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My Prophecy for the Grange.

rviitis Li. I.L’(‘l-Z.

DH.-\l{ \'i.siroi::——Yo11 asked me to
propliesy the future }_1‘1'owth :nid useful-
ness of the (ii':ui}_rc. Those who have at-
tended coiimieiiceiiient da_v exert-i-es have
listeiied with 'l£’llf_'”llt to the class prophet.
In tlicsc cases :1 great future for each iiiciii—
berof the class is predicted. .\'c:1rly all
of the _voun_«_1‘ ladies ni:1r1'y dukes. prim-cs.
or lords. ()1-i_-:1sioii:1ll_v :1 very serious
girl becomes :1 noted iiiis.sion:ii'y. The
_\'t)lll]}_[ men :1ll becoiiic f_"l'(':tl :1iid Jood.
lint tliese prophesies are prompted b_v the
eiitliiisiastic hopes of youth. Uld prophet-
c:1ii see the d:irk as well light side of life
:1iid institutions.

Not tempered by :1_«_rc. but based upon :1
wide e.\;pcrieiice. my prophecy for the
(ii'aii_«__re is not :1 disco111':1_'_1‘iii_«_-' one. My
hopes :1re based upon :1 iicees-ity for its
existence; upon the breadtli and iiobilit_v of
its purposes: upon the 1'('llf__>‘l(1ll> tidclity
with which it has :idliei'cd to its den-l:1red
principles: upon the record wliich it has
made tllll‘Il1;_*‘ tweiity-oiic ye:1rs of active
life; upon the sti'o1i}_1‘ bond \\'lll(‘ll has been
est:1blishcd between its loyal iiieiiibers. I
have iinbounded

I“.\lTII l.\' l{1t;}lT, JL'.\'l‘I('l-I.

and in the intelli_<_rciice of the Aiiierican peo-
ple. The intlucnces \vliicli lllt ild :1i1d the forces
which control society in all of its depart-
ments are found in oi'}_r:1nizatioii. .»\gi'i-
culture is the conceded basis of our nation‘s
prosperity. \\'ith it and for it must be
found this influence and force. This must
be as it is. chiefly edut-ation:1l both socially
aiid intellectually. The f:1riiicr‘s home
must be placed in position to enjoy the
pleasures of life and the farmer occupy po-
sition where he can protect his i'iglits and
interests. The Gi':1iige with 1111 of its pos-
sibilities fills the bill exactly: hence it caii-
not die. must grow,on and on. It must
become better and StI‘t)I1gC1‘ with each re-
turnin_c_r year. It iiinst. like the prophets
of old. declare that its usefulness :1iid 1lros-
perity depend upon the iiid1isti'y, faith. hope.
charitv. and tide.lity of its members. Its
I)ecl:ii‘:1tion of I’urposes for the objects in
view are as pure as the declaration which
gave to this ii:1tion life. Its very c.\'istence
to-(lav. :1iid the hopes and confidence in its
fiitiire. are inspired b_v the fact tli:it it has
:1dlicred so_faithfully to these pi'iii1-iples.
And I prophesy tli:it it will continue to do
so in the future. No other §_“L‘I1(‘1':ll a_«_-‘ri-
cultural :1ssociatioii has ever lived to :1
quarter of its days. No other has ever
formed :1 pcriiiaueiit plan and followed the
pl:1n to :1 loy_:ic:1l conclusion.

A I.(.)(_)K I.VT() THE PAST.

\\'hile it has not accoiiiplislied :1ll tli:1t its
f()11n1lQ1's fondly hoped. yet its record is :1
good one. In twenty-one years we have
constructed tliousands of (,il'itIlf_"(.’ halls.
These we cherish as we do o11r school
houses. These cannot and will not be
;ibandoned: they will reiiiain as iiieiiientoes
of the wisdom and greiierosity of the faili-
ers :1iid mothers when they have crossed
the dark river to the other shore.

It is true that. at the present time. days
as well as niglits are dark on many fariiis.
Stiiiiethiiig like the sanic condition p1'e—
vailed in 1573 and '74. The farmers saw
hardships and daii_t_rers lurkin_<_1' alon_c_r their
pathway. They SeI7.€tl the great weapon
of defense. orgaiiizatioii. Through it they
contributed largely to drivin5_r away the

clouds and re1novin_r_r the cause. It can,
and I believe will, be done again. Hope.

c01ii':1,qe, and :1 fair de_:rce of seltisliiiess
are required. \Ve must live and work for
the world. never forgetting that we our-
selves are/a part of that world.

THE FUTURE.

Believing that all of these tliiii_<_rs and
more willkbe done by the men. wouieii.
and children of the farm, I believe the
work of the Gran__qe, great, good. and bene-
ficial as it has been, is but as the tirst steps
of the child. compared with the sturdy walk
of the robust nian. I have faith in the be-
lief that he who writes up a record or
prophecy at the end of twenty-oiie years
more, will find the membership multiplied
by five, and its influence, usefulness. and
power multiplied by ten. This is no crea-

ture of the l1il:l'_’lI1:liltili. b11t the pi'opliec_V
is based upon sonic kiiowle-l_-_v'e of
iiccessitv which exist and of the forces
\\'l1it'l] 1-‘ontrol our civilization.

(‘ob/ilwlfri‘.

The Grange and Business.

How The (£r:ni;;e Has Helped The I"&H'!IN'l‘~ Hf

)IicIii;.;uii iii the Bllsilies-; of F:|rIii|ii:,'.

T111 )5. .\I.\I‘t.\.

Prior to the year l‘TH the fariiiei's of
our state were not known out-ide of their
iniiiiediatc lot-ality. except in :1 very few
cases. Tod:1_vtliro1if_rli their oi'j_v':1iii;c;1tioii.
t‘:lllL‘(l l’:1troiis of llusb:1iidi'y, they have
cxteiidcd their ac<j11aiiit:1iicc all over the
state. :1iid iiiany li:1ve be1;oiiieiioted in the
iiatioiial couiicils. :1iid have iiiv:1dcd the
lc«_rislativeli:1ll.s. Their societ_vis so11}_1‘lit.
b_v other cl:1sses. The city people are ;_rl:1d
to visit the fariiicr :1iid adiiiire his home
and fI'll}_1‘:ll s11i'i'<»11ii<liii;:s. In olden times.
prior to the birth of our l)l‘_t_"tllll'/.:tllUll. we
iiever dre:1iiicd. much less realized such :1
1-onditioii. If :1 city _<_rciitlciii:1ii was seen

:ipproacliiii;_r our lioiiies we tliou_«__rlit per-

: tioii.

iany «litierences arise,

haps he was <‘t)l]lil1}_" to collect :1 bill. or
held :1 tax title on our posscssioiis. There
is no class of people in this country that
has iii:1de sucli rapid improvenient socially,
iiitellcctually, :1i1d tiiiaiiciall_v. as the furni-
cr since 1370. all owin,<_r to their oi‘}_r:1iiiz:1-
lly their lllt‘t‘T.il]g‘ to<_retliei', talking.
«.‘1il11i.~,'t‘lliI];_", and {tl'j_>‘lllll,<_>‘ the various and
intricate interests pertaiiiiiig to their busi-
ness. much of the liti}_r:1tion has been sup-
pi'esse1l ainong the fariiiers. One of their
principles is that all nienibers must. when
submit them to
:1rbitration in the Order. This has robbed
the lawyers of thousands of dollars in this
state.

Everyone must admit that in this or}_ra-
nization the iiicinbcrs have become well
posted in all the

IC(7()N())II(? Q U E.\'TI().\'H

of the day: tariff. finance. :1iid niany other
questions of vital interest. not only to the
f:1riiier but to all. are freely discussed in a
non—partisan spirit. A f_"1‘:l1i(l acliievenient
li:1s been iii:1de in and tlii‘0l1;_"l1 this oi'}_:a—
ni7.:1tion in this line. A much _«_rre:1ter
could be ii1:1dc if all the farmers would
unite with us :1iid work li:1iid in li:1nd with
a purpose no‘ only to better the iii:1tcrial
condition of the a}_ri'ic11lturist but to help
him as :1 man. \\'li-at can :1 man he think-
in}_»' about when he concludes to work out

his own salv:1tioii{ Ile certainly must
be :1 reinarkable bein}_»‘. And if there
:1i'c any sucli people they 0ll_i_"llt to

stop :1nd think in the direction of others

and conclude that they have :11iotlicr duty
to perforni by (_'HlIiiI]_<_" into tl1cor}_r:1iiiz:1tioii
aii1l<lispeiisiiij_»' their wisdom to their fellow
fariiiers.

Lovi-1 vo1'i: ('.\l.I.I_\'t;.
be ever ready to defend it. and those en-
}_-':1;:e1l with you if they be honorable. And
should you be endowed \vitli _«_rre:1tcr wis-
dom than others. be ever ready to help the
unfortunate. Join the ranks and assist in
inakin}_r the comniunity as intclli§_rent and
happy as yourself. Sonic iii:1_v say that I
have overdi':1w1i the pi'o<_:i'ess of the farin-
ers since 187“. but I have not. It is ti'uc.
Prior to that year the products of the farm
bi'o1t;_1'lit §_rood prices and we enjoyed fair
se:isons, etc.. yet we were not ()1'_J:tl]lZ0(l
:1nd in consetpiencc we were preycd upon
by all manner of sharks and sharpers. You
reiiieinber we had the liglitning rod man,
the royalty tramp. the p:1int man. the
slide gate swindler. the drive well and note
swiiidler. etc.. all of which our (irc_raiiiza-
tioii has driven from the land. and secured
a national law by-which you will ever be
protected from such swindlers. I could
write pages setting forth the benefits our
organization has been, but what I have
mentioned is suflieient to convince :1iiy
reasonable farmer that it is of inestiiiiable
benefit to the man, the wife, children, and
coniinunity.

Bcrricn Center.

If you are not a regular reader of the
VISITOR. try us; if yo11 “used to take it, ”
see what you think of it now; if you have

neglected to renew, see our agent at once.

j a feeling of deep bit.tei'ii1-ss; existed betwecii

E to principle.

The Grange and its Achievements.
J. J. \v1i1>i>)i_\.\’.

The order of the I’:itrons of llusb:1ndry.
faniili:1ry c:1llcd the (iI':lll}_“t‘. was or_x_r:1-
iiizcd in the city of '\\':1-liiii}_vtoii. I). (3.. on
l)»;!t'(‘l11li(f!' -l. INST. liy.-‘cvcii yoIl1i}_riiieii.
iiiostly fariiiers :1iid fariiiers‘ soils. who
wei'e eiiiployed in lllt:(iH\’(‘I'Illlil_'ill service.

The civil w:1r had closed. and the }_-‘:1r-
uients dyed in blood had pzissed aw:1_\f: but

the Ileoplc of the north and the south.

caused by the cruel :iiid uiinat1ir:1l .~lI'tlf_"—

}_rlc-. These men. coming‘ fresh froiii the

fariiis. were conscious of the situation. and

saw ,the iiccessity for :1ii l)l‘f_{‘:llll7.tlll()Il

t!h1011f_{‘ the tl}_fl'l(‘llllll1‘l.~1_.s' of the 1~ouii1ry.

who constitute :1 vcr_v l:1r_1_-'e iortion of the

people of both sections. With‘ 1 would l)l'll1;_1'
ll‘iC?/111 to_<_v'etlier to better know and uiidcr-
stantl each otlici'. :1iid to unite them in iii-

tcrest :11id fratcriiity. Tliey were also
:1\\'are of the ;_v'i'o\viii}_r teiidciicy of politi-
caldparties. :1i1d leaders in politics. to i;_r—

norethe ability and ri_<_{lit of fariiicrs to
till places of public trust. and take such
action in the le<_v‘isl:1ti1iii of the country as
their interest dciii:1iided. L'oiisc1p1eiitly
but few repre.-'eiit:1tives of the :1_<_ri'ic1ilt11i'al
interest were to be found in either br:incli
of ‘congress. or in the rlcpartiiicnts of the
}_1‘0V6I'nlii(*.Iit. while neai'ly every other iii-
terest was represented :1iid their influence
.-'trengthene<l by stron§_r or}_rani7.ations to
aid and encouragze them. In consulting
together over the situation, they came to
théiconcliision that the farnicrs of this
con ‘try must be organized for their
 protection and advaiiceiiieiit. As a
'i"i111l!\;us to an OI‘,‘_*_'t1lll'/.{l.‘[IOn they banded
the’-nsrelves together into an association.
and styled it. "The N:1ti(>ii:1l tliange of
the I’:1trons of Husbandry. "’

l
1
l
.

THE .\i«)'rivi«:.

The question has often been asked.
"\\'h:—1t was the iiiipelling motive which
actuated and }_ft)\'t‘l'l1e<l tliose men in their
undcrt:1kin;_rt“ \\':1sit mere assuiiiptioiif
or the hope of :11-1j1iii'iii}_r _<_rrc:1t honors,
or tinancial ;_rain. or was it inspiratioiif
For nearly six long years they worked with
brain and will and eiiei'_<_r‘_v. _<_"l\'I1l}[ v:1luable
time and iiioney in prep:1rin}_: :1i1d perfect-
ing: the foriiis :iiid ritual. and in :11l\'ei'tisiii_«_z
the Order. And then. after siicccss had
been achieved and the Order well estab-
lished. they called t()f_{'CtII(‘l' the M:1stci's of
the State (}i':1ii;_res which they had t)I'f_":l-
nixed. and voliiiilarily turned over to them
the coiistitutioii. rit1i:1l. forms. :1iid cere-
iiionies. to5_retlicr with all the fr:1ncliises of
of the Order. of which they were the sole
iiwners and posscssors. without coinpeiis:1-
tion or rewartl. :11id took their places with
the rank and tile of iiiembers. Ilistory
sc:1i'celv f1ii'iiisli1-sa pzirallcl of true loy.-1lt_v
L This CllllillI]:llll]f_7‘ act clearly

 deiiioiistrates that they were not actuated

by’ me:-eeii:1i'v or scltish inotives. Ilciice
the conclusion sceiiis iiievitablc that they
were iiistruiiients in :1 l’rovidence \\'lli('ll
has often been i1i:1iiif(-st when the true dc-
vclopiiicnt of the principle of justice :1iid
huiiian rights aiiion«_r our people :1iid in our
form of ‘_4_1'(i\'t‘l‘Ill]l(‘1it has become endan-
<_rered. That conventioii met in (leoi'_<_»'e-
town. I). L‘,. in January, 1573. The Na-
tional Ui':1irg‘e as :1 representative body
was then ()I‘_£_"zll1i7.0(l. and the history of its
pi-;1c-timl work l)Cf_!'zlIl. In a little more
than twenty-two years the ()rdcr has ac-
coniplishcd more }_rood for the farin-
ers of the United States than the cas-
ual observcr can uiidcrstand. or tliose who
have not given tl1ou_«_rht to the subject are
\\‘illi1rg to adinit. The object of this arti-
cle is to present :1 brief suniniary of
some of the iiiiportant achievenients of the
Order. appropriately called the "(i'ri'ange.”

ACI{IEYI-1)Il£.\"1‘.\' or Tiii: oi:A:vui«:.

The Uri‘an(_re has broken the isolation
which existed ainoir: fariiici'_s :1iid their
families previous to its organization, and
l)1'()l1f_7‘I)ttl]€iI1 together in l1CI_L‘l1l)0l‘l100(l.S,
towns. and counties, and to soine extent in
. states and the nation, to become acquainted
and niin_<__rlc socially. The t9ri':iiige  been
the most important factor in br_id_ging over
the yawning chasiii which divided _the
people of the north and the south by bring-

ing representative farmers and their wives,

sons. :1iid d:1u_<_rhtci's. and friends from both
set-tioiis. tHf_"(‘tl]t‘l' in the .\ation:1l (lrange.
w here priiiciples of frieiidship :1iid tidelitv
:1nd frateriiity li:1vc been cultivated and
cemented.

The (il':ll1;_"t.‘ has made better men. better
woiiien. and happier faiiiilics. lt li:1s

' clicei'ed (l(‘.\1|>(>ll<lil]}_" licarts. aided :1iid en-
: 1‘t)tlI'.‘l_<_"(.'1l t
1 _J<HHl clieer to tliousands of r1ir:1l hoiiies.

ic uiifoi'tuii:1te. and 1-:1i'i'ied

The (iI‘:lliu't‘ has caused the lone widow.
with her t':1tlierles.- <~hil<lrcn. to know that
she is not t(Hl!'=lL‘tlii'o1i_«_rli \\'(‘.‘ll'\' life. isolated

5 and alone. without sviupatliy and fi-it-n1{_< to

cheer :1iid help in time of need; but to
know and feel that she is :1 lil('1IIl)(‘l‘ of :1

I _<_v'rc:1t. fi'ate1'iiity. whose iiienibers are under

plcd}_rcs of lidclity to ea:-li other. :1nd
lI1:li't'lliI)}_" under :1 baiiiier on \\'lilt‘ll is iii-
s1'1'ili(+<l. “/‘in’//1. //H/I/. /'//in-1'///. u,,«/ /'7-
I/v‘//I/‘I/_“ '

AS AN I-II)l'('.\‘l‘()lI.

As :1ii educatorfi>i'f:1riiiers:1iid tlieir f:iiiii-
lics in practic:il kiiowlt-«l_<_»-e, biisiiiess iiicth-
ods, mental :1ii<lso1-ialculture. tho (ir:1ii;_1'o
has no pecr. It has created an inspiratioii
:lll1()Il}__T them to read. to write. to think,
:1iid iiivesti_1_rate for tliciiiselves. They are
tluis better prep:1red to system:iti7.c their
opei'atioiis. and 11nderst:1iid the true phil-
osophy of siiccess in business ciiterprises.

The (il':lll}_[t.‘ teaches practical p:1rli:1iiien—
tary law, thus eiiabliiig the meiiibcrs to
preside }_ri':1cefully. :1iid t:1ke part in the de-
libcratioiis of public asseiiiblics.

The (ii'aii_<_re is the only o1'<_raiii7.:1tioii of
farniers ll:t\'II1,<_" :1 national existence and iii-
tluence, with means to carry out its grand
work, hence it is better equipped to exert
a salutary influence upon the _ziolitics and
legislatioii of the country than any other
organization of farniers which does now,
or ever has existed.

The Gi':1n_<_:e has been foreniost in advo-
cating and obtainiii;_r le;_rislation for the ad-
vancement of education aiiiong the iiiasses
of our people. .»\}_ri'ic1ilt1ii':1l collc}_res li:1ve
been established, endowed. :1nd iiiaint:iined
in iiearl_v every state. tliro1i}_rh its iiitliieiice,
:11id experiinent stations establislied iii the
sever:1| states. doin_<_r :1 line of work which
the fariiicrs siiigle liande-l could not do.

The (lr:1ii}_re oi'i;:iii:1t(*<l :1iid secureil the
tii'stlef_risl:1tioi1 for the (‘1l('t)llI':l}_"('Iil('Hl of
fariiiers‘ iiistitutes. now so ('t)llllli()li :1iid
berietit-i:1l.

.\v\\' I-I1) 1-'.\l{.\ll“.l{.\' )1‘ )X HY.

The t,ii':1i1}_re has saved fariiicrs thous:1nds
of doll:ii's in iiioney. and much ill feeliiigr
tow:1rds each other. b_v iii:1kiii_«_»‘ it obli}_v':1toi'y
upon its iiieiiibcrs not to enter into liti<_1':1—
tioii with each other. until they have tirst
subinitted their ditl'creii1-es to arbitratioii
in the (ii':llI<_"(?. .\t'to.-r_v1-:1i's of perplexiii}_>j
and expensive |iti_«_v'atioii. eoiitc-ted by the
tlevit-es. delays. :1iid di-lionest trickery
which >t‘llt‘ltIlllj_" l:1w_vers I‘(‘.~()l'l, to. the

_ (il‘:lli;_"(‘ siiccecxlerl in i'clicvii1g' f:1i'mei's of

unjust extortion :1iid i-obbery. |»_v':1iiii1illiiig
the fi':1<lul1-iit t'l:tilll for pateiits oii the
.~'li(liIlf_1' j_":1te and driven well. thus .~:1viii}_r
millions of dollars in royalties on these
two articles. so comiiioii and iiiiivt-i's:1lly
used. I
The (il'illi_L'(,‘ siiccesst‘1ill_v 1-oiitcstt-<l in
the courts the 1-laim of r:1ili'oad corpora-
tioiis t)]>cl':lllIi;1’ under wli:1t they tcrined
“r‘/««//‘irvw/ /'1';///ff‘ to i'ob and oppress the
people: and. by loii5_r continued and persis-
tent etfort. succeeded in set-1ii'iii_<_: the pass-
age of the “Inter-State L‘oii1ii1(-rce I.:1w,""
which hasdone much to relieve fai'iiier.s
from unjust discriiiiiiiation :1iid exorbitant

I freigzlit rates. in shippin}_r their own pro-

l duce to iii:1rket.

Throu§_rli the influence of the (i‘ri':1ii;:e.
legislation has been secured to rc_t_rulat.e the
transportatioii question within the states,
and providing for coiiimissions to enforce
the sanie.

Tlirou_g:li the efforts of the Granf_re. laws
have been enacted to prevent the spread of,
and stamp out co1itagi()i1s diseases among
the live stock of the country.

The (iranr_re obt:iiiied the passa;1e of the
Ol0Ol11fl1‘f_J‘fi.I'II1C law. and has secured legis-
l:1tion in several states etfectually protect-
ing our dairy interests frotii ruin by prevent-
iiig the sale of vile compounds called but-
ter and cheese.

Through the influence of the Grange the

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ielcl and Stock.

The Outlook For Farming.

In Southwestern Michigan.

R. V. CLARK.

The outlook is slightly encouraging for
the average farnier in co111paris:on witl1 t11e
last tw11 111- three years. Here as elsewlicre
the agricultural interests have borne their
full share of the business depression. Real-
izing that if we would thrive we 11111st
eithe1- 1111111 111- drive, many have g11ne
farther and do l1oth, 1111111 and 111-ive.
1liscarding hire1l help to 11 great ex-
tent. and bri11gi11g t11ei1- work witl1-
in their ow11 11l1i1ity to perform, aided
by labor savi11g1leviccs. This is n111re par-
ticularly the 1-11:se i11 g1-ain prod111-ing sec-
tions. The e111p1oy111entofhirc1l help l1_v
the f1-11it f111-111e1-s is 1111 tl1e i111-rcase 1l11ri11g
the c11ltivatio11 an1l picking p1-riod. The
lessons of the “hard ti1111-s" have 111111 11
11111rkc1l ellcct on tl1e activities of the f111-111-
1-rs here as well 11s elscwlierc. {cal estate
has 1-h1111g1-11 o\v11e1-s |111t little for s11111e
years. l-'11r111 i111p1-11ve111e11ts have b1-1-1111s
1-o11spi1-11ous as i11 foi-1111-r yeai-s. 1311111
gradual

('l{.\.\'1il-I 15' .\l'l’.\lll-INT.

The sl1111-t11ge 11f the wl11-at crop, c11upl1,-11
witl1 :11lva11ce 111 price. pr11111pts111a11_v f:1r111-
ers to i111-rcas1_- tl1ea1-1-1-age111-v1'1tc1l tl11-rcto,
iii the belief tl1at it is tl1e l1est thing for
tl1c111to 1111. .\la11_v ot111-rs have 111-111-ly lost
1,-1111t1'1l1,-111-e i11 wheat 11s a 1-11sl1 1-1-op. 111111 are
1levoti11g their 111-res t11 fruit, 1-abl1age,
111i11t, pa.stur1-. 111111 111111-c stock. except the
11111-sc. The want 11f rai11 11111-i11g the last
two 111ontl1s 1111s s-e1-i1111sly sl1orte11e1l the hay
crop, 111111 pastures are b1-11wn a11d sear. 1111
11f wl1i1-11 points t1) :1 1-e1l111-tion 11f live st11ck
to be wint1-rc1l over. The 1.-111-11 1-1-11p was
scar1-ely eve1- more promising at t11is 1lat1-,
yet the t1-ying pc1-i111l for 11 f11l1 1-r11p is iii
the futui-e 111111 the 1111.\'i1111s fa1-111er will
w11tcl1 witl1 111111-11 s11li1,-itude the wcatlier
con1litio11s 1l11ri11g A11g11st.

ll’.l’.I( L-\TIO.\'.

The 1'1-peatc1l 1lry wc11tl1c1- 111111 consc-
q11ent sliortage of cr11ps 1111s cause1l the s11b—
ject 11f irrigation 111 some localities to be
seriously 1-onsi1lered. Much of the ter-
ritory i11 this p11rt of the state could be ir-
rigate1l t11 the great advantage of fariners
and f1-11it g1-o\ve1-s. Methods 11f 1-11ltiv11ti1111
is the 1111ly resort fo1- 1-ctaining nioisture in
the grou111l, but of course this is 11ot ap-
plicable to wheat, rye, oats, barley, 111ea1l-
ows, or pastui-e lan1l. The success secured
by irrigation in so111e of the western states
nronipts 11 serious consi1le1-ation for a1lop-
tion in 111ore eastern localities. \Vhy 11ot
i11 Michigan :3 Many localities have been
zealous in re111oving surplus water fr11111
large areas of low lan1l, an1l now the
c1-y "n1ore water” comes from every quar-
ter, b11t it is wante1l 1111 1litl"e1-ent 1111111. This
subject will interest o11r pe11ple in the more
or less 1-e111ote future, and some legislation
may be tl1o11gl1t necessary. I will suggest
that the Grange keep 1111 eve 011 this 11111ttc1-.

TIIE DAIRY INTEREST

is losing ground in this county a11d dairy
stock is not in 1le111an1l. The extension 11f
f1-11it farming is a 111arke1l purpose. Il1111—
dreds of acres f11r111erly devoted to the 1-e-
reals are 11ow l1ei11g set t11 varieties 11f s111al1
a111l large fruits. Now that we have a 111w
conipelling ow11e1-s 11nd occ11p1111ts to sp1'a_v,
it is suggestedtliat at le11st the vendors of
sp1-11yi11g app11rat11s need 11ot cat wor111y
f1-11it. \'\'e ve11t111-etliat t111111gl1 the bugs,
wor111s, lice, 11n1l other i11se1-ts 111ay sult'er 11
back set, the festive "11u1nbug" will i111-
1neas11r11bly develop in the land. l’ossibly
the spraying law 1111s had an i111n1c1-liatc
etfect, f1-11111 the fact that o111- 11nsp1-11ye1l
apple a111l pear trees 111-e now l1c11ri11g a crop
of f1-11it more free f1-om insect ravages tl1:111
they l111ve for several years. Sonic are ex-
perinieiiting with 111-tichokes f111- stock fo111l.
Ilevelopnients later. Strong, well eq11ippe1l
canning est11b1isl11ne11tsfurnish a 11111rket for
a large aniount 11f fr11its an1lveget11b1es, l111t
at re1l11ced p1-i1-es 11n acc1111nt of the g111t 11f
canne1l goods. Potatoes are receiving
111111-ked 11ttenti1111 in some parts of this
eo11nt1-_v, a111l 111111111-eds 11f acres now prom-
ise 11 good yield.

IN 1‘.E.\‘l-IRAL.

A general survey 11f the fai-n1ers' pros-
pects wai-1-ant us 111 saying that we are
cheerfully hopef11l 11f l1ettcr ti111es and 1111
increasing prosperity. “'0 pre1lict that
the fa1'111ers a11d their families will gathe1-
at the f11rn1ers' institutes this winter with
cheerful faces and an increased purpose to
carry home 11111ch useful knowle1lge for
future use on the farm. \Ve insist that the
tax statistician shall do his work thor-
oughly, to the end that 11101-e equitable tax-
ation shall prevail in ou1- land. \Vhether
bimetallism shall prevail or not, we most
earnestly insist on having plenty of goo1l,
so11n1l money with which to transact b11si-
ness. Has the Grange been a factor in se-
curing an increased prosperity for the
farmers of Michigan? Most truly it has.
It has been the watchman in the tower,
locally at Lansing, and in VVashington.

Long may it live and prosper.
Buchanan.

,‘ tl1e_v were a1le1,-1111c ago.

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

In The Traverse Region,

A. P. GRAY.

ln c1_1n1p1_ving with y1111r request toa11-
swer the questions "\\’l111t is the prospect
ahead of the (1'1ran1l Travei-:_se farmer 1" I
note with pleasure that farmers in this
1-egion 111-e 111111-11 better established than
A Many s11bst11n-
ti111 farm b11il1li11gs have been erected i11
recent years. Fruit growers have becoine

i faniiliar with the variety best adapted to

this cli11111tc 111111 where to get tl1e111. They
learne1l that an orcl1111-11 can be fertilized
witl1i11 itself. and at the s11111e time the trees
s11tlicientlv c11ltivated to insure a l1e11ltl1y
_1_rr11wtl1, which is ve1'y iniportant to those
l111vi11g the larger p111-t of their 1111111 set to
trees. This is 1l1111e 11y pl11wi11g iii 11 crop
11f rye i11 ti111e to grow 11 crop of corn,
seeding to rye again at the last c11ltivati1111
11f the 1,‘111'I1. \Vl11-re g1-1-11ter fertility is 1-e-
q11i1-1-1l tl11,-1-111-11 may 111- p1owe1l i11 before
s11\vi11g tl1c rye. 111- l1v1‘11isi111_1-1-111-11 o111y and
plowing in the fo1l1le1‘.
1:1,1'1‘.1'1'111.\'.

A1111tl1er i111p11rta11t 1-l1a11g1.- that is 1_1-oi11g
1111 1-oiisists i11 sl1111-te11i11gtl11- 1-ot11ti1111. The
11l1l1,-r way of pla11ti11g1-111-11 on clover s111l.
t'11llowc1l with p11t11tocs. and then seeding
to 1-lover. with so1111.- g1-ain crop, was
1-l11111g-1,-11 wl11111 potatoes bc1-:1111e the 11111111-y
1-1-opi11 111-1li11a1'y f111-111i11g. pl111-ing tl1cp11t11to
lirst in the 1'11t:1ti1111 and s1-1-1li11g at tl1c time
of the last c11lti\-:1ti111111t' ‘1l1cf11l111wi11g crop
11f 1-111-11. A few wl1o 111-1-11py the 111111-e sa11d_v
soils are 1,-111pl1:1sizi11g the (11-1111g1-s11yi11g.
that “grass is the base 11f agi-ic11lt111'c." l1_v
1-e1l11ci11g their r11t:1tio11 t11 one c1-op, p1:111t-
i11g 111- sowing everytl1i11g 1111 1,-lover sod
and tl1c11 seeding agaiii, wl1i1,-11 brings t11
111i11d the f111-me1- wl111 l1:1d six 111111111-e11
acres 11111lcr the plow, and yet at so111e ti111e
11111-i11g cach yca1- it was all i11 clover. A
lesson on t11111'1111gl1 1-u1tivati1111 p1'ep:11‘11t11ry
to putting in 11 c1-11p has 111-1,-11t1111gl1t by tl1e
p1-es-1,-11t111-1111111, which many will l1ce1l iii
the future. Those who plowed their pota-
to land early in the s1-.11.-1111, or better, last
fall, and gave it 11 111111-o11gl1 cultivatio11
every week until p1a11ti11g time in June,
have 11 line sta111l, while those who 1lefe1-red
plowing until June l111ve 11o11e at 1111. The
soil had bcco111e so 111-y that the seed failed
to gei-111i1111tc.

Another lesson 11f tl1e1lroutl1 seems to be
painflilly clear to tl1o.-se whose 11111l1ition is
satistie1l with 1-aisilig “enougli to do the111,"
they are 11011’ short of everything, while
those who attempt to raise 1111 ab11n1l11nce
will have “enough to do them." I11 other
words, it is 111o1-e safe to aim to raise too
niuch than j11st enough. It appears cen-
cl11sive that fariners who l111ve passed ‘the
luinbering period are progi-essive even -in
these times of depression. A few give their
hired men a l1alf holiday to attend the
Grange, 11nd believe they suffer no loss in
so doing.

Arcliic.

Southv-as-tern )I1rhiga‘I.
JOILV K. CA.\l]’BF_I.L.

The opening of the spring se11so11 i11 this
section of the state was favorable for fai-111
work. After the severe winter, with deep
freezing of the earth, the 1-e111a1-k was f1-e-
quently l1car1l f1-11111 t'111'111c1's that they had
seldom seen the soil w111-k 11p in better
shape. Tliere having l1ec11 no heavy spring
r11i11s to pack the g1-11111111 111111 make it w11rk
11p lumpy, fall p111we1l clay 1111111 especially
w111-ke1l 11p in very fine c11111litio11 f111- the
11at 111111 bar1c_v 1-1-ops. The stand of 11ats
on the average was exccll1-nt, with vigor-
o11s growtli 111111 g11o1l c11lor. 'I'l1ccon1liti1111
of the soil was also quite f11\'o1-able for
corn, potatoes, and 1111 early spri11g 1-1-opgs.
The stand 11f cor11 in eve1111cs-s and l1c111tl1y
c11l111- was 11bou_t the 11ver:1}_-‘e. tl111ugl1 some
11f the earliest planted was 1-11t 1l11w11 |1y the
May frosts, wl1icl1 was q11itc severe. doing
111111-11 111111111-_1-eto grapes and 11tl1e1- s11111ll
f1-11its.

A .\'llU1-{'1' llA‘1' (,‘]’.L)l’.

As the 561501] a1lv11111-ed it bccanie 111111-e
an1l 111ore apparent that an 11n11sua1ly short
1111y crop would be secured. The 11111 s11y-
ing, "11 wet .\I11y-111:1l(es goo1l 11-.1_v," was
seen 11ot to be in the c:11c111lar for 15115.
Beans, whi1.-11 are q11ite g1.-11e1-ally grown as
11 field c1'11p 111 this part of the state, have
had a very poor 1-l1a11ce f11r growtli. Those
put i11 early on land that was plowed in
good season canie 11p well and made a good
sliowing, but others on account of dry
weather came 11p very 11neve11, some 11ot
get-n1in11ti11g: 111111 quite an extent 11f g-roun1l
titte1l 11p fo1- beans was never planted. the
land now layiiig i11 fallow. It will be a
loss to 11ot a few farniers, as the l1e1111 c1-op
has brought good prices of l11te. At pres-
ent writing, l11te in July,

THE OUTLOOK

for the farm is by no means assuring.
VVith wheat, hay, and oat crops short,
early potatoes a light yield, beans, corn,
and late potatoes are in urgent need of
n1o1-e rain; pastures badly dried up cutting
down the milk supply, the spring grass
seeding about a total failure, poor mint
crop, clover seed crop, none in sight—a con-
dition of things rarely seen by the farmers
in southeastern Michigan. Still they are

 

mostly inclined to take a cheerful view of
the situation, hoping that the season 11f
11'55_4_15 will give them 11111ch better 1-ctur11s for
thelr labor. However. there will have t11
l1e sonic close cc111111111v pra1-tise1l 111 the ex-
pen1lit11re of money. L:1111la1.so i11 fce1li11g

 stock the co111i11g whiter, l111t timely rains
, would help 11111ttcrs very 111111-11 l1\' sta1'ti11g

. f111- f1-1,-11 111111 l11-1l1lin1_1-_

, q11ite 11111111-1-ate,
I 1111l11str_v 11.-1s been on the wane si11cc the

  

up past111-cs 111111 cnal1li11g stock t11 eat well
into the late fall. Tl1111-11ugl1 tillage and
manure tell plainly 1111 crops, even during
severe 111-1111tl1. It is 1-vident that on 1111111
cropped for several decades only the best
farm practice will n11w1_rivep11yi11u'1‘et111'11s.
Even tl1c11 there 1-111111-s >(*:l.\‘(,1[1_s'11I' frost.
1l‘ro11tl1. etc., tl1atl1c11t the best f:11-111i11_g.
I*a1'111_c1's i11 this 1111.-ality 111ost1_\' 11111-sue di-
Ve1'.s1t1e1l fa1-111ing. belicviiig it safer 111111
111111-e r1-11111n1-rative. 111 1111- past f11111- \'(‘1l1‘.s
there has l1ccn some '

('II.1.\‘1;1-:.s 1): 1-11111-s ..\.\‘11s1"111-11.

The av1-1-age i11 beans 1111s been i111-1-case1l.
1I11>t't- rye has been s11w11 for fall and spring
p11st11r11g1.-, wlieat 11v1,-rage some 1'1-11111-c1l by
10W ]11'i1-1-s, l111t fai-1111-rs who keep stock
ti111llt1lilli1-ult t111_1-1-t.-1l1111g witl11111t straw
111 ,-1111-k tl11-1'1-1111s
bc1-111111 i111-1-1-asc i11 1lai1-v1-11ttl1-. A 1111111-
l11-1- of b11tt1-r t'a1-toi-ics 1111 tl1c 1-11-11pcr11ti\'e
plan have been built i111-1-1-1-nt v1-ars1111d 1111
the wliole 111-1-givi11gtl1c patroiis very good
1-ct111-11s. The 111w p1-i1-1- f111-dairy p1-1111111-ts
1111w ruling. 1-1111pl1-1l with v1-1-y short pas-
turcs, 11111111-s the returns f111- the p1-1-scnt
The interest in the sl11-ep

1lecli11e in the price 11f wool. 81111119 farin-
cr.-1 have sold otl' all their sheep, 11t11e1-s111'e
still l1ol1li11g 1111 to their 11111-k, l111t are
sq11i1-111ing11n1lcr f1-ce wool 111111 feel the
force of the rc111ark. “tlicy p1-11111isc1l 11s
free wool and bcgorra we've got within
eight 1-e11ts 11f it," 111111 t111-v 111-e waiting for
the rise (fl i11 price wl1i1-11 was t11 1-11111e
from 111ixi11g the i111p1’1rtc1l w11111 with 11111‘
11111111-stic wool. Sonic wool g1-11wcrs are
tc111ptcd to use what llr. llolmes c1111c1l
“11nsa111,-til1'1-11111o1111polics" wl11-11 they speak
of the p1-escnt t11rill'p11li1,-y, wl1i1:h p11ts wool
1111 the free list, b11t gives tl1c w11111e11g11o1ls"
nianufacturer sutii1-i1.-11t -‘pr11tection" for
his “import industi-y" so that it will 11ot
be seriously cripp1e1l by the 1-o111pctiti1111 11f
"foreign pauper labor". A few 11111-k
11111stcrs are l1opi11g that the 1l11t_v 11n wool
will again be restore1l at least 111 some
111eas111-e. The

GRANG}-I I-‘.LE)IENT

in this i111111e1liatc vicinity, while 11ot as
strong i11 11un1ber as one could wish, still
has good sta1111c11111l11erents t11 Grange prin-
ciples, and there has been so111e sul1st1111tia1
additions to the 111e111be1-sliip 11f the Order
the p1-es-e11t _vcar. The Grange revival
which was general 11ver the country is
being felt by the 111e111l1e1-sl1ip here. State
Blaster Horton, when present with us 111st
winter, aptly styled the G1-a11_ge the “farin-
ers’ high scl1ool."' l1e1-1111.se, like 11 high
s1-hool. it alfor1ls an cx1-cllc11t11pportu11ity
for social co11ta1-t, mental discipline, the
1liscus-sion of all topics pe1-taining to prac-
tical farm life and is now 11tl'e1-ing realized
t1-11de benetits. These a1lv11nt11ges f111- a
b1-oa1ler life a111l more vital to111-11 with his
fellownien, the Grange gives t11 every wide
awake, progressive fariner, who will enter
the gates with the 1letc1'111i1111tio11 to utilize
all that t11c (1'1ra11ge 11ll'c1-s l1i111 and his
fzunily. In 11111l{i11g' 11ve1- the \'1s1'r1111:1111l
1111ti11g the variety of pr11|1_1-1‘11111s prese11tc1l
at the (1'1r1111gc 1111-cti11gs held iii the state.
one is i111prcssed with the thought that
many far111crs' f11111i1ies are losing vc1-_v
much i11 11ot bcc11111ing active 111e111l1c1-s of a
live G1-1111ge or f11r111ers' cl11b. 111 a1l1l1-css-
i11g 11 g11tl1cri11g 11f f111-1111-rs (1'r11\'. .\l1-Kin-
ley said. "('o11gress111c11 and legis-111t111'cs
are very 11111111111. tl1ey 11evc1- lo11k out for
1111v i11te1-est any better tl11111 t11ati11tc1-est
looks 11111 for itself: 111111 if 1 had a11_v advice
t11 give to fat-1111-rs of ()l1i11 to1la_v it w111111l
11c 11 thorougli 111-ga11izati1111 i11 tl1ci1- inter-
est." That the farniers of this 1-o11nt1‘y
need organiz11tion, 111111 s11ch 1111 11rga11iza—
ti11n as the (1‘11'1111ge. to push their interests
i11 legislative halls, state and national,
ouglit to be 11n1lisp11tc1l by every intelli-
gent til1e1- of the soil. The necessity f111-
11nio11 11f effort aniong the agricul-
tural class 111 this age of ass11ciatc1l ell'ort
and the great benefit t11 be gai11c1l from
such ass-111-iatc1l ell'o1-ts is 1-11-arly seen in
the recent signal victory w1111 11y the milk
p1-1111111-e1-s' ass-111-iati1111, in their 1,-.o11test
with the 111i1l1l1e111e11 in the city of Detroit,
wl1cr1-by they get a just and s11bstantial
1111v1111cei11 the price paid t11c111 for their
milk.

Lo11g live the G1-1111ge, with its splen1li1l
record of achieveinents in the past, 111111 yet
other victories to win in the future.

Yp.s-1‘I1r.11t1'. -

The Future Ten Years of Farming
and my Advice to Farmers.

D. I). BUELL.

At this writing, with the tl1er1no111eter
at 96 degrees, pastures brown, hay one
third of aicrop, corn rolling, and hot so11th
winds to cap the climax, what word of en-
couragement can there be for the farmer?
I will put n1 self in the attitude of the old
Woman who ad toothache, bronchitis, and

AUGUST 15, 1895.

co11s11111ption. 11n1l never 1-o111pl:1i11cd. 111111.
farincr. fashion strike straight froni the
shoulder at _v11111- q11esti1111 11s-sig11e1l 1119, _\'0
two fa1-1ners look at this topic alike. The
free silveritcs talk l1111g 1111111111111 for 1111.
1i111ite1l coinage. Having this \vcw1111l1l I19
r111li11g i11 w1-altl1. 1111111-st 11111111-v. savs t11c
se1-11111l. is the 111111-i1-at111' 11f b11si11cs.s.' l-'1-ee
t1':11l1-. .s:1_v.s the third. is 1-.\':11-tly what we
wa11t. T111-11w down the 11:11,; 131,-‘. 11,0
111111-k1-ts 11f the wor11l 111111 wl11-at will be
w11rIl1 -."1.:_’.'1 per bus-111-1 and 11t111-1- tl1ings in
p1‘11po1-tio11, while otlicrs most positively
11s.se1't prote1_-tion to l1111111- i111lust1-y. '
T111: 1111-Ts 1.\‘ T111: 1-_1.s1:.

(111 the foregoiiig. far1111-1-s have 11g1'1-1-11
t111lisag1-1-1-. T111-1-c arc 1-ert:1i11 p1-cs1-'1-ibe1l
values wl1i1-11 are as self-cvi1l1-111 as 1111v
11.\io111a11d tl11-t'ut111-1- pi-osp1-1-ts of far11i—
111g :11-1- l111s'1-1111111111 tl11- facts. l"ll'.\l. that
\\'<-11111.-I 1‘:11.-c fai-111 p1'o1l111-1- at a l1-ss1-x-
11-11.sctl1.-111\\‘c sell it 1111-_ S1-1-111111, k1111\v
WW 1“ l*|l_\’. «'lI1<l1l1iI‘1l. k1111w 11111-11t11.s1-ll.

1-11-111-1~:11.1'1‘111.\

is 1111- w:111‘l1\\’11r1l t11:1ll 111111-r b11-i111-ss. tl11-1-1-—
t'111'1-.sl11111l1l1111t we who :11'1-11f1l11-11111111-.1111’
I111 W1-:I1i<1I1s. i11st1-1111 11f1'1-1-tti11g 1111111-11111-
st1-1-11gtl1 si11gl_\'. join 11.-1111l.s. k1111wi11-_i full
well that 1111it1-1l, we .\l:lll1l;1ll\'l1l(-11‘ 11-1-f;,||g
A1111t111-1-111-:1wb111-k to 1'.-11-111i11g is :1 lack 111'
b11si11csst111-t. A v1-1-y g1-1-at p1-r 1-1-111 of
1:11-1111-rs 111-1- b11s_v fo1-;1 part of 1111- yo.-.11
raisiiig s-111111-tl1i11g to 1-1111.s111111-tl11- 111111-1'
pa1't. To su1-l1 1 say. l'l:_"llt 111111111 f:11-1-1
l"<-1-11 sonic liogs, sl11'-1-p, 111- 1-:1ttl1- 11111-i111_r
tl11,-sci1ll1-11111ntl1s. l)o .so1111-tl1i11g that v11111-
111-111111111willb111111tl1c 1-ighl si1l1-'11ftl11-l1~1lg—
e1-1-v1-ry .la11uary 1. 1)1'111otw111t t'111-s111111--
tl1i11gtotu1-1111p, b11t _1_-rasp 11I1}1111'11111i1i1-_s
by the t'111-1-1111-k 111111 t111-11 s11111111l1i111_r up
''-‘'llt'1\' 1*’ _\'0|ll‘ lHl>'ll1<‘-'> if \'UIl w1111l1'l l1:1\'1-
your busi11css sti1-k t11 _\-1l11_“ is ,-m .,|.{
1111.-igc. l\'c1-p 11111-1-ast of the times. 1.111111
well to the institute work 111111 z1l1ovc all
don't f111-get the (11-a11g1-111111 1111- \'1s1'1‘o1-:.
T111.-re is 111111-11 111-1-11 of l('_t_"l.~‘l.'lll11l1. but 1]”.
l1.-gis1at111'1-1-111111111 l1-gisl:1t1- 11111111-vi11t111111r
p111-k1-ts. T111-y can give us 1111 1-v'1-11 1-1111111-c
to gain 11 liv1-li11oo1l. \\'itl1 this 1-v1-11
1-l1a11cc 111111 liocing out 11111- ow11 row, the
future ten years will l1:1vc :1 silver lining
bcncatli its dark, f111'1.-l1111lit1g clouds, wl1i1-11
will ])1'C.~’(‘l1t 1111 air of 1-111111-nt111c11t, of
pe111-e and pr11spcrit_v. 111-1111-111bcr that
"get tlicrc, be there, stay tl1e1-c," 111-111111»
11-1111-ipal f11ct111-s of s111-1-css. 1’1-1-1-v &
hit-(1lr11tl1's l11vc st11rv was 111 two 1-l111pt1-rs
111111 111111 a lasting efl"ect 1111 its 1'1-a1ler.s. My
111ve story is i11 one cliapter and that 1-1111p-
te1- contains l111t one p111-agr:1pl1 1111111ely:
Love _\,-'our vo1-ati1111. You will 111-,v1-r
succeed unless you do.
Union City.

What the Farmers Expect of the
Experiment Station.

.1 ASON “'01 )l)_\l AN

I11 so11tl1weste1-11 .\licl1i_g1111 tl1c1-e are
many tl11111sa111ls of ac'1-cs 11f s11111l_v land.
The greater portion 11f this land is s111o11tl1
plains, bea11tif11l tothe eye, n111st 1lesi1'a|1l1-
to live upon. 111111 until witl1i11 the last few
years as valuable fa1-111ing land as there
was iii the state. About te11 years ago
began a series 11f 1lisast1-1111s droutlis-; s111111
after 1-1111111 the various insect pests that
prey upon the clover. (,'lo\-1-r 1111 1111-se
pl11i11s f111-11isl1e1l hay and pas-1111-1-. 111111 \vas
tl1c p1-i11cipal 1-1-1ia11ce f111- 111ai11tai11i11g the
fertility 11f the soil. Of late years, owing
t11 the 111-1111111111111 h1sc1-t1-111,-111ics. tl11- clover
crop has bc1-11111c very 11111-1-1-t:1i11. As 11 1-1--
s11lt. except on tl1os1- fat-111.s w11cr1- stock
f1-c11i11g11r 1l:1i1'_vi11g is p1-111.-tis1.-11. there 1111s
been a 1-api1l1lete1-i11r11tio11 of the soil. With
from six t11twclve weeks of 1-ainlcss we.-1tl11-r
11111-ing the l1ottest part 11f the s1-aso11. the
corn c1-11p is :1 parti11l or 11 total f:1ilur1-. (hi
111111-11 of tlic 1111111 rcferr1-11 to ti111oth_v. 1-s-
p1-1-ially iii 11 dry year, 11111-s not 11111k1- 11
growtli s11tli1-i1-ntly strong t11 be p1-11tit11l1lc.
The result of all this is that tl1c s:1111l_v
f111-1111-r 1i111ls 11i111se1f. two s1-as1111s out of
1111-cc, with 11 sl1o1-t 1-1-11p1)t'f<-1-1li11g _g1'ai11.
witl1 littl1- 11ay a111l less p:1stu1-1-. 111111 with
his land growing po111-1-r cvcry y1-111-. .\':1t-
111'ally the question arises with l1i111. "\Vl1at
n111st 1 do to be saved 5''

w1: vv.-s..\'T '1-11 Ii.\'1)\\'.

T111-re 11re three questions wl1i1-11 are just
now of great interest to the s111'11ly fariner.
1. Is: there :1 way by wl1ic11 11 s:1tisf11ct111-y
cat1:l1 11f clover can be s1-1-111-e11! 2. Is-
tl'1c1'e:1 g1-ass which will f11r11isl1l111y 111111
p11st111-e on this l11nd of which the seed will
11ot be 11111l11ly expensive. that can be profit-
ably 11se1l i11a 1-otatio11 11f crops: and es-
pecially is there such 11 grass 11f whi1.-11 the
sec1l can be grown at home{ 3. Is there 11
‘:11-iety of co1-11 and a ti111c of planting that
will produce a good c1-op i11 spite of the
111-1111tl1 t It is the belief of the writer that
all three of these questions can be aiiswered
in the aflirinative. But to answer them
best requires carefully planned and syste-
matic experiments, car1-ie1l on in this cor-
ner of the state, bya practical farmer, who
shall work un1ler the direction of practical
farniers. In no other way can these prob-
le111s of vital importance to those who live-
on these plains be solved, except through
the slow process of haphazard individual

experiments.
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lMoIl1.till’S lflcsr...

Charity Work.

Its Value to the Grange as an Orller and to its Mem-
bels ludlvidually who do the ‘York.

MARY A. MAYO.

Societies and organizations, like indi-
viduals. grow only as every latent power is
developed, and are capable of tl1eii' great-
est good when their highest possibilities
are reached. The work of twenty~seven
years ago is not the work of the Grange
to-day. \Ve have passed from the primer
of Grange life to more advanced lines of
thought and action. To—day such siibjects
as tax reforms. special legislation. pure
food, the Grange and the coiimion schools
agricultural colleges, and farmers‘ insti-
tutes. are some of the subjects upon which
we concentrate thought and action. Tliese
subjects for work are but the legitiinatc
growth of the seeds ilanted in the early
life of our Order. Otlier seeds were sown
that have laid dormant until the plow and

 

l'What the Grange of Michigan Has

Done for Its Women.

)IR.'~'. H. A. HL'.\'KF.R.

"Life is clearer. happier and easier’ for us,
as things assume their true proportion.

Says mathematical science. "The things

I which are equal to the same thing are equal

to each other." Apply that tenet of mathe-
niatics to liuiiiaiiit_\' and we have the status
of the women in the Grange as coinp-.u'ed
with that of the men. God made us men
and women and he fitted each of us for our
peculiar share in the work of living. The
founder of our Order rightfully compre-
hending the relation which intelligent
thinking sustains to pi‘o_gr(-ssive farm life,

and recognizing the claiins of personality '

A rather than those of sex. wisel_v provided 3

spade of progression have turned them up .

to the light of \\'is< loin and to the dcws that ~

fall from an anxiety to bless the world.
when they have sprung to life and light
and been one of our strong Grange factors.

This charity work which the Graiige has
recently taken up was but the outgrowth
of some of the seeds that fell from the lives
of the foundci's of our (lrder. None but
the Gi'eat Master saw them fall or knew
their worth, and by His care have they
been kept and brought to light and life.
“'hat is it worth to us as an Order! \\'e
feel it is one of our grandest possibilities.
“By their fruits ye shall know them” ap-
plies as well to Granges as to individuals.

WE EXIST To }{EI.l‘ oriiizns.

The Grange is here not only to benefit
the farmers but to reach out a helping
hand to every needy soul it can touch. It
is here not only to “enhance the comforts
and attractions of our homes, " but to bring
to other homes all the gladness, comfort,
and joy that it is possible to bring. It is
here not alone to foster a fraternity among
ourselves, but to feel the fact that we are
bound by the ties of a common brother-
hood to every man, woman, child that we
can benefit; and only as we do this are we
living up to either our principles or our
privileges. Our principles are not known
by even the majority of farniers, let alone
the eople from the cities. lVe have been
~COI1( eiiiiied, criticised, maligned, and ridi-
ciiled. just because we have not been un-
derstood. l\'e have had all this to ovei'-
coiiie and we have only done it by making
our objects known. V\'e feel that this
charity work, as instituted by our Order,
commends the Grange to every thinking
person, and tends to make it popular
among the masses. For this alone we can
not afford to ignore this line of work though
that is the very smallest. narrowest incei1—
tive for the work. The great object is
most potent——that of being helpful and
lifting somebody up.

IT HELPS THOSE who no IT.

V\'hat is it worth to us individually!
Take from our lives all that has been done
for us from pure generosity and helpfiil-
ness; take the hours when you have been
despondent and sad, and somebody said
the right word or did the right deed: take

the times when your heart has been bowed:
and you have been sore troubled and when 3,

somebody’s hand clasped your own and a
helpful face looked into yours; take the
times when your cross dragged heavily and
somebody lent a hand and lifted ever so
little——-and let us ask ourselves can we, dare
we, refuse to others what we have in a
mute. dumb way been begging for almost
«every day of our lives? lVhen we have
asked for bread and a stone been given us:
when we have craved the kind word, the
tender care and love, and it has been de-
nied us, have we not thought the spirit of
-charity dead indeed?

THE EXTRA WORK.

Suppose it brings a little extra work,
care and thought, what of it? Nothing
comes to us in this life without it. The
consciousness of being helpful, of giving a
good time to someone who could not have
had it were it not for us; the thought of
ministering unto someone brings to us an
unspeakable pleasui'e. “He who lifts his
fellowman in turn is lifted by him.”

A beautiful thought for this work was

iven by Miss Allis in her report for Ceres
ast year. If it is true that the least sound,
the vibration of a bird’s wing through the
air, the chirp of a cricket in the grass, sets
in motion waves of sound which girdle the
earth, and every thought that passes
through our minds sets its mark there and
is always capable of growing up and bear-
ing, then who can measure the magnitude
of the forces set in action by a movement
whose object is to make better and brighter
the lives of those who are brought within
the range of its influence? for “to make
our child laugh gleefully is, to a lover

of its kind, better than winning a battle.
Battle Creek.

;;g§AT MARKET VALUE——See page 6.

' farm life lias been and is conducive to scant I.
sociality: the benefits of a concentration of 
forces along social lines, in coiitmst to a ’

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for an equal standing in every respect for
both men and women.

A oitiznv.

\\'hat has the Grange of Micliigaii done
for its women! .\'uppose we exercise the
Yankee prerogative of :mswcring in part
one qllcsti()ll by askiiig another. and cii—
quirc what it has not done in a social way.’
It goes without saying that the tendency of

diffusion of the sanie, can hardly be over-
estimated in its value to the women of the
Graiige. lleretofore there had gone forth
a sentiment that there was something in
life and work on the farm
the development of those social conditions
and graces which do so much to sweeten

, and ‘brighten human life in almost any

other pursuit: that a poverty of the social
amenities must necessarily be a part of
farm life. \\'e are too well aware that
where such a sentiment became accepted it
also furnished the more than evident reply
to the question often sorrowfully and anx-
iously asked. “‘\\'hy don't the boys stay on
the farm ?" Certainly this feature alone
has proved a means of lessening the aiix-
iety and added to the measure of safety
felt for the future of the boys and gi1'ls by
many mothers.
1’ARLIA)IE1\'TARY LAW.

The knowledge of parliainentary law and
rules of order gained in the Grange by its
women, has :1 worth much beyond that re-
ceived by individual members. as it enables
them to train children in that direction and
so fit them in a iiieasure for adaptation for
the sure to come positions they may be
called to fill in this age of organized socie-
ties of every description. all deliberative
in character. The associating together of
parents and children in Grange meetings,
and the discussion of topics which concern
and interest all with reference to farm and
home, stimulates a higher development of
thought individually, and awakens a spirit
of helpful sympathy which makes working
together the central thought, aiid prevents
that antagonism of sex so fatal to the best
development of humanity.

THE EDUC.-\TIO.\'A I. IN I-‘I.L‘E.\'(‘I-‘.

of the Grange. while it does not lessen the
weight of responsibility. still makes the
saine less of a burden than a power, in
that it assists woman to rightly meet the
responsibility. and so far proves an eflicieiit
force for a broadening of her life at home
and makes possible a steady, conservative
advancement for her in the continually on-
ward march of knowledge and freedom.
Along with the advance made possible by
this opportunity comes a ust valuation or
realization of this power which makes her
life less one of repression. A truer and
more natural growth of tastes and judg-
ment gives her the the vantage ground to
demonstrate that woinanliness does not
mean weakness or littleness. Moreover it
keeps her in touch intellectually with her
children. Said a friend, a woman more
than ordinarily capable, and who in her
girlhood had enjoyed excellent social and
educational privileges, but who as a farm-
er‘s wife had been surrounded with environ-
ment that left time for little else than at-
tending to a great press of domestic cares:
“Before becoming a member of the Grange,
I seemed to have retrograded in a mental
way until 1 felt my children growing away
from me even in their tender years.” Now
her son, a student in the Michigan Agricul-
tural College, delights in the vacations
which give him opportunity to read and
study with mother.

IN FINANCIAL MATTERS

have not the women of the Grange had the
value of per cent profit emphasized from
minimum to maximum in Grange co-oper-
ative trade, to the advantage of house and
home comforts and luxuries? Again, by
the use of the ballot in the Grange, women
are receiving the training which will enable
them at no distant day, when the responsi-
bilities of suffrage come to them as a privi-
lege or duty, to meet them wisely, and at
the same time surrender nothing which is
essentially feminine. Truly we have seen
this power used by the sisters to bring and
hold together the working ability of the
Grange, and without whicli unanimity of
action seemed impossible; We hold in this
particular—

which forbade l

The w_oukian’s cause is man's; they rise or
sin
Together. dwa.rf‘d or godlike, bond or free."

WHAT OF THE FUTURE
of the Grange in Michigan and its women?
Pray the time may not be far remote when
the ideal so beautifully portrayed by '1 eii—
nysoii may lighten the hearts and gladden
the eyes of those who dwell in farm and
Grange liolnes: for whatever may be s:il<l
of the practical. silccessflil living nmst
Ileeds be in the direction of some idea],
Hasten the day when men and women shall
be-
“_.\'ot like to like, but like in difference,
1 et in the ions: years iiker must they grow,
The man. be more of woman, she of man;
l-ie gain in sweetness and in moral heiizht,
.\or lose the wrestling themes that throw the
‘ world;
She, mental breadth, not fail in cliildward
_ care,
.\or lose the childlike in the larger mind;
And so these twain, upon the skirts of Time,
bit side by side, full summ‘d in all their
_ powers,
Dispensing harvest, sowing. the to—be.
belt‘-reverent each and reverencing each.
Distinct in individualties." o
HlllSr,7tllL’.

'i'lie, J uYe;fii.l.e$‘.

The Juvenile Grange.

.ll-ZN.\'IE liL'l-Il.l..

To grow—yes, even to live. cvcrvbodv
must be fed. This holds with a society as
with an individual. \\'ith this thought in
mind. let us look for a moment upon the
Juvenile Grange as a feeder of the ()rder.

True to the Grangeis unique way of
making beginnings, the children’s society
has been formed last, as the National was
the very first organized. To lirother Rose
of Texas is due the honor of introducing
the Juvenile. This was some five years
ago. its incentive still exists, as then, to
supply young, vigorous life to the subordi-
nate, county, state and national bodies.
Says that zealous )atriot, National Secre-
tary Triiiible: “The Grange and Patrons,
was not founded for the LIFE tenure or the
LIFE use, or the LIFE advantage of any set
of particular men and women. It was
founded and built up into its present grand
and powerful proportions of usefulness and
honor to the Aiiierican farmers at great
and cheerful expenditure of time, of labor,
of money. By whom? By you l’atrons,
by you Patrons now more or less aged men
and women; but, and mark it, not for your-
selves alone, nor for your lifetime and life
‘use, but for your country for your chil-
dren, and for your childrcn‘s children.

Is, then, this great organization, built
up, as it was, at an enormous cost of the
time, labor, and money of hundreds of
thousands of intelligent and patriotic
American men and woineii—is this great
organization to become a thing of the past
when this generation has been gathered to
their fathers!

If we expect the Grange to live and
prosper, then we must induce the girls and
boys to join our ranks, to learn the good,
the true, and the wholesome teaching of
the Grange, to make our meetings intelli-
gent and social, enjoyable, and sociable,
and to qualify themselves to take up the
labors and responsibilities of the parents in
the Grange work.

United in this view. we stand, we live.
we prosper. Divided or inactive on this
question. we go into inociioiis desuetude—
we linger, we fall, and over our Temple
Gate will be written—-

“The Grange was; but is not. “

At our editor’s request I have collected
such facts as could be secured i'cgarding
the existence, work, and helpfulness of
children’s Granges. It may not be gener-
ally known that :1 Juvenile Grange is under
the direct charge of a subordinate Grange.
is organized by its Master, supervised by
one of the Matrons, and composed of “chil-
dren of jiersrms ‘el¢'_¢]z'/zle fa 7711.’/It]lt’l'«5’/I./.1) [/2 Il-
A9165/)7'l[l./ZIZJL’ CIV’/'/17Z_(/L‘, over eight and under
fourteen years of age." Notice that the
children need not necessarily be from Pa-
trons‘ families. This it seems should be a
strong reason for forming Juvenile Granges,
for it may be expected that these children,
and often their iarents, will in this way be
led into the hig er Granges.

The membership fee is fifteen cents, and
the quarterly dues, five cents a member. It
is not advisable to take a large number of
charter members, as the work of initiating
members will_ be interesting, and the dis-
cipline of great value to children. Appli-
cation is made to the Secretary of the
State Grange for a permit to organize, and
the manuals cost $1.50

lVith this hint of how to begin, let us
see what has been done and is doing. There
have been three Juvenile Granges organ-
ized in our own state. Good work was
done, for a time, we know, in both the
Farmington and VVaverly Juveniles, but
just now, the young people of Tallmadge,
Ottawa county, are holding the field alone.
I Wish I had room for all the report sent
me of this little force of recruits. Person-

ally it stirs in me an enthusiasm I never knew
before, to learn we have such a Juvenile
society under our Michigan Grange ban-

"? prosperous and vigorous.

» ner. and I copy as much as possible.

“The Talliiiadge Juvenile Grange is. al-

‘ ways was. and has good prospects of being

In the hands of

 its present Matron. Mrs. I). M. lirown. has
; an attendance of 20% active and good pay-

‘ ents.

ing iiieiiibei's. Since the date of organiza-
tion. July 10;, l.\‘.l'_’. -iii ineinbers have been
enrolled. Their incetings are held on the
same day as the .'~'ubordinate Grange.
which enables them to come with their jun‘-

Ainong their present ollicei's. w iich

4 are elected seini—aniiually. the Master is

Mabel Miller. and Sccret:ii'y. Allie Cross.
The programs collslst of songs by the

I cl1oii'. ducts, and quartcttcs. select read-

‘ ings.

I'L‘('ll.:l.ll(>ll.s'. ess:iys. discussioiis on
subjects of which these are sainples:
">'liould girlsdo out-door work?“ “tem-

‘ ]>(.'l':llll‘(*.“ spceclies. puzzles. talks. and iii-
V struinental music of several kinds.

They are not alone found to be intellect-
ually wcll oil". but in lliiaiicc and property
also. -§'Z1.o:’. is in the Sccrctai'y's hands. and

‘ -$4.72 in the Ti'easurcr‘s. besides a sum of

; structivc point.

o‘.'c1‘ -.\“.l which they have loaned out. Tliey
have the iiccessai'_v rituals. books. and other
appliaiiccs: also an orgaii. stands. etc. It
seems really another nzimc for school. The
prograius tend to an cducatioiial and iii-
At home these little peo-

.~ ple are quite uneasy till the next Grange
3 incctingl"

And now. l’atrons.~who are but "Juve-
niles," older grown~—if the vital import~
ance of these childrt-ii's meetings has never
appealed to you before, please sliare with
me this letter from the south. the "sunny
land," but not the place \vc are apt to look
to for strong Granges. \\'e are sure to be
mistaken whenever we count numbers for
strength, as witness this report on the
Juvenile Grange from Brother Hawkins:

“It has worked very beautifully wliercvcr
introduced in Alabama, and has added

_inuch to the Grange interest. The children

become charmed and delighted with it. As
the Grange day approaclics. their eagerness
and interest increases as an ever present re-
minder to the older members of the Grange
and its work. As a rule they invariably
join the Subordinate Grange as soon as eli-
gible. I may add that I regard it quite as
iinportant to the Grange in building and
holding the organization as is the Sunday
school to the church. As no Grange should
be without a well conducted Sunday school,
so no Grange should be without the ‘Juve-
niles.’ At intervals to suit conditions and
conveniences of the Graiige work. a day
should be devoted to the Juvenile work—-
aii all day meeting giving the childi'en
prefereiice and positions of honor at the
Grange table. Have them recite, declaim.
and any other interestinof work or pci'foi'iii-
ance proper on childrens day will be very
interesting to all members, old and young.

“One beautiful and interesting program was
to give to each—or rather loan to each child five
cents for two months; at the end of this time all
were to meet at the Grange hall, repeat a verse
or poem. and recount all they had earned, or
rather all the nickel had gained. They were to
use it in any way they deemed proper in buying
and selling, or in buynig material, making it in-
to something, selling it and reinvesting and
again make up garments, embroidery, or any-
thing which by their own industry and skill they
could produce. The most interesting Grange
day we had had in a year was an occasion of
this kind at our Grange. The children had used
the twenty nickels loaned them to good advant-
age. On the day named they met, and all. the
neighborhood turned out to hear the children re-
peat their verses and tell how they had used the
nickel, and show the result after returning what
each had borrowed. As remarkable as it may
appear it was true that the :31 they distributed
as a net result of their earnings showed up 324
during the two months. This was a lesson of in-
dustry and economy.

I have thought proper to repeat this one les-
son as a part of the Juvenile work. Such lessons
are certainly of great value to the children.
Some of course had earned double and treble
that of some others, ‘but all had earned hand-
somely. How beautiful the sight and how in-
teresting as each at the call of his or her name
walk up to the -H‘ecretary’s table, return the bor-
rowed nickel, and then, standing, tell what they
had done with the nickel and the result.”

HIRAM HAWKINS.

As I happen to know, the special “nickel pro-
gram” was a thought of Sister Hawkins, whose
devotion to our work is known wide as the
National borders. and whether you have a.
Juvenile Grange or not, there is a valuable sug-
gestion in it.

But why not have the Juvenile Grange itself?
How many Granges will consider the question?
The State and National ofiicers are always glad
to correspond with anyone wishing fuller par-
ticulars. Please think of it, talk about it and
act upon it.

Ann Arbor.

“What becomes of all the peaches in your
country?" an Englishman asked of an Ameri-
can girl. "Oh. we eat what we can and can
what; we can't.” answered the ready-tougued
mai .

STATE or OHIO, Urrvor TOLEDO,
LUCAS COUNTY

Frank J.Cheney makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY
8: C0.. doing business in the City of Toledo.
County and State aforesaid, and that said firm
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T  YISITQ B,
- CHARLOTTE. MICH.
The llllllfltll than of the llicliigiin State G1*aiig1:.
Publislii-cl on the First and Third TliHX‘~ll£l).~Hf Eucli Mouth

l-Zni'roP. :
KENYON L. BUTTERFIELD. LANSING, MICH.

R§'?‘To wlii-ni all “XClli'(IiL.'t'.~ and all articles for publication
:~li1>ul1l lie sviit.

.\I.\.\‘.\r;i»:ns AND PRINT]-LIN:
PERRY <2 MCGRATH, CHARLOTTE, MICH.

To whoiii ;1llsiib.-cri;-tioii- and ailvcrti-iii<_: slioulrl be .-cut’.

TEIENIS 50 ('1-nts a Year. 2.‘; (‘outs for.~'ix )Inntl1.~'.
In (‘tubs of 20 more 40 (‘cuts ])Pl‘ Year car-h.
Stihst-riptions payable in advance. and discontinued at
e.\'pir:ition. unless reiie\vc-1.

3% 'Reuiittanccs shotild be by licgisrercd Letter, Money
Order or Draft. Do not send stanips.

‘i.1""’l‘o insure insertion all notices should be mailed no «

later than the Satiirilay preceding: issue.

Entered at the Postotlicc at Charlotte. Mich. as Second
Class matter.

flxnxr Issciz. h‘i-:rri:.\ini;R 

OUR WORK.

The following: has ht-r-ii approved by the .‘~'t:1t1~(ir:iii:r~z1s
a fair .~l:lN'Hl1'Il|’ of the olijcrrts tlii-llrniiizc of )lii‘liiL.'mi
has in view. and tlmspi-ciiil lines along wliinh it propo.sc.- to
work. \\'c linpc r-very tir;iii;,'1.- in the state will \\'ul'k
eariicstly in all tlicsc d1-pitrtiiiciit.-'. so that by ii more
united ctlort we shall r:ipidl_v iiicrcnsc our numbers.
extendoiiriiilliiciici-.and:1tt:1iiiiiior1-uiidliiorc CUlll]rlL'lL'-
ly tliose ciirls \\'hi('h we seek.

1:171: onii-:(‘T
is the ()rg1iiii7.zitiou of the Fariinxrs for their own linprov1--
mcnt. Fin:iiici.'ill_v. Soci:1ll_v. .\lcnt:1ll,v. .\lor:1llv.

We believe that this: iiiiprovrinciit can in lame IHl‘1l~llrl'
be brougzlit about:

1. (_a.) By wider iii1lividu:1l stud_v and L‘.'l‘ll1"T1ll dis-
cnssioii of thc i)l1>'lll(‘.~.< side of fJH'l!1lHLf and lionic ken-piiii.;.

b.l Byco-opt-r.'1tionfortin:1ii(‘i:1lavlwiiitiiuc.

2. ta.) By fr:-tiiiciit social }."i'llllf'TlIiL.{.~. and the iiiiiiuliiig
tog:-tlicr of farini-rs with fariiicrs. and of f:1rin1-i'.- with
I)(*()pi1- of other occiipntioiis.

th.) By .striviin.' for it purcr ni.'1nhoo1l. :1 lltbl)lv'!‘ woni.'iii-
hood. and :1 iiiiivcr-':il brotlicrliooil.

25. in.) My st1i1l,\'iiii:zi1id proiiiotiiiuthciiuprovenu-iit of
our district .-cliools.
mtroniziiiu and .'|llllIIL' thc .\L’Tll',‘!llllH‘.'il (‘ol-
.. 1-riint-iit Stzitioiis in their l1'L'lYlIi\I|lI' \H-rk of
‘ .‘llL!£llll7I\, [tTll(‘llC£lil‘X]H‘I'illl4'I|T. :1nd ciluc:1-
tion for rural piirsiiits.

(0.3 liviiiziiiitziiiiiiiu z1ii<l:1ttciidiiir.v fiiruivr.-' in-tit11t«-.~':
reading in thc RI‘:l1ilHLf t'ircl4-; c.-tzibli.-liiiu: and 11.-inc:
circulziting librarii-s: b1i_viui.; iiiorc and butter iii:ii:nziii1~s,
and p:ip1-rs for the home.

4. (21.1 li_\ 1litl"11siiiLz zi l\'Hl)\\'l1‘(lL"l‘ of our <‘ivilinstit1ition.-'.
and Xi‘2l(‘llilll: the liiizli 1li1ti1-.- of citizi-ii.-liip.

t_h.l B)’1li-iiiiiiitliiiutliceiil'or('eiii1-iitof i-xi-‘tim: stntu tins’
and by tliscussiiiiz. :l4l\'(>(‘:lIl1lL:. and tr_\iiu.: to secure such
other st.'1t1- and national laws as shall tend to thc gciicml
justice. proi.;ress and morality.

   
   

\\'h:it do you think of thc "l’icnic Edi-
tion 3"

You will be interested in the new story
which comnicnces in this i.s.s1ic—“.»\t Mar-
ket Value.“ Read it.

Dear Patrons: \Vill not each one of
you try to secure one new subscriber to
the VlSI'I‘()R.’ Send it before Oct 1.

 

Aiuong those we had asked to contribute
to the woiiiaii's page of this issue were
S-istcrs Belle Royce and .\l21r_v >'lierwood
Hinds. “'0 regret to say that tlieii' inabil-
ity to comply with our reqiicst was due in
both cases to ill health. \Vc trust that
f11ll rccovcr_v has come crc this is written.

 

AT THE L'OLLI'.V}E.

llon. lidwin \Villits. of \\'asliingtoii, D.
(‘., delivered the addicss on conmicnce—
iucnt day at the .\licl1ig:ui Agrictiltiiral
College. It was a broad and scliolarl_v
treatise on "Agricultiirc in Transition.“
\\'c shall tr_v to publish portions of it later.

Coiniiicncenicnt day at the Colli-_«_r1~ was
:1 siicccss. The graduating class containt-d
tliirt_v _vouug men. There are several
changes in the depzirtinciits. Prof. F. I’).
l\Iunifo1'd goes to Missouri as professor of
agricultiire in thc L'iiivc1'sity. his place
being filled by Mr. H. \V. .\lumford of
Moscow. Mich. . contributor to the Visiroii.
Mr. A. T. Stevens goes to North Carolina.
Mr. L‘. P. Hedrick will be pi'ofcssoi' of
horticulture in the Oregon Agricultural
College. Mr. \V. L. Rossiiiaii bcconics
chemist to the l)air_vz1nd Food coniinission.
The four gentlemen tirst named are earnest
Patrons.

 

OUR PICNIC EDITION.

‘V6 present to 0111' readers what we be-
lieve to be one of the best issues the VISITOR
has ever published. The contributors to
this edition are representative Patrons in
Michigan. The half tone engraving we
give free. It is a good likeness of the
Master of the Michigan State Grange, and
will be an acceptable souvenir to every Pa-
tron in Michigan.

To those who may secure a copy of this
issue, who are not regular readers of the
paper, we would say, \Ve should like to
have yo1i make a trial of the GRANGE Vis-
ITOR. \Vhile it is essentially a Grange
paper—the organ of a society——the pur-
poses of that society guarantee to you that
the VISITOR is a valuable paper to any
farmer, Whether he belongs to the Grange
or not. The Grange intends to help the
farmers all that is possible. and the VISITOR

and fariiicrs' rights.
the state gives a ipiarter of the attention to
social. educational. and legislative niovc-
nicnts intended to help the farmer
This is no idle boast,
sinipl_v :1 fact. as _vo1i will scc if you try the

No other paper in

this paper gives.

\\'c also call the attention of all readers ‘
of this edition. whether they are Patrons
or not. to the articles herein printed. They
will help Patrons to a better11n<lei'st:mding
T of Gi'ange principles and a stronger rc-
solvc to he truer l’:1ti'on.s: and they will
help those not nicuibers of the Grange to
I :1 better appreciation of what the Grange
is tr_viiig to do.

THE ()II.lEI,"1‘S UP THE GR.-1.'W:'E.

‘ The ])ll1'])0.~‘(‘S of the Grange have so

often been set forth that it is ditiicult to rc-
statc them in :11i_vb(:ttci' form.
laration of l’urposcs" of the Grange is
t clear‘, concise, complctc.
' to submit the following statciiicnt as ex-
pressive of our objects.
origiiiality it ma_v possess consists nicrcl_v
in the 11sc of ditlcrcnt words to express the
old and tried ideas.

The Grange staiids. in all and above all.
for co—opcration.
union there is .\‘ll'CI1}_"ill.“
incdiatc rcsiilt it nia_v seek to attain. thc
instriuucnt wielded is alw:1_vs co—oper;ition.
The Grange finds the fariiicr more or less
11iioi'gaiii'/.cd.
iiecded reforms and desirous of pio<_r;'css.
but us11all_v lacking the power to bring rc-
foriii or incite progi'ess.
poses to take these individual farnicrs,
unite them into a stronglv cemented body,
by cduczition. agitatioii. and union
render them a power to attain the just
ends they seek. The Grange does not bur_\'
the individual under the mass, of iiidivid—
uals but tries rather to draw out each indi-
vidual to his fullest (‘ap:icit_\'. and to niakc
him individually more cllicicnt. as well as
a better “slio11ldcr to slioiildcr" man.

But we venture

\\'liatcvcr ' of

\\'liatcvcr im-

:1] iprcciati vc

The Grange pur-

basis of all
prosperity. There are individiial excep-
tions. but no nation or people ever beczuuc
great until a fair degree of the blessings of

j,1.c.U1 L..m,L.. 1., them V and like the waters of a niightv river. its

The (;'r:1iigc i'ccil7_»‘~

nizcs this fact. and seeks to render the
farmers of this nation prospcroiis.
discussion, bv education. b_v b11_ving and ‘
selling togctlicr, by legislation. does the 1
(iriiiigc cndciivor to bring to thc inasscs of '
the farincrs greater business success.
Grange strikes at the root of thc iiiattcr.
gocs do\vii to first principles. and sa_vs:
"The farnicr is of more conscqiicucc. than
the farni, and should he tirst iuiproved."
Yet the Grange docs not neglect the farm
nor the business side of farniing.

The tie that
Grange together is fl':llC1'llll,_\'.
will inav scoll‘ at this pliase of Grange .
work. but those inside the gates know very
well that the handclasp of a Patron of
Iliisbandry has potency for good.
seeds of Grange endeavor are sown in the ;
warni. rich soil of fraternal feeling.
tcrnity is our bond of union, our fiising
flame, that welds opposite tastes and ino-
tives into our purpose and aim.

As enlightenment and morality are the
corner stones of good citizenship, so are
they the corner stones of Grange docti'ine.
To learn and to be upright are cardinal
discussions.
tures, essays, thcniembcrs are brought
to a better understanding of the facts
and principles of great questions.
ality is inculcated bycvery line of the rit-
ual. The Grange is aGod fearing organi-

i
ii their wakc. \\'hilc the Grange lives and
t

4 alike in its pri\.'ilcgcs. and :ill drink of the

i and it will go on in its glorious work of

Men maybe rugged and strong, but un-
less they possess refinement they lack the
best touch of manhood. The Grange seeks
to bestow upon its l11el11l)§:1'S this refine-
ment. Love of poetry, art, nature, all are
taught in the Grange.
can follow the mandates of Grange teach-
without coming to see the beauty of
finer things of life, and to appreciate
them as factors in the development of a
well rounded character.

Last that we shall
among the avowed purposes of our Order,
is the advancement of justice. Justice to
all citizens, justice to all classes, but espe-
cially justice to the farmers of this nation,
is our aim. \Vherever farmers are Weak,

N() 1113.11 01' \VOI1]3Il

is always found standing for fariners‘ good

wherever they are oppressed, Wherever

 

THE GRANGE "VISITOR.

they are unfortunate. tlic(‘xi':'i1igc would go
to strengthen. to deliver. to assist. l’»_v
any means that are honorablc. by the
powcr of a united body of noble men and
women. by the pcrsiiasioii of a riglitcoiis
cause. the (Sraiige ciidcavor.s to secure jus-
; tice from individuals. coi~por:1tioii..s and
govcrnincnt. The (ii':1iigc(':ii'c.s to injtire
j no one. b11t docs care to s-cc that no one in-
jure.s the farincr.
Such arc some of the striking purposes
of the Grange. No .\'(|('l(‘l_\’ Ii.-is butter or
’ noblcr. Among all friitcriiitics thc Gin-iiigc
will take rank as one of thc lll'(l;l(l(‘.~l_ uiiil
most helpful. \Vhilc among all org:iiiiz:1-
tions for fziriucr.-. none can eoiiipai-o in
ptii-poses. power. or rcstilts.

The Grange and Its Achievements.

it‘oiitiii11w1l from p:i;:-- 1.1

e.\'tcusiou of patents on sewing inacliiiics
and other useful devices have been prevent-
cd. thus clicapcniiig tlicin to iiscrs.

The Grange has advocated. and is now
dcniaiiding. lcgislatioii to controltrustsaiid
iiionopolics. and prevent gauibling in farm
products: also to pi'c\'cnt thc :id11ltcr:1tiou
of food. and thc sale of iiiiitatioiis for gen-
iiiuc articles. '

The Grange was the lirst to 1l(lVlt('Ill(‘ rc-
forni in election laws. and the adoption of
the ;\ll.~'i1‘:lll:lI1 svstciii of voting.

A l)lCI’.»\l{T.\ll'II\"l‘ 1)]-‘ A(El{l('l'l.'l'l'l{l'I.

The Natioiial (iriingc lirst 1Ul\'()(‘:ll('tl and
incinorializcd coiigrcss to clcvatc thc lin-
l'L‘:lll of -\griculturc to :1 dcp:1i'tincnt of thc
govcruuicnt. to he presided over by ;i i-ubi-
iict olliccr; and for inaiiy long .\'(':lI'.~‘ urged
the iiicasure with ui1tiringctl'ort. until suc-

that the T)l'<.‘.s'ltlL‘l1t Wttllltl iiii" the otlicc
with a nian. who in interest. >'.\'lIl1>:lll1_\' and
ijiialilicatioiis, would be ii ti'11c rcpre.sciita—
tive of the great agricultural interest.

To cntniicrzite in detail all that the
Grange has aeliievcd would fill a volume:
but true it is. that it has not accoiiiplislicil
what it might and would have done for thc
fariucrs of this country. if tlic_v had iuorc
j 1inivcrsall_vand iiiiitcdly atliliatcd with it
E and given their influence to its noble work.
l Other org11iii7.atioii.s; of farincrs have
swept over the land like 21 tidal wave. ac-
complisliing some good. perhaps. and then
passc<l aw;1_v, leaving >'(‘:l1'(‘(‘l._\' :1 i'ipplc in

moves. purstiing the even tenor of its wa_vs.

iiitiiiciicc dccpcus and broadciis and tlows
on and on.

Tllli (£1{_\_\’(iI£ \\'.\S NUT IKUILV T4) l)lI'Z.

The Grange was not the creation of :1
da_v.:1ud it caiiiiot pi-risli in a niglit. It
was the woi'kof1inselfi.sli iuotivcs. tho11glit-
ful niiiids. and powerful brains. if not of
prophetic wisdoin. The sccds of1lissolu-
tion were not iiiiplaiitcd in its orgaiiic law.
There is noprivilcged elas.s. no f2l\'()I'L‘tl
few in the organization. All stand upon
the sanie plaiforin of c1ju:ilit_v. all sliarc

swcct w:1tcrs of knowledge. niorzil iiupi'ovc—
iiiciit. and social plcas11i'cs. at the saiuc
fo1uit:un. lts inission is being fullillcd.

educating and clcvatiiig thc -\iiicric:1n
farnicr.
Prur Piws.

Organization and Co—Operation.

(9114). B. Il()l{Tt)N .

Perfect order and systcinatic operation
cliaracterizes the natural law that governs
the universe. Through these the coiiipli—
catcd and seemingly impossible are demon-
strated to 11s as being simple and easy.
Mankind have in all ages made use of these
potent; principles in proportion to their
standing in cultivation. and the develop-
ment of their abilities in the line of coiii-
prehension. The (‘(¥l1lll1')' now fast draw-
ing to a close has witiicssed a uiore general
and practical use of these aids to progress
and power than any that has preceded it.
Under the dictation of order and systein.
agencies have been brought into use which
have done more to develop the world‘s
natural resources within this time, than
had been previo1isl_v acconiplished. Maii'.s:
natural abilities and inventive genius have
been drawn out in the accoinplishinent of ‘
great and wonderful things. Led on b_v
success in great undertakings as individ1i-
als, it is seen that still greater can be ac-
complished if these principles prevail. by
unions of like forces. Thus to—da_v we see
co-operation through combination applied
to nearly all the pursuits and works of
life; and in many cases the accoinplishinents
wrought thereby seem almost as if by mind
and hand supreme. Every known interest
has its especial organization through which
its devotees work for better and greater re-
sults. Organization and co—operation are
the order of the day, and nothing above
the most ordinary is expected to be accom-
plished by abstract individual eflort. In-
dividuality is absorbed in organization. So
earnest and persistent do people become

ccss was acliicvcd. conlidcntlv believing‘

  

AUGUST 1;‘-. 1895.

through the inspiriition of oi'g:iiiiz:-«l influ-
cncc. that it is not iiitrcejiicui that one iii-
tcrest t1'espas.si-s ipon thc i'i_«_-'lit.s and wcll
being of other-. without stopping to in-
ijuirc what or who is injured tlicrcb_\'. if
thi-_v and theirs rcci-i\c prc.-ciit gain. sceni-
iugl_v forgcttiiig that each is dcpeiidciit
upon the other for siib-taiitizil develop-
iucnt and prospi-i'it_v. So we see that it
lias conic to pass. that it is not oul_\' iicccs-
.s:ir_v to oi-‘«_r;iiiiy,c ;1ii«le1i-Hpt‘l‘:1lt‘ to l\'1-1-p lll(‘
p:1cc sct b_v other iiitcri--ts along the line
of piogi'css. but that oi'g:iiii'/.:1tioi1 and co-
opcratioii on the part of tlicfziriucrs are
also iii-ccs-:ii"\' to .~(‘t‘lll'(’ thc llcwlctl protec-
tion against the cncriuacliiuents of otlicrs.
\\'c:1l.-’o sec that oi'g‘:1iiiz:1tioii and 1-o—opcr-
ation should not oii|_\’ i'cccivc our support
as a simple ]>l'l\‘ll(*_*_"1*. but bi-c:i1i.-c it is now
an absolute dut_v. uiadc so by the necessi-
ties and conditioiis of the times. .\gi'icul—
turists from their n:it1ir:1l wavs of life. have
bccnaiid :1i'cto—da_v ver_v slow in .~(‘(‘lli§__"
and acccptiiig the way that the iicccssitics
of the times dcuiand. l'nlikc pcoplc cu-
gagcd_iu otlici'pui's11its. tl1c_\' allow dill'cr-
1 enccs in piirtisziii politics. sci-t:1ri:11i 1-luircli
I‘('l:lllHn.~. little jcztloiisios. (‘l,(‘.. to prcvi-iii
their workingli:1i'uionio1islvtogctlii-1' on the
iiiiportaiit ijucstioiis that iiivolic the suc-
ccss of their clioseii oi-1-tipatioii.
If we can read thc .sigiis:1i'iglit. liowcvcr.
‘ thc f:1i'iiici's arc gi':i«l11:1ll_v :1\\’:1kcniug to
‘ conditions :1u«ltliiiig.s tli:1t arc: and troin
now on we ii1:1_v expect :1 more geiii-rou.s
_vi1-lding to thc caruc-t calls of tiiiscltisli
<l1it_\'.:1l1<l the :t1'ccpl:1iice of the f«‘:i.siblc
' ;1ii1ls1iccc.ssf1il plan as pi'1-sciitcil in oi'g:1ni-
‘ zation and co-opcratioii.

.\.\' .\\\'_\l\’lC.\'l.\tv.

The c.\'p<-riciiccs of the past lllll‘l_\' _\'(‘.'ll'.~

I along this line. prove that thc oi-g:1iiiz:itioii

to serve 1l1cfai'ii1ci'.s’ iiiti-rc.sts best. :1u1l
to possess the clctuciits of loiig lilc and
iiscfiiliicss. must in principle and in fact.
be iizitionzil in (‘lI2'1l':l('lt'l'. \\ iscljv coiisci'v:1-
tivc in policy. and broad and cli:1rit:iblc
enough to coiiiprcliciid all the w.-uits. privi-
lcgcs. and possibilities of thc f:ii'iiicr.-' life
and position. as :1 factor in so1~ict_v. cd1ica-
tioual devclopmcnt. gciicrzil inlliiciicc. and
clcvation to the plane that thc .\'1'lt‘l)4'(‘ of
:igriculturc dcniaiiils. and c.\’<-ludc «pics-
tions that are so llll(‘l].\'(‘l‘\' piirtisziu. s1-1-tai'-
hill. or sectional. th:1t thc_v will cause disso-
lutioii bcforc thcv can scviirc1-ii.lo1's1-iiiciit.

(it'll ()Ill)l‘Zl{.

In the po.s.sc.ssiiig' of the clcinciits and
1'li:ii':ict1-i'i.stic.s so cssciitiitl to stivccss
tlirougli orgiiiiizatioii. it cannot be .s1i<-ccs.s-
fllll‘\'(ll>‘1iI'1)\'t‘ll that thc ()r1l1-r of thc l’:1—
trons of ll11sb:1ii«lr_v coiuc— lllv iicai-i-st to
tliciit-inc of perfection. lts life through
the trying ordeal of c.\'p1-riiuciit. and thc
great and good worl\'s it has .-ivcoiiiplislicil
and has under (‘t)l1.~ltlt‘l':llllIll at the present
time. as coniparctl with the .‘l<‘lllt‘\'(‘lll(‘lll.s'
of other oi'g:uii7.1-d l’ai'iuci' iiiovcuiciits.
prove the asst-i'tio1i to be true. Tlicn lct
1-\'cr.\' mcinbcr of our ()rd<-1' take new
courage and press [)('l'\l.\l('llll_\’ l’o1'\\.-irul. 11l-
\v:1.v.- talkiiig and working for oiirs. thc
bcst f:1i‘incrs‘ org':1iiix:1tioii the world has
cvcr prodiiccd. And let our :11-ts :ll\\'.'l.\'\ bc
g(i\'cl’l1('tl b_\' the p1'1-1-1-ptsot 1'.-iith. liopc.
t‘l1:lI'll_\'. and tidclitv. Ti'11.stiiig and b(-lic\'-
ing that front now on vcijv iiiaiiy more of
our (‘ti-\\'1>l'l{t*I'.< on tl1ct':1ruis will join with
11s and thus iiii-i'c:1sc our 1i.sct'11liiess.lct
11s licrc 1'1-sol\'1-to one and all work 11iisclf-
ishlv and uiiitcdlv to push the (irangc
baiiher liigln-i':1ii1l liiglicr on the stall‘ that
hears it. until its bright colors. rcprc.sciit-
ing good work-. shall .‘llll':ll'l all the tarni-
ers of the state and nation to its support.
and then in solid <-ol11inns lll:ll't'll on to thc
victorics prophesied bv the founders of thc
Ordcr. -\_nd in the pursuit of all these let
us govern our methods and acts by such
bi-o;iil. coiisistciit conscrvatisui that all iii-
tcrests. all people will say. God speed the
(iriuigc.

Fr1u't Ridge.

A Word From the Master.

About 2|! fresh air children from llctroit
will enjo_v the liberty of the fields and
woods of the nicuibers of Fruit Ridge
Grzingc during the next two \\'cck.'s‘.

Patrons everywhere should do their best
to secure large audiences at the August
picnics. Urge your friends to enjoy the
day with you. (ilit). I’). Hom‘o.\'.

Notice.

Anvonc wishing to get full inforniation
about the Grange should write at once to
Geo. B. Horton. Fruit Ridge. )lich.. who
 the .\laster of the Michigan State Grange.

Those desiring to sliliscribc to the
Gi«:A.\‘oE Visitor. should send their sub-.
scri ition to Perry & Me-Grath. Cliarlottc,
Mich

Very Low Rates to Baw Beese Park.

Account of the Tri State Grange Assem-
bly at Baw Beese Park Aug. 21 1, the Lake

1 Shore & Michigan Southern R)'.. will sell

excursion tickets at very low rates and run
a special train to Baw Beese Park (Hills-
dale) and return. For rates and time of
train see hand bills.

 

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AUGUST 15. 1895.

The Grange and Legislation.

I”. W. Iii-II)l’I-ZIl.\'.

. .\ow that the turiiioil incident to a ses-
sion of the le}_rislature is past. and the «lust
has had time to settle a little. :1 reti'ospee-
tive view of what has heeii at-t-oiiiplislied

l’\'1l1L‘ (i1':lI1}_f<..‘. or tIll'()llt_"ll (iraiige intlu— 3

enee. inay not he amiss.

Tllli w_ii's HF l.l£t;I.\l..'t'l‘ln,\'.

First. it must he l't‘lllt‘llil;Cl‘(,‘tl that few
hills not .strietl_v local in their eliai':ietei' are
ever enaeted into laws without lI(‘lll}_" more
or less ('li.‘tll$_"(‘(l in form. and often ;1l_.~o in
purport: some of them so mueh so in faet
as to cause the introdueer to endeavor to
“kill“ instead of secure the passage of his
own hill. This is unavoidahle. Wlieii it
is remeiiihered that everv hill iiitrodueed.
that heeoiiies a law. has to run the gauntlet
of the several eomniittees of l><>tll(l1(ill.~‘(‘.s._
and then on third readin}_r meet tlieapproval
of not less than l7 ineiiihers of the senate
and SI of the house, it will he seen that it

is not always the easiest tliin}_r iii the world _

to pass a hill. I have often heard men s':i\'
to iiieiiihers of the le<_rislature. “Wliv donit
you pass a hill to (lt)'.~ill(‘Il and tliin«_rs{" or_
“If I were you (whieh the poor le}_rislator
sonietiiiies wishes he was.) I should iiizike
them consider my hills when I had them
i'eail_y,"' fo1';_rettiiij_: that 12!] other ])ll.s'lllll_J',
wide awake men also have hills that the_\'
are tij\'1Ii;_r to get considered. and forget-
ting: that any hill peiidiii;_r whieh antaggo-‘
ntizes the interests of any eorporation. so-
ciety, or hotly of men. alw:i_\'s hriii_«_v's to
the eapitol a "lohh_\'" to work for the de-
feat of the iiieasure. I must confess also
that fair iiieaiis are not al\\':1_\’.s the only
ones resorted to h_v some lolilwists,

I think it will he seen tlieiiitliat it is no
eliild's play to "pass a hill:" and that if
soine of the nieasures introduced hv mem-
hers of the (i1‘:lll}_{c and known as l(ii'zlIlg_"c
hills theeause asked for and advoeated hv
the Gi'aii;:e) were sliorii of some of
their features. it was no more than was to
he expected. and notIiii1f_rditl'ereiit than was
the treatment aeeorded all other hills of
general character.

THE oit..iN(;i-1 .\Il~1A.\'l.'ltlC.~‘.

The last State (i1':ll]f_Tt5 slioweil its wisdom
in resoIvin,r_r to select «I fin/~ ineasures wliieh
should he pushed in the It‘f_l'l>‘l:ltlll'L‘. Tliese
in their order were as follows:

1. The I“ariiier.s‘ Institute hill:

L’. The Tax Statistician hill. and

3%. The Pure Food hills.

1

l~‘AR.\l i-:i:s‘ II\‘.\"l‘['I‘L"l‘l£>,
The tirst naiiied hill was deeined of iiii- 

. ‘~r
E eauses an iiitei'eliaii}_'\Uf th,,n,_,m m“1ex_

;

portanee for
wliieh are as fo

1. It lll'lll}_"~' t
the eouiitv toc_v'et|iei

 
 

‘eral reasoi1~.

l
. _ 1
pe1~ieiie._.. and develops‘ ‘h,_h.(, f,,1._.m.m] ii
and iiitelleetiial iiiipi‘ove‘..‘_m i

2.‘. It lJl'1ll1[.s the seieiiti.._ f.u.lm.1-, fyfilll 

the ;\}_Tl'l<‘Illtlll‘:ll (‘ullL‘_‘_"t‘lig“ 1,,u,.11“-it};

“\ THE GRA.\’GIl3 VISITOR.
C...-———---*--—”.*

,.,me of l ti-:‘.st eliaiige-I in forni. then siihstituted hv
 i-oiiiinittee. then fou;_rh1 over again. and ti-
mL,1.(.__\i\~e fariiiers of  iiall_\‘ passed. shorii of some of its provis-
ets them :l<.‘t1ll:llllIt‘tl.  ions and iiioditied in others.
\'ietoi'y for tii'aii<_»'e iiitlueiiee. and uivestlie
II“l_1'.\'il11‘l I“Uo<l L'oimnissioiier an oppor-
tiii.it_v to proseeute and punish some of the
uii.~ei'upulou.s men who are ilimillllzg‘ the
l .sta‘e with their vile and fraudulent eom~

 
    

It is _\'et a

the praetieal fariners from ‘H (,\~(.1- 11,9  potnds.

state. llit‘l'(,‘l>‘\' ‘_Tl\'ll)_u‘ the latter the |,£.m,m ‘:
of seientitie truths and (.‘X]!(‘l'It‘H. “~11‘1r-1; 
llit‘_\' eotlltl lint iitlit'l'\\'is(! olitalll.

1:. It lil:ll\'(:.~' the farnier a ' yower"

l
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l
. . . _ l
wliieh i-an he used uiiitedl_v iii any t'Qs'11‘:l- E
hle <li1'(*<_'llnIi. l
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l

The hill was passed iii.-il\'in<__r the iieeess;-.1-e
appropriatioii. and any eoiint__\' lll the state.

I'ailin}_r in their ellorls to defeat the
I lI.'L‘ I“t|HtI hill. till.‘ ltIlvli\’ ll'lt'Il in  all
ltfiislatioii foi' its t'IIT|H1'(“(‘lIlt‘lll.l!\' killing‘
Ill‘ hill pi'o\'iilili}_" fora I)all"\' :1-llll I-‘ooil
(.i‘f11lIll.~>lUllt‘l'. and :ilsolisliili;: the olliee.
\Vieii the tiiial vote was taken thev only
latxed two votes of doin<_r it. It was s:i\ed
on)’ hy the til':tll_‘_"t‘ inllueiiee. and it)-tI«'l‘\'

)

on perfeetiii)_r a eount_\' institute or}_:aiiiz:i— L th-three iiieasures ('ll.‘lllll>iHllt‘<I h\' the last

tioii and Ill:ll\'Illf_" the iieeessai'_v ai'i'an«_re—
ments with ’iro. Ix. L. Buttertield of Lans-

ini_r. who has the state institute husiness in ‘

eli:ir<__re. eaii hold :1 two day fariners' iiisti-
tute.

TAX .\'I'.\TI.~Tl( ‘IA .\' .

The Tax Statistieian hill was iiiti'o«liieed ‘

prineipall_v for the followiii<_r reason: There
is. and has heeii for :1 long time. a feelin_<_r

amon}_r fariiiers that they were unjustl_v dis— .

eriiiiinated a_<_raiiist in the matter of tax-

ation: that farm pl'opeI't\' heiii<__r "in .si_~_-'lit" ~
is always" assessed and eannot he t't)\'('1'(‘tl '

or passed h_\' the a.sse.ssin_i__r otlieer. .\h.so-
lutely no ll}_"lll'L‘.< eaii he shown to suhstan-
tiate this helief. altliou<_rh' we helieve we 
can feel it "in the air." 

The hill pi'o\'i<led that a eoiiiiiiissioiier;
should he appointed for two _\*ears-. whose
dut_v it should he to lll\'t‘.\tif_".‘ltt,‘ this whole
suhjeet. see where the III('i‘ll2llItIt‘.~ in tax-
ation lie. and tliereh_v eiiahle future l(‘f_"i.s-
l:itui'e.s to provide a reined_v if an evil
l'L‘:lll.\’ exists. The hill was pass-ed. and if
the _<_reiitleiiian appointed makes a thorouf_rl1
examination and an unhiased report found-
ed on the facts as tliev are found. I have
no doiiht that it wilTpi'ove a hlessiiig tc
the farnier.

i*i‘i:i«: Foon.

The I’ure Food hills (wliieh ineludes the
('oiiiiiiissioner's hill, or hill (lt‘illlIll}_Z' the
powers and duties of the (‘oiiiiiiissiiiiier.
fixing: his salary’ and those of liis:-..ssistaiits.i
seeiiied to he the ones that in an espeeial
iiiaimer called for an outpourin_<_r from the
“vials of wrath."

The I’ure Food hill proper was aiita}_roii-
ized h_\' powerful lohhies. who emplo_ved
ahle attorneys and foiiglit its provisioiis

 one hv one. tirst iii eonimittee and then on

the floor of the elianiher.s. The hill was

.\I:lii}_ran State (il‘:lll1_"t' are laws upon the
Sttlltté hooks‘.

riii: <:i:.i_\‘i;i-:s \\‘Hl:l\'l-'.l) ‘root-:'i‘iii«:i:.

‘lie tii':iii«_:es of the state iiohl_v support-
edzlie etlorts of their re}uresentatives. hoth
h_\petitions and h_\' personal letters.

Sut it is not alone in the passa}_re of hills
w_ere the iiillueiiee of the ()rder was felt.
.\in.\' hills weredefeated llll'<)ll_'_"ll the saiiie
ii5ti'iiiiieiit:ility whieh would have injuri-
oisly alleeted :l_t_!'l'lt‘llltlll'.'ll iiiterests. It
\as the aim of ‘\‘ulll' reliresentati\'es to he
ioiisei'vati\'e and "strive for the j_rreaiest
good to the }_ri'e.-itest iiuniher."

TIIIC (iI=.«\Ntt]‘: I{lC.\‘l’l-It"I‘I7.l).

I am _<_rlad to he ahle to sit)’ to the mem-
lers of the t)rdei' that the leg'isl:itiii‘e as a
lody. i‘e;rai'ded our ()rdei' 21s the exponent
(T the fai‘nier.sof tliisstate. ()ur wishes were
as favoi'ahl_v reeeived and 1'eeei\'ed as mueh
eoiisideration. as those of any society. \\'e
were as sueeessfiil as any others in ;_"Citlllf_"
tliat for which we asked. \\'e have h_\' no
n.e:m.s got all we need. \\'e have. how-
ever. made a he<_riiiiiiii_<_-'. Let us follow out
in the futui'eourplan of (‘()ll<'t‘lltl':lllll_t_[ on a
few iiieasures and press those to a eoiielu-
sion.

Mriplc RrI[)irI.s".

GRANGE NEWS.

The next meeting of Newaygo county Po-
mona Grange will be held with Ilesperia
Gtange the first Wednesday and Thursday in
September. A pleasing feature of the meeting
will be an address by It. Merrill of Benton [lar-
bor, president of the Michigan State llorticuls
ti.ral society. on the “Care and treatment of the
young orchard." The uiiresponded part of the
03d program will be called for. Every Grange
in the county should turn out and help carry

- out this program and make the rneetiiig a suc-

cess. l\I.\i:\' l{oi:i:i:'ixso.\'. Lecturer.

Michigan State Fair 1895

the fine

sJ"\

LVILL BE /7/ELD AT

GRAND RAPIDS, SEPTEMBER
9 T O 13 INCLUSIVE,

ON THE SPACIOUS GROU/VDS OF THE I/I/EST /l/[Ch/[GA/V

t

\'.\.V I’-I" Ill-I.\' I’()\It|N.\.

The next qiiarterly iiieeiiiig of \':.n llnren
county Graiige will be held August 2'.‘ at Law-
rence. >e,veral ditfereiit tmiiiu»-s oi the county
have proiiiised to turiiish RN or no minutes pro-
gram during the day, and laiwreiiee Grange
will furnish the evening eiitertaiiiine-iii. This
is the lust atteiiipt of calling upon the Granges
iii a body for program and a very izood time as
well as something new is expected.

.li<:.\'.\'ii-: lirsiiiiiit. Sec.

Montcalm Grange is holding meetings every
alternate .\2tttll‘(Itt_V. no postpoiieiiieiit during
the suniiner months. ():1r attendance is good.
Our nieiiibership has nearly doubled in the past
two years. (hir methods are about the saint-. as
usual, except that we have been holding soeials
all through the winter and spring iiionths,which
have proved very helpful as well as pleasant.
Would have short program. llave also organ-
ized a ladies‘ aid Society in coniiec tioii with the
Grange recently, through the inlluence of the
woinan‘s work coiiiinittee which will hold
inoiithly meetings at the I“3SltIt'1lC€‘S of its meni-
bersaiid are anticipating good results.

.\Ii:s. C. II. Tll<).\ll’.s‘ti.\'. becretary,

lieiiawec l’ouioiia Grange held its regular
meeting with Cadniiis Grange on Thursday
August 1. The nieeting was Well attended.
most of the Gr-anges in the county being repre-
sented. Cadmus Grange is the youngest Grange
in the county being less than one year, old but
the hospitable receptioii they gave their brother
and sister l‘-atroiis, and their systematic arrange-
ments for €lltE‘.l‘t£<l.lllfl1I*.Ilt_ denioiistrates that
fraternal sympathy and discipline are proiiii—
nent characteristics with the ineinhers of this
Graiige. The program was both pleasing and
instructive, and many outside the Order were
attentive listeners. Wortliy Master llorton of
the State Graiige gave a. description of the trade
catalogiie recently issued, which testiiies that
the object for which he has so faithfully labored
is in a measure completed to the linancial bene-
tit ot the members of the Order. llad the plan
of life insurance proposed at the last State
Graiige been adopted. the (image would be the
most complete fraternal oi'ga.iii7.atton in exist-
ence. The Patrons are all looking forward with
pleasant anticipations to the great gd.tIlPl‘lllfZ at
liaw Iieese park. Aug. 20. There will be a
large delegation from Leiiawee.

(ii-:o. I). .\I()1il‘.F..

-“AT MARKET vALUE7'_st-ix p:i_<_re ti.

Successful Grange Store.

Herkimer County, N. )1, I5-34.0.‘).
Mr. 0. W. lxoi-ziis-oi.i.,

Dear Sir: We have a very successful Grange
store in operation in this county, and as I am
interested in the same I write to ask for advice.
We have been enlarging the store and we think
of putting on paints, and the iiiaiiager asked
me what brand I could recommend, and 1 im-
mediately told him the t). W. lngersoll Liquid
Rubber Paint iiiaiiiifactured in Brooklyn, '.\ew
York, by all means as I had been using them
for years past and thought them the best I had
ever used. Yours Truly,

Noit)i.\x U. Ni~:i.i.is,

See Advt. lngersoll's Liquid Rubber 1'aints.

AGRICULTURAL SOC/ET)’.

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 This will be a Purely Agricultural Fair.

Every inch of space in the Large Main Building is already taken.
There will be an immense DISPLAY of FRUIT.

Grand Rapids will make a. very large FURNITURE DISPLAY.
The boys and girls, and some of the older people as well, will want to see

BICYCLE RACES

on Monday, the first day of the fair. Reduced rates on all railroads.
Send for premium list to

I. H. BUTTERFIELD. SEC’Y. Grand Rapids. Mich.

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©0111 .. ' . d S . 1 5}‘ 91 t‘’th9‘l1_1_€5tl0n. _“ hat thesta- , schedule of manual labor is lllatlei . . __;nd gardeners of each young man put Ill. with t'1ll“fl')(’l'§llli—'l)lI.‘ly
-/ -   /E53913» tions are for 1' may be inferred from out for the whole course. For e\'— llniihi ‘mile. “I WT-w"?‘:{l"“‘ i‘“ ‘hm "‘~‘““l 9"‘
—T“_‘__"‘—__—"“"‘“—‘ the above brief statement of what ample, on the farm, in the _.§.p,_,-1;”)  work of the 5t;[ti()n is “f no “'5' ‘la?’ “f ‘DY 1”" "°’“ -“°"‘”“b°" ‘O 33"‘
_ ‘ What Are _ the Experiment the_v do. They are intended to be term of the freshinan vear. threz, V1; to the fariiiers unless the)’ “““¥-" }.{"""‘.‘"”‘"’5‘l’?”l“‘“‘i°‘“"'“‘5 he I
1 \ Stations For? helpfully tangent to the work ofweeks are spent in the L‘{ll‘l)e1]t(-p ,.,‘.ti the bulletiiis and apply the s""l“‘ tmlwl m"'1‘"'r 1"“‘°"”"

"011. how t'uiiii_\'T" l\':itlih-eii exclniiiierl.
Inokiiii: closer at his ft-atiires. "lt‘s queer
we never liappviied to knock up mziiiiist
one aiiotlier And we knew so iiiaiiy peo-
ple in \\-nice too, I’.-ml you ever to go to

l’I{()F. (.'I.I.\'TOl\' I). SMITH. l)II{F.CTOP.

i~.'l101>, 21 Illost essential {fling fm. ork to the fariii. I-‘aiiiiei-s are
‘ .\ii<;iiir;A.\' STATION.

C\'e1'}'.f:ll'l1l(’1'. The balance of ti”, ton apt too lay stress on the tirst
term is spelt liandling l]()1',s'Q5‘ my part of the adage—
structing daiiis and fences ..id "lie not the tirsi by whom the new is

the fariiicr at every ioint by pro-
tecting him from liis enemies,
human, insect, and fungoid. by
siiggcstiiig new methods of work.

 

, The experiment stations are stip-
ported by the general

Q0‘-ernnlcnt _ ' _ I . ._ _ _ _ I _ ‘ ,- 3 _ V _ V tlit-.\lzirtiiid.'iles‘pzilaxzo?" _ ‘l
of the L.’ it _d \,t_ t P T} I, ‘ l _ and by bioadciiiiig his _bll(l\\letlg‘cIllltclltlllllg‘ .oi the suminer “J1 1» \-Ort,’,::dl'dSt to lav the Om aside ,. T1“. ,.,,,,,,, ,,,,,,, __.,,,,;,.,1 .,,,Ce,,,.,,,._ ,1,,,,
’ H t _ f ‘I It -- 4 95- W11‘ “U03 of the underlying priiiciples of his lliis is tortwo and 3 half _ioiirs L,,‘,,,.,-,,,, ' ' time (I rt-.-ir.-iiii.-.1 smile of .1.-;ii~t-t-.-uury ‘
 3"“ M’ " ‘ ' vocation. To succeed in this work each day. When :1 stu.lent[)l‘()\'(3.s‘ ‘ If iii- ti-I-lli \\‘t’l‘0 goml. lit: cer-

YllIulo'~l'_\'.
t.-iiiil_v lo-t noopp- ll‘! uiiity of showin«_v them.
"No. I didn’t know the .\l:irtiii«l:iles."
he answered very li.-tstily. as if uiixioiis to
(ll~'('l.‘lllll the social liniior thus thrust upon
him. for the .\lflI‘Illlll.‘ll!_‘S led .-\ii«.'lo-\‘eiie-
tian .~I-t'lI‘l.\‘.

"Tln-ii pa-rliaps the (‘lit-rit-is?" l\':ithleen
llli\'l‘[lH~Nl <nllI‘t‘ more. with that innate hu-
 I]l:lll ch--ire “'1' :ill of ll‘: feel to tiiid some
coiiiiiioii point with e\'<-i'_\' .~‘Il‘:lll_|.Zt‘I‘ we run

First. each station is to carry on
such iiivestigatioiis and experi-
i mcnts as will result in inforination
' useful to the people of the state in

which it is located.
';'. l. l'iidei' this head come such
cxperiiiieiits as variety tests of
fruits and vegetables or of grains
and giasses. a departiiiciit of the

 

tlie_v iiiust have the co-operation of
the fariiiers tlieiiisclves. By fre-
quent visits to the (follegc and sta-
tion, by letters tn the station oth-
cers wlieucver new troubles arise
and by reading the biilletiiisis.-tied,
every fariiier sliould
in iiiiiiieiliate touch

himself ell:-ieiit in anv one or
more of thee things he allowed
to do soiiictfiiig liedoe, not under-
‘staiid or is hit at \\'.41'l{ iiinre rc-
iiiunerative o the ¢.'(.‘|):ll‘llllL'lll and
is paid accodiiigly. The suiniiicr
put himself term is spei: c:iri'_viiig on the fariii
with the ex- work. care fcrnps. etc., or some

 

l"l 4 s: 'oi s n" his st: c. iiiav be z ssi n : o’ i -i I '- 3/: a'''‘'.''i"—M2. - - . ..
‘””‘k= “.‘h”°.'"’t ‘.’f the “F51 i’”l"’1'l' Iii'llii]i:llf'tI'd;tf'~llt‘:/t-t it al Itlcllétlitllifilfiil tliiflilii-1 f:illLl1f‘l'lll1l. W/“\ 5zl‘.'l\fi‘l".li1ii:fir"‘1§‘ihT 
aiice, .~'«llll| of decided value to the --_¢_-—%— A sophoinore year. three weeks are °°'""°*'*—'-"- -' =-A" -~--~- in point or f.‘ll'l. I 1ii2l_\‘ ~.'|_\'—t‘.\'t'i,'[>l one up
T1ltlllflL\)'1T)((f 110- 1.1 [.lf\'t.1iil{lt H°V" can the Agrlcultural “1"”‘t 1” ”’ fl‘“’'-" ""‘”“' “'l‘“'“ CH.-\i='i'i:i—t l. Il‘l\\":t'll’Fiie:i:llTlif:‘lli:fI Il{1ll:i\‘:'T1‘llllf)ild\’Lil.il\}tllli
L“ ‘,t-i_‘t‘’i , __£ _tl‘1 ”‘.‘)f“_1_l“ " College be Strengthened? gthe studciit is ‘tauglit the use A;Af'rI'll)l~ZXT.\l..!\ll~£l~Z:l'lXC. it-Q, I\\';lfiI]1|ri1l§()l‘i‘;r§‘.I' '
1 IL‘ Id L ’-I ILl’e“_L( _ H“ £I(*n(_i~ U’ _ V , . V Hf (l:lll'\' R:i('lllll(.'l'\' tlllil lllCll- ‘Twila 3. llt'_]9(‘lt’ll, dispirited. sheeplfih “Uli_“ l{:itlilt-t-ii:iiis\\'<-i‘:-d,droppiiiiz her ‘
I ‘ our work at the Micliigaii station.) "' " “]”‘I“”‘R' sils and he art ‘ of inakinu l°"kini.' tlirriim that gzltliered one black VI‘»il.'4-:1 lllllt‘, IIIl'.Tl1tIll;fll Slli‘\‘v'.‘£.*l&l.‘5t‘l'1>'l-
‘Ye are testing. a lot Of the nU\.cl_ xvhen :1 Vmmlr “mu fun“ the lmttclz Thpc weeks are slmnt  \\'erliii-stlay round tliebitqbacktlonrin Biir- ble L'lrl, lll lll.~Cl1~L'lq-_-‘lli‘ had been broiiglit
ties proposed for iiitroduction bv ' '- I

ll1lL§lIlll g:ll‘ll¢*ll.<. for it was taking away ‘
day at the l’.n_\‘al acadeiiiy.

For weeks before that annual holocaust
niaiiy aiixious lie-arts have waitcrl and
VV.'lI(,'ll£'ll in (‘{iLE!‘!‘ siispe-iise t'or the final Ver-
dict of the li:iiii_ring coiiiiiiittee.

up in not to be in socii.-ty was considered
aliiiost criiiiiiial.

The yniiiiu iiian noted the suddc-ii drop
in her voice-, and n ciirious little line de-
veloped iisclf fora sci-oiid near the corners

farm seeks an edui-ation liiglier judging stok_ le;irnin<_r the tine
than he can obtain in the district :' points of diti-rciice iii the l)l'(‘(:tl.s:,
school. if he is coiiscieiitious in his  three weeks it handling fariii iiia-
iiintive, he wants all that he caii;’cliiiiei'y, wlie-e every student is

secdsiiicii in their catalogues.
Some of these new things turn out
to be of value, others prove abso-
lutely worthless.

'. . . . . . , _ _ , To haii:
V.  It 1” "_‘" I’“’' possibly get in the sliort time lie:tauglit the ise of ditlereiit tools or not to llflll‘.!.——tll2lt lsllie qn.-.»:i.iii. But ‘
‘ ?1n1"'“' t" *1“ ‘mt “"3 .‘-"W1 h"—’”‘ 1119 can spare for that purpose. lnvcry and wliv om tool is better than. 0“ félkimz &“'R.V ~1-‘ti’ the tvrrihle fiat ut
lat . “

young man at this age is zealous of i anotlier, soineknds and conditions‘  ”f’f,.,f,‘""flit“§;..,ff}g§‘j§‘;;f},,.:
liiisiiicss pursuits_, so much so that i of soils, the poiitsot sti'cngtli_ andg C,,,,,,,e1, t1,,.,,, ,,, ,1,,,.“,,,. Mr, _.~,..,,,,,1.,..,7,.
he is often hasty in the preparation 5 weakness of tlie litiercnt niacliines. oil paiiiting, “The Fall of iiai._t-1..ii,'i or I
for his life's work. ,%The ieiiiaiiiiiig three weeks arel Mi?‘—‘5 “'l*«'“>‘b0“W11t*V* Watt‘? Ctiler. “By:

ll. lixpeiiiiieiits are conducted
along the line of tiglitiiig fungoid
and insects. enemies of oi'cliards.

 

ll _ "i“".Y=l1"l"'v fwd g§”:‘1°"”' Al,l'e“‘i_." Micliigaii is wellsuppliedwitli the  spent in tield operations and con-, Leafy Tha”"’5'" ““‘1p"m“l3" “’f‘’“” “M” A '
4 ’’_“"‘.Y "9" 1"59°t1C“l95 “ml 1”“.‘-’1' best of ‘iiistitutinns. The fai'mci's ? struction ant‘ tilintr of silos. In ‘ ‘hat they may ‘?m°"e them at ““3"1"l' ‘
cides have been broiigl1t1Y1l0 11-"9 li-ive a reprcseiit-itive institution itlie spring terir tli-ree weeks ‘1l'0li;'uretm]d}.[m thflraznlj exk"f,"’“"frf°"‘ Bl-H1":
| ,r x _ . g ‘ ~-‘ _l “H L  _L _ ~_ -  ._, . _ - « :lIlgOLl ouseiy eiac ooraoresait.
‘ bl “W ”l4t_1‘)1l* “Mt 11-1W -‘_-‘M U1 the best of its kind in existence. ;spent in the ilacksinith shop, two;Theu follows 8. Sad Cereinoliy. The re-; 5
thousands of dollars to the tarin— The MiChig,m Agricultuml g(,110_qc  weeks 0,, t1,ep0d,,,.,.ee,,f1,,.e g.t0L.k_  jected flock together to recover theirslight- l
“F5 “W1 fruit .9'1'0“"~’1'-5 Of took the lead in a<rricultural edi/i—l.\'o complete ).l1(lRtll0l'()ll0“ll is this‘ id 30”.“ and keep '9'.” ‘f"‘°‘1‘“’.°""‘p““Yl
this “ml 011191’ 5mt“*- 1“‘l”'°"‘3' c~itiondurin<rits earlvhistorv butlwork that the? '> all: I ' the mth-emh0ur?fhun“1mmn'- ITS Emmi’
_ , - I -_  ,‘ f H _* z~ “ . ~ . - ,r ) 3I(»_ I C _l) munity of grief, a fellowship. in niisery. 1
nvlml” _ "1 t ll” P145“ " _ 16 fora number of years lias lapsed ‘ name and nuiiiber of an aiiuiial to Each Is only sustained fr0n1,W1fb_<*r1ngun-l
j Eml‘ ‘"0 tlhe (.’“i°" 0a the ‘l".‘- It into dorniaiicv. \\ hile the popii- tell the breed fainily, and breeder. “E” the °b51‘“"'“““ “Yes 0‘ ‘:5 ’‘‘’l:‘=’l”’‘’’ ‘L5’ ‘
33 ,- -q x_ - _;x ' -  - - -"_ - _ , , - ,_ _ _ m _ _ __  .7 _ I _- t einwarr coiisciousnesst at t at neig -§
0fb1%)‘Ll(I.‘illL(OT\(\3(1;1(, tip) tiCelni‘iii1yl>:1t<:: lation of‘ 1\lichig.iii has iiicicased I“ o weeks 21.0 g‘l\ on to piepaiing ho, ,,,,,,_,.,,1f_,,f,,,,,,,1,,,,, in the Se1f_,,,,,,,e3
_ .,l‘tl”_ I-_. ‘ f I L ", 1‘ 3} ‘ fi'oiii_1,1sl,2.'s2 in 15.4), to 2,241; for expcrime.its while the balance box and 113,- been the recipient that day of‘ i,
13159 1‘~ P11“ 0 tut Mt“ ‘- l9‘ -lfil in 159-}, yet our college has of the term is spent cninineiicing an identical letter. .\'eyertlieless, it was of his n1()i1fli——.'1n upwlird line, curving
3'0n‘-l1'e‘1-"‘“1- barclY held its own in attendance e.\’Deriiiients and in tield work. 5°’“*’ °°”5,"]’m‘,’“ t” .1‘“””“““ $93519‘ SideWa.W "l’1l‘l”*‘lY- Itwas Clear he was
,_ - _ - _ A, ., . V " ’ grave in ier (isappointnieiit to o)serve gedp 1 11 1 1 _ [3 g 1,
T0 ciitci;.\ivExT THE TitL'sT of atlltlepts. “ by should .this be During the >,l1llll1.€l.' term the _ex— the ,.a,y,,,g ,,,00,1,, and shimng h,,,,,0,_., $13; no  “ }§:°‘0,:,:}‘::?r’;”,rhe pigmrg
Prof Taft of our Station has Cum so!‘ Lclio ans\1\'ei's why. [The periments are carried on and it is of her f:llOWl'] sutferelfs among thfe  gm,-e1_,-to the ,1.” of the acudelny and
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gested the use of the ursenlte Oi Lniteisity and ((,llUllll1l£llZlOl1‘l in intended tointiontite the h..mdlin_g_r Jec e e at a een sense 0 6 there tried to call the attention of some A

 

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lime and tells how to quickly and
cheaply prepare it. The whole
care of orchards has been revolu-
tionized of late and the experiment
stations have been an important
factor in the change. The sinut dis-
eases of grain can be cheaply and
successfiilly coiiibatted and the ex-
periment stations furnish the meth-
0(lS.

III. It is the province of the
experiinent stations to investigate
the natural laws underlying farm
work generally.

Investigations are therefore in
progress. (a) on the relation of
different methods of cultivation to

the content of soil moisture; (b) on
irrigation; (c) on the etlects of fer-
tilizers: (d) on certain parts of
plant physiology: (e) on the chem-
ical constitution of plants, at differ-
ent stages of growth: (f) on the
composition and nutritive etfect of
fodders: (g) on the relative values
of different feeding stutfs; (Ii) on
the methods of feeding cattle,
sheep, and swine: ( j) on the life
history and the peculiarities of new
insect enemies and means of (-0111-
batting them: (k) on new weeds and
plant pests.

“'hen any new agricultural pi'ob-
lem presents itself it is the duty of
the station to attempt its solution.

IV. The whole tield of dairy
work is scrutinized and investiga-
tions niade whenever needed. In
no part of farm work is the station
more helpful. The demand for a
quick and certain method of testing
milk was supplied by the invention
of Dr. Babcoek. His test has re-
paid to the country twice over for
the cost of the stations. The pres-
ent improved methods of dairy op-
erations are largely based upon tie
Work of the stations.

The second division of the work
of the experiment station is entirely
distinct from its investigations. It
is made their plain duty to
DIssF..\tii\’.iTi-: YALUABLE INFORM-

ATION
among the farmers.
in several ways:——

1. By answering questions by
mail. These c uestions should be
addressed to the director of the
station, who distributes them
among the members of the staff ac-
cording to the subject matter.

2. By bulletins giving the re-
sults of experiments conducted at
the station and also valuable in-

This is done

formation derived from other
sources.

3. By articles in the current
press.

4. By lectures and institute
Work.

stitutioiis have increased from three
to tive fold in attendance of stu-
dents. But “let the dead past bury
its dead, " let us live in the living
present with bright hopes for the
future. No institution can live on
its past i'ccord I////iii}. V\'liile it
may be plcasaiit for a young man
to know that his father had good
advantage for education, that
knowledge alone does not feed the
starving young iniiid.

THE M. A. C. WANTS.
1. A state board of agriculture
composed of j.»2'0_r/2e-s.,w'cc. /,m.(r:,fz'cr//
fl//'//mas-, who can control the insti-
tution in the living present as an
educational institution, and not as
a financial investment of the state,
and who can see a great principle
above a personal prejudice.
2. Fewer chronic kickers. “'hy
should so many fariiiers of Miclii—
gan be continually finding fault
with an institution founded and
inaintained expressly for their
beiietitf \Vhy they cannot see the
error of their ways is a conun-

professioiial men do you see attack-
ing the Uiiiversity with such vigor
and apparent delight as do many
fariners attack M. A. C 3

3. More fariiiers’ boys and girls
to take the courses of iiistructioii
offered. In equipments the Col-
lege has kept pace with the nine-
teenth century. The doriiiito-
ries, with the annex for ladies,
have ample accommodations. The
laboratories are well supplied with
all the modern apparatus for iii-
struction. Each department has a
laboratory of its own. Had the
attendance kept pace with the
times and the equipments. there
would be enrolled at least one
thousand boys and girls as students
of M. A. C.

-l. A stronger public sentiment
to give the College a better foun-
dation. But this can only l)e cre-
ated by the work which the insti-
tution does.

THE LABOR SYSTEM.

The farm and horticultural de-
partments are all that will be
spoken of here. The heads of these
departments are progressive, think-
ing men; they are rapidly bringing
their departments to the ideal. The
labor system has been and is one
of the great principles of the Col-
lege. About all that can be said
of this system in the past, is that
it gave the boys at certain amount
of exercise to maintain good health
and to instill a certain amount of
respect (in some cases) for manual
labor. At present the manual
training is made as thoroughly in-

I trust, Mr. Editor, that the an

drum yet to be solved. How iiianyl

and feeding of live stock; this stock
question is yet theoretical. The
full term, junior year, is same as
preceding term, balance of the
year is on horticultural department,
the senior year is elective and is
devoted almost entirely to experi-
mental work. The schedule of
nianual trainiiig in the departiiient
of horticultureis analagous. Every
student is required to do each class
of work unless he proves himself
eflicient in any one or more, in
which case he is traiisferrcd to
other work. \\'hei1 labor is re-
niuiierative to the dcpartnient it is
paid for according to value, rang-
ing from four cents to fifteen cents
per hour. Extra work is provided
when desired at market value.
Good-bye to the old .5’ cents per
hour systeiii. The excellent sched-
ule of inanual trainiiig in these de-
partiiients is due ivholly to ciiergy,
tact, and ability of Professors
Smith and Taft.

KEEP THE GOOD MEN.

“hen the State Board of Agri-
culture can uiiderstand that a good
man is better at twice the price
than a poor one at half price, there
will be hope for the future of M.
A. C. They have allowed iiiany a
good man to go because of a few
paltry dollars.‘

BL'LLETIl\'S AND i.\'sTiTL'Tr:s.
The value of this institution to
the fariners of Michigan is not coii-
tiiied to the educating of farnicrs'
boys and girls. but is’ endeavoring
to elevate and improve the farmers
_themselves, through the fariners’
institutes and the experiment sta-
tion bulletins. Any fariner in
Michigan can have the bulletins
by the expenditure of one cent for
a postal card to send to the secre-
tary of the station asking for the
bulletins.

_ Capitol Grange sent the follow-
ing resolution to the last legisla-
tiire:

“ ll7«.e1=e«:/.s, The present method
of distribution of seeds by members
of congress is of no practical bene-
tit to the farmers and gardeners of
the United States, in that said
seeds are of common or obsolete
varieties and in many cases fail.”
“R6-<‘0Z7.'r3d, By the members of
Capitol Grange No. 5-L0, that we
petition the members of the Michi-
0ra_ii legislature to petition the
Michigan members of congress to
favor a law abolishing the present
system and place the money now
used for that purpose in the nian-
agement of the several experiment
stations for the examination of new
seeds and the distribution by the

ridiculous, and it lightened her trouble
somewhat to watch among the crowd the
different funny ways in which other peo-
ple bore or concealed their own disappoint-
ment for her edification. There were sun-
dry young men, for example, with long
hair down their backs and loose collars of
truly Byronic expansiveness, whom Kath-
leen at once recognized as unacclaimed
geniuses belonging to the very newest and
extreinest school of modern impressionisin.
They hailed from Newlyn. These lordly
souls, budding Raphaels of the future,
strolled into the big room with a careless
air of absolute unconcern, as who should
wonder they had ever deigned to submit
their iniinortal works to the arbitraiiient.
of 8. iiiere everyday ban,-ring coiniiiittee,
and they atfected to feel very little sur-
prise indeed at finding thata vulgar bour-
geois world had disdained their elforts.
They disdained the vulgar bourgeois world
in return with contempt at compound in-
terest; visibly written on their aesthetic fea-
tures. Uthers, older and shabbier, slunk
in unobserved and shouldered. their can-
vases, mostly unobtrusive landscapes, with
every appearance of antique familiarity.

It was not the first time they had received
that insult. Yet others, again—and these
were chiefiy young girls—advanced, blush-
ing and giggling a little from suppressed
nervousness, to recover with shame their
unvalued property. Here aid there. too,

a. big burly shouldered man elbowed his
way through the crowd as though the
place belonged to him and hauled ofl? his
magnum opus——generally a huge field of
historical canvas, “King Edward at C8.-

lais” or“Tlie Death of Attila”—with a
defiant face which seemed to bode no good

to the first acadeniician he might; chance

to run against on his way down Bond

street. A few, on the contrary, were anx-

ious to explain, with unnecessary loudness

of voice, that they hadn’t: sent in them-

selves at all this year—-they had called for
a picture by a friend, that was all, really.

Kathleen stood aside and watched their
varied moods with quiet amusement. It

distracted her attention for the time from

her own poor picture.

At last. she found herself almost the only
person remaining out of that jostling
crowd, with a. sailor looking man, brown
and bronzed, beside her.

“ ‘In a Side Canal,‘ Kathleen Hess1e-
grave. Yes, this is yours, mum,” the por-
ter said gruffiy. ‘ But you’ll want a man
to take it down to the cab for you.”

Kathleen glanced at her little arms.
They were not very strong, to be sure,
though plump and shapely. Then she
looked at the porter. But the porter stood
unmoved. With a struggling little effort
Kathleen tried to lift: it. “In a Side Ca-
nal” was a tolerably big picture, and she
failed to manage it. The sailor looking
body by her side raised his hat, with a
smile. His face was brown and weather‘
beaten, but he had beautiful teeth, very,
white and regular, and when he smiled he
showed them. He looked like a gentleman,
too, though he was so roughly dressed,
with a sailor’s roughness. “Way I help
you?” he asked as he raised his hat. “We
mu seem to m: we iasis. 1 suppose because
we were more modestly retiring than the
rest of them. This is a. good big picture.”

“Yes,” Kathleen answered regretfully.
“And it took me a long timeto paint it.”

The sailor looking young man glanced
at the subject carelessly. “Oh, Venetian!”
he cried. “Why, how oddl Welre neigh-
bors. Mine’s Venetian too. The very next
canal. I painted it quite close to San Gi-
ovanni e Paolo.”

“So did I,” Kathleen exclaimed, bright-
ening up, 3 little surprised at the coinci-
deuce.

“When were you there?”

structive as the class Work. The

stations among the representative

“Last autunm.”

passing haiisoin. But it was clearly use-
less. They were all eiigaged already, and
the crush at the door was still so great:
there could be no chance of hiring one for
another 14) minutes. So the young innu
laid down the big picture near the door,
with its face propped up ngziiiist the en-
trance wall, and saying quietly. "I'll help
you in with it by and by when I see any
chance," went back to the inner room to
recover his own Venetian caiivas.

He was gone a. iiiiiiute, and when he re-
turned Kathleen could see he aliiiost os-
teiitatioiisly set his own picture down at
some distziiice from liers, as tlioui:,li he was
little niixioiis to continue the coiivorsatioii.
She was sorry for that. He had seeiiied
so eager to help her with such genuine
kiiitlliiiess, and she was afraid he saw his
last remark about not lll‘lll_L', in society had
erected an instinctive class barrier between
them. So after a iiioiin-iit‘s hesitation she
left: her own work to take care of itself
and took a. step or two forward toward
her new acqiiiuiitaiit.-e‘s aiiibitious canvas.
“You saw niiiie,” she said apologeticzilly,
by way of reopening coiiversatioii. “May
I see yours? (Jiie likes to sit in judginent
on the haiigiiig coiiiiiiittee. "

The young man seciiienl plenszed. He had
a spt-akin,«.: face and wit:-i liandsonie with-
al, with a seafariii-,5 liaiidsoiiieiiesst. “Oh,
yes, if you like." he aiiswered, “though
I’m afraid you won't care for it.” And he
turned the painted face of the picture to-
ward her.

“But why on earth didn't they take it?"
Kathleen cried spout.-iiii-niisly uliiiost. as
soon as she saiv it. “Wliat lovely light on
the surface of the water! And, oh, the
beautiful red sails of those Chioggia fish-
ing boatsi"

“I'm glad you like it,” the stranger re-
plicd,with evident pleasure, lilushiiig like
a girl. “I don't care for criticism as 11 rule,
but I love sincerity, and the way you
spoke showed me at once you were really
sincere about it. That's a very rare qual-
it_v——about: the hardest thing to get. in this
world, I fancy.”

“ Yes, I was quite sincere,” Kathleen an-
swered with truth. “It's a beautiful pic-
ture. The thing I can’t understaiul is why
on earth they should have rejected it.”

The young man shrugged his shoulders
and made an impatient gesture. “They
have so many pictures to judge in so short
a. time,” he answered, with a tolerance
which was evidently habitual to him. “It
doesn’t do to expect too much from hu-
man nature. All men are fallible, with
perhaps the trifling exception of the pope.
We make mistakes ourselves soinetinies.
and in landscape especially they have
such miles to choose from. Not," he went
on after a short. pause, “that I mean to
say I consider my own fishing boats good
enough to demand success, or even to de-
serve it. I’m the merest beginner. I was
thinking only of the general principle.”

“I’m afraid you’re a dreadful cynic,"
Kathleen put in, with a little wave of her
pretty gloved hand, just to keep up the
conversation. She was still enizazzed in
looking close into the details of his reject-
ed handicraft. Though deficient in tech-
nique, it had marked imagination.

The stranger smiled a broader and more
genial smile than ever. “Oh, no, not. a.
cynic, I hope,” he answered, with empha-
sis, in a way that left no doubt about his
own sincerity. “It isn’t cynical, surely,
to recognize the plain facts of human na-
ture. We’re all of us prone to judge a good
deal by the most superficial circumstances.
Suppose, now, you and I were on the
hanging committee ourselves. J ust at
flrst, of course, we’d befrigbtfully anxious
to give every work the fullest and fairest
consideration. Responsibility would bur-
den us. We would weigh each picture well
and reject it only after due deliberation.

“Then I wonder we never met.” that

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Paints for Barns and

merits. Grange Halls, Churches.

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PATRUNS’ PAINT WORKS have
Order P. of H. since its organization.

Outbuildings. 10,0011 Farmers testify to their
School Hons s,

sold Inger-"oll Paint to the
House Paints and Cheap

Dwellings. allover the land.

some of them painted 1.3 years ago. still looking well. prove them the most

durable.

NT

MICHIGAN PATRONS “Buy direct

from Factory"

at full wholesale

Prices and save all Middlemems

Profits.

0. W. INGERSOLL, Pnop.

Olden Paint House in America.

241-243 Plymouth In. Brooklyn.

once.

ORKS.

lngt-rnoll’.s Liquid Rubber Paints

Indestructible Cottage and Barn Paints

Sample Color Cards, "Confidential" Grange Dlscoiiiits, Es-
timates and fuil particulars )1.-KILISD I-‘BEE. \\'rite at

strain as that for long tog:-tlier. We‘d be-
gin very fresh, but toward the end of the
day wt-‘d be dazed and tired. \\'e‘d 
say: ‘\\'liose is that? Ah. by So-and-so's
son. a brother R. A. I know his father.
\\'ell, it's not badly paiiited. \\'c‘ll let it |
in, I think. 'What. do you say, .Iiggaiiia-
rec?’ And then with the next: ‘Who‘s this
Oh, a fellow called Smith.

 

by, porter?
Not very distinctive, is it? H'ni! \Ve’ve
rejected every bit as good already. Space

is getting full. Well, put it away for the
present, Jones. We'll mark it doubtful.‘
That‘s human nature. after all, and what
we each of us feel we would do oiirselves
we can none of us fairly blame in others.”

“But. I call that cyiiicisin,” Kathleen
persisted. looking up at him.

If the strziiigcr was a cynic, he had cer-
tainly 4.-auglit the coniplaiiit in it!-: most
genial f rrni. for he aiiswo-i-i-4l at once wiili
pcrfcct guoll humor: “( lli, no. I don‘t

l .
_ leen asked. peering around into the crowd
‘, to Sec if she could discover him.

lreplied. “I think it was mainly because
i he saw me come up. and also because of
the faint intonation in your voice. when
you :-"aid, ‘We don't know one another.’
Willoughhy's a niisogyiiist, as I told you,
and he's also sen.sitive—ah.surill_v scntsitive
—lie miglit alinost he one of my fellow
 (-oiiiitryiiii-ii. I don't’ doubt \\‘llt'Il you said
that he took it as his ilisiiiissiil.
derstooil you lI'lliIt‘£lll: ‘Now I‘ve duiie, sir,
with you.
You iiia_v go about your luisiiii-s:-'.'
being a person who always ft-v-ls acutcl
when lit-‘s de ti-op he went about his busi-
tii,-ss at once nt'cor<liii'_'ly.

.\lll(‘I‘l('.".!l i‘ili~‘\\'t-l'|'fl 4)llll'l{l}'.

“Well. to tell you the truth.” Mortimer

llc un-

lll'l'(‘.'>4 soiiichody else I know.
And

V

'1

“l‘iii sorry." l\':iililm-ii put iii,“forI
really ]"£llll('I‘lll{l‘1lllllll.”

“Uh. li--Us :1 tlioroiigli LUWI :sort."tlie
“lli-"s ster-

think so. It‘s lli(‘l'I‘ .‘l('(’6'[7lJlIlf_‘e of the facts “ML \\';ip,,,._,},i,\~ ,5, 5;”, at an ,1“. 5,,”
of life. The cyiiic assiiiiics :1 position 0f of man tli:it‘s gin-ii :iw:i_v with 1|. pound of
ceiisurc. Ile iiiipliestliat Ill1llli'lII1".9.Il1I‘G ti-zi. .\'oiii- of _\'4|lll'('I1!l<)ll hzir-kwl ut‘Hill'-
does this, tlrit or the Ulllt'I‘ tliing, which lllvll. You ni.'i_\' test him all llll'Hll‘_'ll, and

he with his liiglii-i' :i:id purer moral sciise
would iievcr so much as drcaiii of doing.
liiiowlmlge of thc world is not iiecessarily
cyiii:-i-iii. Tllt'(_\’iilC‘:llT1Ill('ll is add:-«l to
it by want of gelii.-ili‘i_v and of htiman tol-
era‘. It is possible for us to know \Vli.lC
men and woiiieii are like and yet to owe
tlieiii no griiilge for it—-to 1-1-crigiiizce that,
after all, we are, all of us an fond vcry
ne:irl_v ideiitic:il."

lle spokv like a gciitleiiiiiii and a man of
ciilture. l{:iIlil<-cii was II. littlc siirprisml,
now she lll.‘:‘.l'4l him talk, to find him so
much more uliicati-il tli:iii 2-'liel1:idat first
f.-iiicicd, for his i'nu_gli exterior had rather
prejiidicetl licr :i_':zinst the. sailor lookiiig
.straiiger. lint his voice was so pleasaiit
and his sinile so frank that slic really quite
adiiiiri-d lllill in spin-, of his seiitiiiii-iits.
She was just goiiig to aiiswer him inde-
fense of liiiiiiaii nature, agaiiist. his sup-
posed strictiires. when a \'nl(:<: in tliecrowil
close by distracted her attention. “Why,
Miss lle-.s.sle5_;i‘ave. there you arei" it. cried.
“I woiidereil if I Lsliould see you. Oh. yes,
indeed, I also am .‘uiiriii_g the killed and
wounded. I’ve got no fewer than tliree of
them. \\'}i.'it. all my pretty oiies! A per- :
fect: niassacrie of the iiiiioceiits! But, there,
the liangiiig committee is as had as its 1
name. No rcspecter of persoiis. Iiutliless,
riitliless, riitliless! .-\iid Arnold Willough-
by too! Well. Willougliby, how are you?
I really didn‘t know you two knew each
Other.”

“\\'e don‘t.," Kathleen answered, taking
the newcoiiii-r‘s hand. “We‘ve only just
met here. But your friend‘s been so kind.
Ha-‘s carried my poor rejected picture down
for me, and we‘re waiting for a cab. It is
such a crush, and all of us trying to pre- ~,
tend we don‘t mind about it!”

“\\'ho‘s cynical now?” the stranger put
in, with a mischievous twinkle in his eye.
“I do mind very much. It's bread and but-
ter to me, and I don‘t pretend to conceal
it. But: I'll leave you now. I see you‘ve
found a friend, and I can be of no further
service to you.” He raised his hat; with
more grace than Kathleen could have ex-
pected from these rough sailorlike clothes.
“Goodby,” he said. “Mortiiiier, you'llsee
after the picture.”

The American, for he was one, nodded
a polite assent. “How lucky I am, Miss
Hesslegrave,” he murmured, “to have met
you by accident! And talking to Willough- 5
by too! You can’t think what a conquest
that is.” He glanced with some aniusc-
merit after the stranger’s retreating figure.
You know," he said, lowering his voice,
“\\‘illoiigliby’s a, professed inisogynist, or I
next door to one anyhow. This is the very
first time Ive ever seen him speaking to a
lady. As a rule, he runs away from them -
the moment he sees one. It was conjec-
tured in Venice among the fellows wlio I
knew him he had been what. sclioolgirljsz
(lescribe as ‘cro_-‘sell in love,’ he avoided
them so carefully. I suppose the truth is ~
one of them must have jilted him.”

“He was very kind to me,” Kathleen
interposed quietly. “He saw me strug-
gling with this great big caiiv:1s. and he
came up to help me and was so nice and
polite about it. "’

“Ah. y s " the American answered, a
little lower than before, with a meaning -
glance, “kind to you. Miss llesslegrave.
That doesn't prove much. Even a con- i
firmed iiiisogyiiist could hardly be less.
VVe must allow for circumstances."

Kathleen colored a little, but didn’t al-
together dislikc the compliment, for Mor-
timer was i‘ich—vcry rich in(leed——and the
acknowledged catch of the artistic Anieri-
can colony in Paris. But she turned the ,
subject hastily. “Where did you nieet ‘
him?” she asked, looking down at her
pretty shoes. “He’s so rough looking out-
side. Yet he seems a. gentleman.”

 

 

Mortimer answered, with true American
candor, “a born gentleman, though not
quite the conventional one.

I fancy.”

“Who is he?” Kathleen asked, with evi- 

dent interest.

“Ah, who is he? That.’s the question,”
Mortimer answered mysteriously. “He’s
a dark horse, I imagine. I picked him up
accitlently last autumn in Venice. He used
to lodge at a. tiny Italian trattoria down a
side canal, not far from my palazzo, and
live off fritura—you know the sort of stuff
—fish, flesh and fowl, three meals a pen-
n -37

y“How brave of him!” Kathleen said
simply. “He looks very nice. And all for
art’s sake, I suppose, Mr. Mortimer?”

The American laughed. “All for pov-
erty’s sake, I imagine,” he answered, with
candor. “So he told me himself. He
didn’t care so much about art, he said, as
about earning a livelihood and I really
believe he starves in his den? when he sells
no pictures.”

“Why did he run away from us?” Kath-

Wvas poor s...- was still “in society.'

_ Mrs. lIessli-_.:i'.-ivi- ri-ceived.

. iii.-in!“
‘ word “(-hariiiiiig.‘

Q Ili(i.~'.t. of them.

i in the two heiiiisplieres.

“ 11 ' entlem-in undoubted] ” I . . . .
Oh‘ e 13 5 g ‘ Y‘ 10 minutes was deep in conversation with

lies as poor 
as a church mouse, and he’s been a sailor, ‘

yoifll find from licad to foot bi-‘s the gen-
llllll‘ iiizttv-rial."

“(Hull-ln't you briiig him with you to ‘
tea this :ll'l¢‘Tl14l0lli’H l\':*.tlilo-i-ii >llJut~.s'll'(l.
half lit-sit;iiiiig. “I think iiiaiiiiini .‘~'l'lll',
you an at lioiiii- card for \\\~iliiv<:l:i_v-.”

“Hli. I'm coiiiiiig," the r\!li"I'l"lill an- ;
swvreil, with prompt :l(‘f1lll¢‘~'('t‘ll(‘I'. “l‘Vc .
not forgotteii it, Miss llt-.—'slcgi':i\'e. Is it i
likely l slioiilil? \\'«-ll, no. I don‘t think
so. llut as for \\'illoughh_v—--ah, there,
you know. that": quite ii dill’:-rt-iit iiiattcr.
Irlon't >ll]tllU>‘1‘:lll}llllll1: on t'£ll‘lll would
lll|lll(‘l‘ him to go to an at lioiiie of any- ,
hoil_v‘s, Iii-'d say it was liollo'.v. and lie
d<-spisz-s lll>llfV\\'Il\.‘>>. lli-‘ll lli‘\'l‘I' go in for
aiiytliing hut rt-:illiti~s. To lcll you the
truth. I think the only rczison ll!‘ spoke to
you at all at the acadciiiy lit-re this morn-
ing was lu-ciiiisv he saw a cliuiico of being
of soiiic prat-tit-:il st-rvice to you. and the
iiioiiiciit the practical service waspi-rforiii—
ml he took the \'(‘l'_\' lll‘.~'ti opportiiiiity that
oil}-in-«l to slip oil‘ and lcU.\'c you. 'l'liat’s
Willoiigliby all over. He <-.-ii-cs for nothing
at all in life, e);(:<-pt its realities.”

CH.-‘\i"l‘l‘Il’i II.
MIL‘. llli>\l.l‘.lvl:.\\'l{ .\'l‘ llf>.\lF..
That saine afternoon _\lrs_ llesslegravels

, little roonis in a side street in Keiisiiigton

.\li's. Hes-

.-’le,grzive would have been wounded t-0 the
core had it .)k‘\‘ll otlierwise, for though she
’ Ev-
ery sccoiid Wecliii-.sil:i_v tlirougli the season
>'ooiicr would
she have gone without breakfast and (lin-
ncr tli.-in have fuilctl to fill her rooms for
afternoon tea with “the best people. ” Iii-

were iiicoiivenii-iitly c.rowded.

,deed Mrs. llt‘.s'.~‘ll‘gI‘£l\‘e was the exact lili-
‘tipndes of Arnold Willoughby.

’Twas for
the appeiiraiices of life she lived. not for
its realities. “ It would look so well,” “It
would look so had." tliose were the two

"plira.-‘es that rose (Ifl’t‘llt‘.\‘l« to her lips, the
3 two plirases that siiiiiiiied up in aiititlii.-t-
‘ ical simplicity lll‘I‘ philosophy of conduct.

Tlierefore it. was a small matter to Mrs.

‘ Hesslegravc that her friends were jostling
I and hustling e.-icli other to their mutual

inconvenience in her tiny lodgiiigs. Their

iilist-onifort counted to her for less than

notliing. It looks so well to have your “tit
hoiiies" attended. It looks so bad to see
them empty. or, worse Still, filled by the
wrong sort of people.

“Uh, lieri-‘s that dear Mr. .\lortimer,”
Mrs. Hesslegrave giislii-il forth. risiiig with
eiiipresst-iiieiit as the young Aiiit-i‘icaii cu-
tered. “llow do you do, Mr. Mortiiiicr?
How good of you to come! Katlileen, will
you take Mr. Moi-iiiiu-i' intotlieotlier room
to have a cup of tea? I‘ll introduce you to
him. Lady l3.'irii:-.rd. as soon as ever he
comes back. Such a cliariiiiiig young
Mrs. llesslegr.-ive had siiiootlieil her
path inlife by Illl‘j11Ill(‘lHll<l'l>t', of thatone
‘ “He's an Aiiierican.
you know. of course. but not the least like
Soci1lt'i\‘ate(l and nice and
beloiigs, I'm told, to a first rate old Phila-
delphia family. Its-ally, ii‘.s quite surpris-
ing what. cliariiiiiig, Aincricaiis one meets

, about nowziiliiys-—tlie best :-'ort., I niean—
the ladies and gentlemen.

You wouldn't
believe it, but this yoiiiig man liasii't the
sliglitest Yaiikee accent. He speaks like
an Eiiglisli otlicer." Mrs. lIcsslegrave's
late laiiieiitcd liiishzind had been a general
of artillery, and she looked upon an Eug-
lish oflicer at-cordiiigly as the one recog-
nized model of deportiiieiit and character
“Besitles, lie‘s
very well off indeed. tlicy tell me. Hes
iron in the States and an artist in Paris.
but he practices art for .‘irt7s sake only,
and not as a iiieans of livelihood, like my
poor, dear Katlileen. Such a delightful

{ young niaiil You really iniist know him.”

Lady B.-irniirtl smiled and in less than

the “cliarniing” American. And charm-
ing he was, to say the truth. For once in
its life Mrs. l~lessle_«..:rave‘s overworked ad-
jective of social appreciation was judicious-
ly applied to a proper object. The rich
, young American had all the piquaLt
‘ frankness and cortliality of his nation, with
all the grace and tact of Parisian society.
Moreover, he was an artist, and artists
must be surely poor creatures to start with
if the mere accidents of their profession
don’t make them interesting. He was
chatting away most brightly to Lady Bar-
nard about the internal gossip of Parisian
studios, when the door opened once more,
and the neat capped maid with the long
white apron announced in her clearest: offi-
cial voice, “Canon and Mrs. Valentine!”
Their hostess rose once more quite effu-
sively from her place and advanced toward
the newcomers with her best smile of Wel-
come. Mrs. Hesslegrave had-no fewer than

‘ on his siiiooth 1'»-d coiinteiiaiice.

. see if he was list:-ning.

1 this drt-:idt'1il liiisiiii-ss of her sc:ip«-gr:ic<- 7

seven distinct gradations of manner for
receiving her guests, and you could gather
at once their relative importance in the

with which of the seven Mrs. Hesslegrave 
greeted them. It was clear, therefore, 3
that the Yaleiitines were people of distinc- l
tion, for she moved forward toward thel
canon and his wife at the door with the
sweetest inclination of that white haired
head. “Uh. how good of you to come," *
she cried, claspiiig the lady's hand in both
her own. “I know, Cfllltln Valeiitine. how
very much engaged you are! It is so sweet
of youi" The canon was a fat, little,
baldlieaded mun, ratlivr w:iistl(-ss about
the middle and with a >L‘lI satisticrl smirk ,
He, had
the air of a jurlgc of port and liorsi-s. lu 3
point of fact. he was a solitziry survivor
into our alien eprwli of llll‘illn1(JSC(‘Xllll(‘Yi '
type of fr:iiikl_\‘ \\'oi'ldl_v ptirsoii. “\\'i-ll, we
are I'i'lIll('I‘ lll'l\'t'll, Mrs. llx-ssl:-grave,“ lie ‘
adiiiittwl, with a sigli»--li<-:irtless critics.
niiglii almost have ('.‘lllI‘Il it a putl‘—pull-
iiig his wliitctil-.str:ii'_'lit with ti.~'lt‘Iil::fi4iI],\
sci-iipiilosity. “'l'lie hvgiiiniiig of the. swi-
son, you >l‘('—l‘Il‘ll by coiillictiiig claims.
.\ll 17llt'A.\ c-iig:i'..wiii<-iits lIl‘lUI‘(‘ om-I ’.ut j
I've heard such good lit'\\‘~<—-—.~ll(‘li dc-light— ‘
ful in-wsl l“»'e ("vlllt‘ ll(‘I'€ strziiglit, you
know, from dcar I.:i<l).' .\.\‘i:iiiister‘s,"
“Ali. _\'cs.“ Mrs. ll:---lw_'r:ive echoed,
glaiiciiig a.skant-i- toward the _-\iiieric:ui to ‘
““lic is so <:li:i1'ni- ;

-i

iiig. isn‘t she, l.:.«ly .\xin.ii.-:te1'Z-

“Qiiite.-o." tho canon aiiswei-ed, “A
very llI'.'ll' old cousiii of mim_ .'I\ you l-'.no\v,
l.avl_v l’.:iriiai'd. and so iiiui-l. cut up about 3

§_'I‘.’lIl4l.\(i]], \\'i-ll. wt-‘ve got. ll clew of him
at last. \\’c really lll‘llt'\'t,' we've got it gen-
1llIitfCll‘\\' to llllll.”

“No, you llllll-It me.'in to say sof” .\lrs.
IIi-.s.slt-givive cried. di-i-ply iiit.»ri-st:-d. You
would ll.'1\'t‘ l;('llt'\'(‘ll l.:ivl_v Axiiiiiistcr w:i<
her «li-art»-t friend. liistcznl of being iiicrel):
adistaiit bowing:icqiiaiiit:iii(e. “I thought
he had gone oil" to South Africa or some-
wliz-i't-K’

“\\‘li:it? A i'om:iiie:- of the peerage?"
the young .»\ini-i'ir':iii :l~l((‘ll. pricking up
his cars. “A niissing lord} A ooroiiet
going lieggiiig? Lost, stolen or strayed.
the heir to an carldoiii! Is that about the
size of it?"

“Prev-isely,” the canon aiiswereil. turn-
ing toward him, half llll.‘I’l‘Ii'l.l!l wlictliei' it
was right to encourage so flippant a treat-
ment. of so st-ri-ius a subject. “You‘ve
heard of it no driiiht——tliis unfortunate
young man‘s very .'iwkw:ii'd disappear-
ance. It‘s not on his own account, of
coiirse, that the family mind. He inight
have gnlic off if he cliose and nobody would
have noticed it. He was always a strange,
eccentric sort of persrn, and for my part,
as I say often to dcir Lady Axiniiisti-r,
the sooner they could get rid of him the
better. Biit.it.'s forAl2yslieiiiiiids. Poor
Algy Redbiirn, who iiieanwhile is being
kept out of the family property.”

“Well, but. this is icry interesting, you
know,“ Rufus Mortimer interjected as the
canon paused. “I laven't heard about
this. Tell me how it all happened and
why you want a clew. A missing link or
a missing earl is always so roiiiantic.”

The canon leaned lack liixiirioiisly in
his easy chair and sipp-d at the cup of tea
Kathleen Ilesslt-gr:i\'c had brought him.
“Thank you. my dear," he :-taitl, rolling it
critically on his palate. “One more lump,
if you plc: ‘ I alxvays iad a sweet tooth.
though S I-lveraril has just cut off my
sugar. Says I must take succhariii. but
there isn't any flavor in it. I‘m thankful
to say. however, he liiisft cut me off my
port, which is always ‘soinetliiiig. Said
he to me: ‘I'll tell you ivluit it is, cation,
if you drink port. you‘ll law the gout. but
if you doii‘tdriiik port the gout'll have
you.‘ Sflflliltlilllglil)‘S£lIlSI2l(‘T(I1'}’." And
the baldlieaded old gciitleiiiziii took anoth-
er sip at. the sweet siixip in his cup, of
which the tea itself only forined the me-
dium.

 

out how about Lord Axiiiiiister?” the
Aiiicrican persisted s’--ltll the insistence of
his countrymen.

“()li. ah. poor Axiiiin.ster.' the canon
went on reflectivcly. stirrim; the liquid in
his cup with his gilt howled apostle spoon
-—.\lrs. llesslegrave was byno niezuis rich,
and she lived in lodgings, to her slizinie,
during her ziiiiiiial visit to Iioiirlon. but
slie flattcrcd ll(‘I'>L‘ll slie knew the proper
way to provide 2it'tt-inrioii tea for the best
:~;oL'i0t_\‘. “I \\‘.'1s co.~;iin-.; to that. It's :1
sad. had story. To begin with, you know,
£‘\'l'l‘yI‘<)l1l:lll(‘L‘ of the peer:i;_;e iiivolvesa

v

 

peiligree. Well, old Iizidy Axiiiinster
—tlizit‘s my cousin. the dowa;:er—~had
two soils. The eldest, was the late e:irl—

mad _»\.\:miiister. they called him-—wh0
married a gypsy girl and was the father
of the D1‘t'.<£‘llt~ man, if he is the present
n.iaii—tlnit is to say. if he's ‘till living."
“Tlic iiiissiiig lord. iti fact?" Rufus .\Ior-
tinier put in intcrrogatively.
f‘(Qiiite so." the cation assented, “the
missing lord, who is therefore, you will
see, niy cousin Maria’s graiidchild. But
.\Iari:i never cared for the lad. From his
childhood upward that boy Bertie had
ideas and habits sadly uiibcfitting that
station in life, etc. He had always a ma-
nia for doing some definite work in the
world. as he called it—s0iling his hands
in the viiieries, or helping the stable boys,
or mending broken chairs, or pottering
about the grounds with an ax or a shovel.
He had the soul of an undergardener.
father was just. as bad-—picked up won-

 

mother had something or other to do with
it.

thing.

ing in store for yourself.”

, right and proper of coiii'.-'o-.

His

derful notions about equality and Chris-
tian brotherhootl and self help, and so
forth. But. it came out worse in Bertie-—
his name was Alberta. I suppose the gypsy

I’m a great believer in heredity, you
know, Lady Barnard —heredity's every-
It Once you let any inferior blood
like that into a good old family, there’s
no knowing what trouble you may be lay-

“But Galton says,” the young American
was bold enough to interpose, “that. all

comes really from their iiiesalliziiit-i-s. from
the handsoiiie, strong and often clever
young women of the lower orders——ac-
tresses and so fortli—whoni they occasion-
ally marry.“

The cziiion stared hard at him. These
might be sciciitific truths ind:-ed. not". un-
worthy of <li.sc-ussioii at the British asso-
ciation, but Illl'_\' ought not to be unex-
pectedly flung down like hoinbslie-lls in an
innocent dmwiiig room (if1ll‘l.\‘tn(-r:1t'i(- Ken. ;
sington. “'l'liat niziy he so," he aiiswt-re-d
cliillily. “I liavc not I‘t'£Hl .\lr. fialtoiils
argiiiiieiit on the siilijt-ct with the (‘arc
and zitteiitioii wliicli no doubt. it merits.
But gypsics are gypsit-s. :iiid iiioiioiiiaiiin
is inoiioiii:iiii:i. with all due I‘1's’pv('t to sci-
('l1illl(' .‘iiltlI:Ir‘lt_\'. So at an 1-:11-l_\';1gt-, as
lwus about to ohscrvi-, tlicsi-b:i<l :in<'t-str:il
traits lH'L.'.‘lll to conic out in lit-rtii-. lle
iiisistcd upon it that he ouglit to do some
goorl work in the world, which was \'+‘l‘_\'
I hope we all
of us sli:ii'x- his opinion oii that scoi't-,” Illl‘.
canon (‘IJ]llllllll‘il. (‘lH'l‘i{lll!_" llllIl\'I'lI and
dropping fora lll'|lllv‘lll iiitoliis profv-ssion-
al iiiriiiiivr. " hit. tlii-ii. his iiiifortiin:iti-
liiiiitatioii of \‘ic\\' to what. I will \'t'llllll't‘
to call the g_vp.s_v llHl'l7.Hll inside him full
to see that the proper work in tho world
of an linglisli iiol>l=-iiiriii is is"---

“To h«-li:i\'i- us ‘~'l(‘ll... the ll‘l'\‘\'t'l't'lil
young _\iii<-i'3c:iii Sllluwslwll):lI‘(‘llll1l'll(;z|,l-
ly. ‘

("niioii \'r-Ei~iitiiu- l'I*1;:lI"lt‘Il him with a
peering look of his small black 1-_\‘c.s. llc
liada \'a'_:Iii-.~:ii<picioii that this bold yoiing
nizin was I'l'.'lll)‘ trying to cliatl him, and
one shoiilll ubstaiii ti‘-rm <'liailiii:.: :i hene-,
flcwl cl--r an of tlii-Fhiirt-li of liiigliiiivl.

t0cracy—wiien tney happen to nrfie aiiy— |
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xi

  
 
 

lint lic thv ’llI it on the wliolc wisest, and
most 'll‘.:ll fll1)II‘l‘ll[Ill\‘l'\‘lllilI‘l'( as a se-
riouscon!i-ihiitioii to II. st-riou.-' (soiivi-rsa—
tio‘!i. "Quite so." he :iiiswei'«-«I, with n.

form-cl smile-. “You put it lil'lt‘ll_V. hut sur:—.
('ll|t'll_\‘. To fulfill, as far as in him lies,
the natural duties and functions of his—‘
Zlllt‘lil~ I'.\'£llI('(l position. licrtie didn‘t see
that. llc \v:i!-2 always stupidly wisliing he
\\':is ll .'~ll4‘t'iil-'ll\’(‘l' or :1 carpi-iitcr. -If you
make ii pair of slim-s. he llH('1l to .-any, you
do an llllIlUlll)l(‘(l and iiiiliiliitalile scrvicc
to the community at large. A iiiati goes
drysliorl for a ycar in your liaiidiwurk. If
you give a vote in pai'li:iiiir-iit. or develop
the rt-soiirc-i~< of your own estate, the value
of your work for the world, he used often
to tell me, was inore open to qiiestion.”
“Precisely.” the American iiiiswered,
with H. iiiost annoying toxic of complete ac-
qiiiesceiici-.

The cation stared at him once more. He
expe:-ted such siiigular views as his iinfor—
tnnntu L'iumii:in‘u tn
seiisible pi-rsoii’:-' reprobation, for he had
not yet. discovered tli.-it the world at large
is hegiiining to demand of every man, he
be high or low, that he should justify his
p!‘(‘.'~'t‘l]('(f in a civilized nation liy doing
some useful work. in one capacity or an-
other. for the comniuiiity that feeds and
clothes and supports hiin. “Very odd no-
tions iii<li-ed.“ he inuriiiiired half to hiin—
self as u rebuke to the young American.
“Hut, then. his fatlii-r was mad, and his
mother was :1 gypsy girl.”

“So at last, Lord Axminster dis:ippeai'-
ed?“ the Aiiiericati continued. :tii.\;ioiis to
learn the end of this curious story.

“At last he ilisiippeiii-ml." the canon
went on soiiiewliiit dryly. “lle disappearr-d.
into space in the iiiost determined fasliioii.
‘Ti. s like the hursting of a soap bubble.
llc w:i.sn‘t spirited :i\\':iy. He took good
L-.-mo nobody should ever fancy that. He
left a letter ht-hind. sayiiig lie was going
forth to do sonic good in the world, and a
power of attoriiey for his gi‘aii<linotlii-r to
ll|2lllIl£1\‘lll(‘.\XllllIlSlt"l‘ property. llis fa-
tl-.«-r and ll‘iHIll‘.‘I' wi-re dead. and Maria was
the iic:ii'cst l'\‘l.‘lll\'(‘ he had left him. lint
lie (ll>'Zl[ll_)t‘.".l'l'll into space, ilrawiiig no
fuiids from the cst:1tl-aiitl liviiigapp:ii‘eiit—
l_\' upon \\'ll.'1l1"\'(‘[‘ he l‘.'l.l'llWl as :1 garileiicr
or :i sliociiiakt-i'. And from that day to
this nritliing lias since been licurdof liini."

“\\':i.-'ii‘t. llll‘l't' a lady in the case
tliougli?“ .\irs. llesslcgi'avl-siiggi-stcil, just
to show her fuiiiilizirity with the small
tzilk of <nL‘i(‘I_V.

Tlic caiioii Y‘t‘(.‘1|lll‘L’l’t'll

Ffllluo ..+ rtuiou .......,.

 

hiinsi-lf. “Oh.

.\"*s. I I<ll'.'—'{Ul7 to sit)‘ that." he aiiswered.
“'i'oii'i'i- qui‘ii- right, Mrs. llesslt-«_{i':i\'i-. It

was clici'clic'/. l.i fciiinic of coursi-, as iisual.
l’ii-rtic hall hei-ii i-iigagcd to a girl of whom
ll(‘ was p:1ssioii:ttvl_\' fund. but she threw
him overho.-ird. l must say 1ii_v.self. tliougli
l in-ver carwl for llll‘ ho_v, she tliro-w liiin
ovi-i-hoard most cruelly and iiiijiistitizihly.
In point of fact, l)(‘I\\'t‘(‘ll !Illl‘.\'1‘l\'l‘>‘. she
had a better Ulllfll‘-—:ll) ofl'cr froni a inur-
quis—;i wealthy iiiarrpiis. .-\.\;iii'iiist«-rw;=.s
poor, for a man in his position. you un-
derstand. 'l"iiesi- things are l‘t'l.‘lll\’l‘. And
the girl threw him overboard. lwon't
iiiciition her iiaiiie, ht-cziiise this is all :1
faiiiily nizittei, but she is :1 iiiarcliioiiess
now and iiiiivt-i'.«-ally £l(lllllI'I.'(l, tliougli I
imist adniit. she lH‘ll.'l\'I‘ll badly to Bertie."

“,s'hook his faith in woiiicn, I expect?"
the Aiiici'ic:iii siiggestcd.

“lCiitii-l-1y." the canoii :mswci'ed. “Tliat's
jiist wliat he wrote in his last letter. It
gzivc him (-1 dislziste for socicty, he said.
He preferred to live licnccfortli in a wider
\\‘()1'l’l, where a ni:iii‘s pi-rsoiial (pialities
counted for more than his wealth. his

family or his artificial position. I !-l11[)p0S(
he meant Aiiierica.”

“If he did," Mortimer put in, with a
meaning smile, “I should reckon he knew
very little about our country.”

“And you say you‘ve got a clew?” Mrs.
Ilesslegrave interposed. “What is it, can-
on?"

The canon wagged his head. “Ah, that’s
it,” he echoed. “That's jiist it. “hat is
it? Well, Maria. has found out——clever
woman, .\laria—-—that he sailed from Lon-
don three years ago under the assumed
name of Douglas Overton in a ship whose

‘ want to find him.

And now we're in liopcs we may

v

S_vdiie_\'.
really track him.‘

"But if you don‘i care about him and
the f:imil_v's well quit of llllll,” the Amer-
ican lllIl‘I‘_l\‘L‘l('ll, “whyoii earth do you
wiiiit to?“

(‘zuioii \':ili-iitine turned to him With
an almost slim-kt-il I*XlIl‘\'~‘.~‘l()ll of counte-
iiiiiice. “( lli. we doii‘r. want to find hliii,”
he said in ¢'l1lt‘[Il'I‘L':Ill)l‘_\‘ voice. “\\'e dont
\'i-i'_v liill(‘ll the coiitra—
ry. \\'li:it we want in do is really to prove
liiiu (ll'.'l4l, and as llic .<:iii«-_\' .~'oiiii~tlilng~or-
other. from l.oiidon to .\lt'llHllll‘IiI'. went
:islioi‘t- on lii-r \\’:I_\' out lllIll~"Illlll1lll|N't.‘ilIl
soim-wlici'e. wi-‘re \'~'i'_\' mm-li in lll|]|I‘\'—~
that is to .-:i_\. we ft-:ii~. or I‘:llill*l‘ \\'\'ll1lllk
it po.-sihlt--..—tli:it-1-vi'i'y soul on ho.ii-d her
I)('l'i‘llt‘ll.H

“l‘Ixi-clleiit llI.’lI\‘l‘l.‘ll for ll~i':'<lll1l 'l'i«-li-
bol‘iii-twist-.“ .\l1‘s. llv-sli-gi':i\'v siiggt-stwl.

'l'lie‘ l‘.‘UlHll pill‘-ml his lips. "\\«-‘ll hopi-
not.“ lie :iiisw«-rt-il. "for poor _\l»_r_v’< sake;

wi-‘ll liopc ll|ll. .\li's. ll\‘\\lI“_{I'i'l\'1‘. .\l'_'_\’s
his i-ousiii. .\l:id .\.\i:iiii-!vi'li;ul our broth-
er. the ll||l|l|l‘£llilt' .\lg<-riiiui. “ho \\:is Al-
,g}"s‘ l'.'itlici'. You N41‘.IllK'll.'llliIil'lIl- it is

h_v going iiw:i_\' llki-ilii-.-iiid l«-:i\'iii-_' no ad-
lli-rtlv lllillll‘ it llll[HI~~llrl\‘ 1'-rrnsto
settle his :iIl‘:iii's and hi-li:i\':- l'l‘.;llll\' to the
f:imll_v. lli-‘s kl-i-piiig poor .\lg_\ out of his
own. don't you ’l'li:ii "s just wliere
the trouble is."

“If lit-‘s tlwziil." llufus
gt-sti-il, with .\iiii-ri--:in
“but not it link llviiig."

“lint well hope." thi~<~:iiioii lIt‘L'i‘lll, lltl‘ll
lit‘ (‘llt‘(‘l{l‘ll llllll>t'iI slltlilvlil) “\\l"ll
hllllef’ he went on with :i. (l‘.‘.\lt‘l'Hll‘<' after-
thought, “tliis ch-w Mziriii. h:i~i girl will
settle the ziucstioii at last. onc wii_v or the
otlii-r."

“Uli, liciw-'4 Mrs. llui-li-iglif" ilic liostn-ss
€‘X(‘l:illilt‘ll, rising |Ill4‘l‘ iiiore from her seat
with the n1:inni-rsuitable for rm-1-i\'iiig ii
tlistiiigiiislii--l visitor. "So glad to st-i: you

<li'i-ss

v_-H.»

.\loi'tiiiii-r
('4lllllllUll

\l]i_:'-
st-iisc,

at. last. \\Illl‘Il did you cuiiic up froiii that.
lvi\'i*ly Noi'ch«-stci‘? And liows the ili-:11‘
bislitip?"

“I knew .\xiiiiiisti-i' at Uxfor-l," :i very
quiet young man in lllv (,'ll['lil'i‘, who had
been silent till lll1‘l|, ohst-r\'i-«l in H. low
voice to Rufus .\lortiiiicr. “I nu-aii the
preseiit iiiaii--tlic niissiiig earl -the gyp-
sy s son, as (,‘:iiion \".'tli-iitiiic calls him. I
cant say I ever tliouglit. him the least bit
mud, excl-pt in the way of being very cou-
scicntious, if that‘s to be taken as u sign
of iiiailiicss. lle bated wine piii'tii-s, which
was tint iiiitmtural, coiisidi-riiig his gratui-
father had drunk hiiiiself toileath, and
one of his uncles bad to he (‘filllllit'll us an
habitual lli(’l)l'l:llt‘, and he liked iiiiimiiil
labor, which was not Iiiiiiatiiral l'lIll(‘l‘. for

he was it siilendizllv Zlllllt‘Tl(‘. fcllniv. w ‘im-
built. a man as ever l saw and able to do a

good day‘s work with any niivvy in Brit-
ain. But. he was pi-rt‘ectl_v same and a mar-
tyr to coiiscieiice. He felt, this girl's treat.-
iiient. of him very iiiiicli, I in-lit-ve——_vou
know who it was. l.ad_v Sat-k, the cele-
brated bt-.'iiity——aiid he also felt that people
treated him very differciitly when they
knew he was Lord Axniinster from the
way they treatt-<l him when he wciit about
the coast. as a common sailor iii a little
tub iishing yacht, which lie was fond of
doing. And that iiiade liini long to live ii.
life as a man, not. as an earl. in order that
he might see what lll|‘I't: really was in
liiiii.”

“A very odd taste." the young l‘liil:i-
delpliiiin I‘l‘[|ll('ll. “.\'ow, I for iii_v purl’.
like best, to live ainoiig people who know
iill about iiiciind my graiiilfzitlu-i', the vice
presitlt-iit, who niadc the t':imil_\' pile, be-
cause \\’lit‘ll I go oiitsiile in}; own proper
circlelsce pi-ople only value me at my
worth as a man. which I suppose must be
just about 1?.’ sliilliiig.-' :1 week and no al-
low.-iiice for beer nioiicy."

At the very sanie iiionieiit, in the oppo-
site (‘HI'll\'I‘ of the room, (': non \'ali-iitinc
was .-:i_viii,«_r, uiiilcr his lil‘l'illll to Mrs. lles—
slt-gi':i\'e: “\\'ho is that y(d1ll'..’, ni:in—the

 

“Who is ULILI’1[Uil’IL{/”II1tlII.'”
very flippaiit. young fellow with the straw
colored niustaclie? I caii’t say at first sight
I’i1i exactly taken with hini.”

And Mrs. lli-ssl¢:gra\'e made aii:-‘Aver
with the wisiloiii of the serpent: “No, not.
at first sight perliaps. I can iiiiderstand
that. He's Aniericaii, of course, and a lee-
tle bit brusque in his manner, to begin
with, but \\’ll(‘1l you know him lic’s charm-
ing. Has lovely rooms in Paris, near the
Arc de Trioiiiphe, and a palazzo in Venice
on the Grand canal, and gives delightful
receptions. He’s taken a house. in Stari-
hope Street this year for the season. I‘ll
get; him to send you cards. His afternoons
are celebrated, and when you go to Paris
he’ll make everything smooth for you. He

can do so much! He has influence at the
enibassy.”
American? Yes. But what a. match he

would make, after all, for dear Kathleen!

exact title I don’t remember—the Saucy

social scale by observing as they arrived

the vigor and energy of the British aris-

Something-or-other—-for Melbourne or

[to BE co:<."rnumn.] .

   

 

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What the Farmers Expect of
the Experiment Station.

Continued from page 2.

This work will not he 11ndert:1l<en
.~'_\'.~te11I:1tie:1ll_1.' h_\' f:1rIIIers who de-
pend on each yr-.:11".~' crop for e:1elI
ye:1i".~‘ ineonie. lixperiim.-iit.~ 1-est
ii1one_\'. :1nd >llt‘ll :1~:1re outlined in
this :1rtiele in soine 1-:1.<e~' will iii-
volve :1 r:1die:1l d1-p:I1'l1Ire froiu es-
talilislieil Cllnlfllll. \\'o1'l{ of this
kind >'ll()lll1l he done h_\' the .\'t:1te
lloard of ;\}_"l‘l('lllllll'(', illl(lll>'1*_\'-
1)Ol1>IC.\' defr:1_\'ed from the experi-
iiieiit .~t:1tionf1ind. It (1111 he 1-:1ri'ied
on with t'()lll[Jlll':lll\'(‘l‘\’ little eost.

.1 l’l..-\.\' 1'1:oI*o.~I-:1).

The e.\'peri1neiit:il work done at
the .-\;_rrie1Ilt111':1l t'olle}_1'e is worth
little to the }_rr:1iii f:1l‘lllL‘l'.\ of .~‘olItl1-
western _\Iielii_«_r:1n. It is not the
kind of work most needed. and l.\
done :it the w1'oi1}_rpl:11-e. What l.\
:1 rule there, often is :1 poor rule
here. It is not .~'zlf(,' for 11s tofollow
advice h:1.<ed on re.~ult.~. ohtziiiied
froiu experiinents :it li:111.~i11;_r. Tlie
hiilletiii on potato eultiire. 1'e1'ei1t—
l_\’ l.~.~'lle1l, l‘(1l1l21lll> pl'o1If11f tl1is‘:1.~—
sertion.

An experiineiit station sliould he
located on :1s:iii1l_\'t'z1i'1II in this por-
tioii of the .<t:1te, helon_<_rin}_r to :1
pr:1etie:1l. ])l'(l}_Fl'(‘>'.~'l\'(’ f:1rnie1'. \\'lI1i
.~liould 1-:1rr\' on the \\‘1Il'li. lt.~ diree-
tion .~ll1)lll<lI he in the llilllllx of :1
local eoniniiitee of f:1ri1Iers. who
should .~ll£1'}_"t'>l, the line of \\'()l‘l\' to
he llll(l(‘l‘l:ll\'t‘ll :1nd lay the plzuis
for its pei'foi'1iI:11Iee. A lield will
he rented e:1eh _ve:u' for experi-
Iiients. and the worl; peI‘fo1'Ine<l
paid for. The local eoiuiuittee
should hold lllL'L‘llll:_".~' :It the .~,t:1tioII
as often as 1lt'L‘(‘.~'..~‘:ll'_\', and .<er\‘e
witliout p21_\': the whole nI:1t1er
sliould he under the }_>‘e1IeI':1l >ll])(‘l'-
vision of the l)ii'e1-tor of the slit-
tion :it litl.ll.\'lll_l_".

01-‘ 1:1a.\'1-:1-‘1'1‘ T1) .\l.»\.\’\'.

5111-11 :1 station would not only he
v:1l1i:1hle to the fariner on the li_t_rl1t
soil. hut rules laid down could he
followed hy f:11'n1ers on lieiivier
soils in the same loe:1lit_y. This‘ is
not an iinprzietieiil nor :1 visioii:1i'y
plan. The riglit kind of pluees
:1iId the i'i_t_rlit sort of men e:1n e:1sily
he found. The ohjeetion has hceii
raised th:1t farniers in other see-
tiprifaof the _state, seeing the value
0 t us work 11 ouid ask Ior it. and
several thousand dollars would he
needed to e:1rr_\,' on siinilzir stations
in other l0":1lities. In reply l say
that such work would he v:1lu:1hle
and would not he expensive.

The farniers of Alieliigaii, ziside
froiii ,<_rai'1,leiie1's and fruit growers.
have no special interest in “Sii1:1ll
fruit notes," “l{11ssi:1n eherrie.~',"
or "\'e}_ret:1hle novelties and no-
tions. “ \\'e are very niueli intere.<t-
ed in ,<_rrowing protitzihle crops of
corn. elover, and h:1_v. \\'e .~'ll(Illl(l
not ohject to seeing e1 IInnIerei:il fer-
tilizers tried on 11pl:1i1d as well :1s
on muck.

The ei1'e1iinst:1iiees .~'1I1'1'o11n1liin_r
:1grieulture have been revolIItion-
ized in the last ten ye:1rs. We
shall he very tli:1nl{ful for any 21>"-
sistanee th:1t will en:1hle 11>‘ to inzike
farniiiig pay under the new eon-
ditions.

P4111‘ P1111).

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LOWELL DISTRICT coi'.\‘eiL.
Lowell district council will he held at
South Boston Grange hall on Saturday,
Sept. 7, 1895. A good attendance is de-
sired. 1). H. ENHLISII, Secretary.

KENT COUNTY GRANGE.

The next regular meeting of Kent
county Grange will be held at Har-
monv Grange hall on Sept. 4. 1895. Let
every member be present and make
this a grand rally meeting.

BY ORDER OF Ex COM.

PICNIC.

The Granges of Paris, Cascade, Alto.
Bowne Center, and Whitnevville. Kent
county, will hold their annual picnic at
Campau Lake. on Tuesday, Aug. 27.
and have engaged Sister Mayo of
Battle Creek for the occasion. Exer-
cises will commence at 10 o’clock, a. In.
All are invited to attend, s. C. P.

A grand rally and farmers’ picnic
will be held on the fair grounds in the
city of Goldwater, on Tiiesday. August
27,1895. The program will consist in
part. of opening song, Quincy Grange
choir; Declamation, Jas. Claude Stud-
ley; Subject, “The power of Ha bitz”
Speech by Col. Brigham, Master of the
National Grange; Declamation, Henry
Straight, Goldwater; Paper, "Giving
and Growing.” D. E. Williams. Gilead.
Plenty of the best of music will be fur-
nished by Quincy and other Granges.
A grand time and a great crowd is ex-
pected. WALLACE E. WRIGHT, Lec- '
turer Pomona N 0. 22.

 

Cira.I\9€; N.e-111$.

I0_\'IA ro.\1o.\'.-1. .
Ionia county Pomona Grange held '
their annual meeting of June 111 with ‘
lionald Grange, with good attendance.
After dinner the Grange was called to-
order by the Worthy Master, H. J.
Hall. The choir. with Sister Yeom-ans
as org-.1nist, gave a line selection. The
Master called for reports iron] the Sub-
ordinate Granges. It was conceded
that owing to dry weather hay is 14
per cent of an average crop, oats 213 per 1
cent, potatoes 25 per cent, beans 1:; per
cent. corn 41; per cent, wheat 51) per
cent. clover seed sown this year, a
per cent. Several questions were ablv I
discussed. Then a brother suggested ;
we should have an August picnic. in-
viting Brother Briizham as speaker. ,
The Grange accepted of the sugges-
tion, chosc their committee on arrange-
ments. and went to work in good earn-
est to make it a memorable day meet-
ing on lonia county fair grounds Aug- ;
us: 25). The program was made out by
the lionald Grange, as they were to en- ,
tertain Pomona, and did. with rec1ta--
tions, select readings and music. The
Master was called on to give a history:
of his visit to the New England states.l
and all were deeply interested with I
the history be related. Question for the 3
next meeting, to be held with \Vo0d—;
land Lake Grange is this: “Will the §
farmer bethe owner or the renter of,
the farm '3" A sister suggested tliatf
we should meet oftener. The Master‘
thought it a good suggestion and n01
brother or sister would have any ob—-
iection. A vote of thanks was given,
the lionald Grange for their hospitality §
and splendid program. All went home I
feeling it was good to be there, and‘

the Grange.
Mus. A3111; It, l5_-\l:.\'.\l:l>. ;
l

Seed Wheat. 

l have :1 <ill:llllll_\‘ of .loIIe~'l
\\'i1Ite1'l*‘ife wliezit. also lied Lines
whe:1t. ele:1ned for .\lJ\\'llli_1', wliieh li
otler :11 one 1loll:11' :1 l1ll\ll(‘l. llothi
li1‘.~t—el:1.~.~‘ \\'lIe:1t iii e\'ei‘_v r1-.\peo1.‘l
I. N. (_'1I\\'lil:lCi'. E

llll:l1'.‘l. .\lieh. 

noes
QUALITY

COUNT ?

If you are p:i1'tie1il:1r zihout what
kind of ,\'/'/i’I\'/1'11’ Y 5"/V)!’/1’
you setwlf you are anxious to
get stzirted right—lf_vou want to
ful Cn1~_Y luuywing {lint V'1'l\(1t full
hu_v will prove to he llI~2AI.'I‘l{Y
and T1:1'1: To .\'.-i.\1r:. write us
to—d:1y. or call on the .\'i:1‘11i:'rAin'
of York (}i<..i.\'uI: and learn
:1ho11t us.

“'6 have :1 l:Ir;_re
line of elioiee
Apple, Pear, Peach, Plum,

Cherry, small fruit plants,
and shrubs.

Our low prices iIi:1y.~1Ii'pi'i.~e \'0ll.

WEST‘
MICHIGAN
NURSEFNES,

Benton Harbor, Mich.
lt. !\loImI1.I.. (I. E, FIrIi»;1.i1.
l'i-est. >‘ee'_: and Trees.
1‘. S.»-See Coilli-letiiiul l‘:'a1l»-Cii‘--11 211'. p 411.‘

Gold and SllverWMeliel, Bleycl

, - u’
' Ti-ieycli-s. bunsninl Pistols, (‘si-st,

T Buggies, Wugon:,(arriiuges, Safes,
sleiglu, H.u'nu-,(.‘u-t Tops, Skids,

    

 

  

   

=  , '* - - 5
Bevin: Mar!-Ines. Accord:-ans, oi-guns, mm, Cider 111111;,

E‘-'3 ""|"9f|u Ford Mills, Stoves. Keitln, Bone Dlllls,
otter Presses, Jiirkfln-owl, Trm-ls, Anviln, Hnyfnllers,

7"“ “Midi; ljovy Bmvke, Vim. nruioz, Road rimu,
C wn liloweru, ( time Mills, Lathes, Renders, Dumpfsrtl,

oi-I: Sliollors, Hand farts, Forges. -vernpei-s,Wlrs Fence,
Fanning Mills, Wrliigers, Enelries, Inn, Steel Sinks,
Grain Dumps, (‘row Ran, Bnllrrs, Fools, BI: Br-Inn,
Hay, Sim-i, Elentnr. Railroad, Platform and (‘onnter SCALES.

e d I n-pa (‘ t I 11 In -
I51So.nJe1i|;l'Ion s€..‘c"§'iEZ'1'so‘§?:s'i'z'sl5'oT'I'5i3‘é'£$.ni.
Ask .<e1-reraryoi‘ yo1i1'llr111:1.:eforour lllus
tI'atedt,‘=iI;1log11e. 1:‘) Aug.t1'.

 

A. H. VV.-\RRE.\'.
Ovid, }Ii('li.

    

- " * *5?” Chester “'hite Swine
and Lincoln Slieep. you want 3 nice fan
pig. and at price.~' that will astoiiisli you. just
at me _lie:1r from y1'11i statiiig what you want. 1
have 1)I£.’>' that will suit.

OnTop.,,

Good beef is there now.
Merinos will not stay below long.
“'9 have right .~'t1)('k at right prices,

(‘all or write

W. 1-2. novnnx,
tf Delhi Mills. Mich.

   

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Fertilizers contaiiiing :1 high percentage of potash p;-.,.

duce the largest yields * rid l)L,‘:i gzi

Wheat, Rye, Barley, Oats

  

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descriptions of 30,000 articles in common use,
a book that will show you at a glance if you
are paying too much for the goods you are
now buying,

WORTH ANYTHING TO YOU?

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

copy?

THE BUYERS GUIDE AND CATALOGUE (issued
every March and September) is the book we

wondered why all farmers did notjoiu Copy of -the latest edition in the hOuSe_

MONTGOMERY WHRD 6’: CO.,

III to H6 Michigan Ave., chicago. 

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I-‘Ir JUALIYV ~ STANTON. MICH.

  

‘IS Sl’E.\"[‘ annually for Tobacco.
., Thousands of men die every year from
that dreadful disease. Caiicer of the
Stomach, brought on by the use of
Tobacco.

The use of tobacco is injurious to
the nervous system, promotes heart
trouble, affects the eye sight, injures
the voice, and makes your presence ob-
noxious to those clean and pure from
such a lilthy habit.

Do You Use Tobacco! ,

If you do. we know you would like
to quit the habit, and we want to as-
sist you, and will, if you say the word,
How can we Help you!

Why. by inducing you to purchas of
CoLi.1’s '[‘()1i.»\(%(:o A.\"l‘ll)(I’l‘r.. which is
a preparation compounded strictly of
herbs and roots, which is a tonic to the
,system; also cures the tobacco habit
l and knocks cigarettes silly.

How do we know it will Cure _\'ou.4

I First, by its thousands and thousands
I of cures; second, by the increased de-
jmand for it from the most reputable
1 Wholesale houses, third, we know what
‘it is composed of, and that the prepa-
, ration will clean the system of nice-
itine, and will cancel all errors of the
’ past.

Your ll1'11}_r}_rist

has (‘olli for sulv-. ll‘ lie hm: 1Iot.:1sk him to
‘Re! It fziryou. Ii’ lIet1‘ie.>~' 11. pzilin oil‘ so1iie-
thing just us “1zood," insist on lHl\'lllL" (folli. If
he will not order it for you. -1-nil us I-H.111: one
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guaraiitee three boxes‘ to euro any one.

Colli Remedy Company.,
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is no such uncertuiiii V lII i-1-1:111-ll to 1 he fence
standard. The (‘oiled Spring reuiuins the

universal umipnroai-liahle s1,-lf—regul:itor, for
farm ri1llro:1(l. and park piii-poses’ IfELAS-
TICETII t':1r1 do for the currency wliatit has
done for The Piige, there'll be no opposition.

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