
as easy to catch a sheep under the neck,
or by the hind leg, which does not rupture
the ligaments which bind the pelt to the
flesh of the body as does the catching by
the wool, and yet the latter way is prac-
ticed by many owners of sheep who ought
to know better. Keep the best of the
breed of sheep which you fancy, and keep
that breed well.
Saline.
STABLE MANAGEMENT OF COWS.
I. N. COWDREY.
A cow, for good results, should have a
stable so warm that water won’t freeze in
it at any time during the winter.
A stable can be made warm at a small
expense, by using tar paper, tacked on by
laths, or a poor quality of lumber nailed
over it.
A warm stable pays many times the ex-
pense of fixing it, in the less amount of
food consumed during one_ cold winter.
A gain in milk, a saving of feed, a saving
of manure, and a clear conscience are the
direct results of having your cows in a
comfortably warm stable.
I always can sleep better in cold, stormy,
wintry nights, by knowing that my cows
are occupying comparatively similar
quarters to my own.
Cows should not be allowed to stand out
doors on winter days unless it is warm. or
they have a chance to stand in the sunshine
on the south side of a building which pro-
tects from the wind.
Always provide fresh water for your
cows, that is not colder than 40 degrees.
Ordinary well water, freshly drawn, will
answer the purpose very well.
I find that a tobacco pail full of clean
mangels, fed night and morning to the
cow, increases quantity and quality of milk
very much. This also saves hay and grain.
Cows need a change of food as well as a
person. I feed, this Winter, clover hay,
corn fodder, millet, mangels, small pota-
toes, and corn, with the very best results
The old cow is always ready for her meals.
Quietness, warm stables, a variety of
food with a proper understanding how to
feed it, mean a full milk pail: and a pail
full of such milk means more butter than
from a pail full from cows that have to
hump up on the warm side of a fence dur-
ing the cold winter. Cows treated in this
way usually have no variety of food.
You can usually judge correctly the
character of the man by the care he gives
his cows.
Ithaca.
KILLED THE BEDS.
Duzrislungr, 0e1K'Zaml' C0,, [Ilia/1.
Saturday morning February 24, the mer-
cury lowered to about 20 degrees below
zero, which destroyed nearly all the fruit
buds for the peach crop of this year in
this locality.
JACKSON Voonnsas.
Every farmer knows that bad roads
sometimes keep him from town when prices
of grain are high, and thereby cost him a
good profit, knows how much time he loses
by traveling over bad roads, and how much
larger 9. load his team would pull if the
roads were hard and smooth. Every farm-
er knovs that a considerable item in his
annual expense is the repair of wagons and
harnesses, whose strength and safety have
been crippled by bad roads, and how much
more it costs to keep three or four horses
instead of one or two, as he might with
equal service with a system of good roads.
—C'olman’s Rural World.
Much of the success of good farmers is
due to skill in marketing. For this 3, care-
ful study of the different markets is neces-
sary. The farmer needs not only to be in-
telligent about his own business, but also
to keep posted as to what farmers in other
localities are doing. For these reasons he
must be a reader of agricultural newspa-
pers.' They may not tell him more about
farming than he knows, but they give him
the views of other practical farmers, and
they supply information which enables him
to market his crops most successfully.—
C'olm(m’s Rural World.
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MARCH 15, 1394.
PHE GRANGE VISITOR.
Woman’s Work.
A RETROSl’E(‘T.
She always seemed so bright and fair,
The sunshine lingering ’round her head,
And rippling through the golden hair,
And mingling with the words she said;
Our voices joined in sweetest song,
The tribute of each glowing tongue.
Her voice was sweet, and warm, and glad;
The beaming eyes had power to charm,
And every look and motion made
A glowing picture bright and warm;
The soul was in the radiant face,
And filled and brightened all the place.
We wandered through the leafy wood,
Along the oft frequented way,
Our words rang out in merry mood,
And hope gave brightness to the day;
The sweet content, the heartfelt bliss,
Are ’inong life’s precious‘ memories.
\Ve gathered ’round the festive board,
And social cheer crowned all the scene,
Her hands the bounteous feast had stored
\Vith all the grace that love could bring;
And there’s no finer form of art,
Than willing hand and loving heart.
S:\M1,‘I£L TRo'i'.\i.-nz.
Alrlrw, ll/it/1.
LEAVES FROM OLD OAKS.
OLD OAKS FARM.
Mare}: 12. I’ve been dreaming on the
mat before the fire instead of writing of
the day’s doings, as I should. It must
have been the position I fell into, when I
dropped down in front of the open stove,
that made me think of what Miss K. said
of a picture she saw at the World’s fair.
It was a painting of a girl, sitting with her
arms carelessly clasped about her knees; on
her limbs were silken but loose bands, 11
butterfly had alighted on her finger and
by her side was a serpent. Her face looked
dreamy,——the girl was asleep.
The bands could be slipped off, the but-
terfly caught by moving the thumb the
fraction of an inch and the serpent grasped
by stretching out her hand. She was
called, “ The Fettered Psyche”——tlie bound
soul. Her real fetter was not silken bands,
but sleep. If she were only awake, but
she was asleep.’
The picture is still so vivid to me, and
the companion picture of a soul, that Miss
K. colored with words. Bound, is it?
Hemmed in? Cut off on this side, shut in
on that? Thwarted, deprived of freedom
to do its best? Can the fetters not be
broken? May the butterfly symbol of
Immortality not be caught? Shall the
serpent, Wisdom, not be taken up? What
fetters this soul? Clearly, nothing but
_ sleep !
Can it be, I’ve~been asking myself, that
people in our own little neighborhood are
some of them asleep? Perhaps I may be,
in the way she meant.
Allen Dreg said yesterday, “Less than
a month and I’ll be out of this. Then we’ll
see what can be done somewhere else!”
Miss K. said so many girls are looking
forward always to the “ full, free life” they
would live when the present is past or when
their circumstances are different. The “full,
free life” can neither be lived, they fancy,
in the present, nor in the old home on the
farm when schooldays are over.
I couldn’t help but think of what Maude
S. said once: “ Oh, Ruth, I can hardly
wait to try my wings!” Was she, too,
asleep? I know our quiet country life
seems commonplace and narrow to her since
she began going away to school. She feels
that perhaps she ought to stay here after
she finishes this year, but if she does,
she thinks it will be the burial of the life
she might live and the girl she might be-
come. I wonder if these home circum-
stances are really her opportunities and
she would see it so if she would only open
her eyes. Right here and now, whatever
the surroundings if duty placed us here,
Miss K. says, is the one place in the world
to unfetter the soul in and live the “full,
free life ;” that the very difliculty we wish
out of the way, is the one, may be, to make
us strong by meeting it frankly.
If all the luckless, discontented folks we
know are asleep, what a sleepy lot of souls
we must be! I believe we do console our-
selves that we are chained by fetters of
“ ifs.” If this were not so, if that disa-
greeable fellow were out of the neighbor-
hood, if so or so would come to Grange, or
sing, or speak, or play; if the times weren’t
so close, if he wouldn’t smoke or she wouldn’t
chew gum, if I only had a chance and you
had a new gown, if he, she, or it, this, that,
or the next were only something else than
they are, how glorious would be our soul
records!
And what if all the “ifs” are only sleep
and no one can awaken us so well, so very
well, as—our very selves.’
RUTH L. Rnsrnv.
WOMAN’S TRU E VOCATION.
[Paper read at Ingham county Pomona, by Mrs. A. Ayrss of .
I . .
sing, MlCh.]
From the beginning the lords of crea-
tion have had things pretty much ‘their
own way. In every profession and in all
the departments of public life they have
monopolized the honors and enjoyed the
lion’s share of the benefits. The claims of
women have for the most part been sys-
tematically ignored, or when admitted, the
, favor has been conceded ungraciously or
with jealous reservations. The “lesser
man,” as the Laureate politely designates
woman, is permitted to share all the troub-
les and afiiictions of the sterner sex, and
this is assigned to her as a duty. It even
has been afiirmed, and many foolish people
believe it. that whenever any special mis-
fortune befalls a nation or a family, a
woman will be found at the bottom of it.
This charge is a very old one, for the first
man, when tasked with the sin of disobedi-
ence, sought to throw the onus of guilt
upon his partner. “The woman,” said
Adam, “whom thou gave-st to be with me,
she gave me of the tree and I did eat.”
The sacred volume does not show that it
needed persuasion to induce the first man
to break the commandment, but it does
our mother Eve. “ Ye shall not surely
die,” answered the serpent, when she de-
clined to transgress, “for God doth know
that in the day ye eat thereof, then your
eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as the
gods, knowing good and evil.” Now here
were held out to the first woman two pow-
erful temptations, first the fruit itself, that
was good for food and pleasant to the eye.
and secondly, knowledge which all desire
and which woman was the first to gain.
We do not read that Adam waited to be
persuaded at all, but on the contrary we
are led to infer that he greedily snatched
at the apple Eve held in her hand and of
which he did eat.
Indeed, when it is considered how rigidly
woman has been excluded from those em-
ployments which lead to success in life, the
wonder is that she has accomplished so
much. When the opportunities have been
presented to her, and where she has had a
fair field, she has as a general rule maintain-
ed the honors, the dignity, and the nobility
of her sex.
AS A Rl'LEIi.
Asa ruler, where the law has allowed
her the functions, woman will compare
favorably with man. In English annals it
would be hard to find two reigns during
which more good was accomplished for the
people or greater glory for the nation than
during those of Elizabeth and Victoria.
And although it was probably never in-
tended that woman should be the leader of
armies, yet where fortune has forced the
duty upon her she has performed it with
at least average success. Maria Theresa
and Joan of Arc are but types of many
more whose lives and actions afford in-
structive lessons to the world. In litera-
ture, where the race is more equal, despite
sex has been subjected, woman has, all
things considered, acquitted herself cred-
itably.
AS AN AUTHOR.
Frequently has she inspired men to do
what possibly she might not have accomp-
lished herself and what would have remain-
ed undone without that inspiration, to re-
form laws, to beautify cities, and to add to
the treasures of art, science, and literature.
Who can estimate the influence of an As-
pasia, a Leonora, a Beatrice, a Laura, or
the scores of others associated with men
eminent in the history of the race, without
speaking of those who distinguished them-
selves in the olden times or during the me-
dieval ages in literature or in art, or of
those who since the commencement of the
modern era, up to the close of the eighteenth
century exercised so much power in Italy,
in Germany, in France and in England.
If we glance at the last forty years we shall
discover much to excite attention and ad-
miration. In France, Madame de Stael
took rank among the most accomplished
authors of her country. In England, J o-
anna Baillie, Mrs. Hemans, Mary Howitt,
and more recently Mrs. Browning and Lady
Caroline Norton, with many more, have
won distinction in the pleasant fields of
poesy. Mary Somerville was the compan-
ion and friend and intellectual equal of the
foremost mathematicians and natural phil-
osophers of her day, and Mrs. Lewis, bet-
ter known as George Eliot, stands at the
head of England’s novelists.
In this country also woman has vindi-
cated her title to literary distinction. Mrs.
Sigourney, Frances Sargent Osgoode, Mrs.
Welby, Margaret Fuller, the two Davisons,
the sisters Carey, Harriet Beecher Stowe,
to which list many might be added, have
greatly enriched American literature.
TEACHING IS HER TRUE VOCATION.
But it is not in politics, in philosophy,
or in literature, that woman finds her true
vocation. It is in teaching. Woman is by
virtue of her position and by the circum-
stances of her life the natural, it might be
said the legitimate instructor of the young.
To mould the youthful mind, to inspire it
3 with good resolutions and noble aims, is
her especial function. Nearly all great
I
! men have attributed whatever good there
i is in them to a mother’s instructions and
| advice. _
{ In the age of chivalry it was to the ladies
that the training of nearly all the youth of
gentle blood was entrusted. The first step
in the course was the performance of the
duty of page in some baronial castle, where
show that persuasion was used to beguile .
the inferior training to which the weaker”
the young lad in the quest of the honor of
knighthood was accustomed to wait upon
the lady of the house, to do whatever she
bade him, and to receive, either from her
directly or under her guidance, such in-
struction as might best fit him to achieve
distinction in arms or in letters.
TEACIIING THE ARTS OF PEACE.
Tliere is little doubt that while the in-
fluence of the church tended very materi-
ally to lessen the atrocities of war during
the medieval era, the influence of woman
was almost. if not quite, equally powerful
in the same direction. In the gay king-
dom of Provence the ladies not only en-
couraged the cultivation of poetry and song,
frequent-ly awarding the prize of excellence '
to the fortunate troubadour, but were them-
selves often successful competitors for the
honor of the laurel crown. But as has
been stated before, teaching is woiiian’s
vocation, and recent years have witnessed
a great improvement in the means employ-
ed to make her more efficient for the dis-
charge of the teacher’s duties. In an ad-
mirable address by Profossor G-oldwin
Smith in Toronto, he remarked that in the
last century in the rural parts of England
scarcely any schools were to be found ex-
cept what were called " Dames’ Schools,”
in which old ladies who knew nothing
taught all they knew to the children of the
peasantry. This sarcasm would scarcely
apply there now, for elementary education
in that country, although not yet all that
enlightened educators would desire, has
made in the interval very considerable
progress.
As CAPABLE AS MAN.
Experiment proves that woman, properly
instructed, is as capable of working out
educational reforms as man is. Before so
many of our colleges were open for the
education of women, Tennyson, in his
“ Princess," gives the views of Lilia, who in
answer to her brother says:
"There are lllUll>‘&lH(l> no\v
Such women, but convention beats tln.-in du'.\ii.'
It is but hringiiig up: no more than that.
You men li:1\ L‘. done it; how I hate vou all.
Oh, were I soinetliing great: I \vi:~'h'I were
Some niiglity poetess, I would shaine you then
That love to keep us children: Oh I wish
That I were some great princess: I would build,
Far off from men a college like ii man‘:
And I would teach tlirin all that men are iaiiglu,
\\"e are so quick. .
To which her brother replies in the sar-
castic way usual with men:
"Pretty were the sight
If our old halls could change their .sc.\ and llilunl
\Vitli prudcs for proctors, (l0\V1lg(‘TS for deans,
And sweet girl graduates in their golden hair.
I think they should not wear our rusty gowns
But move as rich as I-Linpcror .\Inth._ _ _ W
Worthy Master Horton is sending out
Grange literature to those districts where
there exist good prospects for establishing
Granges.
We have numerous good articles await-
ing publication. Our space is so limited
that oftentimes our best articles have to
wait several weeks before we can find
room for them.
There is room for a Grange in every
township in Michigan. No neighborhood
in the state, no matter how rich or how
poor, but would be benefited by a live
Grange in its midst.
Are you getting the young people of
your neighborhood interested in the
Grange? If not, why not? One by one
the Old Guard are falling. Recruits must
be enlisted and drilled and prepared to
march against ignorance and greed.
Has Michigan a single able man at
Washington who can be said to represent
the people, “the common people,” of this
state? Michigan has a splendid soil for a.
great commoner to grow in.
Ambitious young men on the form will
find the Grange the best school of oratory
they can attend. They can there learn to
use good, strong English, and to say just
what they mean, two requisites in speaking
that all speakers do not possess.
THE VISITOR AT TOTVN MEETING.
Every Grange in the state should make
a special effort at the coming town meeting
to secure subscriptions to the VISITOR-
Appoint a committee who shall distribute
sample copies and urge subscription. Send
for samples. Some of the articles in the
issues of March 1 and March 15 ought to
‘ be interesting reading to farmers and tax-
payers. _
LOOKIN(}' TO THE FUTURE.
The Grange should always look well to
the future. are working, not for our-
selves, alone but for those who will follow.
‘V8 build today that the structure may be
nearer completion tomorrow. A prov-
ince in which we must not neglect this
foresight is that of legislation. We believe
in certain reforms in the statutes. and we
purpose to agitate them until they are
accomplislied. That is our theory. But
to be practical we must work unremittingly.
These questions must be discussed thor-
oughly. ()ur neighbor farmers must be
persuaded, and when the legislature meets
we must present a solid front for certain
laws that will inure to the good of the
people. Let us discuss the questions con-
tinuously, that all our members may
become well informed concerning them.
READING FARZPIERS.
The reading farmer is not necessarily a
“book farmer.” Some folks are awfully
afraid that they will cease being “practical”
as soon as they begin to read books.
Some farmers share this feeling. Happily
the day of such nonsense is passing. But
reading farmers have difficulties to meet.
You can’t do much solid reading after
plowing all day. Ten or twelve hours in ..
the hay field are not good preparation for
devouring Adam Smitlfs “ W'ealth of
Nations.” But read in the long winter
evenings! Yes, that is right, and when
the chores are done. and supper eaten,
and John sits down by the fire to read
Locke “On the Understanding,” you are
sure that the problem is solved. John is
conqueror. But pretty soon his eyelids
close, he nods, he snorcs, his understanding
is locked in slumber.
There are difficulties in the way of the
young man on the farm who desires to
. become a student. Difficulties! Did we
say? What are they? There are two
ways open to the young farmer. He can
read, and study, and think, as other men
read, and study and think, and he can
then maintain his place beside them. Or
he can loll, and snooze, and sleep, and find
himself in ten years outstripped by his
former equals. VVhich portion will ye
choose‘?
OUR VVORK.
“ \Ve believe in studying and promoting
the improvement of our district schools.”
It is a truism that our educational sys-
tem is the foundation wall of our republic.
lVe cannot exaggerate its importance. If
we imagine its demolition, we can scarcely
picture the results that would follow fast.
Anarchy and lawlessness have their birth
in ignorance; virtue and sobriety are
nurtured by the light of knowledge. The
great, the all absorbing problem of the age
is education, embracing all pursuits and all
endeavors, standing for the real end of all
our struggles, institutions, philanthropies,
and sacrifices.
Down the years of our history the school
has been the measure of our progress. It
has ever been the beacon light signaling
the hosts of civilization to prepare for the
subjection of the wilderness. Our school
houses have been seeds dropped in the
fertile soil of a new nation, that, maturing,
have borne as a fruitage the strong men
and noble women whom we are proud to
call Americans.
The material support for our schools has
liberal. School taxes are today probably
the heaviest item on the tax roll. The ex-
pense of the great system of our cities is
enormous. And aside from the disposition
to grumble, which is every citizen’s prerog-
rative, our people are not unwilling to
pay the school taxes. As a rule, everyone
appreciates the value of the school house.
But the people of the country are con-
fronted with the fact that in the past few
decades the city schools have gone
away beyond the country schools, in what
we like to term progress. Compare the
modern city school building, its architect-
ural beauty, its sanitary features of heating
and ventilation, its fine furniture, with the
insignificant, weather-beaten affair that too
often forms a feature of rural landscapes.
Fence down, half the blinds off, seats awry,
ventilated by brokenpanes, a general air of
desolation, discouragement, and lonesome-
ness all about. Perhaps this picture is not
quite fair, because we have set over against
the best city school, the poorest coun-
try school. But the difference will be
recognized by all. And it does not stop
with the architecture. In the city every
appliance is furnished. Trained teachers
are procured and kept. Systematic instruc-
tion is given from start to finish. In the
country there are often makeshift teachers,
without training or ambition. Frequently
there is a scarcity of maps, books, and
other illustrative material. System is too
often the whim of the new teacher.
This condition of affairs is rapidly
changing. Our country schools are every
year approaching more closely to the point
of greatest eificiency. VVe do not say to
the exact standard of the city schools, for
we are not willing to concede that the city
system is perfect. Or rather we are con-
vinced that as a system it is too perfect.
It is a machine shop,warranted to take the
child at six years of age, no matter what its
race, color, or previous condition of servi-
tude, and, by putting him through a series i
of twelve machines, each of superior de-
sign and workmanship to the lower one,
guaranteed to turn out 3. finished product.
The only difficulty is that you ca.n’t. be sure
of the precise nature of the product except
that it is finished. You don’t know before-
hand whether an invalid, an idiot, or a
future congressman will stand before you
on commencement (lay. The country
schools have many advantages, and we
hope that in the progress being made in
district school work, the weakness of the
city school system can be avoided.
Nevertheless there is great need of im-
provement in our district schools. And
the Grange purposes to aid in that im-
provement if possible. It has committees
whose business it is to visit the schools and
ascertain the chief things needed to make
them more eflicient. These committees work
in harmony with the office of Public
Instruction, at Lansing. \Ve regard this
work as of utmost importance, and are glad
to record the recent advanced steps taken
by the State Grange along this line. The
work is entirely in accord with the great
Grange principle of education, and must
prove helpful to the schools. There are
many other phases of this part of our work V
that we must reserve for future discussion.
STATE POLITICS.
State politics take too much color from
national issues. This is the result of
modern party organization. “Practical
politicians” will tell us that no other Way
will answer. But look at the question a
moment. As a state what are our inter-
ests? The tariff? Silver? Yes, but we
are but one of many states interested in
these issues, and we have but a fraction of
influence concerning them. Have we not
interests that are bound by the great lakes?
Have we not questions arising within our
own borders, which affect our prosperity
vitally, and which we alone must solve?
We think so. And we mention some of
them.
1. Suffrage. Who of us shall vote?
Shall we have manhood suffrage, or man-
hood and womanhood suffrage, or educa-
tional sufirage? What shall we do with
the foreigner‘? Shall we let him vote at
once, and educate him by his vote; or shall
"we put him to school and educate him how
to vote? Here is a question that is funda-
mental in all governments. It is ours to
meet, as citizens of Michigan.
2. Nominations. Shall the people nom-
inate a man to serve them in a public ca-
pacity, or shall the man who wants to have
public position make servants of the peo-
ple by inducing them to nominate him?
Popular government turns on this point
largely. And We must work out the prob-
lem on the hills and under the pines of
Michigan. '
3. Elections. When you vote, shall you
be allowed to vote precisely as you choose?
’ Shall your vote be counted just as you cast
it? Or shall unprincipled men thwart
your intentions and make you vote for a
man or an issue you do not favor? Just
now these are paramount questions in
Michigan, and we must answer them by
our own efforts.
4. Administration of affairs. Is public
office a public service, or is it a reward for
party fealty‘? Is the business of the state
done on purely business principles, or do
favoritism and spoils creep in?
Here are four questions that lie at the
basis of government by the people. They
involve great principles and hold in their
possession tremendous results. Practical-
ly we must meet them as citizens of Mich-
igan, rather than as citizens of the United
States. They are left to us purposely and
we can not shift the burden.
Then there are many problems arising
from time to time that are matters of poli-
cy. Such as the following:
5. Taxation. How can all property be
made to pay its proper share? Or how
can the burden be placed where it can
most easily be borne? How shall we se-
cure the necessary revenue with the least
burden to any one ‘B Many are the legisla-
tive battles fought on this field. Deep
and intricate are the theories and their
application.
6. Local government. How can the peo-
ple of township, city, and county most
fully secure the managemeiit of their pri-
vate afl’airs? An important problem, and
one sure to come to the front.
7. Control of corporations. Corporate
power is greedy, aggressive. increasing.
' What shall we do to make the beast tract-
able? We must meet the question soon.
8. Liquor control. King alcohol reigns
well-nigh undisturbed. His crowned head
lice easy. We pursue our ways, and he
follows his work of destruction. VVhat are
we going to do about it?.
9. Schools and colleges. \Ve have dwelt,
in another column, on the importance of
our educational system. It is 8. primary
question and must not be relegated to
theorists.
10. Prisons and charities. Two words,
a little unpleasant to the ear, but involv-
ing momentous problems and sure to in-
crease in importance.
11. Pure food. Do we know what we
eat? Do we know how much of disease is
due to food impurities? It is time we
knew.
12. Transportation. A practical ques-
tion, embracing wagon roads, their con-
struction and repair; railroads and their
supervision as to rates, accommodations,
and protection to travelers, etc.
We have enumerated a dozen topics that
we all recognize as of utmost importance,
subjects worthy the study of our best
minds. But how do we vote? Do we vote
for legislators because of their attitude on
these questions‘? Rarely. Very seldom
are such issues made paramount in state
elections. But how do we vote? Why,
we vote for a certain legislator because he
thinks he believes in a protective tariff; for
another because he thinks he believes in a.
tariff for revenue only. Probably neither
one really does know very much about the
tariff, but he is elected on that basis. Or
more truly it might be said that we vote
for a particular man because some one who
wishes to be United States senator wants
us to do so. Our legislators are not infre-
quently elected to elect a United States
senator.
Politicians will ridicule the idea. that
state politics can be divorced from national
politics. They will claim that it never can
be done, that it is absurd. It won’t be
absurd if the people think that the present
anomaly is more absurd, and it can be ac-
complished if the people want it accom-
plished. We fully believe that we can
never hope for the best results in state‘ gov-
ernment until this reform is a fact.
The Grange is the only farmers’ organ-
ization iu the country which has kept itself
free from political intrigues and alliances,
and which has the universal respect of all
classes.
1
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MARCH 15. 1894.
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THE GRANGE VISITOR.
5
The beciure Field.
HELLO!
The principal patents in the telephone
expired recently. It is generally known
that the Bell company charged so very
high prices that lines outside of large
towns were a luxury not often indulged in,
while the Bell company gathered the
lion’s share, “charging all the traflic will
bear,” and is now firmly established on the
list of the millionaire concerns of this
country. This company still controls sev-
eral patents running for a long time yet,
and will avail itselfves of every advantage
to hold supremacy of the business, and
will undoubtedly be a strong competitor at
commercial centers and long distance lines.
The telephone, however, is a very useful
convenience which can now be had quite
cheaply, compared with the past ruling
prices. Villagers and farmers should now
join hands in establishing local systems,
upon carefully arranged co-operative plans,
avoiding all chances of fraud by scheming
organizers. Build permanently, operate
carefully and equitably, at actual cost and
necessary expenses.
The Harrison International telephone
company has stepped into the field, organ-
ized with a capital of $80,000,000, thirty
millions of which is issued, and is offering
inducements to small towns and communi-
ties, and placing their rents at about one-
third that formerly charged. VVhile this
is competition leading to a great relief, it
is guarded by patents already sustained by
the courts and will not be likely to touch
the bottom of free use which will be neared
as the protection goes off, or unprotected
instruments are manufactured.
Radiating from Tecumseh, Micli., is a
local system of telegraphy with about 100
miles of lines in use and to be increased as
soon as spring opens. The central office
holds connection with the “ great lines”
whose business is considerably increased
annually by these locals which run through
the surrounding country, dropping in here
and there to an instrument in a farm
house. Quite proficient operators are
plenty in every neighborhood, the chil-
dren and young people catching it up very
readily. The many convenient uses_ to
which it is put make a great saving of time
and trouble. A single message, sent di-
rect from the farm to the factory in harvest
time, often saving more than a year’s _ex-
pense of the line; while as a help in calling
the doctor or doing domestic errands, it
cannot be measured. The running expen-
ses after construction do not exceed two
dollars a year to each instrument. We
can readily see many advantages of the
telephone in such a use, and think it rea-
sonable to expect to see them soon radia- -
ting through the country in advance of
rural mail delivery, and largely increasing
the rapidly growing business of the “great
lines,” with whom the most friendly rela-
tions should ever exist.
A. J. C.
F0 HO R. €O
Mo'r'ro—-“ Begin; keep at it.”
THE COURSE.
SOILS AND caoi>s.
‘ Price. Dostpaid
First Principles of Agricnlture.~Mills¢f Shaw.
CLASS I.
1.
p. 1-11 --------------------------------------- -- 5°
2. Soils and Crops.——Mo1'rm0 Hunt.-U ---- -- 75
3. Talks on M_anures-—Ha"1-9 - - - - - - — - — - - - « - - -- 1 1‘;
4. Silos and _Sl18E9-—C?0"------—«-—-~---- ---- -- 1:.
5_ Lug Dra1nage.—M1le8 ............................ -. 6:
GLASS II. LIVE srocx.
1. First Principles of Agriculture.—Mills cl: Shaw.
(pp. 116-250) ------------------- ~-. --------- -—. ----- -- 50
2. Horses. Cattle, Sheep and Sw1ne.~C'urtzs ____ .. 1 75
3. Stock Breeding-—Mll€3-—---—---—-----------<—-— 1 1;’
4. Feeding Animals--3t€w‘""~ --------------------- -- 1 4,
5_* D ’ man's Manual.—-Stewart" ._. 1 32
Sheplierd’s Manual.—S’tet{Iari-.- --- 1 09
Harris on the P18-—Ha"‘ 13 ------------------------ - - 1 3
Home B1-eed1ng,—Sa1|,deTs . _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _ . _. 1
CLASS III. GARDEN AND ORCHARD.
1. Practical Fruit Grower.—'M¢_l1I'wv"1 ------- -— 1 $3
2. How the Garden Pays.-—Grem€7‘ -
3. Ornamental Gardening-“L°7W~ 1 34
4. Insects and Insecticides.— Weed. . ._ 91
5.‘ Gardening for Pleasure.—-Henderson” . _. . l 34
winger GfeenQries.—J0h1w0fl .......... .. - 57
Propagation of Plnnli8---F' 14”“ -------- -- --- 1 00
Home Fl0rici1ltl1l‘8--R€37f°'‘ 11 --------------------- -- 1 13
CLASS iv. HOME iimxmo.
1. Helps for Home Makers -_ ------------------------- -- $3
2. Anna Mai-ia‘s Housekeeping ----------- -~ 75
3. How to Win.—W1llard ------------- -- 95
4. The New Womanhood.7J. C. Fgfrnald... 1 25
6. How the Other Half Lives.—Rm ______ .. .
oLAss v. POLITICAL SCIENCE.
1_ Elamgnta of Political Economy.—El1/.-------——---- 1 g
2. Political Economy-—WalkeT ------ ------------ -- Q ,0
8. American Lommonwea1th.—Bryce. (3 V015-) ..... .-
" Any one Elective.
POINTERS.
The social committee of Fruit _ Ridge
Grange, Lenawee county, succeeded 111 rais-
ing money suflicient to send the G1_tANGE
VISITOR to every family represented in the
Grange for the coming year and so some
forty subscribers were added to the list of
that valuable missionary and Grange edu-
cator. How easy every Grange social com-
mittee in Michigan could accomplish the
same thing. How many Will do it?
committee of the
The Legislative
‘National Grange in pursuance of their
duties have been to Washington and have
had hearings and have been respectfully
listened to by the committees
before
which they appeared and in whose hands
were being considered various subjects of
deep interest to the farmers of the United
States. What influence they had in shap-
ing legislation remains to be seen.
The farmers may be sure of this, however,
that such earnest and candid men as Col.
Brigham and Leonard Rhone would not fail
to place the true facts before the committees
so that they need not act blindly. And
the Grange may feel proud of the fact that
it is the only farmers’ organization, so far
as heard from, that has its working capacity
and practical business management re-
duced to a system sufficient to permit look-
ing after these important questions at the
seat of government whereat the welfare of
the great interests of our country are con-
sidered and action taken in accordance
with facts as they appear before our repre-
sentatives and their (sometimes biased)
judgment will permit.
There has been going out weekly from
the Master’s oflice some 1,500 to 2,000
packages, each containing circulars ex-
planatory of the Grange in all of its broad
field of usefulness and urging upon -farmers
the importance of their assistance and co-
operation in Grange work. These have
been sent to neighborhoods over the state
suggested by the county Deputies as being
favorably located for organizing and sup-
porting Granges. Will these Deputies
and the good Patrons of the various
counties see to it that the seed thus sown
is not lost?
The Patrons of the state must not think
that the trade contract business is being
neglected. It takes time to get such mat-
ters in form and on such basis as is most
likely to be successful. The committee
will soon be able to commence the an-
nouncement of closed contracts and then
additions will be made as fast as the work
can’ be done.
This is the order of things now-a-days:
Agitation.
Organization.
Cooperation.
Improvement.
Progression.
Success. .
GEO. B. HORTON.
A CRITICISM.
In the GRANGE VISITOR for February 1,
is an article on “Education” in whichI be-
came interested. The writer, Mr. Hen-
drick, invites us to come and reason to-
gether. I venture, therefore, to some criti-
cisms on some of the opinions which Mr.
H. has seen fit to publish.
It is not from any desire to appear as a
controversialist that I do this, but I think
it is our privilege, and, perhaps, our duty
to thoroughly examine the foundation prin-
ciples of our theories and opinions. Dis-
cussion is, I think, the best means of sift-
ing truth from error. No member of our
Order will be offended when his views are
called in question. This is an age of in-
vestigation for truth. Old theories, how-
ever venerated by age, must yield to the
search light of science.
The principal point on which I do not
agree with Mr. H. is the foundation of mor-
al obligation. Mr. H. decides that there
is no man so much above his fellows as to
be able to impartially decide what is right
and what is wrong. He then concludes the
matter thus; “There must be some criti-
cism higher than man by which we can
measure our actions just as we do in mate-
rial things. There is, there must be a
higher law.”
This simple assertion is made without
giving us a syllable of evidence, which I
think very necessary, since thousands of
good honest people fail to see any logical
relation between the premises and the con-
clusion.
is that every individual has a conscience of
his own by which he is enabled to decide
moral matters, and that this conscience is
the highest criterion we have. Human
nature in its normal condition is so con-
stituted. “ All reflecting men acknowledge
that both the theory and the practice of
morality have advanced with the general
advance in the intelligence and civilization
of the human race.”
It cannot be contended that the lowest
troglodite squares his morality with the
same criterion as do the enlightened people
of America or Europe.
It is quite generally believed that there
is a striking similarity between the devel-
opment of an individual and that of the
race. At what period in the life of an
individual does he recognize the difference
between his own ideas of right and wrong
and those of the higher law—ab-extra? Or
at what time in the development of civili-
zation is the authority of this so-called
higher criterion acknowledged?
I notice but one other unjustifiable con-
clusion in Mr. H’s. article among several
that might have been selected.
“ We ought steadily to improve until at
last we arrive at perfection. Then there
is somewhere a perfect being now.”
I fail to see that steady improvement
and final fruition of perfection necessarily
It seems to me the general view '
implies the existence of a perfect being
now. Even our ideals are not perfect.
We improve our farms, our horses, cattle,
etc., but there are no perfect farms, horses,
or cattle. The asymptote can never touch
the curve.
P. H. DOWLING.
Romv, /llic/I.
POMONA IN BI{AN(}l{ COUNTY.
()n Thursday, Feb. 22, one of the largest
Pomona Grange meetings ever held in this
county was held at Girard Grange hall, be-
tween_250 and 300 being entertained to a
bop'nti1fu£ and elfeggant ((lilI1(I}l€I‘ by the ener-
ge ic a rons o irar range No. 136.
This Grange has a beautiful hall, well fur-
nished, carpeted, a nice dining room and
kitchen. It is newly painted and is a clean,
léright, lcoseyi Grange home. Girard
range ias a arore membership and I was
very glad to see) so many young people
present during the fourth degree session.
These same young people furnished an
abundance of excellent music throughout
the day, and waited upon the tables at din-
per _1be§utifully. It seemed like a large
ami_y ispensing gracious and loving hos-
pitality to friends invited to their board.
At the morning session the reports show-
ed the Subordinate G_ranges of the county
to be in good condition, beginning the
year with a determination to progress,
some in one direction, some in another.
Butler Grange has its new hall finished
and dedigted, and but a mite of debt on it.
uincy range is just starting its hall
and intends to have it all done and to invite
Pomona by August, This will make eight
good Grange halls in Branch county.
lVe have been holding a banner contest
the past year and this meeting closed the
contest and after dinner applications to
join Pomona began to pour in until the
secretary was fairly overwhelmed with ap-
plications, 102 being the total for the day,
63 belonging to Girard Grange. So you
can see what the contest has done for us,
and it has livened up and in some instances
has more than doubled the membership of
every Grange that has entered the contest.
lVe are only sorry that any Grange has
stayed out, for it has not developed the
least discord, all seeming more interested
in each other’s welfare than ever before.
The competition was spirited but there is
no envy or unkind criticism. I
The program for the afternoon was en-
tirely filled. Sister D. D. Buell read of
“Gleanings from the farmers’ institute,”
and impressed many good points on the
minds of her hearers. Mrs. J. F. Button
gave a recitation. T. H. Cook gave a care-
‘ fa-l synopsis of Professor Coryell’s lecture
on “Orchards and their care.” Mrs.
Chas. Burnett read a paper on “ Beautify-
ing our homes” that was full of good
points. M. L. Evans read a paper on
“The profits of poultry raising” giving
figures that proved it a profitable industry, ‘
Mrs. A. J. “farmer read a paper entitled
“The outlook from our kitchens, how
can we make them cheerful and pretty?”
It was brim full of good ideas and sanitary
thought. To help along the fun that we
always feel is as necessary as anything else
in our meetings, two brothers, each about 60
years old, sang some old fashioned songs,
one of them in German. These brought
down the house. I can’t begin to tell a
tithe of the good things said by many dif-
ferent Patrons. A brief fifth degree ses-
sion closed the meeting and we started out
for a cold ride to our homes. The next
meeting will be held at Butler Grange hall
on Thursday, March 22, at 10:30 a. m. The
morning session will be devoted to the reg-
ular order of business, and in the afternoon
the beautiful degree of Pomona will be
conferred in full form on a class of 125.
Now, what county will step in ahead of
this record? At this meeting the banner
will be awarded to the Grange that has
scored the most points in the last year and
we shall begin a contest of securing sub-
scriptions for the VISITOR, Pomona Grange
offering three premiums to the three larg-
est numbers.
Mas. E. A. HORTON,
Lecturer.
IONIA COUNTY.
The county Grange of Ionia recently
proposed to do a little missionary work in
Grange fields. The planning and arrang-
ing of the meetings was placed in the
hands of Irving C. Goodwin, secretary,
who wisely and carefully made the dates,
and so fully was the field canvassed by
him in the arrangements that the whole
work was without a hitch from the time
we arrived at Ionia city until we finished
the canvass of ten Granges and set our face
homeward.
At Ronald, our first appointment, we
found a bright live Grange, full of good
people, earnest, eager, and thorough in the
work.
From there we went to North Plains where
we found a good hall with everything
ready for a good Grange, save members.
There are a few loyal workers who still
stand by the Order, and who are so
anxious to be again numbered among the
live Granges of Michigan that they called
another meeting to arrange for future
work.
Our next point was Woodard Lake
Grange, some nine miles away. Here we
found a dozen or fifteen oldPatrons loyal as
ever to the Order they love so well
But they are old, feeble, and worn with the
weight of years. They were elderly
men and women when their Grange was
organized some nineteen years ago, and
now they almost feel as though they must
retire. After a lecture they began to con-
sider the advisability of going on or retir-
ing from the service. VVhen -the surrender-
ing of their charter was mentioned it touched
a tender spot, and one old brother over
seventy years of age said, “The Old Guard
may die but it never surrenders. Brother
and sisters, you may vote as you like but I
shall never vote to surrender the charter.”
One young, bright man said, “I live
seven miles away, and I must have the
help and privileges of the Grange. I have
a family of boys and girls and if this
graiige is not reorganized I shall go to
some other Grange even if I have to go
ten miles.” The result of their delibera-
tions was to go on with the work.
Another meeting was appointed and a com-
mittee selected to canvass for new mem-
bers as well as to look up the old.
From here our next point was Banner
Grange, and its name just indicates its
spirit. A house full of eager listeners
greeted us, and patiently sat for more than
an hour while we tried to set forth “The
work before us.”
Our next place was Easton. Here we
were very much disappointed and so were
the Patrons. Special service in a church
near by interfered with our having much
of an audience. It is a Grange whose
members are scattered and who need the
help, care, and attention of the County
Deputy and the surrounding Granges.
Then came Keene, and their name is no
misnomer. With a bright, active, young
woman as lecturer, and a hall full of good
workers, Keene Grange is taking advanced
steps. They have a new master, a young
man who is full of zeal for the cause. We
think the Grange is not only well oflicered
but the rank and file are ready for orders.
South Boston came next in order. Here
we found one of the largest halls in Mich-
igan, with very attractive surroundings.
The Patrons here observe Arbor day and
plant trees and shrubs on their Grange
hall lot. lVe wonder why more Granges
do not do this! An unusually attentive
audience greeted us. ‘Vs were pleased at
the presence of so many children.
Berlin Grange was next. Here we had
an afternoon meeting. This is a live, wide
awake Grange, ready to fall into line, and
is doing very effective work. In the even-
ing we met with them in secret session and
exemplified the unwritten work.
Orange Grange claimed our attention
next. Here was practically a dormant
Grange. A few faithful Patrons are anx-
ious to resume active work again. After
our talk of an hour thirteen new names
were taken, pledged to join the Order, if
the Grange would but reorganize again.
The influence of this Grange in the past has
been most salutary upon the community,
and the people are anxious to have another
good Grange in their midst.
Then to Danby. We have had the priv-
ilege of visiting Danby Grange twice be-
fore. Though the roads were knee deep
with mud a house full of Patrons was in
waiting. Danby Grange is at the front.
Their children who are not old enough to
join the Grange always take part in the
literary work, and they are fast educating
them, not only in Grange work, but in true
living.
l\IARY A. MAYO.
The Grange is 27 years old and is ac-
knowledged the best farmers’ organization
which ever existed. Its decline in some
places is not due to any inherent weakness,
but because its members in those sections
departed from the teachings and principles
of the Order and attempted to make it a
political organization. The leaders of the
Order desireto have the Grange reorganized
in all sections where for any cause it has
become dormant. Write to the master of
the State Grange or to the officers of the
National Grange, . H. Brigham, master,
Delta, Ohio; John Trimble, secretary,
Washington, D. C., and Alpha Messer.
lecturer, Rochester, Vt.
I DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED
by local applications as they cannot reach the dis-
eased portion of the car. There is only one way to
cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this
tube is inflamed you have a rumbling ‘sound or im-
perfect hearlng, and when it is entirely closed, Deaf-
ness ls the result, and unless the inflammation can
be taken out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is
nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous
surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case
of Deafness (caused by catarrl‘? that cannot be cured
by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Sen for circulars; free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0.
[§‘Sold by Drugglsts, 75c.
THE GRANGE ‘VISITOR.
MARCH 15, 1894.
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Parsons’ PA.lN’.l‘ wonxs have sold Iugersoll raintfm ;he Ortleri 1; of il“laIcC“I):[rI”(‘:,A.§t (pg-::s (1:23 Inge]-souis Liquid Rubber pajmg I '
Y H.511-ice its organization. House Paints and (heap Paints or ams an ut- save an Mmdlemenys Profit5_
V: buildings‘ 10‘00_0 Farmers testify to their merits. Grange I.1au5'(l:hmches‘ Soho.“ O. W. PI'Op- Sample Color Cards, “Coiifl(lential” Grange
‘ Houses. DWBUIDBS, 8-U 0V0!‘ thfi landv 90'1"’ "f mam pamled 1" year“ a-9°‘ 5”“ Oldest Paint House in America Discounts, Est mates and full particiilats
looking well. prove them the most durable. 241-243 Plymouth-st., Brooklyn MAILED FREE. \‘Vi-Ite at once.
’ . T . . “"1 . . T . . 1 0,, 7‘
GR.\SSHOPPERb IN )lIN'l‘- ;which has previously been coated The cost of this pan will be about‘ You Dye in $§’.',“.${,,§%‘l,..}.,.‘i§Ell
. ' j" ‘ V ‘ _ {over the inside of the pan for this $1.23, and it Wlll do good work con- _ ‘,,’,’,,‘}",‘f,}‘.{‘,“°1'>.1:?.‘.’.,",.f..§’.',
All those who wish to purchase piirc- , V1“"*’“ 5"» M"’“' ipurpose. The hopperdozer is then sidering the amount of ground it? ITI I I1 Utes §‘,’,‘,f’.‘2",§§‘,-,:';{',,'.‘,‘;‘,"‘;.‘.','
. . . . (urashuppers destroyed several hun- ;d . h _ d th _ ) 1 h h .d: lawman we Bizplyuems W,-he quick, ,.,,,,
bred Stock or any descnptloni W1nfmd,dred dollars worth of mint last year. IE “V911 “P allot er space an .6 Lovers {it Onte’ 8‘ t ‘"13 ’ as S31 ; il33zI.z.,~.,m-I French Dye co..vassar. Mic“-
, it to their advantage to correspond should like to ask the gollege professor{S3D}9 0P91'*It10I1 repeated It 15 _b*’f0I‘9» 1t W01‘kS best Wltll 511181191‘: ,_.__.,_.__._ __.._A. ._...—h
t‘ . ‘ . _ , H to tell us through the V ISITOR how tho)’ 3 easier to collect the hoppers in the insects.
g with some of the following iie ' can be destroyecl. Pmwg DFW ‘cooler part of the day, when they No insecticide is of any use un. ‘Tllfi Hallll'Md(l6 Hdrllfibb 60... l),
kn0Wn bW€d€V5- ( ‘ “ ' lwill not fly quite such long dis- less it be Paris green or London; or s1-znu-ron, MICH.
lg *' ‘ ' ’ ’ ’ AN-\'\\'EhE1’ BY G- 0- 1)A"1h'- ltances on being disturbed. Mr. purple mixed into bran, sweetened E_ D_ HAWLEL P,_e_,_ WM: H_ OWEN‘ 7.7.90,’
‘ H. H. HINDS Although I am not the professor l Hardy, of Tipton, tried this plan with molasses and_ scatteredim _ _l } V0 -’{l'[ _”Wm,t_fn.re
Stanton, Montcalm co who promised to answer any ques- ,1 thoroughly last season by iuipro- through the field 1Il little lumps. ~ \V‘e“§§,,,‘k‘;‘,; ;’,§;'c‘,,','f‘.‘,,f $zf,‘,1,,,,‘1,1:,.,;,,;,, {mm ;,,_,,.
5, Rrwlvr of tion asked. yet I will try, at the re- 1 vising an old sugar pan with one They will readily eat bran prepar- g 365% %1m‘,='§'° 5§*‘,t»’,ef1"-l_r*;f]:'«~'- “fifi,§f::{_;"“”‘,§ 532;“
E _ , . . 1 . 7 . . . . . . . 5 action, .m< prepay rug on . )1 P
Shorthorn Cattle quest of the V IsIT(_)R, and aid in ; side otlianll wings added, and his ed in th1s.way and the poison in it 3 Elolislslon we refer to Hon. H. }{.Hlnd.-i, of sum-
. American Merinogthe protection of mint fields _froi_n;report is that the method proved will have its effect and W111 prob-l ‘ M _.___,___Ad_A,_
and Shropshire Sheep ‘ the grasshoppers, if such a thing is ; much superior to_ all other. reme- ably help to diminish the number; GRAN D COLLECTION
---"W * v’ ' "’v"" practically possible. Any species dies tried by him in protectlng his of grasshoppers. Care must be _ N ' ,.
M- H- WAI/WORTH ‘of insect that attacks a field in celery. It is not an. expensive used that stock do not get access b 5 Nlilogaijfl lgglpfi-a :0b:;’11}h81%3%§t;5£;
, HILLSDALE MICH _‘ great numbers is difficult to control 1 method, and I think will prove to A to such a preparation. N‘°;{'g'*straw‘,;err)/,, Opgrkerylaarle st1_aw_
BREEDER OF . Agmcuuural College‘ : berry, sent on receipt of $1.00.
~_‘. ‘I 3 ‘ Write for price list of Nursery Stock
3 l CHAPLAIN or INGHAM. lin eneral.
, i , , 8 , _ , , p _ _ ._
OF -3--—— C Y _ (This collection will Lli.in5_rc mxt issue.)
' NG*“;,“}/ °g"T‘v l WOLVERINE NURSERY,I’avi' Paw, Mich.
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Also American Merino Sheep of choice quality 1 a I rejoice to learn theft ‘tilgfiecént ’ .~
3|-|RoPs|-"RE HALL $3 ‘ igoinona. Grange meetzlng at White S
me-< mm $.51. “"‘1"‘é‘.S§‘.‘;°§’.?'ii.§‘.i1.¥fi:’d¥:.’§,§.; ow-.=B°~
I-Inanow on sale501_l.egist.ei-ed yearling Rams. ; for its remembrance of me I feel The great watch saver. Saves the watch
25 Registered yearling _Ewes. also imported , ; _ ' from thieves and falls—cannot be pulled ofl"
E13931 purl Rams. 1893 impurtationtoarrive: honored by my reelection to the the case—costs nothing extra.
‘ [,_ s_ ])Uy_HAM, ofhce of chaplain. My prayers and
__ _ _ _ ‘ _, _ ,_ , , best Wlshes go Wlth yo?’ For many The how has a groove ,q
sHROPsHmEs ran ,9: =2°:rh$.‘:"*.¥.8:‘.?.a**:°3;23;*a::“r; ht =-=n°»':n'«‘»v°«'=-‘ax-=%«‘=°‘=»=:
I I _ _ 9 _ _ englnnt (stem) and
Impomd. Registered and Unregistered Fm’ 1' "-“ck Wlfe and your 3151791‘ 111 the fii-in‘i';°i$i;agx.'§°‘ii:sé
References: ax-Gov. Wi1i):ians and _ci1 s. Gregomf ' * s — " "W4 -- . Order. If you see my face_no more I'>:i~;h!_°‘ it;iec_::I=:‘;i‘=x;;e~,
_ _ .B““k°" exte" M” ' ‘at once before doing considerable I be one of the most common sense : in your assemblies, believe me, pulled or twisted off.
T3-iifgcemmi°aiili§§a.Rav"$em3gyEh‘§?fL§}"gielgfifiaff;l injury to the plants attacked. ; things I can recommend. v_when I assure you that my heart]
express. ALENTINE BROS.. -, Though one grasshopper may eat ‘ At first it might seem that a‘pan is always with you. ; can only be had with casts is
___,_,m,_._,.,_§’;_9:_D.":’,"E_‘*’_“.£'E:§but little of a mint leaf in one or could ho-drawn over the Ihmt field, And one wjord to Patrons; stamped with thistradc mark. ‘
A_ 1[_ vvARREN}two meals, yet many such mouths;but it will be found to be impracti— generally. I_think that we farr_n— _;,_,_ Bogs piped watchpasgs .,._.
‘ ‘ 0\'id.)li1-h. A will almost strip a field inafew such ; cable, as it Wlll have to be raised ers, in these times of universal d1S- now fitted with this great bow (ring). They
Breeder of IMPR0VED;days. One precaution, then, is to:to pass over the plants. and not trees, are not the worst off of any l°°l“ ‘Ed l'l‘° sglllldagglfrfissiangz-‘:
.:é..’? CHESTER‘ WHITE SWlNEjwat(_:h th€.lIl’l3O know when they first; break them, and this will largely class. Oh_ no, if we have free y:m‘_‘5 ';‘o1d’°n1y mmgugh watch
3:‘; 'l:3*';'t'°f1;;I:“;;;?l;)-r ic; chgggdlgtg gfogfififi‘ begin to injure the mint, and the i admit the hoppers to the same homes, un1n_cuinbered,We ought to d¢,,1¢,,_ Rcmembenhe mm
recorded. Reduced prices bn fall Pigs. Write. , other one is to be ready to fight privilege. A small sheet iron pan be the happiest of all people. VVe I
‘L°"L“",f"‘,“l 13"_"f‘_‘j°_2‘,’f’_’:._. _ - , them on short notice. (Fig. 2) has been devised for a sin- can sit under our own vine and fig
If you Want First-(‘lass Several methods of control were gle row that wor_ks_nicely in a. small tree and wait. But to_ be in debt is __ _
M E R I N O S H E E P ; given last fall in my bulletin on _ way, though it is intended for the V servitude, and no one in any condi-
OR Ecelery insects, and as celery and;little leaf hoppers and such smallftion of life can escape the pains
w '1'; BRONZE TURKEYS mint are so nearly allied, as far as ; .— w ‘ ., __
l)ft:d%‘l)lll prize winners, of the Dark-Broii7.c, :it tlic I Htt8C‘k the hoppers IS COI1C6I'n- ‘ co‘,
3:433“; :**‘~‘[-liifhiletnn Style 1“‘A:it't5,»]e‘”*l=°;““‘“ T" ‘ ed, the methods will be the same. , P"“-ADELP"'A- V
» ' 4 I'll I) ‘ U, '01] ll ‘ “I U i ‘ .
H 1' 0- NIL-(*‘*3LL0\‘\ --'a1ine»Mi'*h- 1for both, and I can do no better . ._._M,__._,
‘i “T” ; than to reiterate in part what was
6. sllmflgiven there.
V. I
Oliwt, Mich.’ Grasshoppers will not as a uslilial 1 How &tmned_h0w re-
Specialist in C:l.\Kl'1|[lng (‘Kills ivitlmiit use (if rolics, thlng, dedstroy Inlflt or 831? 0t er ‘ E(I)tOdi3d_h:vvdrkliird?iell¥l(id’
cords, claiiips, or liru irons. \\'ri1c for circular, _cu]-tl‘ ate crop as Ong as e grass sigloggilgin not ten yolf;
_d__ A _ _ 7 ____ _ _ _ ___ W, 3 in the meadow or pasture suI'— the poctors can’t or ,
I M rounding dthe min% fizeld remains ,",".f’,f‘,‘V;s§‘;f,§i,}o§,l’_° saga:
' A ktiendeli an gI£l8€lCl_.. u aihsoon as SEXUAL POWERS
lry, ot weat er co(i1nes le tgraslxls ,_,t,.e the Kgytg Life and
with the belief that )eCOI11€S more woo y ant iig book la b] I 3 “pm “C on’ I"
double Walled Hi\'eB are ,E than the cultivated mint. The would riéai§§%§‘.l§itlgtlliofivfllofiiinrliih?
the best for this lati . .'
tude. Send name and hoppei appreciates good feed as
address for my muSm,_ well as we,_aiid is not long in find-
ted catalog of every- ing out a difference in favor ot the
thing needed in 3 P!'80- cultivated mint. The harm begins
or develop members weak by nature or wasted
b disease should write for our sealed book.
“ erfect Manhood." No charge. Address
(in confidence),
ERIE MEDICAL 60., BUFFALO, N. Y.
. t‘ l A is. . I k . Vrhestatf . be fun Ex-i,Medi alOo.
:» ,,1§f'h,,,g"b,:{ the big? I at the, border’ Where the hoppers C9l_Il8Ve1'yhnl§Yl?ly!Ts6g0!1lnelend:d froin the
; . 1. _. . ’ 7 3,113 thwkest 1n the field, and then i cities the have visited and have beenwell
E and sell at Hing p1‘1CeS.; - 1 rece.ved, your people. ‘hey remain long
.j they gradually WOI‘_k farther U1 13-3 g enoughmallow all an opportunity for-tree
Address the plants are stripped of their , ';§’:§3,1,§}.g‘‘}5‘e,§§§_““‘“3 ‘"9" ‘”°“‘°‘“"'
GEQRGE E_ HILTQN, pfolilage. if at this gime y01I11 hsaigg ,,
Fremont, Mich. la Opper Ozer rea y? Sue .8‘ _ ‘
5 ~~ - * ———~——~———— ‘shown at Ficr. 1 and keep using it '
; i . so a ‘ ‘.', u i ' ,
T ALs1K]-3 CLOVER ‘thoroughly §’1on’g the border of the l arfdsgrigtgwfigzg-,(ffl° ngggumenmé 3:9
igit;escn§or(igfhiga?.s Hardy grid does 18?: bfreezafield as often and long as seems ifor cg“). (Er 1I1.i.¢«zzg.e..:~.c;a.;id’li‘.§l)i'Jvl'l»lreii at
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First-class Alsikefllover for sale by I:1nthw11;elSuff:f’asti)g; h%l}?e f;(:: :T:#_M_ ,____..~._g"_ — — — — __»_, — ~ _ - —— _, , _,,_,,,,;A } glvomtg oflgcé: BI'iIATI’I{‘LEBgR§). tV'1‘.2.mU. E. *-
= JOHN WILI E P388 0P ‘ - _ . . . . : °“ "= °°.=. - OW 00 ev an -
§, Box 43. FLAT ROCK: M’ICH— = ghown in the figure is made of insects as leap buta short distance and penalties of such condition. l W355“ Ave" ‘’’“°‘‘€°~ 1“-
“°"“°'”““"""‘ V“‘“T°"' ,»sheet iron, and is about 12 or 15 when disturbed. The pan is tarred Farmers are not the only ones that —_
UNIS fifizmi: his as i‘°-‘ii. rs 5° 6 or Tc“ :5. 1“. ““i.°.‘il°;' “rig: f.f.‘:.“°3i.i.‘l 2: :;:§e:.:.i.,:‘r.:.%i~.. 3i.%:°::.%3;°;: GRAND RAP-vs
5 Currants. Gooseberry, Peach. Chestnut {W1 3 Hg en er on fee S1 95 9 ram ' W _ ‘ _ " _ . Indian R -I d
* A‘“’”‘‘g““~G''’“’°°' w“““‘- 3°“ and ro'ectin from these and a ma 1 be tilted or elevated as des1r- up wails of distress and anguish. a a' roa
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J.S COLLINS‘ son. .'\lo(ir:srto:'n,0§T‘:). ;whiflletree attachment ‘at one end ed. The bottoni is 16x20 inches, Are not the people being punished Few 1,, ,39,___Uemm, Standard Time_
it "" '“"‘“ ‘mm’ ‘ jas at a, the mechanism 18 complete. with a_ notch six inches deep by for _theIr sins? Do not those thun- ,‘__.—h.h.,_-______
g f The horse draws the pan to where four wide, cut in the center of the derings and fierce lightnings call "0““' N0_RTH- _j._N°- 1jN°‘- 3N°- 5 N0 7 1
§ it is to be set on the grass at the front_edge. The sides are about to repentance and amendment? _ Ci_ncinnm'Lv ________
‘g, o border of the mint, then two men four inches high to prevent the Let us Patrons be _fruitful in R1chniond_____,_ _; 7 35 .1100
go a short distance into the mint hoppers jumping over. The front works of charity, particularly at pm wayne, :10 55, , _____ __
. Th v m A and drive the grasshoppers toward edges are slightly rolled up to pre- this time. Let us feed the hungry F‘;{§_mV::§3fk£«_V_:___ 1 .... ..; (253; 1215 2:
3 ' ° ‘'°‘"' ‘°‘“°”,‘"h’ y°“ the an. The two win s of the vent coatin of tar from running and visit the sick and afflicted. So Ka1a.i'nnzoo,Lv_____ _ 5 25 , 45 1233
should know about our salt. It re- p. . . . . . . . Grand Kamds A, 8 0 ,
quires the best to produce-‘the best. pan aid in crowding the hoppers ofi’. In the notch 21 string is shall we find mercy in time of need. ’ 1 1’ 2 15
',I,‘f‘s°s§,§’,1°Ids{,“,;'1’f“fi1e"f,‘:,l:fe°ffiiieflgz "into the center, and soon a large stretched to protect the plants and Yours fraternally, 'G"m<1R8Did5~ LV-»-- , .... .... .. 340' 400 *1
less wlsd? Our salt is as carefully number of them are on the tar start the hoppers at the right time. CHAPLAIN. Cadillac .............. .1 ____ ____ __ 1150 3 ,5
made as your bntter—made express ‘, 1 } P. M. 8 25 ‘
ly for dairy work; and bright dalry- "W ' ' ” ""‘ ' ' ’ ‘ ’ " mx" ”"‘ ggzgflf U“? --------------- —-, ---- .. 1 50 10 20. ‘
men everywhere find their butter bet; ‘ l J ) , . V ------------------ ———— -- 3 55 1% £3
ter made and their labor better paid P - " H C C L ' M k- _
...... ..... .... E ULVERIAING ARROW, LOD RUSHER AND EVELER .... .... - ._... :
i Is adapted to all soils and all work for which a 60.1313 SOUTH‘ §°‘,.z N° 3 ° ‘N°' 3 .
l T i ‘GENTS Hat-r-ow is needed. "
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- 'A"9'C.~z—A. M. BELCHER Rhode Island .3;..T.,’,Il”.‘.‘i lxriifisiatiit .;‘ii1tc‘iis-r,0:('c"e;zrtl)g. H75. “ Vhnok Socials" Fm“ Ridge me‘ e! S BROTHER JOHN R. 'l‘Il0Z\ll'.S0.\'.
CH.APLAIN—S. L. WILSON _..MisaiBeippi N0,,_ 24,
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- Bl:orui:°rAii.r—JOHN TRIMBLE Washington, D.C
Adopted by the National Grange Edoes anything by halves‘
‘ Inspectors. 8. Particular modes of iiiiirtial music.
1893, is manufactured by .
9. Instrlicts. lo. Syinbnls of sclenlilin (H/’nr. 511/5). The entire Order of Patrons of }Ius.
lbandry today mourns the death of this
! 8;::sK_Efi1E€SR;dwéEfig8§%AUGHpé,;,_,I$f:;):g THE “‘HI11W‘§vEa].iI:,l) N.&J.f[OAG C0 ' ”'l’ii2-i.-e.tS¥iti;$, I//. .\I.\'!i'l‘AGO(iL'E. , ‘:“NT°N‘C°UNT" "0M0X"\ ”R_‘\‘N":; dearly beloved brother, who, as all know
Ponoiu—Mt€s. IIARY BEARDO _.-__-Kanss.s Under contract with the Executive Committee : mi, 1.l1,—(.'/Im'ud4*. NO‘ 35» “let I‘ c13l‘“9~TY 2‘: 189+» ‘Vlth kc)” was one of the founders of the Order.
FLORA—MRS.ANlNIE L. BULL... __Minnesota of the National Grange. Sample sent to any Aflerthc PRIME ,.,,,,,c_, SECOND lstone Grange No. 226 and had a very ln- His death occurred at the residence of
} Lafiiv gram Smw D—MBS. AMANDA HORTON gvegirttltifigy ciélggler seal of Grange, free of charge. Never before you see lteresting time. Had plenty of music, recl- his 5on_in.1aw, at Vvashington, D. C., on
i 1° “ ' ~ _ 1- oEu:3_'__ ___ _,'____/ ,__m,_7_ It,§‘3’,l.‘:,‘,‘;‘- it?-50115. d€clam8tI0“S, c5S3.V5, and 11 <11"-‘S’ the night of February ii, at the age of 66.
it Execuflva committee’ ! ll'u.i-/iz'1I.;r/n/1. D. V . \\'.\l,iii-.Vi,\ll- “ fshomdhthe farnfers buy:'?f aizigelllts or Brother Thompson was the first Lea‘
LEONARD R110NE__c gs 11311, p mm lvaniai S l V , lrect , 1‘0m t 9 man“ 3ct11l'cl'- _W lc , W31“ urer of the National Grange and this was
8. R. HUTCH[NSO‘N_-‘_a?._.r. _.._.._.e_-_ .irg_inia ' ' SOLUTIONS To BRAIN WORK X\ . 1 well discussed. Reports from Subordinate the only Ofi-ice ever held by }.’,im_ The Rm
J- J‘ WOODMAN --------- --Paw Paw‘ M‘°h‘3a“ _ ‘IA A€,AA%RDs No_ 36_ No, 88, _Gl”3l1g¢:l5 5h0\s'_§11 G{)anEeS_ in th: countg ual of our Order contains much of the fruit
om big,‘ Gmng 3'5“? V S K A R S T A ll“ 800 C?" W10“: 0t "1 “um 3“ an of his able mind. The entire Ritual of the
“H Mic Sta“ _ ..,.,,,,..,, K A L A M A S FRET_WORK lfinance, with plenty of young members. Assembly of Demeter (the seventh degrge
‘ g‘:‘;§:];(_3_-,£3-,1§?%£%N --------- --Fmafifllffigfi ‘ and one Diploma for Beauty. A L I M E N T l'1:h6 evening 565510“ W35 c0ndUct'3_d by of the Order) was composed and arranged
Lm-unn—A.'J.'citosi3YI‘.iii_’_" “R:-Ypsilanti K1! “",;?V%.'.fi‘E,".“{',§'..§."‘,’,: ,'.',,".'f.*,‘,’,:';‘.§ R A M P A G E No. 91. l l'\e_yst0ne Grange, whqgave a ver_y mter— entirely by him.
8'1'IwABI)—A. P. GRAY ................ .__..Archie . Jig‘ been sold direct to the people. S M E A R E R lestlllg Clvfa-rl'lE_1 elltllled rile _Y11nl\ec 139- In the earliest days of the Order Brother
555”! 3'1'EWA3D‘J- 3- MARTIN» 30‘ 443» Gm.“d » ~-.: :2-'4 S9“ at °“°° ‘°' °‘.''°°"3‘’'°“’ ‘' ZOOLITE . t€cl1V€. Whlch W115 =1 Succcss "1 c"cl')’ W3)’- Thom son made a dee im ress u on all
e Raplds _ 40,4? cataloguetnlof every kind of T A 3 G E N T ,, . P P P P
! CnA1>LAIN—-MARY A. MAYO. ..‘.. er“ I Vfellifiledz I_ll:l‘neg§._nls0 book A S T E R T S { H119 _Wi15 0119 Of ‘hf? best P°m°“9- Grangcs the transactions of those days of labor and
Tnx1tsUni:ii—E. A. S'1‘RONG._ ALLMNCE cM’,R,"AéeEs c"6“"‘Efi,E",;,’N“A".‘,’;,f";;" _ ( : held in a good while. The next meeting struggle. His eloquence,which was marked,
SIoiz.irrAar——JENNIE BUELL " ' ' N0 Sn 510- 30- 3 will be with South Riley Grange, March 21 . always aroused the National Grange to the
Gan K.i:nrr.iz——GEO. L. can _ P Q ; L C CM“ CW 5” h. h t .t 1 f .t t h . h.‘
Cl'.Rl:s—MARY C. ALLIS .............. .._Adrian - I ' ‘ ‘ ’ ' ‘ ‘8 e5 P1 C‘ 0 e-“C‘_eme“x S Owmg 1*
FLonA—MRS. SARAH A ST. CLAIR_.Butt._er1_iut Farms 111 Isabella» Cfnlnty DAP PUE ‘, ~ --— - -~ great power among his fellow men. As a
V P°“°“A—MBS' A‘A'LEIGHT0N"‘01d Mm“-on ""E*‘AG*3 "B°l"‘" 5E“'—NT" ACRES E-“-‘W BASIC CLANS I K \Ll{ASK-\ l'()M()\I-\ scholar a gentleman and a citizen, he was
. L. A.STl.'W'D—MBS. J.H. MARTIN Grand Rapids . I . . , ‘ ' ‘ ' ' _ ,
Beautiful homes, large barns. fruitful orchards, BUNDLES V met with Boardman Vane‘, Grange Feb_ the peer of the most worth) .
Ex»-we Gommltm 33:‘ °.°.li::;z'. .*‘°::::..::::: °l‘l.‘;°“§.i2.$.‘.".‘il; DANDEI-I0~\ Pl-ASTERED Open in .1...
J. G. BAMSDELL, Chn _________ __Traverse_ City riisperitv of the people. The schools and col» PASDESALAIS Q‘-ZARTERRAIL Patrons were prompt and ready for dis. Pennsylvania is one of the leading Grange
D- FLA Y ‘I t‘ eges °f Mt‘ Pleasnm ‘"9 excellent‘ Oms‘ d°-Va" PILLAGERS ENTERTAIN cussion “ The kind and care of fruit states with nearlv 30 000 members.
sheep, potatoes and fruits for general farinlng;‘ ' ,, , ’ -v ’
corn], hay. anch rich prtlstures fofr tlairyinglalgfdl adaptedhto c(1Jul‘ COL(lll‘lt_\:& yivflsf a téllfstlgn ,,,,_.,,_
t raisin , ave ma e many armers we 0 ; ; , A , v ' <~ _ _ , _ . , ,
Ay fztiicers are giosperlng, and so can you. Unim- 1- NIS DIN ::°::3_gC6‘un:S,cu::re th§p,:,:r?::rn 1:. -Y '1lier_e are 61.1, Granges in I\ew \ ork
F W BEDFERN proved lams. valuable timber lands, partly ml-‘. S L . 3 ‘ p-Y’ state with 35,000 members. The net gain
Y G_ B_ HORTON, 2' Exoficlo ,2 pro_ved farms, and farms highly improve ,.and ‘ Baldwin, Duchess Of Oldenberg, Red AS- in n1CInberS}‘]ip during 1893 was I <09.
JENNIE BUM - f.‘f.l..l;'°”‘£"l.§‘é§.;i‘t3§ i°’.£“:‘l’;il°l§.£‘.".‘f.§" 92. _ _ No. 89. u-acnan. wagnel-, VVealthy» Alexander. and ~
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Colnmjttee on WGm°ma:,s Work in the i AJS 191 {£10 a The ladies had beautiful $pe(:il‘nl:n_\‘ of . The Grange is in a prosperous condition
ng ' Mt Pleasant, lVIicli. I 7 - - ‘r - 11 as _~ m » mam. in all of the eastern and northern and in
l '1‘ E L L I E S SEBASTI A l\ home grown fiul. as we so L
§;I: fig; §£§i3%%a'fiiaa;‘ZjiIi“"§iif§’r$?3§ S T O R E D TRAPPERS moth 0l11llg€S lfirclm F10T1l)difl. ‘Such 11* Wcrc Some Of the “'e5te:’? and 5°“them State‘-
Mrs- Belle Royce ---------------------- --Bmda H A113“ cflmxgus 3y STEAM L E 0 N E UNSPARS “"6” we“ "‘ ‘ W’ l’“‘‘“ *3 °‘‘’- . 2 ,.
. . P O L [C E LATERA } The culture of potatoes was largely dls- [here are at present more than 1,000
G°n°r“1 Deputy L°°tur°m' w '.ll”0vd Excelslol’ lllllllllailll. C L 0 S U R, E AMIRS v cussed, the best kinds for our soil and their Granges in New England with 60,000 mem-
+ MARY A. MAYO __________________ _.Battle Creek ‘ 33‘ f""lP’¢- ,I’,;*.7‘9¢’- §“’/.'-’-'*‘!I"- I R I T E S TENS ¢u1tu,—e_ bers. Thereare also 300 Pomona Granges
HON‘ J’ J‘ WWEMA ""‘§1:1‘§w::; I N U R E URN The successes and failures of the past year l with a total of 35,000 members.
. . . . _ , ess cos an any 0, er M T Q , . , arro 0 owe y a spin 8( a ~ A :1 -1 Ll .- 1 i i t
§§§3 §§(‘§§[“M”it‘§°’"‘ -1-;;’§;*.‘.ll°c‘:;l.*l:*: ?3i'°3°?i?3i“'i?“?§“ R E C E,-S S 1:“ '.2{°‘y‘l%‘‘‘c;‘° “ii Til“ "’.i“i‘.‘ “"'° "2-“’-T’ i“;°l‘£i ",7 C, ,,
AAT)O}i3:‘l]~l(I)(ODMAN" '"’V¥’fi:n§§,: r.sii-iiiiilii i Hatzieigr 0El;EEBSJi‘SA ;from different’Patr0ns_. The lessons'leflTll' the Plliicll-Jxv'irxl]tel-l+l:‘\l1lir Jaet S£:l'ingI:r8.l'lz:I)I,SSC?).
C: L: vV‘1{1Tfsf]1]‘f_-::_' _________________ _.Muskegon _ m“"‘ ‘ ’l‘l"""‘ GE"'"'SFAIII"""'Z'§X‘.'."' S E 'j_‘ ‘ Cd Were iii“ Of 21 P1'?1Ct;C31 Ch;-1'3-‘f3tcl‘-1 rhol“ 1)istinguished speakers will address the
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County Deputies. I y I I , pk,-,,E_s_ ‘I233,’ cmcgifuilw :.eilc€>:I(“:ltigV£ gt csoeid age ‘Sin; ‘:2 ntllnbei of Patrons who “ill be pics
13- 11- Slebllllls ----- --in -———.““d"°,"‘1’ \‘fi“m‘“ 9°’ S For the best batch of forms received by i bring a fair success. In all things move » '
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T %_ :3:§:;2,3[,i;j:__:::__:(fl‘:_fiiil:i:id: B:§7.ie I: §:‘°o:‘r“|:33B2'T%':';:‘ , _ <_'_’__’v April I0, we will give "‘ Brain Work" fr careflllly, tIl:oughtfull_y,l not ctllpddetfap in ailiy : INION FARMERS: CLUB_
Geo. Bowser _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___Dow_lmg, i;«,,,.,,, “ E BROODER c my d _‘ ,. six months; for the ‘next best batch Tm industiy. et brain in e ins ea 0 inusc e.‘ _
ames 13- Sllldlc -—U'“°“ CW» B""l°l' , El .° "'9 ' *“ Detroit Puzzler for six inonths;for the next Brother A. E. Palmer read a very able: . , 1 1.
‘ VJ Ck"k""‘ ""I§uChm}],nn’ Eye-"tie" is 3 Rellabl ”!Ia§£9lE '1 ' yiiigli best batch T/us I/Vorl/I Slur three months. paper on “ Ollr soils, their needs and care.” The Unlon farmers C ub of C 111'
kiszy.‘Engi/lt:'§6::_-__iifigifletb;I:ekl':S,Cal?o$'ll §§r;;..;;.;:::.;;.:.:.:;;iigoygizygsgrzlg "5 §,‘,',‘}f Open to all. For prizes for solutions see H. A. BARNARD, Lect. ‘ton county was held at the hoine
Wm‘ CW“ ---- -i -‘-E’,‘,‘.‘,§‘,‘;I.‘,’,‘,’,§' (C,-,*,‘.‘,‘{}§{I§§’\5 .. gin-‘x’»T.“.l’l_§‘, c°.'fi‘!‘.;'.E."‘2"‘:.‘,':"“ "°""‘ last number. _#_. .Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Peetes at Hill-
. _:‘"Cas-S-oP0,iS‘ECaSS ll : Reliable Incubator and Bl'0Odefc“(2:“.9“I.L_flCy; Ill. MYSTIC PENCIL1NGS' MORE},-CI GR,\_\vGE_ Side farm, in Duplain township’ on
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‘ _‘____“y_{'l,‘,:’§ G,.:,‘fi‘:,'; .. _ ,, .__-l7g.a6V.E_D_—.w—~-—-[ we are in great need of form puzzles, March 3, occurred our twentieth’ anni- Saturday, Eebruary 17, 1894.
-ghg P£:§‘g°’°-6-larmggigrljl[€212 ‘-1(-,;.:r:,f:.:: LEE 5 HAT C}-IERI see prizes for same, VVe want all our Versaay‘ we met art! tge ha“ lat °d°.1°°k~ meeting WES called I30 order
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Mrs, E. D. Nokes_.___\\"heatlaiid, Hlllsdale if - _ V 30”] "Not" A GUARANTEE mystic friends to compete for prizes. T/1e Vlfitet t“'_‘o‘O,‘;‘,’(‘)’:k “:6 ,O,,(§’wi,,,, ,0 ram’ by President Bross, after which
R. A. Brown .......... -.S=lnd Beach: “W0? ' ' . . . . 1);.‘/ruff Puzzler is out. and it is a beauty, an a “ ° p g ‘ ' V ' d
D_ H_ Eng,,5h___ ________ __C,,,,,d,e,, I,,,,,.., -I ml...” positively self-regulating L_1 - M M,“ 7m was rendered, an interesting program wascarrle
F. W. Havens... _____ __Fitchburg, Ingham :: = 3;l'f-‘e‘;':,‘,1;§;}§“offi'L§,§,?el;:{u$‘;'g; ‘end £0’ °°P.-" S3,. :13’ Tfi. bar’ ioo’ It'- “Reminiscences of Morenci Grange,” by out by the different members.
1- A-C°“m"gh‘-- Duck Lake’ Jackson and man; " refunded ' Reasou- Street’ Detroit’ lc ' ‘S epar men ‘S W S G M one of the charter mem- ' ’
R°b°"‘ D°°k°’Y- i,"R(,’fkf'iEd'1kl::,?‘ able in prize. self-Reculating assured ofa long life, but you must re- b ' ' a:?;‘tributeS to those who had The questlon for g_én(:j"-'31 d1Scu§‘
iiai?§iilGii§:fi§i'i51& iionli §f3Sra3rich,aI.apee‘f -i 3R00DF.I|t‘sé Eehrldi 3; caaalogue. "I member that a_f€W 5“"_5°YiP‘i°“.S are mice?‘ :,;:;.d ,,,",',’,‘§ higher me by on’, Masteps sion Was, “ That artificial butter is
§'°€,Dj;‘,",—-- -“"’*=j,‘_‘,‘,°{‘,,',,"‘;‘;‘..‘},’°’.”;§?.‘; 33 H" M' 5 " mac,’ ' 5‘"g,“,’, kdeel’ “““gS g°"‘g' ,hTh,‘5,hp“P°,' ‘i grife Alice W0odworth,Music, recitations, detrimental to the farmer.” There
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‘ G°°‘ H‘ Lest ‘Crystal’ Momgalm P01 cdfitse ei‘“ceeai-gvfvrlio will subscribe first? ’°‘“3‘"k5 by dlficrcm members, Occupled was 110 remedy polnted out that
R-551% £’=~‘\l,; ,I},;:gf;E _ _-,§,§“,',§,‘,;‘,’,‘f;’ ”,{,‘,*,§‘,‘f,‘s‘§§ .. Br_o<_>dsrshqn]l(y $5‘.0I‘3iesI;t and cbeapests for in ll Grgnitey Poser‘s” old exchanges (with the thne. “ml §°:." ‘;;';‘,1°°k~ ,_ , seemed practicable, though most
~ .51, éa“1‘;5°."~h- ~ - - - - - --I5,-,R‘15,_°,;’c'k",1§,°,‘,’,‘,',‘,l,’, it €:s‘iii:1.I):ia‘I:u féend £13: g;€:T(l)l§]:1:.' ' three exceptions) will receive this paper as be::’:5bh‘“ugSt°“,Is,hé"E1_:g'g:Va§;1§€m:er£§:l: of the members thought then‘ in-
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'1‘_lyr_ Rodagrdrs____ Ravfilnnzg I\§\IeS"l:':goroi :: G.s.sINGEIl, Box 537. cardlnlllon. 0. be£o(i-)eiirt5e’rIi1s\;?1. we can use of din”), décorated Wm, flags and evergreens_ terest was being lnterfered With
R/b'b?rt. li\:i‘vrvta°r'.i" -_ii“iiiisl3i'ville, Ottzvga »- .,,,,,s Send Us §,,;,e of you, best flats We had appropriate exercises by Old and The viewing committee reported
R. 11- Taylor --,—,-——-SW15’ ',£,§,‘;‘;’;‘g II ) «- Frantz,” your bin is nearly empty, can Y°“"g- We have ‘“.“e“ "‘ f°“' "e,‘?’ “;‘.e“" barn and yards in good condition,
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RI rcl:iii'e"l}i'_'_' ____ _.Harfisu£r§tstJ. 3 G you not send us some more? We are in 21:: an(€’V:r:]eee};P:::;r;VgwY‘2:1:ew?g‘PI:::lIl:n: the tools bemg stored m a 'bmld_
y gel?‘ £8553? sky ‘f§'ii§iiv'Ri:'n. éagoir-3w “ ' grim need of good ‘§’““°’,‘, if!“-tfons to hundred members in attendance, when but mg for that purpose, stock in fine
£1,-It-,‘\(c’,;:—,-;-:1 -I-,—,;“ii:‘;,5c"e“"‘{}f,',,s,§',‘,i,l';‘,°, ii th1:\;_1:I:g::,,r,n ust reac us y P“ 10' little over a year ago our average attend- shape, especially a, fine herd of
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IO§:nE. wiiioi _____ __‘_,__.Il’lytririo{)iVth.hV"Vayhe “ C NANCY Luz. 3“°°d“:‘5t fi‘::°“,;nOV1:°th:V°(:‘,‘(’,°’Sa;:g 3,’: registered ‘Jerseys, which are of
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‘T:-hi‘?-AN°l’Yci5--E:-i ----- --E)-séidmacl w°"f°'d U 0}, gride ,mustyfall, so I will retire and mi Ehe ‘fry beriglln bre(.3d.1ng9au.l§elng
the program for the next meeting for fear emit es. 086 giving ml are
S 11 Grange News ' the saying may come true. making a good record for the breed.
Revised List of Grange “pp es M“ 3- G- H°‘°» L“‘- Three new members were added
ii K°"“’”h° °m°° °t s°°" °f um S M A llIlclil$“”' to the list. and over fifty were out
PENNFIELD GRANGE FOR BUSINESS. -
Michigan Grange I S POSTAL J0'r'riNGs. Pennfield Grange, Calhoun county» met giglzigugalalt was 8' stormy day and
And sent outpost-D8idb‘(>:d!°°°€eP&°f C”bag§dt°h"g Fremont _Centre Grange N0. 654: has E"? Saturgay evenlngu Feb"“‘“‘.Y 24: Wm‘ a I WM. W00DBUBY_
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PoroetL1il'_;1blLUotmarble9,perhnndred _____ _.so gs’ AND HOW TO GROW THEM. 1I;)v:d27sISIt8(i;‘S,::hhl::‘b?lo$.e islolgpérnvglgg (Rad the firs‘: qséslfigxc 1:136“ up, ft being com
Sears :9 ledger ------------------- —— - e . , 4, _ . - . .
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seci-et.a.ry’s receipts for dues. per hundred 35 . . f d b ——~——
. - h 35 vincin notes and comments ollowe y _ ' . _
it A plighgcbsmfcgiihtigiiflietfgfiibimpgr an 50 R’ M’ Douglass Gfallgc N0‘ 65°? mourns the C. S. Gannon with a paper contrasting the There is such a great similarity in seed
Vaithdrayval cardmper down ----- -- E Pl’0P!'lct°1‘ 01' the death °f B"°th°r Nathan Amen‘ American with the Swiss form of gov- catalogues as a usual thing that it is re-
m‘“"'°'m°"°l° RUSHIRE FRUIT FARM then read numerous extracts in freshin as well as beneficial to read one in
’ Orion Grange is havinga boom and is emment’ h d h h g1 - ‘ h d f t 1 Th
. . ’ books on that uestion showing t econ i- w ic pain unvarnls e ac s ru e. e
IONIA9 MICK‘ m the midst of a heated Contest‘ Con" tion of the Swilss people in detail. catalogue issued by J. J. H. Gregory & Son
h d d h t ferred first and second degree on a class of Brother C. C. McDermid expatiated up- of Marblehead, Mass., is a matter-of-fact
Evgryw ere en owe as t 6 mos 12 at last meeting ‘nth more t° f°“°w‘ on the superior advantages of the Swiss book in every sense of the word and is cer-
r 1 , . . _ . . h . . .
p act cal amll fillggat workdon atrawblerry people under their ideal form of govern tain to meet with t e highest appreciation
5,‘ “en raspberry’ b ac euy ‘in “gm-1])? mi: ting Kalkaska c°““t.Y is Plming I“ the MC‘ ment, that so nearly recognizes the full from farmers and gardeners who are work-
gififi gT1V " ev-er wnttel-1' t Beautlfq y 1 use, was Clure Graded C°“"s° °f Reading measure of individual rights with uninter- ing for actual results and cannot afford to
B,m,__,', Juvqnfle, per set .................. .- 1 23 Wlth °‘7°" dmx Yb °;‘§'a"‘”gs- den 1?‘ mpted and unparalleled prosperity for all. experiment. There are no highly colored
N° .°-°"°d°lmquent memberghper "i°i'.‘.&:_"_.‘ 50 postal car W“ 6 names an pas - Brother R. H. Ta lor ives a lecture at He thought that the asylum for the op- illustrations to mislead, neither is there ex-
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Mnnlml "1 P“ *3" iii dd f three fruit rowers and - -
um, and 3 - _______________ __ 25 ° cc,“ ‘€99 ° 3 Sylvan Grange, pressed should lead emigration towards aggerated language to deceive. It simply
3,, book, ______________ ............ -. 15 mentlon G“A“GE VISITOR and get 3 °°py Switzerland rather than toward America helps the farmer to get the seeds best adapt-
&mQlox;whg‘?;0&gPg0(:ll‘§51;7";n1-f'0bf.9£§l¢1eY:‘-;;6}kil11g FREE. Address Died at her home in West Handy, Feb- It needs only to be explained to be appre- ed for his needs and from them derive the
eo?:t:taii‘rnIiountin8!.9&b.bailot boxesandan! R M ruary 19, Sister Elizabeth Clackner, aged ciated. He concluded by saying that the best possible results. In a nutshell, there
otber'¢riin8eIuDD1i6I- ' ' ’ i ears. She was a life member of West obligator Referendum (which means to is nothing good left out and nothing poor
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Addreu H183 -IENNAI‘Fxg‘g£}“I_"uI“ IONIA, MIC". Handy Grange No. 613, and although not refer to) is quite common in the United let in.
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THE GRANGE‘ VISITOR.
MARCH 15, 1894.
The Prizes.
LIST OF GRANGES.
The following is the result of the con-
test.
New . . . .
Gmnw ’'"""“s- 1 §§.'3id§'.§i" ”‘¥°i.e.§‘§?Z i.’o‘Ze£i.e.m§’i?§§f.dS3..i§.'.‘3
KBBIIQ N0. 270- _ ___- --__ _--— — .. — — ‘ offe]-e,j,.but arg books that usually retail ‘ " ’"
White Oak No. 241 ____________ -- 50 for 75 cents. We are able to offerrtheni a-
Wright No. 307.--- _ - . - - . . .. as I §>re;nmt"sthfe°;iS§,0 <'»entr= ¢‘a<‘lI- 1 he *0‘
Butler No. as .................. -- 30 fmghts '
- / I .
Bowne Center ‘ ‘ ' ' ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ' " 1" i Ilistory of England_—[)f¢‘k(')/5,
Montgomery N0. 049---- - - - .- - . — — 13 The Deer S]ayer__.Cogfc;-,
Union No, 368 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , . _ _ _ _ _ , _ _, ll East I.._)’nl}‘.—ll'l[7’.~‘. H. IV00d.
- _ 10 - rimm’s :1 es.
Hesperia No 495" iIvanhoe.—Scott.
Alumnia No. 580 ............... -- 10 , Jane Eyre. 5-,,,,,,,,‘
Adams No. 286---- ---_ .- 9 ,=_ioi.n Halifax, Gentlemaii.—.lIu/ark,
Orion No. 239 .................. -- 8 , lxfing go1omr};s Mings.—BH;tggflI'd.
- _ ____ 3 f ast ays o ornpeiI.—— u wer.
Peninsula N3’ 66%" " _ “ '" 8 . Last of the Mohicans.-Coojbar.
Lapger NO‘ ‘46- -- - ' -'°- ‘ ‘ ' ' ‘ ' ‘ ' ' _ l Lorna Doone.—Blacl-mare.
Capitol N0. 540 --- - -- _- - . _ - - . — ~ - -- I Lust Essays of Elia,—Lar)il;.
Clea;-water No. 674_ __ __ ___ _ _ _ __ ,_ 65 i Oliver Tvv.ist.—Dir/l'mL~‘.
South Lowe“ N0‘ 113 ‘ _ _ _ > _ _ A i _ _ I l‘he Pathfinder.’-Confmr.
Excelsior No. 692 .............. .-
Grattan No. 170 ............... -_
Dauby No. 185 . _ . . . _. ----.----..
Harmony No. 337 .............. .-
Sodus No. 123-.-- ---- ___- .--- .. .
Alpine No. 348 _________________ . .
Charity No. 417 ............... _-
Pennfield No. 85 ................ . _
Rockford No. 110 ______________ --
Charlotte N0 67 ............... - .
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Binghani No. (367 . , . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . _ __ 3
Inland No. 503 ................ .. 3
Fremont No. 494 _______________ .. 3
Arcada No. .'>O0_______-____.___.. 3
Mt. Tabor No.43.-._._-____-..--. 51
Liberty '.\'o.39l.________.-.._.- 3
Forest No.361.,...._...____-_.._ -'3
Bradley No. 669 _ _ . . . . _ _ . . _ _ _ __ 215
Rome Center .\'o.‘293.,_.,____._ __ 2
“'right No. 3llT,_____-_,___..__._ ‘.2
Willow‘ No. 618 _.,..__.___.. 2
Pleasanton No. on _ _ _ . _ _ _ _ . _ . . _ . -_ ‘.7
Barnard No. 689 . . _ _ . . _ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _ _, 2
Lake No.84____.__-_.-.._____._. ‘.1
Ensley Centre No. 544 _ _ _ . , , . _ _ _ ._ 2
Bath No. 659 __________________ -_ 1,1.-5
Cascade No. 63 . _ _ _ . . _ _ . .._ .... .. l
Trent. No. 27') _____________ _. .___ 1
Rural No. 37 .................. __ l
Cranston No. 393 .............. -- 1
Bruce and Armada,_..__....__.. 1
Glass River No. 688 ___________ _. 1
PipestoueNo.194.-__._--.__-_--, 1
Ottawa No. 30---”--. _--____-,. l
i.i:-.'r or COUNTIES.
from which new names have been sent
in the Grange contest:
Ionia_____-__ _--_ .__- -_---_-__.. 136%
Iugbam ....................... _. 57%
Gratiot ...................... __ , 43
Kent __________________________ __ 36
Branch_...._.____._____.._.____. 30
Sanilac..--.___,--___--__--.-._.. 17
Newaygo ______________________ __ 15
Wayne . _ _ . . . _ _ . _ _ _ _ . _ . . _ . . . _ _ . __ 13
Kalkaska ...................... .. 11
Mu:-:kegon___, ___. ll
Berrien _ _ _ . _ _ . . . . . . . _ _ _ _ _ _ , _ _ __ 10
llillsdale _-_-..-_-.,._-.-.__-_.., fl
Grand Traverse . . . . _ _ _ _, 8
()akland._,. ,___,._.._-,,,.,___. 8
Lapeer,.._...-..-..__---.--.__ , P5
CllDLuLl-.__.,______.__--___-___., ill’,
Calhoun,,..,.___.___-_..,,.._,. 4
Eaton,,.__..__.___________,,. I r
Huron...__________.._._._ _.._, ll
Benzie._____--_,_._____.__,___,, 3
Mecosta _ _ _ _ . . _ _ . . . . _ _ _ _ . . . _ _ _ _ _. fl
Allegan _______________________ .. 'l}:_,'
Lenawee___,____ ,_____,_,,,,___. '_’
Manistee _ _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ . . _ , _ , ,_ 2
Charlevoix.._. -__________.,__-,, 2
Macomb______--_-_-____.-_-,_,_, 1
Shiawassee . . . . . . . _ . _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ , .. 1
1
Ottawa.___ .___ ,___,
.\ll the Grangcs securing four or more
new names (all those above the black line),
are entitled to any premiums in our list
equal in value to twenty cents for each
subscriber, as Charlotte Grange is entitled
to premiums to the value of 80 cents; l-Ies-
peria Grange $2.00; VVhite Oak Grange
810,00, etc. VVe print below the list of
premiums offered. Granges should choose
at once and send the order early.
Our price
Law made Easy ........................ ._ $1 50
Samauthaat Saratoga _...., ........,. 1 50
Glimpses of Fifty yeara.—- Willard __.. 2 2:’)
Dairying for I’rofit.—-Jones ________ __ 30
The Nursery Book.—Bailez/,.. 100
Horticulturist‘s Rule Book.—Bailei/ ______ _ _ l 00
The New Potato (‘ulture.——Curm¢m _______ _. 7:‘:
The Business Hen. —CollL'1m-womi ,,,, . . 4, _ . 75
Sprayingf‘rnps. '- [WW1 ............ .. 1 00
How the Farm I’ays.-Ilenriermni A’? f,':-o.2ie:- 2 50
Gardening for Pro1it.- ——IIen,dorszm ,,,,,,,, .. Z 00
Ten Acres Enough ................. ..
Thought and Thrift.-—IIill__ . . ,,
., 75
Weeds.——S'luui'._ . . ,,
A B (2 of Potato (711lture.~-Terry .......... _. 40
Wood’s Natural History. (800 pages,-500
cuts) ._........._........__.._..._........ 200
Shakes m’a Fomplete Work a flue
edition . 3 00
Irving's Works. [0 vols., cloth . . _ _ _ _ _ . _ . . _. 5 00
Cooper's Leather Stocking Tales, .5 vols,
cloth___......_..........................._ 3 50
Barriers Burned Away.-Roe_._. __ 50
Christopher (‘.oluinbus.~Irving__ . ,_ 1 (X)
Main Travelled Roads.—Hamlin Garland.
cloth ..................................... .. 1 00
A Spoil of Ofiice.—Hamlin Garlaml, cloth.. 1 00
Is this your Son, My Lord ?—f.v'ardner. cloth. 1 00
Pray you. Sir. Whose Daughter? «Gardner.
cloth ................................ 1 00
Railway: of Europe and America. cloth__._ 1 25
Bondholdors and Bread Winners. paper... 25
l ANY BOOK or F. H. R. c.
When than books are ordered as premiums 10
per cent should be added to the price quoted to
members of the course. for postage and packing.
See page five for list of these books.
Any book of the Columbus series 60¢,
iThese standard works are in fine cloth
. The Pioneer.——Cooprr.
’ The I’ra.irie.——Co0_7‘>(*r.
Robinson Cru.soe.—1)r For.
Roiiiola.~(frm'_.;".z Elia/.
J Sketch Book. lr'u:'z/L_r,r.
, Swiss Family Robinson.
' l Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
.- Three men in a Boat.—#7rrmm~_
Tom Brown's School Days.
Two Years Before the blast.
\Villie Reilly.——Cm'lr-'tm:,
MISC i:L1..\.\' I-ZOITS.
Giaiigcs. can choose from the list of sup-
plies printed on page «even of the Visrrok.
“"6 will have to add I0 per cent to the
. priccs there given, when ordered as premi-
, unis, for postage and packing.
i The “ Gem" ice cream freezer, receiver to
I pay c.\:pres.< charges. 3 quarts. $3.00; 6
,’ quarts. $5.00.
The “ (iraiigc Token," $1.50.
SI’ECl.\ I. IPRIZES.
Keeiie Grange No. :7 , is entitled toa
l L‘.ll()ICL‘ of a line set of badges or a Compan-
l ion organ as a special prizc in addition to
1 its regular prcniiuin: and \Vhite Oak
l Grange No, 241, is entitled to a choice of
l a line .20 foot ilag or a \Vebster’s Interna-
' tional dictionary as a special premium.
i lonia county sends the most names of any
1 county and each Grange in that count_v
i will receive a special premium.
1 ‘Iolices oi‘ Moorings.
l.. . . . _,,,_,
i l.EN.i\\\’ F. Ii I’UNl()?\'.-\.
5 Lcnawee county Pomona Grange will
3 hold its next meeting with Medina Grange
§April 5,1894. Among other good things
Ilon. A. Deyo will deliver an address All
fourth degree members are invited to at-
tend. Special biisiness will come before
1 the meeting.
i l’. ll. Dowi.i.\'(;, Ln‘/.
,5 sr. ,|osi-;i’i1 'l’().\lO.\'.\.
_ St._]o., A. '1’. Stevt:n.<, Ag'l Collcgc.
'l".llk, Potatot-s, II. I‘. Gliuldr-ii. AL"l Collc;_rc_
Rccitzilioii.
Musir. Iiunkcr llill liraiigc.
\.‘\'l‘l'Rl).\\' 1; «Ni l.()('K .\. \l.
.\Iu.~ic,
Ili.~cu.~;.~ion. "'I‘o\vhuin shouhl lhc prodnct.s of
industry I)(fl0ll‘,{,4t‘1l[lIIilI or l-.|lior?" I.l.’L| luv \\'. A.
Olds, Alaiedon.
Talk, Our ll()Il\Lf.\, Ilon K], T. (,'.1niplu-ll, .\I:l\(ll1.
Iivcilzitioii.
lCs:'.|_v,l,,‘.'1i'ric II'.1\rii.<, I“itclilmrg',
l\Iusn'
» -..\'i'1'k1i.\\ 1:30 I'. \l.
Solo, " Kittie \’\'clls," l\«Iis$Grn1:c()l1l.~, Al.|iz-don.
Talk, Character, Rev. II. Hicks.
\\'indo\v (iartlx-iiiiig, U. I’. Ilcilrivk, Ag‘l Cnl,
All .~C.\’sI0ll.s' will be open to the public, I
who are especially invited to attend and
take part in the (ll.~CllSSl0l'l.< which will fol-
low each article.
Friday evening Pomona Grange will
hold a business meeting, commencing at
7:30, at which the fifth degree will be con-
ferred. I
VV. A. 01.115, Imz‘/.
K ENT POMON A.
The next meeting of Kent county Pomo-
na Grange will beheld at Rockford, VVed—
nesday, March 21, at 10 a. in. The morn-
ing session will be devoted to the business
of the Grange. The afternoon session will
be an open meeting to which the public
are cordially invited.
.\fusic by the Rockford choir.
, Address of welcome, Lccturcr nf Rockford
!‘ Grange.
‘ Response, Brother II. C. I-Iogadone.
I Future lines in farming. Brothers ('. l’rter.-.ou,
l Elmer Keech, and Hartwell.
1 Recitation, Ml’S_ Mofiitt.
l Road law (by request), Brother Robert llockcrv.
‘ Miisic bv the choir.
Review of Grange work in Kent county‘. brother
' and Sister I. D. Davis. I
I chains ornamented with a neat little charm 3
in the shape of a watch case opener, which 1 .
Recitation, Sister Myrta Preston.
Essay, Sister Norton, of Rockford.
Song, Brother and Sister Willett. .
American citizenship (continued . Bro. Norton ‘
and Sisters Berry and Dockery. "isitor.< are in-
viied to participate in this discussion. "
We especially request all fourth degree ,
members to meet with us. An evening
session will be held if there are members
who wish to take the fifth degree,
WM. T. Anmis, /.r'r/.
ooooooT3b4oT
T; A FREE CHARM.
VVe have seen quite a number of watch 5
‘obviates the use of a knife or linger-nail to l
V open the watch. They are sent free on '
request by the Keystone Watch Case Coni-
, pany, of Philadelphia, Pa., the largest watch
Q case manufacturing concern in the world.
: They are the makers of the celebrated _la:<.
’ Boss cases, the only filled cases which are
ffitted with the world-famed Non pull-out
‘ bow (ring). The Company does not sell
,‘ at retail, but its goods are sold by local
;je\\'elers, 1
« BIG EXCURSION.
Read about that cheap trip into the Ca-
; nadian Northwest. You can get a..
SPRAY PUMP $ 0 °°'°°°
1i:iul.lor - I —|N USE-
. ,. .. AUTOMATIC Mixzn. a_Anm:L A1j‘rAcHyai:NT_ ‘
* ' , _ Endorsed by the leading hntoiznologists ot the l 5
A valuable lllus. Book (worth $5.00) given to gayl
purchaser. §A’I‘I.~‘F}A("l‘ION G[.ARAN:"I‘I‘.I~.l]
per .VIonEc{:ykIllel;Il1nIIed). Ilius. £33101: op >l;1’fl."ll;é
. se ers. ue gen as a rent _\' SOL
BRASS MACHMIES 0:eeI'°2,000.apF0l' full particulars and terms, miilress
WILLSPRAY lo ACRES PER DAY. P. C0.
, W -
Pat:-nus Will Find These Firius Reliable and -ite-L
7>—"(:lll an sp.-mi p.-am F1-oul Them. ME
IIIIE iiiilvi-: NO AGENTS "°‘°' Fa"! "hr?
. Because the light seed is all washed
But save you money on everything you eat. W88! out and what is left must grow.
or use. Send 8 cents for full catalogue. One trial will coiivinre vou. (‘ata-
H R. EAGLE & C0.,
, lngue and Garden Gui a FREE.
68 Wabash Ave., Chicago. Hen-ian class, seed Grower, Rochester, N.Y.
Mention Grange Visitor.
The Smith Implement db Buggy (‘o., 22 and 21 G S d H
East Rd St. Cincinnati, 0. has ii contract with
Grange of Ohio and Indiana to supply their state-
and furnish goods at wholesale rates when the
order comes undur the_ seal of the Granite. _We
extend the same invitation to the Grange of Mich-
igan. WFIIP for catalog and prices.
For ten years I have supplied Patrons
of Husbandry with Seeds under a con-
tract with the
PiANosg,1ev;g,igg;-gggggggnggggg gI,1,yI»;»,;;;;;«; New York State. Graiige,
\Veaver Or an 8: Plano Co. _ _
Factory. Yor , Pa. Place seal and am now supplying Patrons in sev-
[of your Grange on your letter paper or send era] States on the a
‘ trade card to secure benefit of special iiianufach S we terms as those
in New York. My discounts to Patrons
._ ___.m._.. ___ _- are 10 to 33,15 per cent from the regular
‘TIMI Honey Creek Grange Nurseries hzivc Catalog p“ce5'
been under contract witéi the Staite fyrange of IOIIIO ~ — - -
for over ten vears, an have cu textensive yin , ,
Indiana and Michigan also. Special prices sent to seeds [‘I'e§II and True to Xllllle,
:' - d ‘.lfth G ::.(‘e :t':l. .
\li"i-nii:iii‘“.:;1$i:. >_Ve'liu(i1ion:,V'~ niAn1l(Ircss’w us I “I and Carenlny Tested‘ ’
Isaac Freenian & Son, Rex, Ohio.
urars‘ prices direct to Grangers.
PAIIIONS' OII. WORKS. DERRICK IIIL CO.
H . G. HELLAMY, l‘rnp'r, Titusville. Pa.
Liiliriuating and Burning Oils of the highest
quality, at wholesale prices. Try our Elite Burn-
ing Oil, made specially for family use. Write for
price\‘. Address DERRICK OIL _(‘.O..
Tltusville, Pa.
Glass’ Illustrated Catalogue and Dis-
count Ciri-ular to Patrons sent FREE.
on application.
Address
IIIEEVIAN G LASS.
Seed Grower,
R()('Iu*.~‘t¢-r, N, Y.
FARMERS,
ATTENTION
I sell direct and ship to all parts of
fOKIGd.N REAL ESTATE FOB SALI-
Vlllugo Property.
B 5 0 and 7, in block 16, In Eaton Raeldl, Eaton co.
elllng house and lot 9, in Kendall. an Buren co-
welllng house and lot 10, in Kendall, Vim Buren cc.
Brick store and lot in Lansing, No. 713 Turner street.
N )4 otlots 1 and 2:, in blocks, in Elm Hall, Gratiot co.
Store and lot in Verona. Mill.-, Huron co.
Btore and lot in Coluinliiavlllc, Lapeer co. _ _
Three acres at Ara Htatioii, Bay co. ( ood mlll slit’).
Two lots in village of Howard Clty, ontcalin co.
Five lots in village of Lyons, Ioulu co. _ 3
House and lot, and 2‘, acren, In Maple Rapids, ,
Clinton on. I
An undivided '5 inn-r--st Ill '2 frame stores and lots, 1
Three lots in Uorunna, Shiawiissoe cu.
Ona store and lot, ;.n«l house and lot, in Port Snnllav,
sa'i‘mM1,)c'°'k to ' ~‘ I ' o k oiinssthe
'0 FIG 5 1'85 III ..1lI'lI.Il:l(', Ollllx C ., II ' ,
J. P. Anderson block. _ the United States.
louse and lot, 4x3 mils, in Di-lwln, Isabella co.
Vacant lot. No. 16, lilo:-lc 11, hi Rogers City, Presque
Isle co.
House and lot. in Ev-u-t Os:-omlu co.
House and 2 lots in . . .4, Os:-eo_la co.
Store barn and lots in Poinpeil, Gratlot co., known
I! the A. Hicks SI-()l'l‘]1l‘<>}|l'.l'l¥.
House and 6 lots in l’+-w:unU. Onll 00-
Store and lots, in Ifurm-ll, Clare co., known asthe W.
I can Saievyou Money
I
lliouae and 2 lots, Nos. 151 and I.-i,ybl0ck 42, in Farwi,-ll, B d H
are co.
House and lot, No. is. I)It|(‘k 41. I-‘arwell, Flare co.
Barn and lots 9 and lo and WI'>1El'l_V one-hall‘ of lots
7 and 8, in block 19 Farwe ll.(f|=I1‘fi C0.
Store iuixl lot, in Suinxier, Hraliot co.
Store and lot, in UIl|‘l' Lu Lapecr co.
Brick store and lot, in \':i , Tuscnln ('n, ’
Store and lot, lot l7, lilm-la Trout Lake, Chippewa co.
Farms.
Ei hty acres, near Olivct, I-Lalun co., known as the
Dow er farm. A _. _
Twenty 31-I00 1I£‘I'('¥ll|lIl1'('|I_\'(|r Ixiles. Bcrrien cn.
or any Tools wanted on the farm.
I am State agent for the Columbia
Scale and the (Jonimon Sense Post
Hole Dig.-,'gci°. I manufacture and
sell I-[ewitt’.~‘ Automatic Adjust-
able Stock Rack.
_Ei hty acres in-ar Ll-utz,Sagiii-.:.\v co , known as the . .
LIE‘)! li::\]'rl:“I'e%ll0ur Milllaiid, Midland co., known as I
the Ignstel‘ farm.
(nil-. lnuidrell uiul eighty-two 31-100 ucreslicar Quincy, Write for circulars and’ state just.
llrail--li (1)., known as the Berry farm.
One hundred and fll'ty-s(-\'cii urru near Marlene. What you Want-
Saiiilac co., known as the Murray farm.
Seventy-five acres in M0lllt'flIlIl C0,, four miles from
Farmers don‘t feed ticks but buy some
R- . L 1 .7 i; v .' th Fisk l‘ rin. . . '
lI;.Iegrl{li:l)'-‘Illli:‘:iI‘i!k:zlt‘H‘I‘TI'l(Jl'lfIOn,SLCIIIIF co.,knowii Qt Haywflrdis She";‘p D1I3- want an
agent in every locality. VVr1te quick.
B. I“. FOSTER,
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Om: IlIlIl'Il'f'Il uud twenty acres near Advaiice, Chill" I
levclx ro., knovm as the II1|_Vl‘.< farm.
Tliree hundred acres, fniiranll one-half miles from I
Ovid, Clinton co., known as the Scott farm. _ ,
One hundred and fil‘t_\'-iiine 3-10 acres, three miles
east of Verona mills, lluron co., known as the Reduiun }
Ia. .
i’-iiinety-four and .'»'.'-l00 acres, near the South Arm 0!
Plus Lake, Cliurlevuix CI1l.,r0ll Sec. 2. Town 32, N. R. 7 ' ’
West. known as the Stee e arm. '
E‘ hty acres in Presque Isle cn. described as N. X of P 1 S V B k
g_ \l 9,; .s.»c.22, Town 35, N. P..:4East, known as the a S
Iruder arm.
'l"cnéy.fiv?ncre5i[;|1;r(IWn;IéIp of Sumner, Gratin! 3 OF LANSING, MICHIGAN.
00., on - er. 3‘... near \'1 age 0 Iumner.
d EIghfV:ll\(?l‘eSiIl '{“()N\NIEhll|’.r (‘)‘I'SFel‘2l‘§!‘r::0n:(l)&I§n go.‘ i CAPITA Ly 150,000.00.
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t as I’ 4 ' I l l)FF‘ICFS ~;MEAI:) BLQ‘ l.‘~ L‘.‘NS1M*v
Unlmproved Llndl - ‘ ' FR.-‘l.\ l\LlI\ SI'.. NORTH L.-INSINH,
In Al ens. Benzie. Cheboygau. Glsdwln. Grating, ‘
Grand raverse Huron. Iislkaska, Lselunaw, Mon ‘. OFFICERS.
Mlssuukee, Macklnuwi Midland. M _ .Mont.uiot- , “.3 J, ,g,,,,,,, p,e,,,d,,,,,,_
.\. A. WILBITB. Vice President.
1‘. H. OSBAND, (Yaahier.
one , News go Osoeo u, Oscodu. Ottawa. Roscouiinou. :
fir-Inaw, anllac. Tuacoln and Wexford Counting f
cli.. and Village Property and Flflnl. For duo:-Ir ,
tlom, apply to ‘-
~ A N SHELDEN & 00.. DETROIT. MICH-
We transact a general banking business. In
, our savings department we receive deposits of
| one dollar or over and pay interest thereon if left
‘ three months or longer at 4 per cent.
A GOOD TESTIMONIAL.
* * * ‘* I believe that for durability. colnnnigutlllf(Ii1):I‘I:uIl‘:'lil:i.:ilg§ri:li:ilIi:::nm'I1fecbgigfsgsd
ease of handling to take from field to field, “"3795” b"-““'l’?3 °°"tl.fi°‘“9“ Of d°D°5it If You
and satisfactory work the ‘ Acme’ is the l b"°..any banking b°'"’°°" “me and 99° “"
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best Harrow for the money I have everi ’ ‘
seen. It is unquestionably the best sod
Harrow I have used, and lighter of draft 9
than any Disc Harrow I have ever seen. i
As I have a chance to compare on my own
farm the work of six different improved l
Harrows, I can speak intelligently about i pgggsns or 30333.1. SMITH & co”
the ‘Acme.’ "~\VAi.1)o F. BROWN. I LANSING. .Icn_
,¢_.