if l VOL. XX. NO. 14. "Tl//1' I”.-II.’-l/It'll IS //F J////B/1' ('//-\'.\'/1'/2 /'/:‘.\'(_ '/1' T//.l-\' T/[E F.l[.’-l/. --l-\']/ .\'//I//‘Lb L‘/1' 1’/[.’.\"[’ /‘I/[’]?U I’/1'11,“ Cl IA R L(_)'l"l‘I~Z. .\llClll(.i.\N, JULY Ix 1~‘.¢.’., \\'ll()l.lC NU. -lTo. Memories of Early Michigan. ll( LV. BN1 )5 (}()()l)RI('lI. I \\'hile tl1e bu.-y world is engaged 11po11 the schemes of the future. the mind of the aged reverts to the memory of the past. Sixty years ago, one bright day in Septem- bcr, lhiifl, two young men clad in home- spun, with calloused hands a11d sunburned visagcs. walkedacross a plank from tl1e dock at llutlalo to the deck of a staunch Lake Erie steamboat. Their destiny was the far otl‘ territory of .\lichiga11. They were charged with the responsible d11t_v of . seeking out a home for :1 ninnerous family, of which they constituted a part. No railroad then extended as far west as the Great Lakes. A line, which afterward be- came the New York Central. extended from Albany to Attica, a point :15 111iles east of Buffalo. lt was owned and controlled by six different railroad companies, and when. soo11 after it was extended to llutfalo, the passenger over it had to change cars seve11 tiines, and pay his fare and change bag- gage as often, in traveling from Lake liric to the Hudson. lint eve11 this was co11sid- ered :1 great improvement upo11 the lirie canal packets, which just tell years carlicr had supplanted the stage coaches. which in the days of 111y boyhood tiled along the old Butfalo road. \\'ell, as the third day neared its close our voyagcrs stepped gladly from the steamboat onto a dock of Detroit, :1. frontier city containing 11ot far from three thousand inhabitants. Tlicy were of all shades of color, fro111 the fair haired Caucasian to the blackest sons of Africa. But the Frenchmen, with all shades of I’mh”an blood intermingled‘, seemed to be in’ the greatest numbers. There was an oc- casional stage betwee11 Detroit and Pontiac, by way of lioyal Oak a11d l'ilI'l1]lIlgl1:lll1. or Piety Hill, as it was then called. But. our voyagers were good pedestrians, and, glad to get rid of the stilling greasy air of the steamboat, struck boldly out along the low sunken road, where \\'oodw:1rd avenue now stretches its miles of buildings toward Pon- tiac. passing which we, (for the pilgrims were Moses a11d Enos (joodrich,) pushed forward along the .5agi11-aw road, which the ge11eral goverimient had opened to :1 point somewhere in Grenesce county_, near Flint river. As we moved onward we frequent- ly met men ret11rni11g from their explora- tions to the frontier. a11d as we all seemed weary enough to sit dow11 on a log or a 111ossy bank and rest. we sought informa- tion, which they seemed as anxious to im- part as we were to receive. They told us of a cou11try about llavisonis Mill where good government land could be found i11 abundance. A 1‘oI:'rt'.\'ATE 1.oc.1'1‘1o.\'. Our first night in what is now the town of Atlas, then in Lapcer county. but since transferred to Gene.-tee, was spent at the house of Ezra K. l’arshall on the Thread creek, which is sometimes digni- fied by the title of river. though at this point it could be spanned by 3 1;) foot fence rail. This quiet little stream was in the hills of Grroveland, and winds its way northerly and northwesterly. intersecting Flint river within the present limits of the city of Flint. The Kearsley, another beau- tiful stream which rises in springs near Clarkston, also passes northwesterly through Atlas, nearly )arallel and two or three miles east of the bread. The space between these streams embraces some of the finest land in the county of Genesee, and was at the time nearly all subject to entry at government price. The Davison‘s and half a dozen pioneer ‘settlers had plunged into the dense heavy timber iii the north part of the township under the belief that those beautiful plains to the south, with their hard and poplar thickets, and their thousands of acres of balm and wild flow- ers, were worthless land, because they did not grow big trees. But their mistake Was our good fortune, and we bought twelve hundred acres, between and on both sides of these two streams, and sur- rounding the site of the present village of Goodrich, now becoming celebrated as the site of the most extensive creamery of the state, but at the time it was the greatest deer park and wolf haunt I have ever found in my travels. Not anight passed I but the woods rang far and near with the hideous howlings of dillcrcnt gangs of wolves replying to each other. These chietly inhabited the timber lands. while o11 the plains the wild deer feasted a11dga1n— boled i11 pairs and do7.ens, seemingly as llfllltlllll as sheep iii a pasture. lint 111o1'e than thirty years agothe wild deer a11d wolf became extinct, a11d their haunts a1'e 3 tread by cows for the crcamery, and tlocks of choice Merino sheep which produce 131 cent wool for Stone & >'teward's woolen ‘ mills at Flint, or the Titus factory at Col- umbiaville. Tllli l€.\l.\‘I.\'H. lt was near the close of September when we invaded :1 tamarack swamp and co111- menced cutting logs to build a house which was to constitute the future home of the (loodrich family. icing expert axmen, } a trade we had learned in the wilds of , western .\ew York, we were very soon ready for the raising. The country far and near was raked for men, a large portion of whom came from the town of (irand Blane. or (irunilaw. as it was then called, some traveling six or eight miles to get there, for no excuse was allowed to prevent at- tendance at the raising of anew settle1'. To "c:1rry up" the cor11ers of a log house retpiircd a11 experienced man. and the lion. Paul G. Davison "carried up“ one corner, a11d Moses (ioodrich another——but who were the other two is beyond my recollec- tion. A small grove of pine then stood on the high point of ground o11 the right bank of the liearsley. and directly south from where the (iro()(ll'l(:l'1 creamerv now stands, and to this we repaired and manufactured the shingles for the new house, for we were bot1i”aEi<'fo1nplis'tiedi shingle weav €rs—'—‘ having learned the trade o11 the borders of old Tonawanda swamp. Boards for the roof and loose floors were obtained fro111 l)avison’s sawmill, a11d by borrowing a few carpenter‘s tools our handiwork soon formulated a water-proof roof. \\'e had visited some old York State neighbors i11 \\'ashtenaw cou11ty before building the house, a11d now we indulged in several days of bee liunting, andllcut the brush from several acres of 1111111. The wild tlowers remained untouclied by frost till far i11to l\o\'e111l)e1'. f111'l1lslllI12“Ll rich re- past for the wild bees. whose stores we found well treasured i11 those trees we had the good fortune to capture. HOME AGAIN. Time passed almost i111perceptiblv——;for we were both ardent lovers of nature. and we found her here in all her nature loveliness. I\'ovt-111be1' at last beganto howl around us, a11d admonish of the 11ear approach of wint- er. Another diligent walk of somethinrr more than a day‘s time took us tothe little dingy City of the Straits, a11d then on Jeff- erson avenue we met to o11r surprise three X ork State neighbors who had traveled all the way through Canada o11 horseback, in quest of Michigan homes. \\'ell, of course they 11111st have a pilot. a11d it fell to mv lot to 1'ct11r11 to the Nesl1i11g11:1k plailis a11d assist them in selectingithcir la11ds. By the time this was accomplished and we had all returned to l)et1-oit, where they bought their lands of Old Major J onathnn Kearsley, the weather began to put on wintry airs, and a six days‘ passage on the crazy old steamer \Villia1n Penn, includincr a tramp of 45 miles through snow and iiiuil from Dunkirk landed me i11 Butfalo, on Nov. 20, 11435, and that night a neighbor‘s sleigh landed me at my old Erie countv home. Not long, however, was it to be our home, for the foundations of o111'Micl1i— gan home were now securely laid. and mv next article will give some account of our pioneer struggles in this land of the then far west. Fusturiu. “The Lubin Proposition”——Continued. Unfortunately the idea of home consump- tion of our present surplus agricultural staples, by fostering home manufactures through protection, must be abandoned as of no practical value whatever. Apart fro111 many other valid objections, it is only necessary to point to the fact that We buy about -$8U(),t)OU,U0O worth of com- modities from the world every year. We must ply for them promptly when due. = of trade demands it. i commodities. \\'hat shall we pay with: shall it be with _<_rold or silver! Wlicre would \vc get it from. liven if we had all thc precious metal in the world we would have nothing left in about te11 ye:1rs. No; nations do 11ot pay in bullion, excepting only those who are bankrupt, and are forced to. Nations si1nply- cxcl1:111ge commodities, and only give b11llio11'wl1cnevc1' the balance Now. as long as we buy of foreign nations such things as tea. coffee, spices, 1nedici_ncs, tropical fruits. raw material, or manufactures we must pay. for them, and besides tlicfsc we must not 0ve1'look interest on foreign debts. If we cannot pay in bullion we niust pay i11 Now, the tpiestion is. what kind of eommoditiesf Clearly those which ? will be accepted by the foreign countries, jiistrthe same as we buy of them, only those that we niost wa11t. ff Will the foreign nationsaccept o11r l1igh— T ly protected 1nanufactu1'esf \\'ill l“ra11ce l buy our n1illiner_v. lingland our hardware or ‘textiles. or Austria our miscellaneous 111an11fact111'es? No; they will do 11otl1i11g of the kind. fir protective systeixi renders our 111anu— fa res so high as to render their export in payment for their import impracticablc. 'l'o:§ll11st1'ate: In l*93l'tl1C total value of imports entered for home eonsulllption was $844,454,583 and the total exports of do- mestic me1'ehandise was -:\‘t~'3’;1.llI‘}¢!.T15.'». diw vided as follows: Mining, -"§‘2,H"_’H.H'.£I3: for- est}, -$'.3S.l;37,l13: n1anufactu1'es. $l.3.\.U'_’$’1.- 1L8; fisheries, $.3,:34l,3E7h", miscellaneous, $3; 36,164, leaving a reinainder of agricul- sta les of St;315,Z;’-8'_‘,9b'6, or T-l.H.3 per _ T--eif't e whole. '1”-“.tbn5;,,.be r:lr~a_.1*.th°t a%)ng as we import we must export, and as the nations‘ do not want our protected nianufactures, we must pay, as we have been paying them. in agricultural staples. and as soon as we do we must have a surplus. and when we sell this surplus we can get no more for it than can the producers in the cheapest labor countries in tlie wo1'ld. or, in other words, the Liverpool price. and , just as soon as .we accept this price for the j necessary surplus we must accept this saine price for the greater portion used for home consumption, and from which is lirst de- ducted the cost for transportation from the place of production to Liverpool. Our friend the protectionist is forced to _ admit this, b11t he seeks to escape from tl1e ditliculty by claiming that while the s11r- V plus is sold at these world's free-trade ; Liverpool prices that the 111ucl1 greater quantity remaining for homeconsumption. and \vhicl1 is bought b_v the protected at tl1e higher prices which protection atl'o1'ds, gives to the producer of agricultural sta- ples that just protection average which he y l l is entitled to. ‘lo fll1'tll('l' believes that this average can be increased in proportion asprotection o11 111a1111f:1<-t111“es is increased. "For." says he. "protection will i11- crease the factories. hence 1111 increase iii the number of employees at higher wages. These factories in close proximity to the farms will so increase the price of that greater portion of agricultural products used fo1' home consumption as to raise the average home price.“ Tlnis he hopes to V render to the producer of agricultural ' staples that just measure of indirect en- hancement of prices for his product which manufacture receives by the taritl'. He claims f11rtl1e1' that these staples are pro- tected—are as much protected by the taritf as manufactures are. Unfortunately, however, the claims of the protectionist are without any founda- tion whatever. For, in the tirst place, as soon as there is a surplus and it is otfered in the open market, it will bring no higher price than the surplus of the cheapest labor country in the world; and as soon as this price is accepted fo1' the surplus this same price, and no more can be obtained for that greater portion sold for home con- sumption. There is no distinction whatever between I the export and home buyer. Both b11y at I the sa111e price—at the Liverpool price. 3 Hence we have as a result that the farmer ‘ receives for his entire crop of agricultu1'al , staples the world's free—trado Liverpool 5 price, less cost of transportation fro1n the i place of production to Liverpool, and this, 1 whether the product actually goes to Liver— l I as there is a surplus for export! 5 e.\'p(,'11scsf pool or iscon.sun1cd by the higlily protcct- ‘ cd factory hand. even thougli tbc factory be within ten feet of the farm. Of what value. thcrcforc, is thc protect- T ed f.-1cto1'_v i11 close proximity to thc place of production of agricultural staples as long as there is :1 surplus of thcsc products for export! None at all. ‘ ; l“u1'ther. of what good is :1 protective t:1ritl' on agricultural staplcs i11 ordcr to cu- hance their prices in this country as long Hf no value whatever. for :1 protective t:1rill'c:1n not enhance the home price of a11 (‘,\]m1'1 as it can of a11 import. Let us now suinmarizc thc workin«_r.s of this system, a11d we shall soon discover the inequality e.\'i.-‘ting bctwccn niaiiufactiircs a11d stapleagricultural. and how far these ine”, 15 per cent for thc importc1"s protit will i11c1'easc the -.\'.'»H to -$37. 51”: now add 20 per cent for the jobbcr'.s protit to the 35:37.50, and we have 5115!; now add the retailer’s protit to the N31’, and we have a, total of $83125. as the real duty or t.1:;, and it is this dutv, this tax, which the con- sumer pays, a11d 11ot the (i()\'(‘1'l1ll)(*lll levy of 5.30. Now there is not :1 single pcn11y here paid out which is for the goods proper. The §'.3o duty. which becomes :57\U.;’.3. and which is paid for by the consumer. has in reality nothing to do with the world's frce- trade price of thc ;_»-oocls. If there were no duty there would be no -“~t'>.'_‘.7 to pay. A The 11atio11al lcgislaturc. through its law- niaking power has. by its liat. crcatcd a11 artiticial eiilianccnicnt of -."\t'1.".3. (iovernment. tll‘c1'cforc, has done :11) act which causes an artlicial cnlianccincnt. o11 imports. And for what purpose? \Va.-1 it for iieccssary revenue for tlovcrnmcnt No; for it could for that pur- pose raise rcvenuc o11cotl'cc, tca, and on other imports which it pcrniits f1‘eee11t1'y. The high duty placcd on certain articles of imports is for thc purpose of protecting home 111a11l1f:1ct11I'esagainsttl1ei111po1'tatio11 of foreign inanuf.-1cturc.s at lower prices. Now. as all consumers pay thcse en- hanced prices. a11d as al' the people are consumers, therc can tlicccforc be no cause . for complaint. for by this incans all the people are justly ta.\'cd to support the (ioveriinient. So it sccms, but unfortu- nately this is 11ot truc. I11 reality all of this protective tax, this cnlianccmcnt a11d protit thereon on imports, together with the enhanced priccs o11 home iiianufactures, is paid by the producers of agricultural staples, for they alonc a1'e compelled to sell their products at home a11d abroad at the world's free-t1'ade Liverpool prices, less the cost of traiisportation from the place of p1'oduction to Liverpool, coming into direct competition with the cheapest labor countries of the world, a11d are fur- ther compelled to pay for labor and necessi- ties at the highest prices in the world. Being the only great body of producers in o1u' country to do this, they are the only ones who actually pay for all the enhance- ment caused by the operation of the tariff, and in addition to this they pay all profits thereon a11d all the expenses for carrying o11t the protective system. All others are amply compensated for high prices by a still higher price for their labor, skill, talent, time. interest. 111an11— factures, commodities. or rent. Thus in- direetlv, through the protective system, j they help themselves through their votes i11 obtaining this higher compensation, 3 compelling thereby the unprotected produ- T cer of agricultural staples to foot the costs = of this one—sided and unpist protective sys- tem. Continued in next issue. ‘-1 Fielclpand 519111.. Potato Bugs. 1. .\. cowii111:1'. This has been the worst .-eason for pota- to bugs, I think. that I ever experienced. Tlicy sccnicd to come 11p with the potatoes, :111d l1:1\ c b1cu w ith them ever since. old biigs «lid iuucli 1l:1i11:1_-_-‘c to the youiig potato. by l\1‘1‘}|‘iIl}_;' it catcn oil. :1iid it \v:is :1 li:1rd siriigglc tor it to get :1 start of the bug. I in-I11-\ 1- it I had kept the old bugs pi1-km‘: oil. the \i111's would have been :1 third l:11‘gc1' than they :11'c. This I have i1c\‘crdo11c:1s \1-1. iicycr bciiig 11'oublcd so iiiucli bctorc by tiicold ones. llowcvcr. I think I shall look to it in tl1ct'uturc. The \'Ullllg‘lIll-_;‘s l1:1l1'l11‘1l1111t very uncvculy this spring‘. so1iicl1illsl1:1\c:1 lot of l:1rg‘co11cs. while the otlier hills wcrc cntircly free from them. 111:1kiii;__»'it bad about sprink- lin~_-. l likcto h:1\cll11*1I1p1‘cll_\' j_1'cnci':1li_v hzitchcd out bct'o1'c spriiikliiig‘. but this was o11t of the Iplcstioii tl1isyc:11'. >1» I cxpcct to l1:1vc to go oycr thcui :1g;1i11 in :1 few days. I :11i111si1igtl1isy1:1r. :1 kn:1p,-:11-k sprink- 11-1 \\’lil1'l1 11111 ..,11-mi.-1c111.11-..11..11 .-1111111-. Ill:ll{lIl_:_" it possilvlt‘ for one man to go over. in :1 \1-i'vtl1oi'o1igl1 in:in1ie1'. four 01' live acres in :1 d:1y. It takes about .311 gallons of water to the acre. This is :1 fast \v:1_v, b11t :1l‘tc1' :1ll it is 11oc:1syjob. and by the time one goes over four :11-res. he feels as if he has had ciiougli for one d:1y. I usually go over the patch :11id gather the bugs in pans. 111itil tl1c_y_<_v‘ct, pretty well l1:1tclic1lout. .\lyself and two boys went over three acres _vcstc1'd:1_vi1i two liours, :1iid got iic:1rly :1ll tli:1t h:1tch1-dout. besides catcliing tl1o11.-aiiilsofold ones. This c:111 be done vcr_v easily when the vines :11'c small, but when they becoine large it is best to use poison. I 11s:- an old tin s:1p p:1n to catch them in. by nailing :1 l1:111dle on ‘one side long enough so you can stand up, straiglit, and then give e:1cl1 hill :1 stroke with the p:1ii in sucli :1 w:1y tl1:1t the b11_<_-s will t111i1ble in. You can take two rows :1t :1 time :1iid move :1long1p1ite brisk- ly. only striking those hills that require it. I11 :1 short time you will become so expert tl1:1t yo11 can cle:11i :1 hill almost entirely of them. fijoiiietiiiics you will 1i1:ikc :1 miss hit and knock :1 few oil on the ground, b11t no iiiatter :1bo1it that, for _yo11 c:11i go ovci' over them so rapidly. tli:1t if you go over them :1g:1i11 in :1 day or two you will c:1tcli them. A few times over them in this way so keeps them in check tli:1t little liarni will be done by tlie1i1._ I keep :1 deep tin p:1il at one end to empty the bugs in, :11id then pour hot w:1te1' on them. This tin pail is :1bo11t .8’ inches in di:11i1etcr :11id 11'» inches high. It needs no cover, for they can't get out. There is one s:1tisf:1ction:1bo11t this w:1_v of gatliering bugs—tliey iiniiiediately cease doing business. You :1lso :1void the sus- pense of :1 r:iin washing the poison oil‘. You will be astonislied at the number of old bugs _vo11c:1tcl1. I think if this nicthod of catching bugs were put into practice during the earlier stages of pot:1to growtli, there would be less trouble with bugs. The young vines would grow much fast- er, :11id would soon get so large tli:1t they would not l1:1r1ii them so much. It is the weaker ones that have to suffer. In my p:1tcl1, this ye:1r, lots of the yiiies were en- tirely stripped of their leaves, niaking it 11ecess:1i'y to put out new leaves. tliercby making them we:1k, :111d they easily fall :1 prey to the bug. Ithaca. The Farm Dairy. 1‘. A. JOH1\'S()N. A few years experience in mg as a f:1rin speci:1lity has viriced me that few sources of rev- enue froiii the farm yield so generous returns for the investment and labor as the well managed farm dairy. I am aware that :1 iiiajority of the readers of the Visi- TOR will disagree with me. Very many farmers will assert that keeping cows more than to supply the family needs, doesn’t pay. I attribute this conviction largely to the uncertain, slipshod manner in which the dairy is conducted. Those who keep but four or five cows generally make the product up at home, and sell the surplus at the village stores. Those who keep more than that number generally sell the cream to a neighboring Creamery. In the first case the farnier seldom knows what the surplus is. The latter receiving monthly payments knows something more on that point, but generally wishes he didn‘t. The returns in either case are not generally satisfactory. But dairying for profits re- quires knowledge of the business, facilities and conditions for conducting it, and care in its management-—t_he simple conditions of success in any business. THE HERD. Tlze first and most important factor is the profit-producing herd. This secured, success is easy; without it, success is im- possible. It is a fact that many cows do not, and cannot be made to pay for their keeping. Outside of localities where dairy- dairy- coi1— ing is extensively engaged in, ver_v few to produce the dairy strain, and compara- tively few li:1vc :1dopted dairy breeds. The ideal cow with i11:1iiy of "our best farin- ers" is :1 large. well forined cow, disposezl , to t:1ke on tlesh :111d look sleek, that will 1 raise :1 good calf and give :1 _«__rood flow of The I n1ilk——the "general purpose“ cow. Per- haps for general pu1'poscs sucli :1 cow is the proper thing, but for protit in the dairy herd she is geiicr:1lly :1 failure. \\'licrcve1‘ dairying is followed as :1 speciality the general purpose cow is disc:irdc. With lliftmt l1<':11:1c:1i1 pi'od11<-c it for 1.’. 1-1-ius. 111 all tliescc:1s1-stl11- p1'o1luctioi1 is iiiini-.-n.scly iii- 1'1'c:1sc1l. the cost is g1'c:11:lv lt‘.~~t'll('1l,l:11]1l the dcinand liardiy ii1c1'c:1scd. _\p\y':1pply' tl11-rule: (_'o-t 11fp1'o1l11cIio11. supply and dcinand. :1nd the cause of low \\’llt'l'1Iil.\ evi- dciit. This tipplics to all other tliings. Take iron if you please: not so 1113111’ 1-1»i11~,v ill!) .-lccl rails sold for -$173 per ton.‘ :111d the :1ctual cost of ii1:11111f:1ct11i'i1ig thcm 35lll'l. l’>_v the llcssciiu-1' p1'oc1-ss tlic cost of 1n:11iufacturc of steel rails was l(’~.~(‘l](,‘tl one-half :1nd the selling‘ price inorc tl1:1ii onc—halt'. The l’r1~1icli process half of this cost and .~t'lllIl_1_" priccs fol- lowcd. The improved m:1cl1inc1'y in the llllll(‘s‘ and factory so rcduccd prices that these sainc r:1ils now sell for $22 per ton :111d cost b11t $1.711» inaiiiifactiire. radical. some l1:1vc f:1llc11 less i11 valuc tl1:iii others. but the sauic l:1wgovc1'ns all. even gold :11id silver. l‘I\'lIlL’llll_\' these low prices liave conic to stay. The rccciil rise in the value of wheat shows the sanie l:1w. short supply. iiicrcziscd dciiiaiid. Tlic pres- ent :i1lini1iistr:1tioii is not to bl:1inc for this state of aIl':1irs any more than for the l:1st r:1i1i fall. .~'Il.\'lCl: Axii l'ltl(‘li.\'. Sonic theorists claim that plenty of _~il_ yer would iiicrcasc the price of co1ninodi- ties, but no solid reason c:111 be given for this opinion. In fact the highest prices re- g ceived in this ('(>lll1II'_\'—~lll I\ti.3—\vei'c :1t :1 time wl1c11 there was no silver in circula- tion, or gold either for that ii1:1ttcr. l Neither can coiigress or the l:1w of any took oll . .\mong I 1 other tliiiigs tl1iscl1:1ngcli:1s not been so I as with us, reckoning in dollars. . the Iliiitcd States grade. JULY 18, 1895. There is no class in Mexico like the .—\.i11ericai1 farin- er. The peons :1re f:1r bclowin intelligence, :11id receive as wages from 1'.’ to 2.3 cents per day. On the cotlcc estates on the Isth- mus. l:1bor coniiiiaiids $1 per week. vet l:1bor is scarce in that section. Sheep hcrders. who :1i'eco1isidcred :1 good class of laborers. get b11t $13 per 1i1oi1tl1 :111d one busliel of corn. Real estate is high. and like most other things on the gold liasis. \\'hil1-thcskillcd l:1bo1' is l1<1l<|l1llc 11p to yet tlicrc :1i'c in:1i1_y good. ingenious inccliaiiics. Yct tli1- systcni of labor and finance giycs then: no cli:1n1-1-for in11>r1vvcniciit---—-li:1r1ll_vcnougli to live :111d support :1 t"aiiiil_y. The 1':1i'11i1-1'1-t’ llH'lllIll(‘1l.‘l:I.It'\ \\l1ll1'l1Hl :1sp1'11spc1'11l1s :1s he might bc. c.-1111-omprirc his condition and :1'oni1-tliingovcr :1_yc:1i' 21311Ill(‘:lllll1\llllt‘(‘» mcnt was 111:1-lc that :1 notcd d:1ir_yni:1n in lC:1st1-1'11 _\'-.-wYoi'k.st:1tc ha-l conl'o1i11dcd tl1csav:uits :11idl1:11l :11-tually t'1-dfat into the lillllt of his c1i\\‘s‘, and that tin-rc \y.-is no doubt of it: and loud were the rejoic- ' ings of tliosc who believed that such :1 thing could be accoinplislicd. Still inorc. the p1‘11ccss' was so simple. only to feed the I cows 1':1w lc:1ft:1llow :111d in :1 few days ' there would bc.-in i11c1'cascoflroin11411111111 per cent in the butter yields. To be c.\':1ct. i this man. by f:-cdiiig two pounds of r:1w ; t:1llo\y to each of his 1-ow s. had incrc:1s-cd ' thc pc1'1'c1il:1_\_»‘1-s of fat p1-1' cow as follows: ‘ -I-‘I l(‘l't'('lll 4'3 l(‘l‘('(‘lli. I‘- ~ I pci' ccnt and 1 ‘.l\ pcI'cc21l. 1'1-spccli\‘cl\', This was followed byminutei1i1p1ir_v:111d 1'c\'c:1lcd the fact that only l’our cows of :1 la-1-1] of .‘:.'1 or so, had bccn tried. :11idtl1c rcsult l1:1d been kcpt sccrct for two yc:1rs. This was all the inorc strangc \\'l11-11 butter , duriiig the time was selling f1'1i1ii‘_’1Ito.‘:;'. 1 cents per pound: :11id it would l1:1vc bccn :1 i1:1tio11 :1dd v:il11e to :11iytliing.if no one 1 wants a thing. or will not t:1ke it, it has no excli:1nge:1blc value, :1s witness the l:‘rci1cli :1ssign:1ts. and 11111" own coiitinciital inoiiey, that the l:1\v tried to oblige people to take 1,1_1,11lei;p:1iiisa111l penalties, yet no one would have it :ii1d they went down to nothing. No coinniercc. or excliange, tixes the value of coinmodities. Law c:11i only reg- ulate the niodes of excliaiige. Then is it reasonable to think tli:it :1 siniplc l:1w ot'co11- c:111. by inaking free and unlimited the coinage of silver change or »;lvc addi- \\'e imist 3 stai'tcd bear in mind that money has but one ofiicc 3 and that is of middle 1ii:11i to cttect e.\'- j cliaiigcs between those who l1:1ve soiiie valua- I ble thing to c.\'cl1a1ige. It is useless for any other purpose: it c:1n neither feed thel hungi'_v nor clothe the ii:1ked, in itself. Like wlieat or cotton on :1 desert island. 1 for :1 sliipw1'ecked i11:11i, all the gold and silver in the l:11id could not purchase :1 glass of w:1tcr. (ioltl :1iid silver merely represciit :1 value which l1:1s been earned bv someone. Just like :1 check, draft, or note ' :it hand, they all, as money, merely repre- sent an cxcl1:111geable value, which some one has e:1r1icd :1iid holds in this form. Gold :11id silver l1:1ve also :1 coniniodity value aside from money, which according to the l:1w of cost of productioii, supply and deniand, niakes gold now very iii11cl1 the more vziluable, 1 oz. to 32 of silver, and it has now been adopted by the iiiost progressive coinn1ei'ci:1l nations, as the most suitable for a stziiidard, or coii1p:1ri— son of v:1l11c. The most prosperous and happy nations use the gold standard. Com- pare the United States on :1 gold SltlI1(l{].l'tl with Mexico on :1 silver staiidard with free coiii:1ge of silver. The average for high grade workmen is one-scventli wli:1t is re- ceived in the United States. Brit-kl:1yei‘s -ll) cents per day, the best carpenters 611 cents, the spinners and others in factories get from 1:3 to 130 cents per day; an expert seamstress gets but 35 cents per day, and furnishes her own dinner; the best cooks get but per month, and house se_rvants, girls and men, get from to 56 per month. Rents are higher than in the United States, and an ordin:iry house is far beyond the hopes of the best mechanic. The cheapest room rents for $10 per month and board is from $20 to $311 per month. Laboring people cannot afford this, and they live principally in adobe huts with clay floor, the usual food_, fortill:1, a home- made corn bread, with meat once or twice a month, and such a thing as laying aside money to purchase a house is undreanied of. A COMPARISON. For comparison we must remember that the Mexican dollar, while it has more sil- ver in it than ours, passes at its value. in bullion, and consequently. everything bought and paidgfor costs twice as muc , ing fair" 1':1ise1l. great schcnic to turn I1-cent 1':1\v t:1llow into Jill-cciit butter. The hi<_:‘h cli:1r:1ctcr of tlic man 1‘:111sc1l the opponents of the idc:1 that fat can be fed into milk. some uiicasiiicssz but the dairy schools atl)url1:n1i. K. II., :1nd at Cornell, went :it it to see if it were posii-I ble to feed :111ii1i:1l or ve;_v‘ct:1blc. fats into :1 cow's milk so as to bring it above the nor- mal. liach st:1tio11 took ten cows. :111d in on :1 three. months test of the matter, selecting cows from \:1i'lo11sl1i'<‘(' CHI]- to find out why the abandonnient. but . "Oh, I eaift fuss so much." was the i'eply. Then Prof. I)ean proposed to find out with the station herd whether it did or did not increase the milk. or in any way change the quality. So foi' three years trials have been going on with groups of cows. to see ‘ and watch the effects of slops, hot and cold. and of difl'erent coniposrition. with the fol- lo\ving results: First it was found that the yield of the cows could not. as this dair_v— a thermometer, at will. by the character of the slop, but remained, as withother food. to all practical intents. statiiniarv.—-/ofln (far/4/II, {/2 ///:/u ,/‘I//‘//Ir‘/‘. VVQRK The Child. FI.OR.—'t C. nL'i:i.i.. Yfomfiuu Intellect. The world moves. The coming gener- ation must be educated to be in keeping with it. that is. as Kant says._ "not for the present human race. but for the better pos- sible condition in the future. " The means of the development of the infant are the phenomena of nature and the human nature which surround him. These are chaotic and must be systeinatized. Froebel classi- fies them in a series of gifts, “claiming only to do with clear consciousiiess and per- sistent purpose what maternal instinct has blindly and interinittently attempted." This century is proving that the priiiiar_v sclioolrooiii reipiircs a wise student as well as one possessed with tact and love. Ilow much more need is there for wisdom in the liome._ where the inlluence which is build- ing our nation is intinitcly greater! There nothing comes to naught. All possible knowledge is useful. Questions arise in -enibryonic minds that reach into deep waters and touch points in the liiost ex- tended college course. The little philoso- pher expects answers even though he asks, "But. papa, wheredoes the _7/'/-.v-/ seed come from f" or, “\\'lio made God 1'' His -questions should always be heeded, though some thought should be left for him. Lead him. but do not walk for him. \\'hat a tine stii