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VOL. XXI. NO. 12.

CHARLOTTE, )IIL'HIG;\A\"

.l['.VE is‘, 15140:.

The Liquor Commission.

Some Opinions By I’:-ominent (.‘itize-ns of Micliigan.

l’RE..\'. JAS. 15. A.Vt;EI.I..

In reply to your request, I will .-;:i\_' that
I have read the Redfern bill which you
have sent me.

The purpose of the bill is excellent. The
facts, showing the use of malt and spiritu-
ous liquors, and the effects of that use, it
is very desirable to procure.

I should think the life of the coininission
might be three years rather than six.
Some of the specifications of information
to be sought might erhaps be criticized,
on the ground that t ey are vague, or that
they are too inquisitorial, or that they are
impracticable. But such an objection does
not lie against the general purport of the
bill.

The great difficulty will be to secure iiii-
biased aiid competent men to serve on the
commission without conipcnsation, men in
whose investigations the public will have
confidence.

Ann Arbor.

JITDGI-I C. B. GRANT.

I am in favor of any reasonable means
to gather facts in regard to intemperance
in order to ilace them before the people
for their enlightennient. I am not entire-
ly clear, however, as to the wisdom of the
state undertaking the expense of a bureau
for that purpose. If the present law were
enforced as it ought to be, and as it can
be, many of the evils of which we now
complain would be avoided. \Vhat we
need is not so much information of the

-- Levils of intemperance, for that we all know,

but more enforcement of law. If the good
people in every locality would organize for
this purpose, such enforcement could
speedily be accoiiiplislied. The evil will
not be remedied by laws unenforced, but
by laws enforced. If we cannot enforce
the present law -I see no reas-oiiable pros-
pect of enforcing one more rigid.
Lttllfxillgl.

ALBERT A. DODG E-

I have read with considerable interest
the article in the Visrroiz on the subject of
the State Liquor Cominission and I wish
to endorse all that you have said. Iain
not now prepared to say whether or not
the bill should be adopted in every
)zll'tlCl1ltll' as published: possibly it might
have been improved by a fewslightaincnd—
ments, but in the main I wish to endorse
the whole idea and trust that you will suc-
ceed in working up suflicient feeling
throughout the state to secure the. enact-

ment of the bill by our next legislature.
Grand Rapids.

MRS. AG.\'E.S L. I)lAI{t‘A.\IBAI..

The appointment of a state coininission
to investigate the liquor traflic, its extent
and effects. other things being equal. would
no doubt be valuable in helping the public
who have not already done so, to realize
just where we stand as a state and as a na-
tion in regard to it.

Of the making of commissions and in-
vestigating committees on this subject
there is no end, but the great vested inter-
est in the liquor trafiie has ever been the
power that has kept both state and country
from acting on recommendations and fully
realizing the statements of such, even if it
has not succeeded in hindering its investi-
gations and stultifying its work.

Sam Jones says, “The man who sells liq-
uor is an infernal sconndrel, and the man
who drinks it is an infernal fool.” This
language may seem more than emphatic,
but thinking and unpreiudiced people have
long ago recognized its truth. It is well
known to economists that, unlike that of a
legitimate article of commerce, the supply
ofpalcoholic drink creates the demand, and
not the demand the supply.

The key to the solution of the liquor
question seems to be the awakening of the
religious sense of the public, and especial-
ly that of the governing classes. To stig-
matize revenue made through its manufac-
ture and sale. To brand and ostracise
those who grow wealthy on the degrada-

0

tion of the race. To place the reproach
not so much on the unfortunate victim of
environiiient and appetite as on those who
cater to the one and create the other.
Above all, to realize the In/I/-/'»,-//2‘ evil of
the stuff. and that it is impossible to touch
it actually or metaphorically without de-
fileiiient.

If the work of a coiniiiission should so
investigate and hold up before the public
the liquor traffic in all its direct and indi-
rect bearings and etfects without fear or
favor its iteration. of the matter as a sys-
tem of facts near at home might help those
who desire the highest benefit of the state
to ai-ouse individual action.

Detroit.

HON. VVJI. Ii. VVEBBER.

I am, as you say, interested in every
practical temperance movement, and I re-
gret that so much zeal and strength should
be expended in such misdirected efforts to
promote the cause of temperance. Expe-
rience has demonstrated that every misdi-
rected effort to promote any good cause is
really an injury to the cause, and I think
Michigan, and humanity generally, have
suffered because there has been so little
knowledge and judgnient exercised in
seeking to forward the temperance move-
ment. Every such lll()\'€l7‘r‘nt designed
for the benelit of humanity must first rest
upon the actual condition of humanity, and
what would be wise if some other condi-
tion existed may be unwise as conditions
now exist.

I have never been of opinion that the
prohibition movement in Michigan was
proinotive of advance in temperance. This
movement contemplated the absolute, ex-
tinction of alcohol, and the speakers and
writers have declared alcohol, in all its
forms. a curse. As a matter of fact. this
statement is not true. It is simply the
abuse of alcohol which is the curse: the
unnecessary use of alcohol which does the
mischief. Iiut alcohol has always existed,
and I think it is safe to say it always will
exist. Again, the friends of prohibition
have urged that alcohol was a poison.
wliereas the best scieiitilic authorities hold
otherwise. You rciiicnibcr the iii\‘cstiga-
tion made by Urovei'noi' Andrews of Mas-
sacliiisetts, and the published results. No
matter how good a cause inay be. when
false premises are assuiiicd the cause is in-
jured thereby. Let the friends of temper-
ance tell the tl'llill, and say that the abuse
of alcohol is the cause of the trouble——sa_y
that the weakness of liuinanity in not be-
ing good to itself is the cause of the trou-
blc.

You rciiiembcr Dr. Reynolds, in the Red
Ribbon nioveiiiciit. took as his text every-
where, “lie Good to Yourself." lie was a
true tcinperancc apostle, and did much
good. Men are placed on earth with cer-
tain persoiial responsibilities; they are pos-
sessed of liberty of choice; their Maker
has not seen lit to deprive them of choos-
ing evil, if they prefer it; why should man
assume to be wiser than his Maker. and
take from man this choice! Ratlier let
men be instructed in the good, and yet be
permitted to choose the evil, unless they
have so far lost their reason that they
should be placed in asyluiils or iiiiilei'jiliy's-
ical restraint. On this basis the cause of
temperance can be promoted and built up,
and on this basis alone can we hope for
any perniaiient good. The saloons, as
they are ordinarily conducted. are a great
evil in the coiiniiiinity. They will ‘exist
in some form, or in some manner, and in
some place. Better, therefore, that they
should be regulated and restrained by
placing them under heavy penalties to
comply with the i'ules and regulations of
the law, to have them as little mischievous
as possible, and lessen the number by the
severity of the rules and regulations.

Humanity requires instruction and call-
tion as to intempe1'ance in eating as well
as intemperance in drinking. An eminent
phvsician once said to me, “Two men are
ki le.l by over-ea-ting for every one killed
by over-drinking. ”

I think experience has demonstrated
that those evils in society which have al-
ways existed, and which seem to exist in
consequence of the infirmity of humanity,
are best dealt with by society by such le-

 

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V gal regulations as shall restrain and legis-

late them. rather than to attempt their

1 prohibition. when the c.\'pcrience of the
* world has proven that prohibition is im-

possible. Vice can be carried on in such

j a secret manner that man cannot be pre-

vented from vice except by a physical rc-
straint of his person.

I do not see any good to come from the
passage of the Redfcrn bill, or the investi-
gations which it proposes. We all know
now the evils of intemperance; we know
that it is an evil of great magnitude, and to
know its precise extent, perhaps, is not
material. The value of investigations un-
der such a bill as this would depend large-
ly upon the wisdom and the sagacity of
the men who should conduct them: and af-
ter the detailed information was procured
there would still exist difference of opin-
ion in the community as to the best meth-
od to remedy these evils.

Every man who is intelligent enough to
be a member of the legislature shoiild
know, without waiting for the report of a
commission, enough on those questions to
form his own conclusions without waiting
for further advice as to facts. Every man
has had the evils of intemperance before
his eyes from his youth to the present
time: every man has heard the subject dis-
cussed and all sorts of opinions expressed
concerning the bow methods of eliiiiinat-
ing these evils froii. i-ociety, yet there are
so many opinions as to these methods still
existing as to demonstrate a want of uni-
formity in the prcniiscs which lead to these
conclusions. In my judgment the passage
of the Redfern Bill would call upon the
taxpayers for at least -S:—‘.l),o4IU, and I should
let anticipate any useful results whatever

Ji"v-.m.nperations under it.
So,//inuw. E. S.

The Hessian Fly.

BY G. C. I).-\VI.\‘, )II('HI(}AN

.\."I‘ATIO.\' .

E.\'I’ERI)IEN'I‘

The Hcssiaii fly is now in the “flax seed"
or pupa stage and is found near the base
of the plant. encased between the stem and
the leaf—sheath. Itis called "flax seed" stage
because it reseinbles in appearance and
shape a flax seed. ()(_‘<.':l.\'i0ll:lll_\,’ a iiiimite
iiiosquito-like fly is already niaking its ap-
pearance froiii the pupa stage, but the
greater share of the flics will not appear
for a month or iuorc. \\'hethcr there
is a third, or suniincr, brood is unimport-
ant at this time, but sullice it to say, that
when earlv fall wheat appeais, the females
begin laying their eggs on the leaves, us-
ually along the inidrib. The egg is about
one-sixteeiitli of an inch long and of a pale
red color. From the egg comes the white
maggot which works its way in toward the
stern and does the harm to the wheat by
bruising the stem and sucking the sap
from it. The second brood of flies appears
in early spring and the inaggots from this
brood do the most liarm of all as they
cause the wheat stem to crinkle and break
and the grain to shrink or ‘remain unde-
veloped.

This, in brief. is theannualcycletlirough
which the Hessian fly passes. Ilowevcr,
it is not so often of the life history and
habits of the fly regarding which we are
questioned. for most of the farmers are
already acquainted with it in that respect
through reading and experience. The let-
ters which are now coming to us are look-
inor to the future and asking, in substance,
“lliihat is the probability of a severe attack
on the next y 'ar’s wheat crop?" and “Is
there anything that we can do to prevent
or lessen the injury 3” As these are vital
financial questions to the grain producing
farmer, even a few suggestions may aid.

“WHAT is THE PROBABILITY or A sEv}:RF.
ATTACK ox TIIE WHEAT cnor NEXT
rAi.i.t"

This is about as difficult a question to
answer as the fore-casting of the weather,
as much depends upon this one influence.
Two vears ago this summer indications of
the Hessian fly were about the same as last
summer, but last season‘s_ wheat was not
injured to any extent in comparison with
the present crop. Whether it was the dry,
hot - summer of last year that held
the fly in check, or whether it was some

, other influence or coinbination of intluences

that made the difl'ci'cnce. admits of much
coiijecturc and leaves room for more study,
observatioii. and facts than we now possess.
\\'e must say though that. as abundant as
the flies will soon be, tliei'e is a strong
probability that the attack on wheat this
fall will be a severe one. l’ai'asitcs are not
apt to be of any great aid before next
season, and climate influences so far this
season are very favorable for the fly.

"IS THERE AI\'YTHI\'(i THAT \\'E (‘AS I)() TO
I’RE\'I-Il\'T OR I.E.\‘.\'E.\' THE INJURY 5“

Occasionally the man who does all that
he can in the autumn to prevent an attack
of the fly, succeeds no better than his indif-
ferent neighbor, but generally be succeeds
in niolifying if not entirely preventing an
attack on his ci'op.

Prof. VVebster, the present entomologist
of the Ohio Experiment Station, has spent
much of his time for the past twelve years
in studying the fly and gathering data re-
garding it, and he gives us very good proof
that late fall sowing is an important item
in checking the fly. There is a time when
most of the brood of flies has deposited its
eggs and died. In the southern tier of
counties in this state the date of sowing
has been deterniined to be from the 12th
to the 15th of Septeinber. As we go north-
ward from this, the time of sowing becomes
earlier at the rate of a day for every I2
miles, or 5 days for every degree of lati-
tude. For the average autumn this date
will still give the wheat an opportun-
ity to make a good growth before winter
comes.

V\'hen wheat  sown late, particular
Care should be iisod in thoroughly propar
ing the ground and in using fertilizer
wberc necessary to give the wheat a vigor-
ous growth. Much depends upon the seed-
bed and strength of soil in aiding wheat to
withstand any insect attack.

ALI. \'AR1E’I‘lE.\' I.\'Jl'I{l~I l ).

On the College farm. ten of the more
coininon varieties of wheat grown in the
state were examined and all found to be
badly injured by the fly: some perliaps a
little more than others, but the slight dif-
ference no doubt was due to other condi-
tions independent of vai'it.-ty.

A I\IA(i(H)T I.\'.\'Il)l-I Till-I .\'l'E.\l.

Several persons have reported tindiiiga
little white maggot insidc the wheat stein.
As the Hessian fly maggot (loos not work
inside the stem. a few of tliesc fariiicrs
have gone so far as to make the asscrtion
that it is not the Ilessiaii fly, but anotlier
that is doing hariii this scasoii. This is the
result of a closer exaiuination of the wheat
than usual, for this maggot inside the stein
is found in varying miinbcrs every season
and causes the upper portion of the wheat
stem to turn white before ripening time.
It is known as the wheat stein maggot, and
is rarely nuinerous enough to do much

damage.
I-lg/rir.-ultiirul (Jollcuc.

From 1873 Until 1896.

lluron Co.. ()., March 3“, lstlti.
Mr. O. \\'. Ingcrsoll,

I.)EAl:Sir.: Your paint which we used
on our house in 1.873 has proved very sat-
isfactory aiid, as we desire to repaint it
this spring, we write you for sample color
cards. Yours,

W. W. MAi:'ri.\'.
See Adv. Ingersoll’s Liquid Rubber Paints.

In writing to advertisers please mention
the VISITOR.

Catarrli Cannot lie Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they can-
not reach the seat of the disease: Catarfh is a
blood or constitutional disease, and in order to
cure it you must take internal remedies. Ha.ll’s
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts di-
rectly on the blood and mucuous surfaces.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine.
It was perscribed by one of the best; physicians
in this country for years, and is a regular per-
scription. It is composed 6f the best blood
purifiers acting directly on the mucuos surfaces.
The perfect combination of the two ingredients
is what produces such wonderful results in cur-
ing catarrh. Send for testamonials, free.

F. J. CHENEY it C()., I’rops., Toledo, Ohio.

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

JUNE 18, 1896. v
,9 , I i i  more productive than there, and_ the fruit that if we could lessen production, or in—  the work of the tax statistican whose ap— ’
" 1' / l  . . > r 3 is of larcrer size and better quality. Last crease consumption a little more than one— I ointment is the fruit of our order, will
’ T a)’ 1 / Q9 Q 1 "eason aanew era for the prune indurtr 1 p
;  b . I B

y  fourth _our home market would consume throw such light upon the subject, as to
5 opened up in the Sl]lpL)lIlg of undried I the entire crop. This would cause an ad~ _ cause the burdens to be borne iuore equit-
Prune Growing in Oregon. ' prunes. many carloads aving been sent Vance In price, so that the 3lU,tNm.UUH , ably. Believing that the whole property 7

east from Oregon. The outlookis promis- I bushels annually consumed, would be 1 should pay its fair share of the taxes. any
ing indeed for this branch of the industry. W0l"Ch HS much nioncv as the 54" 1,0! N.t.tN)U

BY PROF. U. I’. HI-IDRICK, PROFESSOR OF
HORTI(7L'LTL‘RI-2, OREGON A(;‘I{I(.‘UL-

A law that will help to place all property up-
_ , V _ s The great bugbear of the prime grower I 1111Sh€1S now annually produced. ; on the roll. and assess it at its true cash
TL1111‘ CO1‘1‘1‘1’1"' i is to get his prunes evaporated. The ;‘ Blanutacturers and miners in certain f value, and in the township or city where

But few eastern people comprehend the evaporators now in use are of all makes .5 1111951119 50 1h"1'011.-1-T111."
magnitude of the prime industrv on the 1 and turn out all grades of prunes. A I C1111 511111 (10 1'9.$-’11111t9 the
acific coast. Ten years ago nearly_all
the prunes used in this country were iiii—
ported from southern Europe: but, begin-

organized that they such property is
ir markets by the ‘’ Tl
piiiiio oi.,ii,oi.,itoi., iii o,oi,oi.,ii_ is (iiiito iiko if supply of their goods: but we are not so I
the large drier used in evaporating apples. 2 1011111111191)’ 51111511911-
‘ _—\s the industry gi'ows steam will be in- I

located will be welcome.
icre are now two exceptioiis to this. One
is in the case of raili'o:ids. livery mile of

__ V railroad should be assessed where it is lo-
“ ith an average corn crop of 1.-SW.H‘ 1‘ 1.- ‘

_  , _ __ o cated, and thereby holp to pay our_ town 1’
ning about that time in California, the i troduced in all the large plants and _with i 1]—1‘1'fh1111,§h°15 ‘V9 11111111111119-\'l101't "33" '‘’-‘’‘r’‘1 §111‘11‘1’11111."111-‘595- _1119 "1111‘1"‘-V1‘ {11"11 15
prune industry has‘ .%“i'own to be one of the f 115 11111191111 1111.1ch W111 .111’ ‘1°C0111l1115h9‘1 I ma elm . . _- . 1111111“1“"‘e“1"1111)111 111111111111-111113195’ 1 1’ 1111111
most important interests on the coa:~.'t-  1°“'111"1111°1'e11§111£’1h0 91h('9hC.V 31111 °""h’ 1 Om.awra‘1“w out C1101) 1'5 1"111"0W'11W 11111111111911111C111“1'1¥11¥0 111-‘ 111“ ‘V11-" 1'0‘
i The wine of the Crop is exceflieti in Can‘ ; oiiii. of i.iiiii,iiii_, iii, oi.i,i,oi.fltoi._ not-oi.o : bushels all consumed at home.

pcaled Micliigan took a step backward.

V e produce about '_’W1.H|W,— ‘ \\'hilc the law no doubt had soiiic defects,
U04) busliels and have to import from 14) to Q the principle was right. for no man xvas
2H,UHU,HU') bushels annually to supply our

tl5.5'(fS.5€(l for pi'operty he did not own. no ‘1
own market.

fornia only by that of the citrus and vinit-  drying, the prunes are graded into “sizes” j‘ 01 l1011111105 ‘V
erous fruits. In \Vasliington, Idaho, and  211111 1111119911 111 -'>'11'011.J”11"11111.-‘.1 1Y0 10 C1'11£‘1i 1
Oregon prune interests have assumed the tough skin and thus hasten the drying.
greater proportions than all other orchard In California most prunes are dried by the

i ‘ _ _ property was assessed twice. and all prop-
iiidiiStti.ioS_ I O  Sui: I i 1 t fit } .1 (W1; il-iii?-1]eCi;;n(i)11iizi‘l‘l_ly]'€l‘:ltJ13(mt;  j ct-’£_\' was assessctl whem it was located.
I t ink 1 am safe in 53 vino tint re;_ron i - \\'O1‘( in regari o pro smay )8 sait. ’ : f ' ; _ 1 1 ,_ .' a 3' 3 ., V , _ _, H
is the t-iivoiito Stiito of tiié ii"i.iiiio and I iiii,  Lost _i.oiii. tho Oi.ooo,i i.;_\.i,oi.iiiioiit gttitioii i (too bushels and the L nitcd_ Ixiiigdom. the i sr.\Tio_\ BI, i.i.i.Ti.\.~.
siii'e that the prime is the favorite crop in 3 _conducted a thorough survey of the fruit  111199511111l1111'11h§C0111111'}'"119011 l111""1111'1-‘5- i For the bulletins issiietl by the agricul~
Oi-eg0h_ its ,,-tit-h it has much in its favor; 1 interests of western Oregon. The average ,1 15‘ '~‘—’‘'’11.~11‘—’” 1’11~‘511‘~’15- 111155111 15 the 1111155-*1 1 tiiral college, and the knowledge imparted
the trees are sure to hear, there are no net profit per acre per ye '

iii. foi. i.,i.iiiio_5. as i exporter of wheat, and annually sends out thioiioii iiiiii iii, tiioii. o_\.i,oi.iiiioiit_\._ we
climatic conditions to overcome, and there suininarizcd from the reports of the survev E 1'1”.~‘-’‘«’‘’~‘-1‘’‘’ 1111511015. 1‘A1!'01>0£m Rllsslfl has 1‘ ‘ ‘

t i , _ M _ __ i would return thanks. and believe that the
is it ooiiii,i,i.i,tii.o iiiiiiiiiiiiti. from iiib-ectiiiiti were one hundred four and one half dol- I 11_l1°l1111‘111011"1 11“-1111113111-11—1501115; 10111"1111h5 lack of interest in said work. and the fail— 5
fungus pests. The demand, too. is grow~ lars for the 1.504 crop. The extremes .' °1“110111‘11'e l19‘11~‘'11111~’'-. “110 11"9 1111 1'.Y‘~‘ ure to protit thereby, causes more loss:
iiig oi,oi.iiio,iSii. foi. both tho (tried and giiveivi the Siii-Vey woi-hoi-5 were hi-oat yet i b1‘e:lLl aI_1<l D0ti!_109S, =l11111}1:0 h9111'1)' 1111 011' among fariners than does the support of
grheen p1'0(ll1Ct,1'[ll1lS promising well for the this can. I think, he 1'€(:Ol11I]l€I1(lC(l as ap— ;' ¥11§‘—’f‘1 .111 11.‘—"1'1£'1’1V1_1111'e- 1h_‘~‘ 1111‘1‘1"91"l’0‘s1 the school. \Vould we not think it ridic—
ind,i_5ti.i._ pi-oxiiiiately correct. I‘I‘()I1] the same re- 1 1‘3111101.V Of 11115513: 0011111 111 11 $111111 111110 ulous for professioiial men to advocate the
i.,oi.t tho m.oi.ii,,.o Coot of iiiiiigiiio. an i be made to supply the \\.()i«ld with bread. iiimiisiiiiioiit of tiioii. i.oSi,oi.tii.o i,i.,iiii.hoS
T1113 "111-‘1-1111 1~‘11'1’11'1"A-"13 orchard in bearing was forty-one dollars i 111‘1111 ‘1h11111111_.Y 91‘-'l101'1~‘3 111»W‘v1a1_1‘r’1’ 1’_11511‘115 in the university because every student .,
The Chief i,-oiitiiio in Oi.oi_,oii iiiiiiio gi.oii._ and eighty cents. :4 prune orchard bears it i‘1NfM‘(‘;38111t-h 511:  l1f°l1:111E1hh 01t 1_21«f"i wlio_studicd law or medicine did not i prac— 5
mg is the ciinmto The two is it t.oiiii,i.o_ at four. yea,-5 old. The cost of prime land  -‘trite, rufelel-'(')11I s‘_o w 110 tiinno lieai tioo it, iiiiii is it not oiiiiiiiii. ,ii,$iii.(i toi. Us
hoiisivo footioi. mid any good Soii “iii i,i.o_ in Oregon is iwlii twenty‘ to eighty dollars food milLwimivi:0oniilio1o)satntn(o[hiolia c  to ho toi.oi.oi. kiokiiig i,e(v,mib.C c\.oi_-Voile
duce prunes. lint to grow them at their l1e1'11C1'e- ’ ‘ "' ‘

 

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best the climate must be temperate in re- C°m'm"1’ 01611011‘  ’W.1‘1’,,Wi1-1 .—11i1i1ihieili1'. 1111111011‘, "15 11°91'11"" 111° 1'” 11*‘'11'113'11"11 111111
t_,,,i.d to heat and i,ioiStiii.o_ A iaioo and . 1 ki'ith l 1 t lift 1191 ooil i;oon.C1.E.1b.0 1“: 11 i‘  maintenance of liigli_ways, we believe that
oven proiiiiot of (rO0(1 iiiivoiv and C0i0i- can Agriculture. i 1‘ 1 _ 111 « 0 -‘a I 7 3- - 119195 1111“ 11111 91 the present law, which provides fora labor

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i . i . i - - 0. i . .1 . _ , _ , C11 E1Va11011- _ _ assessiiicnt, and if that is not sutlicicnt a
lle pll0i.llL6t( 6VeDl't1.lI IeQ'()H 0111  11918 Report of Committee at state Gralige. i ]i.i.0Hi these hgiires You can I-eudiiy see‘ Innnev til‘: U) be ‘Miami to he prefeluthic H‘ h
.0” C 111111 e 10111 1 111115 110 501.11 1° 11? ]{,,,—i«/,,, ][,,,.g,,» ,\,,.¢,,,. ,i,,,] 1,),-{,1/ma 11,- 2 that so long as the export price of “heat
ing largely the secret of protit and loss. ~ ‘ ’ ‘ 1

an absolute money tax. L'ndcrour present
law, if any county wishcs to build pikes,

ther-
o_,i.ow imiiios iioi. is the fruit omokoti by realization that the most difiicult thing for ‘ or other improved higliwziys. to their cen-

t wise than low. As we produce $90 per

It is not I1CC€S~‘flI‘V to irrigate in 0i.o,_.,oii to I‘/was-.' \Ve come before you with the full  9011111015 1116 111111'1“1t55a 11 051111101 119 0
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the hot Sim as it ig in Caiit~o,.iii,, The the average of human beings to see are 1

cent of the corn of the world, coiiipetitiou

_ _ _ _ _ . _ ters of coiuiiierce, they can do so by secur-
iiioiqtiiio ooiitiitioiis are such that the tree their own privileges and blessings, and 111‘t\1}f1ti11t1_e lb‘ ht0%hS0 .9i1'<:3t- f th mg special legislation.

* ‘ ‘ . ‘ . - - v i - e )€leV61 c (11 o c 0overn- ‘1
makes one good, Strong growth in the hope that the iepoit that we iie about to Y ,—.

. . . ~ ' v‘ ‘ ' - -- . ment to en 'l;S1'l] l- '3 1' t1 l to rel u'll
Spi_m_q and emit, Siimmoi’ and this, ioi_ submit willnot_be full of ominous foi_e ac l( awszs cm i l(
lowed bv an 'ibiinda.nce of sunlight and an b0‘1111«"1S' 11111 W111 1111859111 311 S1111-16°11” 111
equable" suniiiicr heat ripen: fruit and 111e11'11'11° 11-91111‘

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Tlicre are certain natural laws, controll— ’
. . . . in<r the business of the world which we

, Ol11'l8.I10'(11 hi 0 1I1ll1SI‘8' a as far as ‘“ -- ‘.

. . D S. 111“. 1 1 1 5 1111 ‘ 7‘()lI1€l'.1ll](3S overlook, and one of those laws

1 possible maintain them, and at the same

as the employment of capital in t at direc- 10 “'01'1‘1 101' that 911(1-
, tion is just as legitiiiiatc as its employment Our business demands
in production. The mission of the govern- sonal attention, it cannot

.' . . . . ~ , iresent themselves to the ao'riculturists of
L1 mg 1191116611 the Cdsmde and toast this 5t'ite and Vation '-L: the b-isis ft”
Range mountains in western Oregon there ‘ ‘. ‘ . ' ‘ ‘ . “ . '
.ii.o three (,i.e.it Willey“ in ordoi. of Size and successfully pursuing our calling require.s-
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wood, giving the former a beautiful color 1111116 1116 131111101. “1111 l11'°l11'1e1y 1'e11_11'11 l it;1_n1(1je1_11'mn,(’e tt1i1]et1e1?}111”i01 1i’l11ir§fi;“O11111! cured through agriculturall piirsiiits.
andadelicious flavor. 1111.111115 .1111‘ 1’0111111f111 010115 and 111131113.‘ i1eia,:m_1t’h §_Oth a.   Hm 3 011 Those who are ambitions to possess ex-

Tiioio ,ii.o iiow about ;3o,ooo iicios of P1'1C9-5, 101’ the l1i15_1‘ .V9f11'a ‘V9 111'? 11'i;11.Y  1917111 91 1111111‘1°‘11'°1' trciiie wealth must seek it elsewhere. ‘
prunes grown in this state. The major -‘~'i1'111Ve1111111511 111111191’ ‘111’ 110 ‘V°1°e 1 1111  TRA1\'.\'l’ORTATION. Ilowcvcr, our _products are the world‘s H
part of the industry is comprised in the 11%} 111_e' . . _ H . _ I In the matter of transportation, we do 11eC‘3;951110-—‘_'a 11111111 1-5' .l1{~"t 1111113 “'0 -*h0|l1<1
valleys of western Oregon, though there .1111? ?°11_11111f1ee? 1&1 1"1e“’e1111¥1i-31,107 501i .1 hot fee] that the gomi-hiiieht Shhiihi mi-ii receive fair.reiiiiincration for our labor,
are many fine orchards along the Columbia 11181! 113110117 190.1 1 e 1e1’1_1011°1_’1. 113)‘ ‘L111  and operate the iiioiies of iiiiiis Oi-hitiohi and our capital invested. and it is our duty
i.ivoi. iii iioi.tiioi.ii and oiistem 0i.e(_,oii_ the importance of the many questions t at 

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  to crovern the peoplcand not to do conducted by proxy The old rule never r’
- . v- r l road acre" so we feel th t ou' re )01't mem 1°. 1‘ . ‘ ~ ‘
11hl301h‘111C9~ 11191.1 111111119t1‘1>_1’111l1fl1111h: 1111‘1 q1ii0i,i(i ‘be C:i.;eq iomiinoi , i,)£i1_mti and 1iii’_ the business of the country. The duty_ of abrogatediand never in aiiy sense suspend-
R1’g11e§ 911911 111]i11he11 11)’ 11 1'1_V91'01_111eS11111e oi.,ii i.o,iii./iiio.tii1,,t iii tii“‘o1.ii.oSe‘iit (‘ii , (uni the law is to protect the weak against ed, there is no excellence without great
name. _ The _soil for some miles adiacent to 10:6 iof ‘1(iV‘an:em;mt no b&sin‘e_,S0r (‘)t1_Cu‘ )_i_ the strong. The physically weak against labor, is closely personal in its application.
these I‘1V9I‘S 11} 11 h1i1C1< i11111V1111 (16170-S11; V91)’ ‘tfon (Mu; gmmi wimii’ , “One thfitihe  the physically strong. The tinancially I And to the farmer, this means as much as
deep and so rich that for yearsi and years perittf oi‘ lhhiv one )l)11"1l1ClI1 tlhpeiitlsl in ii weak against the tinancially strong. Thcre— to any other man, that it is his own hand .
without any niaiiuring am wit 1 but little   ’ ‘ ’ I - ‘ . fore, as large amounts of capital are con— that must guide if he would make the most "
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C111151"1111011 11 has 11"91'11%’9‘1 f1'01}1 3” 1° 1,11 giifolit. i,1ili:i::ii1oIS.L1 fgi1.mir:.htt,3e  ,3: ceiitrated for accelerating transportation of his opportunities. 1
1111511615 01 W11e‘11 1181' 1111116‘ 11 15 1111011 11115 h. . 1i i .1’ f ., i - ii"  : i‘ ,. and the capital invested in agricultural Respectfiilly siibiiiitted. »
111301‘ S011 that 11105101 the l71'11he-5' 31"? 110111 funplnetli -1.1 en.(_)ii ($1. _I(_ eliflm-"t _0i1 ,0‘) pursuits is scattered, we feel justitied in R. .v\- \\'ooi.si:i', 
g1'0‘Vh- A5 Y011 1'93“-h the f00t‘11111-5 0111110 “a1z0‘1‘i- min puillc 11?» Mei 1-mil C-1 L01‘ demanding laws for our protection from " ‘J:
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mountains on either side of the rivers the  .111-:‘1;1;11i’)iiC1i (t1i1]:’t in:::rI1"f‘;‘:tt:01:\_it(i111 this source. In the pooling of the eight , i
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S011 1190011195 1'€(1 111111 15 01 11115111110 0l‘I.£1h- or Wilipigs ‘nit, mtfui imiu ti) ittritimqie’ Ainerican railroad trunk lines, and the one . .\li:s. (. I). liiaiaiiiiitic. .:
.‘ . .7 . _.i_ . i . _( it; S-v J t _ i , v. t _ . H .) ,_ , ,, _ 
 hlllsteis  tliitehfiriliituifgipiifmot iy pursneii is iictrimenmi to “S. *= }(,21tl_]El(llan\t1'l111l3xtYllnk(3.i (.()1IIt(I;ti)1l_llIlg‘ thethtialhc Miss. haiuiii J. b1IA\\ ,  it
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elements of the soil, potash especially. OUR iimii: MARKET. 1 rangenieuts are nearly completed, and the _
Some of the very best prune orchards are , _ agi-eeiiieht pi-oiviiieh that evei-V iioiiii iii the General Topic for June.
on this sci] and that it will smiie day pm. Our home market is our best market:

. . . . I combine shall make and maintain the rates
duce lai-ge cl-Ops (yf prungs is ceiituin’ but that IS §lI'tl(,'l6S OT \Vl]lClI ‘Ye (l0 HOT })I'O(lllC€ 1

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. . . prescribed by a board of managers repre-
as Yet it has not to anY 7lIl)D1'eCl{ll)lO extent 1111 ‘31*'l101'1 11111111111)’: 110 1101 001119 111 1111901 1

.. . 7 I sentingalltheroads. That tl1l.5\VlllVll'tl1iLll_Y Question 1. Should the Government 
been eI1C1'0i1Ch9t111I1011- °°11111e1111°11 111.111.1116. 1’1'01111°15, 111 C1191”) 1 destroy all competition in both freight and own and control the railroads in this -1
_ ‘ land and labor in foreign _countries. and we i piissoiioei. mtos iiotwooii those two o.i.o,it ooiiiitiii )
‘ A1111‘3T1E5- do not have to accept their prices, less the ‘ I "

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There are two varieties of immes popu_ cost of transportation to their markets.

the weak need protection against the strong ’ State (,‘oiiiinei'ce Coiiimissioii been of stifli-
larly grown in Oregon, the French or Th*31'e has 119911 51 P1311 P1'€S€h'f€<1 11)’ 0116 and should be stopped at once. cient value to the people of this country to
I Petite’ and the ihiiiiiiii The first hiiiiied is David Lubin of California, and known as TRUSTS i warrant the enactment of the law creating
. h h tie Se,-gent ihiiii iii the East and the Liibiii idea, which was discussed at _ ' . the commission!
1 e R0 e C II ‘t -l " ' l ’ great lencrth ‘11t1 the iiieetiiicr of our last 411"’ 31111 e‘'e1'V 111151 01' 00111111119» 01' 1111)"
is the prune grown a mos exc usive y in 2'~ :~ 1 is -1 ~

California at present it is the l1nlVe1's'a] National Gmnoo, wiiioh pi.oi.idoS foi. the thing of that nature that tends to interfere ‘“*—  .

 
  
 
   
  
  
     
         
     
    
     
      
  
  

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favorite in the commercial woriii Um iiayiiioiit oft, boiiiiti. iii. the o.o,.oi.iiiiioiit with tl1e'Dtt1]tl1il«i1l_l2_1\\'5t of slupplty Ialnd de- - .sLc(.i.sTio_\s. .
fortunately it does not do so well in the upon agricultural exports, claiming that 111‘11,1‘lv 01,1ie .1?-.9'1111111,1_° 11131. 1111 111‘1_ 00111: But few direct suggestions will be made-
it northwest and is not so imgoiy hiowh as agriculture under the present system of l1‘i1111011111 11151110”?! 1” t11°th111g 1110ie 1101, under this topic. \\'hat_is_ given will _be
‘ the 1ta]iah_ The Italian is not quite Si, prot_ection does not receive benefits in pro- 1.1;” 111115111 °li1l11"t5Si1°f1t 111 f 9 P9011 '3 ‘"1; i largely in the line of statistical information
popular in the market at the present time po1't1on to inanutactures, and hoping by %§i’11_1i1 110% 139 V °ti1;11i1_e‘ i i”1_ ‘1i111i°111‘_311  for a large class of the iiieiiibcrs_ of the
as the Petite but when its good qualities said bounty to relieve the depression in  1h‘1 “e‘ 19 19?‘? lat =.11‘l’PfY 4h‘. "1 e111fi1]11‘ l Order _who may not have opportunit_ics for
become known by a more general intro~ €1.JI‘1('ll1h1I'€- 1111215 ‘if-’4f1e111i 1‘v1.‘:-.3111   t P111953 i‘  procuring the same.’ The Declaration of i I,‘
diiction it may be expected to rank in the It seems to your committee that to adopt 11? till“ ,u_oere( “tl ii_’S“ei. lltl i. 0 iiefe i:i.i0.1iiLf P111'l1°59S 511)’ 55 1'“ 9 111"? 1101 3119111195 01
markets with the French prime. The Ital- 0 e ‘11=u111e11 O ec 9 3 -Y ‘ 1" “

this plan one fundamental principle is , . . railroatls, I1aVi0’i1hl6 01' 1l'1'1gfl11h.‘-‘C 011111115»
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ian prune can only be grown to perfection overlooked, and that is, that the people “He M01 ton when he 11118 that the mm C1

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in the northwest. In the east it is known must support the government, and not the P131: 9t 1ln0_c?c1(1,,1)1e( iail(ti’o,;11it,.ii(i)u:i.iEi(i)i11n 11111’ 111‘1,1"11111‘11 111,t91'eS1_Sa 01' of 1111)f111h01'111.2f
as the F ellenburg plum. governiiient support the people. But as 5 {fm 1Y1f1(?1_e3°,1n1Ei 110;11h1‘I1lCe the Vfqiue of classes. " The_discussioii on the tirst ques~
Brieflv, the difference between the two extreme cases require extreme remedies,  ,8 1 ejlils ‘Illa ‘-Y -e  . - o. i 1 i. i -ii 11011 511_0111‘1 11? 111 the SP1111 01 1113 ‘11’°"e
is: The Italian when dried is largei' than and as agiicultui-e, which has furnished the a1tmb' t _i1i)iu,l,Oi1),m10n - ‘m?lin"é‘   ‘l110151111011,- 1501‘ 313111119111 511121)’ the, 1'9‘ 1;
the Petite prune, is black or bluish black bulk of our exports, and sixty per cent of H9. m_a Elia, 1 ‘“_Hi"nc§S1n ilfliiuoo’ to in o  l1‘_1115 011, 111"'111Sl10,1'1311°11 111 1116 1 1'°Cee.d.111gS ‘
in color and is more acid, having a most the internal commerce that floats on our pllgefiiot mm 111-01 .m.3t iafiiliii mi’ Willi , 01 the 1\,1{11°11‘11 (T1'11h£19 101' 1911 01' 1111_9‘511
agreeable sub-acid flavor. The Petite is great lakes and rivers, besides contributing ,1?"  Ii]-11,)-niey   e(i1iio11 inVVeQte(lp(i§ Ye“11',S- 1110 l11'0C5f9111h.£S 0f. 15111 901113111 3
1 smaller but is heavier in proportion to size, by far the greater part of the freiglitage 1:h=‘-."‘3°‘ t1 1_11,(ie: 1 115 H 0 y 1‘ H Sl1eC1111 1113‘-’§111h9h13 111 f11"°1' 01 1’0"e1'11111e111
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bright ainbei coloi when diied, making it guishing, any ieinedy that will ieliexe the k. i, =Of necesiqr , and usefui business b a_ e oiiiiiieice Om[I11c5l()TWt3 e net,
the more attractive looking of the two. pressure on this industry should be resoi-t—  for beinffusit as honest mad i0 yai a; to investigate the subiect of (,ro\'ei'niiient
Its insipid taste, because of a lack of acid, _ed to. Tlierefore while we cannot indorse M,“ 1. ind tiié‘i.i1,foi.o,iooo it their ox iiossod ‘ °“'11e1'5111l'1 01 1'311103»<1>'a 31111 the 9011111118-
is its chief defect, though this sweetness it, we will not condemn it. me 116’ 3 1 ‘ 1) ‘

recommends it to many.

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i 0111111011 “S1 811 0.1165 130111“ 1011 am 19' their investigations in 1894:. This report
I EXPORTAT1Ox' 11.1i1111Ce  eXp1'etsS10n,i ?E11cheaS§1(t)(I3(r1ii(1§1i1g,f’ gives a history of Government ownership
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i 1.i.oiiitiio ooiiiiiiittoe on ao.i.it.iiitiii.o at Carry withctiiem Ciisrespect AS sectiOnai_ of iailioads in foieign countiies and the
i The prime trees are grown on peach  the niecting in \Vorcester, we learn that

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stocks generally, though myiobolan and the Lnited btates produces anniiall I,‘ so We mint to see the C135;-915 done away i’i1(‘;,:1i1e1;i(i1e1S1 ::f1:i1]:‘(11’;;13S‘:i'(’)n Shouilfi _
marianna_plunis are being used some ’and on an average, oUO,UUO_.OUO bushels of With, and oiii. iiiws t-iiiiiiod foi. the good of
will, I think, supersede the peach. The

Wheat (this year’s crop is 60.000 0110 the masses and not for special classes funy Studied? - -
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  that unzverwb   Isis»  that the as aw ’ .  ii1i“’113331.12%.iii“;l.‘i.’13":i§1iif‘ififii. 31°“;
plums. The trees when full grown are export of wheat and flour is 140,000,001) T 1‘ 1- I 0 C 11 ~ 9 an 1 90 r‘
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  deprived of an educated citizen, and the cheinical properties and in the ease with  are in frequent use be attacked. Uphol-

‘ My Stawberry .

0 marvel, fruit of fruits, I pause

To reckon thee. I ask what cause
Set free so much of red from heats
At core of earth, and mixed such sweets
With sour and spice: what was that strength
Which out of darkness, length by length,
Spun all thy shining thread of vine,
Netting the fields in bond as thine.

I see thy tendrils drink by sips

From grass and clover’s smiling lips;
I hear thy roots dig down for wells,
Tapping the meadows hidden cells;
Whole generations of green things,
Descended from long lines of springs,
1 see make room for thee to hide

A quiet comrade by their side;

I see the creeping peoples go
Mysterious journeys to and fro,
Treading to right and left of thee,
Doing thee homage wonderingly.

I see the wild bees as they fare,

Thy cups of honey drink, but spare.

I mark thee bathe and bathe again

In sweet uncalendareri spring rain.

I watch how all May has of sun
Make haste to have thy ripeness done,
While all her nights let dews escape
To set and cool thy perfect shape.
Ah, fruit of fruits, no more I pause
To dream and seek thy hidden lawsf
I stretch my hand and dare to taste,
In instant of delicious waste

()n single feast, all things that went
To make the empire thou hast spent.
—HeIcn Hunt Jackson.

 

Our Schools.

What the Public Has a Right to Expect of the
Schools: from the Editor's standpoint.

(Read by E. R. Reed at Hespcria Grange and Teachers’
Association.)

It is very difficult for me to divorce the
ideas I may have as an editor or a citizen
in regard to the public schools. My occu-
pation iii one field and position as a pareiit'
and citizen have given me some decided
opinions in respect to our school systeni,
but whether I have those views as a citi-
zen or editor I cannot tell: and if I c.\'press
them as an editor it does not necessarily
follow that they are “editorials and must
have position at top of coliiiim and next to
pure reading niatter," for I am willing
they should have the “run of the paper
and be counted for just what they are
worth, and no more.

Is the same care and attention being giv-
en in our schools to the primary depart-
ment that there is to the higher grades.’

Out of a class entering the primary
school at the ages of five or six years con-
sisting of twenty scholars not more than
three or four of them finish the high school,
and not one in hundreds beginning at the

, Jpwest round finish in the higher colleges

provided. In the first and second grades
the children are crowded in large numbers
in one room, and sometimes as high as six-
ty or seventy little ones are undertaken to
be controlled by some inexperienced teach-
er who has no adaptability for the place.
She is usually hired because she will work
cheap, and the peculiar qualifications nec-
essary are not taken into consideration un-
til teachers for the higher grades are
wanted. ’

It has been said, and justly, too, I think,
that the trend of one‘s life is shaped by
the handling of the first two or three years
of home and school life. That the shape
and direction of one's mental thoughts and
after usefulness are made in early school
years. If such is the case, is the proper
attention and care given to those early
years?

VVhen the upper grades are reached the
same number of scholars will be given two
or three teachers. Costly apparatus will
be provided for them and the studies be
made more attentive by experienced teach-
ers chosen for their ability and adaptabili-
ty. But long before these scholars reach
these grades in many cases they have lost
their interest in school; inexperienced
teachers lacking the ability to discern the
bent of the young mind have failed to dis-
cover wliat will interest the ieculiar cases.
and very often the cause of c ildren drop-
ping interest during intermediate grades
from a lack of interest can be traced to ut-
ter indifl'erence on the part of scholars to
the school. “That was necessary to inter-
est that pupil had not been discovered by
the teacher until too late, and the child, in
most cases the boy, drops out; the few re-
maining get the benefit of the higher train-
H10".

i‘annot the schools be made more attrac-
tive so that niore of the young men of our
countrycan be induced to finish their stud-
ies in the high schools? Is this lack of at-
tendance their own fault, or is it the fault
of the system?

A large percentage of those who gradu-
ate in our high schools are girls. They are
developing intellectually much faster than
the young men of the age. If this con-
tinues, what of the future? Many of the
best thinkers and writers of the age are
Women. “'ithin the past half a century
this position has changed greatly intellec-
tually and mentally. They are advancing,
the young men of the age are leaving
school with less of an education, adapting
habits of cigarette—smoking and other vices
and degenerating. How long can this con-
tinue and our country be safe? The young
man is injuring himself, society is being

government itself is being weakened. for
its strength and prosperity depends on the
intelligence of its votes.

I do not want to be a pessimist and mag-
nify the evils of today, but I believe these
thoughts are worthy of consideration, and
if I have a mistaken idea of them I will
willingly stand correction; but they are
thoughts that force themselves to my
mind. How are the many young men who
are so lightly ignoring an education to be
reclaimed! Can the school systcni be al-
tered or amended in any way to correct
the evil? \Vill more attention to them
while in their pi'ii1iai'y grades affect them
in after years? Can I as a citizen and
other citizens do anything to counteract
the growing tendency?

These are questions that rush through
my mind as I write, but I will admit
frankly that I have no remedy to suggest.
I cannot point to the duty done or undone
that will correct the evil. Our educators
mav be able to suggest remedies, and if so.
they will find in me for one a helper who
will do all they can to help.

“'9 all have a right to know not only the
best that is being done, and can be done,
but also the worst features of our school
system, and he is no true friend of educa-
tion who wilfully conceals or keeps back
facts and knowledge regarding them. A
discussion of such questions will purify the
atmosphere surrounding it, and if no such
evils exist as those, those patrons who have
such ideas and thoughts will have them
corrected.

That Maple Stub.
BY EIIIBIA A. CA)II’BEI.I..

"I was just going to have it done!“
“Have what done!" “Wliy, have stakes
driven about the old maple stub in the
door yard.” "\Vliat for!" “To preserve
it. It was old and rottcn and getting
shaky. " “It's not pretty in a door yard.”
“No, I know it was not pretty, and stakes
about it would have made it look worse,
but the bigblowcame, andthe stubis blown
down, and now what good is it that I was
just going to have it staked. ”

In the spring of 1891, my child came
running in great excitement. “O, mamma.
the red-lieadcd woodpeckers have a nest in
the old maple stub." Sure enough: now
thought I we will see if John Burroughs is
right, that the woodpeckers abandon their
nests after the first season (page 138. “Hike
Robin). Every summer since then I have
found the red heads have had their first
brood out of that old stub in time for my
cherries. They used the same cavity in
1891 and 1892; in 1893 they made a new
chamber, which they used in 1594, adding
a new door so they could enter either the
back or front way. Again a new chamber
was excavated in 1.595. and they had just
completed the work of house-digging for
the present season when the disaster came.
The fallen stub confirms my conclusions
that woodpeckers do sometimes use the
same chamber successive seasons, for there
were only four cavities,——one with two
doors~—which had done service for six suc-
cessive seasons. But now the loud joyous
cries and the resonant hammering-—the
melody which woodpeckers know how to
evoke from the roof of a barn——have gone
out of my home concert, and from my
summer cares I shall miss protecting the
blundering first flight of baby woodpeck-
ers from the watchful cat.

Washtciuiiv Co.

 

Why We Cook Our Food.

VVe cook our food to render it more
agreeable to our senses of taste and smell.
Cooking develops flavors and odors not
present in the raw state. This is particu-
larly true of the animal foods, but it is
also true to a greater or less extent with
regard to vegetable foods, and indeed some
vegetables, as potatoes and beans, would
be. repugnant were they uncooked. The
superior flavor, appearance and taste of a
piece of bcefstcak nicely cooked is a case
in point. The development of pleasant
flavors in the coffee berry and peanut illus-
trate the same principle.

A second reason why we should cook our
food is to be found in the fact that there-
by we facilitate the process of mastication.
Some foods are tough or hard and can
neither be finely divided nor well mixed
with saliva. Cooking softens these so that
the work of the teeth is performed with
greater ease, and the results, so far as the
digestibility and the amount of nutrient
matter obtained are concerned, are vastly
more eflicient. ,

Again it is often desirable that the food
be chemically changed; thus some foods or
portions of them are absolutely indigesti-
ble in the uncooked state; the fibrous tis-
sue of meat, for example. cannot be con-
sidered a food until by the application of
heat it has been changed chemically to gel-
atine. Similarly starches, though not en-
tirely indigestible when raw, are changed
into a more digestible form by cooking,
and the cooked starch, as in bread, is by
the process of toasting, converted into a.
new chemical substance called dextrin,
which closely resembles sugar both in its

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which it is digested.
changed into caramel and
ly deconiposed into other
substances.

Again sugar 
fats are partial-
iiiore digestible

the warmth which is thus imparted pro-
1110t€S(lig€sti0ii by causing an increased
flow of blood to the digestive apparatus
and hence a more copious secretion of the
digestive fluids. It is to stimulate the liow
of digestive juices
the first course at dinner.
this increased flow the
food is well advanced l)_\' the time dinner
is over. The general stimulating effect of
tea and coffee is enhanced cousidcrablv
by their warmth. A
The general result of all these cliaiigcs
inentioncd, the development of flavor. the
increased ease of mastication. the chemical
changes. and the warmth
cooking,

obtained from the food at the same time ‘

that its digestion is promoted.

Finally, cooking destrovs anv parasites
that may be present in the food: Of thcsc.
t/'/c/u'/am; in pork 21ll(liIllC.~‘r,'u/4,1’. orenc_vstcd
head of thc tapeworm, in what is known
as measly becf, are the most common. To

show that these are not so rare I inay iiicii- ~

tion that between two and three per cent
of all the hogs slaughtered at the Cliicago
stock yards are found to bc infcstcd with
f7’/I.‘/u'/'2//«.«‘. Most food inaterials serve as a
favorable media for the propagation and
growth of bacteria. Many of these are
harmless. but we must rciucnibcr that wc
cannot be sure at any time that no danger-
ous ones are pre.<e1it. As heat <les’(1'()_vs
bacteria we ai'e taking fewer cliances whcn
we cook our food than whcn we do not.—
1‘/‘rgf. T//07/u.I.~' /,ri'/'/I/17 il//on. -l/. -l.. «'1; T//«
C’/~12/Zrzzzr/ur/22.

 

Means of Protection Against Clothes
Moths.

G. C. Davis in Bulletin of Micliigaii I-Jxpcriim-nt Sta-
tion.

It is much easier. wc find, to keep a
house free from clothes moths than rid the
house of them after tlicyarc oncc thorough-
ly establislicd. There are few dwcllings
which have not some dark clothes press in
which woolcns are left exposed during the
suinmer. Often old clothing or woolcn
rags are thrown into a little used attic and
thoughtlcssly left. l'pholstercd furniture
not in use is often carried to the same gen-
ci'al reception i'oo1ii for cast away articles.
All of these articles and many more of a
like nature, such as feathers and furs, arc
very attractive to these little moths and
make a breeding place for them that is
sure to bring annoyance and grief to the
house matron if such practice is continued.
The first item then to remember is to avoid
unnecessary exposure of anything that
will attract the moths and on which their
young can feed.

Clothing, including furs, to be stored in
the wardrobe during the suinnier, can be
kept entirely exempt from attack if put
into new flour sacks, linen sacks, or sonic-
thing of that nature, and tightly tied so
that a moth cannot enter at the mouth.
Chests serve the same purpose when tight
enough to prevent the moths from enter-
ing.

Garments to be kept free from the moth
entirely by isolation. as mentioned in the
last paragraph, imist not be left exposed
for a month or two after the wearer has
discarded them before they are packed
away, as the moths are most active in May
and June and are the most likely to de-
posit their cggs on these garments before
they are safely stored. ‘hey should be
put in safe keeping without delay as soon
as (lofted and cleaned.

Various repcllants, such as camphor,
moth balls of naphthaline, snuff. tobacco
and similar substances are in quite general
use and have usually given fair satisfaction.
Cedar chests are well known to give. pro-
tcction against the moths, but they are
quite expensive. In all probability cedar
oil, as spoken of under the carpet beetles.

will prove to be an excellent repcllant in a '

wardrobe, bureau or chest, when sprinkled
over the wood-work occasionally. It seems

that hot soup is given as ,
Asa i'c.~‘illt of ‘
digestion of the ’

_ imparted by;
is that more nutrient matter is ;

superior to all other rcpcllants tried by 
myself, and quite likely will be sutlicient ‘

to keep all moths away.

IV here the larvic of the clothes moth are
known to be at work, there is probably no
better or simpler method of dealing with
them than to apply a liberal quantity of
benzinc or gasoline to the garments on
which they are feeding. Then the gar-
ments should be hung out of doors in the
sunshine and thoroughly aired. There
may still be eggs or larvae that have escaped
the first application, and a second a week
or two later is desirable to make the work
certain. Other garments of the same
wardrobe are likely to be infested and
should at least be inspected in bright light
and watched for a few weeks. The room
should also be sprayed that the work may
be complete. VVhat_has been said of care-
ful, thorough work regarding the carpet
beetle is also of equal importance in deal-
incr with the clothes moths.

Tiinen and cotton goods are not attacked
by the moths. Neither will garments that

I in carriages and similar material remain
 free from attack by use and plenty of sun'-
5‘ shine.

A fourth reason for cooking food is that 

stery of furniture, liiiiiigs and trappings

 .....—-u«..».._-.—..————.__....,

The JuY€_'Iil.l€-S‘.

Little Mamie Gay.

Little Mamie. aged three,
Wise beyond her years,

Sat demurely on the sofa,
Quite unknown to fears.

I had known her scarce a day-
Long enough for us.

We could understand each other
Without. “company” fuss.

Soon I asked how old she was,-
Didn’t she look wise V

What a world of careful study
In the big blue eyes!

Then she tipped her head aside,
Answered “Thirteen," gravely;

"N01 let‘s see." with doubtful nod.
“’I‘hirty.”’ smiling bravely.

Then I laughed. The little fairy?
“Mavbe three," 1 said.
“Yes! ’l‘hat’s it," the mite replied.
And bobbed her curly head.
—HcIcn K. L'h(zr'r.

Among The Fishermen.

 

liarly in lhc mornin_<_r. long before mo.-1.
people in thc bu.-y city think of getting
out of their beds. the fislicrmcn are busy
down upon the wliarvcs sclling their fish
to the inarkctnieii. At all hours of the
night the boats come in and anchor, in
readiness for thc lirst cu‘:-toincr who may
appeal‘. 5()l1l0 of the boats are small.
hardly larger than a dory. while others
are larger and carry sails. The boats are
loaded with several kinds of lisli. which
the men have bccn fortunate cnough to
catch.

The writer rciuembcrs one inorning whcn
the tide was out. The boats wcrc fiftccn
or twenty feet below thc wharf. The pur-
cliascr would walk along until hc saiv some
fisli in the boats bclow that hc wanted.
Then he inquired thc price, and if satisfac-
torv hc would lcll how iuan_v he wanted
and they were counted out or weighed and
raised to the wharf by a pully. 'l'hc mar-
kctman would pay the bill. load his wa_gon
or cart and drivc oil". Otlicrs were going
and coming. \Vhat they said was all fish
talk. and a laiidsinaii could not always
iiiidcrstaiid what was meant.

The decks of the boats were slippery and
wet, and the men were dressed in suits of
oil-cloth. Sonic of the boats had codfisli,
some had hakc. others had mackerel, and
others had several kinds of fish. \\'hcn
any fisherman had sold all his catch he
moved out as quickly as possible and sailed
or rowed away for another day‘s work.

A large number of men are engaged in
this industry, and oftentimes they are ex-
posed to many dangers. At any rate, it is
hard work. but the il>',llCl'lllCn look the per-
fect picture of lie2iltli.——Ex.

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OVERWORK

—INDUCED—
Nervous Prostration

Complete Recovery by the Use of

Ayer’s Sarsaparilla

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“Sonic _vl-ars aj_-o. as :1 l‘l*HlIl[ of mo
¢1.,_,«., mt.-mion to Inisiiu-.~s'. my hczillh

failed. I lN:l'2Illll? \\'c:ll(, in-rvoiis. was
uiiablc to look nflc-1' my iim-i'c.~‘ls, and
inanifcslcd all tlic H}lll1lTtllll$ of :1 dc-
Clillr,-. I look Illl‘I‘I‘ lmllln-s‘ of A_\'t-r’.-I

Sarsaparilla, bu-.ran to improve at once,

 

and gradually increased my weight from
one hundred and twenty-five to two
hundred pounds. Since then, I and my
family have used this medicine when
ncedcd, and we are all in the best of
health. a fact which we attribute to
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. I believe my chil-
dren would have been fathcrless to-day
had it not been for A_ver’s Sarsaparilla.
of which preparation I cannot say too
much.”—H. O. Hixsox, Postmaster and
Planter, Kinard's, S. C.

y THE -
Aver sh‘ Sarsapanlla
RECEIVING MEDAL AT WORLD'S FAIR.
AYER’S Pills Save Doctor's Bills.

 

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4

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

JUNE 18, 1896.

THE  WSITGR

I Tl1e'0llicial Organ of the Michigan State Grange.

Published on the First and Third Thursdays of Each Month

EDITOR :
Kztvvou L. BUTTERFIELD, Luvsmc. MICH.

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

MANAGERS AND PRINTERS:
Penny 4 MCGRATH, CmIRt.o-rrz, Mlcu.
To whom all subscriptions and advertising should be sent.

TERMS 50 Cents a Year, 25 Cents for Six Months.
In Clubs of 20 more 40 Cents per Year each.
Subscriptions payable in advance. and discontinued at
expiration. unless renewed.

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Order or Draft. Do not send stamps.

§'To insure insertion all notices should be mailed no
later than the Saturday preceding issue.

 

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

 

i’«E‘Ni:xr lssci-:. Ji:i.v 2.

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. We ho e every Grange in the state will work
earnestly in a these departments, so that by a more
united eflort we shall rapidly increase our numbers.
extend our influence, and attain more and more coinplete-
ly those ends which we seek.

OUR OBJ E('T

is the Organization of‘ the Farmers for their own Improve-
ment, Financially, Socially, Mentally. hlorally.
We believe that this improvement can in large measure

be brought about:

1. (a.) By wider individual study and general dis-
cussion of the business side of farmin and home keeping.

(b. By co-operation for financial a vantage.

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

.) By striving for a purer manhood, a noblcr woman-
hood, and a universal brotherhood.

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

(b.) By patronizing and aiding the Agricultural ('01-
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 Circle; estublisliing and using
circulating libraries; buying more and better magazines
and papers 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.

 

Vtre are in receipt of the proceedings of
the Colorado State Giuiige.

 

“'6 want more Gi‘:1nge news. Just :1
word about what you are doing.

 

l)o not overlook the letter from Bro. J.
G. Noble of Oxford. on page eight.

 

VVhile performing institute work at
Greenville, we chanced to be in town the
same afternoon that Montcalm G1-aiige met,
and were lcasantly welcomed b_y the
Patrons of t at wide awake Gran3_re.

 

Worthy Master Horton has called the at-
tention of Patrons to the necessity of be-
ginning the planning for August picnics.
\Vhy cannot every county liaviiig :1 Pomona
Grange have a picnic this year? It does
not need to be l:1r;_re to be good or useful.

 

The Board of Agriculture, at their last
meeting. adopted :1 course for ladies at the
Agricultural College. Both this course
and the revised course for boys will be
published soon. “'9 hope that these
changes will induce iiuich larger attend-
ance this coming year. The new year will
begin Sept. 14. Send in your name for
one of the new catalogues, which will be
out in a few weeks.

 

Sister Mayo makes an appeal for
the Fresh Air work, in this issue. The
best 3,l'_9,‘llllleIliI for this work is the success
attending it. It has now been carried on
two seasons, and at the end of each se:ison’s
work the ch:iirm:1n of the woman’s work
committee has had zibundnnt evidence, in
the shape of numerous letters, sliowing not
only the value of this work to the poor
city people who need it so much. but also
the actual value to those who have per-
formed the service. It is perhaps useless
to make :3. further argument in behalf of the
work, either from the philrinthropic
standpoint or from the standpoint of
its value to the Grange. The best word
we can say is that it has been per-
formed by many busy women on our farm
homes. It can be extended and made much
more perm anent if other busy women simply
try it this season. “'9 hope that these up-
peals of our sisters will be recognized by
the woman’s work committees, and that
every Grange will, through its members,
take at least a small share in this noble
work.

Now is the proper time to discuss the
qualifications of our state legislators. It is
more pertinent now than it will be a year
from now. Vile think our people spend
too much time in pointing out the faults of
their public servants after the deeds have
been done, and too little in doing their
share to see that men of proper qualifica-
tions are selected for these important
places. VVe all expect in members of the
lecrislature the ordinary qualifications of
hobnesty and :1 fair degree of intelligence.

\a\I‘ . ,.,,,......-..us:.ai1u-1&1 '

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These two we regard as common qualifica-
tions. There is no debate upon them. If
a man is not honest. if he does not deal
with his constituents as they expect, if he
is :1 crank, if he  not able to comprehend
the scope of state atf':1irs, he ought not to
be in the legislziturc. But there is some-
thing that lies at the very basis of the
qualifications for acceptable public service
which is often overlooked. This essential
thing is pzitriotism. By this term we mean
that spirit which asks. when :1 certain
measure is presented, "Wliat will be the
effect of this measure upon the public

good 3" and which does not consider the -‘

question. “How will this effect my politi-
cal stantlin,c_/5" l\'c never shall have ideal
legislatoins, but if it were possible for us to
secure a legislature, the majority of whose
incmbers, or even :1 good sized minority
of them, were actuated by this spirit, we
would have no difficulty in predicting the
success of that le1isl:itui'e.

 

The spirit of selfishness is the most cry-
ing evil of our politics. It can be er:1dic-
afed only by education and by peixsisteiit
effort. If we could only have men in our
public service who are truly patriotic in
the sense of being willing to sacrifice their
personal interests for the public good, we
would get along pretty well under almost
any form of c_rovcrnment, and under almost
any laws. \Ve should like to dwell at
grezitcr length upon this pliase of our poli-
tics, because it is the essential thing. It
matters much less what sort of laws we ask
for, than it does what sort of men we send
to make the laws. The men we want must
first be -intelligent :1nd well informed,
though they need not be scliolnrs. They
must be perfectly honest, thou_<_:h they need
not be poor. And above :11] they must be
men who will keep ever before them the
good of the whole people. and not the
wishes of :1 small clique, nor the :1pp:ire-nt
benefit to themselves.

 

The G’l'£ll‘lf_7€ has :1 clear duty in this inat-
ter; it must first educate its members to
believe, not only theoretically, but practi-
cally, that this spirit of patriotism is the
thing most needed in our politics. Then
the members of the (:‘rr:1ngc should make
an effort at every opportunity to ende:ivor
to secure for public place men who possess
this spirit. All this is a h:ird task, but
not an impossible one. You can find the
men if you want to, but it me:1ns that you
must go to work now and keep at it until
the pro or men are chosen. We have no
sympat iy with anybody who neglects this
sort of work and then will complain next
winter when his member of the legislature
fails to do his duty.

 

In our last issue, we printed :1 splendid
article from Brother J. Y. Clark, of Orion
Gr:in_<_>re. which we headed “The Leading
Question.” It was 3. st1'on9; presentation
of :1 most important phase of Grange
work. ‘Ye can agree with him in the
main, and wish to call especial attention to
the m:itter which he l)ri1i_9:s up. It must
be remembered that while financial returns
are not the most important thing in life,
they are the fund:iment:1l thing. No man
can ni:1ke progress without the lleC(-}SS£1l'l0S
of life, and we think that few men can do
their best without both the neccss:11'ies and
some of the comforts of life. Hence, as
Brother Clark says, the first things to look
after on the farm are those which govern
our income :md outgo.

,__._____._

The Gi‘:1n2je h:is alrezidy done something
in this line. and has provided machinery
for the more economical purch:1sin_,q of
supplies, both for the farm and for the
home. “'6 regret to say that Subordinate
Ginngcs are not taking: due il(l\'£lIltagG of
this opportunity. Those who h:1ve tried
it have, so far as we know, been well
pleased, :1nd have saved considerable
money. \\'ould not it be :1 good idea for
us to tzikc full :idv:uit:ig'c of this scheme of
purchasin_<,z and give it :1 thorough tri:il?
It certziinly will be :1 help. There :1re
1ii:my difficulties in the way of :1 solution
of the problems presented. Tlic_y seem
almost insuper:ible. The farmer inakes
his own price in very few of his business
transzictions. It would seem. on the face
of it, to be essential tli:1t he should be able
to make his own price on what he sells, but
this has never yet been done to any satis-
factory extent. The mattcr is worth in-
vcstigiatinrg, however. Two or three years
ago the State Grange passed :1 resoliition,
directing an inquiry as to the feasibility of
selling together as well as buying together.
So far as we know, this investigatioii has
never been made in Michigan. “'9 should
be very glad indeed to hear Brother Clark’s
views in re,qa.rd to the specific methods
that he thinks feasible for solving this
great problem, and we should be glad to
hear from anybody else who has any sug-
gestion to make. We have sometimes
t:hou,r_rht that it might be practicable to in-
stitute a farmers’ board of trade for the

state, which could collect information in
regard to prices, crops, and possibly give
to mar-

,gener:1l directions and advice as
kets.

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' instance, most of the people in cities

There certainly is one line of woi'k that
has been attempted very little by general

farmers that it would seem to us would be A

of value, in some directions at least. For

w ho

» l)uy beefstéak, get :1 very inferior article.

Now if they could be educated to know
what good beefstczik is, and to demand it,

3 they would not only buy it in l:1i'gei'qiiant-

 for it. Then the farmers should

 

ities. but they would pay :1 higher price
be pre-
pared to furnish prime beef to supply this
demand. The same would be true in re-

v gard to fruits, ve}:_rctables. and butter :ind
We believe it is :1 fact *

cheese products.
that :1 ,c_>'reat proportion of these products
consiimed by our city people is very far
from being of liigli grade, :ind that the
public taste should, in ;-rome way, be edu-
cated to demand better articles: then the
fzirniers should raise these articles.

 

“For that part of our inquiry which con-
cerns the i'cl:1tions of the drink question to
pziupcrism and crime. I wish to bes )c:1k

T your special interest.’ I need not dwc l on

1 :1tor_v work,
: f¢'//IjIv.''/'I'//i(‘I //‘{7}! 1»/I/1». /'/I-5')/1 Hm] r-/‘///u; /.v so

There is one sentence in Bi-other (.‘l:1rk's I

coiiiiiiiiiiication to which we take exceptioii:
“The f:1rmer of the prc.'~:ent and future.
laboring: iimlcr fin:1nci:1l burdens iuiknown
to his prcdecessoi's. czinnot :ifi'ord to belong
to :1 mere society for debate and social cul-
ture." Our GRANGE Visiroiiis motto is.
“The f{1l'lll8l‘ is of more consequence than
the farm, and should be fir.-‘t improved."
This motto has been followed for twenty-
five _\'€‘tll'S of Gr:inf_re history. The result
has been not so nuich :1 finzincinl improve-
ment in the f-.1rincr's condition. as in his
improvement as a m:1n. By rczison of the
debates in the Gr:1n_c_rc. and the .~‘ocl:1l cul-
ture of the G‘r:in_gc, the farmers of Michi-
gan today are much more able to cope
with men in the ])l'Uf('.~'.~'l(,)llS and other lines
of bu.~:incss than they have ever been be-
fore. The (,li':-.ii}_rc. l:ll'}_"el y by l‘O:l>‘0ll of
these very factors, has produced soinc of
the noblest men in .\liclii}_r:1n history. The
(1'i'aii,qe today, tlll'()ll_2"l1 these very oppor-
tunities for debrifc and soci:1l culture. is
cdiic:1tin}_r :1 l£ll'}_I‘C number of youii,q men
who are destined, by rc:1soii of these op-
portunities, to occupy even :1 l:1r_<_zcr place
in our state than their f:itl1crs have done.
We do not minimize the importance of the
finzinciul side of the Gr:in_2'c or of the
f:ii'ii1er's life. But these higher thiiigs
must not be lost siglit of. llecnusc we
have hard times. because our people are
depressed for hick of inonc_y, we must all
the more be 011 our guard :i_3:iiiist losing
sight of the fact that the best fliiiigs of
life. the most important f:1ctoi's in life. are
included in the education of our lii_r_rhcr
faculties.

 

We publish in this issue :1 number of
letters, both favorable and unf:1vor:1ble, on
the Redfern Liquor Commission Bill. Mr.
L. C. Storrs. Secrctziry of the State Board
of Corrections and Charities, has also
favored 11s with :1 copy of some letters
which have come to him during the spring.
They hear so closely upon this topic that
we quote large portions of them. They
show that the idea underlying the Redfern
Liquor Commission Bill is :1 practical one,
and that it is considered 21 useful one by
some of the leading minds of the cast.
The first letter from which we quote is
from the special agent of the committee on
the relations of the liquor problem to
economic conditions, poverty, and crime.
The ch:1irman of this committe is Gen.
Francis A. \V:ilker, president of the Bos-
ton Institutc of Techn0lo_9;y. This coin-
mittee is :1 sub—c-oiiiiiiittee of what is called

the supreme llllp0l't:lllt‘€ of this subject to
persons eii;_r:1_1ed in charitable and reform-
I‘/nr (3/t;.w; ((17.1./rlzlf/I11); /:7‘. 1.)]-
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in (IN 1/

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/H17/,//iv: I//ill]!/‘/.r'r/ft‘. Ix, //.\‘ you K‘/am/', i/mi (if
/»«/m/. It is our endeavor to collect and
stii_dy such facts. To this end we need the
nssistaiicc of all whohavc the solution of
distrcssin}_r social problems at hc:1rt. * *

"It also occurs to me that ziinong the su-
perintendents of the poor. alinshouscs and
i'cforiii:1toi'y institutions, subject to the
control of your board. thcrc in:iy be some
sufficiently intci'csted to make local inqiiirv
into the relation of drink to p:u1pci'ism or

* crime.

‘'The Committee of Fifty for the lnvesti- '

,c_r:ition of the Liquor Problcin." This is
“:1 committee of fifty geiitleiiien, repre-
seiitii1_<_rdifl'ereiitcommunities and occupa-
tions, under the iresidcncy of Hon. Seth
Low of New Yor ', and is engaged in the
study of the liquor problem, in the hope of
secui'in;_r:1 body of facts relating to the
medical, legislative, ethical, and economic
aspects of the question which will serve as
:1b:1sis f0i' intelligent public and priv:ite
action. It is the design of this committee
to discuss with absolute llllp{ll'l2l:lllly all
the facts which it is able to collect, and
thus to secure for the evidence which it
shall present :1 incnsure of confidence on
the p:1rt of the comiminity which is not ac-
corded to p:irtis:1n stziteineiits." The
officers of the committee are as follows:
President, Hon. Seth Low, LL. l)., presi-
dent Coluiiibi:1Colle_9:e, New York; vice-
presidcnt, Ch:1rles Dudley \V:irncr, Hart-
ford, Conn.: secretziry. Prof. Francis G.
Peabody, I). l)., of II:1l‘V:'ll'(l2 treasurer,
lYilliam E. Dodge. I£sq., New York. The
list of members includes some of the best
known men in the cast.

 

‘V0 quote as follows from the letter to
Mr. Storrs, the italics being our own: “I
beg to call your attention to the undertak-
ing of the committee of fifty as set forth
in the accompanying circul:ir. The coni-
mittee have already made some important
investigations relative to the physiological
and legislative aspects of the liquor prob-
lem, the results of which will in due time
be given to the public.

“All investigation into the relations of
this problem to economic conditions, pov-
erty and crime, is now in progress under
the auspices of the _9:entleinen whose names
head this letter.

"If i1<itlii11g more can be _<_v:iined, we can
perhaps get the pcrsoinil iinpressions of
those who come into iiiimcdhitc contzict
with p:iupcrs:1n<l crimiinils. As the cost
of our work is borne by privzife subscrip-
tions. we are not in I)(.).~‘lilUll to offer ade-
quate L‘(Illl1lL‘ll>'{lll(‘l1 for services rendered.
lt must be :1 labor of love. .\l:iy I venture
to hope for your v:ilu:1blc :1.~‘>‘l>'l.:Il1L‘L‘ in the
m:iftcr 3"

The f(')ll('\\'lll_\_J‘ is from :1 sccond lcffci‘ cx—
pl:iinin_«_r .-'onie\\'lnit the plan of inquii'y:

“Allow me toe.\'pl:iii12ipl:iii wclnive for
iiivestig:1tii15_r the relation of intcmpcr:1nce
to p:iupci'isiii :unon<_r the ulinslioiisc popu-
lzition. The only wziy in which we can
obtziin soiiicwlint rclinblc statistics that
lend tll0lll.~'L’lV(.‘.~‘ to fz1bul:1tion——:1nd that is
what we nbovc :1ll tl1ii1}__r.~' <lcsirc—is by
means of :1 schedule inquiry I enclose ‘:1
spcciincn of the schedule pi'cp:ircd for use
iu aliiislioiiscs. I believe it is fairly com-
prclieiisive and :id:1ptcd to bi'in_«_r oiit the
facts in the imittcr. so f:ir as they can be
secured.

“lVc are in no hurry for results, and
shall not be able to compile our reports
before the e.\'pii':1tiou of :1 yezir. As we
hope such in».w—~z‘[y«/2‘/ma.» will /Iv] mm/,1/' on
in (Zz_'ffJ;/‘cut .,v.fr1[w~, it does not seen) neces-
sary to take more than two or three repre-
sentative institutions in each state.

“We are not re:idy as yet to begin the in-
\'estignti()i1 of the relation of inteinperancc
to crime. This will prove the most diffi-

cult tzisk. By mciins of schedules, simil:ir.,. .

in all respects to the inclosed, charity or-
g:1niz:1tion societies and others in our prin-
cipal cities are now carrying on, or about
to begin, invcstigiitions for our committee
to cover :ill c:1scs looked into by them in
the course of twelve months. I li:ive al-
ready distributed tlioiiszimls of blanks.
\\'e hope for good results. Social settle-
ments in v:1rious places are to make stud-
ies for us of the rel:1tions of the liquor
problem to comforts, lu.\'ui'ies, plc:isurc,
sanitiiry conditions, the habits of the diff-
erent n:ition:1litics, etc. Furthermore we
try to get some facts on the qiiestioii how
fair the liquor habit is the cause of physi-
c:1l:ind moral (lc}_>feiici':icy :imon_: the lu-
dizins and .\'e,qi'ocs.

“The Dcpartnient of Labor at \\':isliin}_r—
ton is about to bc}_rin :iii iiive.-‘tig:1tion of
the relations of the liquor problcm to la-
bor :md the cinployment of labor, which
is directly in the line of our i'esc:ii'clies."

 

Grange Fresh Air Outing.

I)!-EAR l’ATiio.\'s: There has been :1 little
necessary delay on the part of the Detroit
friends owing to the fact that both Mrs.

‘ Poe and Mrs. Cliittcndcn. who were man-

agcis of the work last year, have left the
city, but the work has now been rcorg:in-
izcd under the .r\.s.-:.ociuf.cd Cl1:iritics. and
is in running‘ order with .\liss Cliarlottc
.\l:ison, 43:3 Erskine St., llctroit. as .‘l;[(:lli,
to whom all communiciitions for children,
working‘ girls, or women with babies.
should be tl(l(ll'0S.SC(l.

WO)lAZ\'i.'\' WORK (,'O)l)II'I"l‘El-LN‘ OF THE SUB-
()Rl)I.\'ATl-I (ll{A.\’(il-j.\'.

This work had the hc:irty saiiction of the
State Griuiigc last year. The State Master
has again placed in our hzinds this branch
of Grange work. Your Grnngcs have on-
dorsed you as co-workers with us. l\'ill
you not plan the matter before your mem-
bers, and in :1 kindly, friitermil spirit argue
that each of your (J‘rr:1ii§_res take :1 few of
these who so much need :1 change of air,
rest, and the comfort of just two weeks in
the country f

I know the plea will come, “so much
work, hot weather, all I can do now”-but
there are many worse things than “plenty
of work"——no work, poverty, illness, im-
pure air, insufficient food, long hours in
shop, factory or office, poor mothers and
poorer b:1bies,—all these are much worse
than the work we have to do, the meals
we have to make ready, the fruit we must
care for, the comforts of our quiet country
homes, where "sweet mother love is rest-
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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

 

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such a little more to do compared to the
blessings that come with the doing.

Mrs. Royce will, we think. be able to
furnish Patrons from the southwestern
part of the state. We are trying hard to
Get some sort of a starting point in Grand

apids.

AN i:\'sTA.\'CE.
Last week at our County Grange we

noticed_a strange face, the face ofa lad_v

who quietly and deftly waited upon the

tables. A pretty black—eyed little girl
clung to her, calling her mamma. We
learned she was one of the "Fresh Air”

folks sent out from Grand Rapids last
year, and has staid on and on. making herself
useful, and is now in a quiet country home
earning a living for herself and child.
She was ill nearly all last summer and is
not well now, but able to work and take
care of herself.

Last year we did well. this year we
want to do better. Some mistakes were
made to be sure. It would be very strange
if there were not, and those mistakes.
though in some instances they were dis-

Reinember. Miss Charlotte .\Iason._ 435
Erskine St., Detroit, is agent for that city:

I Mrs. Belle Royce, Baroda. Mich. for
I southwestern llicliigan, and we hope very
 soon to announce to you an agent in Grand
I Rapids.

Yours for the work.
.\lARY A. .\lAi'o.
Brittle Creek.

General Topic for June.

('ontinu:-zl from page 2.

the railroad interests in this country. and
their present staniliiig, and in case of Gov-
ernment ownership it will show the extra
amount of business over which it would
have direct control. also an approximate
amount of the purchase money that would
be needed.

June 30th. hill. there were 17-5.70.5’
miles of railroads in this country. under
the direction of 745 independent companies
whose eiiiployecs, including oliicials.
amounted to TT14.iio5. which is !I?..‘.I‘..I4 less
than 1.\.‘1I2’»., This reduction was mainly
owing to business depression, but labor

The a\'ei'age daily compensation of rail-
road employees. June 30. 1SH:3 and 1.s:,4.}
was as follows:

15144 1819'.’
General oflicers. . . .. .. . . .. $10.71 57 I12
I()therofticers....  5.7.‘.

Genei'al otiice clerks. .. .. .. 2.34 2.2::
btationzigeiits............ 1.7.‘) 1..\1
Qther station men. . . . . . . . . 1.6:), 1_45,s
Eiigiiie men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.031 3.ti'~'
T‘lI'€I1leIl  -_)_o:‘, ‘_’.o.‘
('onducto_rs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 0.} 3.1:?
Other train men . . . . . . . . . . . 1.s:i 1.191
Machinists  2.21 :2.‘_’1o
T 1 .. ..  , ., ..
e . opeiatois, dispatchers 1.30.. 1.10.»

Other eiiiployees in about the same ratio.
It will be observed that the pay of the
general oihcers and othce clerks was raised

I from 1.50:3. while that of all other employees

was reduced with one exception, and that

' remaiiis the sanie.

The total_aiiiount of railroad capital in
the l nited htatcs. J_une 30th. 1H!Il was the
enormous sum of >.~'1I”!.T1II$,4T:’,,.-::;:—%, (It is

estimated that more than half of this is
watered stock.) The total amount of iii-

nuniber of tickets and passes used.)

The gross income of the roads for this
year was $l.HT3,31il.T$lT. This is $147.-
3190. 077 less than the gross income of the
previous _vear. The net income of the
roads for the year elltllllg June 30. 1&9}.
was -$:‘».‘>.T.').'>.1i‘.m, .~'l]()\\'lll}_T a decrease of
>333.3(I:2,0I$4 from the previous year. The

:_imount paid in dividciids in 18144 was
v.\‘101,b'II7,'_'lil. showing that the roads in-
creased their indebtedness nearly fifty

million for the pur )0:'€ of maintainin_c_r the
money value of the stock. through the
payment of dividends.

The revenue per p:issen,qci' per mile in
1.'5‘.*:2 was 2.1126 cents. 1.5594 it was 1.10m‘
cents. The revenue per ton of freiglit per

.8610 cents.

The aveinge cost of running a train one
mile (including all trains) was ‘.Ni..3NI cents
in 180:2: in 15104 it was ‘.l.'3.lT.\‘ cents, or a
little less than one dollar. A careful prep-
aration is necessary for the intelligent dis-
cussion of the transportation question.
which is one ofthc most important economic

questions before the ;\lllCI'l(‘2lIl people. and
Lecturers should not fail to uiakc a report
v of the discussions to the State liccturer.

troubles were a minor factor in the matter.
Estiiiiating four persons to a wage earner
»‘.’:T;'>,9T4$ persons were deprived oftheir rc}_r-
ular income by reason of the business de-
 pression and other causes ali'ecting' trans-
I portatin interests.

debtedness of the railroads was $5,:’;.')e$.5.5’:—’ -

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the work. The work is a glorious work,
‘ and we look to the Patrons to aid in iiiak-
ing many hearts glad by offering to share
your comfortable homes for just two weeks
with those less fortunate than ourselves.

cent of_the stock in 18144. and no interest
' was paid on 17 per cent of the funded debt.
_\\'hole number of persons carried by
railroad in 1.S!Il—51a3,;3o;ii.I;1;3 (this 1,,m1{_.-

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Ripans Tabules: pleasant laxative.
Ripans Tabules cure nausea.
Ripans Tabules.

TEA FAILURES

gaged in the importation of this kind of teas have failed in business. With ready cash we
have been able to take advantage of the immense stocks of Japan Teas forced on the market in
this way, which will be YOUR GA|N, for we intend giving you the benefit of the immense
reduction in prices. Remember we are quoting you the following lots at one-half the cost to
import. Because the price is cheap do not think the teas are not good. We guarantee them
all to give perfect satisfaction or money will be refunded.

We Have Divided Our Several Purchases Into the Following list

I

THE SEA-SIDE 8; TVHITE )IOl’.\'TAI.\'I

SP]-JCI.-\L I

The Finest Trainffin the \\'orld. I
———-— I

A Solid Pullman Wide Vestibulcd Train from I
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Owing to the immense
decline in prices of
Japan Teas, about one-
half of the firms en-

Chicago to Niagara Falls. Thousand Islands.
St. Lawrence River, Adirondacks. White
Mouiltaiiis and the Scn—Siih- Resorts

of the Atlantic ('oast. I

(loinmencing Wednesday. June 24. and each -

. 'VVednesday thereafter until and including Aii- I
I trust 26.1596. the Grzind Trunk Railway Systcin I
' will run a solid Pullman Wide Yestibuled Train I
from Chicago to Portland Mc.. as following: '

Leave (‘liicago Wednesdays. 5 :00 p. m.. arrive

Niagara Falls Tliursdays. \:.'i.'» a. in.: ls-ave .\'ia-

gara Falls Thursdays. 7:10 p. in., arrive at Kings-

ton Wharf Friday mornings connecting with

steamers fordnylight ride through the Thousand I

Islands and the Rapids of the St. Lawrence to

Montreal, arriving at Montreal 6:30 p. m. Fri-

days. The train arrives there Fridays. noon.
Passengers preferring afternoon and evening at I
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Montreal to the river trip. will remain on the
train. Passengers for the Adirondack region
make connections via Prescott and (.)gIlcn.’~'I)lin.:
or Montrcal and Plattsburz. Leave Montreal
1:00 a. in. Saturdays. passing North Stratford.
7:07 a. m. (junction point with the Maine (‘en-
tral R. R. for Twin Mountains. Fahyans. (‘raw-
ford Notch, etc.); passing Groveron Junction
{junction of Boston .5: Maine R R. for Mt. Jef-
ferson, Bethlehem, Profile House. Fabyans. etc.)
P 7 :22 a. m. : passiugtiorliam. the gateway of the
- I Wliite Mountains. 6:45 a. in.. connecting with
stages for summit of Mt. Wnsliinizton. connect-
ing at Berlin Falls. Bethel and Bryant's Pond.
with stages for tho Rangely Lakes. and at Dan-
vi_lle Junction with stages {or Poland Springs.
and with Maine Ventral R. R. for Bar Harber'
(Mt. Desert). arriving at Portland shortly be—I

fore noon Saturdays. within reach of all Sea-

side and Mountain Resorts of the coast in this

, vicinity the same day.

‘ This train is lighted by electricity’. and is coin- ,

' .. _ ins.-ad entirely of Pullman__VVideV\ estibuled (‘ars
‘ ( s follows: A Pullman Wide \ estibuled (‘oin-

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Price per lb. I Price per lb. I P rice per lb. I
in 70 lb. chests. I in 20 lb. caddios- , 5a 11: lb. caddies. I

l2 l4 I5 
I4 I8 I7 ;
I7 I9 20 I

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Price per lh.
in small lots.

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No.

. ‘2 consists of 100 half chests Basket Fired Japan T ea‘—-draws clear and sweet, and you
will be astoiiislied to see how good and cheap it is. . . . . .. .. . . . . .. .. .. .. .. . . .. .. ..

1 consists of T0 half chests Japan Nibs. It is a good drawing Tea. . . . . . . . ..

 

- .  coiisists of 015 half chests new crop Uncolored Japan Tea—is a sweet drawing. light
liquor, fancy Japan, so good that the retailer could sell it quickly at «we per lb. . . . .

. at consists of 64 half chests new crop Basket Fired Japan Tea, light liquor——a fancy
drink at this price: it is like buyin5_r wheat at 15 cents per bushel.. . . . . . . . . .. ..

I9 2| 22

. 5 consists of 113 half chests new crop Fancy Uncolored Japan Tea——we will guarantee

.t . t.. b t ,5 .‘ . V ‘V ._ - _ . __ .'
V §,’f.’fc‘,,?,c°Pj‘,’-h§°§,§;,§‘fg‘§a€§§§E,F,§°E,fi‘I,’ ;‘.‘,f,‘,‘,,_ thi.s_to be the finest Blasket Fried L IICEIOI ed Japan Tea in the country. It you are
1 etc.;a u man i e esti ue ining_c_ar. ‘- _."I . . N . .' ' '. -. . ' . ., .' W . . . "
I        it-' ’§..‘1‘3§il’i2§1il‘.h.i‘?i1 2:3: 22:}:  3*:       26 28 29 33
over nownm ernim rovemen : a u man ' . ’ ' .'  .' _ L ' ' L ' ) ' (: 1.5‘ 5011) C e1 )e1‘.. .. . .
Width \'estibuled(7omb'iIi‘i:;atit)nSleeping._I_iibiiary I l T  “ l ‘ I ‘I , .
::‘a‘}]g’gI’:§§Vf‘E;g“V°e"r§hi,,i0f]ffifiegge :‘,’,‘1‘:h';‘5‘ ff; _ REMEMBER we guarantee all of these teas to give satisfaction or money refunded. We guarantee the qua1ity—_the prices speak for themselves. This . I
-fa“.n‘ empire 3,98,, and steel blue, are used in is a good chance for Grocers. Tea Dealers and large consumers to lay in at least a year s stock. Do not miss the oppoi'tun1ty—-prices cannot keep going down -
the upho stering: the rich tints of the mah02- alwavs. They‘ must reach the bottom some time and this looks as though they were below the bottom.
any, the blue and gold of the decorations and ' ‘
,‘ the upholstering.-together with the carpets.

draperies. varied shades of the furnishings.
lounges and easy chairs. present 2 picture of
comfort and luxury absolutely without an equal
on an ' train in the world.

111 man fares. including meals. also prices
of tickets available on this train. will be found
in“Sea—Side and White Mountain Special" fold-
er. furnished or mailed free on application.
Early application should be made and accom-
modations secured and paid for as the capacity
of the train is limited. Reservations not paid
for two days prior to departure of train will be
disposed of to other applicants.

West Bound. train leaves Portland 9 :00 p. in.
Sunday. June 25, and each Sunday thereafter to
and including August 20, arriving Chicago 10 :45
-a. in. following Tuesdays.

A special agent of passenger department as
Well as “a lady attendant." accompanies the.-‘c
trains through to destination and return.
through the tinest scenery in the world to the
, _ finest summer resorts in the world. on the finest
i. ' train in the world. Intending summer tourists
' should apply or send their addresses to

A. Foi2D. Agent Grand Trunk R_v..
Charlotte. Mich.

GRANULATED SUGAR  

A Price That Cannot Be.Duplicated.

We have just imported 21 large lot of Granulated Sugar from Germany, so as to be
our un-American sugar trust. This sugar is packed 100 pounds in a bag, and is a good white granulated
color and very much sweeter than that made by our un-American trust. We have to pay the United

States Government a duty of 23 cents per hundred pounds, and pay the freight
from Germany to Chicago, but we are still able tosell it for much less than
I AIS‘! SENSA I ION

our un—Amcrican trust asks for theirs. - - - - TRY A BAG.
All our famous 39-cent waists are sold, but as the public

ioo pounds in a bag. Price ................. ..
seem to like the price and as we never carry over any garments

from one season to another, we have decided to sell all the $1.00
to $2.00 qualities of Shirt Waists for

- 9 cents .

Made of fine Percale, Madras and English Cambric, in latest
designs. All have laundered collars and cuffs and full set of studs.
Every one fast color and the most perfect-fitting shirt waists made.

Think of it! Your Choice for 39 Cents!

(Postage 10 cents.) Give your bust measure and the color desired_

H. R. EAGLE & CO., cxiié’l§c3I’di”"i“:ZhL‘i‘"’1~i’€§1s. 

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ness:

(2! Sizes and Style.-.)

BECAUSE they grind more with same 1 in a({(1ifi0n to these salts,

power, don't wear out or break down.

Grind fine table meal and all kinds of ‘
grain, including ear corn for feed. A9

boy can keep them in order.
(Fire First 1’rcm2'1r.m.s- (It lVorld‘.s' Fnir.)
Flour and Buckwheat Mills
——o:\' THE———
Roll r or Buhr Systems
Estimates furnished on application. Specia
rices for 1‘49:'>. Write for "Book on Mill.-:. '
ORDYKE ck M.\R.\lO.\ ('O.. No. 400 Day St.,
Indianapolis, Ind.

 

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY

Officers National Grange.

Master—J. H. Brigham . . . . . . . . . . . . ..I)nlta. Ohio
Overseer--Aaron Joiics. South Bend. Indiana
Lecture /Alpha Mes.-icr . . . . . . . . ..Rocli«-str-r. Vt
Steward~. John T. (‘ox. New Jersey
Ass’t Stewa ewcomb . . . . . . . ..(.‘olorado

 

   

  
   
  
  

(lhaplain—O. H Hal .. I\« w \ork
Treasurcr~I\Irs. Eva McDowell ...Ve\v York
Secretary —Joliii Trimble \ igton. l). l‘.

Gate Keept-r—\V. E. Harbaiugli

.i\li.-1-ouri

(‘.ores—Mr.-‘. Lucy G. Smith . . .. . Ohio
Pomona--Mr.-s. Sarah G. Hair iinesota
Flora—Mrs. E. L. .-X. \\'iggiii.. .\l_aiiie

Lady A.<s't Stc\v‘d——.\lr.-'. S. G. Knott
Execiitive Couiniittee.

Leonard Rhone (‘enter Hall. PCnll>‘}'iVanla
N. J. H-acliolde .. .. ..I\ew HHlll[ISlll1‘P
J. J. Woodman. ... Paw Paw. Michigan

Otflcers Jlicliigaii State Grange.

Master—(i. B. Horton . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Fruit Ridge
Overs:-er—M. T. (‘ole . . . . . .. . . . .. . . .. .. Palmyra
LecturcrvJason Woodman . . . . . . .. . . .. Paw Paw
Steward----(ieorge L. ('arli.-‘lo , . . . . . . . . . Kalka.-'ka
Assistant Ste-\vard—J. H. Martin, Box 442. Grand

   

   
 
 
  
   
   
 

Rapids.
(lhapl:iiii— l . . . . ..Battlc (‘reek
 ..\'ick:-"burg
.\iiii .-\rhor l

..llz-_<piu‘ia

(lerez-'—l\li‘s. Mary Robertson. }_ie.-‘per-ia

 

   
     
   
    

Flora—Mr.-'. Estella liuell iion ('ity
Pomona-—i\Irs. Julia l\.[c(‘lurc .....'~lu-l '
L. A. Stc\var<l-—Mr.-'. .\. Martin... ind Rapids
Executive Coiiiinittee.
\V. E. \\'rig|it....  ..  ..  .. ....(‘r_»ld\_vator
H. D. Platt . . . . . . . . . . . .. ....\p.-‘ilanti

1‘. (i. Luce . , . . . . , . . . . . . .  .(‘oldwater

Perry Mayo . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. Jiattle ('rt-ek

F. W. Rodfern . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ..Z\1aple Rapids

R. K. I)‘ i . . . . . . . ..Holly.
E. A I._...LaRnsiing
(". .. - . - . . . . .. 'I‘1l1t 141:0
JIBDlJlL‘Bl1t‘ll \' Ex Omcm i . . . . . . . .Ann Arbor

    

Comlnittee on “'oiiiaii's \Voi'k in the
Grange.
Mrs. Mary A. Mayo. .....i'3attle (‘reek
Mrs. Mary Sherwood . . . . . .. .Staiiton
Mrs. Belle Royce . . . . . . ..  . .. .. ....Baroda
General Deputy Leetiirers.
Mary .\. lllayo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Battle (‘reek
Hon. J J. Woodmaii.. . .Paw Paw

    
  
  

.. .(‘oldwater
.. Battle (‘reek
.. .Bcrr1en (‘enter

Hon. . (i. Luce . . . . . . . . . . 
Hon. Perry Mayo . . . . . . . . ..
Hon. Thoma.-' Mars. . . .

 

   
   
 
   

~ W 1 z  ‘P
Jason nutlm in n U - ' " ”K1;\1SkaSEiV;
, ‘. “Traverse ('ity
uall.  ..L'nion City

County Deputies.
D. H. Stebbins . . . . . . . . . . . ..-\twood. Antrim go.

  
 
  
  

  

L. (‘. Root. . . . . . . .. ...-‘illegaii. Allcgan

R B. Reynold . . . ..Iiilaiid, Benzie “

George Bow.-tor.  .. .Dowl1ug. Barry “
‘ ' Girard P. 0. Branch “

A. L. Smith . . . . .. _
- ...Buchanau. Berrien

.. .St. Johns, ('linton “

. .Battle ('reck. ('alhoun “

     
  
 
  
 
 
 
 
      

   

B. Ward . . . . . . . . .(‘harlc-voix. (‘liarlevoix “
James B. Mann.... .. ......('orey_ P. () (Tass “
F. H. Osborn . . . . . . . . .Eaton Rapids. Eaton "
W. H. B< ' =  . . . . ..NorthStar,Gratiot “

.....Flushing. Genesee “
..(irand Tr_a ' "

 

. . . . ..Jonesville. “

‘iand Beach. Huron "
. ..('handler. Ionla “
Fitchbiirg, lngham “
.1-Ianover, Jack.-‘on
rtage. Kalamazoo
...Rockford. Kent “
alka.-‘ka. Kalkaska “
ortli Branch. Lapeer “
Brighton. Livingston “

. W. Allis . . . . .. ..Adriau, Lenawee “

Jacob Rosenstiel,     .. .. 
. . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Riga, Monroe, and Lenawee “
George H. Lester . . . . . . ..Crystal, Montcalm “
D. R. Van Amberg....Bear Lake. Manistee “
Frank E. Upton. . ....I3ig Rapids, Mecosta “
S. Law.-‘on . . . . . . . . . . . . Disco. Macoiiib “

   
  

 
     

“'ill 0. Parish . .. Flat Rock. Monroe “
E. (7. Smith . . . . . . . . . .Mooreland, Miiskegon “
W. VV.1'artcr. . .. . . . .. .. hlaiid. .\e\vaygo “
A. J. ('roshy . . . . . . . . . . . ..Yp lanti. Oakland “
Samuel .‘4tautl'er. ...(iooding, Ottawa “
W. F. Taylor.... .. ..  ..(,‘raiiston.0ceana “
D. Murlin . . . . . . .. Vernon. Shiawassee “
A. VV. (‘antic-ld . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Avoca. St. (‘lair “
VV'm. B. Laugleyz...(fentervillc. St. Joseph "
Robert Treby.  .. ....Birch Run. Saginaw “
S. 0. (‘mm . . . . . . . .. East Fremont. Sanilac “
Helen A. Fiske. ..Lawrence. Van Buren "
Henry Hurd . . . . . . . . . . .. Plymouth. Wayne “
John A. McDougal.. Ypsilanti. Waslitenaw “
R. C. Norris . . . . . . . . . . . . ..('adi1lac.Wexford “
Mary Robertson . . . . . . ..Hesperia. Newaygo “

Revised List of Grange Supplies
Kept in the ofiice of Scc’y of the

Michigan State Grange

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

Porcelain ballot marbles, per hundred.  '75

Secretaryjsledger.       85

Secretary s record.... ..  .. ..   

Treasurer's orders, bound, per hundred.... 35

Secretary‘s receipts for dues, per hundred .. 35

Treasurers receipts for dues, per hundred.. 35

Applications for membership. per hundred 50

Withdrawal cards, per dozen.... ..   25

Demits,in envelopes, per dozen . . . . . . . .  . . 25

By-laws of the State Grange, single copies,
10c ; per dozen...

“Glad Echoes," W
25c;perdozen..._  300

Grange Melodies, single co 400; per doz. % g

2

c, single copies.

 

1
0 Son Card 2c each ; 75c per 50: 100
Ri)tiii:lns€7th edition (with combined degrees.)
25¢ each: per ozen . . . . . .., . . . . . ..
Rituals, 5th degree,_set of nine.
Rituals, J uve_nile, single copy. . . .
Notice to delinquent members, per 100.
American Manual at glfirliamentary Law
Di est of Laws an ings . . . . . . . . . . . .
RoTl books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  .. .._ . . . . . . . ..
5311113319 Ifiacliage cp-tq1;:3e(r';:art‘iv;Pliterature . . . .
K ’ is oryo n _ . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
£VlVi?iS1,:eS for prices on gold pins. badges, work-
ing tools, staff rnountings.1_seals_,kli35illot boxes
th Grange supp 195- - F855
and any 0 er MISS JE‘.\'.\‘IE BUELL,
Ann Arbor, Mich.

  
 
 
  

- A ..
o‘-«'5-75-3°».-$'o58m

. foil’ three feet each way and the.

’ l Fertilizers Upon Potatoes.

Bulletin Michigan Experiment Station. I

 

PLOT 9.

1,12|rpound.< Potato Grower (Michigan (farbnn
Works). Yield. 1.’-1 bu. large: 223.; bu. small.

PLOT 10.

Quite a iiuiiibcr of plots \\'ei'ejm,,.,umi,. sodium “mat.-,;r_»o pounds Dotash

devoted to experiiiients with fer-j
tilizers. A large share of them,
‘were used to make a C()l1]p:il‘3.tlVCl

test of the niuriate of potash, but,‘

made of ground bone, bone black. 
nitrate of soda, wood ashes and 
,‘stable iiizmure, both alone upon thee‘
;‘plots and in various combiiiationsj
‘as explained below. ,
' The soil was a very light sandyl
, loam which had been sown to rye, 
‘ buckwheat and siiiiilar crops for ,
‘several years previous to 18514, -
iwhen the land was leased for the;
'‘use of the station and it was laid;
_lofl' into seventeen one-eiglith acre’
pltits. A .-‘trip three feet wide was 3

0' j left without fertilizer between the‘

plots, but was planted the saine as,’

the plots. The crop of 15104 was;
,greatly reduced by the drouth, and:
lalthough a considerable increase inl
iyicld was found in fertilized plots,
as compared with those unfertilized, 
lthe results were so variable that;
,?we were unable to draw any con-1
,lclusions as to the merits of tho.’
;difi'ercnt fertilizers. ' l

Last spring the plots were laid I
lout as before and received another;
lapplication of the saiiie fertilizer asl
lused in l.5“.)4. The land was marked,

 

jsced cut into pieces about the size l
{of a hen ‘s egg. V The variety used
j was the Rural _\ew Yorker No. 2.
ji.Despite the severe drouth they
jiiiade :1 fair growth and the tubers
‘ were of :1 good size and alniost
entirely free from scab. The land
r\\’:1S quite even and as notes were
taken from time to time but little
difference was observable in their
iappcarzince, except in case of the
l “nothing” plots, which were rather
weak, and the iiianurcd plots which
were soniewhat stronger than the
jotliers.

The fertilizers used and the re-
!sults obtained are shown on the
accompanying chart, the figures be-
ing coiiiputcd for anacre, although
only one-eight of an acre was act-
ually used.

it will be noticed that the larg-
est yield was secured from Plot 2,
which was heavily dressed with
stable manure, and that by its use
a gain of nearly seventy bushels
per acre was obtained over what
was given by the adjacent unma-
nured plot. A half ration of iiia—
nure with sulphate of potash and
ground bone in Plot 1 gave nearly
as large a yield, while the same
amount of manure with 56 bushels
per acre of unleached wood ashes

 

 

gave but 14:21 bushels in Plot 6.
Strawy manure used as a mulch in
Plot 5 gave 165% bushels or S
bushels less than was obtained with
decomposed manure in Plot 2.

Comparing the yields from Plots
10, 12, and 16 with those of Plots
11, 13 and 17, we find again of
obout eight bushels per acre in
favor of the former upon which
the fertilizer used contained sul-

phate of potash, while in the latter
the muriate was used.

The average gain from the use
of fertilizer in the plots wherea
full ration was employed was about
eighty bushels per acre, which at
20 cents per bushel would about
repay the expense for the fertilizer.
It should not be forgotten that a
dry season does not favor large
returns from the use of fertilizers,
and that moreover a considerable
portion of the plant food that they
contained remains in the ground,
where it can -be utilized by a crop
next year. Figured at one dollar
per load the manure was no more
economical than the fertilizer, but
in a season with a large rainfall
and higherprices the balance might
have been upon the other side of
the ledger.

______________,
PLOT 1.
12 loads manure, 160 pounds of potash sulphate,
320 pounds bone black. Yield, 171% bu. large;
23% bu. small.

PLOT 2.

24 loads of stable manure. 173% bu. large, 24%,
bu. small.

PLOT 3.
1,120 pounds Potato Grower, with straw mulch
upoiiilsurface. Yield, 521/, bu. large; 24 bu.
sma .

PLOT 4.
Nothing. Yield, 106% bu. large; 21 94’, bu. small.
PLOT 5.
Straw manure on surface as a mulch. Yield
165% bu. large; 26 bu. small.
PLOT. 6
12 loads manure, 56 bu. wood ashes. 142% bu-
lai-ge; 2214', bu. small.

PLOT 7.

use was 1 -

56 bu. wood ashes. 320 pounds ground bone.
Yield, 13.14 bu. large; 23 bu. small.

sulphate. 610 pounds ground bone. Yield,

169-‘F4’ bu. large: 241.; bu. small.

PLOT I1.

1'3“ Imiinds-' sodium nitrate, 320 pounds muriatc

o_t' potash. 5-to pounds ground bone. Yield.

1::9‘., bu. large; 2% bu. small.
iinor 12.
330 II0l1Dd.f potash sulphate. 0'41) pounds ground
bone. \icld,15.'i1; bu. large: BU bu. small.

PLOT 13.
253-) pounds of muriate potash and 641! pound.-' of

ground bone. Yield, 1-121.; bu. large; 24 bu.
small.

PLOT 14.
841) pounds \'_r.-getable Grower (Michigan ('arbon

\\ork.-'1. \icld, l4~‘,'.£ bu. large: 2'.‘ bu. small.
PLOT 15.
Nothing. Yield, 74 bu. large; 1.1%.; bu. small.
PLOT 16.

32:) pounds_sulphate of potash. 640 pounds bone
ack. &icld.1.71*§ bu.large; 21% bu. small.

PLOT 17.

320 pound.-' muria_te of potash and NH pound:-' of
boncil black. held. 1:')‘.3"é bu. large; 19 bu.
S1118 .

 

To Destroy Insects of
Granary.

the

G. l‘. Davis in Bulletinphlicliigaii Experiment
Station.

There is only one practical iiieth—
od known by which we can rid the
graiiai'y of the most of its insect
pests after they are once well es-
tablished iii the grain, and that is
by the use of bisulphide of carbon.
This is a clear, almost coloi'less
liquid, which is very rapidly coii-
verted into a gas on being exposed
to the air. Owing to its being
heavier than air it settles rapidly
through the grain and quickly per-
meates the whole of it. If {.3 /o.'«///-
[]/ (')2’,7‘/I////7/«I171/4’, It/H1 «sly,»/o.v[7_,w_> 7/,'-/Tu;//,
1://)1 1713/], (Hill (‘Cl/‘C 7/LI/NZ‘ 7/I; /I7I._\'(//'I‘ct/
/u l‘cr/2/27.9 all I /;//2z,‘ /Z‘/HZ _j7'/‘e f'm;,;
2‘/us ,1/rm. or /M/2' m/u;/‘C it Is cu‘/1,77‘/m/,

Local d1'11ggists rarely keep the
bisulphide of carbon in stock as it
so readily evaporates and the resi-
due is then wortliless, but probably
your druggist would order it for
you. If not, it can be ordered by
yourself from some wholesale drug
house in one of our larger cities.
\\'e order for our own use of Ed-
ward R. Taylor, Manufacturing
Chemist, Cleveland, Ohio, as he
makes a specialty of bisulphide of
carbon for such purposes. He
sells it at the rate of 14) cents :1 lb.
in 50 pound (5 gallons) cases; in
smaller quantities the price will be
a trifle higher.

If insects are present in the grain
and it is desired to treat them with
the bisulphide of carbon, one of
the first things to consider is
whether the granary or the bin in
which the grain is placed is coni-
paratively tight. If it is very
loose and open and cannot be tight-
ly closed, it may be necessary to
remove the grain to a tighter re-
ceptacle, as the gas will escape too
quickly and the insects will merely
be stupefied. VVheat bins and bins
for ground feed can easily be made
tight enough. If a cover is lack-
ing, wet blankets thrown over the
grain may serve as covers.

V\'hen the bins containing the
grain are tight, one pound of the
bisulphide is said to be enough for
100 bushels of grain. For a iiiod—
eratcly tight bin, 9. pound or 9.
pound and a half to each ton of
grain is surer, and there is no danger
of injury to the grain either for
food or for seed when used at this
rate. The liquid may be poured
directly onto the grain by distrib-
uting it well over the surface. It
may also be placed in open dishes
or on an absorbaut, such as cotton
batting, Where it will evaporate
more slowly and last longer.
\Vhere the grain is more than four
or five feet deep in the bins, por-
tions of the bisulphide should be
put down near the middle of the
grain and about every two or three
feet apart. A piece of gas pipe
will be suitable for this purpose.
Inside the gas pipe should be a
cylindrical stick that can be drawn
out of the pipe as soon as it is
pushed down into the grain as far
as desired, and then the bisulphide
can be poured down the gas pipe.

After the liquid has been applied,
cover the grain as quickly as pos-
sibe and leave it covered for twenty-
four or thirty—six hours when it can
be openedup and aired. The gas will
very quickly mix with the air when
the grain is exposed, so that ina few
hours no odor can be detected.
A second application may be found
necessary in a month or two after
the first is made. The bisulphide
of carbon will kill mice and rats,
that may be held in the bin, by in-

in large quantities.
ldzinger in its use if handled with
jjudgnieiit.

 

A New Churn,

I’eiiii.~'yl\'ania Experiment Station.

, There is being introduced into
‘the state a new churn known as the
Texas Air Churn. The advantagesi
claimed for this churn arc: lii‘st,‘
simplicity in construction: second.
economy of time: third. cheapiie.-s; ‘
fourth, the quantity and quality of

butter produced. 3

In construction the churn con-,
sists of an open tub with a tlai'ingl
top which holds the crcaiii. linl
this tub, a little below the surface]
of the creiini, a hollow tin disk
with two openings into the cream ~,
and one large opening at the top’
revolves rapidly. In revolving, the:
the disk forces more or less air
through the cream, and it  claim- 1
ed by the patentees that the air?
forced through the cream in this‘
manner, although the friction and :
agitation caused by the disk must
assist more or less, will bring the
butter in one or two minutes. The
first trials of this churn at the sta-
tion creaiiiery were made at tem-
peratures ranging from sixtv—eiglit
to seventy-six degrees. At these
tcnipcratures the butter would
come in from one and a half to two
and a half minutes. The quality
of this butter was very poor, con-
taining as high as -l..S.\' per cent of
ciird, besides having :1 largcpcr-
ccntagc of fat in the butter milk.
As the churning tciiiperature was
gradually reduced, it \vas found
that the ripened separator or gra-
vity creani could be cliuriied ex-
havstivcly at a tc1iiperatu1'c of
forty-sevcn to fifty two degrees in
from six to nine minutes.

The following table gives the re-
sults of seventeen cliurniiigs with
the Texas Aii' cliurn, also scvciitccu
consecutive churnings made in a
combined concussion churn and
worker in our dairy school last
winter : although not strictly coin-
parablc, they will answca the pur-
pose of giving some idea of the
merits of the principals of the two
churns.

(foinbined churn and j :’ .

 

worker
1\I0n1a.s'_<=1_1ar,I.I.-A

 

-7‘-‘:0;

5_i.1? .‘-.o 0.24

The mechanical condition of the
butter made with the Texas Air
chuan was uniformly superior to
any the writer has yet seen ; the
granules in each and every case
were fine, flaky, and took the salt
and color more evenly than the
round granules so often obtained in
concussion churns, especially from
cream poor in butter fat. At an
average churning temperature of
52 degrees, the butter was firm and
washed easily, often in but one
water.

A chemical analysis of the butter
made under the above conditions
gave the following results.

Butter fat. £5.35 per cent.
Moisture. 12.21 per cent.
Curd, .55 per cenl.

Sugar and ash, 1.59 per cent.

The mechanical construction of
the Texas Air churn as yet does
not do justice to the principle of it,
but it is understood, that in this
respect it will be very iiiaterizilly
improved before it is placed upon
the market.

 

Dietary Studies at the Univers-
ity of Tennessee.

United States Department of Agriculture.

Dietary studies of :1 students‘
club and a mechanics’ family have
recently been made at the Univers-
ity of Tennessee by Prof. Chas. E.
\Vait, under the auspices of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
The results are published as Bul
letin 29 of the office of Experinieiit
Stations, entitled “Dietary Studies
at the University of Tennessee in
1895.” The amount of food con}-
snmed and its composition were
determined, as well as the ratio of
the tissue-forming nutrients to
those which more especially yield
energy. Prof. VV. 0. Atwaterand
Chas. D. VVoods, special agents of
the department, have compared
these results with those obtained
from investigations in New Eng-
land and elsewhere. They have
shown the points of similarity and
difference, and how these results
compare with dietary standards
commonly accepted by physiolo-
gists. It appears that the students

 

‘the .-'taii.lard calls for.
icrepaiicy is more marked in Ten-

~providcd in its

tissiie-foi'1iiiiig nutrient) and rather

more c:irboliytli':ites and fat (the

nutrients which yield ciicrgy. but
cannot form iiuiscular ti.-2-"tic; than
This ills-

nessce and .\Ii.-souri than in Con-
necticut. The Tennessee and Mis-
souri studeiits eat more poultry
and eggs. more fat pork and less

.:bcef. mutton. and veal than the

l’roteiii is
most available
form in iiicat. milk. and other
animal food.-'. The students in the
Soutli obtain consi<lci'ablv more of
their protein from vegetable.-otii'ces
than the students in Connecticut.
In every case over 11! per cent of
the protein [)lll'L'll:l~‘L‘(l \\‘:1.~' wasted,
the waste being chictiy iii the forth
of aiiimal food.

The re.-'ult,< of this study bear
out the opinion quite prevalent
among Stlltlvllls‘ of the subject.
Iltllllely. that t‘()l)sl:lcI':ll>l_\' more
fat is coiistiiiicd in the Soutli than
is necessary. A better balaiiccd
dietai'y could be obtained by u.-iiig
more of the leaner ineats. :1. beef
and mutton. iiiorc iiitrogciious veg-
etable foods. as bc:ui.~' and peas.
and less fat :uid starcliy food.-,
Attctitioii is called to the great
value of the cowpea as a food. and
its more gciicral use is rccommcii<l-
ed.

This work at the l'iiivcr.-'ity of
Teiincssee is part of an exit-mltul
iii\'cstigatioii which the l)cp:ii't-
ment of .\gi'it-ulturc is carryingon
to learn the food habits of people
in various set-tioiis of this country.
It is not the purpose of such study
to teach the people to weigh out a
definite number of ounces of food,
which shall be (ll\'l(l('<l into three
portioiis. and taken at the proper
iiitcrvals. The object is rather to
teach the uses of food. the values
of the sevciul mitriciit.-: and their
proper combination, and how to
make the inost of available food
resources. The man is best clothed
who selects cloth for its wearing
qualities and approjiriatciicss, as
well as for its looks: in the same
waya person will be best nourished
who iiiidcrstaiids the needs of the

L‘oiinecticut students.

body and selects the foods which .

will ‘supply them. The cost of
food is not always the uicasure of
its actual value, and if it is possible
to prepare :1 palatable, nutritious.
and well-balanced dietary for less
money then is now expended for
this purpose, food iiivestigations
will certainly benefit every one
who Cf1l'nS his daily bread.

This bulletin is for sale, as pro-
vided by section 437 of the act pro-
viding for the public printing and
binding and the distribution of
public documents. approved Janu-
ary 12, 1895, by the Superinteiideiit
of Docuiiients. Union Building,
Washington, I). (3., to whom all
applications must be addressed,
acconipanicd by the price. five
cents, which should be sent by
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Rufus Mortimer. a rich American idler, joins
them. He is a friend of the Hesslegraves “and

is surprised to find Kathleen in the company :

of Willoughby, whom she knows as a common
sailor dabbling in art. CHAPTER II— 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-
tery of young Earl Axminster, who has fled
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. IIi—Willoughby 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 of art. IV-
Mortimer pursues Kathleen on love‘s quest.
She likes him and with difficulty holds him off.
V— Mortimer. Willoughby and the Hess1e-
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-
Mortiiner proposes and discovers Katli_lecn's
passion for Willoughby. X—Can0n \ alon-
tine appears in Venice with the news that the
missing earl has been traced and has perished
in the shipwreck. He recognizes Willoughbv
on sight, but promptly denies it. XI—kath-
leen admits to her mother that she is certain
of the identity of Willoughbv with the missing
earl, but will reserve the secret for her lov-
er's sake. lI——Mrs. Hessel rave finds the
secret too good to keep. tells illougliby that
Kathleen knows it. and he leaves her house in
anger. XIII—Willoughb abandons Venice
suddenly without giving athleen a chance to
explain. XIV Parliament declares the missing
earl oflicially dead and settles the inheritance
on a distant relative. Wiliougbv resolves not
to contest it, as he prefers to be takep by the
world at his “Market Value.” XV -—(;unon
Valentine and Mrs.‘ Hesselgrave die. thu s
leaving Willoughby s secret unguesscd ex-
cept by Kathleen. The remaining chapters
show how Willouitbby keeps to his purpose.
He is shipwrecked and makesa hit in liter-
ature, through which Mortimer traces him.
Mortimer has promised to flnd him for Kathd
leen and proves to him that hatbleen loved
him before she knew his real character and
has loved him through all_. He scores a secon-
literary success and marries lxathleen. but re-
nounces all claims to his earldom.

CHAPTER XXIL
ISLES OF WINTER.

Arnold \Villoughby had a strong consti-
tution, but that second summer in the
northern seas told upon his health even
more seriously than all his previous seafar-
ing. Perhaps it was the result of his great
disappointment; perhaps it was the sense
of nothing left in this life to live for, but
at any rate he grew thin and weak and
lost heart for his work in a way that was
unusual with so vigorous a. sailor. The
skipper, as he looked at him, thought ‘Vil-
loughby wouldn’t ever be fit for anothei
sealing voyage—thought it in that hard.
purely objective way that is habitual t.c
skippers in dealing with seamen. And Ar-
nold Willciighby himself began to recog-
nize the fact. that he was growing ill and
worn with these continued hardships. Life
had been a failure for him. His day was
over. He was one of those, he feared, whc
must go to the wall in the ceaseless strug-
gle for life which nature imposes upon us.

But at any rate he would go to the wall
like a man; he would live or die on his own
earnings; he never went back for a mo
ment upon the principles he had established
for himself in early manhood. From the
day when he saw his cousin Algy’s claim
admitted in full by the house of lords he
considered himself as nothing more than
Arnold Willoughby, an ablebodied seaman,
and not even that now, as things were tak
ing him. Yet. he was himself for all that.
Even though you go sealing on the Green-
land coasts you can’t quite get rid of the
cultivated habits and tastes of a gentle
man. Arnold VVilloughby, for his part,
never desired to get rid of them. He loved
the things or the mind in spite of every-
thing.

During his earlier years of apprenticeship
to the perils of the sea he yearned for art.
Now he had given up art for the moment.
He took instead to literature. The sailors in
the fo’c’s’le of the Sherifi Ivory of Dundee
were much amused from time to time at
Willoughby’s rummy way of writing at odd
moments in a pocketbook he kept by him,
and indeed at all spare hours he was en-
gaged by himself in acurious piece of work,
whose meaning and import the average
mariner’s mind could hardly fathom.

He was deciphering and translating the
Elizabethan English sa.ilor‘s inanuscript
which he had picked up by accident in the
little shop at Venice. He did it merely to
please himself, and therefore he was able
to spend a great deal more time and trouble
over doing it to perfection than he could
possibly have spent if he were oneof the
miserable drudges who live by the profes-
sional pursuit of letters under our hard
faced regime. He translated it carefully,
lovingly, laboriously. Day after day in his
spare moments he took outapage at a time
and transcribed and Englished it with
studious pains in his little pocket note-
book. For two seasons he had gone on

with this amateur authorship, if such it .

might be called, and toward the end of the

second he had pretty fairly finished his
allotted task work.

But the fo’c’s’le of a sealer in full pur-
suit of oil is by no means an ideal place for
literary composition. Many a time and
oft Arnold was interrupted by rude P1933‘
a_.n_tries or angry calls; many a time he W8-S

delayed by the impossibility of finding
room for P. for. minutes’ work even on so
humble 8. basis. At last, one afternoon,
toward the close of the sealing season, he
was told oi? with :1 dozen other men for a.
run in a boat down the icebound coast in
search of fresh sealing grounds. His party
was on the lookout for Greenland seals.
which usually bask and flounderin the sun
on the blocks in ice floes, and they had

, rowed to a considerable distance from their
 ship without perceiving any “fish,” as the
‘ sealers call them. Their road lay through
Kathleen Ilesslegrave, a pretty young Eng— j
iish artist. and Arnold Willout:hby.ii Bohe-
mian amateur, nieet casually at the Royal;
They hold mu- ‘
tual views upon art and upon the stupidity of j
the judges who have rejected their pictures. ‘

a floating mass of blue cyrstalline ice
blocks

At last the pack grew too thick for them
to penetrate any farther. and the bo’sun in
charge, blowing his whistle from the stern,
gave the word to return to the Sheriff Ivory.
They rowed back again about half a knot,
in full sight of their ship, when it became
gradually apparent that they were becom-
ing surrounded by icebergs. A change in
the wind brought them along unexpectedly.
One after another the great white moun-

 

The so-ilorrs were much amused at W11»
loiighlrjs -rummy way of writiiig.
tainsloomed up and approached them from
all sides, apparently sailing in every direc-
tion at once, though really, of course, only
veering with the breeze from different quar-
ters in the same general direction. The

bo’sun looked at them with some dislike.

“Ah doan’t care for barge,” he said in his
thick Sunderland dialect. “Tha‘ve got
naw pilot aboord.” And indeed the ice
bei-gs seemed to be drifting in every direc-
tion, hither and thither at random, with-
out much trace of a. rudder. Closer and
closer they drew, those huge glacial islands,
two large ones in particular almost block-
ing the way to the ship in front of them.
The bo‘sun looked at them again. “Toorn
her aboot, boys,” he said once more in a
very decided way. “Easy all; bow side.
Row like blazes, you oother unsi Ah’m
thiukin we’l'i new be able to break through
them by that quarter.”

The men turned the boat instantly in
obedience to his word and began rowing
for their lives in the opposite direction. It
was away from the ship, but in their pres-
ent strait the first thing to be thought oi
was avoiding the present danger from the
icebergs at all hazards. By and by the
bo’snn spoke again. "Ah’m thinkin,” he
said slowly, "t.ha’re toornin themsels this
way, mates“

Arnold \Viiloughby glanced round. It
was only too true. The icebergs, which
were two enormous blocks of white shim»
mering crystal, half a mile or more in
length, had shifted their course somewhat
and were now coming together apparently,
both behind and in front of them. The
boat lay helpless in a narrow channel of
blue water between lrigh walls of ice that
glistened in the sun like chplk clifis in
August. ’

At the rate the bergs were moving, it
would take only some 10 or 12 minutes for
them to shock and shiver against one an-
other‘s sides. The prospect was appalling,
Human arms could hardly carry the boat
free of their point of contact before they
finally collided. In that moment of danger
notaword was spoken. Every man saw
the peril for himself at once and bent for-
ward to the long sweeps with terrible in-
tensity of energy. Meanwhile those vast
moving islands of ice came resistlessly on,
now sailing ahead for a. moment before a
gust of wind, now halting and veering
again with some slight cha.n,<.:e in the
breeze. Yet, on the whole, they drew
steadily nearer and nearer, till at last Ar-
nold VVilloughby, looking up, saw the
green crystal mountains rising almost
sheer above their heads to the terrific
height of several hundred feet, like huge
cliffs of alabaster.

“N00, look oot, boys,” the bo’sun cried in
a solemn voice of warning; “tha’ll strike
afore long.” And every eye in the boat was
fixed at onceas he spoke on the approaching
monsters.

Scarcely room was left between them for
the boat. to pass out, and‘she was still many
yards from the point where the blue chan-
nel between the bergs began to widen again.
A sort of isthmus of water, a narrow, open
strait, intervened between them and the
wider part of the interval. Two clashing
capes of ice obstructed it.

On and on came the great mountains of
glistening white crystal, tall, terrible, beau-
tiful, in irresistible energy. The men
crouched and cowered. Arnold YVillough-
by knew their last moment had come.
There was no way out of it now. In an-
other second the bergs would crash together
with a thunder of the sea, their little cock-
boat would be shivered to fragments before
the mighty masses of the jarring ice moun-
tains, and they themselves, mere atoms,
would be crushed to a. pulp as instantly
and unconsciously as an ant is crushed un-
der the wheel of a. carriage. Not a man

tried to pun another stroke at the cars.

Every eye was riveted on the horrible mov-
ing deaths. Their arms were as if paralyzed.
They could but look and look, awaiting
their end in speechless terror.

At that awful moment, just before the
unconscious masses struck and shivered
into pieces, a flood of strange thought
broke at once over Arnold \Villoughby’s
mind, and it summed itself up in the thon-
sandfold repetition of the one \vord——Kath-
leen, Kathleen, Kathleen. Kathleen!

He thought it over and over again in a
sudden agony of penitence. \Vith a rush
it burst in upon him that he had done
wrong, grievously wrong, to be so hasty
and impulsive. \Vhat. misery he might
have caused her! VVhat. injuryhe might.
have inflicted! After all, no man can ever
be quite certain even in his interpretation
of the most seemingly irresistible facts.
What wrong he might have done her—ah,
heaven, how irrevocable! irrevocable! Ir-
revocable! For the mighty masses of ice
stood above them like precipices on the
brink of falling, and in one second more
they would shock together.

Crash! crash! crash! Even before he had
finished thinking it a noise like thunderor

the loud rumble of an earthquake; deaf-
ened their ears with its roar, redoubled and
ingeininated. The bcrgs had met and
clashed together in very truth, and all na-
ture seemed to clash with them. A horrible
boiling and seething of the water around
them—a fearful shower of ice shot upon
them by tons! And then, just before Ar-
nold VV'illoughby closed his eyes and ceased
to think or feel, he was dimly aware of
some huge body from above crushing and
mangling him helplessly. Pains darted
through him with fierce spasms, and then
all was silence.

Half an hour passed away before Arnold,
lying stiff, was again conscious of anything.
By that time he opened his eyes and heard
a voice say grufily: “W'hy, VVilloughby
a.in’t killed neither. He’s a-lookin about
him."

At sound of the voice, which came from
one of his fellow sailors, Arnold strove to
raise himself on his arm. As he did so
another terrible shoot of pain made him
drop down again, half unconscious. It oc-
curred to him dimly that his arm must be
broken. Beyond that he knew nothing.
And he lay there long, nobody taking for
the time any further notice of him.

When he opened his eyes a second time,
he could see very well why. They were
still surrounded by whole regiments of ice-
bergs, and the remaining valid men of the
crew were still rowing for dear life to get
clear of the danger. But one other man
lay worse crushed than himself—a mangled
mass of clotted blood and torn rags of
clothes at the bottom of the boat. while a
second one by his side, still alive, but ba.re—
ly that, groaned horribly at intervals in
the throw of (leadly agony.

Arnold lay back once more, quite passive
all the while as to whether they escaped or
were engulfed. He was weak and faint
with pain. and so far as be thought of any-
thing at all thought merely in a dim way
that he would like to live if only for one
thing——t.o sec Kathleen Ilcsslegrave.

Hours passed before he knew what had
really happened. It was a curious accident.
An iceberg is abuge floating mass of ice,
only an insignificant part of which shows
visibly above water. The vastly greater
portion is submerged and unsuspected. It
is impossible, of course, to guess at the
shape of this submerged part any more
than one could gums at the shape of the
submerged part of a piece of ice as it bobs
up and down in a glass by observation of
the bit that protrudes above the water.

These particular icebergs, however, had
such exceptionally sheer and perpendicular
sides that they looked like huge fragments
of an extended icefleld broken off laterally.
They seemed to show that the submerged
portion was flush with the clifis they ex-
hibited ahove water. Had that been quite
50, Arnold \Villoughby’s boat could never
have scoped complete destruction. It
would have been staved in and crushed be-
tween the great colliding Walls like a nut
under a steam hammer. But, as it hap-
pened, the submerged block was slig tly
larger in that direction than the visible
portion, and the bergs thus crashed to-
gether for the most part under water, caus-
ing a commotion and eddy which very near-
ly succeeded in swamping the boat, and
which rendered rowing for a. minute or two
wholly impossible.

At the same time a projecting pinnacle
that jutted out above from the face of the
cliff came in contact with another part of
the opposing iceberg, and shivering into
fragments a hundred yards away from them
broke up with such force that many of its
shattered pieces were hurled into the boat,
which they. too, threatened to swamp, but
which fortunately resisted by the mere elas-
ticity of the water about them.

‘For a minute or two all on board had
been tumult and confusion. It was impos-
sible for those who were less seriously hurt
to decide offhand upon the magnitude of
the disaster or to tell whether the bergs,
recoiling with the shock, might not wheel
and collide again or lose balance and ca.-
reen, sucking them under as they went

with the resulting eddy. As a matter of,
fact, however, the collision, which had been

little more than a mere sideward gliding,
like the kiss of a billiard ball, was by no
means a serious one. The two moving
mountains just touched and glanced off,
ricocheting, as it were, and leaving the boat
free in a moment to proceed upon her
course. But as soon as the bolsun could

collect his wits and his men for a final ef-
fort, he found that one was dead, while
two more, including Arnold VVilloughby,
lay wounded and senseless at the bottom
of the gig, whether actually dead or only]
dying they knew not.

Summoning up all their remaining nerve,

the uninjured men seized their oars once 
more and rowed for dear life in the direo- '
tion of the open. It was- half an hour or so

before they could consider themselves at:
all clear of the ice, and even then they had

no idea of the distaiice from the ship, for E
the Sheriif Ivory herself could nowhere be

sighted. For hours they rowed on helpless- .
ly over the trzickless waves. It was dark :
before they sighted the missing ship in 1
front of them. By the time they had reach-"
ed it. Arnold VVilloughby, now faint and l
half uncoiiscious with cold and exposure. {
hardly realized as yet the full extent of his 
lXJ_]11l'leS. ',

But when next morning he woke againl
in his bunk after a night of seiniuncon- 3
sciousness he discovered that his arm was 5.
really broken, and. worse still, that his E
right hand was so crushed and maimed as l
to be alinost useless.

The voyage back to Dundee was for At-
nold a terrible one. He lay most of the
time in his hammock, for he was now use-
less as a “liziiid,” and his arm, clumsily
set by the mate and the bo’sun, gave him
agreat deal of trouble in the small hours
of the morning. Moreover, his outlook for
the future was exceedingly doubt.fuL It
was clciir he would never again be fit. to go
to sea, while the damage to his hand.
which he feared was irrevocable, would
make it impossible for him to return to
the trade of painter.

XVhither to turn for a living when he
reached home again he knew not. Nay,
even the desire to see Kathleen again,
which had come over him so fiercely when
he sat under the shadow of the impending
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him in future ever to provide for her live
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than be goin afther her twice a day.”

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

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JUNE 18, 1896.

llclices cl lfleeliiisss.

JUNE .\lEETI.\'(r' OF IOSIA POMONA.

Subjects:_ “What has a farmer’s gain
been in buying cheaper articles when com-
pared in selling cheaper Droducts?” “Has
the Farmers’ Taxes Been Reduced as Has
His Income, and What is the Difference
Due to?” ‘-Will it Do for Farmers in the
Aggregate Seriously to Contemplate Elim-
ating the Sheep from the List of l)omestic
'Animals‘.’”_ "Which is the most Essential
to Generations for Strength, the Eating of
Meat or Rice?"

Grenade News

VJCKSB If Ru,

Dear Brother:—By the kindness of
Brother E. A. strong I am just handed
the GRANGE Yisirou of April 163, on
the 8th page of which I iind a report
from the legislative committee of
Parkyiile Grange on the Lubin Bill
and I find my name signed asin oppo-
sition to said bill and as favoring said
report. This is the first I have known
of it, and I wish you would in your
next issue correct the mistake, as I
did not sign said report, neither was I
in favor of it but voted against its
adoption. Mr. E. A. Strong was not
there at the meeting when the report
was presented and did not see or hear
it. D. T. DELL.

 

IIILLSDALE POMONA.

l-Iillsdale Pomona held its June
meeting with Lickley Grange on the
fourth. On account of recent afliiction
and new home responsibilities our
worthy secretary, Sister Bowditch.
asked to be released from‘ further
oflicial duties. In sympathy, but with
regrets, Pomona complied with the re-

_quest and elected Brother M. Wal-

worth to till vacancy.

In the afternoon was an open session
and the time was given to Worthy
Lecturer, Sister Hunker. The pro-
gram included the subjects for home
discussion in N atlonal Quarterly Bulle-
tin. But on account of the lateness of
the hour before they were reached,
they were but little discussed. Our
young Grange orator, Brother Clio
Phillips, favored us with a selection,
and we were entertained by instru-
tal and vocal music by little girl song-
sters. The hope of the Grange is with
the young, and we should commence
training early. W31. KIEBY.

VVESTERN POMONA GRANGE

met with Silica Grange, at their hall at
Dalton, May 28 and 29, 1896, and were
given a cordial reception and a great
many good things to eat. After dinner
Grange was called to order and the
program immediately taken up. An
excellent paper was presented by Sister
11. .1. Austin of Lisbon Grange, on the
subject, “What are the real enjoyments
of life and with what class are they
chiefly found?” In which was claimed
that the real enjovments of life were
found chiefly in the American farm-
ers’ homes, and were promoted by
good health. loving hearts and a sweet
contentment.

Arecitation entitled “The old and
new,” by Linda Gordon, was then
rendered.

The subject, “The secrets of success-
ful farming,” was discussed at some
length. It was generally conceded
that the most important secrets are
the proper care of all animals and
tools, the proper preparation and cul-
tivation of the soil for growing crops.
and last but not least, a good sensible
and practical housewife. After a song
by the choir of Silica Grange, Sister
Knowles, of Ravena Grange, reada
paper on “Home adornment.” The
discussion was confined chiefly to the
adornment of our yards. They should
be kept neat and attractive and
adorned with afew shrubs or well kept
flower beds.

The next subject, “The social and
intellectual features of the Grange,”
was opened by Brother Chas. Giles of
Silica Grange. It was not disputed
that the social and intellectual features
of the Grange are of great advantage
to all who improve the opportunity of
enjoying them, and that the Grange is
the means of placing the farmer in the
position he now occupies. A song.
recitation entitled “J:‘ritz's courtship,"
by Milfred Dyre, and music, were then
enjoyed.

Apaper on the subject of “Spray-
ing.” prepared by Brother Melvin
Smith, of 'I‘allmadge Grange,was then
read. Important discussions followed.
Music being called for, the orchestra
of six pieces responded. Then a vocal
solo entitled. “I don't want to play in
your yard,” and recitation were given.
Brother Thomas Wilde, of Ottawa
Grange, then opened the subject, “The
cultivation and fertilization of sandy
soil,” recommending the use of the
Z. Breed Weeder and of crimson
clover.

Sister Knowles gave a recitation en-
titled “Brains aud breeches.” after
which followed a vocal duet entitled,
“I’se going back to Dixie,” music by
the orchestra, and song; all well re-
ceived.

It was decided to hold apicnic at
ltiverside Park, August 27, instead of
the next regular meeting. We expect
to have a lecturer, good music for the
occasion, and a grand, good time.

Some of the Granges within the
jurisdiction of Western Pomona were
reported as not beingin as thriying‘a
condition as could he wished for, but
we are not in the least discouraged.

Mas. BERTIIA SMITH, Sec’y.

IONIA POBIONA.

Held its May meeting at South Boston
Grange hall with good attendance. Re-
ports of South Boston, Keene, Berlin. Ban-
ner, and Ronold Granges were given about

the same on crops. Wheat badly injured.
some thought b wind and rust, others by
‘ Hessian fly. worms and potato bugs V
are making it lively for the farmers. Ap— ;
l pies promise a fair crop, 75 per cent. : peach-
es 75; plums 100: strawberries, large yield.
The subject for discussion, “Fruit Pests.” ~
: was well handled, as many of the farmers
i of South Boston Grange are fruit growers.
.“‘What the Farmer’s Garden Should Con-
; tain,” was of interest and well discussed. 1
3 Other questions were debated on subiects 1
lot value to the Granges. Thus ending af
; very successful meeting, showing lonia 5
l Pomona in a flourishing condition. 'I‘hank- ;
, ing the brothers and sisters for their hospi- ‘
, tality and Hood cheer. and an invitation to 3
, our June meeting, the Master declared the
Grange closed to meet with Berlin Center
‘ Grange, No. 272, if convenient.
l ———_M
;‘ The following letter is self explanatory:
‘ DI-IA]: Fi<li~:.\‘l: Bl"l‘TI£l:I-‘ll-ll.llZ—lD my -
;'artlcle in last issue. "Summer Reading for
, Farmers,” I wrote that one might use a
‘ "half hour at night while the tired body is
MB-O-D-Y; is resting." 'l'he printer makes
line say “while the tired "baby" is resting.” .-
jlnasmuch as our baby is ten years old, his 3
l resting has very little connection with my l
freadinlz. What is the matter with that
I printer? On second thought, perhaps the
l question should be. "What is the matter
l with my penmanship‘.”’ .1. xv. ll.

   

1.(l.\'l'Z I3EY().VlJ.

Brother and Sister John Bowditch of
Hillsdalc county mourn the loss of an only
daughter, who passed away in the fulness
of a young womanhood. Hillsdale Pomo-
na passed appropriate resolutions. We ten-
der to Brother and Sister Bowditch our sin-
cerest sympathy ln their bereavement.

In the town of Danhy.
On section nine.

We have a Hrango
That is very line.

it consists of members.
Both large and small,

And nearly enough
To fill the hall.

We hold our ineetings
‘very two weeks.

When each has a chance
To read. write. or speak.

Of contests we plan
To have four a year.
Which furnishes us
With plenty of cheer.

At the close of each contest
We always p 11

So that every one present
May EAT all he can.

Now this is my first
Attempt at rhyme.
But hope to do better
Some future time.

Mas. A.\fEl.IA PEA Ki-:

Can We Help?

The following has been received in
reply to a letter to Brother Noble, ask
ing him if the Grange could help the
people:

Epiror. GR.-\‘.\'(iI-I Visiron: — In re-
sponse to your letter of inquiry of the
11th, in regard to what the Grange
thoughout the state can do for the tor-
nado sufferers, will say that the com-
mittee of three who were appointed to
investigate and estimate the loss done
by the storm have got about one—hali
of the work done and report $75,000
damage to buildings, stock, furniture
and clothing, while the loss to timber
orchards, growing crops and fencing
is not reported but will reach a very
large sum.

From what lean learn, there has
been an abundance of clothing donat
ed, but dishes, furniture of all kinds,
is lacking in every family, as every-
thing of that nature was totally de-
stroyed.

The village of Oxford has raised
nearly $1000 besides clothing and
provisions furnished. Pontiac has
raised $2,000 in cash besides clothing,
etc.

The people in these places have
been able to visit the scenes of the
storm, and feel impelled to give gen-
erously. Other towns near by are
doing equally as well. People who
only know of the calamity by having
read accounts in the papers are not
moved to action like those who have
witnessed the real condition. The
losses will be likely to reach .i~'1;30,0oo
exclusive of timber, trees of all kinds
and fences. There has been but about
340,000 in money raised up to date.

Mr. Gillette l'{lll[Il3.l],0I Pontiac, a
reliable man, has been appointed by
the governor to receive contributions,
which will be justly distiibuted to the
individuals who deserve it, in accord
ance with all conditions entering into
the matter.

Money is at present the only thing
that is needed.

Hard times prevent farmers from
being able to do very much at present,
but if members of the Grange in their
several localities would make collec-
tions, or organize in whatever way
they can to do something for the
sufferers, their efforts will be fully ap-
preciated and their offerings faithfully
turned over to the needy.

Yours fraternally,
J. G. NOBLE.

 

Ice Cream Now Made In a Miiiute.

I have an ice cream freezer that will freeze
cream perfectly in one minute: as it is such
a wonder a crowd will always be around so
anyone can make $5 to $6 a day sellinbr cream
and from $10 to $20 a day selling freezers, as
people will always buy an article when it is
demonstrated that they can make money by
so doing, The cream is frozen instantly and
is smooth and free from lumps. l have done
so well myself and have friends succeeding
so well that I felt it my duty to let others
know of this opportunity, as I feel confidant
that any person in any locality can make
money as any person can sell cream and the
freezer sells itself. W H. Baird & Co., 140
S. Highland Ave.. Station A, Pittshurg, Pa.
will mail you complete instructions and will
employ you on salary if you can give them
your whole time.

  
   

  
 

use, and make mane by selling Holdfn,
‘<_ (torn Binders. {lsed on every shoc
Full and it's fast-. Ties itself. Costs le.
‘ than string. Never wears out. Thou

 

" STEALTNG.

I stole down by the brooklet side.
The moon was bright.

I stole a dozen kisses there
That blissful night.

I stole a march on other men;
I knew my part.

I \\':is so good at stealing that
T .~Kult: ht!‘ hl.‘L|l"t.

I\'<'vw we are liuppy man and wife.
Why ,\i'4'l'll it .-'rr:ing--
If. ‘.vh- ii I’iii f€l>Y n.-'l-mp iii ljwll.
She at.-als iny ('}lLIll.Zv".‘
—Yonk¢-rs Statesman.

CABLE CAR STUDIES

Portrait of a. Passenger by the Conductor. ‘

Ditto by the Passenger.

He was a cheerful looking citizen
when he got on the Broadway cable car.
He nodded ple.is;intly to the conductor,
and then felt in his pockets for change.
He went through one after another,
found none, and looked less cheerful.
Finally he took a pocketbook from his
breast pocket, and picking a $5 bill
from the roll handed it to the conduct-
or, apologizing at the same time. The
conductor snatched the bill and looked
ugly. He counted out the change in
chicken feed, as small coins are called
on the railroads, and shoved it into the
man’s hand with 21 “Take it!” Then he
turned to another passenger on the plat-
form and began to talk loud enough for
the other to hear about “hogs” who
rode on cars.

“Did ye see that fellow that just give
me the bill?” he said. “Well, he's a
skin, ye know. That’s an old game.
They git on a car with a $5 bill and
hand it to the conductor. Nine times
out of ten the conductor don’t have the
change and the man rides free. I know
this fellow. I’ve had him a dozen
times."

“See here, my friend,” said the man
who had had the bill changed, his face
as red as a beet, “you’re a d——d liar.”

The conductor looked startled. The
man repeated the declaration and pro-
ceeded:

“I want to tell you, sir, that you
have spoiled as good a friend as the
street railroad men ever had. I’ve been
their friend for 20 years. When passen-
gers kicked at them, I always figured
that if there was any trouble it was the
passengers’ own fault. When friends
told me of rows they had, I always said:
‘Well, it’s a hard job on the back plat-
form of a car. The man was only doing
his duty.’ Now, I've been the friend of
the railroad men through thick and
thin. When they have struck, I’ve been
with ’en.i. But you’re an infernal liar,
sir, an infernal liar. The next railroad
man that sasses me will get punched in
the jaw. Do you hear, sir? Punched in
the jaw! Punched!”

The clioerful citizen was fairly danc-
ing witli rage.

“Well, ye needn’t get hot about it,”
said the conductor, and he went in and
collected a fare. The cheerful citizen
got off the car muttering to himself.—
New York Sun.

London or Kashmir.

A man who had traveled much, see-
ing mnny lands and varied peoples,
confessed that he had never felt the
delight of satisfied curiosity in such
fullness as on the day when he first
walked into London, a mere youth, and
stood amid the crowd and shops of
Regent street. A born wanderer by na-
ture and possessed of the means to
gratify his desires, his fancy had fixed
on Kashmir, out of many places full
of wonder and romalice, as a land
where he should find truest enjoyment.
To foster this idea be avoided all books
that affected to treat of Kashmir and
refused to believe that anybody had ever
been there. In his imagination he saw
it as a region of flowery valleys, soft
watered meads, peaceful vistas and per-
petual sunshine.

He duly reached Kashmir, and he
has long since returned, a thing he once
thought might never happen. Of Kash-
mir he speuks reasonably and with
calm appreciatioii, but ask him to tell
again of how he first came to London,
and in answering his voice takes a tone
of enthusiasm and inystery. He refuses
to sully the recollection by analysis or
dim it by any later disenchantment. He
was young then, and it was London.-
Chambers’ Journal.

Boy "Heroines."

All those divine creatures, those her-
oines of Shakespeare, were acted in his
day, and for some time afterward, by
youths and young men. May we not
fancy that this hard condition was a
sorrow to Shakespeare. who, of all men,
must most keenly have felt how much
better his godlike women could have
been realized by actresses? It must have
been hard for boys to turn their mascu-
line natures to favor and to prettiness
when they had to enact women—and
such women! Shakespeare must have
longed to see the boards trodden by the
light foot of woman, with her incom-
parable grace and witchery and feeling.
What manner of youth could be found,
even in Elizabet-h’s time, worthily to
personate the divinity of womanhood?

We know next to nothing of these boy
women actors, but a demand creates a
supply, and they may have been more
satisfactory than We can well imagine.
They must have been handsome—deli-
cately handsome.-—Gent1ema1i’s Mann-

Ripans Tabules cure bad breath.
Ripans Tabules cure biliousness.
Ripans Tabules: one gives relief.
Ripans Tabules cure indigestion.

.-‘ales. Two kinds
5 Prices the lowest.

l Twine. That's by .-siiiiple.

pl isteil .

of ulino.-t

evci'_vtliiii<_r that‘.-

.\lonc_\’ szlveil is same 11> L':ll'Il(‘(l.

3,‘-C9 01' €Xp1'E‘.'~‘S‘d f:.‘.'€.

BINDER TWINE

We’re the largest sellers in the world.

1000 TONS,>l_l01l';.:ht and paid for. for this .<e:i,~'nn‘.-

Slsill‘ and Manilla.
There  _1u.<t one wi.~'«- \vzi_\‘ lo l)ll_\' Binder
TEST IT. Lflok mt‘ hriw  snillple in _\-our llilllll.

ll.~04l in

('-\T:lL(.)(,il'li :m<l l3L'YlCll.\" (ihlllli :ll\v:l_\'.~' with _voil.

The Seasons at
hand.

Qliality the lit‘:-"l

Tl1t‘l‘(‘_\'Hl‘l are. fully

l “ 9 -"*—‘“‘l Siillllllfié. and quote 1i1'lL't'S, free for the £l.~l{lll‘..’

Buy Binder Twine at Headquarters.

FOR THE RIGHT PRICE

life. ll:l\'L‘ our (ilC.\'lCl{Al.
I}u_v l'll}_'’lll.

_ ‘VS a-hand it to you if you call at m11»5_r1~..;,t 1.._,,,.,.,,. _\v,,,,.,._
oi .-end it for 1.: t'r‘1lI.~'. in coin H1‘ >‘l’2illlp.'~’. to my 1.3” ,,f 1,9,-1.

Montgomery Ward 85 Co,

Monarchs of the Mail Order Business, the Store of all the People
lll. ll‘.’. 111?. ll}. IL‘). (Hill lloi .\ll(‘lllf—_":lll _\voiiuv.
Directly Hppo.-‘ire the new Po.<t Ufiice. CHlL'-\G< L

James Hamilton. President.

W William Hamilton. Treasurer.
e are prepared to fill all Grange orders at lowest wholesale rates.

THE HAMILTON GROCERY COMPANY,

No. 238, 240 and 242 East Pearl St.

 

Chas. G. Shane, Secretary.

of trees and seeds.

in advance.

B/G PROFITS

IN
FRUITS and VEGETABLES

1)l‘<)\’l(llllf__’ you use the riglit kiiids

We furnish the very best Michigan Grown TREES and SEEDS at the-
RIVER RAISIN VALEY NYRSERIES of Monroe. Mich.
reputation for hardy, prolific, early bearing stock.

Besides our famous specialties, the \\'INTEl{ l’A.\'.~\.\'A Al’l’LE-
the NETV PR()LlFl(,‘- l)l‘:r\CHilll(l the NE\\' (,‘O.\'l{.-\TH l’»LA(_JK
RASPBILRRX, we liuve a l:ii'9:c assortiiient of Fruit and Orna-
mental Trees, Small Fruit and Flowering Shrubs.

The /*«-/*_I/ has-t tested VL‘_;€5t:il>l(,’, Flower and Gl':lSS >,'ee<ls—-;tn<l slioh.
fez/Z packets you never (lid see.

But _\'ou must know How to plant and cultivate the 0l'('llili‘Ll garlleii.
_vou how to your h.=-artfs content in Tiii-1 i\7oit'l‘ii A_\ll-JlllL‘.\N Hr»i;'l‘1i,'l'l.'l‘UR-
IST, piilllished monthly at 30 cents a year with choice preiiiiuins if paid.

Agents wanted. Catalogues and sainple copy free.

&““Ask Secretary of your Grange for COl.1[l":l(:l rates on all nursery stock.

GREENING BROS., Monroe, Mich.

\V'e have a

VVe tell

    

As gun-I n~ Hulls for 820,

but have sold direct to the
consumer for 23 yea rs, at
wholesale prices, saving
them the dealers‘ pro-

fits. Siiipanywhr-re ,

for exuininat ion be-
fore sale. :Ev»-ry- 
thin,-1 warranted. » .. _
.4 I01! styles of ('nr- -
, riages, Wstyles of Har-
UPF-". 41 styles Riding
Saddles. Top Buggies us ’
V low as $.15. Phzietnns as low
M-16’-5--°.urr<=v H-mess. Price $14.50. as  S ring Wagmm $31 to
wall. Senr for large (fiitnlrlgue. ;.,,.l]
ELKHART CARRIAGE 6:. HARNESS MFG.

 
  
  

  

      

—PricI-. with lamps, fillnihadg ,, an
W‘-~r~ $4'»4l.mJ. .u good Iii sn-ll: mrp5:u._

00.. W. B. Pratt, Sec'y, ELKHAQ1-_ mo

BUTTER

PER MONTH
.-mliy rnmle calling

in 2 "1 i n . fiE|Q§EENBUTTER MAKER.

Sells at sight. Every woman wants one when she sees the butter
come and gathered in two minutes.

Every nincliirie izutiruntelsd

or money rt-Iunded. Butter churned and gathered by the same:
machine ; larger yield as all the butter is taken out. The Queen Butter Maker is the greiitest invention of the
age. We will send a trial machine to one family in any neighborhood; in good chance for agents to nmke big
money: costs but little more than an ordinary churn. Theoueen Butler Maker Co., 2:: E. 3rd St,, Cincinnati. 0.

   

Continuous experience

pers.

with you?

AFTER TY YEARS

in the Wool Business we
position to serve your interests in the most acceptable manner. We sell
direct to the manufacturer. and charge as small a commission as is con-
sistent with good business principles.
consignments when desired. We furnish free use of sacks to all our sliip—
We keep you informed at all times as to the latest and best points
on the wool situation, prices, etc. As to our responsibility, we refer you to
any reputable business house or the Chicago banks. Can’t we correspond

SILBERMAN BROTHERS,

   

should he in a

We make liberal ailvanw-s on

   

CHICAGO, ILL.

FOR SALE

At reasrmahlc prices. a choice -'¢‘=lection_of
April and May Poland China DiS5- (-g"1“f1“'”‘*'l'
pairs. Pedigree with salt‘. 0. L’. L.

promptly answered.

J01-IN._BOWDITCH,
Hilisdale, Mich.

Special Offer

Send us fifty cents and we will forward to you
ER once. :1 beautiful. genuinr-Japane.~'c fan. This
fan retails in the large stores at 50 cents each.
It is of line parchment and highly decorated.
We have often obtained a special price upon
this fan, and fully warrant it as being the best
we have ever offered. To every purclla.-‘er of this
fan we offer

runs

the American Home Journal for one year. This
is a monthly paper and contains bright. fresh.
and entertaining news. The regular Sl1h.~‘crip-
tion price for this paper is 50 cents for one year.
We do not care so much about your money‘ or
about selling the fan. as we do to introduce to
you the beautiful. illustrated American Home
Journal. R. D. LEE Pub. Co.,
Lynn. Mass.

('-or- '
respontlence solicited and communications.;"

! trial will convince you of its merits.
i Dep’t (K) L. Gerstle & Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

 

HOW UNPLEASANT TO BE BILIOUS,
Or l~'IlTT(‘l'lllL’ from Vllills .’lli1lF(.‘\'L‘l',
l)_\'.spl~p.~‘ia No-llriilgia, Sick Head-
ache», Cixiistipiitiriil or liuligi-stioii.
' In all tli<-so <'in~'el-5 the liver is to
hluiiis-. Now. if you will send five
2-ct. stunlp.-‘ to cover postage, we will
. sl-nil FREE by mail, ri piirkslge of
‘ SI. Josephus Liver Regulator.
which is in powder form. Tliis rem-
edy is it i~‘1If01llJll sure cur:-. und one
Address

Plain Cultivators.
($3.75 to $20.00)

Also H ors e
Rakes. Hay
T e d d e r s ,
M o W e rs,
Cultlvato rs
Hay Presses
and o t h e r
_, implemen ts
at cash pri-
ces satisfac-
tory to the
farmers. If‘
our good s
9. r e n 0 t
found to be as represented. we will return the
money of the goods. Address

The Ann Arbor Agricultural
Co., Ann Arbor, Mich.

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