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Redfern Liquor Commission Bill.

The following letters are sclf-c.\'plana-
tory:

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exercising the appointing powcr ivei'é§.g,

I friendly to the ohject of the measure it 

I take it for granted that in seeking:

"comnients on the merits and weakness"
of the above iuentioned hill you do so with
reference to its availihility as a means of
assisting in undermining the liquor traffic
and not as a means of fortifying it, for, no
douht, an overwhelming majority of those
who willingly discuss such measures at all,
while they ditler as to the measures which
would prove most ellcctual at present, are
hoping in time for the utter extinction of
the evil.

Lack of space forbids extended dis-
cussion but it is of the lirst importance, if
one would have a just estimation of the
effect of t.lie proposed law, to get aclean cut
idea of the character and circiiinstaiices of
the scourge against which the law is leveled.

In the present case the evil is a heritage
of the race—~a heritage with the strength
of many centuries of ever increasing vigor
of growth. It is a parasite that fattens up-
on its host, and that has intertwined and
interlocked its l'oo?-'. with many of the
dearest habits and customs of the great
inass of the people.

So great is its voracity it swallows -‘.41,-
tlOl),llllll,0llll annually in this country alone,
and it would he rank euphemism to allirm

the obliteration of that enormous value to  ,,u,. (my },e,.0,”U ,.,,,,_cp,,,m,,,S!y m,]ig'mCn_

he the greater part of the loss, and its
gi‘cc.:l is ('llll.I':l(:le.l‘l’/.etl by sliameless inso-
lcnce and a tiii-lsiileiit. intolcrcnce of re-
straint.

Iieing of such ll character. it requires no
proplietic vision to see that the stay ing of
the pla;_-iic miistprove a ditlicult labor and
like the I.crn:can Ilydra of Ilerculeau
stor_v, its many needs must he removed
one hy one.

If furtlier and s‘=.roi‘igci' proof of this
were ne(_‘-(lcxl, it may he found in the fact
that on account of its lioarv and iiitimate
hlending with the ways of the people, the
lll:1.s‘.‘<eS have hci-oiiie color—l»lind. it" I may
use the ligiirc. in their contemplating it,
and this is the saddest and most foi'niid-able
ditliculty of all.

It is evident then that there are two
points against which appropriate efforts to
weaken and cxtirpate the inonstcr may
prolitahly he directed, one the life and
liinh and the other the darkness which he-
clouds the vision of its more or less fervent
worsliipers.

It is now readily seen that the latter
point is the only one upon which the pro-
posed law can have any direct ctlect. With
this clearly in view we can readily see the
merits and weaknesses of the hill.

Its main merit. is the general one that it
seeks to gather in a pretty tliorough inan-
iier, facts that will shed light; upon the
tinancial, social, moral and political etfects
of the Iiqiioi' hiisiness.

Ariothci‘ merit is that the hill is one that
would probably receive the approval of
the people if only the provisions which re-
late t.o its execiition were of such a nature
as to show that thorough earnestness and
effective work must result from its adop-
tion, and herein I think are to he found its
chief points of wcakiicss.

It is somewhat. astonishiiig to tind that it
limits the publication of the biennial re-
ports of the commission to -I-lltjltjl copies,
and that of the monthly bulletins to 1000
copies, for the enligliteniiient of a state of
two and a half million people. when its
only purpose is enlighteninent. It may he
said that the newspapers will publish them,
hut I cannot see upon what grounds, or it
iiia_v he replied that the facts are sought
for the education of the legislature. hut the
legislators are already well eiioiign aware
of the facts for practical purposes. though
they will not act until the people are pre-
pared to push them on. I‘I(luc:J.tc the peo-
ple.

Another point that seems to me to he a
weal—;ness, is the failure to make provision
for the payment of the commissioners for
their services. The laborer is worthy of
his hire, and, as a rule, effective service
cannot he got without it.

In conclusion, I wish to call attention to
one other provision which may or may not
prove to be a Weakness, and that is that re-
lating to the method by which the com-
missioners are appointed. If the governor

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would be well, hut if he wci'c not thél
whole thing would prohahly he a farce.
However. it is a prohleiii wlictlier a hetter
way could he dc'.'i.~-(kl.
It. IA. TA) i.oi<.
Lrl]H'cI‘.

I"I’.(’))I IIUN. .I. 'I‘. i"'\,‘-ll'l';l‘L|.|..

(fomplying at last with your request, I
take time to very hriellv give you my
opinion of the hill to ci‘e.-its: a state liquor
commission. as pxihlislied hy you October
My opinion may not he of val-
ue to you, hut a disciission of the question
cannot result ha rmt'ii|l_y.

I will ct’)/u/w/1.~'w and say that iiivestiga-
tion is alivays good. Ignoraiice is our
most severe t:isk—iiiastcr. \\'hen people
hcconic cnlightczicd upon any particiilar
question and look closely into its processes
and results they are soon convinced of its
good or evil, its a-lvaiitages or disadvan-
tages, and this knowledge of the situation
leacls and iii‘ge..'~: them to its hetter adjust-
ment and control.

linligliten the people and you advance
their privileges. and conimeas:-rahly aid
their social intcrcsts. Ilcspotisin is power-
ful only so far as its legioiis are ignorant
of repiihlicaiiisiii. \\’hen the people of

ed upon the evils of liuinau slavery that
slavery itself had to fall and lie pi‘osti'ate
with other harharisin.

So, I say, Ill\'(’SlI;_“llll()ll with its discov-
erics consistently made puhlic is good, and
I cndorsethc proposition of yoiir hill to
investigate. _

Again, people are now, more than ever
hcfore, turning their attention to the study
of sociology. They are, Iiiorc than ever
hcfore, believing that in such stiidy and
its revelations lies the secret of the hetter-
mcnt of the race and the higher and more
peaceful enjoyment of all human hlcssiiigs.
And authorities on sociology have reached
tlie conclusion. and are quite agreed, that
to pi’.-ictically and succcssfull__v re'r'orin our
social condition we iiiust hcgin with the
improvement of the lowest classes——the
lowest stratum of society. and that will
improve the strata ahovc. “.~\ foul cellar‘
is the pest of the parlor."

l\'ow_, however far the liquor habit-witli
its attendant evils may pervaile our hetter
society, is it not. true that the lower class-
cs are more seriously hound hy it and de-
spoiled hy its destructive influences and I
cnvironiiicntsf I’ei'mit me to answer, yes.
Is it not also true that such cliisses arc .
terribly hurdcncd and liandicappcd hv the i
liqiior powcrf -\g':iin I say, yes. . I

The conclusion then is iiicvitahle. An
honest and thorough investigation into the
liquor husincss and its i'es-ults will turn the
light upon the evils of the tratlic and dis-
close to the people its eiioriiiities and
where they exist as it can he done in no
other way._ thus putting them in the Way
to most intelligently deal with the question
that cont'ronts them, and equipping them
with the disposition and the tools to ren-
ovate the "cellar" and thus purify the
“parlor"' of our social systein. I

You see, Mr. Editor, that I am in sym-
pathy with the /)///'/}U~\‘t: of your hill. As to
its specific provisions, I am not sure they
are all correct but cannot enter into a de-
tailed discussion of them. Let me sug-
gest, however. these dilI'erences: if

1. Give the governor authority to i'e—
move the secrctary or any cUlIll'illSSlt)I1eI'
upon sutlicient cause shown.

2. Provide that neither the secretary or
any coniniissioner shall be directly or in-
directly interested in the Illflllllfat-ltl1I'€ or
sale of the liquors named.

23. See that the salary of the secretary
cannot exceed $1,:'.:HU per annum with not
to exceed 3521)!lextrafortraveling expenses,
and let him do most of the traveling for
the commission. Also require him to fur-
nish his own otlice, equipment, stationery,
etc. Michigan can furnish lots of good
men for the place at those rates. i

4. Limit the traveling expenses of each
commissioner to $100 per year.

5. Limit the annual appropriation to
$3,001). If, after the work has had two
years’ trial, it can be shown that these
amounts are inadequate and that a some-

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what larger allowance would he :1 good iii-
vestment, amendment to the law can he
madeaccordingly.

*5. I helieve somcof the provisions of
Section 5’; are impracticable hut cannot
pi'otitahly discuss them on paper.

Speaking again of the hill in general, I
think sucha coinmission would be good
and cannot imagine one that would he so
weak as to hca complete failure. The
agitation of the questions it would have in
hand would necessarily result in a hetter
understanding ofa great and important
issue.

Mu.w.n.

A Word from Bro. Messer.

Eorroii GRANGI-1 Visrron:——Sonic time
since you asked me to write a short article
for the VISITOR in regard to lecture work
in Subordinate Gr-aiiges. While the Na-
fimml /.1’/v.¢/lg/w Q»/I//‘fr.-/'[y I;‘u///zliu conveys
my thought on given topics to the lectures
of each state, an article for the Visiron on
lecture work might seem superfluous, but
the remcmhrance of my pleasant visit to
Michigan Granges two years ago inclines
me to comply with your request, and in a
measure renew my acquaintance with the
members of the Order in your state.

At the outset, I wish to say that it gives
me much pleasiire to note the activity and
interest manifested in Grange work in
some parts of the state. Twenty orgaii—
ized and reorganiz:_l Granges since Dc-
ceniber lst, l.‘_~“.+.'i, is a fine addition to the
working force of the Grange in any state,
and it requires continued. persistent, well
directed efforts to secure ‘such good results;
and I suspect that State Master Horton
and his trusty lieutenants have been, and
now are, busy in this work.

But after the Granges are organ-
ized or reorganized what then! A new
Grange is of no value to its niemhcrs or
the community without a purpose, some
well devised plan of action with dclinitc
ohjccts in view. Tlie plan of action and
the iilijccts to he attained are douhllcss
wcll e.\'plaincd hy the deputy or oi'gaiiixer,
who, after coinplcting his part of the work,
leaves the (iraiige in the hands of the of-
ticcrs who are soon cont'ronted with the
question. "V‘Cli::t shall wedo to keep up
the interest in the meetings, so as to secure
a good attendance and make our (irauge
of i'e:_il value to our ineiiihersf" “.»\_Ye
there's the rub," and many are the lectur-
ers who have ruhhed their heads to know
what  hcst to do, and how to do it.

As education is the corner stone of the

s grand Grange cdilice, the lecturer hy vir-

tue of his ollice becomes the sclioolmaster
to direc.t the thought and aspirations of
the iiiciiil,;ei'sliip along tliosc lines of devel-
inental growth and hroadened
views, which are essential to the best and
highest types of A nicricaii citi'/.ensliip.
Lecturers sonictimes make iiiistakcs hy go-
ing to extreiiies in their work. One will
seem to think that host mental growth can
only he seciired hy the study and discus-
sion of ahstriise questions and the iveiglity
current. topics of the day. .-\nothcr will
go to the opposite extreme of frivolit_v,aiid
spend the time in ainiiseiiieiits of various
kinds which can afford but little lasting
benefit. Each of these lecturers forget
that the mind like the hotly needs a well-
balanced ration to give it the greatest de-
gree of strength and activity, and hence it
is that when the lecturer furnishes only
solid food for the mind a portion of the
ineinbers, at least, become tired of what
they call drv, hard questions, and lose all
interest in the literary part of the meet-
ings: and the same is true when the time
is wholly given up to light, trashy matter
or fun.

The lecturer who succeeds best in the
work is the one» who pi'cseiits a happy
coinhination of these two c.\'treiiic.~:. giviiig
food for thought and sutlicient diversion
to the mind to relieve it of monotony
or dulness, therehy securing a hcalihy ac-
tion, and the best possible results. Sys-
tem is as much needed in lecture work in
the Grange as in anything else; but each
lecturer imist, in a measure, plan a por-
tion of his own work, because of the dif-
ferent conditions, taste andcapacities of the
membership of diflereiit Granges, even in
the same state; but the general plan of
work should be the same everywhere.

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The topics for discussion as given and

‘ olllllntfti in the ,li//2'r»m// ///‘II/I_r/« (‘/r//I/'/r/'/y

/,’u//.//;« should he ilisciisscd hy cvcry

; (irange, and an outline of the discussion

j sent to the State Lccturcr.

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The supple-
iiientai'_v qucstions that are given are only
for helps for those who need them. Soiiie
lcc‘uircrs have ahuiidant rcsoiirccs of their
own, and can easily prc.parc an iiiteicstiiig
program: but with inany tliese resources
are limited, and hence the cllort that is
made hy the Natioiial tlraugc to render as-
sistance to such as need liclp, and thus
keep the work moving stc:idil_v fox-wiaiwl in
every Grange in the land.
Yours l*‘i':itcriiall_v,
.\i.i'ii.\ I\li«:ssi«:i:.
Rm-hcstu‘. 1'1.

The Township Unit Plan.

BY E. A. II()I.I)I“..\'.
iii

In my last letter I made a comparison of
the advantages ollercd by and the cost of
inaintaining the puhlic Stiilllllfi of the three
northern tiers of counties of Indiana under
the township system with the three soutli—
ern tiers of counties of Michigan under the
district system. I liad c.\;pected in this
letter to give a table coiiiparing the. scliools
of the two states. llut, insoiiiuch as the re-
sults of this tahlc would hut he a r(-peti-
tion of the facts hi'ouglit out by the table
in my last letter, I have concluded to
omit this table and prcseui facts ohtaincil
from the visitation of schools. I will say,
however, for the henetit of those who have
not read my other letters, that thin table
shows that the township fl'y'.<l.{3lll in ludi-
ana reaches fewer pupils, secures lcss .s‘i'llUUl
by over a month every year, and costs
much more than docs the district .-ystein
in Michigan.

I did not, as one might suppose from the
extent of the statistics pics:-iitcr.l, sp-:-iid all
or a niajor part of my time while in Indi-
ana in compiling statistics. I spent fully
half my time in visiting scliools, school of-
licers, and patrons of tlic schools in order
that I miglit understand fully the inner
workings of their s_v stem and thc . «J1», /.5 r[<1
«:«.u'/m of their teachers and patrons of the
DC-il()t)IS.

.\lost of the schools visited arc in the
nortlieru portion of the state where the
conditions are as iieai' like llios'c of Mich-
igan as can he found. \"i'hile I took some
pains to visit. a few .s(,‘llfml:~ which had been
pointed out to me by ollicers as some of
the vo1‘y hcst schools in the state, as a
rule I visited those schools most conven-
ientlyreachedfrom wlierc I happened toho.
I was after the facts concerning the con-
ditions of the average school and not what
niiglit hc true of a few schools. I visited
ahout thirty schools, t:ilked with the teach-
crs, school otiicer.-:, patrons; and pupils. I
hoardcd around, as it were, and picked up
all that I could and llllp:i2’tt:4l. as little as I
could. While in the school room I made
a record of the sanie facts that a county
commissioner would in using a “ltecord of
Visits” to record in. \\'lien out of the
school room I took notes in a little note-
book of conversations pertaining to the
schools.

I entered sclieol rooms at all times of
the day with aiid witlioiit introduction. I
had letters of iiitrodiiction to teach.’-.r:s and
trustees from the b‘upci'iutc-ndcut of Pub-
lic Instruction. and county superintcniieuts.
My trcatiuent hy teachers, pupils, olliccrs,
and patrons was coui'tcou.- and kind. The
people were as a rule open heartcd and
fraiik, which coutrihuled much to the
pleasure and success of iiiy visiting tour.

For the hcnclit of some who inay not be
familiar with the workings of the Indiana
systeni, it might he well for inc to hrielly
explain it. The state and coiiiity super-
vision is very similar to ours. The prin-
cipal ditference is that in place of having
districts as in Michigan where the people
get togctlier once :1 year and determine the
amount of school to he maintained, the
amount of hiiilding and repairing to be
done, and fix the amount of tax to he
raised, they have no districts, hut elect
one man every four years at a township
election who is delegated all these powers.
When elected the trustee has almost ab.
solute power. He is judge, jury, and at-

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THE GRANG:E VISITOR.

AUGUST 20, 1896.

Field and Stock.

Scraps.

Read by M. F. Carleton at St. Clair Pomona Grange. at
Buel Center. June 11', 1>~'*0i.

It has been said that the secret of accu-
mulating a fortune is to spend nothing. I
take it that this means to spend nothing
foolishly, that is for things that are of no
benefit. A fortune of itself, is no earthly
good to its possessor, only as he spends it
to benefit hitiiself or otlici's.

It has been said that time is tiiotiey. If
that be true, then tiuie spent foolishly is
money spent foolishly. “'0 don‘t wish to
be understood by this, that one must al-
ways be at hard work earning money.
Time spent in healthful amuscmeiits is
often better spent titan at hard labor. At
work, as well as at play, do not hurry,
don’t worry and fret, if you are not al-
ways at the head or in the lead. flurry,
worry and ft'et are not conducive to good
health and long life. \Vhcti you have
business, attend to it with all your might
and mind, judiciously. l)o not he distract-
ed from it, thinking that soitie other busi-
ness would be better, but hold fast to your
purpose and keep doing, though the job
may appear a hard otie. The constant
dropping of water wears the hard rock.

l)on’t try to get rich in a liurry, by
gambling or speculating. \\'hci'e otie sitc-
ceeds thousands fail. The safer way is by
stead_v pcrscver.-mcc. caring for little
things, looking out for the pentiies,le:n'iiig
the dollars to care for theitisclvcs, stopping
the little leaks, when first discovered, re-
tnetnberitig that a stitch in time saves nine.

Think as well of yourself as you expect
or want others to think of you. Expect
nothing from others that you are not will-
ing to give others. If you fitid aniusemenf
iii the looks, dress, or actiotis of others,
yoti ottglit to find no fault, when others do
the saute at your expense. Be tiiore ready
to excuse the mistakes of others, than in
yourself. Be more ready to pity the con-
dition of others, than to ask it for your-
self. \Vhilc finding fault with others, look
yourself over carefully, and see if you are
not equall_y as much at fault about other
matters, it" not iti regard to the pu1'tic11l3.1'
one you are grumbling about.

lie careful about the statements you
make regarding persons, matters, or
thiiigs. See that you make tione but trutli—
ful otics. wlicthcr they be about right or
wrong doings. Never insinuate, he always
frank, t‘eg:ti'diiig your word above all
things of value to you.

Be careful about tiiaking promises.
VVeigh well all answers to qttcstiotis,wheth-
er in busiiiess or amuseiiient, before saying
yes or no. \\'lierc one cannot answer
squarely with :1 clear coiiscietice, silence is
tiiuch better. Above all, avoid society lies.
If you make a promise, keep it if within
your power. if you promise to meet one
for hnsiticss or pleasure at a certain time,
be there at the time. Many a man has ac-
quired wealth by sct'upulously being up to
time.

\\'hen workitig for others, t'emetiibet'
that the time for which you are engaged
is theirs. not yours. lfyoti cannot recog-
nize this fact and give them your full ser-
vices for that time, you are not honest. Be
true to their interests, so nitteh so that they
will feel that you are necessary to them. A
certain amount of selfishness is cottiiitend-
able. A selfishness that incites one to do
his best to make a good character for
being faithful and reliable at all times
and utider all eircuttistances, is certainly
the right sort to possess.

Set your mark of excellence high, then
do all within your power, honorably, to
reach the poitit. In your strife for posi-
tion, wealth or power, have the same re-
gard for the rights of others that you wish
them to accord you. Remember that all
live, more or less, in glass houses, and all
have the same right to throw stones.

Be carefttl how you go in debt. A half
a loaf paid for is better than a whole loaf
owed for. The man who goes in debt is
tiiore or less a slave to others. Interest
eats all the time, and one who borrows
adds that much to his burdens in the future
for a present, oftentimes imagined neces-
sity. Now when you think of going in
debt, just make up your mind you won‘t.

I)on’t cast aside old friends for new ones.
Appearances are ofteti deceptive. The
loudest mouthed professions are generally
not to be depended upon. Deep streams
run quietl_v, while shallow ones are noisy.
Ask counsel of those you know, not of
strangers. Give your confidence to tried
friends, others may betray you. All is not
gold that glitters, polished brass shines
fully as brightly  does the purest gold.
Don’t judge people by their dress. A
ragged coat may cover a soul of sterling
worth. Do not go through life with your
eyes shut, or your ears sttitfed. All of
your faculties were given yoti for use.
Make the best use of them possible. Let
not a day pass that you do not learn some-
thing. Do not work mechanically, but
thoughtfully. If you don’t understand 9.
thing, don’t be afraid to ask questions. It
is from inquiring minds that inventions
and improvements have emanated. Do not

despise money, neither worship it. Love
it for the good you may accomplish with
it.

In argument, keep your temper. When
one gets angry his reasoning faculties are
lessened and judgment warped. Make use
of the advantages within your reach,instead
of fretting about those beyond your reach.
Make good use of the penny _vou have, in-
stead of building air castles with the six
pence you hope to have.

We should never fret over circumstances
that happen as the world moves along, if
they do not please us. If at first they
seem hard for us to hear. they may. by
patience, tact and forbearance, often be
tiiade of great benefit to its, and at times,
the most pleasurable events in otir lives.

l)on't envy others the blessings they
appear to enjoy, that yoti think yott do not.
If you do, _vou will forget the health and
strengtli that you possess. the love of fath-
er, mother. brothers and sisters that you
etijoy, and find yourself wishing for the
things that you do not possess, thereby
laying the groundwork for a lifetime of
unhappiness.

l)on't forget that the plaincst of roonis.
if flooded with sunshine and warnitli. pro-
vided with a plain easy chair, coiiifortahlc
lounge. and pletityof wai'iii clothing for bed
will far surpass in actual comfort, an cle-
gatit one, fut'i1islied with costly furniture,
atideiiibellislied with a lot of ornatiietital,
but useless brie-a-brac.

‘It has been said as one smvs, so shall he
reap. It follows ft'ot1i this, if one does not
sow, he cannot reap. consequently, sowing
iiittst precede harvesting, arid the anioutit
sown, in a large tiieasurc, determines the
amount harvested. In other words,bart'en
plowed ground cannot be expected to
yield tinteh of a harvest. Iiiiipty bat‘n;s
atid small stacks in the fall are generally a
sure sign of iinsowti and uncultivated fields
iti spring and summer.

It is sheer folly to look for a successful
farmer in one possessed of an overgrowth
of brawn and muscle if the head  empty
of brains. It is worse than folly for a
farnier to live by himself, never mingling
with his neighbors, never trying to learn
what is going on in the world, like the tur-
tle, concealing all his thoughts and aspira-
tions within a shell, no benefit to himself
or others.

It is better to lcarna trade, before work-
ing at it. This is true of farniitig. Get at
it with a will, learn. or at least try to, all
there is of it, give it your best time, best
thought, atid be.st energy. Do nothing by
halves. Always keep this motto in mind,
that whatever is worth doing, ought to he
dotie well. Study for facts, whether dc-
duced frotii your own experience, or from
what you observe iti others. Do not take
a thing for granted because it is in the
papers. No class or cotiiiiitinity are more
imposed upon by papers than the farincrs.
There are too many agricultural editors
who do all of their farming oti paper, and
know nothing about it, in fact.

Study all the time. \\'aste not a iiio-
iiient, even ones time spent iti recreation
can be made profitable. Study the nature
of the soil you are farming. Study the
climate you livc in, and watch its effect up-
on your soil and crops. Study the vege-
table kingdoiii, so that you may know
what vegetables are the best adapted to
your farms, and how they are affected by
the climate. Study animal life, so that
you may know the best classes of horses,
cattle, sheep and hogs to raise on your
farms, t'cmetiiberitig that animals are
affected more or less by soils and climates
as are vegetables. Study your own inter-
ests, when selecting men to do your busi-
ness; in town, county, state and the nation,
1‘Cl11(:l11l)e1'ing' that only those who have
shown a life long interest in your welfare,
can always be expected to legislatefor your
benefit, while legislating for others.

It is a good idea to do your owti work,
be independent, paddle your own canoe,
ask no favors. Don’t expect anyone to
help you with the interest that you help
yourself. Your progress may be slow, but
it is a step at a time, and each succeeding
one will be the longer and stronger for the
energy ptit forth and strength gained. It
is not the one that has started with a full
pocket that has come out the best in the
race of life.

Take Your Choice.

As compared'with the nourishment they
give, fruits and nuts have the least propor-
tion of earthy salts. Animal flesh comes
next, then vegetables, and fourth iti ratik
we have cereals and pulses. which are
shown to have the largest amount of the
earthy matters. From the analysis we see
that fruits as distinct from vegetables have
the least amount of earth salts. Most of
them contain a large quantity of water,
btit that water is of the purest kind——a dis-
tilled water of nattire—and has in solution
vegetable albumen. VVe also notice that
they are to a great extent free front the
oxidized albuniens—glutinous and fibrinous
substances; and many of them contain
aeids—citrie, tartaric, malic, ete.—whieh
when taken into the system act directly
upon the blood by increasing its solubility,
by thinning it; the process of circulation is

l

, sic.ans of late _
. pa:ient was forbiddcii to take milk.

mom easily carried on and the blood flows
more easily in the capillaries——which be-
come lessened in calibre as age advances——
thai; it would if of a thicker nature. These

l acids lower the temperature of the body

and thus prevent the wasting pt'0cess of
oxidation, or combustion in the  jtem.
Exliilarating and stimulating efl'et~fs pro-
duced by tea, coffee. atid chocolate are
caused by theme in tea. caffeine in coffee.
and bromine in cocoa or chocolate—the
latter coiitainingasmaller pei't-eiitagc of
the stimulant than the others. All have a
similar alkaloid base. Milk has lI(,‘(_‘(l]]l(‘
extremely popular with all classes of phy-
vears. Foi'iiiet'l_v a fever
ln

- modern practice milk is about the only

1 food allowed.
‘ is found very efficacious in diabetes.
i the German spas. Carlsbad. Wicsbadcn,

An cxclIisi\'c dict of milk
At

1 ete.. a very little bread is allowed and the

‘ diet mostly made up of milk. cggs, gt-apes,

r

and lean beef. .'\llUll-.st‘tt1't‘ll dict is the
rule. btcad, st:irch_v vcgctablcs. atid ccrcals
being almost cxchulcd. Rice is easily di-
gested and an cxccllcnt food, cxccpt‘ that
it abounds in cartli salts. i*‘ruits are not
only digcst»..-d iii the first stomach. but
they have a large part of theirnourislimciit

= already in a condition to he :lbso1'hcd and

assimilated as soon as catcii. The food
clcnietits in bread and cereals have to un-
dcrgo a p1'(n:(}.~’stifdigcslitili in the stomach,
and then be passed oti to the intestines for
a still farther chemical change before they
are of use to the human system. This is
the great advaiitagc of a diet of lean meats
and fruits. fil’«I/// “How 'I‘(.) l’ttot.o.\'<;
Ltrij,“ by \V1I.i.iA.\t l{i.\'.\'i~:Att, //1 .\'oi:'ru
A)ti«:nicA.\' I’ti~:v1i:\vfm- .l:I_«/«/xi‘.

Sma11-Fruit Culture For Market.

BY \VlLI.lA.\l A.
()(JI.\"l', U. S.

TAYI.l)lf. .\.\'.\'lS'I'.\‘.\"I' l‘-I).‘il()l.-
l)I-ll’.-\llT.\ll‘ZN'l' ()l~' Atlltle
(‘t l.'l‘l'l{l-I.

[Reprinted from the Ycarhook of" tho I’. 5‘. l)i'[h'|FV!l\!‘!ll. of
Atuiciilturc for I“’i~l.l

III

IIAR\'I‘l.\"l‘lI\'(} AN l) .\l.\lIl( l'ITl N: i.

Before the fruit begins to ripen, the size
atid style of package to be used should he
decided oti and a sufficient supply to mar-
ket at least half of the estimated crop
should be provided. The deiiiainls of dif-
ferent niarkcts vary greatly, lint iti all
of them a neat, cleati package will outsell
a poorly tiiade or filthy one. The t=sscn-
tials are (1) that th:_-. packages shall bc of
the statidard size in the markets to be sup-

aplied; (2) that they be as liglit as may be
without sacrifice of suflicicnt stiffness and
strength to withstand any ordinary press-
ure: (ii) that they be neat. clcaii, and at-
tractive in a.ppcarancc. For the small
fruits, except. the red raspbci'ry. the quart
box or basket (packed in cratcfs containing
to; to M) is the sllpposcil st:ui.lard package
in most iitarkcts. thougli dcgc.net'n,tc sizes
atid foritis of this Czttlsc a variation of ‘.37.-
to Bil percent iti its actual capacity. Red
raspberries are cottiiiionly marketed iti
pint cups or boxes (packed in crates),
while eurranfsare frequently sold iii the
climax basket so largely used in shipping
grapes.

Where a home trade is supplied, the
same packages, if carefully handled, can
be used several times, but for shipment to
any considerable distance the “gift" pack-
age seems destined to soon supplant the
old “return” crate.

\Vifh packages provided, the necessity
for some sort of packing house arises.
This should be tiear the berries, and should
be large enough to conifortably aceomnio-
date the packers and to shelter from sun
and rain such quantity of picked fruit as
is likely to :'tcc.iiiiittlate at any one time.
A flat—roofed shed, open to the north and
boarded down from the top to ttear the
ground on the other three sides, answers a
very useful purpose. If a large area is
planted, a more expensive building, with
storage room above for packages, may be
built with profit.

Enough hand carriers should be provid-
ed, so that each picker may deliver his
load, receive credit for it by means of
tickets or other simple method of keeping
account, atid receive an empty carrier in
return without waiting for his own to be
emptied. Some distinguishing mark should
be placed upon each loaded carrier, how-
ever, iit order that it may be traced to the
picker at any time previous to the packing
in the crate. This is easilydone by assign-
ing to each picker a number and affixing to
each carrier as it coiiies’ in an inexpensive
tag marked with the picker‘s number.
Inexperienced pickers need instruction
when first placed at work, and watchful
supervision for a day or two. ()ld hands
often have to unlearn careless or slovenly
habits acqttired elsewhere, and iii this re-
spect are less satisfactory than new help.
Neatness, thoroughness, and honesty must
he insisted on, and after a picker is‘ known
to be reliable on these points his services
are worth considerable more to the grower
than before. Pickers should be instructed
to assert fruit as they pick, or at least
should be prohibited. from placing decayed,
unripe, or imperfect berries in the boxes

with marketable fruit. All boxes should
be as full as they can be packed in the
crates without bruising the fruit, and the
berries in the top layers should be plated
by hand, so as to present an attractive ap-
pearance. It goes without saying that the
fruit should be of uniform quality through-
out tlic package if the grower hopes to
build up it desirable reputation in his
market.

Every package should be branded with
his name. and this should be a sufficient
guaratee of the uniformity of its contents.
Such a brand will often itisurc against loss
<ll11'in,<: gluts, and cause prompt sales at
2Ul\‘unce<l prices when tltc conditions af-
fecting deiiiaud atid supply are iiormal.

.~‘l'l’t.-\ WB lililif .

Thc stt'awlierr_v succeeds on a widc rangi-
of soil, but does best on a moist, satiily
lo:uii., It may bc pl.-intcd at .-my time of‘
__\’*‘III‘ If protected from sun and frost, but
is cotiiinet'ciull_\‘ planted in curly spring or
in late sumiitcr. (bily ncw pbmts, 1l._-it j,~_
tliosc lcss than oiic_vcai'old, sliou1dl»cii,s«,~d_
and thcse should be from the first st-ts
rooted from runners. l)i>‘l:l1n'c l)t‘l\\'(‘(‘n
plants varies, but l‘o\\‘s 4 feet apart, with
it tlisi:ttit'e of 1.3 inches bctwccn the plants.
requiring 5.712 plants pcr ucrc, Ina-: be
taken as fair avcragi-. lllossoiii il)l[(l,\
should be removed from spi'iiig—sct pl.-tots,
as fruiting lessens plant grow1li_ 1-(Hum;-,
should be allowed to root early in the :~(‘;k
soti and until a row width of 1,‘,
inches is attained. 'l‘lio..-c ft)l'H)('({ I,-lam ii;
the season should be cut oil’ or tom on wit};
cultivators. To avoid tcaritig up rooted
runners. always cultivatc in the saiiic .1111-,:-
tion: to prevent them from rootiii«_r, i-iii-i;i~.-is
the opcratioti. Judicious tliinning out of
weak or crowdcd plants in the row is :2»!
visablc. Sclcct ta.-stcd \'2tl'it‘il(‘.~', .nid ii".-my
are pistillate provide bisexual sorts bloomi-
ing and ripening at the sainc time, and.
as ticarly its may bc, such as pi-mlii.-o fi-=_;?.1
similar in sizc, color, and appearance:
Plant iti scparatc rows in the proportiott
of one bisexual to three or four pi.-till:itt~
Mulching usually pays if clean straw. ctc.,
can be had at a low price. Injury to blus-
sotns by frost can be lcs:-'cnc<l "by pulling"
liiulch up over tlictii with llt_'flll_ broad.
hand rakes during the preceding «lav aiid
removing aftcr thc daiiget' is past. i

(.'ultivatioti should cc.-isc from lillillilllligf
time until fruit is liarvc.-zlcd. For lam-in-,_%..
a thin tool with both narrow and \~.'iv‘lii
blades will he found :t«lvatitag'».-ions.

The most dillicult pcriod in s".l'2l\-.'l7cl'l‘)
cuitivation is that which initiit.-«liatclv fol
lows fruiting. \\'ccds and grass g:ii';i a
foothold during the fruiting period, and
the soil becomes liardt.-ncd by this ti-mil, of
pickcrs. Sonic growct's prc.fct' to plant. 2;
new field each year, in which case but :5
single crop of fruit is taken oil. the plants:
being plowed under and followcd by
turnips. huckwlic.at, or .s‘(>lll('. nth.-r .pii(»l.;.
growing crop. \\'licre land is high pt'icct.Z
and the season lotig enough to lll.'!lil!'ut!
supplemental crop, this pr:1cticc is to be
comiiiendcd, but in most localities it is
found llrolitahle. to fruit strawbcrric.~. at
least two years.

In such case it is advisable to mow, dry,
atid bttt'ti the leaves and weeds as soon as
the fruit is harvested. Sonic elements of
fertility will be lost, btit the dcstructioti of
injurious insects and fungi will compensate
for this. If adurablc iiuilch, like pine
needles, has been used, this should he raked
off and stacked for future use before the
tiiowing is done. Immediately after the
burning, two furrows should he tlirown
together, midway between the rows, with
a light and sharp one-liorse plow. Sonic-
times four furrows are needed to redttt.-c
the width of the rows to [foot or- less. This
leaves all portions of the rows readily ac-
eessible to the hoe, which should follow
the plow within a few days. The frequent
cultivation previously mentioned will in a
short time level the ridge atid reduce the
space between the rows to a mellow con-
dition favorable to the rooting of runners.
Unless the soil is very rich and free from
weeds, it will seldom pay to retain a straw-
berry field longer than twofruiting soasoiis.

Varieties succeeding over a wide range
of soil and climate are: l§isexual——.VIichel,
\Vilson, Sharpless, (i'r:nidy; pisti|late—
Crescent, \Varficld, itlbach, llavcrlatid.

in l"

A Fe11ow’s Mother.

“A fe‘.low‘s mother," said Fred the wise.
With his rosy cheeks and his merr_v eyes,
“Knows what to do if a fellow gets hurt

By a thump, or a bruise. or a fall in the dirt

“A fellow‘s mother has bags and strings,
Bags and buttons, and lots of‘ things;
No matter how busy she is, she’ll stop
To see how well you can snin your top.

“She does not. care~not much, I mean-

If a fellow’s face is not always clean;

And if your trousers are torn at the knee.
She can put in a patch that you'd never see-

“A fellow’s mother is never mad,

But only sort y, if you’re bad;

And 1 tell you this, if you're only true,
She'll always forgive you, What’er you do.

"I'm sure of this,” said Fred the wise,

With a manly look in his laughing eves,

“1’ll mind'my mother, quick, every day;

A fellow’s a baby that don’t obey.”
—Selected.


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Jhnnfilsixt 9.1:. - *

AUGUST 20, 1896.

‘. ,

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

3

lM0lfl£»‘ll.’S llll/QRK.-.

The Possibilities of the New Woman
on the Farm.
Paper read b.~l‘ore the "\Voinan's Section" of the Farmr-r-,'

Insfitiitc at Jonesvillc. Jan. ilo, P95. by .\lr.~.
E. D. .V1Jl>Zt’.‘y(lllllI‘ClJ.

I

Implanted in every human heart, isa
coiiception of an existence better, higher
than ones actual surroundings; an ideal

toward an ultimate actuality in the better-
ment of their own condition, or of those
they are associated with, or of both.

This ideal may exist in one person's
mind as an ideal dream; in another ‘s as a
germ of , unrest and discontent, still in aii—
otheris as a lever, lifting by ener;_retic ac-
tion and force of ci1'cuiiis:taiiccs toward,
yes. even to the actual.
creator of possibility. and exercise of at-
tention, comparison and will inakcs this
possibility a reality.

Nowhere is this ideal working with such
energy to leaven the whole mass as aniong
the women of the farm. ln their isolated
homes they read of the marshaliug of their
sisters under new banners. and their listen-
ing ears catch the echo of the shouts of
victory as tliese discovcr, with their better
oppoituiiities. ne\v worlds of thought and
action, L-'.tii'i'iiig their licarts with a longing
for the nccessai'_v drill to advance and pro-
tect their own domain. The strcngtli of
this desirc is manifested by the number of
fai'iiiers’ wives with the gray around their
temples who are reaching out and grasp-
ing every thing which will give them light
and knowledge upon this new phase of ex-
istiencc.
life work has been retarded by lack of skill
and educational privileges. Tliey realize
that all protcssions I'(§(lllll'C specific training
and facility in doing their work, and they
are doing iustice and judgment unto them-
selves by :,~U(3l{lllg' the way and means for
the traiiiing.

Their individual work has been one of
the greatest factors in the creation of the
rnaterial wealth and prosperity of this
great state. Their judgment tells them
that the value of this work should be rec-
ognizcd in a material way, and justice
would give. them pro rata share according
to thc iuimber engaged in this specific
work and the assessed value of the wealth
created by their hands. The state is sup-
posed to exert paternal care over its citi-
zens, and as yet very little has been done
for these handmaidens of the coininoii-
wealth iii practical educational advantages
along their line of work. (.‘:in you esti-
mate the crcative and progressive possibil-
ities which would eventually come, if what
in equity b(—-loiigs to them were used in
giving the needed buildiiigs. and cfluipping
them with paraphernalia iieccssary to
give the girls from the farm perfect
training in all theoretical. deinonstrative,
and practical knowledge of farm home
makingf This fund would be equal, not
only liberall_v to pay the best talent for iii-
struction, but to give a surplus for mould-
ing and stimulating public opinion up to
the work.

The institutes are sowing seed which will
spring forth and ripen into an abundant
harvest for agriculture, but as yet few ai'e
dropped toward creating this distinct t_ype
of womanhood for which we plead. The
colleges and our university are open for
the higher education of our girls, but the
general result is to educate them away
from the farm, into other fields of action
where personal gain is the chief considera-
tion.

The ideal is for a Cl1l’l'lCl1lllI]1 that will
reverse the order of things, making the or-
namental subservient to the practical;
where habits of study and handiwork go
side by side; where the boy and girl striv-
ing together would receive training which
would hold them to the highest ethics of
their being, and send them back to the
farm thorough masters of two principles
of success, a trained mind guiding a skilled
hand, coupled with a will to push the whole
structure of their chosen calling toward a
bountiful remuneration; a just recompense
for the skill and labor involved. Under-
stand me that I do not confine this to
money consideration.

Let me illustrate by a few comparisons
of the present with the richer possibilities
of the new future. I need but tell you
that the dominating influence of woman is
for the future. Then ask how a thorough,
practical knowledge of anatomy, physiol-
ogy, and chemistry would effect the well-
being of the future farm home. Thorough-
ly conversant with the construction of the
human frame; how the physiological
changes produced by conforming to certain
modes of dress, and manner of work, inter-
fere with the involuntary action of those
muscles which control vital parts, and that
toconserve her vital force shemust exercise
an intelligent use of this knowledge toward
the result desired, thus bringing her phy-
sical nature up to the standard ideal.
Would not the racticable demonstration
in chemistry of ood formation, with her
facility of choosing from the labor of her
own hands the material to use, stimulate

This ideal is a ’

They feel and know that their ‘

3 her to work for the higher physiological
3 changes which come from selected, Well
I cooked food, the result of which would ‘be
' her own self preservation and the perpetu-
 ation of her race.

This knowledge would
be an instrument to touch the secret spring

 which unlocks the happiness of family life
. and makes the life worth living. Contrast
l the existence of a woman in a home. with
T a strong physical frame, with nerves like
. strings of steal, which would spring to the
3 touch of a well balanced brain sending the
  ' ‘or  ies
life which prompts a constant reaching out ‘ Hm] tome” tmghn" to the exueum

freighted with an aniniated energy which

i would transform everything she touched

into lifc—giving elements of strength to all
she came in contact; with the bent forms,
shrunken muscles. jangling nerves, and
dwarfed mental faculties, specimens of
which are too pitiably coiimion, and are
constantly dropping into imtiiiiely graves;
finding slielter beneath the roof of mil‘ in-
sane asylumns. or living what should be
their best days, in discontented. trouble-
sonieold age. >'anitary science, hygiene,
germ theories, with liercditar_v law, exert
perhaps a more potent infiuencc upon hu-
man lives than those discussed.

There may be consolation in standing by
the open grave of a lniiiiaii bud nipped by
the frost of neglect of saiiitary conditions,
to remember the proniise, "that of such
are the kingdom of heaven." but the crown
is, in length of days and lioary liairs, the
jewels of satisfaction in that crown. the
rcnieinbrance of the exercise of diligent
obcdicncc of the divine laws which control
our c.\'i.-tence. These laws touch humanity
on all sides, socially, morally. and political-
ly, and carry with them an incalculable
amount of misery or happiness. and it is
an injustice to hold mothers accountable
for what they do not know or understand.

To be coiitiniicil.

Girls on the Farm.

The constant talk about “llow to keep
the boys on the farin." "\\'liy do boys
leave the farm ."‘ and “How shall we make
the farm attractive for the boysL"‘ would
make us think that girls were not a part
of the fariiieris family. At farniers’ in-
stitutes boys are talked about and thought
to be almost as important as the fine liorscs
and cattle, but the girls too oftcn are not
even thought of. or. if they ai'c. and any-
body dare to speak of them, there is too
nuicli the feeling of one who said. “I ven-
ture to give a few words in your behalf."
or another. who said. in a paper written
as late as INNS. that he was entirely on un-
tried ground. and not realizing his great
opportunity, made the apology that the
subject was given him.

\\'hy is not the health and happiness of
the girls on the farm made as important as
that of the boys! Because too iiiaii_v of
our farmers have not entirely passed the
barbarous age when women were mere
slaves. Aliiiost any of them will be shocked
at that assertion, and disclziini cvcr whip-
ping her or using her as a pack horse.
But there are words that sting worse than
whip—cords. and neglect isoften more cruel
than ovei-—work.

The position of the daughter on the
farm, from the time she is old enough to
care for the next child younger until she
leaves her father‘s home, too often broken
in health and spirits, is that usually given
the small boy a "necessary nuisance."
Xecess:ii'y, because the farm work could
not go on smoothly if there was no one to
see that the meals were always on time,
and coats and trousers always ready for
use: a nuisance, because she would some-
times like -.1 new dress, and a half day's
rest. The fathers and brothers are not al-
ways to blame for this, too many of our
mothers and daughters under—i'ate their
own position, and really think they are
not of much consequence because what
they do cannot be counted in dollars and
cents. Education of both boys and girls
is the only thing that will improve this
condition. The girls should be taught to
be the confidential advisers of the boys,
and the boys taught that their sisters are
ca )abIe of holding that position.

he work of the farmer’s daughter is
the most healthful occupation, if judgment
is used; but too often the day begins at
four in the morning and closes at eleven at
night, each day having the same weary,
weary round. The inspiration that she is
supposed to get from the much sung about
work of the niilkniaid, oozes out in the
barn—yard slush, and she is only too glad
to be in the house again, failing entirely
to see the health and spirits to be gained
from “work in the open air.” W'heii she
works in the flower garden, it is when
there is nothing else to do, and usually is
performed with aching back, and nerves
too tired to see beauty in anythincr. She
does the Work because she feels, that, to
make the home attractive, isaduty she
owes her brothers. Two hours of every
pleasant day should be spent out doors,
and any mother or daughter who neglects
this is failing in her duty to herself, her
family, and Tier country. If the work of
the house is too much to allow her time
and strength for this, help should be hired.
She has as good right to it as her brothers
and husband. Any farmer who saves the

l

expense of house help and afterwards

spends twice as ninch on doctor bills is not,

_, a good financier.
The education of the fariner‘s dauglitei' :

should be one of the agitated questions of
the day. She is usually left to grow like
the wild rose, and early becomes a victim
to her ignorance. If obliged to leave home
she learns too often. at eitpeiise of health
and character, what she should liavelearned
from her own mother, or if she stays in
her father's home. or a home of her ‘own.
early loss of strength in body and mind is
the result. The majorit_v.of women in the
insane asylum are farmers" wives. and we
can safely assert that this is because they
have never been taught that "The life is
iiiore than meat, and the bod_v than rai-
ment." The beauties in everything about
her can give no diversion. because she is
blind. Her eyes have not been touched
and opened b_v the finger of knowledge.
There are some who oppose a college ed-
ucation for a farmer's d;.ugliter. saying it

y or lH'3'l‘.i. or one

. an inspiration, being accustomed to say

that it wrote itself, and on one occasion.

= upon receiving words of praise as the

author of “Uiicle Tom's Cabiii.“ she said.
"I did not write it. God wrotcit. I mere-

i ly did his dictation.“

Although the author of "Uncle Tom"
was destined ncvcr again to write so rc-
niarkable a book, it is not surprising. as
her whole life was really a preparation for
that work. "Her latcr books," Mrs.
Fields says. "are really reinarkable for
their power when the circuinstaiiccs under
ivhicll tlicy were prodllccd arc ('()1]si(l01'(-(l_ "

Peter, the "Mint Bird."

If you have ii silvcr dollar of l\:‘.o‘». l\‘.‘%.\‘,
of the first nickcl cents

I coincd in l*.":tl. you will find upon it thc

gives her notions above her place and ‘

makes her dissatisfied with farm life. Anv
schooling which does this is not an educa-
tioii.
often it is the fault of the home folks.

for her own health and growth of mind. is

where the rest she and her mother need

There is a cause for this. but too .3

will be sneered at as a lazy notion she ‘

learned at college! 01', if she wishcsa
particular grouping of a clump of trees in
the _v:u<l. tnat, to her eyes. trained to see
beauty in harmony of color and shape.

the home, gets for an answer. "0. that is
one of your fiighty college notions. pretty
no doubt, but farmers haven't time to at-
tend to such little things."

But this is not always so: the trouble is
often withtheschooling. Totlic literature.
science, and art that will give her useful
hints for home decoration indoors and out.
should be added the knowledge that will
niake her able to talk intelligently with
her brothers about the "rotation of crops.“
and the grains that pay the best, and have
some idea of how niany bushels make an
average yield. There is no class that need
an education so much as farmcris: wives
and dangliters. Isolated from libi'arics,
they must be able to choose the vcr_v best
books for the few they can atlord in the
family. The district school, usually with
almost no course of study. iinist bc supple-
mented by a well—choscn. intc1'csting course
of reading at home. ()ftcn at a distance
from a competent pliysician. a knowledge
of the laws of health and the trcatnicnt of
the common diseases is a necessity.

The means to get. this: education is often
not to be obtained. perhaps. But more
often the farmer thinks he cannot :ifl'ord it.
And a woman. after all. can bc only what
man will give her a cliance to bc. If she
has not the means to get an education. she
can but do her best, and (iod. who made
man to be woman's protector, will hold
him responsible for the result. ~ - /:3 rim//z»
-./. //I/I‘!//N, xi/4 /tit/uwwls //Ir’/I/x/nit//r'.~'/.

Harriet Beecher Stowe.

.\lrs. James T. Fields will contribute to
the August Atlaiitic some deliglitful reini-
niscences of Mrs. Harriet lleecher Stowe.
giving her first iinpressions of her, and
telling of the warm friendsliipaml intimacy
which grew in after years. Their meeting
was just after the publication of "tlncle
Tom‘s Cabin, "at a time when Mrs. Sto\ve's

.reputation was world-wide, and Mrs. Field
describes her modest appearance and n1an- ’

ner. It was at a reception “in one of the
dusky palaces on the .'-\rno“ that she was
presented to Mrs. Stowe, and she tells of
her disappointment at finding herself ui1—
able to express in any way her deep sense
of appreciation of the privilege of meeting
the woman who had done such noble work
in the cause of the emancipation of her
country from the curse of slavery. “But
when 1 next met her in an old picture
gallery,” Mrs. Fields continues, “her greet-
ing had the warmth of an old friend.”
These days are described  the happiest of
Mrs. Stowe’s life, coming at a time when
slavery seemed certain to be abolished be-
fore the civil war was yet near enough to
inspire dread.

Her first glimpse of slavery, upon being
invited to visit a plantation which appears
as Colonel Shelby ’s in‘ ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,”
is described, and the deep impression made
upon her, then a girl of but twenty—two.
Extracts from letters written at different
periods, from before her marriage up to
her communications with her publisher in
regard to some of her latest books, show
her thoughtful, serious nature. and indi-
cate clearly the many difliculties under
which she constantly labored.

When Mr. Stowe received an appoint-
ment as professor in Bowdoin College, he
moved with his family to Brtinswick,
Maine; and here Mrs. Stowe wrote the
book which first gave her fame, writing
alone far into the night after days of toil,
doing her own housework. looking after
her c ildren, and even painting and paper-
ing with her own hands and unaided the
interior of the cottage in which they lived.
This book she herself always regarded as

_ _ _ _ _ I crallv
After learning the importance of caring i '

= about thc city.

. truc portrait of an .\incrican caglc which

was for iiiaii_v years a fainili:u' siglit in the
streets of l’liiladclpl:i:i. "l’clci'." one of
tiiicstc:ij_-'lcs cvcr capturcd alivc, was 11;.-
pct of thc l’liiladclplii:i mint. and was gen-
kiiown as tho "Mint birxl." Not
only did he have frcc .-icccss to c\cr_v part

‘ of the mint, going without liindrancc into

it any wonder that she dreads to return to , 1]“. 1,.,,,,_\.,,,.,. ,._.,,,]t_\. ,,.l“,,.,_ OH,“ ,1“, »p,.m___

urcr of the l'nitcd States would not go
alone. but used his own plcasurc in going
lCvcrybod_v kncw and ad-
mired liiiii. and even tlicstrcct lro_vsti'catcd
him with i'espcct. "hc g‘<l\‘(‘l'lilii1‘l1l pro-

_ _ 5 vidcd his daily fare. and he was as much a
would add imicli to the attractivciicss of ;

part of the mint cstablisluncnt as the sup-
erintendent or chicf coincr. llc \\':ls
kindly trcatcd that he had no fcar of any-
body or anything. and he might bc in the
mint yet if he had not sat, down to rest on
one of the great fly-wheels. Thc wliccl
started without warning. and l’ctcr was
caught in the iiiacliiiici'y. ()nc of his
wings was broken. and he died a fcw days
later. The supcrintcndeiit had his body
beautifully mounted. with the wings spread
to their fullest extent: and to this day
Peter stands in a glass case in the mint's
cabinet. where you may see him wliencver
you go there. An exact portrait of him
as he stands in the case was put upon the
coins iiaiiied.---//«//-/»«fix liwuy /'m/:/,».

>()

“I don‘t want to go to the picnic. Aunt
Marv."

“\\'h_v not. Susie?"

“Because I ncvcr liavca good time at
any such place. You know liin not lll\'I'
the other girls."

Susie was vcry shv and sclf-conscious.
but she wasnit a bit. scllish. Slic lacked
“clieck." of which so many girls have an
abundant supply.

“if you'll go with inc,".-"aid .-\unt .\lar_v.
"i promise you shall enjoy it."

So Susie put on hcr simple white dress
with a blue sash. and hcr sh.-idc hat. and
went with .\unt .\l:ir\_'. It was very warm
on the cars. and a lady ncar thcm seemed
sufl'erin_g from the hcat. .\unt .\lary took
her drinking cup from hcr basket. and
giving it to Siisie said. “(lo and fill that
at the ice cooler and oll'cr it to the lady.
and thcn bring me sonic. and have some
_\'UllI‘.\Ulf.“

A grateful "thank you" from the lady
made Susie very happy.

\\'hcn tlic_v reached the grove the other
girls grouped themselves variousl_v, but
Susie stayed by Aunt .\lar_v. The latter
spied a little girl by her self. and said to
Susie: “(fro and ask that little girl if she
wouldn't like to swing, and give her a
chance to enjoy liei-self.“

Susie went obcdicntly and was soon
talking with the strange girl, who tiii'ned
out to be the daughter of the owner of the
grove in which the picnic was held. This
little girl, grateful for Susie's attention,
offered to take her to some pretty nooks
near by, notaecessibleto tlieotherchildren,
and the two girls had a fine time ranibling
together till lunch was ready, and then
everybody was called by a bell to the
tables.

After lunch Aunt Mary said: “One of
the little girls was made sick by riding in
the cars and she lies yonder under that
maple tree. Take your friend and go and
see if you can’t do something for her; she’s
too sick to play.”

So the two went and cheered the patient,
carrying lemonade and talking pleasantly
to her, till she really began to forget her
sickness and take an interest in things
about her.

VVhen Susie got home from the picnic
she told her mother she never enjoyed her-
self so much in her life. Aunt Mary,
hearing this, said as they were talking
over confidentially: “Now, Susie, when-
ever you feel shy and begin to think about
yourself and how awkward and solitary
you feel, go right about making somebody
else happy, and you‘ll forget allabout your
bashfulness, and be surprised to find how
soon you’ll begin to really enjoy yourself

and be genuinely happy— Um'versal2'st.

Ripans Tabules cure constipation.
Ripans Ta-bules cure headache.
Ripans Tabules cure bad breath.


4

THE GRANGEVVISITOB.

AUGUST 20, 1896.

THE. dfifilllfiifi VISITOR.

CHARLOTTE, MIGH.

The tlllicial Organ of the Michigan State Grange.

Published on the First and Third Thursdays of Each Month

_ EDITOR :

Keuvou L. BUTTERFIELD. l.AIvsIIva, MIOH.
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Should be sent.
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3’To insure insertion all notices should be mailed no
later than the Saturday preceding issue.

Entered at the Postothce at Charlotte. Mich. as Second
5 matter.

E" Ni-zxr lssci-2. SEPT. 23

OUR WORK.

The following has bi-en approved by the State Grange as
a fair statement of the objects the Grange of Michigan
has in view, and the spociallines along which it proposes to
work. We iope every Grange in the state will work
earnestly in all these rlepartmciits, so that by a more
united ctfort we shall rapidly increase our numbers.
extend our influence, and attain more and more complete-
ly those cuds which we seek.

OUR OBJECT

is the Organization of the Farmt-rs for thcir own Improve-
merit, Financially, Socially, Mentally. Morally.
We believe that this improvement can in large nir-asiirn

be brought about:
1. (a.) By widcr individual study and general «lis-

cussion oi the business side of furininiiv and homo keeping.
( v

.(b.) By co-operation for financial a antagc.

Z. (a.) By frequent social gatlicriiigs, and thc mingling
together of farmers with farmers. and of farm:-rs with
people of other occupations.

(b.) By striving for a purer manliooil. a noblcr woin:in-
hood, and a universal brotherhood.

3. a.) By studying and promoting the improvement of
our istrict Schools.

(b.) By patronizing and aiding the Atzricultural (‘ol-
lcges and Experiment Stations in their lcizitiiiiato work of
scientific investigation, practical cxpcriinont, and educa-
tion for rural pursuits.

(c.) By maintaining and attending farmers’ institiitos;
reading in the Reading ('irclr-: establishing and using
circulating libraries; buying more and better niagazines
and apcrs for the home.

4. a.) By diffusing a kiiowlcdgc of our civil institiitions,
and teaching the hiizh duties of citizensliip.

(b.) By |l(3lllall(llY]L2 the cnforccincnt of existing statutes,
and by discussiiig, advocatiniz. and trying to secure such
other state and national laws as shall tend to the general

his two, progress and moralitv.

The Grange has for :1 number of years
advocated tnc form:ition of :1 course for
girls at the Agriciiltiiral College. In re-
ports of oflicers and committees and in res-
olutions the State Grange has, numerous
times, placed itself on record as favoring
such it course. There in no question but
the attitude of the Gmiige has ni:itcri:illy
aided in bringing about the :ictu:il estab-
lishmcnt of a ltiilics” course :it the Agri-
cultur:1lCollege, for as is probably well
known to our rezidcrs. such :1 course has
been cstublislicil, and when the new college
year opens beptember 14.. it is expcctcil
that quite :1 number of ladies will bc in at-
tendance expecting to l‘ll{0 this new coiirsc.
A competent m:1tron and instructor has
been provided: thc newest h:1ll on the
grounds is being refitted for thc use of the
ladies, :1nd cvcry provision is being made
for their comfort. The coiirsc as :irr:ingcd
is a pr:ictic:il one. ,<_-iving :1 thorough train-
ing in .-‘civing, cooking. and othcr lines of
domestic economy. us well as :1 gooil train-
ing in the brzini-lics of general education.
(,ill'l.$ can study butte1'—in:iking, poiilt1'_v—
inising, and tioriculturc us wcll as the
household duties. :1nd music and painting
are optional. The (ii':uigc, by its iiiitii'7ii_;‘
zeal in ziskiiig for tliis coiirsc, has in :1 cer-
l‘llll scnsc become responsible for its suc-
cess. If the course is to bc justified, it
will have to be b_y a good :1ttciid:ini-c,-—-
that is the mc:1surc of succcss to :1 large
extent. We believe that if parciiis every-
where will make. an effort in their families
and cominunities. the dormitory can be
filled with girls at the beginning of the
next college ’ ye:1r. Bring this mat-
ter up in the Grange, talk it over there
and talk it over in your homes, and see if
it is not possible for the young lady to
start here with her brother this next fall
term. \\'e have asked for this course; we
must help to mtiinttiin it.

The more it is tested and tried the more
evident does it become that the Grange is
the strong farmers’ organization. The
more itzis studied and the stronger the
light that is thrown upon its methods and
purposes, the more evident does it become
that the Gr:in_<_re is the ideal f:ii'nie1's’ or-
ganization. The more it is comp:ired with
other organizations of all sorts, the more
ei ident does it become that few, if any,
can excel it in breadth of view, in nobility
of purpose, and in efficiency of machinery.
In these days farmers are talking organi-
zation; they are crying out against evils
felt but not always seen; they are anxious-
ly expecting relief from one source or an-
other, and yet they fail to grasp the very
"means that lie Within their power to bring
about many of the things which they seek.
A brief study of Grange work ought to
convince every farmer that it is the very
best thing he can do to join a Grange and
to take the time and little money necessary
to help maintain it. Farmers complain
about the stringency of the times as an ex-
cuse for not joining. There is hardly a
farmer in Michigan who does not waste
enough time to pay his Grange dues over
and over again. This latter item is so in-
significant that the poorest man can join if
hehwants to. These times of stress are the

very times when the Grange becomes the
most useful. \Vhen everybody is prosper-
ous each man can get along fairly well on
his own book. \\'hen times begin to
pinch, when doubts arise about this policy
or that policy, when work of reform needs
to be done, then is the time for people to
organize themselves. Do not wait fo1' the
good time coming to join the Grange, but
do it at once.

If the average man exhibited as much
enthusiasm in religion as he does in poli-
tics, he would be c:illed a fanatic. If he
discussed schools with the same eagerness
that he does finance, he would be called a
fool. Perhaps it is quite true in all de-
partments of life. but it certainly is true in
the domain of politics, that feeling rather
than reason wins the day, at least tempo-
riirily. The man who c:1i1 stir enthusiasm
is the great political orator, for the time
being. One could almost write a political
speech which, by leaving about every oth-
er line to be filled in by the orator, would
be adapted for every political speaker of
nearly every shade of political belief. This
campaign, however, is going to be run less
on this line than former ones. There are
real vital questions at stake, and the cani-
paign is going to be one of education rath-
cr than of eiitliiisiasm. If this should
prove to be an incorrect prophecy, it
would be a misfortune. If the financial
question is settled by enthiisizism, we shall
be worse oil’ than we are now. It must be
settled b_v thc rczisoning power of the coun-
try. and not by the swinging of arms and
thc ycllingof tlioiisands of throats. Doubt-
less with the :1vcr:igc makeup of human
nature this clement of cnthiisiasm that we
have been talking about is ncccssary to
silcccssful politics; but if :1 man, figurative-
ly speaking, climbs :1 tree and looks down
upon the multitude as they pass by in their
ciitliiisiusiii, he cannot help feeling that it
would be much better if the sonic i1ii1lti—
tudc were reading, studying, and thinking.
The worst phase of (.‘IlllIlllSlilSlll in politics
is that it enables political dcmagogues the
opportunity of their lives. Not to say the
true thing, but to say the thing that pleas-
cs is thcirpart, and they know how to play
it. They know just when to bring in the
llillllt.‘ of thc great party leader so that ev-
erybody gocs wild, tlioiigh for wh:1t rea-
son they cannot tell. They know how to
set a convention yclliiig. 1’crh:1ps thc
name of dcmagoguc is too h:11'sh :1 one to
apply to pcrsons who are performers in
these iiizittcrs, but thc ctlcct is essentially
the effect of <lci1iz1_gogiic1'_v. Pcoplc decide
sometiines because of the lack of sense
r:1thcr than bccuiisc of thc posscssioii of it.

It has been stated in several of the daily
pzipcrs that Mr. l‘i1i_;‘i'cc would ilictnte the
makcup of thc nc.\t lcgisl:itiirc of .\lichi—
gain. From thc VI.'s‘l’l'()l’. standpoint we
have nothing to say about Mr. Pingrcc or
his methods iinlcss hc bccomcs governor‘ of
i\Iichi_;:u1. It docs not in:il~;c any iliii'crcnce
to the (irangc whcthcr hc bci-omcs gover-
nor of .\Iicliig:iii or not, but it does make a
great deal of ditl'crcncc to thc Grzingc :md
to thc f:1riiici's and to all other good citi-
zciis whether or not he dict:1te.s the legisla-
turc. The legislziturc of .\lichig:1n belongs
cssciitizilly to thc pcoplc of Micliigan.
Thcorctic:1lly thc prcsidcnt and congress
and goveriiors and all other 0ill(,‘€l‘S are
clioscn by thc people. but pr:ictic:illy the
lcgi.s:I:itiii'c is thcmosi power-fiil body which
comes close to the people. They are better
able to numc its iiiciiibers than they are in
oliiiost any other case. The legislature of
the state has trcinciidous powers. It stzinils
ill('. people in hand to guzird tlicinselves
ycry carefully zigaiiist thc lcgis-l:itui'e being
lllhltle up of men who do not rcprcsciit the
people's interest. It has often been :i'ssei't—
ed that lcgisliitors have bccn chosen to
elect senato1's. lVe had hope that this
year‘, it not being :1 sciizitorial year, the
legislatiirc might be elected to enact laws
for the good of the people. If this rumor
about Mr. Pingrcc is true. it should be re-
sented by every loyal citizcn. I)ic".:=.tion

by a governor is just as bad as dictation by '

:1 senator. The people to dictate to the
legislators, are the people tlicmselves. the
voters, and we appeal to our readers who
are voters to assert themselves at once in
favor of men who will promise to go to
the legislature to enact laws that the peo-
ple want enacted. Vl'e do not appeal to
our readers as members of the Grange, but
as citizens. The‘ Grange as an organiza-
tion has nothing to do with this business,
but the members of the Grange and loyal
citizens have everything to do with it, and
it is their duty to lose no time to see that
in each representa‘iive district proper men
are selected. There may be a better cri-
tarion for a legislator‘ this year than the
one we name, and if so let it be substituted;
but we want here to reprint for the bene-
tit of readers who are going to be interest-
ed in this matter, the little declaration or
phitform which we printed 21 month ago,
siiggesting that it would be proper to have
it HAIOPICLI by the st“"‘ "!lllV6ll'l,i0nS. Noth-
ing in this platfoz in was adopted by the
icpublican stritc r-onven’-.ion except by
putting in one measly little sentence down
near the end which fifl'll‘l1l€-’.l that the party

would be saving in state expenditures. But
we believe that legislators, at least those
coming from farming districts, ought to
be willing to subscribe to platforms as de-
finite and clear as the one we propose, and
we hope our friends may find it useful in
getting the right kind of men to represent
them at Lansing this winter:

‘V6 believe that the public servants of :1
great state should stand upon a pl:itform
pledged to specific lincs of zidministration.
We therefore cnunciate the following
declarations of our beliefs on this subject:

1. “'6 promise to practice thcmost rigid
economy in the :idministr:1tion of :ill':1i1's in
every state dcp:irtiiiei1t:iiid state institution.
and to i1pp1'opi‘i:itc no money that is not
deiiiandcd by the greatest good of the peo-
ple who, at the present time, fccl ziciitcly
the bu1'dcn.s' of evcn ii modcriitc taxutioii.

L’. \\'c believe in such revision of our
tax laws: as shall more jiistly distribiitc thc
burden of our taxes, upon the basis of
abilit ' to pay.

3. Ve believe tlizitcvcry citizcu should
be giiariiiitccil pure food, and wc promise
to enact and enforce laws that will insurc
to every con.~,~iin1ci' the goods hc calls for,
:11id to cvcry produccr frcciloiii from the
competion of frziiidulcnt productions.

4. \\'c bclicvc in good ro:1ds and in thc
cnactineiit of l:-i\\'.<. dcsigncd to secure thc
coiitiniioiis and intelligent iiuprovcmcut of
our liighw:iys, hilt without iuiposiiig flir-
thcr burdens upon thc tax p:i_vcr.

5. ‘Yo believe that thc :1ti'airs of thc
state should be coiiiliii-tcil.z1s nczirly as pos-
sible, upon the smile principles as :1 [)l'l\‘:'ilil
business; wc tlicrcforc :iilvoi_-;itc l:l\\'> de-
signed to reinovc,so far as pos-:iblc,:ill public
servtints from tho control of p:irt_v patron-
age, having them chosen for iitncss solcly.

ii. We believe in true tciupcmiicc and
regret the evils of thc saloon. \\'c favor
:1 thorough invc.stig:ition of thc liquor
tratiic and its effect on thc pii1'.s'cs. hculth
and mor:1lity of the pcoplc of our state.
Above all we favor tho rigid cnforcciiient
of every existing law concerning the liquor
business.

7. VVe believe that every child in our
state should be cdiiczitcd to :1 fair prep:1r:i-
tion for citizenship: and we believe further-
more that every child slroiilil be given :in
opportunity. by the state if necessary, to
secure the very highest and bcst cduczition.
But we believe that cdiication should in
every grailc from the lowest to the highest
be made :1spr:1ctic:1l and useful as possible,
fitting the student for the. best work in the
ordinary vocations of life.

S. Uorparations should bo imdcr such
state control that they i-:mcx:1ct iiotliiiig
from the people that is not pcrfcctl_v just
and fair, and espcci:1lly that thcy sh:1lldc:il
fairly with those in thcir cmploy.

For Discussion.

The following arc qui-stions siiggestcil
for ilisciissioii in ‘:a'iiboi'<liii:1te (}i':1iigcs :1iid
in thc Vis1Toi: bclwecii now and Shite
Grziiigc session. \Vc hope that Lcctiircrs
will have (’tlt‘ll ouc thoroughly ilisciisseil in
the Grange, and bricf rcports of rcsulls of
such ilisciission Sclll. to us for news itcms.
\\'c also invite short. pithy Mticlcs from
our rcadcrs bcziring on tlicse siibjects.
\Ve have dividcd some of the topics so
that wc could :irrivc :it dct:iil.s. “Come,
let us reason togctlicr" and thcn we sh:i.ll
be :1blc to know what is best for our inter-
ests and for the gciic1':il ivclf:1rc.

1. Are the present tax laws of Michigan just:
and fair to all classes? if not. why not?
2. Are the tax laws complied with in making
assessments? If not, where is the blame?
3. What specific changes in our tax laws
would be advantageous?
(a) Specific taxes.
(b) Inheritance tax.
(c) Mandatory assessment under oath.
(d‘; Countv boards of auditors.
(e) Personal property.
4. How can expenses in our state govern-
ment be reduced?
(a) The departments at the capitol.
(b) The legislature.
(c) Miscellaneous.
5. [low can expenses in our state institutions
be reduced, without injuring their eiliciency?
(3) Educational institutions.
1. University.
2. Agricultural College.
3. Normal School.
4. Mining School.
(b) Prisons.
1. At Jackson.
2. At Ionia.
3. At Marquette.
(c) Asylums.
1. At Kalamazoo.
2. At Pontiac.
3. Al: Traverse City.
4. At N ewberry.
5. At ionia.
(d) Other institutions.
1. Industrial school for boys.
. ' “ “ “ girls.
. State Public School.
. School for deaf.
. School for blind.
. Home for feeble minded.
. Soldiers’ Home.
6. How can county and township expenses be
reduced ?"
(a) Courts.
(b) Schools.
(c) Jails and poor houses.
(d) Roads and drains.
(e) Salaries.
(f) Miscellaneous.
7. How can our pure food law be strengthened ?
8. What can we do for temperance ?
(a) As to enforcing present laws.
(b) An investigation of the liquor traffic
by a commission, or by the Board of Corrections
and Charities.

(c) The formation of an anti-saloon league.

9. shall free passes for state oiiicers be pro-
hibited ?
1U. Shall we have a uniform text book law?
11. shall we have a free text book law ?
12.vHow can we bring about the election of
the l nited States Senators by the people ?

13. Is free rural mail delivery practicable?
14. A re farm statistics valuable?
15. Can gambling in grain be prevented?
16. Shall we have state inspection of grain?
ii‘. How improve district schools?
18. shall women vote in Michigan?

The Township Unit Plan.
(‘oiitinui-rl from page 1.

torncy in all u1:1.ticr.s pcrt:iining to the
scliools of his township. llc hires teachers,
fixes thc wages, dctcrmiiics the length of
school to bc t:1ught. builds or lcts coiitr:1cts
for building school houscs, determines how
much money .sh:ill be raised and paid for
in:1int:1i_ning st-hool, for biiilding, appziratiis,
etc. l\o imittcr how good an otliccr he
makes he is not eligiblc to rc-election. As
one of thc triistccs aptly put it, “that pro-
vision is iiiiiici-cs.s:1i'_v for fcw, if :1ny,
would be re-clci-ted.“

It is vcry doul»tt'ul in my mind whcther
thc frcc Aiiici'ii-mi citizen of i\Iichig:1n
could cvcr bc mudc Lo bi-lii-vc that thc wel-
furc of tliciri-iiildri-ii dcuizinds that they give
over tho cducrition of th:-ir children to onc
liiaii in :1 towiisliip, with no po.ssiblc:ippcz1l
from his dccisioii for four long yc:irs.
Again it is h:irdly pi'ob:iblc that thc tax-
p:1_\'i~i's of I\licl1ig:1ii would i-zirc to give up
all yoicc in dcti-rmining thc :1mount of
taxcs to bc r:ii.scd for si-liool piirposcs and
thc disti'ibiitioii of thc s:iiuc to :i mun wliosc
only pi.-rson:il iiiti.-i'csL in it uiiglit. bc thc
 pcr dicm l't‘(‘L‘i\'(l|l for doing thc business.
Thc conditions ;ll'L‘ m:-.dc still worsc by the
f:1ctt.h:1t thc townsliip trustcc is liigliiviiy
coiiiiiiissioiu-.1‘, dr:1in coiumissioncr, and
ovcrsccr of thc poor, as wcll as trustcc of
thc sifliiiiils.

This is what is called closc siipciyision.
lt. r=.:inovc.~ thc icspoiisibility from the
pcoplc who are directly intcrcstcd. Tlicse
ti'i1stci-s m:iy be and prob:ibly :ll'(,‘ good
biisiiicss mcn. And yet but one of all I
met wzis :1 school man. Fcw had visited
thc schools during the yczir and but onc
thought that ho could sp:u'c thc time to
visit the scllools with mc. Sonic of them
had not visited :1 school for yczirs. Ouc
county siipcriiitciidciit informcd mc that
in thc six ycurs that he h:id bccn :11 thc
head of the schools in :1 county of sixtccii
townships, he had ncvcr rcccivcd :1 report
from 21 trustcc which \\':1.s corrcct. ll hilt-
I think this siipcrintciidcnt was very par-
ticiilar. thc rcports that he showcd mc con-
lirmcd what hc sziid.

Thc grout question is not so much
whcthi-r thcir systciu set-iii'cs iuorc capziblc
otiiccrs, but does the rcmoving of the re-
sponsibility froui thc pcoplc to onc m:in
givc bcttc1' rcsiiltsf .\llow mc to quotc
from tho triistco to whom rcfcrcncc has
l)(:L‘Il m:1dc its thc only school m:ui mot
zimong the trustcc fi':1tci'iiit.y. I c.-illcil up-
on this gciitlciiuin at his homc nftcr h:ii'ing
visitcd scvcr:il scliools in his toivuship dur-
ing thc ihiy. llc rczid my lctti;-1's of intro-
diu-tion. which c.\'pl:iiiicd my iiiissioii, :uid
h:1iidi.=.d thcui buck to mc with thc obsci'v:1-
tion, "I sh:ill be grclitly .siii'pi'isi-rl if you
find thc liirli:1ii:1.systcin :lll_\' improvcmciit
over thc Micliigziii sysicin." As hc pro-
cccdcd to answer iuy qiicstioiis :1nd c.\'—
pluin his opinions I took down the following
statcuicnts as hc mudc thcm: “I think thc
tcndc1ic_\' has boom in lndi:ui:i for over tif-
tccn yours to tukc :1uthority :iw:1y from thc
people and cciitr.-zlizc it, and I :iiu sorry to
see it. One of the chief objections to our
system is that it puts the iiimnigciiiciit into
politics. There is too much rcd tupc con-
nccted with the Indiana systciii, and red
tape :ilw:i__vs costs. The icloscr you can
bring thc l'(-.sp0nsibility to the pcoplc in
thc district the bcttcr it isforallconccrncd.
\\'hcn you remove this responsibility you
will iind that the pcoplc lose interest in
matters pertaining to scliool." I rcinarkcd,
“You appear to lmve given the matter
some thought, i\'li‘.———————--." His answer
was, “I have observed and have seen it.
I have seen it, therefore I know it." This
gentleman was recommended to me by the
county superintendent as being the best
trustee in the county. llc is :1 teacher of
many years of successful experience, has a
son in business in Michigan, and under-
stands the school spirit in both states.

If the people have no voice ‘in school
matters they naturally will lose interest
in the schools. I have trrivelcd all day in
a township and not found :1 patron of the
schools who could tell me how much the
teacher in his school was receiving for his
services. Below I give part of a conver-
sation held with a teacher:

Q. \Vh:1t wages do you get?

A. Forty-five dollars per month.

Q. Are the wages uniform in the town-
ship?

A. No, the other teachers get 

Q. Is this the trustee’s home school?

A. Yes.

Q. Do not the patrons of the other
schools find fault if the trustee pays more
in one school than in the rest?

A. The people do not know it.

Many other things might be mentioned
to show that the school spirit is not strong
among the people in Indiana. The people


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run G-RANGE VISITOR.

are content with an average of six and one-
half months of school in the rural districts
and less than seven for the whole state.
The average school closes for the year by
the first of April and there are those clos-
insr in February.

The work in the school-room isin keeping
with the spirit of the patrons. There are
many good and experienced teachers and
many bright children, but the s )ll'lt seems
to have left them. Let a teacher under-
stand that no matter how hard he may
work or how much he may make his ser-
vices worth, he will receive no more than
the poor or worthless teacher: and that to
stand in with the trustee counts for more
than good work, and you have removed a
great motive to good, energetic, and en-
thusiastic work. The routine work of the
school-room is done with a considerable
degree of faithfulness, but there seems to
be little effort to bring new ideas and new
lines of work into the school-room. Civil
government was taught in four of the
schools visited. Current events were not
thought of, and oral and general work
found little place. In nearly half the
schools reading was taught by the old
A ll C method and the pupils stood in a
row and spelled in turn. In most of the
schools visited I was permitted to occup_v

a few moments: in questioning the pupils.
The questions asked were questions con-
cerning the township. county. state and
nation. ipiestions which every child who
has reached the fourth or fifth grade should
be able to answer, I failed to find a pupil
who could name the two United States
senators from Indiana, and onl_\' two who
could name the congressnian from their
district. In one other school a ninth grade
pupil named for their representative in
congress a man who had i‘epi'e.-.‘ente<l them
two _vea rs pi'eviousl_v. The teacher thought
the pupil was right. lfound whole schools
that could not name the governor of the
state. The Stars and Stripes floatedabove
just two out of the thirty schools. Out of
some ten schools visited just previous to
\\'asliington‘s lllI'lll(l2l_\' one was planning
or preparing to obs(.-i'vc the day with ap-
propriate (5.‘\'(‘l't'l.\‘(_'.>~'. Iiniglit go on and
give iiioi'c data from my record book but
it would but prolongan alreavly longletter.

From what I have seen. I fcel sure that
a man who is acipi:-.inted with the Mich-
igan schools cotllil not visit thirty schools
in Indiana and not be coiivinced that
Micliigaii is better off under the dis-
trict systciii. If tlicre is still any doubt
in the minds of :in_\'. I would respcctfull)’
refer them to the lllil census of the Ifnitcd

I States where they will find that after about

thirty years of the township unit school
system, 6.8 percent. of the native white
inhabitants of Indiana are classed as illiter-
ate. while iii Michigan under the dis-
trict systein of schools but 2.3 per cent.
are illiterate. If it is the object of the
schools to make intelligent American citi-

zens. which it is. do not adopt the town— '

ship systeni.
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MATRIMONY IN EGYPT.’

The Curious Wedding Processlons That
Are to Be Seen In Cairo.

As you look out of your hotel window
in Cairo, you will see a native musician
sauntering by, twanging the lute of the
country; then a sound like the tinkling
of baby cymbals informs you that the
aherbetly is going his round, with his
huge glass jar slung at his side, from
which he dispenses (to the unwary)
sweet, sticky drinks of licorice juice or
orange sirup in the brass saucers which
he perpetually clinks in his hand. Late
at night the sounds of eastern life in-
vade your pillow. The distant throbbing
of the naggrarah tells you that a Wedding
procession is making its tour, and if you
have the curiosity to get up and sally
out you will be rewarded by one of the
characteristic sights of Cairo, in which
old and new are oddly blended. Prob-
ably a circumcision is combined with
the wedding to save expense, and the
procession will be headed by the bar-
ber’s sign, it wooden frame raised aloft,
followed by two or three gorgeously ca-
parisoned camels—regu1ar stage proper-
ties hired out for such occasions—carry—
ing drummers, and leading the way for
aseries of carriages crammed with little
boys, each holding a neat White hand-
kerchief to his mouth to keep out the
devil and the evil eye. Then comes a
closed carriage covered all over with a
big cashmere shawl, held down firmly
at the sides by brothers and other rela-
tions of the imprisoned bride; then more
carriages and a general crowd of sym-
pathizers. More rarely the bride is home
in a cashmere covered litter swung be-
tween two camels, fore and aft; the
hind camel must tuck his head under
the litter, and is probably quite as un-
comfortable as the bride, who runs a
fair chance of seasickness in her rolling
palanquin.

In the old days the bride walked
through the streets under a canopy car-
ried by her friends, but: this is now
quite out of fashion, and European car-
riages are rapidly ousting even the
camel litters. But the cashmere shawl
and the veil will not soon be abandoned.
The Egyptian woman is, at least in
public, -generally modest. She detects a
stranger’s glance with magical rapidity,
even when to all appearance looking the
other way, and forthwith the veil is
pulled closer over her mouth and nose.
When she meets you face to face, she
does not drop her big eyes in the absurd
fashion of western modesty. _ She calmly
turns them away from you. It is much

Willi

more cutting—really. ——Saturday Re-

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Smaller lots, per pound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 CENTS

ROASTED SANTOS

In 100 pound bags, per 
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Smaller lots, per 

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 13 CENTS
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And we still have AFTER DINNER JAVA COFFEE at 250 per lb.

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Every one of them made of XXX Tin, best of workmanship guaranteed. They are the very same other
houses are asking 35 and ()5 cents for.
them now and save the difference.

and CREAM SEHERS, with Guage,

38 CENTS EACH.

Should you need any in the near future it will pay you to buy

We also carry afull line of DAIRY SUPPLIES.

Write us for prices.

WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY.

 -m- DO YOU WEAR UNDERWEAR?

GOVERNOR TOM JOHNSON.

A Stubborn Patriot to Whom This Coun-
try Owes 3 Great Debt.

In a storied burial ground in Fred-
derick, “in his narrow bed,” sleeps one
whose name never fails to stir the heart
of the old Marylander with lively emo-

shoulders

taped, with crochet finish

tions of admiration and affection—Gov-
ernor Tom Johnson, that audacious and
stubborn patriot of whom John Adams
said that he wasone of four citizens of
Maryland and Virginia “without whom
there would have been no Revolution,"
although, in afifected scorn of him, a
British offlcer, writing to his people at
home, had assured them, "There is no
need to be alarmed by all this noise in
the oolonies, which is mainly made by
a boy named Tom Johnson.”

“That pestilent rebel” of the British
war ofiice was the trusty, loving friend
of Washington, whom he nominated to
be commander in chief of all the armies
of the United colonies; member of the
first congress and of the convention
which adopted the constitution of the
United States; flrst governor of Mary-
land, and an associate justice of the
supreme court, and he was twice urged
to accept the portfolio of secretary of
state. He was in his day the first citi-
zen of Maryland. and in all the colonies
the Revolution disclosed no wiser,
stronger, sweeter character than his
who joined the fortitude of the warrior
with the foresight of the statesman in
the temperament of an eager. dauntless
boy.—John Williamson Palmer in Cen-
tnry.

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No. A. — Made of Peeler cotton, is
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square neck. Sizes 3, -land 5. Will fit
ladies from 30 to 35 in. bust measure. L's-
ually sold at S cts. Our price . . . . . .4 cents

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ton, square neck, shell finish, and the best
l5—cent garment ever made. Sale price 7 cts.

No. C.—Form-fitting, perfectly shaped,
and made of Maco Egyptian cotton, horse-

shoe neck, neck and shoulders cord finished.
Sizes 3, -I and 5. Price. . . . . . . . . .8 cents.

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shaped front and horse-shoe back, fancy
crochet pattern, inserted bosom, neck and

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throughout. 0111' price. . . . . . . . . 11 cents.

N0. E.-—Richelieu rib. made of Maco
Egyptian cotton, square neck, white satin
taped neck and arms, with lace finish.
Sizes 3 to 5. A 35—c.ent garment for l7cts.

No. F.—Richelieu rib, lace-finished neck
and sleeves, made of Mace Egyptian cot-
ton. Sizes 3 to  Price. . . . . . 12% cents.

Extra Sizes.

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Peeler cotton, square neck, neck and
sleeves crochet triniined and taped. Sizes
7 and 8. VVill fit ladies from 38 to 4-1 in.
bust measure. Price. . . . .. . . . . . .14 cents

N 0. H.—Made of Maco Egyptian cot-
ton, Iace—trimmed neck and sleeves and
cord finish. Sizes 7 and S. This is a per-

lzbizes 11 to ‘:33.

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fectly-made garment, and fills a long-felt
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Ladies’ J ersey-Ribbed Vests.
with Sleeves.

No. I.—-Richelieu rib, quarter sleeves,
crochet finish, neck taped and cord finish.
Sizes 3 to  Price.. . . . . .. .. .. ..l2 cents

Children’s Jersey Vests.

No. J.-Low square neck, sleeveless,
2x2 fancy rib, shell stitched neck and arms,
made of a fine grade of combed yarn.
\’\'ill fit children from 03
'7‘months to ts‘ years. This garment is gen-
erally sold at from 7 to 15 cents, according
to sizes, but we make the unheard of price
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CHICAGO, ILL.

 


6

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

Sslleae and Station

The Good of the Order.
Report at Last State Grange.

The report of the Committee on
Good of the Order was read and
acted upon in sections:
ll;//‘//Ay idfll-Vic/‘, /,/fll7"I,'r'/‘gr!/ii] Ilf/m-

7/cm /gfillrfc/u'_r/rrn .5’/rm; /2’/-r/7»;/«:.'

Yoiii' Committee on Good of the
Order would respectfully submit
to you its report on subjects as-
signed for consideration.

RESOLUTIONS REFERRED.

Resolved, bv Hillsdale County Pomo-
na Grange, that the by-laws of the
State Grange should be so changed
that all counties having less than three
Subordinate Granges may be attached
or districted with adjoining counties
for representation in the state Grange.

Your committee is of the opinion
that it would not be for the best
interest of the Grange to thus:
change the l3y—laws, therefore rec-
ommends that the resolution be
not adopted.

Rccoinmeudation was concurred
in.

Resolved, by li. C. Norris, W. L. Hall
and Mrs. .3‘. A. Norris, committee, and
Pleasant Lake Grange, No. 690, con-
curring. for the better observance of
Arbor day, by requiring the secre-
taries of Subordinate Granges to keep
a record of all work done in this line
the second and fourth quarter of each
year, for three successive years: care-
fully noting conditions, per cent or
living trees, plants, etc., for the pur-
pose of stimulatinga healthy rivalry
in the interest of planting trees and
shruhhery.

Your cominittee is in synipathy
with the sentiment oftliercsolution
and recomniend that the plan be
adopted wherever it can he made
practical.

Rec-oniniendation concurred in.

15)‘ 0.1). Beecher of Flushing Grange,
Genesee county: Resolved, That it
would be for the interest of the Pa-
trons of Michigan to organize them-
selves into a Patrons’ Mutual Fire In-
surance Company.

Your coimiiittee would respect-
fully refer this resolution back to
the State Grange without recom-
mendation.

l{c.fei'i'ed to Executive Coinmittee
with instructioiis to formulate a
plan for tire iiisui'ancc within the
Grange.

By Mary A. Mayo: Resolved, That
every delegate present he requested to
impress upon the Masters for 1896 the
necessity of appointing a Woman’s
Work Committee, in both Pomona and

lHow many copies of the GRANGE
} VISITOR, are taken in your Grange!
?Whei-eby, if any Grange is found
lto be neglected and below par in
i this matter then the Pomona Grange
lmay take steps to hriiig such
:Grange up to the standard; adopt-
fing such plan as shall appear prac-
ltical and prove successful.
,« rid. I34/.sr;/a-«-I/. That those in
lcliarge of the V'isi'roi< be invited to
lsccure the publication of the tind-
gings and L‘0llL'lllSl()llS of the Tax
lSt:itistici:in and whatever else of
information to the farmers, e1iiaiiat-
ing from that otlice, through the
iciiliiiiiiis of the YI.\.‘l'l‘()l{. Yes.

TA X .\"l'A'l‘l.\"I'l( ‘IAN.

The law creating the olticc of
'l‘a.\' Statisticiiiii is a child of the
Graiigc and as such we should givc
;it all the paternal carc llL'(‘('~.~':lI'_\' to
:.\(’(‘lll'(‘ an abiding coiilidencc in the
"utility of piirposcs. Let us accept

with care and due coiisidcintioii the
ltiiidings and colic-lusions of the of-
lticcr in cliargc and hold ourselves
lin i'cadiiics's to promote such chan-
lgcs as lll.‘l_\’ scciii iicccssai'_\' to sc-
lcurc cipiity and justice to all in-
§tci'csts in llio distribution of the
V burdens of govcriimciit ziscxccutcd
I through thc laws of ta.\'atioii. For
fthc purpose of more fully prepar-

ling lcgislalion on the subject of
jtiixiitioii, we would rccoiiiinciid
lappoiiitmcnt of a spccial committee
to have the siibjcct undcr coiis'idci'—

,:ition duriiig thc coniing _vc:ir.

FA It \l Ii RS‘ l.\' >«"l"l'l‘ if 'l‘l-‘.5’.

\\'c view with pridc the pi'ogi'c,-‘s
[made by those cliaI'gcd with the
managcmciit of farmcrs‘ institut.cs:.
and would most empliatically im-
press upon the minds of all l’atrons
the necessity of sustainiiig every
ellort made to advance the interests
of the fariners, tiiiancially, intellec-
tually and fratcrnally. through a
well defined srystein of fariners‘ in-
‘ stitute orgaiii7.ations.

Tl’.Al)F. ('0.\"I‘l’.A("l‘.\'.

“'0 would recommciid that .5ub—
ordiiiate (,il'l1ll$_{‘QS throughout the
State should actively enter into the
spirit and purposes of trade con-
tracts: made by authority of the
State Graiige, and fully cooperate
in this matter as a biisiness factor
in our order. We believe it will
be a grand means of sti'eiigtlieiiing
our order and will prove an citie-
iciit incentive for increasing our

Subordinate Granges, at as early a date mL.m},C1»_,.],j],_
I

as possible.

Your committee recommends its
adoption.

ltccinniiieiidation concurred in.

By S. 0. Coon, Sanilac Co.: Believ-
ing that our primary elections are con»
trolled by scheming politicians, and
that the candidates nominated do not.
have the interest of the people at heart, 1
Therefore be it Resolved, That the
State Grange instruct the subordinate
Granges to use all proper means to se-
cure the nomination of men who will
work in the interest of the greatest
good to the greatest number.

Your committee, while in syin-
pathy with the sentiment expressed ,
in g(,-iieral by the resolution, cannotf
forget that this has been the es-
tablished sentiment of the Grange?
during its entire existence. and itl
does not seem necessary for this '
State Grange to reassunie the pro-
mulgation of a lifelong principle
of the Order; therefore refers the]
resolution back without recoin—
mendation.

Motion prevailed to lay on table.

TIIE GRANGE VISITOR. I’

\\'e are led by general informa-l
tion to view with deep concern the
future prospects of ‘the GRANGE,
VISITOR, and with dire forehodings
We look beyond a possibility to the
condition of the Grange in Mich-
igan without the VISITOR. \\'e
Would, were it in our power erase
the shadow and remove the con-
templated possibility far from us.
VVe are taught to persevere; then
let this be our watchword. Your
committee would recommend that
the delegates present at this meet-
ing, upon returnincr to their re-
spective Granoes, st-hall press the
claims of the ISITOR, to the end
that at least one copy thereof shall
be taken by each family represented
in our Order. It is needless to
suggest schemes for raising funds

l{El'Ol{T OI” \\‘())l.\.\".\‘ \\'()lil(
)IlT'l‘l£E.

('().\l‘

llaviiig hastily perused said re-
port we cheerfully coincide with
the work of that committee as out-
lined in said report, and rccoiii-
mend the continuance of the said
work, believing that it is clearly
for the welfare of mankind and the
special good of this Order.

Al‘(§[,'.\"l‘ l’l(‘.\'I('.\‘.

\Vc che.crfull_v concur in all thatl
the Worthy .\laster advocated ill’

the,

,1 Agriculture in Common Schools. 5

The culture of the soil is so iiia—
,terially connected with the main-
ftenance of human life that it seems
lmost natural that the facts and ~
{principles of agriculture should be
ithe very basis of early education.
lYct but few ‘attempts have been
‘made to introduce any systeiiiat,ic
teaching in this direction. liven
tliosc few have been most striking
for their lack of success in arous- ,
Iing or inaiutaining the iiitcrcst and '
'ingc-nuity i‘ieccssai'y to develop
* mind in children and youth. livery»
?tc.\'t—book ollcred so far assuiiics

A-the ii<-ce.-sity of furiiishing a cer-
ltain fund of iiiforination as to the

-nature of soils.the nature of plaiilsw
.and a body of rules for llilil-lllll}_T'

‘all three. phrascd in such gciicral

ilcriiis as to tit all sorts of pcoplc in .
gall sorts of circiiiiistaiices. '.l‘lic,‘
l,‘cll'i.-i't is to make a sort of lradci

llllllllllzll. useful to the e.\'pci'icnccd;'
;f:1l'lll(.‘l‘ in cxplaining his c.\*pcri—l
"cm-c and correcting his l)l‘:t(‘tl('(‘.l
,but at thc same time ciiiluoilyiiigj
jf|lll<llllll(.‘lll:ll sciciitilic h'l:ll.L‘lll('lll.~l
_ifl'()lll the braiiclics of l-iiiowlcdgc,‘
ldircctly be.-i.i'iiig upon the h.-iiidliiigl
of soils and crops. The most clc- l
giiiciitary work which has conic uii-l
ldcr my notice has the form and l
liiictliod of a litllc cyclopcdia of iii—l

lfoi'ni.-ilion about f.-ii‘iiiiiig.

l
I .\lany of these books are l'Czi(l-ll
lablc. and as suiniiiarics o‘i’c.\'cellciit 5
lpracticc arc good for one who al-
jl'C«‘,l4l_§' knows by cxpcriciicc the iiis,‘
{and outs of such work: but _L‘L‘llL‘l'—j
tally the mere sinattcring of scicii—
lilic terms and statcnients: niightl
ibettcr be omitted for any light
they throw upon the subject. I
Science cannot be asisiiiiilated from 3
words‘: it must be lollclicil by llic;
seliscs, and absorbed in its clc-I
ments. Pliospliatcs and nitrates l
cai'bohyrlratcs and protein soundj
learncd, but mean no more to one;
who borrows them from a book
than to the book itself. unless an
intimate acquaiiitaiice has been
formed with nature as she is work-
ing out these compounds. The
name and the fact must both be in
the mind to give the name a lllczlll-l
ing and a use. 3
Now no such a manual can. in ‘
the nature of the case, give the in- ‘
tiinate obsjervalion needed. It can-
lnot teach the botany with which it,
assumes familiai'ity. It cannot c.\;— ‘
plain the laws of physics and ph_vs- ~
iiology which it parades as part of
agriculture. lt cannot even make
evident those principles of chemi-5
cal alliiiity which give iiieaniiig to
the names of soils and foods andf
processes. Of all l)lll'(lL'lls'()lllCl
science, the epitome of several 1
sciences is worse because it lacks5
the very tirst essential of science—i
the seeing into things themselvc
l But such eitorts are also iiiis:atis—,'
lfactory as a means of education be— i
cause they call for no ingenuity oml
the part of the learner. To learn 5
and recite what costs nothing butl
memorizing gives no stimulant tol
thinking. If language and mathe-l

a

 

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behalf of the so called August pic—   :6 t):_l1ltg:(],t (?l1_1n,1))l1_(3n0S_li-l 
nics’ and urge the further Ulflilnii tion; to be conliniitted little wiouldl
zation of district associatioiis for ‘ V . . " V I

. _ _ _ be accomplised in the years spent I
this puipose. . _ - - I
in school. \\ hen geography be-‘,1

i.i:oIsi..iTIox, ,comes simply pages of words, it;

ltrains iiiemroy in tricks and (.‘0D‘l

\\'e congratulate the Grange ofgn.

Michigan on its success in securiiig!
legislation advocated by it, in thei
interest of the agricultural classul

Vc are led to admire the sagacityj
of the Grange in the selection ofl
subjects for legislation and thel
tenacity with which those charged
with the management of the same
carried the work to a successful
conclusion. We would most re-l
spectfully point to the past asa
guide to the future in the plans
adopted for securing legislation
and recommend the continuance of
the same.

GENERAL CONCLUSION.

In all things let our work go
out to the world bearing evidence
of well considered plans and pur-
poses for promoting the welfare of
mankind, building up the waste
places in awell defined system of
American agriculture, and securing
an abiding confidence that the
thoughtful, rogressive farmer is
the stander type of American

to pay for the same. Many plans
are well known to all Granges.
Adopt that which is locally prac-
tical and most surely successful.
2d. Your committee would re-
commend that the following ques-
tion shall be included in the list of
uestions sent to the secretaries of
gubordinate Granges, by the Sec-

citizenship.
Respectfully submitted

R. V. CLARK, Mas. DITHA SIMONS,
Mas. DELLA WILLIAMS, E. B.
RANSFORD, E. E. GIDDINGS, CAL-
VIN HOWARD.

 

Ripans Tabules cure dyspepsia.
Ripans Tabules: for sour stomach.

retary of Pomona Granges, viz:

ivances, but gives no growth. j
Just so anybody of information not 1‘
directly attached to the activity of;
a thinking mind gives no result; itl
is learned to be forgotten,or simp-
ly to be paraded as learning.

For many years, it has seeniedl
des;irahle that some plan be devised
for extending to the children on
the farms and in the rural villages
the advantages of such familiarity
with underlying truths within the
reach of their senses as might give
them the advantage of real knowl-
edge and true ingenuity in using
the forces of nature. A child learns
easily to watch the processes of
nature with a quickening wonder,
if led by simple steps into her lab-
oratory. Lea_.ves, flowers, seeds,
sprouting, growing, fruiting,———all
entice him into testing and ques-
tioning nature’s action. A study
of the elements of soil is natural
as to play in dirt, if the true sug-
gestive Way is taken. Physiologi-
cal processes and chemical action
follow along in turn as underlying
familiar facts, if the child can
have his eyes and fingers kept at
work. Books become his friends
in helping to solve problems, not
in setting him tasks by the page.

It is said, the teacher must have
his ideals changed! Yes; and so
must the parent. So also must the

Ripans Tabules cure flatulence.

maker of text-books set himself to

' to solve.

give problems for child and youth
One question to be an-
swered only by searching the pota-
to field will teach iiiore.truth than
ten aiiswers ready made and clear-
ly printed. The
tatoes: are cnlargeinents upon un-

dcrgroiiiid steiiis has little meaning

till those stcms are seen and coiii—
parcd with the enlarged roots of
sweet potatoes. The facts brought
out by siiggcstioiis and
with problciiis‘ to be solved by ex-
ertion of the native ingenuity of
cliildrciidcaclics the sclf—hclp which
makes growth. iuakcs knowledge,

, makes a bi lit v.

.~\gricultui'e will never take the
place it dcsci'vcs in the schools till
it fHl'l1l>‘ such a basis of dail_v

‘thought in school life as to qllickcll

in<piir_v and siinuilatc interest in
its wonderful ticld of infoi'iii:itioii.
l.ct the facts touch thc cliildren.
and thc :ipplication.s will come to
youth and inanliood. ()lll(‘l'\\'l.s'(‘.
we must wait for thenccd of appli-
cation to awzikcn iiitcresl iii facts.

and so bc too latc to take time to
find lliclii.
\\'liat lc.-iclici's will bcgiii thi-

task arightf Wli,-it autliors
put thcir bcst
.‘~shCll(‘l.'ll.ll()li  l’I'I~\'/'//V 11/ I‘://i/"Z/I/-///.
1-// /\'////.\'l/.\‘ /////I/.\"i['/‘I///‘N/’,

____________._
Ripuns T;il)i1lc;sciii‘c llvcr trouble s.
Ripziiis Tabulcs: at (ll’llf.(‘ s.
Ripiiiis_Tabules assist dig ion.
Ripiins Tabules cure iiitligcsiioii.
liipans Tahules Clll‘£'llZll1S€£l.
Ripaiis Tabules: plciisaiii l1lX£lll\’E'.

will

  

uuroiu iiiiééif”

RHEUMATISM

C. H. King, Water Valley, Miss, cured by

Ayer’s Sarsaparilla

“For five years". I suilercd untold niiscry
from iiiuscul:ii' i‘hciini:iiis'In. I tried i-vi-ry
liIlI\\\'ll rcincd_v. coiisnlicd tlic b+-st physi-
cirius. vlsitcd lloi .'\'pri‘ii~_'s'. .\i'l;..tlir»~«- lllll~‘s'_
spciidiii: Slooo tlicrc. llL'\'l1l('.\'llH('Iur-1' bills;
‘but could obtain only tcinpoiary rclicl.
llcsli was \\:is'tcd away so that l wci;;licd
mil.‘ lH'l1"I)*llircc poiinilsz nrvln-fl arm and
lug: were (ll'tl\\'ll out of sliapc. the muscles

being tw ted up in knots. I was nnnbln to
(lrcss mysclf, except with iissistziiic-c. and
could only hobble about by using :1 cane. I
had no appetite, and was assured. by the
doctors, that I could not live. Tlic pains, at
times, were so awful. that I could procure
relief only by means of liypodcriiiic injec-
tions of morphine. I had my limbs bandaged
in clay, in sulphur, in poulliccs; but tlicse
gave only temporary relief. After trying
cvcrytliing, and sulfcriiig the niost awful
tortures, I began to take Ayer‘s Sarsapai‘ill-n..
Inside of two mo-ntlis, I was able to walk
without a cane. In three moiiths, my limbs
began to strengthen, and in the course of a
year. I was cured. My weight has iiicreascd
to 165 pounds, and I am Iiow able to do my
full day’s work as a railroad blacksiiiitli.”

AYER’S

The Only World's Fair Sarsaparllla.
AI'1:'1."S PILLS cure Ileadache.

The COAST LIME to MACKINAC
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Toledo, Detroit.¢Mackinac

PETOSKEY, “TH: soo," MARQUETTE,
AND DULUTH.
LOW RATES to Picturesque Mackinac and
Return, including Heals and Berthl. From
Cleveland, 318; Iron Toledo. $I5; tron: Detroit,

$13.50.
EVERY EVENING

Between Detroit and Cleveland

Connecting at Cleveland with Earliest Train:
for all points East, South and Southwest and at
Detroit for all points North and Northwest.

Sunday Trip: luno. July, August and September Only.
EVERY DAY BETWEEN

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send for Illustrated Pamphlet. Addren
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stateinent that po-

«piestions. I

bcforc tlic coiiiiiig"

AUGUST 20, 1896.

lOFFICIAL DIRECTORY

‘ Otiicers Natioiial Grange.
,5 .\Ia5ter—J. H. Brigham . . . _ . . . . . . . . ..Di-lta. Ohio

 
    

l ()\'(‘X':t‘Pl‘—:\8l‘()Ii Jones. ...South Bend. Indiana
l Lecturcr—.-llpha M - or . . . . . . , . ..I\’oclie-st:-r. \t
-’Sto\vard— . . . . . . . . .. ..Jnlin T. (‘ox. New Jersey
l . t Steward»-J. A. .\'ewcoIiih . . . . . . . ..('ol(-rado
l plniu—O. H. HJlll'. .. .. N'i'w' York

 

I Trc:isiircr~)Irs'. Eva .\I-cilitovvicil-ll  ..\mv York
E L“t‘('l"i‘Ié«ll'_\"—-J'l‘lll!] Triuible... . . \\ asliingioii. D. l‘.

 

l Gate Kccper—W. E. Harbauuli . . . . . . ...\lis1s‘oiiri
ll‘:-r.-s —)lrs. Lucy (P. Siniilr. .. . .... ...Ohio
l PoiIioiizi>—.\lrs Sarah G. liaird..... .. .\Iiiinc-sota
§ II:lo:'ii—~.\lr -. .1 .-\‘.u\\'ii:i:iii  . . . . . . . . . . . %‘l‘ai\I‘ie
l a- _v .\ss't Stcwl —. rs.5. (i. "non.  . a
l

, l£.\'e(-iitive (‘omuiittet-.

l Li-onarrl Rhone . . , . ..(‘cnii-r Hall. Pciiii-'_vlvania
'.\'. J. liuclicldcr .   .. ..\'c\v llaiupsliire
’ Wiimliiiiiii . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Paw Paw. Micliigiin

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_.\l;isicr—(z'. B. Horton  . Fruit Ridge
()vs-rsccr~ M. T. (‘ole . . . . . . .. .. .... .. Pllllllyrfl

f Lcctliri-r—-~ is:-n Woodriiiiii ... Ifaw Paw

,Sro\varil -(n-ori:o- L. ('arlislo. . ._ .. ....l\alkaska

‘Ass taiit{.\'ti-xvard «J. H. .\Iartiii. Box H‘_’.Grand

zipii .-.

‘Vliziplaiii '.\l.'li‘,\' A. )Ia_vo.. . . .. ....Batrlc (‘rock
Tr.-asuri-r— E. A. Striuiim.  ..\'icksh\irg
Si-rri-i ll\ Jciinic lbicll . . .. .. .. . ..\nn Arbor

‘Haw K--cpcr Williaiii liobcrisoii . . . _ ..l{cs'poria

l ‘ -s —. rs air) RUl71‘i‘l,~‘l)[l....  .. ,lli-spcria

.\lrs. li-ti-lla liucll . .. ..l'iiioii (‘ity

 

Pmiionzi Mrs. Julia .\lc('!uIi- . . . . . . . . . . ..\lii-lby
, L. A. >':i-ward .\lrs..\.M:iriiii,.. .(i'r:iinl ltapids
l

v-ri
I Flora

Lxccul in- ('ouiniill‘cc.

  

Hon. l’o-rr_v .‘li'l_\'1-I“ . L-iiilc (‘rock
lloii. Tlmin;i.- .\l:ii- .. .l.'i-rrii-ii (‘i-iitcr

Jzi.-'4-ii \‘.'oiuliii:iii. .  .....l‘:i\v Paw

l
l W. E. Wriizlii . . ...('ol«l\vater
; . . .
H. l). Plait .. . .\psil:inti
ll‘. (6, l4lll‘l‘ ._ .('olil\\'nti‘r
l I‘: rr_v .\l:i;i'-v .  .. linitlc Frock
‘F. \\'. Kw-rlf'-rii ...3l.iplc Rapids
lli. K. l)i\'iiii- . . . . . .. .HIIll)'.
'l£. .‘.. llolil--n    . . . . _ ..l.ansiiiu
Vtlji. l§._ illllflullll '_._, Umvi“ y  .. l“r\uit l\ii¢llL,'I‘
1 clinic liiwl \ "‘ I  iiii. rior
llfoiiiiiiiltn-c on \\'oni:iii'.-a \\'ork in the
‘ _ (ir:nii_::i-.
lhlrs. .\l:ir_\'.\. f‘vl:l_\‘i» ,.  .. . ...i’-.'itlli-('rn*i‘k
j.‘lr-. .\l:irj.' .\‘lio~r~.\->-ul lliiuls . ..  ..St:iiitoii
lhlrs. lli-llc iiU)(‘(‘....  ..   .. ....llaroda
‘ 'i1'Ii(‘l':Il Di-piily l.i-cluri-rs.
lM;ir_\‘.\.i\I.'i_vo .. .. .......ll.'ittlc('rcl-k
llon. .l. .l. \\‘.-mliniiii .. .... . l’.'i\v l’a\v
llon.('. (9. l.iic:- . _ ,...(‘«-l-lxvaii-r

A. l‘..i)£lll!il'l'  .  .,.ii:i.....l\fill'\'ti>'l'(Ei
Jiillgc .l. I}. liain.-nlcll  . .. ..Ti':i\'cI'sc l'it_v
l). l). Bil:-ll............. ._....l'iiioiit'ity

(‘oiinly lM‘[|llIil‘. .

  

       

  
  

l U. H. .\‘ti-bbin.-‘ .  _,.At\\‘ooil. Aiiiriiii ('0.
L. l‘. mt . . . . . .. ;\llI‘L’J|ll. .\llv‘L:(lll “
R. B. -yiiolil-.... ..lnl:iiid. liI'll7.ll‘
(ii-orgc Bows: r .l)n\vliiii:. lilIi'l'_\’

A. I... Siiiirh .. rd l’. 0. l‘li‘illl(‘ll
R.&. (‘lark ... ....l£ucli:iiiaii. liI'I‘i‘lt‘ll
J. . l<'nnist.... . .. .Ht..lolins.("linton
Mary A. Mayo .  .. . liaitlc t ‘rock. (':illioun
E. B. Ward. . . .('li.'irli-ioix. (‘liarlcvoix
Jaiin-s H. .'\l;iiiii . ..l 'or~-y l’. U (' iss
F. ll. (ls'mr'i l ilnii ltapiil on
W. H. -vi-i .'ortli.\'lnr. . int
B. Turner . . . . .. .  .Flii.-'liin;;. (ll-in-soc “
E. O. Liiil-l. .. (iruiid 'l'r:i\'cI'.sc lit)’
5. ti. lla1i;:li»y ...\‘oiiili1'aiiixli-ii. llillsdalc “
linrl ltrcsso-r. ... . . ..  -iii-svilli-. " “
R. A. lirown . . . . . . . . .. Saint Ii:-acli. Huron “
l).1{.Eiii..'lisli . . .. ..('banill:-r. lonla "
F. W. llavciis . . . . , . . . . ..Fitcliliur;:. liiizliani
J. \Vc.s'toii Hutcliiiis .“llll(>\'t‘l‘. Jarksoii
(loo. F. Hall . l'lll‘l:lL‘i‘, liiilaiiizizoo

Robert Dockc ' ltockfnril. lr\'v~Iit "
Gco. L. 1':irlisli-... ':ilk;isk:i. ltiilkaskzi “

iram lirail.-li:i\\ .....\orili lil‘llll('ll. l.:ipw-r “
Fred l)--aii,. ..  ..lBriL:liii-ii. Liviiiizsroii “
E. “V. Allis ..  ...:\4lll1lll, L»-ii.'i\\'cc “
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l\lunro«-. and Li-ii:i\\'u-c
. -tal. .\lo:itcnlni
;..... Hoar link:-. .\l:iiii-In-i
...llii: biipiils. .
.. .  llisci~..\l;icn-iiib "
. .. Flat Rock. .\lUlll'lN‘ "
. .\loni'cl:iii:l. .\ill~l\'l'L.'Ull
.  ...\~lil;iml. .\'r-\\':i,vgo
. ...Ypsil:iiili. Oaklaiiil
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...(‘ciilci'\'illi'. . “
* ,. ...l§ircli llliii. “
 . . East l“rciiioIil.. . iiilzic “
llclcii .\. l“is’kc . . . , . ..L:i\\'I'»-ii(‘c. Vail l‘llll‘l'Il “
ll:-iii'_v lllli'll............l'l)lilUllYll. \\'a_viii- "
Jnlizi \. Mclloiiuiil Ypsilaiiti. \Y2l>'llll'llil\\' "
R. l’. 'orris' . ('.'iilill:i(‘.\\'i-xford “

V. . . lil'>[H‘T‘lil. .\’c\va_vi:U

l Revised List of Grange Supplies
' Kept in the ollicc of Si>c'3' of thi-

Michigan State Grange

And .s'(‘Ill out post-pairl on rec:-ipt of ca.-li order,
over tlic Hcal of ii Siiliniwliiiatc tiruiiizc. and
thc siL:iiatIii'c of its .\l:i.-ti-r or in‘:-crct2ir_\'.

Porcclziiii ballot illéll"l)l1'~.]I<'i'llllllll!'l'll

Sccro-tary's l\‘lll.’l‘l'.   ..   

 
   

   
 
     

 

he-crt-tax’, s r<-cord. . .. ., ...... .. .... ..
Trcasnri ml:-rs, hound. [i(‘l' liunrlro: 3'7
, -r4-cl-ipls for iliics. pii liliiiilr . 5
'l re sli r s re-cu-ipts for di pt I‘ llllll(lII'Il.. 55
.- pplicatioiis for nii-mln-r.- p. pcr liundrcd 5|)
Witlidrawiil cards. pi-r ilozi»n,,., ..  ._ ._ , 25
l}i"l1lll>‘,lll ciivclopc-s. pcr (l(IZ(‘It. ..... .. ... 25
By-laiv.-' of the State lirziiiizc. siiiulc copies,
l(lc:pi-rdoz l. . . . . . . . . . . . , .. 75
“(llad Ecliocs. ‘ with music sinqlc copies‘.
25c : per t|(IZ¢‘l 3 00

  

Graiiize Molodi  U0
Opcnimz Song dill. '_’_c i-ach : inc pcr nu: ill!) I 35
Ritiials. Ttli edition (with combined dclzrci-s.)

 

 
  

   

25c each: per ilozi-ii.. .. .. . .3 75
Ritiia ll(’L"I'l‘t‘. -i-t of niiic . . . . . . . . . . .. 1 S0
Ritua .. uvr-iiilc. sinizlc copy.  .. .. ..  15
Notice in (li-linqliciit iiiviiili:-rs‘, pi-I ltlll . . . . . . 40
American Manual of l’arlianicntary Law.. 50
l)ii:est of Laws and Ruliiiizs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 25
Roll books.  .. . 15
Sample pac ige co-operative litc aturc. 18

Kellcy’s History of the Grange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

“trite for prices on mild pins. hzid£:é‘>‘. W0rk-
ing tools, staff niountings. seals, ballot boxes
and any other Grange supplies. .\(l(lrI}.~‘s‘

Miss JENNIE HUELL.
Ann Arbor. Mich.

I-‘REE! I 64 page Medical Refereiicc Book
giving valuable
information to
any man or wo-
man afliicted with
any form of pri-
vate or special dis-
ease. Address
the leading Physi-
cians and Special-
- » ists of this coun-
/ - t1'Y- (lure guaranteed

DR. HAT]-IAVVAY 8; CO.
70 Dearbouru St. Chicago.

  
 
 
 
  
  
  
   
  

The Ten Year Test

This is attracting considerable attention among
fence buyers. They realize that all wire fences are
nice when firs! put up. but that very few are presenta-
ble after two or three years. After ten years service
there Is but one able to answer roll call-

Tho Page Woven Wire Fence. made at Adrian. Mich.

$100 Worth for 10c.

Bond 10 «mo for illustrated book telling how

to start I Fllll LIBRARY in our locality

without cost on the members. Gyet it quick it
ITIZENS’ LIBRARY A88'N,

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OOPVIIGMY. IIIO, IV OIAI1 II.

Kathleen Ilesslegrave. a pretty young ling-
llsh artist, and Arnold Willouuti y. it lloh«--
inian ainateur, meet casually :-it lhv Royal
academy gallery in London. Th : nolrl mu-
tual views upon art and upon th i: upidity of ,
the jwlge.- who have rejected thei lI|l.'l.lll'l.‘5.
ltufus Mortimer. a rich Ainericii-l ltr, join
thcni. lie is a friend of the Ht-ssl.-, : iavcs and
is surprised to find Kathleen in the t-onipany
of Willoughhy. whom she knows a-: .conunon
sailor dabbling in art. CHAl"l‘Elt l~ Kath-

leen lives with her mother in fashionable lodg- v

ings. The aristocracy visit there, and one day
at a reception the company discuss the rnys-
iery of young Earl Axininster, who has fled
the country disguised a sa sailor. Cation Valen-
tine. the lion of the party, thinks the aristoc-
racy of England is well rid of him. His habits
are too good. Ill—\Villougliby is the earl. He
is stranded by the falliireot the picture. rc-
fuses help from Mortimer and goes to 8('il to
earn money to continue the stud_v of art. IV-
Mortimer pursues Kiithleen on lovt-‘s rim.-st.
She likes him and with difficulty holds hm-i otf.
V— Mortimer. \Villoughb_v and the Her-‘sle-
graves meet. in Venice. Mrs. Hcsslt.-grave is
alarmed at Kathleen's enthusiasni over the
sailor painter and his works. Vland VII-
'I‘hc young artists roam through romantic. old
palaces together. W illoughby a guest at
Kathleen's borne. The m’-iiden half reveals
her love for hiui. and both confess to thorn-
selves that they are in love. VIII and IX-

Mortinier proposes and discovers Kathie:-u‘s‘

passion for Willoughby. .\'—Canon Valen-
tine appears in Venice with the news that the
missing earl has been traced and has perished
in the shipwreck. He recognizes \Vl'll0llL’lili\'
on sight, but promptly denies it. Xl—K-.iih-
lecn admits to her mother that she is certain
of the identity of Willoughhv With the missing
earl, but will preserve the secret for her lov-
er's sake. XII-—Mrs. Hessclgrave finds the
secret too good to keep. tells Willoullhhy that
Kathleen knows it, and he leaves her house in
anger. XIIl—\Villoughby abandons Venicc
suddenly without giving Kathleen a chance to
explain. XIV l'arliairient. declares the llllS~'lIlII
earl officially dead and settles the inheriuince
on a distant relative. Willougbv resolves not
to contest it. as he prt-t'(-rs to be taken by the
world at his ‘*l\larket. Value." X\'—--Lanon
Valentine and Mrs. H€ES8lEI‘tl\'0 div. thus
leaving Willoug'liby's secret. uiiguessctl ex-
cept by Kathleen. The reinainiiig clmpters
shmvhnw Willoughby keeps to his purpose.
He is shipwrecked and [nukes a hit in liter-
ature, through which .\If)I‘IlIIlf’I' traces him.
Mortimer has l)l"0llilS(‘tI to find him for l\'zithd
lecn and prov:-s to hurt that Kathie:-n lu\'(-ii
him before she know his real (,'lliil‘:l(,‘l¢‘r' and
has loved him thmiigli all. He scores a .-t-t-on-
literary siicccss and marries I{tlIlllt.'('Il. but re-
nounces all claims to his earldom.

CHAPTER XXVI.
A QL'ES'l‘l()_\' or‘ Al."I‘IICIlSIIIP.

And now that all was over, and her Ar-
nold had come home to her, Kathleen IIes-
slegrnve felt as if the rest mattered little.
He was back; he knew all; he saw all; he
understood all; he loved her once a;.:aln far
more dearly than ever. \\'onninllkc, she
was more than satisfied to have her love!‘
by her sidc—-all else was to her a mere ques-
tion of detail.

And yet the problem for Arnold was by
no means solved. He had no way  yet. of
earning his own living; still less had he
any way of earning a living for Kathleen.
Kathleen herself indeed, happy enough to
have found her sailor again, would have
been glad to marry him as he stood, maimed
hand and all, and to have worked at her
art for him, as she had long worked for
Reggie, but that of course Arnold could
never have dreamed of. It would have been
grotesque to give up the Axminster rer-
enues on conscientious grounds and then
allow himself to be supported by a woman's

labor.

Rufus Mortimer, too, ever generous and
ever chivalrous, would willingly have done
anything in his power to help them, but
such help as that also Arnold felt to helm-
possible. He must fight. out the battle of
life on his own account to the bitter end,
and though this last misfortune of his
crushed hand was an accident that might

have happened to any sailor any day it
made liitn feel none the less that painful
20IlSClO‘13lJ€SS he had often felt before of
his own inferiority and comparative inabil-
ity to do for himself what he saw so many
at his kind doing round him on every side
without apparent effort. He did not care
to acknowledge himself a human failure.

Of course he had the £50 he had received
for his translation of the Italian manu-
script, but even Arnold \Villoughby
i:ouldn’t live on £50 forever, though no
doubt he could make it go at least as far
as any one else of his class could. And it
was only a stray windfall—not a means of
livelihood. W'hat Arnold wanted, now the
sea was shut against him and painting
most difficult, was some alternative way of
earning money for himself and if possible
for Kathleen. As to how he could do that
he had for the moment no idea. He merely
struggled on upon his £50, spreading it out
as thin as £50 can be made to spread nowa-
days in this crowded Britain of ours.

But if this problem caused anxiety to
Arnold VVilloughby it caused at least as
much more to Rufus Mortimer. As a. rule.
people who have never known want them-
selves realize but vaguely the struggles and
hardships of others who stand face to face
with it. They have an easy formula-
“lazy beg2ar”—which covers for __ their
minds all possible grounds of failure or
misfortune in other people, though they
are not themselves always so remarkable
for] their industry. But Rufus Mortimer,
with his delicately sensitive American na-
ture, as sensitive in its way as Arnold’s
own, understood to the full the difliculties
of the case, and having made himself re-
sponsible to some extent for Arnold’s and
Kathleen's happiness, by bringing them to-
gether again, gave himself no little trouble,

 

now that matter was arranged, to seek some

suitable work in life for Arnold. This,
‘however, as it turned out, was no easy
I matter.

' Even backed up by Rufus Mortimefs in— ,
l fluence, Arnold found there were few posts 2

i in life he could now adequately fill, while
the saine moral :-cruples that had niatlehlrn
4 in the first instance renounce altogether the
l AXllllIlh[Cr property continued to prevent
- his accepting any post. that he did not con-
sider an honest and useful one. It oc-
curred to Mortimer, therefore, one day
when he met I{t‘L'l,'lt_‘ on Katlllcr-ii's door-
step, and eiitt-ring found Kathlecii herself
. with every sign of I‘i.‘L:t’lit tears, that one of
the first ways of ll(.‘ll)lIlf_{ the young couple
would be the indirect. one of getting rid of
,Ri.-zgie. Ilc I-ti.~'p»..-cted that young gentle-

So after a little brief telegraphic cominu-
I nication with his firm in America he sent.
lone morning for Ill-ggie him.-'elf“on im-
iportant. biisiiie.-s." and llcggie, delighted

3 man of lit-iiig u pei-pt-tiial drain upon KilIll- 5
It-en's‘ i'esou;‘ces, and he knew lmn to have 
certainly no such coitscie,-iitloti.~' scruplcs. 2

Iby anticipation at the [)liI':tS(‘, put on ills ’
‘ best necktie and his onyx links and drove ‘

1 round in a lninsoin to Mortlmefs house in
 Great Stanhope street.

; Mortimer plunged at once into the midst
‘ of affairs.

“Siippose you were to get apost of 350 8.
iyezir in Ainerica, would you take it?" he
' inquired.

Reggie brightened at the suggestion.
“Pounds, notdollars, of course?" heanswer-
ed, with characteristic caution, for where
,1noncy was concerned Reggie's mind was
‘ pure intellect.

Rufu.-: Mortimer nodded. “Yes, pounds,
not dollars,” he said. “A clerk’.- post in my
place in the Statcs——raiilwa_v eiigiiict-riiig
works, you know. We control the busi-
ness.”

“It might suit me,” Reggie answered,
with great deliberation, impressed with the
undesii-ability of letting himself go "too
cheap. “Three hundred and fifty pounds,
or, say, £4l;0."

“I beg your pardon,” Rufus .\I0rtiniei' in-
terposeil, with bland deci:-ioii. "I said :350.
I did not say 400. And the questions before
the house are simply these two —— first,
whether you care to accept such a post or
not. and, second. wln-ther I Shall find you're
qualified to accept. it.”

“Oh, I see,” Reggie an-‘wered, taken
aback, for he had not yet nit-t. Rufus Morti-
mer in this his ulteriiative character as the
stern (~:ipit:tli.<t. “\\'hereabouts is your
place? So much depends upon the locality.”

“It‘.< in Phil.-idelphia,” .\Iortlnieraiis\ver-
ed, smiling. lie could see at a glance lieg-
gie was llL‘SlI.‘lTlIlf£ as to whether he could
tear hiinsclf nivay from the Gaiety, and the
dear boys, and the gross mud honey of town
in f.."1'lit,‘I"(ll. to ttlllll.-fl’Li.[€ to America.

I{e_w__'ic held his peace fora moment. He
was cnlculatii.-;_v the pros and cons of the
question at issue. It spelled expatriation,
of course. That he 1'€COj_.'lllZ€(.l at once. So
far from the theaters, the race courses, the
park. the dear boysof the Tlvoli, and Char-
lie Owen. But still he was young, and he
would always have Florrie. Perhaps there
might be “life” even in Philadelphia.

“Is it a big town?” he asked dubiously,
for his primeval notions of American geog-
raphy were distinctly hazy.

“The third biggest in the Union,” Mor-
timer answered. cying him hard.

“Tn the what?” Reggie repeated. some
what. staggert-tl at the sound. Visions of
some huge workhousc rose dimly in the air
before his mi.-iital view.

"In the United States,” Mortimer an-
swered, with a com passionate smile. “In
America if it comes to thatv—the third big-
gest in Ainerlca—abont three-quarters the
size of Paris. \Vill a population of a mil-
lion afford scope enough for you?”

"Itsounds well,” Reggieadmitted. “And
I suppose there are amusements there-
somethiug to occupy a fellow’:-i mind in his
spare time, or else I don’t: put much stock
in it.”

“I think the resources of Philadelphia
will be equal to amusing you," Mortimer
answered grimly. “It’s a decent sized vil-
lage.” He didn’t dwell much upon the
converse fact that Reggie would have to
Work for his 350. “My people in America
will show him all that soon enough,” he
thought. “The great. thing just. now is to
get him well out of England, by book or by
crook, and I leave the way clear for that
angel and \Vllloughby.”

For Rufus Mortimer, having once es-
poused Arnold ’»'illoii_<.;lib_v’s- cause, was al-
most as anxious to see him satisfactorily
settled in life as if it had been his own love
affairs he was working for, not his most
dangerous rivals.”

The offer was a tempting one. After a
little humming and hawing and some ex-
planation by Mortimer of the duties of the
situation—the last thing on earth that Reg-
gie himself would ever have troubled his
head about under the circumstances—the
young man about town at last consented to
accept the post. offered to him and to ship
himself forthwith from his native land,
with Florrie in tow, at Rufus Mortimer’s
expense. by an early steamer.

“A town of a million people," he observed
to Florrie, “must have decent amusements,
even in America.”

And now that that prime incnmbrance
was clear out of the way Mortimer’s next
desire was to find something to do for
Arnold, though Arnold was certainly a.
most difficult man to help in the matter of
an appointment. That horrid conscience
of his was always coming in to interfere
with everything. Mortimer and Kathleen
had ventured to suggest, indeed, that under
these altered circumstances, when his hand
made it almost impossible for him to get
work of any sort, he should disclose his
personality to the new Lord Axminster
and accept some small allowance out of the

. I . .. .
Liieinoury en.-tlepi-operty. But tlL£iLlIlSl'. that i It s all so f:ivor.l.»lr. I);d the man expect 

sll‘_'.'.§t::.<IluIl Arnold stood quite llrrn.

“No, no,” he said: "I may live or I may ’

gm;-\v,._ pm 1 won‘: go back upon my whole
life and p-i'limipies'. Igave up my property
in order that I iiiight live by my own exer-
ti<;n.<, and by my own exertions I will live
or go to the wall manfully. I don't demand
now that I -houltl earn my livelihood by
l.lI‘rl!lIl£l.l l.il;-or, (is I UIl(‘t:(l.t:SlI‘€(I to do: under
these i'LlIL‘I't.‘ll conditloii.-3, having lf).‘:[v the use
of my l1.in<l in the pursuit. of an honest
[I‘<’Hl\‘ for the benefit of humanity, l‘ui justi-

fied, I believe, in earning my livelihood in 1

any way that my fellow trrcature.-i are will-

ing to ]).'l_\' for. and I‘ll take in future any ‘

 

dt-ct-nt w .. ~; lliut such a uinimcd being: as
lily.-L-if ls tlttcxl for. But I won't come down

3 upon my cousiii Algy. It wouldn't be fair: ‘

it \=.'ou1dn‘t be ri;_'ht-, it; wouldn’t be con-
.-;i.-teiit; it woultlift be honest.

“I'm tlczul by law, dead by the decision ‘
, of the highest court in the kingdom, and -‘
dead I will remain for all legal purposes. '

Algy lids succeetletl to the title and estates
in that bell.-f, which I have not only pct‘-

niittizd him to bold, but have deliberately §
For ni_v.-elf and all who c-iiiie=
‘ aftertie I liuve definitely got rid of ill)’ po-

ft is't.cl'e(l.

sltion as ii peer and have cliriseii to become
a common sailor. If I were to burst in
upon Algy now, with proof of my prior
claim, I would upset and destroy his peace
of mind, and make him doubt for the posi-
tion nnd prospects of his children, and bur-
den him with a sense of insecurity in his
tenure, which I have no right in the world
to disturb his life with. \Vllell once I did
it, I did it once for all: to go back upon it
now would be both cruel and cowardly.”

“You're ritzht,” Kathlreii cried, holding
his hand in her own. “I see you're right,
my dui'llm_z, and if ever I ni:u'r_v you I will
mart-_v you clearly on that un-lvrst:indiii;,=—
that you are and always will be plain Ar-
nold \Vlllo:i',;hb)'.”

So liufus 2»lortimer could do nothing but
watch and w:iit. Mctuiwhilc Arnold went
round London at the pitiful last»: of an-
swering iltl‘»'t'I"ilst‘Il.l'L‘lil>I for clerks and oth-
er Sill.’-.ll ;>u~‘l.'~: and >'.t-vlgllig in vain forsonie
light eiz1p2oyniri:t.. Wlntt.-r was drawing
on, and it 1; _ clearer‘ and ClL‘(Ll‘L‘I‘L'll(:l1
day to .‘»Iort.. er in;-.t. uiArncld’s present.
state of lit 4.1. h .-..: ought, if posx. ble, to
spend the coltlt-:1 months in the south of
Europe. But how get him to do it? 'l'hu.t
was now the pi;/./.

.\Iortiiner \vzl.~' half afmld he had only
rescued l{al.h1een‘s lover and brought them
together a}_;:iiIi in peace. in order to see liliii
die with his Llrst. winter in I-1ii_«_:laii<l. And
it was no use to urge upon him accc,ptai.ce
of a teniporary luzui or even to ask him to go
abroad on the strength of that {'50, for .-is
matters now stood Arnold was so anxious
to husband his funds to the utniust and to
look out for future work that not.hin;.:

    

  

would induce him to move away from Lon- ,

don.

\Vhilc things were in this condition Illi-
fus was sI;1.l'IlL'kI one day, as he salt. in his
paulded armchair in a wrst end club read-
ing a \V(’t‘l(ly iic\vspapui', to see Arnold \Vil-
loughby’s name staring him full in the face
from every part. of a two column article.
He fixed his eyes on the floating words; that
seemed to dance before his sight. “If this
is a first attempt,” the rcviewer said, “we
must congratulate Mr. \Villoughby upon at
most brilliant debut in the art of fiction.”
And again, “\Ve know not whether the
name of ‘Arnold \Villoughby’ is the writ-
er’s real designation or a mere nom de
guerre, but in any case we can predict for
the entertaining author of ‘An Elisabet-ban
Seadog’ a brilliant career as a writer of the
new romance of history. Mr. VVllloughby’s
style is careful and polished. His knowledge
of the dialect of the sea is ‘peculiar and ex-‘
tensive,’ while his fertility of invention is
really soinetliing stupendous. W'edoubt in-
deed whether any Elizabethan sailor of ac-
tual life could ever have described his Span-
ish adventures in such graphic and admi-
rable language as Mr. Willoughbyputsinto
the mouth of his imaginary hero, but that
is U. trivial blemish. Literature is litera-
ture. As longasthe narrative imposes upon
the reader for the moment, which it un-

doubtedly does, we are ready to overlook ,

the unhistorical character of the thrillim_:
details and the obvious improbability that
such a person as Master John Collingham
of liolt, in Norfolk, would have been to atl-
dress the council of ten with such perfl-ct
fluency in very choice Italian.” , v

Rufus .\I()l‘L~ll1leI' laid down the paper in a
tumult of delight. Here at last he saw a
chance for the solution of the problem of
Arnold's future. Though art. had failed
him, he might live by literature. To be
sure one swallow doesn’t make a summer,
nor one good review (alas!) the fortune of ti
volume. But. Rufus Mortimer didn’t know
that, and he felt sure in his heart that a
man who could write so as to merit such
praise from one of the most notoriously crit-
ical of modern organs must certainly be
able to make a living by his pen, even it
he had only a left hand where“ ith to
wield it. 50 oil‘ he rushed at once in high
glee to Arnold VVilloughby’s, only stop-
ping on the way t.o buy a copy of the re-
view at the railway bookstall in the near-
est. underground station.

When he reached Arnold’s lodgings, now
removed much farther west near Kathleen
Hcsslegrave’.-5 rooms, he hurried up stairs
in a. fervor of good spirits, quite rejoiced to
be the first to bring such happy tidings.
Arnold read the review hastily; then he
looked up at Mortimer, who stood expect.-
ant. by, and his face grew almost comical in
its despair and despondency.

“Oh, this is dreadfull” he exclaimed un-
der his breath. “Dreadful, dreadful, dread-
full”

“Dreadful?” Mortimer interposed, quite
taken aback. “Why, Willoughby, 1 was
delighted to be the first to bring it to you.
Ithought.you’d be so awfully glad to see
it. What on earth do you disapprove of?

 more fulsoiue atliilution?

“Favorable? Uh, ye.-." Arnold all-wen-tl.
“Iris flu UI'illJl‘:‘ t:llt)ll,‘_'ll, for that iiiatu-r, but
just. look how they treat it! In spite of my
repeated and I‘t‘lIt‘I'1lIi‘<l .-tun-iiient that the
i.nanu.-crlpt vvzi.-‘ II. gt-iluiiie I‘lll7..'iiicllieili «loc-
umeut, they insist on speaking of it as an
original roin.-inc-e and attributing the au-
thor.-hip to me, who only trunslutt.-(I it.
They doubt my \vord :ibouL it."

"But that rl-I-.-li’t. lll.’lllt‘l‘ inuch," Morti-
luer cried, .-t-vei't-ly pr.--.ctic:i.l, “us long as
attcntloli is drawn to tlu- work. It'll lllilkt’

the book sell, and it you .-lioultl vvunt luv

\vrlte an_vtliin:.,' else on your own n.(-couiit

it'll gave you is lit.-tn.-i‘ start uiid seciire _\ on '

attention."

I.l:lJ.\'t‘.~',7' Arnold went. on. “I hie doesn't like
3 to be tlulllllutl, and one doesn't want. to get
credit tor work one ii-.i.~n‘t done. I .-houltl
hate to be pl'£ll~'L'(l so. its only the Il‘2lIl.-iliL-
tion that’s mine. I've none of llies
inative gills the critic crt-tilts nie \\ ..ll. Ill-
deed llvc half a mind to sit down this min-
ute to \vl'itve and explzun that I don't (le-
servc either their pr.';l.\e or their censure."

Froni this jutllcioiis (.'<:ui‘.\‘:' .\lortlincrtlld
not seek to dissuade him. for, being an

     

‘ American born, be thoroughly understood
the value of advcrtiscnicnt-, and he knew
itliat ll lively COI'I‘L‘!~'[lOIl(l(‘Il(‘t' on the authen-
.ticlty of the book could not fail to iitlvt.-i'tisc
fit better than 500 rt-vie\v.-', _;;os-cl, lillll or in-
::llllTt‘l't‘IlI-. So he lll'lll his place and lit.
I Arnold do as he would about his reputut ion
3 for veracity.

As they were talking it over, liowt-vi-r,

_.thc door ogicnt-d once more-, and in rushed 3

2K.'ithlecn. britnmiiig over with excitement
‘and eager to show _-\rnold another review
iwhich she had Ill'.]'|[)6‘I!t‘Ll to mine acrns-s in
a daily paper. Arnold took it up and read
lit. Ills f.-itw clllllljgtill as he did so, and
, Mortimer-, who looked over his 2-boulder as
She I‘(‘£lIl, could we that this
ltaiiu-«I preci.-‘ely Llle .-‘:nnt- . or-e of complaint
from Arnold‘.-' point of view as the other
Dlie—it.nlti'ibiite«l the book as an original
1 l'0IE.‘:’iIl(?'.' to the trziiist:i'ibei- and translator
; and ('<)l]_l[)llZll(‘ll[£:ll him on his brilliant and
 creative-. iiiia_::ln:ition.
E Ilcrc w:i.~i ‘.l‘.ll1‘i‘ll zi tlilllculty. Arnold
I could liiirdly shmv liculilt-t-ii the same dis-
tress at the tulle of the notit-e which he

  

 

In ‘T1lo'IlC(I Iirtllilrcri. Irfilllillillfj owr ivifh
t.rr:z't.';inc;it.

had shown liufus Mortimer. She c.-inn-. in
so O\'L‘i'Il0\'»'lll}.£ with wonzunly joy at his
success that he hatlnlt thcliv.-:ii't to damp it,
so he tried his: in-st to look as if he liked it
and said as little about the matter either
way as possible.

l\Iortiiner, however, took a different \'ll}W
of tl-it-. sit nation.

“'l.‘hisisgooll,” hesaid, “v.ery good. These
two £‘.l’Il(.'lt‘S strike the keynot:-. Your book
is cl.-rtainly _-.;oiiig to niake ii success. It
will boom tlirou'gh Eu:.:l:in=.l. I’m sorry
now, VVill0u;;hb_v, you sold the copyright
for all time outright to them.”

\
[TO BE co.\‘Ti.\‘t'i:n.]

We build a I)I‘l(l_L’,F_‘ of trust
From Iii;-ht to inorn,

A niys-tit: arch of dreaiiis
Till day is bzzrri.

We build zi lirltlge of trust
F1-rim fl"lt‘.-nil tn l'i‘i«-ll-'l,
And often brvrik the span

We Cuuliot iii:-ml

Win. build 0. briil;:i- of trust
From i.-liore to .<luir+~,

And sli:*.:':o\v ti-,:v.res steal across
At pt cu t'oruvcrin-)re.

I

 

, Interesting Washing.

An arnusiiig little story is told in con-
nection with a French journalist, who
in his early days as a reporter had a
deeply rooted aver;-zioii to the regulation
notebook of his order, and hit upon a
method of taking iiott,-s whlcli afforded
him great satisfaction.

He wore large white linen cuffs, and
upon them, by the aid of a tiny pencil,
he took down his notes and impressions
in all sorts of places, unobserved by
those around him. 

At first his laundress was greatly puz-
zled by these peculiar ornamentations,
but as time went on she learned to de-
cipher many of them, and gathered the
news of the week from her patron’s
cuffs, much to her delight.

One night, when she took home the
washing, the journalist chanced to be
coming out of his room as she entered.

“Ah, rnonsieur, ” she said, dropping a
courtesy, “your last washing was very
interesting, but we .had less political
news than the week before. Is it not so?”
—Landon Tit-Bits.

“I don't “ant attention under f:tl.-‘e pre -I

  

I-view, too, con— '

 

TAKE CARE OF THE CHEST.

And the Rest of the Body \VlIl Take Care
of Itself.

“Take care of your chest,” says a
physical culture teaclier, “and the rest
of your l’n)(l_\‘ will take care of itself.
The chest is the chief thing to he remem-
bered. Keep it well raised and your head,
, spine and SlIOUl(lf‘l‘:‘ will involuntarily

assume their proper positions without

any effort on your part. The cry from

parents and teacliers used to he, ‘Throw

your l~‘ll(.i1]l(lt"rS back !' But this mistaken

notion is now completely exploded. The
. shoulders have nothing to do with cor-
rect posture. It is all the chest, and its
elevation or depression will regulate the
rest of the body. The cliest is the seat
of all things spiritual, elevated and en-
nobling. Bring it into prominence and
you bring into prominence the best
1 qualities of your nature.

“It has been said that whatever psy-
chological attribnte is most marked in
a human being is correspondingly most
: marked in his physical being. If he’s a
glutton, his stomach is most in evi-
. deuce; if a scholar or brain worker, his
head is sure to be thrust well forward;
but if he preserves a proper intellectual
balance he walks with his chest in ad-
vance of the rest of his body.

“It is curious, too, how one may
really influence his own mental condi-
‘ tion in this way. Just; try and see how

 

‘ impossible it is to say, ‘Oh, how happy
I am i‘ with sunken chest and spent
breath. One involuntarily lifts his chest
1 and takes a good long breath when he
I says anything optimistic and brave, for
i if he doesn’t he might just as well say
‘Have mercy on us miserable sinners.’
The effect is the same. There is no snrer
cure for the ‘blues’ or like maladies
than merely lifting the chest and taking
a good, long breath. It scares away all

the bugaboos of pessimism.—N-‘:4 Your

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rt-.-'pniitlciir'.e solicit:-ii conimnnicalions
promptly iinsvvnretl.

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Hillsdale, Mich.

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

AUGUST 20, 1896.

Notices of meetings.

_The next meeting of the Lowell Dis-
trict Council will be held at South

Boston Grange Hall. on August 27, it ’

having been postponed one week on
acc0unt.of qther meetings.

 

Kent Pomona Grange will hold its
next annual picnic on the Kent county
fair ground, Friday, August 21. All
Subordinate Granges are invited to
take part in the program, and a cordial
invitation is extended to the public.

ADELIA l’ETEi’.s().\', Lecturer.

 

(v'RAZ\'l) RALLY.

A farmers’ picnic under the auspices
of Western Pomona Grange, will be
held at Riverside Park, three miles
south of Coopersville, on Thursday.
August 27. in the afternoon an ad-
dress will be delivered by Mrs. Mary
A. Mayo, of Battle Creek. one of the
foremost lecturers in the state. Good
music will also be in attendance.
Everybody is invited. Take a day of
rest and attend the picnic.

 

Allegan County council will meet in
Adams’ grove, one—half mile east of
Shelbyville, on Tuesday, September 1,
at 10 a. in. The following program will
be rendered: Music, by Bradley
Grange; paper. by H. D. Edgerton,
“How can the boys and girls he kept
on the farm '3” address of welcome, '1‘.
G. Adams; music; response, Constance
Jewett; paper, 1). F. Laraway. “The
care and maintenance of our insane;“
music; paper, Mary L. V:-i'nrie, “Our
new country, its possibilities and prob-
abilities.” Many other important ques-
tions will be discussed it time will per-
mit. Everybody is invited to come
and have a good time.

HENRY STOCKWELL. Lecturer.

dredge liens-

At a regular meeting of Acme
Grange No. 269, the following poem
was read by 5181361‘ Elizabeth Downing
and requested to be published in the
GRANGE VISITOR.

S. E. H.iu(;iii:i', Sec'y Acme Gra1ige,Z3‘.’9.

’Tis cringe and bow to Mr. V,

For he's as rich as he can be;

They; know he has the money alway
So t ey treat him in a proper way.

The lawyer shakes him by the hand

And speaks in words that’re low and bland:
It’s just exactly as it should be,

The laws are made expressly for thee.

‘Tis congress makes the laws for him,

They're made to suit his every whim;

For they know he has the cash and pays,
Though he gets it back double after many days.

The merchant so charges the man that is poor,

That he can carry the goods free to the rich
man’s door;

From the price of the goods he reduces one
quarter,

To the rich inau, his wife, and son and daughter.

The preacher makes him his special prayer

For he knows there is ln()lll‘y there;

So he prays cs recially for that one poor sinner,
For he knows lie can give him a rousing dinner.

The priest can pray him tlii-oug_h purgatory,
If he gives him the money he will .~'(‘ll(.l him to

glory ; _ , _ ,
’Tis thus he obtains his siiis forgiven
And his money lands him safe in Heaven.

The beggar must go without his bread.
For the farmer thinks when he has in-d
His family and the stock lu- owns.

The rest must go to the rich man's hoiiic.

‘Tis sold for a song. so the rich man keeps
His money and what the farmer reaps,
And the ln-ggcr sits by the wziysizle alone‘.
Singing his song in a plaintive tone.

I must }go without my supper and be hui1::I‘3' til‘
ni it 3

Not agperson in this world that will give inc :4

ite.

l havri't a diamond and I havn‘t a pearl,

And the man who has the money is the man that
rules the world.

But those I think are the fiiriiit-r'.s words,

if it be true whatl have heard. _

It is for my country I _would give my life. _ I
But 1 cannot fight 'gainst the rich man s strilo.

But yet 'tis freedom's song he'll sing: '

And liowers to the soldier s grave he 11 bring. _

Hc’ll raise the banner high and the flag he will
unfurl;

But the man who has the money is the man who ~

rules the world.

Wheats.

Press Bulletin No. IU.

M1('BlGAN Exrizninnnr STATl()l\:.l
Agricultural College. Aug. 10, lwo. 3

The wheat yield on the College
farm this year was below the aver-
age, owing" to a severe attack of
the llessian tly. An exaininzition
before harvest showed that over .30
percent of the plants were attacked
by that insect. Owing to favor-
able weather however the straw
stood up Well and promised a good
yield and only at threshing time
did the large percentage of shruiik—
en grain show the extent of injury
done. Below are the yields of six
leading varieties as grown in plots
of one“ acre or more each, side by
side for the past three years upon
the College farm:

 
   
  

Variety ) T394 1895  1396

m_.,,,.. it . __ »~-«—-— 
Wliite ('lawson.............. 31 ll _} 14 _
Red (‘-lawsun . . . . . .. ili 13-WE 14,-I
Rudy . . . . . . . _ . . . .. 36 9 l 1?‘
Poole, . . . . . . . .. 3?.‘ 11 _,l 2;
Eg,vptian.._ . . . . . . .. ... 3:4 _ 9.”, 1. _
,‘Deihl-lllediterraneaii. .. .. 256 l 12 l5.:i
'   6 I is

l

,=,'\irri|l......

Currill, the last variety named,
came highly recommended from
the Kansas Experiment station,
but the results of the two years’
trial here vary so Widely that it

"needs further testing. It is a bald,

/

red Wheat with short straw.
Two varieties from near Grand,

. Rapids have been grown this sea- ,
One of l caution against growing this vari-
ietv at present.

The Station is fortunate in ll2i\'— f

a miller 0fGrand lizipid.-‘. to whom  iu<_r obtained from one of its Slllllll-l . . .
- ; is always one thing that transcends ev- -

gson for the first time.
lthese, called Corinth Cl.-iwson, wa.
=tirst brought to notice last year by .

,a load was bi'oi1j._rlit for sale b_\' :1 3
gfarincr living iie:irtl;.~ -.‘ili:if_"<'”i
;Corinth. ltswci-._rln mi.-=31 pmliwl.~-
‘lpcr bushel and its l'i*1Nll'l(,“l yi:-lvl
,4“ bushels per :l(‘l".‘. Investi-
.}_J[tl.tl()llSllU\\'(_‘fl that thi- ~.':ei'ii-ty wu-
?considcrcd the White T luw.-oii.
lwhich it was said had ho,-cn }_"i'<I‘.\'ll
;in that iiniiicdiatc viciiiitv i-\'cl'
since the iiitroduction of Ihut. v:iri-
cty into cultivatioii about 2.‘. ‘\'('2il'.~
ago. One farm was visitezl upon
which no other viiricty had been
,<_rrown durin_<_r that period. This
old reliable variety has llL‘('(.lllI(‘ so
iiiixed througliout the hlzlltf with

to obtziiii sccd froin sonic .-'llL'll
..-ourcc as the above. lf this is not
the true (‘l:iw-‘on it is ('(Jl‘l:illil\'
sonictliing vcry like ii. The ( ‘ol-

lzist full that thc siinill ltlllillilll it-
was able to obtain was sown too
late to make 21 satisfacl.ui'y crop.

The other variety lroin the smile
source is Budii Pesili. u rod, be:ird-
ed variety inti‘0(lilccd by Mr. (‘.
G. A. Voigt of Grand l.'izl}ll'.l.‘~'. four
years ago from llun;._r:ii'y and now
grown by a niiiiibcr of f.-iriiiers in
Kent county. Mr. Yoigt is in the
milling busiiiess at (lrzmd Rapids
and visited Austria and llllll;_{zll‘_y
for the purpose of dis<-overing why
the iiiillers of Vicnii,-i and Buds
Pesth were able to coinimiud ii
better price for their flour in Eu-
ropean inarkets than could be ob-
tained for Aiiicricain ilour. llc be-
came convinced that the fact was
due, not to any ditlereiicc in the
milling process but to the s:1pcr~
i0i' quality of the wliezit there
grown, and he tliereforc iiitroduccd
to this country what was i-on.-:idcr-
ed the best variety ,1_Tl‘l)\\'il in that
region. Reports from iicar (ji'ziiid
Rapids indiczitc lllttl the \'2ii'ict_v
yields well thcrc and ilmt the berry
inaiiitains its reputation asa su-
perior hard niillin;,: \\'ll(%lil. On
the College f:irin the cropis. not
yet thrcshcd but 1)l‘()l‘.li>'eSt1 fair
yield. The variety docs not zip-
peair to be quitciis liardy:is the
\\'hite Clziwson and wliciits of that
class, but is pi-ohzibly suilii-ieiitly
so for inost parts of the stzitc.

Perhaps the inost pi'oinisiii_«_r of
the varieties of recent ini.rodu<-tion
is Dawsoifs Holden Clizill, oi'igi-
nzitcd by Mr. iobt. l,):lW>'(lll of
l’ziris, ()lll.2ll'l(), about tcii years
ago. This variety lies been carc-
Iully tcsicd i.hi'o1n_rlioiit Ontai'io
for it series of _vcnrs zindei‘ the di-
rection of tho (}ntzii'io A,<_ri'iciilt.iii'-
al Uollc,qc with uni.Foriiily good rc-
sults and it is now more largely
grown in that portion of (fainidzi
than any other \':i.i'icty. The (‘li-
iiiateof ()Dt:tl‘l<: bcin,«_r siiiiilrir to
that of .\lichig_r2in it was believed
that this v;ii'iety would succeed
here. Accoi'<liii_<_rly, iii 1&9}, thc
Sizitioii pui'cli:ised from the origi-
nator ninety busliels of this varie-
ty and distributed the ;[i‘(,ltll(3l' part
of it\to f;ii'iiiei';-: thi'ou,§‘li the state
for trial, sowing eight acres of the
same upon the College fnrin.

The yield at the Collogfe was
very satisfactory (f(7i1Sl(lt¥1‘lllg' the
scasoii, being‘ 1.’; bushels per acre
on 3. very uncvcn piece of ,l_"l'Uull(l.
Reports from parties thr0u,t_rh the
state to whom it was sent indicated
in some cases 30 bushels per acre
and over, and were gfcncrally very
encouraging.

One unfortunate fact connected
with this variety is that it :ippc:irs
to be everywhere more or loss af-
fected with sniut, but so far as ob-
served it is no more liable to
the disease than other varieties
now grown in this state under the
same C0ll(llllUliS of exposure. Thir-
ty acres were sown at the College
last fall, the seed being c:irefully
treated for this disease. “'0 are
sorry to say liowevei"t.h:it absolute
freedoni from smut has not been
secured by the trezitinciits given.
which have iilrcady been reported
to the pnblicfand which were the
best yet devised for the purpose.
The percentage of smut, however,
was reduced so low that only 2].
careful search would reveal its
presence. \Ve consider this ex-
planation duc to those interestedin
the success of this variety, many
of whom have applied for seed.
Those living in parts of the state
Where smut is already present
would doubtless lose no more from

 

.tri.-il.
other sorts that tllo.-c dc.-ii~ui;_r :1 ,
pure stock would doubtless do well;

variety. To farmers located where
none of this fungus exists, however,
we feel like uttering a word of

ci' plots :1 stock of seed of this va-
ric1_\' cntircl,v free from sniut and
in due time will doubtless be able
to supply iipplicants with clean
.-‘owl of this desirzihlc sort.

l-‘I )l{ lilt l N \V ll l'IA'l'.\'.

In.-l ,~’{‘2i.~'(lll froni Geriiiiiiiy onlyonc

pmvcil entirely li:ird_v and tliis;
It}
llltls’ u plump. hard, red bcrr_v, with l
. lw:iidi-<l

conic origirnilly from Riissia.

heads and very sinall.
.-hort sir‘.-iw. It ripcncd much
earlier than any other v:irict_von
Tlic name b_v which it wzis
l'(‘t'(*l\'(3(l was simply “l{iissi2iii.‘
For a locality requirin_c_r an c.\'ti'cinc-

.l_v L-:ii'iy. li:i1'dy‘v2ii'icl_v wc coiisid-

that disease by introducing_ this

&

or it worthy of trial.
A number of other

pcarcd inore orless tender. Sonic
of tliese however will be tested
fnrtlier.

 

WHAT IS MIND?

M. Ribot, who has done so much ex-
cellent work in neurology and psychol-
ogy, has shown recently that the human
mind is capable of greater things than
it has yet accomplislicd. He announces
that the brain does for the mind what
the heart does for the blood. The brain,
in other words, is the mind organ. But
he further claims that the mind is ma-
terial. This is quito a startling state-
ment and will not be believed by iiiaiiy.
His method of reaching these conclu-
sions is. uiiique. One day ii. hospital pa-
tient was relating to one of his iissistaiits
that when in a trance she saw ll. thin
gray mist circulating around the brain.
This hint set the sciontist to work. He
utilized a. large number of subjects, and
all of them gave uniform testimony to
the fact that in seeing the brain in trance
they saw its uiovcnicnts and that those
were surrounded by it gray mist. This
arose and spread over the surface of the
brain and then throughout t.he nervous
systciii. The idea thus cir('.ul.z1tcsor goes
in wave movenient from the originating
ct-iitcr to all parts of tho nervous systcrn
and then returns zigaiii to tho. brain.
The liypiiotio subjects are called "hu-
man microscopes," us it is with their
souls that M. Ribot sees these marvelous
movements. Before rejecting wholly
this liypotliesis we would do well to
weigh the evideiioe and investigate the
subject as far as possible. If tlieso li_vp-
notic people sec coirectly and there is
“ii. thin gray iiiist" nocoiiipaiiyiiig
thought in the brain, it does not neces-
sarily follow that the mist is the mind,
no more than it follows that smoke is
fire just because the one always arises
from the other. We are doubtless verg-
ing close on to some great discoveries
and may be able yet to know mind in
its very last analysis, but until we have
something more definite we should be
slow to ziffirni that mind is mu.terizil.

 

HOW WE ARE REPRESENTED.

The man with calloused hands and
dust begrimed face and the main with
one gallus and a sore heel, though con-
stituting by far the largest portion of
our population, have but very little rec-
ognition in our national legislature.
Here are some statistics which we take
from the plutocratic press and which, of
course, give. the producers as good a
nhowing as possible. crediting several
men to O(‘-’.!Ilp€i.l7l0llS which are theirs by
proxy only, notably the farmers in the
lower house It is as follows:

House of representatives-223 law-
yers (66 per cent), 24 farmers, 18 news-
paper men, 16 merchants, 15 manufac-
turers, 9 physicians, 6 bankers, 5 lum-
TIBTIDGD, 4 railroad men, 3 brokers, 3
college professors, 2 clergymeii, 2 ship-
owners, 1 miner, 2 builders, 1 architect.
1 printer, 1 druggist, 1 theatrical man-
ager. 1 schoolteacher, 1 music teacher,
16 professional politicians Total. 856.

Seiioto (the millionaires’ club)—60
lawyers (68 per cent), 3 farinors, 5
newspaper men, 1 niaufacturer, 6 mer
chants, 1 physician, 1 banker, 3 Tall-
!'0tl(lID€11. 2 clergymen, l shipowncr, 2
miners, 5 professional politicians. T0-
tal, 88.

You will cease to wonder when you
view these figures that the producers’
interests have suffered at the hands of
national legislators while the monopo-
lists’ have been unduly a.ugmented.—
C0-operator.

WHERE TS OUR TROUBLE?

Another great quadrennial political
conflict is upon us and we should cheer-
fully and quietly investigate the claims,
weigh the facts and decide for ourselves
what is right. Narrow and bigoted
men, whose patriotism is measured by
their prospects for political place and
power, may fume and fret and denounce
and misjudge, but the average Ameri-
can, with a level head and warm heart,
will not mistake this for argument. He
will quietly go about his Work and as
quietly and eflectually cast his ballot
for what he believes to he the best in-
terests of the country. ThQ_ school-
teacher has been uh-noaai in the land for

v:1i'icti(-s nfl
, liu.-.xi:iii and Aiistnillzi ori}_rin werc

loge learned of this supply so l:ite§g,.,,,,-,, in ,1 511,311 “-,,_,- put ,,11 ,,I,-

some time and there is yet a great deal of
, the Franklinian salt and sobriety. While
gtbere are partisans, most men realize
;’ that no party contains all the truth and
i that the broadest platforms are narrow

nature and the greatest teachers. There

ery platform and every party, and that
is manhood riglitn:-ss. This is not sav-
ing that plutforiiis have no real TSSITJS,
for they .~'13I'\‘t‘ as educators ll.ll(l popular
protests 21,f.'2‘illiSt wrong. Our greatest

i.iii.s't:ikc is that we are iiiislticatiiig our ,

; trouhlc. We look only to iiizitcriail diffi-

aiid trzinsiciit. The vast uinmiiit of in-
2 justice in TlIlil.ll(’lill :iil".iii's is bad enough

iiijustice. l\.l.L'll are uiijusi ll(‘CllllF(‘ they
arc ignorant, mid the (‘urv for all injus-
,§ ticc is liuiiizinitziriziii ('Ll11'(‘il.flUll. Let us
§cl:im0r less for xncrc dollars and cents
l and make our claim for justice in the
fforni of opportunity for our children,

l for their iiiental and nioml growth. No ,

E man can resist that appeal. Shall we
,l liavr: it new slogan of war and cry out
 for the [C111 emancipation of the soul?

THINKING.

1 H0 is i'espoiisiblo for his acts and can

quietly and persist:-iitly. Most of us fail
by not continuing to pursue a subject
until it is L'lI.':l1' and gives us peace and
power. Too much thought on one sub-
jcct tires, but the versatile thinker will
have in hand a do’/.cn' subjects and go
from one to the other. thus resting the
mind by a pleasant va.'ricty. The normal
state of the mind is change. A healthy
child goes from one subject to another.
By this combination of unity in variety
one can feast intellectually on the splen-
dors of the world of thought.

FARMERS HELPING EACH OTHER.

There could be a more useful co-open
ation bctweeii farmers in the owning
and operation of expensive machinery
and the buying of all kinds of articles
of consumption. The work of the secre-
tary of agriculture could be enlarged
until he could make useful suggestions
to agriculturalist-s nbou the proper
succession of crops and the avoidance of
overcrops. Many useful things remain
to he done to benefit the children of the
soil.

TAMPERING WITH THE DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM.

The fact that some one has tampered
with the Democratic platforiii is a little
distressing to those of us who desire to
see fairness in all party leaders and
wish to see strict integrity in all party
affairs. The matter may have arisen
from a misapprehension, but such a
Back of care and strict attention to mat-
ters is not reassuring.

and every failure well defines the word.

Love can both wait and work.

By using Hallfs Hair Renewi-r, gray.

ural color of youth. and grows luxuriant
and strong, pleasing everybodv.

when compared with the teachings of »

. . . . . lcultics and tlivsr‘ arc ulwaivs su =rfl -‘,1 .
Of the six varieties 1iiti‘oduce<l‘ ‘ P‘ (H ‘

and it is not zi cause but a result of soul .

Thinking is the first duty of man. ‘

only act wisely wlicn he thinks clearly, «

The word failure means to deceive, 

A new argument against college ath-
letics has been invented—the deplorable
effect which they have on "good Eng-
lish" by grafting upon it “the coarse
language of sports. " The plea. says the
New York Times, is truly amusing.
‘ What on earth is “good Eiiglish" any-

how? So far as we know. there is no

English better than Englisli, and no
' writer thereof has ever llt‘SlTilI9d to use
new words from any source, provided
they expressed an idea more clearly, or
evi-u more picturesquely, than did those
which formed the vocabulary of his
grandfather. Slizikespezire is full of the
“laiigu:ign. of sports," ranging from fal-
conry to pugilism, and if he lived today
fit is nbsolutely certain that he would
‘glean \v0rd.~: from the football fields—
. find that college professors would de-
nounce hini for it. Really great uien are
like the common people, in that they
neyer make a fetich of the parts of
spr-ech, never imagine that dictionaries
_ or giumm-.irs settle anything, and never
il make the iiiisnike of confounding a live
‘ tongue with dead ones.

How‘.-A This!

_ We offer One linndred Dollars Reward
{tor any case of (Jatarrh that cannot be.-
,' cured by Hall‘: Catarrli Cure.

F. J. C-ill-I.\'l-I\' it (‘o., l’rops.. Toledo, (1
_ We. the undersiizned. have known F. J
~C_lienei' forthe last 1.’. years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all biisiiiess
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligation made by their firm.
§Yi<:s1‘ iv Tiu'A.\’, Wholesale Drnggists.
loledo, Ulilo. WAi.ii1,\'o, K1.vx.a_,\z & MAR-
vi.\', Wholesale Druzgists, Toledo, Ohio.

liall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
actinlz directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the sysieni. Price Tic. per
bottle. Sold by all Drugizists. Testimoni-
als free.

l

I No English Better Than English.
I

i

1

 

l

B 500,000

FRUIT TREES

must be sold this year
Apple, Pear, Plum, Cherry,
Peach.

MILLIONS OF PLANTS-

Hardy Mirliigaii Vitrietie-s of yearn:
KllltlUl87.l)lI.(i()lll Drop. Lewis. New Prolific.
Fitzgcralil. Sneed. 'l‘riuniph. Etc.

All stock giiaraiite_i-d to he as rcpresentt-ti
Send for our new price list.

Send us your list and lot us llf.'ll!‘L' on it.
TRY ['5 ()i\’CE.

WEST Micmeni Nunsrmss
Benton Harbor, Mich.

, Hand Made Harness 00.. S‘_,",,",.},‘_"’-
.\lanufaciurcrs oi‘ “arse Furnishings.’

uiul Dcalcis in

Fe-u what good p(-Hplc say or our lu.irm-as.
' mm s--ml for catulocuc
3 I\l.-isti-r‘s (Iilice. Michigan State Gi':ing¢-a
, Fruit. Tildfll‘. Juniiztry 11'. lI-!ll:_ , ,’
'l‘lu- llund Made lllll"llt'.>~'F Co.. munion Mich.
l l)t»lii'>,'ii‘s: "l‘he ti\'¢~,~i-is oi‘ harms-ss lunr,-iii
iolyuu by niciribr-is of our local grunge an

fadpd‘ or di,.c,,l0n,d ha-H. assumes Hm nap eiiiii-My s:ttasi‘2ictm~_v and I can safely l‘t‘(‘i)in

iiiend your hurrn-s.-= as in-inir first-class in quail
ity oi ls.-ail.--r and \\'nrl<.lllilll£~‘l|lfJ
Geo. li. Horton.

1

Money szivcd is same as earned.

age 01' expressnge.

BINOER TWINE

We’re the largest sellers in the world.
1000 TONS, bought and paid for, for this s-=:isoii‘s

sales. Two kinds. Sisal and
Prices the lowest.

Twine.

TEST IT. Look the pi'i<-.e in
posted.

The Se2is0ii's at
hand.

Manilla. Quality the best.

Theres just one wise way to buy Bind:-r
That's by sample. ’T‘:ilr+- the sample in your hand.

the eye. There you are. fully

We send Saniples. and quote prices, free for thv ilfikllll-{_

Buy Binder Twine at Headquarters.

FOR THE RIGHT PRICE

of iilinost everything that’s used in life, luive our (iENl*]RAL
CATALO(i‘rl'l*l and BUYERS’ GI.’

lllli always with you. Buy Right-

\Ve hand it to you if you call at our great ll)-acre Store.
or send it for 15 cents. in coin or stanips, to Day part of post-

Montgomery Ward 85 C0,

Monarchs of the-Mail Order Business, the Store of all the People-
lll, ll2. llfil, H4, 115, and 1113 Micliigzin Avenue.
Directly Opposite the new Post Office, CHICAGO.

James Han-i i l ton. President.

 

THE HAMILTON GRUCERY CUMPANY,

No, 238, 240 and 242 East Pearl St.

E '- it 7 : ,5  j: T —l 7"
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William Hamilton. Treasurer.
We are prepared to flll all G range orders at lowest wholesale rates.

Uluis. G. Shane, Secretary.

   
    
     

COMPANY.

Chicago; Sm Pun-
eisco, Cal.; Ft. Worth,
San Antonio, Tex.; Lin-
oclu,Neb . ; Kmsu

  
 
 
 
  
  
  

     
  
    

  

  
 
 
 
 

.......... IF SILVER WIIS

\ double in rice, then metals must also double in
‘ERHOTOR as they arepgsi labor. if labor doubles in cost and t e prod-
uct of the mine doubles in cost, Aermotors. Pumps. Spiral
Pipe. Fittings. Cylinders, Tanks and Substructures, being the
product of the mine and labor, must also double in cost and
price: therefore, your Ir now will buy as m_uch_as 2 of the

same dollars if silver wins, or if people think it will win.

or in a week. Aennotor prices will not advance unless

prices on Brass Cylinders are 405 below anything ever noted.

future needs, while or buys so much. may anickly exhaust out
immense stock and compel the advance.

§§§ 313' 3'-;'.'..'I.‘.‘€£’§T  
;§B 8 Dubuque,Dnveu-  

E23 3 compelled
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Va and our other
 1‘ even with our s
Egg

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be assured and

advance avoided

  
      
  

and if farm produce.
labor and labor products
rice,

   
   
   
     
  
  

in favor of buying now. The
advance may come in a month

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by an advance in labor and material. Our

   
 
   

goods are gs low as they can be pr used.
p endid facilities. A general rush to cover

 
   
   
 

reat saving can

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