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Agriculture in Transition.

Portionof address of Edwin Williis at the coinniencc-
merit exercises, Agricultural (follcgc, August 13, 159:3.

Agriculture remains the largest single
factor in the industrial world.
of the industries, and as such it must be
subject to the disabilities, exigencies and
influences of any industry. The same laws
govern it. Its commodities must compete;
imist seek a market, and must run the
gantlet of boards of trade and the iiiiddle—
men, who make their livelihoods in hand-
ling and manipulating them. It has some
disabilities not common to all. Among
these are bulk in products, time to pro-
duce, and to a generally larger degree the
incleiiiency of the seasons. The time to
make a pair of shoes may be shortened,
but revolving suns are necessary for a field
of wheat.

On the other hand, it has in its favor to
a larger degree, necessity. Men must eat
or die. Other industries are more largely
sustained by desire foi' coinfort, for lux-
ury. The human \vant we minister to is
exigent, fundamental, can never be disre-
garded. A barefoot “cad" has an appetite,
a daily demand, which gives no peace till
satisfied. Men may dispense with many
products which make a great clatter and
clamor in the world, but they find no sub-
stitute for food. Our art is the art sus-
taining, as against the art preserving. The
world can get along without the miller and
the mill, but the farmer and the farm will
abide as long as this globe revolves.

THE TRANSITION.

The situation for this generation is pe-
culiar. VVhile invention as applied to ag-
riculture directly has made less impression
than upon the other industries, its indirect
influence has been great. Every new in-
vention in the industrial world displaces
many laborers, and during the transition,
that is, while labor is adjusting itself to the
new conditions, there are many remunera-
tively unemployed, and the perturbation
in some lines is so great at times
that the whole economic world is
almostdisorganized. But by taking our
bearings we are able to see that in the long
run men find new places, and on the whole,
obtain better wages on shorter hours and
less strain to mind and niuscle.

Agriculture has for the last twe1ity—five
years been going through this transition.
Steam has shortened distances, and the cost
and terms of transportation have been so
reduced that distant regions lie at our very
doors, and their products are sharp coiii—
petitors in our home markets, so sharp as
to reduce profits. The virgin soil of the
west in many large lines of agricultural
productions has been too much for the older
settled lands, and our farmers in the cast
have felt that their occupation was iin—
periled.

PRICES FOR AGRICIZLTURAI. i>i:oi)L'cTs.

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According to the last census, over .)i
per cent of the total population of the
United States were engagedin agriculture.
The report of the select committee of the
United States senate in 1501-2 shows that
the average normal family spends about -.10
per cent of its living expense for agricul-
tural products. But this percentage does
not show the true relative production of
agriculture, as a large block of raw mater-
ial for other uses than food is to be credit-
ed to agriculture, to-wit: cotton, wool and
tobacco. This report shows further that
since 1560 the prices of food products have
not decreased, but have increased nearly
4 per cent, while clothing has decreased
nearly 75 per cent. Butter has increased
28 per cent, eggs 9 per cent, beef 5 per
cent, mutton 30 per cent, while flour, pork,
lard and cornmeal have diminished, but
the average of consumption shows an in-
crease all around of nearly -L per cent as
above stated.

It will be noted that the agricultural
products which show the inci'ease are those
which require more hand labor, or which
are less atlected by labor saving devices,
while those, excluding pork and lard.
which have the benefit of labor saving iiia—
chinery, or are susceptible of large combi-
nations, or are produced by wholesale,

ave declined. Pork and lard have suflered
from the same cause, to-wit; cotton seed
and other substitutes. Mankind wants fats

It is one i

 heifer and a pump handle.

. appetizing title.

in a fair proportion, ‘and a goodly portion
will be satisfied with candle grease if cleaned
and put up with an attractive label or an
There has been a sharp
raid on butter, but relatively butter has
held its own. There is no satisfactory
substitute for it. This is one of the coiii-
modities for which people are willing to
pay. Good wholesome butter has the right
of way with the generations of men, who
know the diflerence between a J erscy
However, it
must be good butter. There is a poor
market for middling good butter as well as
for middling good eggs. Men in the cities
will pay readily :25 cents for 2.3 cent butter,
or 40 cents for a 40 cent article. Their
gastrononiical laboratory reiects the sub-
stitutcs so hastily that the latter have to
take the name and the garb of the genuine.
Our dairyincn are put upon their mettle,
but so long as cream is cream it need fear
no competitors.

It will be noted that_ beef and mutton,
for which there are no substitutes, have in-
creased in price, mutton more largely for
the spring lambeleiiient. Both have suf-
fered froin the wholesale ranges in the
west, and the decline on freight rates, but
this decline being only 50 per cent they
have stood the competition better than
wheat where rates have been reduced al-
most fourfold.

Eastern agriculture has sutl'ered from
thousand :icre wheat fields and 100.000
herds, but time and the annual cropping
will surely drive the thousand acre fields
further and further till there will be found
an equilibrium which will make eastern
wheat. corn, beef and mutton more a staple
than they are now.

TH}-I SU}’Rl-IMP} TRANSITION.

There is one feature in this transition
which I would not ignore on this occasion
and in this august assciiibly, to-wit: the
transition to be charged to the farmer him-
self, to his methods and to his reckless dis-
regard of the most obvious laws of natiii'c.
The American farmer has until recently
found for ready occup-.uicy a vast region
whose fertility is the marvel of historv,
the product of the ages and as “cheap as
dirt. "' Oiic—half of the energies of the old
world is employed in feeding the soil which
supports its teeming population. The
refuse of the sea has been gathered, the
islands to the ends of the earth have been
scraped, the phosphate and nitre beds of
distant nations have been dispoiled to fur-
nish iiiatcrial which shall put new life into
the exliausted soil. So grcatis the demand,
so rapacious lias been the search, that to
the pcssiiiiist the time is not far distant
when the world‘s supply of-‘the world's ex-
traneous fertilizer will have been exhaust-
ed, and mankind would disappear amid
deserts and sterile wastes.

This extra burden imposed upon agricul-
ture iii the old countries has sent to our
shores a vast horde, who have captured our
country with the rapacity with which the
Goths and Vandals took ancient Rome.
Here was a soil which produced with spon-
taneity and a bountifulness which hired the
most conservative from the methods of
wisdom in which they were raised, and
they soon forgot the maxinis which exper-
ience has demonstrated were the laws of
permanent success. They farmed without
regard to the future. The soil was ex-
haustless, and if it were not, there were
millions of acres just a little further on
waiting for the tramp of the pioneer. It
was cheaper to move than to keep up the
fertility of the old home. \Vhat mattered
the sentiment which bade them keep the
home acres in joyful heart for the family
and its descendants.

\Ve belong to a race which has always
been “moving on,” till to “move on” has
become almost a second nature. The old
orchards went to decay, the fields had not
verdure enough to keep them from blister-
ing in the sun. Their fertility had been cart-
ed olf to the market, or had walked off on
the two legs of the men and women it had
raised. It costs $1,000 and the substance
of four acres of land to raise a man to nia-
turity. Virginia raised men for the
southern shambles and despoiled her acres
in doing so. New England sent to the

VVestern Empire a host whose baggage in- '

eluded not only the homely virtues and

sturdy habits of its daily life, but the 

~ sence of its soil which had been converted ‘

T to the Nile for er corn.

into bone and blood and niusclc.

THE RI-ISIJLT.

Five generations of this untoward Dol-
icy brought the ienalty. Rome had to go
New England
sought the Mississippi for a like reason.
History repeatczl itself in so short a time

.that- it could hardly be called history.

Abandoned farms and decrepit agriculture
marked the seashore from Maine to (licor-
giag‘ from salt water to the foothills of the
Alleghanies. Farming did not pay in the
>ast, the fertile unoccupied lands in the
west were disappearing, and the dearth of
the soil was steadily marching towards the
western horizon. Michigan wheatfields
which once harvested twenty —five bushels
to the acre now turned out ten. Illinois
prairies once good for 100 bushels of corn
now produce thirty to the acre. The sons
and descendants of the hardy pioneer began
to complain that farining did not pay, and
took to the professions so-called to make a
living by their wits. Farming, you know,
was not a profession: did not need wit.
The occupation was doomed, so thought
many; its future hopeless. \Vhat was to
bedone? Ao'riculture could not cease on
the earth. The existence of the race de-
pends upon it. Farming must be made to
pay, and some thought could be made to
pziy. People began to study the cause of
its decline and they began to hope and to
think that it was only in a
TRAi\'SITIO.V sT.i'ri:.

But it was the worst transition of all. It

was not a question of a market, or of

,t“ "isportation, or of labor—s:aving devices,
"~h‘?:t'of pi-ogluet.-'.0n; how to increase produc-

tion, how to stop deterioration of the soil,
how to rejuvenate it. lt was manifest that
science must be called in to help solve the
problem. Farming must be made a pro-
fession——intelligence must be joined with
skill; book farming must be taken into the
catalogue of aids: as literature and history
embody the experience of mankind why
not call them in for the benefit of agricul-
ture. Periodicals devoted to the vocation
began to increase in number and ability;
men of science began to investigate and to
report “how crops grow," and the whole
question took on a more hopeful aspect; a
spirit of inquiry ran all along the line and
the sentiment grew and grew that there
should be men detailed for the constant
work of investigation, and that this re-
habilitation of agriculture should not be
subject to sporadic laborsof chance, un-
organized individuals, till finally the whole
matter became of such national import as
to lead to the establishiiicnt under iiatioiial
auspices of the Agricultural College and
Experiment Station, as the c.iiliiiiii:itioii of
the spirit of iii<juir_v, as the steeple on the
church which holds the body of the work-
 aiid believers below.

For years it has been claimed by some
that agriculture has not paid first cost, that
the farmers have not paid expeiises. l
deny it. There is not a year in which as a
whole they have not paid legitimate expen-
scs. But concede the claim for the sake of
argunicnt. What vocation has paid ex-
penses for the past two yearsf All have
sufl'ered a like calamity. The earning
power of capital has diminished one—third.
Money is cheap and has been the idlest
loafer in the industrial activity of the
world. Everybody has been exhausting
his credit, or has been poaching on the re-
serves of former successes. \Vhat reason
has the farmer to complain more than
others, if he has not made his accustomed
profits£ Is it because those profits, being
relatively less in the fat years, he should be
exempt during the lean ones 4 False logic!
The profits were stable. You abated the
amount on the security of what you got.
You did not go into bankruptcy, as did
many who reaped more largely than did
you. You took fewer chances, and you are
here to-day with a roof ovei' your head, and
a larder reasonably well supplied. The
mortgage has not been paid perhaps-—
iieither has the other niaifs. What was
the mortgage given for, anyway! Was it
because you ran behind in farming, or was
it for something else! Men are willing to
pay for assurance. You took the premium
for yours out of your profits.

\\'H()LE NO. 474.

_ This is hard doctrine for the farmer who
is‘. from his desires. his education and his
general practice, simpler in his living ex-

T pcnses than tliose of other \'()cziti(ins', but

to him as well as to us all there is truth in
the admonition: keep within your income.
There are flush tiiiics for us all. Tlicv are
just ahead of us at this momciit. But let
us reincmbcr that itis during tlicse flush
times that the greatest debts and obliga-
tions are iiicurrcd. One of these obliga-
tions is the social status and style of living
which is the hardest and the last to cancel.
It is harder to step down than to carry ii.
mortgage. One requires pluck, the other
sheer strength.

May all of us have the courage and the
strength to do what is just right without
a iology or complaint. Above all with
c eerfulness let us insist that agriculture is
a noble calling, the noblest of all, the su-
preme vocation which the world will never
see die; let us congratulate ourselves with
the reflection that the world is willing to
pay in the end, has always paid at least
first cost of the products of the farm, and
generally concedes a surplus profit, meagre
though it be at times, but suflicient to
make the vocation the most dignified and
independent of them all.

60,000 People at a Grange Picnic.

N ow that the Patrons of Michigan have
just held their August picnics, and that no
doubt in some localities they are planning
for greater success next year, the following
account of the \Villiains Grove, l’a., week’s
encampment, by National Lecturer, Mes-
ser, will be interesting reading. \Vith
wise selections of locations that give good
natural advantages (and Michigan has

of them), and the right kind of

management, we could have at least a doz-
en such assembly grouiids established and
secure imniense crowds of people. No
other work could give the (irrange a broader
advertising. Read how it is done:

“This monster Grange picnicandexhibi—
tion has grown from small beginiiiiigs to
its present huge proportioiis. It was start-
ed by Col. K. II. Thomas of Miclianics-
burg, then Secretary of State (irraiigc, as
one day basket picnic and has continued
undcr his iiiaiiagciiient.

The next year it was extended to a two
days‘ picnic with a small attendance from
New Jersey and l)elaw:ii'c. The year fol-
lowing another day was added, and the
crowd in attendance was iiuiiibcrcd by
tliousaiids. Later it bccaiiic a fivc days’
picnic. Some agents for fariiiing iiiiplc-
iiicnts were admitted to the grounds with
their niachincs which found ready sales,
but no iiianufactiircrs were adniittcd to the
grounds who would not sell their gomls to
farincrs at wholesale rates. At first some
imiiiufacturcrs objected to this lil:l,n:l_‘_"(,‘-
inent because they wished to pi'otc('l their
agents, but the sales of those who did come
in under this rule were so large, that as a
matter of interest the "kickcrs“ gave in,
and the present year .300 exhibits were on
the grounds with every line of staple
goods used on a farm, from a paper of
pins to a steam thrcsher or steam sawmill,
including all kinds of musical instrunients.
The exhibition has a liorticulturiil and
stock department which are among the
ironiinent features of the show. One day
in the week is always set apart as a special
Grange day, and that day is always this big
day of the picnic. Last year

Tiii-; CRO\\'l) ox <;nA.\‘i;i-: DAY.

was immense, numbering about 50,000 peo-
ple. This year the number was increased
by fully 10,000, making the attendance on
Thursday not less than 60,000. The cotta-
ges and tents on the grounds acconiodate
about 4,000 people and these were filled to
overflowing. Several bands of music were
in attendance and there was speaking every
day in the vast auditorium, /with lectures
and musical entertainments of the highest
order in the evening. All as free as the
air."

The State Grange also holds special ses-
sions in a large hall built for the purpose,
and exemplifies the higher degrees of the
Order for all who are eligible and apply.
The first four degrees are also illus-
trated in the best possible forms by spec-
ially trained degree teams from different-
parts of the state. GEO. B. HORTON.

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Michigan as a Beef State.
W. E. BOYDEN.

_Having been asked the question, “Is
Michigan ever likely to be a great beef
state,” I confess that I am ata loss whether
to answer yes or no. The present seems a
time of rapid changes, and it seems to me
that many times changes are make without
much thought as to whether the change
will be for the best or not. \Vhere one
has spent years of time and more or less
money in getting arranged for a certain
line of work,, a radical change should not
be made until a thorough canvass of the
proposed change will with almost a cer-
tainty warrant the change. Just at pres-
ent the dairy fad seems to be the proper
thing. That it will prove profitable to
some, none will dispute, but profitable to
all, never,——no more than will any other
branch of agriculture. \Vere I to offer a
suggestion to anyone about to start in farm
dairying, it would be along the line adopt-
ed by our friend, \Villiam Ball, who is not
only producing a pa_ving quantity of good
butter but a profitable crop of steers as
well. This suggestion is for our general
farmers, rather than for a dairy specialist
near our large cities.

VVILL BEEF PAY.‘

The one question that must and will de-
cide whether Michigan is to be a great
beef producing state is, will it pay! I
think we all feel that we have for the last
two or three years worked for small pay.
This may do where one‘s bank account is
long on the right side, but not for those of
us who nnist live by our efforts. Let
every farmer decide this question, Can I
produce prime cattle at 5 cents per pound!

f he can, it is safe for him to feed cattle,
as this price is safe to ex iect for several
years yet. Prime cattle do not grow on
wind and snow banks. They nmst come
from proper breeding and right feeding.
That they can be produced on skimmed
milk and from cows that will produce
choice butter at a profit is proved beyond
a doubt. None need ask the writer’s choice
of breed. But I hope I am not so biased
in my opinion as to think that there is only
one breed. Far from it. I believe we are
about to see the farmers of Michigan
working back to the old time ractice of
each year feeding oil’ a few goo: steers, a
large per cent of which will look nmch
like a good Shorthorn.

PRIME BEEF VVANTED.

Farmers, here is what we get Week
after week from the greatest live stock
commission firm in the greatest live stock
market of the world, Chicago, “extra
prime steers, $5.75 Qt, $6.10 per cwt.”
Can you, will you produce this class of
stock, or shall we be content to grow, sell,
and eat the kind called shell beef, worth on
this same market, but with slow sale,
$1.50 @ $2.25 per cwt. I believe Michigan
can produce prime cattle nearly or quite
as cheaply as can any of our sister states.
And we are in easy access of two good
markets, Buffalo and Chicago. Remem-
ber, our people are great consumers of
beef, and when they have money are will-
ing to pay a good price for what suits
them. I believe we are to see more cattle
bred and fitted for the shambles in the
near future in Michigan than we have in
too well remembered dark past. "Trade
Mark, ‘C. C. C.,' cattle. corn, and clover,
will make the farm rich and a man feel
well all over."

Delhi Mills.

The "Pine Barrens.”
DR. 0. P.-\I.)IER.

Your journal is designed to be educa-
tional and perhaps reaches that class in
this state, more exclusively than any other.
who are especially interested in the devel-
opment of the agricultural interests of our
great commonwealth.

' \Vith that thought in mind, I write to
assist you in the dissemination of facts
that combat false impressions and false
statements which have been largely re-
ceived as facts in the central and southern

ortions of the state relating to the sub-
ject of this article. And here let me say
in parenthesis that I am not a land agent
or dealer in real estate, and have no inter-
est in any company or syndicate for this
region and believe I write entirely without
prejudice.

TH E SOIL.

The so-called “pine barrens” of north-
ern Michigan contain, perhaps, a greater
variety of soil than can be found in Ing-
ham county, sand, gravel, muck, marl,
clay, and every conceivable combination
of the five. Some localities are perfect
beds of cobble stone, some are filled with
boulders from 50 to 1000 pounds in weight,
and others seem to be pure sand for an in-
definite depth, while others, with surface
soil of sand, are yunderlaid at various
depths with limestone, shale, or with beds
of marl and of clay. There are large areas
of swamp land, heavily timbered with

tamarack, white cedar, birch, and fir which
lie on tables from ten to one hundred feet

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which is muck land and underlaid with
clay and which, when subdued, prove ver-
itable gardens. These lands _are usually
supplied with water from springs at_their
highest points, and released by ditches
which if judiciously placed may be per-
fectly controlled so that the owner may be
entirely independent of drouth or flood, by
irrigation or drainage at will, and prac-
tically without expense.

THE FERTILITY OF THIS SOIL

is so potent that comment is unnecessary,
and in what follows I confine myself to
the average “ ilains land," composed of
sand, with slight intermixture of gravel,
and practically with only sand for subsoil.
These lands, where not denuded by oft re-
curring fires, are usually tiiiibered with

: spruce, pine, or so called "jack pine,“

varying from a few scattered scrub trees
to each acre to a dense forest from forty
to sixty feet in height; but there are thous-
ands upon thousands of acres denuded by
fire of all trees. some of which are again
covered with a growth of scarlet oak,
cherry and osier which becomes again a
forest in a few years if spared by fire.
Other long stretches of land are soon cov-
ered with a dense mass of native wild
grasses, affording excellent pasturage
where not too largely mixed with sweet
fern, bear berry, and lmckle berry plants,
which fill the earth with their wonderful
growth of roots at the expense of the grass
family. My experience and observation
leads me to believe that

I.\'TEI.I.IGF.I\'T CI.'I.TlVATIO1\'.

of these lands will make them remuner-
atively productive from the start, the gen-
eral principle of which consists in a sys-
tem of green inanuring in rotation and of
course the utilization of all forms of ma-
nure that may be accumulated on the prein—
ises. One piece of twelve acres of very
light soil was plowed in June, thoroughly
harrowed occasionally till the last of Au-
gust, and sown to rye which was cut in June,
just as it was coming into blossom. The
second growth of rye was plowed under
the last of August and resown to rye,which
was again out in June, yielding over twen-
ty tons of excellent hay, and the second
crop again plowed in and the land sowed
to wheat and seeded with timothy and
clover. The following (last) four years
have been years of drought. The wheat
yielded thirteen bushels per acre, and for
two years, though very dry, the hay aver-
aged over a ton. The sod was then ploavred
and the piece planted to comniod"irsnt‘
corn for ensilage and gave with the drouth
of last year twelve tons per acre. This
spring the land was sown to spring wheat
and seeded, but the drouth killed the seed-
ing and an army of grasshoppers attacked
the grain which was cut green on that ac-
count. In a future article I will give a
history of other fields which I believe
proves my theory.
Grayliny.

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Clover.

1. N. (‘O\VDREY.

One of the most serious questions with
the farmer at present is, how shall we suc-
ceed in raising clover! It is somewhat
discouraging, I will admit, but the only
way for us to do is to stick to it. Aim to
do our work better, and trust-to the future.
I can't help but think the trouble is only
temporary, and time will right things.
\\'e should look on the bright side of all
these disappointments and hope and trust
that things will be better next year. Last
year we had as fine a "catch“ of clever as
I ever saw but the dry spring cut the hay
crop short. I wondered what we would
do for hay next year, as our last spring's
seeding is completely destroyed and the
ground plowed up, but the clover root
borer seems as yet to behave pretty well
in our fields, and it looks as if we will
have about 20 acres of clover seed to cut.
It is not very thick, for the extreme dry
weather kept it from starting, but by the
looks it will well pay for cutting. Then
again there seems to be a thick mat of
young clover shoots coming up around the
old stalk, which, if the weather is favor-
able, and nothing else at the present un-
seen to bother it,will make a dense growth
of clover t.o fall down and cover the roots
for winter protection. No stock of any
kind will be permitted to get a bite of this
clover after the seed is taken off, which
will be done in a few days. I hope by
this treatment to have a good crop of bay
for another year. I also expect to have
clover seed to sow next year that is free
from all foul stuff. We cannot be too

CAREFUL ABOUT THE SEED VVE SO\V.

We got a ten acre field seeded with nius—
tard froni buying seed from the farmer
whom we thought was a careful man, but
found out differently when we began to
see the yellow blossoms all over the’ field.
Of course this all had to be pulled out, and
a close watch kept for straggling stalks
that we might miss. This took a lot of ex-
tra work which could have Well been put

some other place, had it not been for the
carelessness of the farmer that raised the
seed.

Clover seeding this year on wheat. in
this part of the country, is almost a coni-
plete failure, while in some instances, on
oat ground, I hear good reports——a queer
thing indeed. Two men have told me that
they have as good a “catch” as they ever
had, sown with their oats. But I“ think
the most sure way to make a success of
clover is to fall plow your ground and sow
your seed in the spring as soon as the
ground will do to work in good shape,
seed to be sown without any other crop
with it, and harrowed in with a smoothing
harrow. This way, perhaps, inav seem a
little extravagant for the reason that clover
has always been a sort of a "catch crop,"
sown with other grains. but in this way,
very often, you can cut a crop of hay the
first summer after sowing. It may be that
we will all have to adopt this method yet
to secure the necessary rotation of clover
on our farms for it will be better for us to
do this than to

Losi-: THE CLOVFR I-EVERY YEAR.

I know of one field in this neighborhood
that was sown alone, and the owner will
have clover next year if looks count for
anything. \\'eeds will bother by coming
up in the young clover somewhat, but by
going over with a machine and cutting
them down before they begin to do dain-
age in any way will fix this all 1'ight, and
at the same time benefit the young clover.
But we shall go right on sowing the coin-
iiion red clover on wheat the same as we
have always done, until we are satisfied
there is no use to try it any longer. There
is nothing that pays us so well as clover
used to keep our land up in good condi-
tion, and we cannot afford to be faint-
hearted and give up so easily. I am no
friend of alsike, neither am I very much
in love with mammoth clover. There is
nothing found as yet that will fill the place
of the common red clover for the northern
states. In the south they can use cow
peas and crimson clover very well, but
this far north there is a question whether
they can be grown profitably.

Ithaca.

Poultry for Profit.
FRANK wF,i.Ls.

The much neglected hen seems at last
destined to receive her just dues. She has
seen the value of the staple products rap-
idly decline, while her own well fed chick-
ens and new laid eggs still remain in good
demand. The cost of their production
has also decreased with the price of cereals
and other foods. The result is that prac-
tical farmers are beginning to see that
poultry properly cared for will give as
good returns as the grains and stock which
have heretofore absorbed the attention.

Poultry raising readily divides itself in-
to four branches: for fancy, for broilers,
for table fowls, and for eggs. The first is
important for improving the breeds, when
the attention is not wholly given to pluiu—
age, coinbs, or other useless features. The
second is an industry of considerable iin—
portance, but it requires skilled labor and
more capital than the majority of farmers
find it convenient to invest. The third
and fourth may be carried on to advantage
by nearly all farmers, large or small, and
on a scale to suit the conditions.

EGG I’H.ODL'CTI(,).V .

The production of eggs is by far the
most important to the Michigan farmer.
Table fowls aiic for the most part limited
to the surplus of the flocks. Even the
turkeys. geese and ducks combined give
small returns compared with the vast
quantities of eggs annuallly shipped from
the agricultural districts of the state. And
this is the branch least likely to be over-
done, as the consumption is likely to keep
pace with the supply for some time to
come. Not only are eggs rapidly increas-
ing in favor as a food, but the arts and
sciences are continually finding new uses
for large quantities of them. The iin-
proved methods of handling are bringing
the higher prices of the eastern markets
within’ the reach of the western producer.
Considering these demands in connection
with the price of grain, the outlook for
eggs is b_y no means discouraging. It is
poultry for eggs that interests the general
farmer of this state, and that is what is to
be considered here. And first of all it
may be said that the business is not one to
yield an independent fortune in a year or
two without an outlay of labor, as some of
the poultry pape1's might lead a reader to
infer. But a good flock of hens which
should receive part of the attention now
given to the horses, cattle, and sheep,
would make a iimch larger return for the
labor than is now obtained. After it has
been determined to give the hens a
chance the next step is the

IMPROVEMENT or THE FLOCK.
The most economical, and usually most

satisfactory, way to do this is to use pure‘

bred males on a flock of mongrels. Indis-
eriminate inbreeding should in no case be
allowed, as what is gained by new blood

will belost. By using new males every
year a flock will soon be obtained havinor

* all the points of pure blood, combined wit

some of the vigor of the common fowl.
The choice of a breed should receive
more consideration than it usually does.
A kind may succeed with one man under
certain condition where another would be
aflat failure. Some are hardy and will
endure neglect, while others may be made
profitable only by the best of care. The
breeds are now so numerous that there
ought to be no great difliculty in finding

, one that is suitable, though many have lit-

tle to recommend them except fancy points
of no practical value. There are, however,
8 few standard breeds easily procurable
which have usually proved satisfactory.
_1‘OI' large fowls there is none better known
in this state than the Plymouth Rocks,
Bralinias and \\'yandottes. A They are fair
table fowls, and good winter layers when
given warm quarters. Being large birds.
they do not fly much and are casilv con-
fined, which with many is a point in their

f11"01‘- Bllt f01' eggs alone none equals the
Leghoriis. They are also good foragers,

as anyone who has had a garden near them
knows, and take to the wing like wild
birds. Theydo not bear confinement well.
so cannot be depended upon for winter
layers, but they do their work well in the
spring as soon as eggs are cheap. The
Minorcas are comparativelv new to this
counti'y, but are rapidly giowiiig in favor.
They will not equal the Legliorns in the
nuniber of eggs, but as the eggs are much
larger, the annual roduct will exceed that
breed in weight. Vherc customers can be
obtained who are willing to pay an extra
price for a superior quality, the Minorcas
ave the preference. Their eggs are the
largest of hens‘ eggs. There are other
breeds having many admirers, but those
mentioned are widely known and easv to
obtain. I

\VINTI-ZR LAY E RS.

If winter layers are desired the chicks.
should be batched in March or April, if
the hens can be induced to brood that early-
The large breeds need about eight months
for maturing, and this gives them ample
time to get their growth before cold
weather, when they should begin to lay.
Late chicks are slow in coming to maturity
after winter sets in and will not do imich
laying till the following spring. The
small, quick growing kinds should be
hatched two months or more later, as, if
they got their growth too early in the fall,
they will nioult and postpone egg produc-
ing till another season. After the chicks
are Well started through the spring they
will need no attention during the summer,
provided they have a range of stubble
with, its waste grain and insects, and will
look out for themselves till cold weather.
By fall there should be a nice flock of pul-
lets which will be in need of winter quar-
ters. And here are two common errors to-
be avoided. The fowls should not be
crowded and the building should not be
cold. In many cases both evils are com-
bined. Men who allow plenty of room for
their sheep seem to think that a hen ought
not to complain if she has standing room,
while a building through which the wind
blows and the snow drifts is “good enough. "'
The place should also be dry. A damp-i
cellar is one of the worst of places for hens.
A good plan for building a hen house is to
make it ten or twelve feet wide, high
enough for convenience, and to give the
roof :1 iroper slant, and one foot in length
for eac fowl to be kept. This will give
ten square feet to each hen. A house forty
feet in length will accommodate four pens
of ten hens each, will yield a greater profit
than a hundred kept in the same space in
one flock. The building can hardly be
made too warm. If it is sided with matched
lumber, lined with building paper, and
sheathed on the inside, it will be none too
warm for this climate, and the hens will
not lay well unless they can have a warm
place.

Hi«:.\'s AND siiizizr.

Some farmers find that it pays well to
keep a flock with the sheep, and the two
seem to make a happy family. At night
the warmth of the larger animals keeps the
place comfortable, while during the warm
days they have the run of the yards, and
when it is cold and stormy they all stay in
together. A hen likes outdoor sunshine,
but when the thermometer is much below
freezing a comfortable interior is much to
be preferred by her.

THE FEEDING

is next in importance to the habitation,
but it is something that must be learned
largely from experience. It is easy to say
that hens must not get too fat, and should
be fed egg producing food, but in the ap-
plication of the theory is where the diffi-
culty lies. One man may feed nothing but
corn and get eggs in profusion, while the
majority will get nothing but fat hens and
disappointment from such treatment.
Another may feed wheat, cut bone, shells,
meat, and other foods calculated to make
hens lay, with no better results. Flocks
differ as well as people, and the only way

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SEPTEMBER 19, 1895.

THE GRAN GE VISITOR.

from the institutes held during the ' state had, as they must always
wintea in different parts of the '+ have, their influence on the result.

state, for in the testing station they
get the results, while in the insti-
tute they get theorv in a measure.
VVorking alone in the ex riments
we lose the crop and t e year’s
work; hence we cannot afford to
do individual work in that line.
Now we do not see and know by
careful ex eriiiients, but work as
it were wit out sight and without
knowledge. The station will come
directly home. ‘Ye will know the
results. Not that I cry down the

college or the institutes; they are I

doing a good work, but the col-
lege, being located at one place,
cannot do justice to the entire
.state, hence the need of the siib-
station. The question of southern
Michigan now is what we must do
to overcome the dry spell each
summer.

I ho )e something will be done on
Bro. V ’oodman’s suggestions and
the question be well discussed. Let
us understand what we most need,
and then act promptly. There
will be no difiiculty in finding men
who are up with the times and are
competent to manage a station,
who live on sandy farms, and know
what they have to contend with.

H. C. Rawsox.

$384.255,l28

IS SPENT annually for To cco.
Thousands of men die every yea from
that dreadful disease, Cancer 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, iniures
the voice, and makes your presence ob-
noxious to those clean and pure from
such a. filthy 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?

Whv, by inducing you to purch_as of
CoLL1’s Tonacco ANTIDOTE. which is
a preparation compounded strictly of
herbs and roots, which is a tonic to the
system; also cures the tobacco habit
and knocks cigarettes sillv.‘ ,
How do we know it will Lure you 5

First, by its thousands and thousands
of cures; second, by the increased de-
mand for it from the most reputable
wholesale houses, third, we know what
it is composed of, and that the prepa-
ration will clean the svstem of nico-
ttne, and will cancel all errors of the
past.

Your Druggist

has Colll for sale. If he has not. ask him to
get it for you. If he tries to aim oil“ some-
thing ‘net as “good." insist on aving Colli. If
he wil not order it for you. send us ($1.00) one
dollar, and receive a box of Colli postpaid. Re-
member COLLI Comes

In most cases one box aifects a cure, but we
guarantee three boxes to cure any one.

Colli Remedy Company.,
HIGGINSVILLE. M0.

On Top . .

Good beef is there now.
Merinos will not stay below long.
We have right stock at right prices.
Call or write
‘V. E. BOYDEN,
tf Delhi Mills. Mich.

Bnnxsi-nan: Chester White.
Janey Bed it Poland China
Pros. Jersey. Guernsey ll: Hol-
stein Cattle. Thorofighbi-ed
Sheep Fan Poultry unting
dntalo

     
   

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The Eureka Washer

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May be ordered with or without the lid.

Simple in construction and easy to operate,
Will wash everything clean from a lace cur-
tain to the heaviest bed clothes.

Ask the secretary of your R‘I'B.DR‘8 for full
particulars.

Eureka Washing Machine Co.,
MUNCIE, rxn.

 

Inoiher Wonderful cure.

Ever since my “ca1fhood" I had been in
trouble inherited a tendency to “breaking
out." After a severe attack I have often
been confined to ‘.he stable for weeks. Also
troubled with a. ringing sensation in my nose,
and a feeling as it stuck with pitchfoi-ks by
angry men. I was threatened with “Bologna
treatment." but 3. friend recommended Elas-
ticity as compounded by the Pa e Woven
Wire Fence Co., Adrian. Mich. ne dose
worked a. complete cure, and I can freely
recommend it in all similar cases.

Yours truly, Durham Bull.

l

The western and northern coun-
ties were favored this year as usu-
al. with a heavier and more per-
manent covering of snow than
other sections of the state. On
sandy soil and rolling land the
clover did the best, except where
the soil was too dry or where the
snow blew oii. There was in some
instances afailiire to get a good
stand owing to dry weather, and in
many cases the growth when win-
tel‘ set in was less than was desira-
ble. Late suminer drouths are to
be expected over much of this
state, which must in the future
often prevent as successful sum-
Iiicr and autumn seeding as can be
sec-iired in some other parts of the
country. Last autuiiin, however,
was unusually dry and therefore a
better growth before winter may
generally be expected than was ob-
tained last season.

Much has been written on the
preparation of the land for this
crop to insure its safely passing
the winter. In England where
this clover is grown with some
diificulty it is said to winter-kill if
sown on newly plowed land but to

iass the winter uninjured if merely

iiarrowed in on stubble. The source
of the seed is also suiposed to
aifect the hardiness of t iis clover,
but I know of no experiment to
show how much this eifect may be.
Anierican seed is generally consid-
ered the best for this country and
was used in nearly all of the trials
above recorded. Foreign seed is
cheaper and is sold by some of our
seedsmen.

Crimson clover is apparently
less hardy than common red clover,
though here appears a difference
of opinion on this point. Its suc-
cess or failure howeyer does not
rest on that fact alone. Red clover
is sown in the spring over most of
this state, and has time to become
well established before winter,
while crimson clover to succeed
must be sown in the fall or sum-
iiier. A moderate development in
autumn, probably two or three
inches in most localities. seems
most favorable to its passing the
winter, though a smaller growth
will winter safely where covered
with snow. Plants, however,
which are small in the fall do not
attain a full development in our
climate but run rapidly to seed in
the spring with a single or but few
stalks. Judging mainly from the
experience of the past season, it
seems probable that over most of
the lower peninsula of Michigan,
crimson clover will not prove to
be a satisfactory crop though for
certain locations, particularly along
the western part of the state, it
seems worthy of further trial. Un-
der ordinary circiiiiistances a siiiall—
er growth is to be expected here
than in warmer climates.

For Sub-Stations.

Enrron GRANGE Visiron: Yes,
the picnic edition is the best of all.
\’Vhen we read the bright and
cheering words on every page, we
wonder that so much can be put
into so small a space. There we
find encouraging words, strong and
loving sympathy that puts away
the dark clouds sometimes before
us, and lets the light of fraternal
love shine around us. I thank you,
Mr. Editor, for your untiring la-
bors in the continual improvement
of the VISITOR, and appreciate
your every effort.

In this edition I find an article
from Jason Woodman, “\\'hat the
Farmers Expect of the Experiment
Station.” I am satisfied he is cor-
rect. \Ve as farmers of southern
Michigan are not benefited by all
of the experiments of the Agricul-
tural College, because they are not
adapted to our needs on our sandy
soil. \Ve arrow wheat, corn, oats,
beans, andbhay, and we depend on
clover to keep up the fertility of
the soil. For a number of years
past We have had dry spells which
shorten and many times destroy
the crops and kill the young clo-
ver. If we could have one or more
stations where We could make a
specialty in testing diflerent kinds
of grain and manner of cultivation,
planting, everything pertaining to
the growth of the crops, We might
in a measure overcome the eifects
of the lack of rain. The experi-
ments being carried on in the
southern part of the state would
become of lasting benefit to the
country.

I believe the people would de-
rive more benefit than they do now

In addition to the removal of ni-
trogen from the soil by plants it
may be lost in soil water, provided
it is combined in the form of ni-
trates, since soils have little power
of fixing them in insoluble combi-
nations. VVhen the soil is covered
with a green crop, however, there
is littleiloss since plants absorb the
nitrogen very rapidly. The prac-
tice of bare fallowing, then, is one
which on this account alone is not
to be recommended, and especially
is this true in a climate which is
very moist.

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petnz) occurs in enormous deposits
in Peru. The coiniiiercial salt con-
tains about 16 per cent actual ni-
trogen. It is an excellent fertil-
izer, quick in action, but easily
washed out of the soil, and there-
fore should be applied while the
crop is growing, and in small
quantities at a time.

A)i)IONIC)I SULI-‘AT!-1, is a waste
or by—product, from the inanii-
fiicture of illuminating gas. It
contains about 20 per cent nitro-
gen and is much used in commer-
cial fertilizers.

GUANOS containing nitrogen are
now very limited, and practically
out of the market.

Ai\'i.\i.u. M .xT'ri:i-;s.-—These are
sufliciently described by their
names, with perhaps the exception
of tankage and azotin, the former
of which is slaughter house refuse,
and the latter preparation of meat
and ineinbrane fi'oni which the fat
has been extracted. All animal
matter comes mainly from the
slaughter house and fish oil facto-
ries. Some fertilizers contain
horn, hair, and leather scraps, as
a source of nitrogen, but this is
not as valuable as most other forms
of animal matter.

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limited amount of this is employed
in fertilizers. The main form used
is cotton seed meal, but this cuts a
very limited figure in our markets.

(Continued next issue.)

 

Crimson Clover.
Bulletin Michigan Station.

SUMMARY AND SUGGESTIONS.

It will be noticed that only one or
two of the above trials was entire-
ly successful. Still some of the
others came so near’being satisfac-
tory that many persons Will be in-
clined ttli‘ give this clover further
trial. he question therefore
arises do these tests indicate the
probable result of future efforts to
grow crimson clover in this state?
Reports from forty growers in
seventeen counties are perhaps not
as many as could be desired for a
basis of an opinion; still they have
considerable value. The past Win-
ter, on the whole, must be consid-
ered to have been favorable for
this crop. The ground was bare
of snow over much of the lower
peninsula longer than usual during
the first half of the winter but
there was not the ordinary amount
of alternate freezing and thawing,
while during the latter part of
winter there was a continual cov-
erino of snow over most of the
stat; March was of about its us-
ual character. VVheat wintered
well considering its generally poor
condition in the fall. Many of the
sowiggs of crimson clover ap-
pear to pass the winter success-
fully ocplyh to be kilged by the freez-
ino; an t awinor 0 early spring.
Still I do not gee how better re-
sults can be expected under ordi-
nary circumstances in the future.

Soil, exposure, and location in the

Qollege and Station

Composition and Use of Fertil-
izers.

Bulletin Oregon Station.

FORMS OF N ITROG I-‘..\’
I’LAl\'TS.

L'SEFL'L TO

There are three forms of nitro-
gen which are useful to plants:—

(1) Atmospheric nitrogen: (:3)
nitrogen in ammonium salts: (3)
nitrogen in nitrates. Each of these
forms is found to be useful to cer-
tain kinds of plants. The number
of plants that can utilize atmos-
pheric nitrogen is not large. In
general terms lcgiiiiiiiious plants.
such as peas, beans, clover, alfalfa,
and the like, can use the iiiicoiii-
bincd nitrogen. Hence. such plants
are spoken of as “nitrogen gather-
ers." Thisis one of the reasons
why such crops are often used as
green manures.

Although some plants have the
power to absorb nitrogen both di-
rectly and from aiiimonium salts
through the medium of the soil.
yet 751/ fit/' f/cc [41/'5/ml (I//mun! (If
m,'tI'r;_r/om is rlo//'/'r'wr/_f'/wm n/Z/‘I/!«:.~‘ /)2
t/re.»-m.'l. The nitrates are foriiied
by a process known as 1/1.2’/‘z_fi<,'((—
tin/1, which is brought about by
the oxidation of animonizi coin-
pounds and of organic niatter in
soil through the agency of iiiicro-
scopic organisms, bacteria, which
exist everywhere
numbers. The process is favored
by warmth and moisture, no ac-
tion taking place at a teinperaturc
below -10 degrees F., nor in very
dry soils, nor below ten inches.
HL‘ML's A ‘.\iF.ASL'RE or NITROGEN.

Hiiiiiiis is a term applied to cer-
tain organic iiiiitter in soils. lt
expresses no definite product, but
applies rather to the entire prod-
uct of organic decomposition, or
rather an intermediate stage of
this deconipositioii. This process
of organic decomposition results in
the production of ammonia which
combines with certain acids and is
absorbed. Thus the humus may
be taken as a iiieasure of the nitro-
gen in ii soil.

More or less ammonia escapes
into the atmosphere from the or-
ganic matter decaying near the
surface of the earth. This atmos-
pheric ammonia is brought back to
the earth by the rain and dew,
which are seldom free from this
compound. although the amount is
small and variable. The experi-
ments of Sir J. B. Lawes indicate
that an average of about 5 pounds
combined nitrogen pei' acre is
brought to the soil annually by
rain and dew, but in ordinary farm
districts the supply of nitrogen
from this source would probably
not amount to a third of the coin-
bined nitrogen removed from soil
by an average crop of wheat.

Under ordinary agricultural con-
ditions the loss of nitrogen consid-
erably exceeds that of natural sup-
ply and finally profitable crops
cannot be grown without the use
of nitrogenous manure.

RI-LVIOYAL OF NITROGEN.

The following table shows the
average amount of nitrogen re-
moved from the soil by one ton of
several of the leading farm pro-
ducts. In the same table, for the
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY

Ofllers National Grange.

Master-J. H. Briizham.... ....Delta. Ohio
0verseer—E. W. Davis. _ anta Rosa. Val.
Lecturer~Al )Il8 Messer .ROCllL‘S[t’I‘. Vt

   
  
 
  

Steward-M. . Hunt. . . . . . . ..Maiue
Ass’: Steward-A. M. 8 Rhode Island
(‘haplain—S. L. Wil.-:on..... ..Mi.ssissippi

Treasurer—Mrs. F. M. McDowell..'.....\'ew York
Sccretary—John Trimble.....Washington. D. 1‘.

Gate Kecper—W. E. Harbaugh . . . . . . . ..Missouri
(‘ere-s-—)lr.s. M. S. Rhone . . . . . . . . . ..Penns 'lvania
Poinona~—)Irs. Mary Reardon . . . . . . . . . . .. 'an.-‘as
Flora—)Irs. Annie L. Bull . . . . . . . . . . ..Minnesota

Lady Asst Stew’d~Mrs. Amanda Horton. Mich.
I-Executive Conunittee.

Leonard Rhone. ..(‘entcr Hall. Pennsylvania

R. R. Hiitchin.-‘on  ..  .. ....\ irginia
J. J. “oodiiizin. .. Paw Paw. Micliigan
()flicer.s Slit-lilgan State Grange.
313.-‘ter—(i.B. Horton . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Fruit Ridge

   

 

 
  
 
 

 

()vor.-‘ea-r—I\I. T. (Wild. . . . .. .. . . . .. Palmyra
Le-cturer~Ja.-on Woudm n . . . . . . . . . . .. Paw Paw
Ste-waril—(u'oorgc L. (‘arlislc . . . . . . . . ..l\'alka.ska
.-lssistarit St»-ward-J. H. Martin. Box «i4'_'.(iraud
Rapids.

('linplaiii--‘\l.'-iry .\. Mayo Battle (‘rock
Trcasiircr — A. Strong.. “Vick.-‘hiirg
bccrr,-mry~-J I‘ B\lt‘ll.. \iiii Arbor
Gate !\'oopcr~Williaiii Rni‘u‘!'iSnll - Hesperia
(‘ere-"~31 rs. .\l:«iry Robertson . . . . , _ , _ . . .Ho3s})Pria
Flora—)lrs li.-‘K4-Ila Bu:-ll . . . . . . . . . . ..L'nion Pity
Poiiiona—Mr.-‘. Julia Mc('liire . . . . . . . . . . ..5‘hel

by
L. A. Stcwziril--)Ir.-'. J. H. .\[artin. Grand Rapids
Execiitive (‘oiiiiiiittc-e.

J. (i. Ram.-‘dell ('hnirniun Traverse (‘ity

   
 
  
 

H.  Plait. ...Yp.-‘ilanti
( ,(w. Lll(‘¢’.. ,_l‘..l.iwato;-
“ - E. Wriizh . ,(‘ol«lwati-r
Pt-rr.v ~“8}'"--- .. .Rattlu ¢'i-.-ok
E. H_. Taylor. ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..‘ ml '
‘la  .}Pl{i-dfcrii . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . ..&lapli> Rapids
i. . ortoii I, - - . . . . .. Bruit Ri in
Jennie Bun-ll \ Ex Ofllm" i . . . . . . . . Ann Arlbolr
(Tnnnnittee on \\'oni:ui's \\'ork iii the
(irinige.
Mrs. Mary A. Mayo..... lintrle (‘rook

  

M r. . Mary Sliorwouil Hi
Mrs. Belle Royce . . . . . . . . ..

General Deputy Lecturers.
Mary A. Mayo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .l§attln- (‘rook

.. _Stuiit<-ii
. Baroda

 

     
   
 

Hon. J. J. \\'oodiiiaii.. ..   .P:iw Paw
Hon. 1'. H. LllCl‘....  .. .. .(‘olilwati>r
Hon. Perry Mayo. .. .Buttle (‘rock
Hon. Tlllbiilzi.-3 Slur. . .Bl‘l"I‘lL‘I.l Ventor
Jason \\'oodiiiaii.. . aw Paw
A. E. Paliiicr. . .. .. .Kulka<ka
Iuihzc J. H. Run l\'L'rsi\ l'ity
D. D. Bl1L‘ll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ....L'nion (‘ity

Co iinty I)t-puties.

U. H. Stebbins . . . . . . . . . . . .Atwood. Antriin (‘o.
L. t‘. Root.... .....-Xllcizuii. All"Ki|_Il “

 

 
  
  
 
   
 
 

R B Reynold-.. .. .. Inland. Bi-nzie "
(ieorgefB«m'.<i-r . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dowling. Barry “
Janins D. Stuillcy. ... Union ("ity. Branch "
R. \'. (‘lurk . . . . . . . . . . . .. uchaiinn. licrricn “
J. \V . hnnest .. . . ..\'t. Johns. (‘lintoii “
Diary A. Mayo Rattle (‘ruck-. ('alhoiin “
L B. Ward. 'liarlt-voix. (‘liarleyoix “
Abram Milli‘ .I)owagiuc. 1'a.-is “
F, . Osborn ill R1-ipids, Eaton "
V‘ . ' North Star,(irutiot “
B. 01' Flushing. hciic-so-o “
E. -n. (imiid Traverse “
M . . . Wlicutlaiid. Hillsilalo “
R. . . row_n..... ...Sand B\‘3(‘ll, Huron “
I). H. F.iigli.~:h.. ..   ..('liuiiillor. lonla "
F. W. Havens . . . . . . . . . ..Fitchbiirg. liiglizuii “

 

Fred Dcan.... ..  ..Brightoii. Livingston “
E. .Allis....  ..  ....—\«iriaii. Lenawee “
Jacob Rosensticl.    ..  ..

.‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Ri_i,'a. Muiiroc. and Lvnawee “
(re-orge_H. Lester . . . . . . ..(‘rystal. Montcalin “
I). R. V an ._\niborg,. . . Bear Lake. Iilaiiistee “

   
  
  

 

Jcssc E. \\ illianis....Big Rapiils. i\Ieco.-ta “
 Lawsoii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Disco. Macoinb "
VV ill G. Parish . . . . . . . . .. Flat Rock. Monroe “
T, F. Rogor.< . . .. .. ., .. .Ravcnna, Miiskcgou "
VV . W. ('arter. . .. . . . .. ...\shlaiiil. .\'ewaygo "
A. J. ('roshy . . . . .. ...Ypsiluiiti. Ouklziiiil “
Robert Alward.... Hiidsonvillc. Ottawa “
R. H. Tnylor.. .. . . . . . . .  it-lby, Oceans “
D. Murlin . . . . . . . . . . .. Vernon. Sliin\v:i.~'see “
A. ‘V. ('anfielil ...Avoca. St. (‘lair “

Wm. B. Laiiglcyli. :..(-l(;I.1i6'X‘VlllI.‘. St. Josi-pli “

R()h0FI_TTDl))' . . . . . . . . ..Birch Run. Saginaw “
. . (‘. Ixcrr . . . . . . . . . . .. Uarsoiivillc. Sanilac “
Helen A. Fiskc . . . . . “Lawrence. Van Biiron “
Henry Hiird.... ..  .. Plyiiioiitli. Wayne “
John  Mcl)ougnl. Ypsilzinti. Waslitciinw “
R. I‘. Norris . . . . . . . . . . . . ..('adillac. “'1-xford “

Revised List of Grange Supplies
Kept in the office of Sec)’ of the
MICI-[IGAX STATE GRANGE

And sent out post-paid on receipt of cash order,
over the Seal of a Subordinate Grange. and
the signature of its Master or Secretary.

Porcolnin ballot marbles per hundred

Secretary’.-' lcilgcr.  .

Secretary's record  .. . 

Treasiircr’.~: (mlor l)ll1lIlI , iilrc .. .

Secretary's rcccip . ordu:-s,per hundrcd.. 35

Trcasnrirs receipts for dues. per llUl.llII'I‘lI.. 35

Applications for iiicinbcrsliip. per hundred 54)

35
3.5

  
          
 

VV itlnlrawal cards, per dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
Deniirs. in ciivelopos, mr dozen . . . . . . . . . . . ..
By-laws of the State 'raiigc. single copies.

 
 
 

lllc : pnr dozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 75
“Glad Echoes." with music, single copies.

25c;pcrdozen....  ..  ..  .. 3 00
Grange lilclodies. single copy. 40c: por doz. 4 ()0
Opening Son Card. Zc cacli : 750 per 51): 100 1 35
Rituals. Ttli on ition (with combined degrees.)

25c each: per dozen....     2 T5
Rituals, 5th degree, set of nine... .. . . . 1 80
Rituals. Juvenile, single copy . . . . . . . .. . 15
Notice to delinqiieiit nienibcrs, per 100 . . . . . . 41)
American Manual of Parliamentary Law.. 50
Di est of Laws and Rulings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 25

R01   15
Sample package co-operative literature . 18
Kelley's History of the Grange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Write for prices on gold pins. badges, work-
ing tools, staif lIl()l1l’.ifIilK5..S(:‘8lS. ballot boxes
and any other Grange supplies. Address

Miss JESSIE BUELL.
Ann Arbor. Mich.

GOIINT ‘i

If you are articular about what
kind of 1 [»'R-SE1? Y STO (/Ii’
you set——If you are anxious to
get started right—lf you want to
feel easy knowing that what you
buy will prove to be HEALTHY
and TRUE TO NAME, write us
to-da , or call on the SECRETARY
of OUR GRANGE and learn
about us.

V\'e have a large
line of choice

Apple, Pear, Peach, Plum,
Cherry, small fruit plants,
and shrubs.

Our low prices may surprise you.
W EST

MICHIGAN
NURSERIES.

Benton Harbor, Mich.

R. MORRILL, 0. E. FIFIELD.
Prest. Sec’y and Trees.

P. S.--See Confidential Trade Circular, p 40.

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

SEPTEMBER 19, 1895.

THE fififillflrfi VISITOR

CHARLOTTE. MIGH.

The tlilicial Organ of the Michigan State Grange.

Published on the First and Third Thursdays of Each Month

Enrron :
Kmvvon L. BUTTERFIILD, Luvsmc. MICH.

§"To whom all exchanges and all articles for publication
should be sent.

Maxacsns Aim Pnrxrnnsz
Pznnv 4 MGGRATH, CHARLOTTE, MICH.
To whom all subscriptions and advertising should be sent.

TERMS 50 Cents a. Year. 25 Cents for Six Dlonths.
In Clubs of 20 more 40 Cents per Year each.
Subscriptions aynble in advance. and discontinued at
expiration. un ess renewed.

Qllemlttances should be by Registered Letter, Money

Order or Dre. . Do not send stamps.

§"To insure insertion all notices should be mailed no

later than the Saturday preceding issue.

 

Entered at the Posrofhce at Charlotte. MlCh.. as Second
Class matter.

 

@‘Nr~:x"r lsscs. 0("I‘0BI-ZR 3.

OUR WORK.

The following has been approved by the State Grange as
a'fair statement of the objects the Grange of Michigan
has in view, and the special lines along which it proposes to
Work. “"0 hope every Grange in the state will work
earnestly in all these departments. so that by a more
united elfort we shall rapidly increase our numbers.
extend our influence. and attain more and more complete-
ly those ends which we seek.

OUR OBJECT

is the Organization of the Farmers for their own lmprove-
ment. Financially. Socially. Mentally, Morally.

We believe that this improvement can in large measure
be brought about:

1. By wider individual study and general dis-
cussion of the business side of farming and home keeping.

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

2. (a.) By frequent social gatherings, and the mingling
together of farmers with farmers, and of farmers with
people of other occupations.

(b.) By striving for a purer manhood. a nobler wornan-
hood. and a univer.-'al brotherhood.

3. (a.) By studying and promoting the improvement of
our district schools.

(b.) By patronizing and aiding the Agricultural (‘ol-
leges and Experiment Stations in their legitimate work of
scientific investigation, practical experiment. and educa-
tion for rural pursuits.

(c.) By maintaining and attending farmers’ institutes;
reading in the Reading ('irch.-: establishing and using
circulating libraries; buying more and better magazines
and apers for the home.

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

(b.) By demanding the enforcement of existing statutes
and by discussing. advocating. and trying to secure such
other state and national laws as shall tend to the general
justice. progress and morality.

 

It is a good time to begin work for the
VISITOR.

 

Read the report of Hillsdale Pomona in
“Gran;_rc News. ”

 

The Uimrr/:2 1124/M2’/z speaks highly of
our picnic edition. Thanks.

 

l\'Ai\'Tr:D—One thousand brainy, push-
ing young farmers to join the Grange.

 

Are you planrrirrg to include in _your
winter's work :1 course of reading in the

F. H. R. C!

 

Is it too early for the Grzmge to begin
thinking of what it purposes to ask of the
legislature in 1897?

 

\Vc regret to say that we cannot §_{ive space
to the entire address of Hon. Edwin V\'il—
lits. “'6 publish such a portion of it as
our space will allow.

 

\\'e trust that parents who are readers of
the Vrsrron fully appreciate the value of
the series of papers by Flora C. Buell
which have been running in the \Vornan‘s
work portion of the paper.

 

Page six of this issue is not in imitation

of Japanese newspapers, though you will

have to read from right to left. It is simp-
ly one of those mistakes that occur in even
well regulated printing houses.

 

Boys, remember that you can take an
entrance examination to the Agricultural
College without visiting the College and
with no expense; apply to your county
commissioner of schools for particulars.

 

The more we see of public- men and pub-
lic deeds, the more fully we become con-
vinced that the greatest need of our public
life, today, is character. We have in pub-
lic life men of ‘brains, men of enterprise,
men of shrewdness. But alas! too often there
is brain Without heart, enterprise Without
conscience, shrewdness without patriotism.

 

Sixty counties are ready to hold :1 farm-
ers’ institute this winter, under the new
law. Six of these are in the upper penin-
sula. Probably five or six more will or-
ganize before the time limit is up. The
institutes will begin with a series of four
in the upper peninsula in October. About
fifteen will be held in November, chiefly in
northern counties, and the remainder will
occur in January.

AN INQUIRY INTO AGRICULTURAL EDU-
CATION.

The State Board of Agriculture, at its
last meeting, appointed a committee of the
faculty of the Agricultural College to make
an inquiry into agricultural conditions,
with the purpose of discovering if possible
why a larger number of young men do not
come to the College to fit themselves for
farming.

We believe that this inquiry is valuable
and opportune. For forty years the Col-
lege has been doing a large and noble
work. It has increased its equipment until
in that respect it takes precedence of all
other institutions of similar character in
the world, probably. Yet the number of
students pursuing agricultural work has
been, and is today, relatively small, in pro-
portion to the great constituency of intelli-
gent Michigan farm ironies.

\\'hat is the reason for this? As many
men as you  have as many reasons to
give. Some think it is the College itself.
Some believe it is in the debilitated condi-
tion of farming financially considered.
Some have it that the farrners are not yet
ready for an agriculturzrl college like our
own. lVhatever the cause may be it is
worth seeking. The personnel of the
committee insures a thorough investigation;
and none other will be satisfactory. For
the college problem cannot separate itself
from the whole broad problem of agricul-
tural education. The Agricultural Col-
lcgc is but one feature of agrieulturirl edu-
cation. It should be the center of such
education, but it is not all of it. In other
words, the Agricultural College exists for
the farmers, not the farmers for the Col-
lege. Hence a tlrorougli investigation of
the problem can not stop with a study of
the course that is otlcred, nor of the labor
system, nor of the general admirristratiori
of the College. These are small features
comparatively. The great questions are,
what are the wants and needs of the farin-
ing classes of Michigan, both old and young,
in respect to education for rural pursuits,
and how can those wants and needs best be
supplied? Any inquiry which stops shortof
the whole problem will be barren of sub-
stantial results.

All friends of the College and of :ri_{rr‘i-
culture will welcome the inquiry, and they
may feel sure that the committee appoint-
ed, corrsistirig of Dr. Edwards, Prof's.
Smith and Frank Kedzie, will not stop
short of such thoroughness as the subject
requires.

THE F UNDA ;lIEl\'T.-1%,}? HE S TI ON FOR FA RM-
S.

Reformers have seemed to believe that
the spiritual needs of the poor or the vic-
ious werc first to be considered, simply be-
cause those needs are the most tremendous
needs of the human race. But this logic
has been despoiled of its point by experi-
ence, and up-to—date philanthropists are
directing their efforts towards the primary
work of rrraking tolerable the conditions
of life among the lowly.

“"hat is true of the lowest classes is in a
less degree true of the rnasses—true of
farmers. As much as we may want edu-
cation and moral culture, we must first
minister to the bodily needs. Whatever
we may desire in the way of books, we
must first have bread. True, the farm
may be best improved by first improving
the farrner, but as a rule farmers as well
as other people must be able to make a fair
living before social culture, books, and
reading will be fully appreciated and used.

This is rather a cumbersome introduc-
tion to what we wish to enforce, but we
have stated the principle and Will now up-
ply it. The Grange has for its chief pur-
pose, education. But the Grange recog-
nizes this principle we have laid down, and
endeavors to assist its members to a more
comfortable and cheaper living. The
latest fruits of this endeavor in Michigan
are the trade arrangements, made by the
State Grange, with a large number of
firms to sell directly to members of the
Order at a. liberal discount. VVe cannot
speak too highly of the business wisdom
of \Vorthy Master Horton in putting this
feature of co-operative buying on a sub-
stantial basis. To him belongs most of the
credit both of inaugurating and of perfect-
ing the system in this state.

So much for the value of it. Now for a
word of practical counsel with Patrons.

First, use the trade arrangements. When
you have anything to buy give this arrange-
ment a fair trial. The machinery may not
work well at first, but grease it with pa-
tience, and we will soon have a co-oper-
ative system in truth as well as in theory.
Second, do not abuse it. Let no Patron
use these trade arrangernents to make
profit for himself by buying under them
and then selling to others with :1 mar_<_rin.
Let no Patron use the :~:y.~:tem to force lo-
cal merchants to lower prices. Most Pat-
rons necd no such caution, :1 few need the
caution. Third, use the plan to get mem-
bers. “If it is a good thing,push it along."
is your word to your nei_9;hbors. This sys-
tem appeals to the pockets, and pockets
are susceptible affairs these days. Fourth,
do not nragnify the trade feature until it is
the whole Grange. The Grange exists for
other and nobler purposes than money
making. But these trade arr:rngcrncnt.<
make it easier for members to enjoy the
real work of the Grange. We hope this
work will receive the cordial and patient
support of all our Patrons.

It will aid in putting the Gr:1ng_rc on :1
more sub;~:tantial foundation, and is one of
the best moves rnade in the history of the
Grange of Blicliigrrrr.

 

ART ON THE FARM.

Not long :r;_ro, in our Grunge news col-
umn, thcre w:1.s an item which stated that
Peninsular Grange had been favored with
an art exhibit, consisting of paintings by
an able artist. it occurred to us that this
was a splendid treat for the members of
that Grange, and the incident partially
suggests what we may say of art on the
farm.

There is rarely a man or woman who is
wholly un:1ppreci:1tive of that which is
beautiful in nature. There seems to have been
implanted iii the human breast a something
that responds to nature's moods. It :11-
rnost appears as if one could rneasure the
real refinement of the person by the degree
with which that person admires the scenery
of earth, sky, or water. Even religious
feeling is stirred by natural scenes. But
we find that comparatively few people
have :1 similar appreciation of art in any
form. A picture, :1 statue, even music,
aside from the jingle there is to it, do not
give pleasure nor arouse intelligent appre-
ciation. There is often :1 prejudice against
this sort of thing as being entirely discon-
nected with practical life. Some farmers
are very apt to think that art has no place
in farming or in farm life. But we be-
lieve that this is a mistake.

There is a double position that art occu-
pies on the farm-—one concerns art in farm
labor, the other art in farm life. Of the
first, Hon. Chas. VV. Garfield spoke elo-
quently at several Michigan farrners’ insti-
tutes last winter. He said in substance:
“There is just as nruch art in farm work
as in any other work. The man who turns
a straight and even furrow, and takes
pride in doing it, is an artist. The house-
wife who delights in new combinations in
the arrangement of the furniture, is an
artist. The true farmer is one who loves
to perform his labor artistically as well as
profitably.”

\Ve are apt to think that the labor of the
hand is inevitably inartistic. But we must
remember that sculpture, painting, music,
architecture depend almost solely on the
trained hand. Others may have the artist-
ic conceptions, but it is the delicate manual
touch of the artist which enables that con-
ception to find adequate expression. This
thought may lend dignity to manual labor
of any sort that is done skillfully and whose
product is-symmetrical and beautiful. There
is an intellectual side to the matter also,
Rosa Bonheur’s “Horse Fair” is fa-
mous as a great art-istic creation. Is it
more artistic than the effort which evolved
the splendid horses she so faithfully repre-
sented? Is not the broad back of the
Shorthorn, the mild eye of the Jersey, the
dilating nostril of the racer, the intelligent
look of the Collie, as creditable to those
who, working with God, have made them
possible, as to those who paint themg

This thought leads to the other phase of
art on the farm—the art in farm life. So
many us have untrained eyes and ears!
VVe see no beauty where a wealth of beauty
lies. Prof. Bailey says that "Landscape
gardening lies under a man’s hat. It de-

i pends on whether he sees in a tree a cord
I of wood, or the beautiful form and artistic
j lights and shadows." The hardness of
' farm life. the barrenness of pioneer condi-
tions, have, we fear, bred in some of our
farm people a feeling that the beautiful is
not worthy of attention. But it is worthy
of attention. (,‘ultiv:1ted, refined people
everywhere. among farmers as well as any
other class, love art and admire it. It does
them good, makes them better, inspires
them. So we say that farmers. as well as
other people of intelligence, should get rid
of the notion, if they have it, thatart has no
place in farm life. The work of the farm
can be rnude artistic. The home life of
the farm may be gladdcned by art. For-
tunately thousands of farmers -believe this.
But urrforturiately thousands of them do
not believe it, and it is to these we speak.

 

Is This True?

Tire DCtI'()lt./I/I1/‘/H//, :1ftcrlr:rvinga little
la11gl1~bec:u1sc "Clif" Charles of Bangor
received the degjrce of Master of A_<_rricul-
ture from the Mic-liigurr Agr'icrrltirr'al Col-
lege at the recent commencement, goes on
to say:

This is not in the way of criticising
the Agricultural Colle_t_re. Its course is
e.\'ccllcntly adapted for improving the life
of the farnrcr and for making him :1 better
agx‘icr1ltur'ist. But the small farmer is
being crushed out by forces that are too
strong for him and for colleges‘. Only now
and then one like :1 .\l:1stcr of A§_7l‘lcl1ltIll'o,
a man of superior brains and cnc1'gy, can
succeed in pure a_t_rr'icultur'c, in :1 sruull way.
For the most it is a bare living with the
hardest work, and with the prospect of
losing all. There is little if any chalice
for the farrn laborer ever to be an inde-
pcndcnt farmer. Farm lands are too hi;_rh
in value. The time has come for tenant
farming and for large far'rr1in1 capital and
for large farnis. A Master of Agriculture
of the future must be the man who can
superintcnd _<_rrcat farrning o )el':).ll()IlS; but
he will not handle the plow himself. Even
for such 21 farn1er' the Agr'icrrltr1r':rl College
of Michigarr isa splendid scllool, and he
should be sent there by all mean.-‘.

 

The National Grange.

\\'a.-'hirigton. D. C., September 1.3, 189.3.
Ofiice of the Secretary, 51-} F Street,
N. \V.

In accordance with the provisions of its

the Session of 159-}, the Twenty—l\’inth
Session of the .\'-utional Gr'au}_>:c of the Pat-
rons of Husbandry will be held in the city
of \Vorcester, i\l:rss:iclmsctts, commencing
on “the first \\'e<lr1c.-«lay after the second
Monday in Nov'crr1ber"’ (13th) at eleven
o'clock a. m.

The Sessions of the Grnrige will be held
in Horticultural Hall.

Accommodations for thc Nationzil
Grange have been secured at the Bay State
House (as headquarters), at the rate of $2
per day each, including heat and light.

By order of the Executive Cemmittee.

Jon): TRIMBLE, Sec1'ct:u'y, N ational
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Assembly of the Priests of Demeter.
Order of the Patrons of Husbandry,
Office of the Annalist.
Fruit Ridge, Mir-h., Aug. 21), 1895.

The assembly of the Priests of Demeter
of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry,
will confer the Seventh Degree, or De-
gree of Ceres, during the Twenty-ninth
Session of the Nzrtional Grange, to be con-
vened at ‘V011-ester, Mass, on VVednes-
day, November the 13, 159.3. The work is
assigned for Friday afternoon and evening
of Nov. 15th. The ceremonies of conferr-
ing the Degree will take place in Mechan-
ics Hall, a large and suitable audience
room, which will be especially equipped
for the rendition of the degree work.

Members who have received the Sixth
Degree, or Degree of Flora, are entitled to
this Degree, upon the payment of one dol-
lar, accompanied with a certificate bearing
name of applicant, residence, town, county
and state, and time and place of having re-
ceived the Sixth Degree. (The Sixth De-
gree will probably be conferred by a. State
or the National Grange, on Thursday even-
ing previous to the time set apart for the
conferring of the Seventh, thus giving all
members an opportunity to prepare the
way up to the Seventh Degree.)

All applications must be VVorthy Master
of the State Grange, in whose jurisdiction
the applicant resides.

lVe therefore recommend that all appli-
cations, prior to Novmeber 10th, should be
sent to respective Masters of State Granges,
who will supply the proper blank forms of
application, and give the necessary ap-
proval. Subsequent to November 11), ap-
plications should be sent to or made with
the Annalist in person at National Grange
session. Fraternally,

LEONARD RHONE, GEO. B. HORTON,

Annalist. High Priest.

Constitution and the resolution adopted at T

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SEPTEMBER 19, 1895.

THE GRANGE

VISITOR.

State Tax Statistician.

The following communication to the
Adrian J[e.s;m2.qer is self explanatory:
}L’dr,'t07' Elle.-5.sc2a_r/67*.‘ I note that in T/ac
Ilfesxenger of the 7th you characterize as
“One of the most outrageous acts of the
last legislature” the creation of the law
that authorizes and directs an inquiry by
the state into the methods and results inci-
dent to the assessment and collection of
taxes for public use, and whether that pro-
portionate justice is being done by all the
people of the state that is promised in the
states constitution. I cannot think that
the gravity of the question at issue came
fully to mind when such statement was
made, nor could the first duties of
a state to its people have been coiisid-
ered. I think all will concede that a state
owes no greater obligation to its citizens
than seeing and knowing that equity and
proportionate  iistice is done by all
in the assessment and collection of taxes
for public use. It would be tyrannical ex-
tortion and akin to despotism for the state
to knowingly and with intent exact unpro-
portionate amounts from the holdings and
estates of individuals and corporations to
pay the public expense. If one man or
firiii is forced by existing methods to pay
a tax of $100, while a neighbor who has
double the property in cash value pays but
$235 for the support of the same general
purpose, there is just cause for complaint,
and as most people are led to conclude it
becomes the duty of the state to correct
the great wrong and prevent its repetition.
“If it is “outrageous" and consequently
wrong, for the state to enquire into and in-
vestigate these matters we may well ask
what are the duties and obligations of the
state to its people. \\'li-at is a state gov-
ernment for? “"hether such conditions
of injustice really do exist we cannot posi-
tively say, but we do know that it is
charged openly and frequently by all class-
es of people, by public speakers and iiews—
paper editorials that gross discriininations
are made in the levy and collection of tax-
es. If this be true, is there no help! \Vhen
such charges are made of injustice is it not
the duty of the state to investigate and as-
certain the truth or falsity of the charges?
It someway seems to be in line with the
way that we have been taught to say that
it is. It is also in line with the
policy of states nowadays to order iiivesti—
gations whenever any respectable number
of people make complaint that their rights
and privileges as citizens are being tres-
passed upon and disregarded.

The state of Michigan is not iiiimiiidful
of its duty in this particular. It hears the
complaints of its people and the last legis-
lature authorized and directed such an in-
vestigation and an inquiry into present
methods of assessing. equalizing and col-
lecting taxes for the state‘s use and to show
in what proportion it was borne by the
diflerent interests and classes and kinds of
property based upon relative cash value. I
believe most people will say "Amen, go
ahead. That is just what we want. "' Give
us such a collection, compilation and coni-
parison of data as will show the exact facts
as to who and What contributes to make up
the great tax levy of the state. Then by a
comparison of -relative values we can see
just where we are. We have state provis-
ions for collecting statistics regarding
mining, labor, banking, agriculture, etc.,
but strange as it may appear there is not
in existence in any of the departments at
Lansing any collection and comparison of
data from which the citizen may glean, to
prove or disprove the many complaints
that are being made, charging gross injust-
ice in the distribution of the general tax
levy.

The writer knows, from personal iiivesti-
gation and inquiry, that the above state-
ment is true. There are compilations based
upon supervisors’ reports, but such are
openly charged with being the result of
gross in'ustice. So it becomes necessary
to go be ind these returns as the investiga-
tion now soon to commence, proposes. The
legislator whom we elect to serve the best
interests of the state, needs the proposed
collection of taxstatistics, that he may act
intelligently and without guessing at it,
when tax legislation is pending. And to
the end, that if proportionate justice is not
done now, as so many charge that it is not,
reforms may be instituted. First, give us
the facts and existing conditions, the show-
incr intelligent action, may be expected to
follow. §ome may ask why not let the
auditor general do this work and save the
expense. This class of work is not listed
as one of the duties of his department and
to place it there would need special ii'ovis—
ions and appropriation to cover t e ex-
pense, so it was wisely thought best to
keep it clear from all department influence,
believing that more satisfactory and useful
results will be more likely to be attained.

As to the charge that the work was in-
stituted and provisions made to place it in
charge of a special oflicer to make a place
for Hon. C. V. DeLand, no statement or
idea could be farther from the truth. I
have personal knowledge of how the bill
originated, and of the work done to place
its merits fully before both branches of
the legislature. The idea was new and the

bill won on its merits alone. Col. DeLand
came up as a candidate for the appoint-
ment with several others, and gained the
governor's favor. His qualifications so
far as a knowledge of tax matters are con-
cerned, are good. He has been supervisor
fifteen years, was secretary of the special
tax commission of 1875' or thereabouts, and
has been a member of senate tax commit-
tees.
mains to be seen at the end of the term. It
has been intimated that Gov. Richis inter-

 are content.

ests and ambitions are such that he does 3

not cai'e to have such a showing made as
the bill contemplates and selected his man
according. Be this as it may, we can only
wait for the final reports.

If the governor is willing to sacrifice '

justice for the sake of peace and quiet.
then let his excellency bear the blame if
no showing of importance is made. The
movement is correct in principle and is
justified by the complaints so commonly
made by the people. Let us closely watch
the proceedings.
GI-20. 1’). Honrox.
Fruit Ridge, Mich.

The King's English.

\\'e clip the following from the (Hun
Iii//‘/my/‘. It contains many good hints for
those who write for publication:

(1.) Be sure the thought is clear in
your own mind. Then express it so that
your reader not only may but must at once
see just what you mean. Never use a word
of which you are not sure you know the
exact meaning. Leave that to l\lrs. Mala-
prop and Mother Partington. 'Ihey both
became justly famous for exactly thati
Never write on a subject you do not under-
stand. Let chemistry alone unless you
have seen and used retorts, reagents. acids
and alkilies, and know how they act. Do
not write on the silver question unless you
know something of the theory and history
of money and clearly comprehend the two
qualities and functions of currency—as a
means of exchange and as a measure and
contmt of value: and the sharp difference
between real money and mere token money.
Do not try to “grease the wheels of the uni-
verse" unless you know more of astronomy
than “Brudder J asper,” who preaches,
as often as he is requested, his celebrated
sermon, "The sun do move.” Always
"speak that you do know and testify that
vou have seen,“;_like the witness held down
to his own actual knowledge by the op-
posing counsel.

(:3.) In order to the above, use short
words. ()ur short words are chiefly Sax-
on, and some way seem stronger and more
pat. Got is better than acquire; /~12,-e than
possess; begin than commence; home than
residence: house than mansion; live than
reside; and so on through a long list. The
half taught think it learned or polite to
use the longer, larger words. The well
drilled know better. Short words. well
used. are like the smooth, round stones
picked from the brook by young David.
Thin, flat ones would have "skipped" better
on the surface of the J ordaii. T/we
pierced Goliah‘s brain. Just so. long
pollysyllables glance from the reader's
brain, while short words, if pat, enter it
and convince. Of course this rule has
many exceptions. Soinetinies the longer
word is more exact, more specific, more
emphatic, even. Not as a rule.

(3.) For similar reasons use short sen-
tences. A sentence is a thought expressed
in words. It must have a subject and a
verb and may need modifiers. When you
have these—subject, verb, needed modifiers
—use a period and begin a new sentence
with a capital. If you wish to modify
your thought at some length, do so by
other sentences, as a rule. Do not string
a whole page of “copy” loosely together
by if's, -.ind’s, for‘s, but's, however‘s, iii0re—
over’s and iiotwithstaiidiiigs. Your
thoughts thus linked, like twenty colts tied
head to head by a long rope, are likely to
get tangled. Such "copy" is a terror to
editors. It makes them pray for literary
chopping-knives and sausage-grinders.

In any plain, practical article avoid
studied attempts at elegance, alliteration,
use of poetic words and expresions. Al-
literation is the vice of the newspaper
headliners and the disgust of all good taste.
Avoid alliteration, then, in prose, or at
least do not seek it. It is a blemish.

(4.) Punctuate simply to make your
thoughts more clear. If you do not know
how to do this, then do not attempt it ex-
cept to put a period, at the end of each sen-
tence and begin the next with a capital.
If you do not know a complete sentence
and how to make one, then you should
either take irfew private lessons of a com-
petent teacher or else not try to write for
our 200,000 readers. Of all things do not
fill your copy with dashes. The dash has
a specific use, but good writers employ it
seldom. Its frequent or constant use in-
stead of all other punctuation marks is a
confession either of ignorance or careless-
ness, both fatal to one’s success asa writer.
If your t/Long/it is clear and you use no
punctuation marks except the period, the
editor can punctuate your “copy.” If you

use dashes, commas, semicolons, etc., at
random, he must first erase and then put

in the marks correctly.
lanting in a prepared but empty soil.

The other is like digging up weeds and ’

then planting.

Some of our valued practical writers had
few early opportunities in the way of edu-
cation. \\'e would not discourage these.
If they will send us specific facts and con-

_ , clusions from their own recent work, ex-
W hat he will really accomplish re— A

perience or observation, clearly expressed
in short words and compact sentences. we
That is the "button" thev
Can "press" and which we cannot ‘'pi'ess,i'

; but we can do the rest.

The Park House, St. Louis.

VVhile attending picnics throughout the

state the )a.'t tw( \' ek: ' l '  ‘ ; - ~ - - - - -
the VI‘,IT(l)R’w V.’,.:e1 " ”_1,t1evh”1t‘,1iJ‘t 0f‘ 3 iiigton I niversity of ht. Louis. under the
‘ e ‘*1 9‘ mu ’°~‘ "W ‘mm ? direction of the forestrv division of the de-

near St. Louis and at the picnic secured
more subscribers than at any other place.
This coupled with that other fact that the
present mayor of St. Louis was our school-
iiiate in a school district in Jackson where
we were both born causes us to compli-
ment the leading point in that thriving
city——tlie Park House. "Have you been to
the spring,“ was the question we oftenest
met and having a few hours leisure we pro-
ceeded to the place. Hei'e we learned by
distinguislied people of the wonderful

» curative powers of the St. Louis mineral

water which is acknowledged to be the
best in the world. A boy from Bay City
told us that his father who has been treat-
ing there for rlieumatisin had iiicreased his
weight from ‘J? pounds, in only four
months, to 1630 pounds. Other stories
equally wonderful reached our ears. Dr.
Andrews, the proprietor of the hotel, re—
fuses to sell the well to ca iitalists although
offered >31I)o.ooo for it. lie prefers to do
good, and is a very genial man to meet.
’eople carry off all the water
they want, and a constant string of people
take advantage of the doctor's sense of
justice and mercy. Dr. Andrews finds
sufiicient reward in the use of the water in
his treatment of severe cases and the pat-
ronage it brings to his hotel.

Traverse Picnic.

One of the largest attended and niost
successful farniers‘ picnics ever held in
Northern Michigan was given under the
auspices of Traverse district I’omona
Grange, at Traverse City, August 5-30.
Col. Brigham gave us one of his powerful
speeches, showing the great advantage of
co-operatioii in the different kinds of busi-
ness, and its especial necessity to the till-
ers of the soil. Bro. D. E. McClure then
gave us some pointers on the educational
features of the Grange. Congressman
O'Donnell being present, made a few gen-
eral aiid well timed reinarks. The brass
band of Traverse City furnished the music.
The weather was fine. subscriptions to the
Visirok were received and everyb(,idy was
beiiefitted. Fraternally,

A. I’. GRAY.

Drift of Population to Cities and Its
Significance.

The closing decades of this century are
witnessing no more remarkable plienoine—
non than that shown in the migration of
population, not so much from country to
country, as from place to place in the same
country. This interior migration is most
noticeable in the most progressive lands.
In Australia, for example, the rural dis-
tricts prosper and a few great cities grow
enorinously, while all the intermediate
communities are relatively stagnant; but in
the United States. the drift is unmistakably
from the farms to the nearest village, from
the village to the nearest town, and from
the town to the city. The newest portions
of the western states, which are still in
process of settlement, have not as yet felt
the full effect of the centripetal attraction,
for population tends to spread out into a
more or less uniform density; but wherever
immigration has ceased the new forces
quickly begin to tell, and throughout the
older settled states, in New York as well
as in Illinois and Iowa, a universal and all-
powerful current has set in, sweeping
everything toward the centres. This trans-
plantation has most far-reaching effects.
Politically, it transfers a preponderance of
power to the great cities, changing the re-
sults of important elections, and increas-
ing the urgency of municipal problems.
Socially, it swells the number of the class-
es niost exposed to agitation and discon-
tent, intensifies the dangers to be appre-
hended from the social upheavals, and
widens the growing chasins between the
classes. It concentrates the wealth of the
nation into fewer hands, and reacts pro-
foundly upon the material, social and po-
litical life of the entire nation. The im-
portance of this migration, therefoi_'e,' is

ardly to be overestimated. It is a striking
characteristic of our period—that it is a
period of universal transition, in which
large masses of people, apparently against
their own interests, leave the country,
where homes are cheap, the air pure, all
men equal. and extreme poverty unknown,
and crowd into cities where all these con-
ditions are reversed. When this niove—

The one is like i

ment has proceeded too fast, and the cities
have become swollen with a surplus popula-
tion for whom there is no employment. when
urban expansion has far outrun the
growth of the contributory territory, and
and thiscondition has become excessive and
universal, a panic interrupts this coiiceii—
tration for a time, until the balance be-
tween town and country is reestablished.

The more rapid, therefore, the process of
centralization, the more frequent and in-
tense must be the periods of depression

needed to correct it. 11¢’/21-y -/. I"/etc/uxr
/n -~lu{/Ilxt I'brum.

Strength of Wood.

“As a result of nearl_v 40.01 IN tests of tini-
ber made at the laboratory of the \Vasli-

partment of Agi'iciilture." says Ii’rr//u-up
11'/lg/hm r/my «I/ml .l[er/n/1u'r's, "the follow-
ing facts have been dcteriiiined: Seasoned
timber is about twice as strong as green
timber, but well seasoned timber loses its
strength with the 1ll)sol'ptl(Il1 of lllul-\tllI‘0;
tiinbers of large sections have equal
strengtli per square inch with small ones
when they are equally free from blemish;
knots are as great a source of weakness in
a column as in a beam: long-leafed pine is
stronger than the average oak, and bleed-
ing timber does not impair its qualities. It
is stated that a large amount of chestnut
felled in Alabama for the tan bark was al-
lowed to rot because its value for railroad
ties was not known. The Division of For-
estry called attention to the superiority of
this timber for ties, and the. wood is now
so utilized with a saving to that region
alone of ncarlv $.'io,ooo per year."

Pomona Granges.

Capitalize Them and Make Them Boards of Trade.
Good Hints.

In my opinion the present cinbai'ras.~xing
condition of the farmer can only be fully
met through the Pomona (,i‘ri'aii_ges. which
will make them more iiiipo rtant
factors in the order. The l’omon:i
must take the place of the nierchantis
board of trade to look after the farmer's
interest. Pomona (zlraiiges should be cap-
italized oii a sound financial basis that
would not be burdensonie on their iiieiii-
bership, but at the same time supply the
necessary funds to enable it to go into the
local market and establish cash produce
markets for the sale of the products of
those who cannot avail themselves of the
means already indicted.

’»y thus capitalizing the Poniona
Urraiiges. the appointment of a competent
board of maiiagers who in turn could se-
lect a salesman, farmers would be enabled
to find a more profitable cash inarket for
surplus produce which would tend largely
to diversify the productions so as to meet
the requireinents of the market to be sup-
plied.

It would be easy for several hundred
mcuibers each to contribute five or ten
dollars by subscription to the general fund
to be paid back out of the profits of the
business. This would raise an additional
fund which. added to the oi'diii-.iry income,
would be sufficient to establislialocal prod-
uce iiiai'ket in almost any ordinary country
town or other suitable l4ication.—Lmn«rrr/
T. It’/mm».

I feel quite sure that if fai'niers generally
knew the value of turnips for stock food,
and lio\v easily and cheaply they can be
grown when the conditions iiecessary to
success are understood and complied with,
they would be grown and fed to a iiuicli
greater extent than now. As they can be
sown from July 20 to the saine date in
August. tlie_v can always be grown as a
“catch crop.”'—— ll?//r/n F. /I/-mm.

\\'eeds. usually as seeds. go and come in
all directions, no less as tramps catching a
ride upon each passing freight train, than
in cherished boquets gathered by the way-
side and tenderly cared f'or by transconti-
nental tourists in parlor cai's.—1’/-«4f. Ila!-
.s-tum’.

Not to Make a Noise.
Chittenden Co., S-:26-9.5.
Mr. O. VV. Inofersoll,

Dear Sir: Your paints are all that are
claimed for them, and I am convinced that
when you recommend your paints, you are
not talking to make a noise, as do most
concerns. You have always done the fair
thing by me for which accept my thanks.

Yours Truly,
G. A. HOLLY.
See Adv. Ingersoll’s Liquid Rubber Paints.

Beware of Ointments for Uatarrh that Contain
Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole system
when entering it through the mucous sur-
faces. Such articles should never be used ex-
cept on prescriptions from reputable physicians,
as the damage they will do is ten told to the
good you can possibly derive from them. Ha1l’s
Catarrh Cure. manufactured by F. G. Cheney
oz 00., Toledo, 0., contains no mercury and is
taken internally, acting directly upon the blot?
and mucous surfaces of the system. In bu -
ing Hall's Oatarrh Cure be sure you get the
genuine. It is taken internally, and made in
Toledo. Ohio, by F. J. Cheney .5: Co. Testimo-
nials free.

lt§'Sold by druggists, price 75c per bottle.

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Wonairs Wear.

Looking Backward.

“If I could but live my life over again
How different I woul make it."

Looking backward o'er the pathway which my
stumbling feet have trod,

0’er my past mistakes and failures, o'er my
faithlessness to God;

Memory strikes with poisoned arrow manya
sore and aching spot,

Touches with upbraiding finger many a stain
and many a blot;

And my heart in anguish murmurs, could I
live my life once more,

Surely, surely I would keep it purer, whiter
than before.

Unklnd words in anger spoken, ah! I knew how
sharp they fell

Now their venomed shaft recoiling, pierces to
my heart as well.

Promises too lightly broken, kindly deeds I've
left undone,

Helpful words 1 might have spoken, ere the

golden chance was gone.

Far from straight the path I've traversed,
swerving to the left or right,

Far from stainless is the record opening to my
inward sight.

Looking backward o'er the pathway from the
summit of life's noon.

1 can see with clearer vision where was once
but doubt and gloom.

I can see the Love o’erbrooding, swift to
strengthen and to save;

Rock and Shield and Guide and Saviour, from
the cradle to the grave.

And my soul cries out in longing, on! to live my
life again

Make it worthier of the Master, cleanse it from
each taint of sin.

Yet the past with all its failures, all its sorrows,
all its tears.

Holds its own most precious fruitage as the
harvest of the years;

’Tis the mirror of my self-hood, of my weakness
and my need,

And the lessons it has taught me I have learned
through tears to heed.

I have learned to love more truly God who is in
Christ revealed,

Seeing in the lowly Jesus. He who is our Sun
and Shield.

Looking forward o'er the pathway sloping to
the westward sun,

Long or short, or smooth or thorny, no one
knoweth save but One;

May He till each thought and impulse with the
warmth of love divine,

May the light of truth to guide me, fair along
the pathway shine.

Flying years so swiftly vanished, not again I
may live o'er,

Yet, Oh Lord! bestow the blessing, even life

forever more. 0. B. T.
Daoisburg.
The Child.
FLORA C. BUELL.
Order.

Heaven’s first law is found in all nature;
plants and insects, however tiny, adhere to
it. The Lord has given us a book wherein
we may find the rule of life. leaving a
chaotic, purposelcss form of life. and fol-
lowing fixed principles, led from the no-
madic period to that of nations ruled by
one law. Certain regulations must be
complied with in the nation, school, and
home. By obeying, a sense of law arises,
and habits of law are the beginning of
morality. A seed had been firmly iii1plaiit—
ed in the mind of the little girl who said,
“Come Carney, we iniist take our chairs in
the house.” As each tugged his rocker
from the lawn which had been the scene of
the afternoons play, we thought how much
more that mother had done for them than
had she followed after to collect the play-
things they had scattered.

Be sure that a child has a place within
his reach for his toys, books, and wraps,
and then see that he keeps them in their
places. ‘

He who handles blocks may with gentle
insistence be taught to replace them in the
box, and to put that with other playthings
in their individual nooks when for the
time he has done with them. He is
wronged unless required to do so.

SOCIAL EQUALITY.

As the angles of a stone are worn off by
contact, so human nature needs similar
erosion to eliminate pride, envy, jealously,
and selfishness, and form a loving, syin—
metrical character. The home cannot do
for a child what the school can, even where
there are several children in the family.
Home habits interfere and he needs to
meet the variety of representatives of
homes. To learn to live together is civili-
zation. A group of children at work or
play are a little world; they enter into its
occupations, trades, arts, and pleasures
with the same feelings, same exercise of
conscience, development of will, same call-
ing away from self to others, as does the
community at large. Here are seen their
tenderest dispositions and innermost ten-
dencies. They are minors; in their imita-
tion may they not have cause to be more
gentle, not more genteel? Forgetfulness
of self is the best soil for tr_ue politeness.
Lead them to see the ethical feeling of
which manners are the symbolic expres-
sion.

Freedom from conventionality in child-
hood shows injustice in all its ugliness, and
falsehood and manners stand condemned.
To offend is to be alone. Justice rises into
nobleness, truth into sacredness, and gen-
erosity into beauty. Gradually there
grows this principle of loftiest ethics, "VI e

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are all one.
Ann Arbor.

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

The World Beautiful.

Such is the title of Miss Lilian lVhiting"s
first published book, recently put out in
attractive form by Roberts Bros. It is
Written for everyone who, howeverweakly
or inconstantly, is trying to live “the life
beautiful within.” Its message summed
up in the first chapteris heading. “The
Duty of Happiness,” but as praise can be
less effective than extracts from a book
which is being so widely read and which is
so sure to be widely useful to all its read-
ers, we quote a few sentences. although no
finer ‘than whole pages that might be
C0ple( :

“To receive happiness and to give it are
equal in the just nieasure for measure. To
one who is for instance, in the role of host,
there can be no more bitter rebuke than to
lfiave apy guest or evkelcn chance caller go out

rom tie portals wit the feeling that he is
sorry that he came, that he is depressed
rather than uplifted, saddened rather than
gladdened, and in the mood of discord
rather than that of harmony."

"L\o one is living ariglit unless he so
lives that ghoeveg meets fhiiiihgoes away
more confi ent an joyous or t e contact."

“One’_s -persoiial enjoyment _is a very
sniall_thing; ones personal usefulness is a
very important one. ‘

“\Vorry is a state of spiritual corrosion.
A trouble either can be remedied or it can-
not be. If it can be, then set about it: if
it cannot be, then dismiss it from coiiscious-
ness or bear it sq l)I'£lV€l}lrV' that it may be-
come transfiorure<. to a ) essiiig."

. “Happinezs produces happiness. En-
joyment may be cultivated, and is after all,
largelya condition of habit. Precisely the
same circuinstances will yield delight to
one, and discontent to another, and no proc-
ess of culture is so admirable as that which
f$tqi's‘the habitual mood of sunny enjoy-

ii 

“There need never be the slightest hesi-
tation in undertaking anything that pre-
tigures itself as the Dhigher leiiding. Be-
tween elxpediency _and right purpose there
is sinip y no question at all. The strength
of all the hosts of heaven is with him who
is faithful to the right.”

“The great defect-at in the education of to-
day is a predominant tendency to the utili-
tarian basis; as if dm,'2q/, were in some mys-
terious way, higher than /m'n(/. Nothing
is more remote from the truth. A little
margin for the stillness and leisure of
gi°owth—~the time to think—is the only cor-
rective for the rush and stress of practical
life.“

“Outward life is the reflex of inward
states. It is the expression which the spirit
makes of itself. The mind stamps its iiii—
press upon the mate_i'ial surroundings.”

“To keep one’s foot firmly set in the
way that leads upward, however dark and
thorny it may be at the moment, -is to con-
quer. All trial is, in its very nature, tem-
poral; all joy is in its nature e".ernal. Le-
gions of angelid powers wait iipon the soul,
and guide it to the Mount of Vision. "’

“But as the life of culture is higher than
that of crude ignorance, so is the life of
spirituality higher than that of merely in-
tellectual culture.”

“Man, made in the image of the divine,
shares to some possible degree, the creative
power—tlie power to shape conditions, to
control circumstances, to range himself
with the creative forces. It is igiioble
to sit down and repine, or even to endure
passively limitations which energy and
faith would easily surniouiit.” D

"One’s birthright is ha ipiness. It is as
freely offered as the suns inc and the air.
It is a spiritual state, and not conditioned
by ii‘1atei'_ia_l limits. Not only is  every
man s privilege to be happy; it is his duty;
his manifest obligation.”

“lt may seem uncharitable to say there
is absolutely no purpose served in helping
the person who cannot, for the most part,
help himself; 'ct it is true. It is like try-
ingt to_ ‘Seep uptthetsun at niglhtuin’ heaven,’
or o in uce wa er 0 run up i .

“To believe lpnd go forward is the key
to success and appiness.”

“The lack of fine perception that results
in want of consideration for others in for-
getfulness and carelessness in little’ things;
that imposes upon the time, strength or
resources of other people, is a defect more
iniinical to _friendship than is many a
graver fault in morals.”

Lack of Ease in Conversation.

There is one great reason for this lack of
conversational power; in too many cases
the art is never practiced inside the home
circle, writes Louise Royle in the August
Lad2'es’ Ilome Jam-mil. No attempt at
pleasant converse is ever made save when
visitors are present; the various members
of the family may gossip a little, or dis-
cuss purely personal atfairs, but they may
make no attempt at entertaining talk. In
point of fact, the art of conversation is
like a game of battledoor and shuttlecock,
one needs the quickness and dexterity of
constant practice. In many busy house-

holds the only general gathering of the
family is at niealtime—a time above all
others when worry should be banished, if
only for the sake of physical comfort. Yet

this is the very time when the mother will
complain of domestic worry, the father of
business cares, and the daughters of shabbv
frocks. "

All this should be changed: it ought to
be a rule in all households that disagree-
ablcs are to be banished at iiiealtiiiielf If
complaints must be made let them come at
a proper time, but do not iinperil vour di-
gestion by eating while you are inian irri-
tated and discontented frame of mind.

of pills. In the household there should

not only be an avoidance of unpleasant .
topics, but an attempt to find agreeable ~

ones. Each meinber of the fainily should

come to the table prepared to say some- ;

thiug pleasant. Any bright little story or

mated talk—liow it will increase the bright-
noss of the working day.

lively touch and go talk.

An Appeal to Housekeepers.

From what evils do we need to guard
these young women [our scrvaiitsj.’ From
bad companions, from evil suggestions, and
from possible insult and contaniinzitioii. In
order that our advice and restrictions
should protect them we must enter into
sympathy with their youth and natural
longing for society, and we must reiiiein-
ber that our rules of social etiquette are
not always the same as theirs. If we pro-
hibit the visits of bad men and women we
must allow and encourage the visits of
good ones. If some pleasant young fellow
is calling on Edith in the parlor we cannot
consistently say that the teniperate, hard
working Michael shall not come to see
Bridget. \\'e should take pains to ascer-
tain the young man‘s good character and
respectability, as with our daughter's
friends, although such inquiry must be
made with great tact and discretion. As
to going out in the evening we often woii-
der whv a girl is not content to stay at
home and sew, when we should rather re-
member the tediuiii and confinement of the
day's work and should encourage her to
seek fresh air and friendly faces outside.
There are evils that walk in darkness, it is
true, but a quiet-mannered, self-respecting
woman seldom meets with harm; and if she
goes to her home, or to visit respectable
friends, the gain to health and clieerfulness
will far outweigh such slight risk. And
since a quiet, modest manner is so great a

rotection to every woman, let our maids

ave a good example in our own families.
Let them see us train our daughters to soft
voices and gentle movenients; let them hear
us criticise the loud laughter, the forward
manner, or the selfish carelessness of the
illbred woman in every station of life.
Such indirect criticisiii is often the most
elfcctive. This is the mission work we
mothers and housekeepers can all do. Tied
to our homes often by little children, by
limited means or by poor health, we may
not be able to attend meetings or visit for
the Associated Charities, or even sew for
an orphan asylum; but we can make sure
that no girl ever passes through our homes
without learning something useful, with-
out seeing housework respected, without
the glow of a. kindly interest and the
felt influence of a right view of life and its
duties. Is not this motive suflicient to
make us abolish all of the unnecessary re-
strictions of domestic service and add all
the reasonable and possible attractions to
it in our homes ?— C’/u-/sz‘[r/21 (Jami)/'/n, in
f/1.6 4’1f/sf/U,-)'t I70/‘M//2.

Dr. Parkhurst on Child Training.

Child traininor is, in the first instance,
ethical rather than intellectual, writes the
Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, D. D., in the
August Ladies’ Ilome Jmzrmzl. No one
will ask to have this point argued who coii-
siders that the child is to be educated for
the purpose of his own persoiial enhance-
ment and for the purpose of making him an
expert sharper. It is a great deal easier to
make people bright than 'it isto make them
sound. Mentality is an easy art as coin-
pared with morality. There is a good deal
to be said about intellectual discipline
when we get to that point; but it is still
true that the issues of life are out of the
heart and not out of the brain. The brain
can be taught from books, but morality is
not a thing that can be printed. There are,
it is true, books that are published on
ethics, but few read them and probably
nobody practices them. The old Hebrews
were deluged with moral precepts, some of
them written by God's own hand; but even
the first generation that had the ten coni-
mandments had to be killed off before the
promised land could be entered.

I am not going to underrate the value
and importance of mental schooling for the
children; but it needs to be said that unless
a man has a pure and honest heart, the less
he knows the better it will be for him and
for all concerned. And it needs, also, to
be said that even trustworthiness of intel-
lectual action waits on personal soundness.
Sound brain and an unsound life are in-

E merry joke, or any bit of world‘s news  fwm the h“1i‘"‘5-

that will loosen the tongues and cause ani— %

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compatible. Even if our object were onlv
to secure the finest and fullest intellectual
development, we should still aim. first of
all. to secure afoundation of person:1linteg-
rit_v for the scions of wisdom to root and
vegetate in. It is something as it is with
the planting of an astrononiical observatory;
however fine its equipment and whatever
the power of its lenses, we de )€I1(l. first of

3 all, upon the solidity with w ich the ob-
? servatory is planted.

Pleasant talk relieved by an 0cC:lf~‘l()ll:ll }
, laugh will be more beneficial than pounds

  The JLlY€Iti1€;$-

The Discoverer of a Great River.

Dehfoto had been to Peru with l’iz;irro
and had returned with great richcs stolen
He thought there were
iiiaiiy rich cities in the north. and that it
would be an easy matter to niakc new dis-
coveries there and to gain much wealth
from the natives. A

A great many young men lll Spziinjoined
in the expedition, and I_)e>'oto sailed away
with a company of six hundred men. They
had great hopes and expected great gain.
They reached the coast of Florida in 1.33:)
and began their inzirch into the wilderness.

They had fettcrs for the Indians whom
they meant to take captives. They also
had bloodhounds so as to catch them if
they tried to run away. There were lots
of priests, and as they mzirclied through
the forests, the church festi\':il.~' and pro-
cessions were held with great pomp.

It was not so easy to marcli into the for-
ests as it seemed in Spain before thcv left
that country. The Indians fought them,
and l)cb'oto had several battles with them.
He always beat them, but his own losses
were heavy to bear.

The Indians captured told him many
tales of the land beyond, where there was
much gold. Slowly they iiiarchcd north
through the forest, hoping to find some
great city whose wealth they might gain
and cai'i'ya\vay. They found only aifcw
Indian towns made up of huts. They had
very hard work to find enough food for the
men.

At last they came to a inagiiiticent river.
It was larger than they had ever seen be-
fore. It was a full mile in width, and its
large mass of water swept down to the sea
with great force. They built boats and
crossed the Mississippi, for this is the
river they found.

They journeyed on, but they met with
only disappoiiitmeiit: Three years they
had been traniping through the forests,
and all now wanted to go back to Spain.
The Indians fought them on every hand.
\\'hcn they returned to the river. l)eSoto
was taken sick with fever and died. His
soldiers cut down :1 tree, dug out the wood
and put his body into it. Then by night
they rowed out into the river, wlic1'e the
rude cofiin was sunk beneath its waters.

The b'paiiiards now made up their minds
to nnike their way to Cuba as best they
could. There were only three hundred
left, but they made boats in which they
floated down to the mouth of the river.
Some of these died from exposure. and
only a few reaclicd .Spniii.—]:Tr.

Poultry for Profit,

(('ontinucd from pa,-.ze 1.!

to success is to study their wants and apply
them. On cold inornings a little hot pud-
ding will warm up the flock, but there
should be no more th-.1n they will eat up
quickly. At noon a little grain may be
scattered in litter on the floor of the pens,
where they are obliged to hunt for it. They
should be kept at work. otherwise they
will get too fat. The low price of wheat
makes it the best grain to feed, but too
much should not be used. Poultry men
claim that a hen will consume a bushel of
wheat in a year, but where other foods are
used a smaller proportion will be found
suflicient. Meat and cut bone niav be fed
to advantage two or three times a week.
Beets, turnips, cabbages, cooked iotatoes
and other vegetables are relished y them
and make a great difference with the egg
supply. As nnich of a variety as conven-
ient should be given, but not enough of
anything to fully satisfy them. A hen in
confinement that has enough to cat will
soon get fat and broody. Water, not ice,
should always be at hand, also plenty of
grit in the form of gravel, shell, or bone.
If the eggs are not to be used for hatching,
the hens will do better without than with
the male. When gettinga flock for breeding
it is best to select two year old hens and mate
them with a one or two year old male.
Pullets’ eggs should not be used, especially
in an incubator. They hatch well, and
grow splendidly for a few weeks, but they
lack vitality to carry them to maturity.
The hen has been looked upon as of little
importance, but practical men have found
that she can be cared for as easily as the
sheep or the pig, and will give a better re-

turn for the time and feed invested.
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Kathleen Hesslegrave, a pretty young Eng-
lish artist. and Arnold Willouzhby. 2|. Bohe-

mian amateur, meet casually at the Royal:

academy gallery in London. They hold mu-
tual views upon art and upon the stupidity of

the judges who have rejected their pictures. ‘
Rufus Mortimer. a rich American idler, joins 1

them. He is a friend of the Hessiegraves and

of Willoughby. whom she knows as a common
sailor dabbling in art. CH.~ll’I‘ER Il- Kath-
leen lives with her mother in fashionable lodg-
ings. The aristocracy visit there. and one day
at a reception the company discuss the mys-
lery oi‘ young Earl Axniinster, who has tied
the country disguised a sa sailor. Canon Valen-
tine. the lion of the party, thinks the aristoc-
racy of England is well rid of him. His habits
are too good. Ill—Willoughhy is the earl. He
is stranded by the failure 01 the picture. re-
fuses help from Mortimer and goes to sea to
earn money to continue the study oi art. H'-
'\i ortimer pursues Kathleen on iove‘s quest.
She likes him and with difficulty holds him on’.
V— Mortimer, Willoughby and the Hessle-
graves meet. in Venice. Mrs. Hesslegrave is
alarmed at Kathleen's enthusiasm over the
sailor painter and his works. VI and VII-
The young artists roam through romantic old
palaces together. Willoughby a guest at
Kathleen‘s home. The maiden half reveals
her love for him. and both confess to them-
selves that they are in love. VIII and IX-
Mortimer proposes and discovers Kathleerrs
passion for Willoughby.

CHAPTER IV.
FRATERNAL AMENITIES.

The season was waning toward its lat-
ter end. Mrs. I-Icsslegrave and Kathleen
were on the eve of flight for their regular
round of autumn visits in the country be
fore returning to their winter quarters at
Venice. These autumn visits were half
friendly, half professional. It was one of
the griefs of Mrs. Hesslegrave’s life, in-
deed, that Kathleen’s vocation as an artist
compelled her to do and to suffer many
things which in her mother’s eyes were
undiguified and almost unladylike. Fore-
most among them was the necessity when
visiting in the country for carrying her
portfolio of sketches along with her, for
Kathleen’s success was merely a private
and local one. She depended largely for
selling her pictures upon the friendly ap-
preciation of her own acquaintances. It
is true, being a timid and retiring girl,
she never thrust her work incontinently
upon her hosts. On the contrary, she was
nervously shy about anything that looked
like self advertisement or pushing. Still
the fact remained that unless she went a
round of country visits in the autumn she
would never have sold most. of her pictures
at all, and this fact, which gave Kathleen
herself no small shrinkings of natural del-
icacy, covered Mrs. Hesslegrave in a very
different way with shame and humiliation,
for to Mrs. Hesslegrave it was a painful
and disgraceful thing that people should
know her daughter had to work for her
living at all. In her young days, she was
wont to say severely, young ladies used to
paint for their own amusement, not for
filthy lucre, and whenever she said it, with
| disapproving toss of the dainty coffee
colored Honiton headdress, Kathleen had
somehow an unpleasant feeling in the
background of her heart that it was really
very wrong of her to be so badly off, and
that if only she had inherited the feelings
and manners of a perfect lady she would
have managed to be born with £5,000 a
year and nothing to do for it. Though,
to be sure, if sba ‘:iadn‘t. so managed, after
all, it might wi-tr. some show of reason he
urged in extenuatiou that the fault lay
rather at the door of that impeccable .\Irs.
Hesslegrave herself and the late lament-
ed general of artillery, her husband, who
had been jointly responsible for bringing
Kathleen into the world with no better
endowment than a pair of pretty white
hands and an artistic faculty for deftly em-
ploying them in the production of beauti-
ful and pleasing images.

On this particular evening. however,
Kathleen was tired with packing. Her
head ached slightly, and she was anxious
to be kept. as undisturbed as possible.
Therefore, of course, her brother Reginald
had chosen it as the aptest moment; to
drop in tow.-irrl the dinner hour for a fare-
well visit to his inoilier and sister. Regi-
nald was 20, with ii i':.Int black line on his
upper lip, which he called a. mustache,
and he was a child entirely after Mrs. Hes-
alegrave-.’s own heart, being in his mother’s
eyes indeed a consummate gentleman.
To be sure, the poor boy had the misfor-
tune to be engaged in an office in the city
—a most painful position. Mrs. Hessle-
grave’s narrow means had never allowed
her to send him to Sandhurst. or Woolwich
and get him a commission in the army,
but that the fond mother regarded as poor
Reggie’s ill luck, and Reggie himself en-
deavored to make up for it by copying to
the best of his ability the tone and manner
of military circles as far as was compatible
with the strict routine of a stockbroker’s
oflice. If collars and cufis and the last
thing out in octagon ties constitute the
real criterion of the gentle life—as is the

naive belief of so large a fraction of the
city—then was Reginald Hesslegrave in-
deed a gentleman. What though he sub-
sisted in great part on poor Kathleen’s earn-
ings and pocketed her hard won cash to
supplement his own narrow salary, with
scarcely so much as a thank you—one
doesn’t like to seem beholden to a woman
in these matters, you know—yet was the
cut of his ooat a marvel to Adam’s court,
and the pattern of his sleevelinks a thing
to be observed by the stipendiary youth of
Threadneedle street and Lothbury.
Reginald flung himself down in the big

easy chair by the bow window with the
air of a man who drops in for a moment
to counsel, advise, assist and overlook his
womenkind—-in short, with all the dignity
of the head of the family. He was annoyed
that “his people” were leaving town.
Leave they must, sooner or later. of course.
If they didn’t'., how could Kathleen ever
dispose of those precious dauhs of hers?
For, though Reginald pocketed poor Kath-
leen"s sovereigns with the utmost calm of
a great spirit, he always affected profound-
ly to despise the dubious art that produced
them. Still, the actual moment. of his
pe.-ople’s going was always a disagreeable
one to Reginald Hesslegrave. As long as
mother and Kitty stopped on in town he
had somewhere respectable to spend his

Kathleen were 1 sort of acknowledged so-

evenings, if he wished tn, somewhere pre- ,

is surprised to ifnil Kathleen in the company 3 Rumble to which he Could bring “her fel' 1

lows at no expense to himself. and that, 3

don't you know, is always a consideration!
As soon as they were gone there was noth-
ing for it but the club, and at the club,

that sordid place, they make a. man pay ,

himself for whatever he consumes and
whatever he offers In solid or liquid hos-
pitality to other fellows. So no matter how

late mother and Kitty staid in town it.

made Reggie cross all the same when the
day came for their departure.

“How badly you do up your back hair,
Kitty 3" Reggie observed,with a sweet smile
of provocation, after a few other critical
remarks upon his sisters appearance. “You
put no style into it. You ought just to
look at Mrs. Algy Redburn’s hair! 'I‘here’s
art, if you like! She does it in a bun. She
knows how to dress it. It’s a. model for a
duchess!”

“Mrs. Algy Redbnm keeps a maid, no
doubt,” his sister answered, leaning back
in her chair a little wearily, for she was
worn out with packing. “So the credit of
her bun belongs, of course, to the maid
who dresses it.”

“She keeps a maid,” Reggie went on,
with his hands on his haunches in an ar-
gumentative attitude. “Why, certainly
she keeps a maid. What else would you
expect? Every lady keeps a maid. It’s a
simple necessity. And you ought to keep
a maid too. No woman can be dressed as
a lady should dress if she doesn’t keep a
maid. The t.hing‘s impossible.” And be
snapped his mouth to like a patent rattrap.

_“Then I must be content to dress other-
wise than as a lady snould," Kathleen re-

sponded quietly,“fer I can’t afford a maid,
and to tell you the truth, Reggie, I really
don’t. know that I should care to have one 1”

“Can’t afiord!” Reggie repeated, with a
derisive accéiit of profound scorn. “That
is what you always say. I hateto hear
you say it. The phrase is unladylike. If
you can’t. afford anything, you ought to
be able to afford it. How do I afford
things? I dress like a gentleman. You
never see me ill tailored or ill groomed or
doing without anything a gentleman ought
to have. How do I afford it?”

Kathleen had it on the tip of her tongue
to give back the plain and true retort,
“Why, by making your sister earn the
money to keep you,” but native kindli-
ness and womanly feeling restrained her
from saying so. So she only replied: “I’m
sure I don‘t know, my dear. I often won-
der, for I can’t afford it, and I earn more
than you do.”

Reggie winced a little at that. It was
mean of Kitty so to twit him with his pov-
erty. She was always flinging his want
of ready money in his face, as though want
of money—when you spend every penny
that fate allows you, and a little more, too
—were a disgrace to any gentleman! But
he continued none the less in the same
lordly strain: “You dress badly, that’s the
fact of it. No woman should spend less
than £300 a year on her own wardrobe.
It can’t be done for a shilling under that.
She ought to spend it.”

“Not if she hasn’t got it." Kathleen an-
swered stoutly.

“Whether she’s got it or not.” Reggie
responded at once, with profound contempt
for such unladylike morality. “Look at
Mrs. Algy Redburn! How does she do,
I’d like to know? Everybody’s well aware
Algy hasiit got a. brass farthing to bless
himself with, yet who do you see dressed
in the park like his wife? Such bonnets!
Such coats! Such a bun! There’s a model
for you!”

“But Mrs. Algy Redburn will some day
be Lady Axmiiister." K£iIlllk‘eIl answered,
with a sigh, not, perceiving herself that
that vague contingency had really nothing
at all to do with the rights and wrongs of
the question. “And I will not,” \‘Vhich
was also to some extent an unwarrantable
assumption.

Reggie fl?.ShA‘(l his cuffs and regarded
them with just pride. “Th:it‘s no matter,"
he answered curtly. “Every lady is a
lady, and should dress like a lady, no mat-
ter what's her income, and she can’t do
that under £300 a year. You take my word
for it.”

Kathleen was too tired to keep up the
dispute, so she answered nothing.

But Reggie had some round to his sis-
ter's that night in the familiar masculine
teasing humor. Ho ivasn’t going to be
balked of his sport so easily. ’Twa.s as
good as rafting, at half the cost, and al-
most equal to badger drawing. So he went
on after a minute: “A man doesn't: need
so much. I-Iis wants are simpler. I think
I can dress like a gentleman myself—on
£250.”

“As your salary's £80,” Kathleen put
in resignedly, with one hand on her ach-
ing head, “I don’t quite know myself
where the remainder’s to come from.”

Reggie parried the question. “Oh, I’m
careful,” he went on, “very careful, you
know, Kitty. I make it a. rule never to
waste my money. I buy judiciously. Look
at linen, for example. Linen’s a very im-
portant item. I require a fresh shirt, of
course, every morning. Even you will ad-
mit”.—he spoke with acerbitv. as though

cial pariah—“t-yen you will admit. that 8
supply of clean linen isanecessary adjunct
to a gentle-inan‘s appearance. Well, how
do you think. now. I manage about my

cuffs? I‘ll tell you what I do about them. ,

I But Kathleen called him back anxious-
lly. “Where are you going to. Reggie?"
1 she asked. with unexpected afiection. It
3 wasn't often she seemed so eager for the
‘ pleasure of his society.

“Oh, just strolling out for a bit," her

There are fellows at our place, if you'll bo- ‘;

lieve it, who wear movable cufis—cuffs,
don't you know, that come off and on the
same as a collar dot.-s——nasty separate shirt
cufis. I don't call such things gentleman-
ly. The fellows that. wear them take them
off when they conic to the office and slip
them on again over their hands when they
have to run across with a client to the
house—that’s what we call the Stock Ex-
change.-——or when they go out for lunch-
eon. Well, I don‘t like such ways myself.
I hate and detest all shams and subter-
fuges. I wouldn’t wear a cuff unless it
was part and parcel of my shirt. So I've
invented a dodge to keep them clean from
morning till evening. As soon as I go into
the office I just. cut a piece of white fools-
cap the exact size of my cuffs. I double it
back, so, over the edge of the sleeve. I
pass it under again this way. Then, while
I stop in the Ofllclf I keep the cover on, and
it looks pretty tnuch the same as the linen.
That prevents blacks and smuts from set-
tling on the cuff and keeps the wear and
tear of writing and so forth from hurti-
ing the material. But when I go out I just
slip the paper off, so. and there I am. you
see, with spotless linen, likea gentleman!”
And he demonstrated triumphantly.

“A most. ingenious dodge!” Kathleen
answered, with languid interest.

“Yes, We careful of me," Reggie went
on. “I’m naturally careful. And by such
strict bits of economy I expect in the end
—to keep down my expenditure on dress
to £250.”

Kathleen smiled very faintly.

“You don’t t.htnk a fellow can do it on
less, do you?” Reggie continued once more
in an argumentative spirit.

“Yes, I do,” Kathleen replied. “I cer-
tainly think so. And if he’s a man and
can't afiord to spend so much I think he
should be ashamed of himself for talking
such nonsense.”

“Well. but look here. you know,” Reg-
gie began, “whats a man to do? You
just think of it this way: First, he must
have a dress suit, once a year, of course-
you'll admit that’s a necessity. Gloves and
white ties———those he needs for evening.
Then a frockcoat and waistcoat, with
trousers to match, anda black cutaway
lot. for afternoon tea. and two suits of dit-
tos for country wear, and a tweed with
knickerbockers for shooting and so forth,
and a tennis coat, and boating flannels,
and”:

“Oh, don't, Reggie!” his sister cried,
shrinking away and clapping her hands to
her aching head. “You comb my brain!
I’m too tired to argue with you!”

“That’s just it,” Reggie continued, de-
lighted. “You live in wretched lodgings,
with no proper food—your cook’s atrocious
-—and you work till you drop at your
beastly painting, and you tire yourself out
with packing your own boxes instead of
keeping a maid, who’d do it all liki-a shot
for you, and what’s the consequence? Why.
you’re unfit for society! When a fellow
comes round to pay you a visit after a hard
day’s work and expects a little relaxation
and stimulating talk with the ladies of
his family, he finds you wornout, a mere
boiled rag, while as to music or conversa-
tion or some agreeable chat-—oh, dear me,
no—not the ghost of an idea of it!”

Kathleen’s patience was exhausted.
“My dear boy,” she said half angrily, “I
have to work to keep myself alive, and
you, too, into the bargain. And if you ex-
pect. me to supply you with £200 a year to
spend upon your wardrobe, why, you
must at least consent to give up the pleas-
ure of music in the evenings.”

What Reginald might have answered to
this unexpected attack remains an un-
known fact in the history of the universe,
for just at that minute the neat capped
little waiting maid of the Kensington
lodgings opened the door with a flourish
and announced, “Mr. Moi-timer!”

The young American entered with un-
disguised alacrity and gazed delightedly
around the room. “Mrs. Hesslegrave is
out, I hear,” he began, with meaning, as
he took Kathleen’s hand. Then he started
a little in surprise as Reginald rose from
the chair where he had been sitting, un-
seen. “But your brotht-r’s lit-re,” he added
in a disappointed aftertliougllt. whose dis-
tinct tone of regret. must needs have struck
anybody less self centered and self satis-
fied than the stockbroker’s assistant.

“Yes, I dropped round to say goodby to
my people tonight,” Reggie answered,
with a drawl, caressing that budding
black line on his upper lip with all a hob-
bled:-hoy’s affection. “They’re off on a
round of visits in the country just now.
Hard lines on me! I shall be left. all alone
by myself in London!”

Rufus Mortimer surveyed him from head
to foot with a comprehensive glance, which
seemed to say about as clear as looks could
say it that whatever he did he wouldn’t
be much missed anywhere, especially just
that moment, but being a polite young
man, after his own lights, he failed to put
his ideas into Words for the present. He
merely sat down on the divan, not far
from Kathleen, and began to talk with
her about art--a subject which invaria ly
bored Mr. Reginald-——taking not the slight-
est notice in any way all the while of her
brother’:-i presence. Before he knew it al-
most they were away in Florence, deep in
their Raphaels and Andrea del Sartos,
and so forth. Reggie stood it for 10 min-
utes or so. Then he rose and yawned. Fra
Filippo Lippi had almost choked him off,
but Pacchiarotto finished him. He wasn't
going to stop and hear any more of this
rot. He longed for something sensible.
He'd go out and see what the evening pa-
pers said of the favorite for the Two Thou-
sand.

4. brother answered evasively, "till the mums

come back. I thought. you and Mortimer
, seemed to be hitting it ofi on high art very
} well together.”

“Don‘t go just yet.” his sister put in, 

with a quick look at him. ‘“I'm sure

Inother'd be vexed if you went. away with-
‘ out seeing her.”
, “I meant to come back soon.” Reggie
‘ I'E‘F]"l4'ID(l(‘fl, with a sigh. his right. hand still
 fiilgeriiig the knob of the door. “I expect
3 you wont iniss me.”

 

“I crpcct you won’: miss me.”
“Oh. don‘t let. him stay on my account,”
Mortimer echoed, with polite anxiety, giv-
ing Knthleen a pleading look half aside in

his turn. It was clear from the look he
wanted a fete-a-tete with her.

But. Kathleen was inexorable. “I’d ra-
ther you stopped, Reggie,” she said in
such a decided voice that even Reggie un-
derstood and made up his mind to give
way to her. “Mother‘ll be here before
long, and I want you to wait for her.”

Reggie sat down with a bump. “Oh,
as you will,” he answered, dropping back
into his easy chair. “I’m sure I don’t
mind. It’s all the same to me. Only
I thought you two could run this Fra An-
gelico business just about as well without
me, don’t you know, as with me. I don't
pretend to excite myself over Fra Angeli-
co anyway.”

So for the next half hour poor Rufus
Mortimer sat on, still discussing art, which
is a capital subject no doubt when you
want to talk of it, but which pails a lit-
tle, it must he confessed, when it inter-
venes incontinently at the exact moment
of time when you’re waiting to ask the
young woman of your choice whether or
not she'll have you. Rufus Mortimer, for
his part, was rather inclined, as things
stood, to put. his money on the not, for if
that delightful English girl had really
wanted him surely she would have man-
aged to get rid, by book or by crook, of
her superfluous brother, instead of which
she had positively encouraged him in re-
maining. Which things being so, Rufus
Mortimer was more than half disposed to
think she desired to avoid having to give
him an answer. For that he was really

,and truly sorry, for he had always liked
her very much, and now that she showed
some disposition to refuse him, why. he
came exceedingly near to loving her. Such
is the way of man. The fact that Kath-
leen Hessle-grave seemed to hold him at
arm’s length made Rufus Mortimer re-
solve in his own mind at all hazards to
mztrry her

After Mrs. Hesslegrave had returned for
a few minutes, somewhat later, the young
man rose to go. It was no use waiting
now. Kathleen was fenced in, as it were,
by a double thorn hedge of mother and
brother. Yet he paused by the open door
and held Kath]:-en’s hand for a second in
his own as he said goodby. “Then we shall
meet. in Venice,” he said at last regretful-
ly. “In Venice in October.”

Kathleen looked at him with some con-
cern. “But you would do better to be in
Paris,” she said. “It’s so much more
important for your art, you know.” And
she trembled slightly.

“N0,” the American answered, bright-
ening up at that little spark of seeming
interest in his private pursuits. “It shall
be Venice. Miss HBSSICQFBVG. I make it

Venice.” Then he paused for a second, as
if afraid of going too far.

“There are things,” he said, gazing

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art! So Venice it shall be! Let me meet
you in Venice!”

As soon as he was gone Reggie turned
to her with a snicker. “That chap’s aw-
fully gone on you, Kitty,” he said, much
amused. “He’s awfully gone on you. For
my part, I never can understand any fel-
low being gone on such a girl as you, but
he’s awfully gone on you. Why wouldn't:
you let me go out? Didn't you see he was
just dying to have 10 minutes alone with
you?”

“Yes, I did,” Kathleen answered, “and
that was exactly why I didn’t want you
to go out that moment. I didn’t wish to
be left alone with him.”

Reggie opened his eyes wide. “He’s a
jolly good match,” he continued, “and a
decent enough sort: of fellow, too, though
he knows nothing of horses. I’m surel
don’t see why you should make such bones
about accepting him!”

“I quite agree with Reggie,” Mrs. Hes-
slegrave put in. “He’s an excellent young
gun.” I"m surprised at what you say of

1m.

Kathleen rose from her seat like one who
doesn’t care to continue 3 discussion.
“He’s a very good fellow,” she said, with
one hand on the door. “and I like him im-

mensely. so much that—I didn‘t. care hobo
left alone with him this evening.”

And with that enigmatical remark she
slipped away from the room and ran quiet-
ly up stairs to complete her packing.

[to as cox'rixtn~:n.]

Notes.

A CUl'l'(‘.\'p()ll(l(‘lll \\'l'll€‘.\‘ to the

’mr,//z-r///la///-1//min that he con-
.-iilcr.-: the lack of tlioroii_i__rliiic.-.- the
_Jl'(‘:ile>‘t pull back the gum.-rul far-
iucr has to ('()IIl('Il(l with.

The fairs slioiild be i'(lll('illi)l'.~‘,
surcl_y,but to lnnkc them such they
niust bc populiir. ziiiriu-ii\'e.fiill of
life, but free froin iininoriil prac-
tices and iiiiliiciiccs that tlc<_ri'aile.
:(’/I/‘fl I':ll'IHr'/'.

Tlicre is one inziticr that needs
l'(‘f()l‘llllll}_!‘ about (‘UllIlIl‘_\_' homes,
and that is, the water t-|osctai'-
l'llll,<_“(llllL‘IlI.~'. The closet in the
llli1j0l‘ll_\' of such homes is:ipos-
itivc and iiiiiiiitigiitcil null.-::ince.—
 1)’!/I/H//.

Nof:ti'i1i is properly “stockeil"
without the flock of .\‘ll0O[)-—l)1llZ
the profit, it must be adinitteil, de-
pends upon the nianitgcnient. The
flock, above all things inii.-it not be
allowed to tletcriortitc; its standard
of excellence must be inaintiiineil.
——-I’/‘Ito!/(‘ill ])f(/./"I//Illlll.

The more i1c:u'ly at rural road is
oblitcratcil by its sui'roun<lin_r_rs the
more delightful it is, and this is es-
pecially true of ti. by road which
offers a sense of seclusion us one
of its principal charin:-'.—~(iv//‘lien.
«(ml I’;/’I‘c.s'l‘.

Some people are greatly wor-
ried for fear the fruit business will
be overdone. “'4: state emphat-
ically, “Ni)." There are niany
thousands of trees planted that
will never bear fruit, and the con-
sumers are mpitlly lllC1‘(.‘{lSlll,<_'. J.
(7. }:'z.-rm..-.

In seasons of drought like this
no doubt a bed of :lS]'):lI':l;{llS may
be pcl'l1lai1elltly \\'L‘:l.l{(,‘Il(3(l by cut-
ting the niaxiiniinl period. The
scasoii of cutting sho1ilil,wc fancy,
be dcterniinctl by the rainfall.
—— 1,))!l‘,(/A\V(,”l‘ )7//‘/.'w/‘.

Get rid of nioonsliinc ll'2l(llll()IlS
in this era of pmcticzil thin_i_rs. Do
not kill ho_<_rs, plant posts, plant
potatoes or wcitn the t-ulvcs in the
moon any more, but lnzike the
most of this :l}_J‘(-'. of clcctric |i,<_rhts.
\\'c are a\\':1y past the time of “tal-
l()\V illpS.—/'.'I/.1/I /‘fun  ll'r'x.) ('/WI//tr
t'/']/ 1)’:///rf/I//.

(iood celery can only be bad by
uncezisiug attention to sevcml dc-
tuils, of which fcc<lin}_r Zlllil w:itci'-
ii1§_r:u'e the chief. We llllil that
cclcry kecps very inuch bciicr in
open ground than when lifted and
:-'ioi'e<l in pits, t-ellars, or out-
houscs, 1)l'OVl(l(.‘il that wiitcr will
not stainl on the land where it is
g1'owu.—— ll: .\'. ('/‘(I/‘Ir/.

Every two and :1 half tons of hay
will cal'l'y more oil’ a fzu'nlel"s land
than two tons of fat cattle; and for
two and a half tons of hay he will
get, on an average, >325, while for
two tons of fat cattle he will get
$200. By the hay method of
fanning he gets  from the same
quantity of these elements of fer-
tility that he gets $2200 from when
he grows and sells cnttle.—]’rqf'.
1i?(;])c‘/‘ts//Ii .

If storms prevail, muster every
hand to a. bee for cleaning the
barns, carriage house and sheds,
and preparing the stables for win-
ter occupancy. Sweep down all
the dust and cobwebs, take out the
window sashes, wash every part
clean and after it has dried put in
new glass and putty wherever it is
needed. Then paint each sash
carefully; and you will be sur-
prised to see how much light a sin-
gle pane will adtnit.—Il7;/his-ter
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3 THE GRANGE VISITOR.

, (  members present at one meeting.
, . - I g ‘g The prompt response of all when
  1 called upon added greatly to the inter-
‘ est of the long program which the lec-

Notice.
Ann Arbor, Mich , Sept. 19, 1895.
The books of this Office Show atl Moline Grange, No. 248, lost one of  ‘We’ had Prepared-

this date the following Grange ‘ ts most valuable membersinthedeathl h“E3.Ie1d()St(1)rasS)£SteI!1 of farming fbe
entitled to eject delegates to thegof Brother J. V. Orton, which occurred tc 3 3 0 Secure more “*5 OT

 
    

county convention to be held on
Tuesday, October l, 1595, by vir-
tue of section 3, article IV, by-laws
of .‘llclll(_fZ1ll State Grange.

Allegan l 1‘ep-IE7--')Z'}—I3-1-24$-296-39‘!-320

Antriin 1 1'cp~Ii€ll—4T|l-tiTIi

Barry 1 rep—127-1-I3-236-425-472

Benzie 1 rep--‘mil

Berrien 2 repw-14-ii’!-415-8‘)-S7-$5-122-123
:»’,.~'-2-Too

Branch 1 i'ep--9.’;-Ill;-SIT 1:}?-152-1:’.Il

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Cass 1 1'(~‘p\Iii'3-‘Jill

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Hillsdale 1 l'ep*l3.; ‘llill-27:5-27-1-‘Z-‘.<ii-‘3-'il
Huron 1 1‘91)—fitiT-I'iIiNJi-5'4I-I395)
Inghain 1 1'ep--2-ll-‘Iii ’ ‘fl-Ill?-T494
Ionia 1

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Jackson 1 i-ep-i;£i~<,
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St. Clair 1 1’ep-:3"-*5

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Saginaw 1 rep—.‘i74

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Van Buren 23- rep—1U--E52--Ill)--l5t5~159-346
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Wayne 1 rep—:l67-3638-:55!)-llzlli
Wexford

By the neglect of some secretar-
ies, quite a nuniber of Granges
stand now upon our books dis-
franchised.

for the piirpose of securing rcp-
i'eseiitative.~: to all delinquent
Gl':lllf_"L‘.\' we shall add to the list all
that may report up to the last iiio—
ment practiczible, and delegates
duly elected, who at the conven-
tion show :1 rccei it for dues for the
quarter ending .\la1'cl1 31, ,l.\‘.l5, on
which is endorsed, “Entitled to
represent:1tioii," should be allowed
to participate in the work of the
convention.

The following Gl':lll_}_'cS are de-
linqucnt for the quarter enlliiig
March 31, 1-\il.3: 35*. -if», :36, .35, H1,
104. loll, ins‘, is~_», isoi. 21:»,
247, >44, 76, :-l2:-3, loo, 441», 461*.
540, nib‘, 611+, 133-}, His‘, «$.37, 662,
605+, His, mo, 65:».

The following-_r are delinquent for
the quarter eiidi1i}_»‘ l)ecenibe1' Z11,
1.s~«.i,t;’ tor, 1:»:-;, :-gm, mo, lo:-1, loo,
532, Hill.

J I-‘..\‘.\‘lE BL'r.i.i., Secrct:1ry.

llleeiee-3% all 

Berrien county Pomona Graiigze No.
1, will hold its next nit-etin_e: with Mt.
Tabor Graiigc on Ti1es<la_vand W'ediies-
day (let. S. and 9, 1Nl).';. Prograiii in
course of preparation and will be pub-
lished later. L. A. S’l‘I'AR'l‘. Sec1'etai'_v.

The next meeting of the Lowell Dist-
rict Council will be held at south Bos-
ton Grange hall on Satiirday, Oct. 5,
at 10 o’clock a. m , sharp. All are in-
vited. Let us make this the hest meet-
ing of the year. D. H. E.\'oLisii. Sec'y.

(TLINTON POMONA.

Clinton county Pomona Grange will
meet with Maple Rapids Grange VVed—
nesdav, September 25. 1.495. All 4th
degree members invited.

After call at 10 a. m., reading minutes
of last meeting, the roll call of officers
and reports of siibordinate Granges will
occupy the time until dinner. The
afternoon pl'O_.‘-.'.'1'a-lll will consist of roll
call of Pomona members. each respond-
ing with quotations from the Bible or
from favorite authors. Welcoine ad-
dress, Bert C-owles; response. J. W. En-
nest: papers by O. A. VVhitlock and I.

D. Richmond. Music. Essay, Annie
Jewett. Music by Kadie Page and
Walter Burk: selection, Mrs. J. W.

Ennest and Mrs. Redfern; song, Lillie
Chapman: recitation, George Heck;
paper, Varian Botsford: music, Truly
and C. Shaffly: recitation. Arthur Stew-
art: question. “\Vhat can we do to en-
force the laws regulating liquor traflic 2'"
Discussion led by Jerome Dills.

All papers and essays open for discus-
sion. An opportunity will be given for
all who wish to take the 5th degree.

Now Patrons, we have had a long
rest from Pomona work. Let us take
hold with new energy and have a- grand
gathering at Maple Rapids.

MR5. C. L. PEARCE Lecturer.

rep—i74-i:5-is;-192-270-272 ‘

_August18. He was a pioneer in the

Order, and was a good and honored
, member. He will be sadly missed. Ap-
Tpropriate resolutions of respect were
, passed by the Grange.

l

ieyes glance over the news column, but
lso far I have failed to see a notice of
: our Grange. I hope you do not think

that Douglas, No. I350, is dormant, for
, we are not. We have a good ball, well

2 furnished, an upper door with dining -

‘hall below. We have about 70 mem-
jbers and meet once in two weeks.
‘Our meetings of late have not been
 very largely attended, but the busiest
; times on the farm are about over. The
‘evenings are getting longer and we
3 hope now to see our hall filled to over-
,ilowing. We have started a contest,
2 the young people on one side. the mar-
gried people on the other. I suppose

peaches and cream will be the supper
3 by and by. LE(;TL'I’.ER.

Last Saturday night the Hamilton
‘Grange had an open meeting and in
1 spite of the short notice of one after-
noon a large number of outsiders as
well as members came out to listen to
a very interesting and instructive lec-
ture by Mrs. Jennie Hogan Jackson,
of Grand Rapids. on the subject of
“What shall We do with the young peo

‘ple? She also gave improvised poems
on the subjects of ball games, and bi-
cyling, and on ‘* What is man."“The In-
, ner Life” and “Harvest Time'" It does
‘a Grange, that meets every Saturday
night and has talked over every sub-
ject imaginable, good to have some-
thing new by such an excellent speaker
as Mrs. Jackson. Every Grange ought
to adopt the plan of a lecture course.

Au.-.. Hour, Secretary.

Mrs. Hawkins, wife of Hiram Haw-
kins. Master of Alabama state Grange.
died at her home August 10. A
friend pays this tribute to her:

Mrs. Hawkins was perhaps as widely
known as any woman of the south. In
Alabama, in Georgia, in Kentucky,
and even in the far west and the north
had her name. her sweet personalities,
her holy influence been treasured.
Physically she was frail, but her mind
Was broad and lofty and deep; fore-
thought and executive ability marked
her business life. Her literary work
always seemed to me to be spontane-
ous gushing of thoughts. fancies and
feelings, and the delicacy of her taste
was such that nothing could be found
offensive to woman's instinct in its
highest cultivation or subtlest sensi-
bility,

Armed with a few copies of the pic-
nic edition of the G1:A:~zoE VISITOR,
I boarded the train at Allegan for
Gunn Lake, to hear Worthy Master
Brigham speak on Saturday, the 31 of
August. Arriving at the grounds at
10 a. m., we found a goodly number of
Patrons, with many others, assembled
to see and hear our Worthy National
Master. Brother Brigham reached the
grounds about noon. The meeting
called to order at 1:30, and the presi-
dent of the association introduced the
speaker toa large audience who lis-
tened with marked attention, to the
words of Bro. Brigham, in proclaiming
the benefits and advantages of our Or-
der. [ think that this meeting will re-
sult in many new “alarms at the
the gates” of the Granges in Allegau
and Barry counties.

And now is the time for the local
deputies to do some good work. while
Brother Brigbam‘s words are fresh in
the minds of the people. so come,
brother deputies. let us gather the bar
vest of our National Master's sowing.
1 herewith enclose a few names for the
Visiroii. L. 0. R001‘.

The last meeting of Homer Grange,
No. 200, was last Saturday at the home
of one of our members. It opened a
literary contest that had been arranged
for, and the interest of the community
was expressed by the house that was
filled too full for comfort. The score of
points adopted was the one used by
No. 96. found in GR.-\.\:(+E VISITOR of
May 16. The productions were volun-
tary, according to one’s taste and
ability, and no one was allowed on the
program but once in a day. The time
was all put in. several good essays
were read, in fact points were gained
in all but one division of that scale.
quotations.

One of the results of the tirst day of
the contest was eleven new subscrib-
ers to the GRANGE VISITOR. We hope
to swell that number at the next meet-
ing.

I enclose an article with its accom-
panying resolution that was presented
to the Grange by our esteemed Brother
J. W. Breakey, and by them unani-
mously adopted. If we have set an
example in it for any others we hope
they will go and do likewise.

ANN A. BANKS.

The following is the resolution:

RESOLVED. By Homer Grange in
regular meeting assembled. that our
secretary be, and is hereby instructed
to extend to the W. 0. T. U., of Homer
the fraternal greetings of Homer
Grange. and express to them our high
appreciation of the work of their asso-
ciation for God and home and native
land, and to pledge to them our earn-
est co-operation and support in their
efforts to promote the cause of tem-
perance in our community.

Kent county Grange held a regular
meeting at Harmony Grange hall Sept.
4. It being in one of the busiest sea-
sons of the year, not so large a number
were present as at some of the meet-
ings, but it was the remark of several
that we seldom have more fifth degree

As soon as the \'isiToi: comes our‘

lthe farmer?" was the first subject for
, discussion, and was opened by Brother
illartin. "Farmers grievances," by
?Bro. H. C. Dennison. and Sister E. R.
— Keech. “Farmer-5' blessings," by Sister
Dockeray, and Brother M. H. Foster.
, Bro. I. D. Davis, one of Kent county's
l oldest pioneers, gave interesting "Rein-
‘ iniscences of early Michigan." Sisters
‘)1. P. Berry, and M. H Foster. read
_ essays on the "Progress of the world."
, Recitations and music were plentifully
linterspersed. Brother VVni. T. Adams
was elected delegate to the State Grange.

Resolutions on the death of Brother
Best were duly passed. Jonathan Best
was a charter member of Harmony
Grange, and one of the original meni-
bers of the county Grange. In his death
the Grange lost one of its most active,
useful members. He was a man of ster-
ling worth. of deep and earnest convic-
tions and always true and loyal tothose
principles which he conceived to be
right.

The next meeting will be held at
'Whitneyville Grange hall on Oct. Pill.

Si~:ci'—:r:'r_aiir.

Nnw.-ico I’I'))iONA.

Newago county Pomona Grange was
declared by everyone to be a decided
success. People were there from three
counties, and the Grange hall was so
crowded the first day that we adjourned
to the Baptist church to listen to Mr.
Morrill of Benton Harbor, on “The
care of the orchard." Everybody was
interested in this address, as everyone
is more or less interested in the or-
chard. The lecture was pleasing and
profitable and the speaker was be-
sieized with questions.

Wednesday evening the work of the
fifth degree was taken up, and it was
conferred on over twenty candidates.
Thursday the hall was so crowded that
we again adjourned to the Bsptist
church, where the program was again
taken up. everyone responding when
called upon.

Mrs. Tibbits, our blind hard of Ne-
waygo county, recited an original
poem which was very touching. Mrs.
M. V. Scott read an original poem
which was also very beautiful. Mrs.
N. E. Lewis read an article on fresh
air outing for city children. The Fresh
Air children were nearly all present
and created quite a. sensation, and we
think this work in Newaygo county
will be more fully developed next year.
The hearts are being educated and
then there will be an awakening. Din-
ner was served in Grange hall and 40
couple sat down to the tirst table. I
could not begin to tell how many times
these tables were set.

After dinner the meeting was called
to order and the work continued until
4 o'clock in the afternoon, when we ad-
journed to meet with Ensley Grange
in October. Thus ended one of the
most instructive and profitable meet-
ings ever held in Hesperia and the end
has not yet come. LECTUREIL

IIILLSUALE YOMONA.

The September meeting of Hillsdale
Pomona was held with south Jefferson
Grange on the 5th, with a good attend-
ance, greater than could be accommo-
dated in the hall. As usual the re-
ports of the subordinate Granges were,
on the whole,encouraging. In addi-
tion to the usual Grange work Acme
has instituted a Grange fair which has
outgrown its hall and this year is to be
held in the tented woods. and will put
on tri-state airs. it will be held on the
18, 19, 20 of neptember and the whole
world is invited and asked to compete.

south J efferson Grange is the trading
Grange, but on account of the rush of
business in this department, was un-
able to get a. full report; but between
four and live thousand dollars in trade
was reported for the year. Adams
Grange has a womans’ aid society that
is its pride and glory. It furnishes the
Visiron to every ramily in the Grange
and to some out of the Grange. It
does so many good things with its
money that it gets it easily and has the
moral support and encouragement of
all the brethren of the Grange.

As the Worthy Lecturer was not
present, sister Bowdich acted as sub-
stitute. The program was fully carried
out as follows: Address, Brother A.

hepherd; response,h'ister Hunker; es-
say by sister Cass, “success and Fall-
ure;" essay by Brother Miles Davis,
"Agriculture's political cast.’ These
were all good and instructive. A reci-
tation by Sister Watkins, in interest of
temperance; essay by Brother Burt,
“Home dalrying," followed by discus-
sion. Bro. Burt has had experience in
this line and said success and profits
could only be had by good food, a
plenty of good water, a good breed.
and good care in general. sister Hun
ker: What breed do you prefer?
Bro. Burt: The native, if they can be
bad, if not, the Ayrshire. sister Phil-
lips: What of the Holstein? They
were generally condemned for the
dairy. Sister Bowdich: The Agricul-
tural Coliege gives the Jersey at high
standing as a butter maker. Sister
Powell: Our Jersey is worth two
Durhams for butter making, Brother
Strait: Life is real, and demands
bread and butter and alittle beef with
it; but with the Jersey you get no beef.
They don’t pay for their feed. A one
year old steer of any other breed is
worth more than the butter from a.
Jersey for one ye-ar, and you don’t
have to churn him Jerseys take hue
care and no farmer can afford to keep
strictly to a line of Jerseys. Brother
Haughey, to please his wife. had kept
a Jersey calf for beef, it was worth
25 cents. One of another breed of the
same age and care would be worth $25.

Discussion on the merits of alfalfa
clover. It was pretty generally con-
cluded that from its reported fertili-
zing and staying qualities if a good

   
 

Results prove conclusively
rich In potash the crops of

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and all winter crops are largely increased and the soil is positively enriched.

We will cheerfully mail our pamphlets on Potash, its Use and Abuse on illc
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that by the use of fertilizers

   
  
 

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Williilin Hamilton. Treasiircr.

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Vliiis, G. Sliaiic, .~‘ccrctzir_v

We are prepared to fill all Grange orders at lowe».-t wlioicsalc l':lir'.~’

stand could once be secured that al
farther trial would be desirable. An’
essay. Sister Bowdich. “Our duty to
society,” should go to VISITOR.”

Brother E. Dresser, Secretary of the
Hillsdale Farmers’ institute Society,
spoke in its interest and urged an in-
crease of membership. To secure an
institute demanded money and work,
and we could not afford to lose the
benefit derived from one. The State
Board of Agriculture will furnish
speakers on specialties which would
be followed by questions and discus-
sion. Local talent would co-operate.
No fees would be asked and no collec-
tion taken.

Pomona’s next meeting will be with
Adams Grange on the first Tuesday of
November. W31. KIRBY.

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