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Officers National Grange.

MASTEB——S. E. ADAMS, Minn. _
OVEBSEEB.-J. J. WOODMAN, Mich.
LEc'rUaEs.—M0RT’MR WHITEHEAD, N J.
STEWAB.D—A. J. VAUGHN. Miss.

Assr. S'rEWAiin—WILLIAM SIMS, Kansas.
CHAPLAIN—-A. P. FORSYTH, Illinois.
TREASUREB.—F. M. MCDOWELL, N. Y.
Si?.csi:'rARY—Wm. M. IRELAND,Wash’ton,D.C.
GATE-KEEPER-O. DINWIDDIE, Indiana.
CEaEs—-Mns. S. E. ADAMS, Minnesota.
POMONA—MRS. J. J. WOODMAN, Michigan.
FLORA—-MRS. JAS. T. MOORE, Maryland.
Lsnr ASSTISTANT STEWABD—MISS CARRIE A.

HALL, Kentucky.

Ofiicers Michigan State Grange.

M.-—J. J. WOODMAN. - - Paw Paw.
O.—THOS. F. MOORE, - - - Adrian.
L.—C. L. WHITNEY, - - Muskegon.
S.——S. A. TOOKER, - - - Lansing.
A. S.—A. E. GREEN, - - Farmington.

C.—SALMON STEEL, Bear Lake. Manis’e Co
T.—S. F. BROWN, - - Schoolcraft.
Ssc.——J. T. COBB, - - - “
G. K.—-A. N. WOODRUFF, - Watervliet.
CEEEs.—MRs. C. L. WHITNEY, Muskegon.
POMONA—MRS. G. W’. EWING, Ross, Kent Co.
FLOEA—MRS. J. J. WOODMAN, Paw Paw.
L. A. S.—Mns. A. E. GREEN, Farmington.

Executive committee-

F. M. HOLLOWAY, Chairman, - Hillsdale.
J. WEBSTER CHILDS, - - - Ypsilanti.
C. G. LUCE, - - Gilead, Branch Co.
WESTBROOK DIVINE, Balding, Ionia Co.
THOMAS MARS. Berrien Center, Berrien Co.
WM. SATTERLEE, Birmingham, Oakland Co.
-7. Q. A. BURRINGTON, Tuscola, Tuscola 00.
J. J. WOODMAN, J. T. COBB, - Ex. Ofiicio.

State Business Agents,

GEO. W. HILL 6: CO., - - Detroit.
THOMAS MASON, - - - Chicago.
General Deputy.

C. L. WHITNEY, - - - Muskegon.

Special Lecturers.

. R- E. Trowbridge,. .Bii'mingha.m, Oakland Co.

Thos. F. Moore, . . . . . .Adrian,. . . . .Lenawee Co
Geo. W, Woodward. .Shelby, . . . . . . .0c6a-lI8v 00
S8-lnuel Langdon, . .Bowen Station,. . .Kent C0
E. C. Herrington,. . .Four I‘owns,. .Oakland Co
M. L. Stevens, . . . . . . ..Perry,....Shiawassee Co
L. R. Brown,.. . .Ra-wsonville,. .Washtenaw Co
Andrew Campbell, . .Ypsilanti, . . “ “

Mrs. Salmon Steele,. .Bear Lake.. .Manistee Co

 

By order of the State Grange at its
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Secretaries, or other persons, sending
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lpplication.

W. A. Armstrong.

There is no class of citizens that at
the present time has greater need of
able champions of their rights and in-
terests than the farmers. As a class,
they have been frugal and industrious,
attending closely to their own affairs
and leaving the management of their
public interests to other classes.

Their ,

voice has not been heard in our Legis- ;

lative halls, their rights have not been

protected, and their industry, greater

in magnitude and importance than any
other, has been ignored and trampled
upon by professional legislators. But
during the past few years there has
been a healthful awakening among the
agriculturalists of the country, and from
among the ranks of the plain, practical
farmers, have been called men, who, in
the sanctum and in the forum, have
proved themselves worthy the class

they represent, and able to command=~

the respect of all classes of citizens.

There are too few such workers in the
field, but there have been enough to
accomplish much in advancing the in-
terests of agriculture, and prove that we
may safely look to the farmers of the
country for men able to discharge wise-
ly and well any duty needed by the
State.

One of the few men who have come
prominently to the front and earned
the approbation of American farmers,is
Win. A. Armstrong, whose portrait we
present to our readers in this number.

VVhen the Grange was planted in
New York soil Mr. Armstrong was pur-
suing the even tenor of his way as a
farmer in the charming valley near the
city of Elmira. He had, it is true,
achieved some fame among the farmers
of that State as the Secretary of_ the
Elmira Farmers’ Club, which position
he had held since the organization of
the Club, whose discussions he had re-
ported from week -to week in the local
press, showing in them rare talent as a
writer, of excellent sense and cultured
mind. ,

The Grange had need of _him and
called him to the Secretaryship of the
State organization within a few weeks
after the institution of the subordinate

her.

The agricultural press of the State
was very considerate and seemed to be
afraid to give encouragement to the
new organization. There was conspicu-
ous need of a paper which should fairly
and fearlessly represent the principles
of the Grange.

Mr. Armstrong was the flrst to see
this and immediately set himself at
work to institute a farmers’ paper
which should help forward the work
that the Order had undertaken. He
took a comprehensive view of the situa-
tion and determined to have a journal
that should be worthy of recognition by
earnest Patrons throughout the coun-
try.

But a few weeks were needed to en-
list other farmers of his acquaintance in
the undertaking, and a printing oflice
was thoroughly equipped with new
material throughout, with all the mod-
ern improvements in machinery and
appliances, and the best of workmen.
It was probably the first paper ever
started that was owned, edited and
managed entirely by farmers. News-
paper men looked upon the enterprise
as a rash venture, but it was soon dis-
covered that the farmers of the country
were ready to avail themselves of the
services of a paper edited and managed
by men of their own class, and conspic-
uously in the interests of agriculture,
speaking its sentiments plainly with-
out fear or favor from corporations or
any of the powerful combinations
which have so much influence in die-
tating the policy of our newspaper
press.

In addition to the editorial position
of the Husbandman, which has com-
mended it so generally to the farmers
of the country, its agricultural teach-
ings have been so plainly practical and
useful that they have given it well de-
served prominence among the agricul-
tural papers of the day. Mr. Arni-
strong has continued to hold his posi-
tion as Secretary of the Elmira Farm-
ers’ Club and has given its valued dis-
cussions in his unsurpassable way from
week to week in the Husbandman.

. In addition to his labors upon the

paper, in the Club, and as Secretary of
the State Grange, to which position he
has been twice re-elected, he has had to
yield_to pressing calls to address public
meetings of farmers, not only in his
own, but other States. His success on
the platform has been no less conspicu-
ous than in the sanctum, and should he
attend to all the calls he receives for
addresses at agricultural gatherings he
would be kept constantly busy in This
work. Farmers have become tired of
listening to slippery tongued politicians
and professional men as oratorg on afi
their festive occasions, and have learned
to appreciate a speaker whose interests
are identical with their own.

Mr. Armstrong is now a little over 50
years Of age. _His youthful days were
spent upon his father’s farm and in ac-
guiring an education, for which he en-
joyed only ordinary advantages, but he
made the most of them, finishing his
studies in the Elmira Academy, where
hf? gifillled some knowledge of ‘the clas-
‘-“CS, in addition to a pretty thorough
traiiiing in the English bl‘anches_ He
evinced a special taste for the study of
languages, the fruits of which are main.
ifest in the pure and scholarly English
in which his writings are clothed He
was frail of body in his youth aha he
was thought better suited to profes-
sional life.

After teaching school successfully a
few terms, he entered upon the study
of the law, but a year in the oflice
nearly broke him down, and he was
compelled to give up the law and geek
recuperation in out-door life. About
this time came the stampede for Cali.
fornia, in 1849, and he started with a
few companions across the plains, trav-
ehng 11103-1 of the way on foot. He
stood the Journey much better than
many of his more robust companions,
and after a few years of experience in
niiiiing and speculation in the Golden
State, he returned to New York State
With the fruits of his labor in California
and settled down as a farmer in the’
County of Steuben. His talents and
worth were recognized, and while yet
young,he was twice called to represent
hisd town in the Board of Supervisors,
an was repeatedl solicited to a
higher oflices. y ccept

He afterwards removed to Chemung
County, where he has done much to ad-
vance the interests of his chosen pro-
fession, and where he is held in high
esteem as a public spirited, liberal
minded and generous worker for the
public good, and especially for the class
to which he is proud to belong.

Those who know’ Mr. Armstrong
can not fail to admire his unselfish de-
votion to his work, and the enthusiasm
with which he has persistently labored
for the good of his class. His work is
_but_)ust begun. He is constantly grow-
ing in public esteem and usefulness.
With good health and a vigorous mind
there is promise of a bright future and
rich rds for him and the many for
whom e labors, as the result of his
most persevering efforts.

No Monument.

A man died in East Fishkill, N. Y.,
two or three years ago. Will directed,
after payment of debts, balance of prop-
erty be in a monument to the memory
of self. Property footed up $1,800 less
$300 debts,leaving $1,500 for monument
as per order. Cousins and aunts con-
tested will, Supreme Court said man
was not worth any $1,500 funeral pile,
and a monument costing $150 was good
enough for the likes o’ the dead man,
the balance to go to aunts and cousins.
Figuring up costs of suits, fees, and le-
gal incidentals, affectionate relatives
find the $1.800 all gone—no money for
them and no monument.

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

Florida Letter.

From the Husbandman.

Enrroa HUSBANDMAN:— The true
Floridian, by instinct, inclination and
in practice, is in perfect accord with the
processes of nature. Nothing could

produce a harsher discord in this per-
fect harmony between man and nature,
than for either to attempt _to do aI_1Y'
thing in a hurry. The first impression
of an energetic Northern man is that
there can be no excuse or palliation for
such universal slowness and shiftl_ess-
ness as are exhibited here. _It is a
source of constant wonder to him that
in such a beautiful climate, the people
should live so poorly, and be surround-
ed by so few of what we call the com-
forts of life. He can see no reason why
the people might not be very comfort-
ably situated. _
The soil, though not rich, will pro-
duce fair crops of such products as are
suited to the climate. There is not a
day in the whole year but he can plant
some crops, neither is there a day but
something may not be harvested. He
can make crops for money, food and
luxury in abundance, but he does not
do it. And why? The reason that
oftenest occurs to the observer is that
the climate is too warm and enervating
for men to work. That a constantly
mild or warm temperature surely,
though perhaps slowlyreduces a man's
vitality and energy, till he ceases to
have a capacity to work. This may be
the true reason for the existing state of
affairs, but I believe the worst of the
evil is in the man himself, and this
climate simply affords favorable condi-
tions for its development. Man is nat-
urally a lazy being, and as a rule will
not do regular and hard work from
choice. He earns his bread by the
sweat of his face when he must do that
or go hungry. If he be situated in a
harsh climate, with a niggard soil his
utmost energies will be called in play to
preserve an existence. If the summer is
'short and the winter long, he will toil
unceasingly while the sunshines warm
to procure sustenance for the winter,
when nothing grows. There are but a
few days in the spring in which -to
plant, and if these are lost a whole
year’s crop fails. The short summer
must be utilized to the last moment in
cultivating and securing his scanty
store. The winter gives him no leisure,
for fires and stock and preparations for
next season requires the improvement
of every hour. He has only worked in
harmony with the seasons and pro-
cesses of nature. In March or April
there comes a warm rain, or a bright
sunny day. The great snow banks
that have been accumulating for
months, suddenly melt, and go roaring
in great freshets to the sea. A few
days of alternate thawing and freezing
follow. The deciduous forests are like
lifeless brush. The evergreens look
dark and gloomy in their year old foli-
age. Some morning the bright green
leaves are seen bursting from the buds
on the aspens. A sultry day or two,
with gentle showers, touch the lifeless
looking oaks and elms,-and, as though
touched by a magician, they burst into
life. The grass s rings from the earth,
and covers it wit a mantle of green.
The seeds which the farmer has depos-
ited in the cold soil, send up their
plummets to gladden his eyes and
cheer his heart. Hypaticus bloom in
the sunny nooks, and the fragrant ar-
butus perfumes the spring-like air. Al-
most in ,a twinkling nature is trans-
formed. To keep up with the season,
man must hurry, and he does hurry.
He becomes industrious, driving and
thrifty, because the climat 'ves him
to it. His motto is, “ Never put off‘ till
to-morrow what can_ be done to-day.”
Now, nature has never used such
forcible means to make the Floridian
industrious. Neither has she set an ex-
ample of hurrying her work. She does
her work deliberately, in the full con-
viction that there is plenty of time. In
January you may notice some elm put-
ting on fresh green foliage. A peach
tree will here and there open a
bright blossom or two. A persimmon
tree will put out a single little bunch
of leaves. Sometimes a few of the
cypress will show signs of coming
3 ring. As the season advances, the
ach tree will show more numerous
gleossoms. One hickory will commence
to grow while another may not show
an signs of life for a month or two.
On}; rsimmon tree has now another
bunc of leaves on an other branch. In
February and March,the orange, (queen
of fruits and the belle of fruit trees)

grows and blooms for weeks. Wild
flowers bloom all the year around.
Tea roses always display their queenly
beauty. By this time the peach trees
are in full bloom. The bays and mag-
nolias follow in another month, and by
the first of May the whole forest is
properly clothed in its new suit of
green, having accomplished in four
months what a New England land-
scape does in two Weeks. Amid such
surroundings is it any wonder that
people learn to take life easily and cease
to hurry! It would be very strange if
they did not. If the husbandman sees
fit to plant corn in January, and does
not want to go a deer hunting, or to a
horse trot, or to hunt his hogs, or any-
thing clse, he can plant corn then, but
if not convenient he can just as well
plant corn in February. Should he be
too tired in February, March is just as
good as any other time for corn. If
March is too dry. he may take advan-
tage of an April shower and “make
corn.” Sweet potatoes may be planted
in March, or six months thereafter.
They are the gfeat staple article of
food here. If the corn is not planted at
all, there is still plenty of time for po-
tatoes, so it is no great concern about
corn anyway. To “make” potatoes
here is not a very laborious operation.
New land which is not infested with
Weeds is thrown into small ridges with
the plow and finished with the hoe.
Last year’s patch usually furnishes
plenty of vines. These are out in
pieces twelve to eighteen inches long
and laid across the ridges. The planter
follows and with a notched stick
pushes the cuttings a few inches into
the loose white sand, and the planting
is done. When the tubers are large
enough they are dug as needed.

If the planting be late and the land
poor they may not get large enough to
use the same season, but that gives
our “ cracker” no uneasiness, for he
simply calls them “stand overs,” and
lets them stand over to mature the next
year. Why should a man hurry to
keep up with the season and get ready
for Winter in a country where the sea-
sons are never in a hurry and winter
never comes, except in name. The
Floridian motto is, never do anything
to-day which you can put off till to-
morrow. Northern men who come
here are usually disgusted at the open,
flimsy, shed-like houses of the natives.
They usually build a “nice, snug,”
comfortable house, to show the natives
how. It takes but a year or two to
open their eyes to the fact that the
snug house is not comfortable at all.
The aim of a New England builder is to
make his house warm. The Floridian
builds his house to make it cool. The
Yankee builds his chimney to econo-
mise heat. The Floridian puts his
chimney outside to keep his house cool
and economise space. A New England
house is calculated to keep out wind,
and rain, and admit the scanty sun-
shine. The Florida house is intended
to give plenty of shade, free circulation
to the balmy breezes, and shelter from
the rains. So the New England house
has close, air-tight rooms, great win-
dows, small porches, and numerous
ferocious roaring stoves. The Florida
house has breezy rooms, great rambling
porches, open halls, a huge roof for
shade and shelter, a roomy fire-place
for burning light wood, and cooking is
done in a separate building.

My house is constructed of primitive
materials, such as abound and are ‘in
harmony with a wild country, and is
modeled on the Florida plan. It is
built of pine logs, peeled and unhewn,
with a roof of shakes (here called
boards.) The floor covers 1,200 square
feet, of which 575 are enclosed in three
rooms, and the remaining 625 are great
roomy porches on the east and west,
including an open hall through the
center. Abovethere are three large
airy chambers. I have a chimney built
of clay, moss and sticks, with the con-
ventional clay fireplaceand hearth, for
burning lightwood. It stands on a
hill 75 feet high, with magnificent
lakes in front and to the west, about 60
rods distant, and grand unbroken pine
woods to the east and rear. A cellar,
which in the north is one of the most
useful rooms in the house, is useless
here. I never saw one in Florida. It
is not needed in winter to protect vege-
tables from frost, and it will not keep
things cool in summer. The earth is
warm all the way down.

I have a well seventy-one feet deep of
the urest, softest water I ever saw. It
was es like melted snow. I can even
yet hardly divest myself of the idea that
a fresh drawn bucket of water will give

me a drink of cool water. The memory
of the "old oaken bucket” as

“ Dripping with coolness it rose from the well,"

still abides with me, and Iain every day
admonished of changed locality by
bringing up from the depths the “iron-
bound bucket” full to the brim with
water, “ The purest and sweetest that
nature can yield,” but “The tear of
regret will instinctively swell” as the
immersed thermometer, unfailingly, in
all seasons, indicates a temperature of
75°. A Florida well is no place to go
for cool drinks. If we want water
cooler than the well affords, we draw
‘it up and hang it up in the great hall
for a few hours. Thus treated, it is of
course a long Iway removed from ice
water, but habit soon reconciles us to
this, and after a few weeks we have no
desire for water any colder.

The house is not underpinned with
stone. One reason is, that there is not
an underpinning stone in this County.
Another is, houses should not be un-
derpinned by close walls here. The
air should have free circulation under
the house. My house is set on light-
wood blocks, 30 inches long, 16 to 24
inches in diameter, sawed square at
both ends, and 35 in number. My first
experience in the unreliability and in-
eflziciency of southern labor came to me
in hauling together the material for
this house. I engaged Ed. to
come with an ox team on a certain day
to haul blocks, logs, etc. The day came
but no Ed. The next day passed, and
still no teamster. On the third day,
about four o’clock, 1*. :\i., Ed. put in his
appearance, leading by a rope ayoke
of diminutive, many colored, half-wild
Florida oxen. They were dragging
slowly at great awkward. dilapidated,
squeaking, pine cart, that swayed to
and fro, as though each surge would be
its last. The rate at which this team
traveled was truly and characteristic-
ally Floridian. I do not know how far
it had come, neither do I wonder that
the third day had nearly passed before
its arrival. I only deem it strange that
it arrived at all. I confess to a feeling
of discouragement at the prospect of
hauling the heavy material for a log
house with such evidently insufficient
force and wretched vehicle. Levi and
I put two of the blocks in the cart and
he aiinouced himself loaded. Any
common railroad hand could easily
move either block on a Wheelbarrow.
The load was ridiculous, but on that
cart, and to be moved by those oxen, it
looked formidable enough and the re-
sult problematic. At the proper word
and plow the wild eyed oxen humped
up their backs, twisted their necks,
and one at a time, and finally both to-
gether made awkward and spasmodic
efiorts to start the cart. As their efforts
were crowned with success the wheels
fairly shrieked for grease, and the poor
rickety frame squeaked and squirmed
in every Joint. It seemed miraculous
that the thing held together at all. I
looked every instant for a complete col-
lapse, and when it arrived at its desti-
nation safe and still hanging together,
I was more than ever convinced of the
truth of the old saw, “a squeaking sled
never breaks.”

DUDLEY W. ADAMS.
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To REMEDY OFFENSIVE {Pi«:Rsi=1RA-
TION. -—-We have known otherwise
agreeable people to be so affected with
this disorder as to render them almost
obnoxious to their friends and a morti-
fication to themselves. For the benefit
of such sufl"ering ones we give a couple
of simple remedies which we know to
be eflicacious. Dissolve one ounce
chlorate potassa in one pint of soft
water. Take one teaspoonful of this
mixture night and morning. After
taking inwardly a few days, put a table-
spoonful of it in a washbowl of water,
and sponge the,person with it; continue
this treatment a few weeks and all un-
pleasant odors will be gone. A few
drops of hartshorn in hot water is also
very effectual in removing the sour
smell of perspiration. Gentlemen who
walk _a good deal are often troubled with
I_’el'3P1T1Dg feet. If they will bathe their
feet every_ night with cold water and
Salt: mbblng them well with a coarse
towel, and occasionally with the hot
water _and hartshorn, all unpleasant
odor will soon disappear—07m'stian In-
tellzgencer.

_.______________

Ti_1E Minnesota Legislature which
has gust adjourned, appropriated $7,500
to aid the citizens of the State to defend
themselves against the infamous drive
well swindle,

BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS.

FOR THE VISITOR.

Beautiful thoughts I where, oh where, have ye
flown P

Where, thy sunshine and brightness that once
on me shone P

Bright flowers of Spring, Summer roses so fair,

Are they lost in the meshes of grief and df care 2‘

Am I, so far from youth’s fanciful hours,

Where my future seemed woven§with flowers 1*

Bright sunny fancies, have ye taken your
flight,

Leaving traces of sorrow and shadows of night?

Beautiful youth 1 Oh, how soon have ye fled !
Leaving threads of silver so plain on my head.
Earth's fairest blossoms tell of decay,

Grief’s ruthless fingers plucked them away.
Life's fairest gems are scattered and torn,
And little is left of wreaths I have worn.

I’ll gather them up, ’tho' their sun dimly

beams.

To keep up the mem’ry of youth’s pleasant
dreams.

Beautiful thoughts! Come, ohl come back
again,

Gathering flowers still dripping with rain ;
Bringing bright garlands of gems rich and
rare,

To drive away traces of sorrow and care.

In " the sweet bye and bye” this fanciful vein
Whispers of dear ones we hope to meet again,
Making this dream seem akin to the truth,

As ye turn me back to the scenes of my youth.

Bright sunny youth, ye are not far away,

Call me not old for this sprinkling of gray.
Scenes sweet and tender are still in my mind,
Making life’s shadows like clouds silver lined,
Changing to beauty these sad lines of pain,

In fanciful structures building again,
Painting mind-pictures with poesy’s flowers,
Forgetting time's dial, points toward evening

hours.

Beautiful lips, while the heart’s all aglow

With beautiful thoughts, pure and bright as
the snow,

Revealing the sun, tho’ hidden in cloud,‘

And changing to brightness the pail and the
shroud.

Clouds leave no impress, soon backward they'll
creep,

Fading away like visions of sleep.

Beautiful thoughts, thy bright beams impart,

To cheer and strengthen the oft failing heart.

West Casco, July 22d. W. A. W.

To Break up Sitting Hens.

At this time in the year when, for a
month to come a majority of the flock
have laid out their spring litters and
become naturally “broody,” is a task
to the poultry raiser who keeps large
numbers of fowls.

Watch your laying fowls every day,
now. The first indicatiom invariably
that you will observe—when a fowl is
beginning to get broody—is that she
remains upon her laying nest after her
laying companions have, as usual, gone
to roost at night.

As soon as you make this discovery,
remove her at once and place her in
an open-lathe coop by herself, out
of doors. Feed her upon light food
—-dry grain is best-—give her clean
water to drink, and leave her there.
If you have a spare cockerel, put him
into the coop after a day or two’s de‘
lay, and you can thus drive away the
“ sitting fever” in a week, nine times
in ten, without fussing or further troub-
l

e.

All that is needed is to catch your
broody hen the first night that she lin-
gers on her nest and follow the course
above suggested. Keep her confined
upon the ground, in an open coop for 8
week, she will forget her heat .and
shortly commence to lay again, If y011
leave her squatting on a nest three or
four days and nights, she will not 50
easily be broken up, of course.—KaMa5
Farmer.

 

C0-Operation.

The word co-operation in its ordina-
ry signification, means working toget1_1'
er to accomplish a certain end. Th,”
word is also used to designate a certain
kind of business, which has been 65‘
tablished and maintained on principle’
peculiartoitself. This system is d15'
tinguished from all other methods 0
transacting business in several particu‘

 


  

Olnmiuimiratinna.

  

The Grange in New York.

 

It  my ’}‘*i"’ s;:.¥.::?s;“‘;:.s;::
of a won er u m0
' est be an to reach New York
1lill1](§h:X‘Qlte intgrest among those who
had measured the hindrances to suc-
cessful agriculture in the East. The
name “Grange” had already became
familiar, but the true ‘purposes of the
Order derisively called ‘Granger:-i had
not been sotfully explaiiied_ that farm-
ers could see in the organization enough
promise of good to __]l1St1fY g1Y1Dg “3
their support._ Still interest_ had been
excited’ andnn a few localitiesthere
was the additional stimulus of curiosity,
thus constituting the inipell_iI1g_m°t1°11
that led to the formal organization of a
few Granges late in the year 1873. and
the consequent formation of a State
Grange in November of that year; ‘the
latter was a sort of provisional institu-
tion that was more formally ratified
and otficered in March of the succeed-
ing year, when there‘ was 1-31 subordi-
nate Granges in the State. _

It would not be worth while to trace
the record of that early work but for the
fact that it was sadly marred by_ errors.
Many of those early organizations
lacked every essential element of pro-
gress in the true work of the Order.
They were made up of incongruous
material, the _membership having little
of that cohesion that attends commu-
nity ofinterest, and there was but slight
conception of the true principles under-
lying the structures so hastily built.
There were good men and good women
in most of the subordinate_Granges—
men and women of the farming class_,—
but there was also a damaging admix-
ture of professional men, traders and
politicians, whose influence tended_to
separate interests, rather than solidify
the Order designed especially for the
men and women engaged in agricul-
ture.

These facts were clearly seen when
the State Grange convened in March,
1874, and provision was made to check
evil tendencies, -the main point being
close adherence to the established pur-
poses of the Order, as there viewed, for
clear-sighted leaders saw and pointed
out the danger of attempts to com-
mingle elements that had no affinity.
While it was impossible to correct all
evils in theorganizations already effect-
ed, it was firmly resolved that they
should not be repeatedjin future work,
except when the highest vigilance
failed to detect unworthiness in the
material offered for the grand structure
planned by the founders of the Order.

Good fortune had designated as Mas-
ter in that critical period, George D.
Hinckly,a member of Fredonia Grange,
No. 1, said to be the first regularly or-
ganized Grange, although a few imper-
fect organizations ante-dated it. Bro.
Hinkley gave to his otficial labor
thoughtful care and wise direction, his
desire being to give the Order health-
ful growth rather than rapid gain. He
found an ablecoadjutor in VVm. G.
Wayne, Chairman of the Executive
Committee,—since elected to the Mas-
ter’s chair.

Under the able guidance of these dis-
tinguished leaders the new Granges
were soon brought into harmonious
work. Their number increased to more
than 400. and, better still the worthless
material incorporated in ’the beginning
was in a great degree eliminated.

With this brief history of the work
it will be seen that the difliculties en:
countered were well nigh fatal to the
Order in New York in the very outset.
But they have been passed safely. The
present question of greater importance
15. What is the feeling to-day‘? A full
showing can hardly be made in the
brief space allotted Perhaps a brief
statement of marked achievements will
be accepted as the reply -

135 Nev? York State'Grange has al-
Ways met its obligations to the National

range. and has been re resented in
9V;(§y session since its orgalhization.
memberslfias made steady growth in
duction cagsgdcbgrt t(l]r(:)1Ypll(ii{,ges(()ilii1te trtfe
900!‘ material incorporated in the first

‘"0 years. 1

351- Present returns received at the

gf§;f$ry’s_ oince indicate gratifying
_ of interest and increase of mem-
bership.
Bptga Out of the Grange there has
8 common desire for wholesome

f - _
igfgfinng of all industries-, through leg-1

TI-IE GRANGE VISI’FOR.

prosperity rather than to advance the
schemes of selfish monopolies.
5th. As a direct outgrowth of the

Grange there is in New York a power-
ful political organization known as the

‘ Farmei"s Alliance,” whose work
reaches nominating conventions, re-
versing the results, thwarting partizan
Schemfifs. 9«_nd is_ rapidly tending to the
emancipation ‘of honest men from the
toils of designing politicians.

6th._ In over 12 Counties insurance as-
sociations have been formed, through
the Grange, by_ which farmers provide
indemnity against loss by fire, at the
actual cost of such loss. thus cheapen-
ing insurance by more than one half,
and securing prompt and honorable
settlement for the losses while the pres-
sure of his need is greatest.

_7th. A similar association, affording
life insurance at a cost rated by the real
loss, has received and disbursed many
thousands of dollars, in the direct in-
terest of the parties concerned, without
the intervention of expensive agencies
or the mysterious methods that deprive
such protection in many cases of the
benefits promised.

All these are visible and tangible
fruits of the Grange. There is more,
perhaps the greatest achievement is yet
to be named. Immeasureable good
comes of that self reliance which is the
product of co-operative effort success-
fully employed in a thousand ways.
Even in thought there has been won-
derful growth. Very many Granges
conduct their meetings much as farm-
ers’ clubs are managed, thus broadening
and increasing common intelligence,
thereby fitting the recipients of the
benefits for higher fields of usefulness.
It is really the elevation of a class by
the development of mind and the
growth of virtues. In view of the great
good already accomplished, it may be
said the benificence of the Order en-
titles it to the respect of all classes that
desire real progress in all that elevates
mankind. Farmers, especially those
who have held aloof, are challenged to
action. If the Grange advances in its
good work, every step of its progress
will be a receding step for those farm-
ers who do not accept its benefits. Let
them take thought of their relative po-
sitions, and act wisely.

W. A. ARMSTRONG.

Some More Legislative Criticism.

LANSING, July 21st, 1879.

Worthy Brother .- .

The gentleman who served in the last
Legislature thinks it is about time to
stop criticising does he‘? He wants to
be let alone in his glory,—wants the
Granger to accept the good those Hon’s
done as all we should expect and are
entitled to. Please tell them we have
hardly begun to stir things as yet.
There are several whys and wherefores
that we shall call on these honorable
gentlemen to answer.
We should like to know whether or
no the farmers of Michigan are to be
heard in the Legislature.
We wanted the test on kerosene oil
reduced, hoping thereby that our lights
would be cheaper, so that we could turn
more of it onto those long journals
that were daily issued from their halls.
But we did not want it adulterated with
cheap, thick, gummy oils that will
neither burn up nor blow up. If we
have to patronize the oil monopoly, we
would much rather have a high priced
good article than a low priced poor one.
We also propose to ask those worthy
Hons. some questions about the Agri-
cultural College. We have paid liberal-
ly for 40 years to the University, and
have given all modern appliances for
turning out "lawyers, doctors and
preachers, and now why not fix up the
Agricultural College with all that is
needed to give the State "educated farm-

ers.

We have altogether too many profes-
sionals. They are crowding each other
in all professional departments, and
have been stri-king for higher wages for
years. When labor organizes and wants
better pay, we call it a strike. Have
not doctors and lawyers -been striking
for years, through State, County and
District conventions, and we have sent
these samedoctors and lawyers to make
laws, until the statutes are so badly
muddled that.none of_them can tell
what is legal and what is not.

about the interest bill, and about cham-
per-ty, also’ about fees in foreclosing

m'(1)‘lli§;g:':'nt to rest, do they? I should

think they wanted stirring “P: after

their luxurious winter.

°1|. designed to promotegeneral»-L»

If my brother farmers could have

We propose to ask, and to ask again,’ p

seen how complacently they could order
the halls lighted and rest their aristo-
cratic heels on the desks and smoke
through the long winter evenings, with
boys to bring their mails, and colored
gentlemen to hang up their overcoats,
they would not feel so much like letting
them alone.

'l‘hese same Hon’s. could spend weeks
over a bill to protect game, which was
nearly a bill to prevent the settler from
supplying his family with food from the
woods or the streams, and to preserve
game for the sports of the cities to de-
stroy at will in the pleasant fall months
—afcer musquitoes and malaria, natural
protectors of game, would make hunt-
ing unpleasant.

They undertook to protect the com-
munity from tramps, but said any poor
man away from home or out of money
ought to be shut up in the jail or
County poor-house. Thanks to our
Governor, that bill is not upon the
statutes.

These Hons. spent months upon a.
prohibitory liquor law, which was to
make the State the saloon-keeper, with
retailers in every town, and every mar-
shal and constablea spy with unlimited
power of search and seizure,—a whole
volume of law in one bill. We have no
doubt of the right of the State to pro-
hibit the sale of intoxicating drinks,
as we have the right and should sup-
press crime, and to protect ourselves
from all acts of individuals that injurea
community. But a prohibitory law
need not be tyranny.

We propose to ask these worthy
Hons., why it is that with 110 days of
session,and 150 days of pay, there was so
little done that the working people of
the State demanded. While nearly all
that sporting men, lawyers and capital-
ists asked for, was granted. Two hun-
dred and forty thousand dollars for the
University, and twenty-four thousand
dollars for the Agricultural College.

Preaching and Practice.

Bro. J. T. Cobb .-

If you had visited our Worthy Master
of No. 175, on June 9th, 10th, or 11th,
you would have found him and his two
sons, graduates of the Agricultural Col-
lege, busy shearing their sheep, employ-
ing no other than his regular farm
hands, his sons taking an active part.

Before the close of the third day they
had sheared 200 sheep and had the wool
sacked at home ready for shipment to
Boston, to be placed on sale to the man-
ufacturers.

His wool was delivered at Lowell de-
pot on the next Saturday, when he re-
ceived 25 cents per pound, the remain-
der to be paid as soon as sold, and the
money forwarded.

Several other members of our Grange
delivered their wool in the same man-
ner, sacking it at home ready for ship-
ment, which is easier and quicker than
the old way of packing it in a wagon
box or rack, then there is no time lost
in bantéring with ‘wool buyers, who
might insist on examining and bidding
on it, perhaps offering more than it was
worth to discourage the shipping of it
by the producers. When wool-buyers
see farmers bring their wool to the de-
pot securely sacked they do not have to
be told that that means business. They
let such farmers go right on minding
their own business. Enough wool was
received from members of our council
on the day named to make a full car-
load. and before ‘all the Bros. had
reached their homes the wool was pass-
ing over the D., G. H. & M. R. R. on
its way to Boston.

During the first two weeks of June
our Grange received three mowing ma-
chines and one horse rake, and we have
bought 700 feet of wire screens for win-
dows and doors. Other Granges in

our Council have this spring bought.

two wagons, three of Jones’ scales (one
of the latter is in our Grange), and 9116
reaper,—all of which were ordered with-
out the aid of those agents who make
it a business to going around the coun-
try minding. the farmers business and
taking from 25 to 33 per cent for doing
the same. '

The above purchases were made after
the manner we preached» when the
Grange was first organized. If 50
Granges in the State wanted three ma-
chines each of one kind, don’t you sup-
ose we could surprise them when we
told them the price. When bought in
such large quantities they can be bought
at prices that will be satisfactory to any
one unless they be chronic grumbleljs.
and who ever» tries to satisfy them will
surely fail. ‘If we do business, on so
large a scale we shall have to ‘use ‘that

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long word we heard so much preached
about when the Grange was first or-
ganized, viz., co-operation.

Brothers and sisters, when you wish
to make a purchase, remember the
above text. When you wanta mowing
machine, must you have such a one be-
cause you like the clatter of it better
than any other; and, sister, when, you
want a sewing machine must you have
one that you like the looks of a
little better than you do some other.
Can you afford to pay $10 extra for a
machine there is not 10 cents difference
in value, to satisfy your fancy, and pre-
vent practicing our preaching besides.

J. C. ENGLISH.

Farmers and Hard Work.

Bro. Cobb .-

I was at the little village on Saturday
night, as the farmers came in from their
homes to purchase the things needed
for the next week on the farm and in
the household. I could but notice the
change which the one week of harvest
work, with its cares and anxieties, had
made in the appearance of every farmer
I met. The careworn face and the lean
and haggard look told plainly the story
of the week’s toil and wear.

Among those I met were farmers
worth from five to fifty thousand dol-
lars, and without an exception all
were evidently overworked to a degree
of undue exhaustion. Laborers who
had been at work for these same farm-
ers for $1.50 and $2 per day during the
week, were also present, making their
purchases with the harvest earnings of
the week. I could but notice that these
last presented a. general appearance of
more quietness and content than the
farmers, their employers, and evidently
they were enjoying themselves better,
as a class, than these overworked men
of much larger means.

Now, seriously, I believe that farm-
ers, as a class are working themselves
and families much too hard, much
harder than any other class of people of
the same means and opportunities, and
the records of our insane asylums show
a. larger proportionate percentage of in-
mates, of farmers and farmers wives,
than of any other occupation.

Farmers, this ought not to be so. We
had better pause in our labors and ap-
ply ourselves more to the realms of
thought, even if it be in the harvest
time. , C.

 

Programmes for Ca Ital Grange, Lan-
sing, lcli.

J ULY 19TH, 1879, 7:30 o’cLocK P. M.-
“ Do we lose time in going to the
Grange ?”-Mrs. E. L. West, Wm.
Gladden. “ Reading,”—W. M. Hil-
gprt. “RStacking Wheat,”—-John Fill,

eorge eeve.

JULY 26TH, 7:30 o’cLocK, P. M.-
“ Lectiire,”—Prof. C. L. Ingersoll.

AUGUST 2ND,_7:30 o’CLocK, P. M.—
“ Report of Visitors to Farms,’ ’—E. M.
Hill, C. E. Bennett. “ Reading, or Es-
say,”—Mrs. Jane Barker. “ System in
Housework,é’—lg]rs. L. M. Holbrook,
Mrs. M. A. mi .

AUGUST 7TH, 7:30_ o’cLocK P. M.-
“Social, and Entertainment by Young
F(:}kkS’Soc1le(§¥i;i’ " 30 o’cLocK P M

UGUST . H , - -“'
“ To raise wheat for profit, is there any
substitute for Summer-fallow? ”—Sam-
uel Buck, L. G. Hunt, Abram Wheel-
er, 0;  B}-allety. “ Reading, or Es-
say,’ —— iza eeve. .

AUGUST 231:1), 7:30 o’cLocK P. M.’-
“The best fence for a Door-yard, —
John Holbrook. -“ Cultiyapon (‘if

h t,”—G. M. T war, Pio . ngerso .
*v*vRee?tding,”,— W.o M. Hilbert. - “Es-
say,”-—Mrs. C. Braley, Mrs. Elizabeth
Swift.

AUGUST 30TH, 7:30 o’cLocK, P. M._—
“The importance of punctuality in
Office, Society, and all kinds of Busi-
ness,” by the Oggcers of the G1{{8.IJg‘?ri‘he

SEPT. 6TH, 7: 0 CLOCK P- --
Model Fa.ir,”—-E. S. Thompson, A._D.
Felton, Mrs. C. Goodnoe. _ Selecting
Fruit and Vegetables for Fairs,l’—J no.
Ci-eyts, M. Tl.1_ llftoot. H-garliéinginlg gli);
jects in ex i 1 ions — rs. y
Holbrook, G. H. Liniebeck.

 

‘THERE are many signs pointing to
the fact that the farmers are becoming
readers. Almost every newspaper as-
piresto an agricutural department Of
from a half ‘column to a half P389-
Those who make a judicious use of the
scissors in the editing ttgereof. really
improve their paper, but _‘ them littora-
ry fellers ” who write articles for farm-
ei-s.to' read-—-ohm)’ Y

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

SCHOOLCRAFT, AUG. 1, 1879.

§u:r2tary’s flmartmeut.

- SCHOOLCRAFT.

Oflicers and members of Subordinate_Granges
in corresponding with this office, will please
always give the Number of their Grange.

J. T. COBB, - - -

THE CARE OF THE INSANE-—ITS
RELATION TO TAXATION.

FROM Henry \V. Lord, Sec. of the
State Board of Charities and Cor-
rection, we have a paper read by him
before the sixth annual conference of
Charities and Correction at Chicago,
June 30th, 1879.

We should not make reference to
this paper had not the weight of tax-
ation of late years seemed to make it
necessary that the great mass of the
people who pay taxes should give the
matter their attention, and begin to
learn for what object so much money
is raised, and to what purpose it is
applied. Mr. Lord’s paper is entitled
“ Hospitals and Asylums for the In-
sane: shall we distinguish between
them, and provide for the latter at
less expense? ”

Michigan has been a State less than
45 years, and in that brief time has
taken a stand second to none in fos-
tering education and charitable insti-
tutions. Her University takes rank
with the first educational institutions
in the land. Her common school
system is perhaps as complete as that
of any other State. Every village
has its graded school, where not only
the common English branches are
taught, but often the languages and
all the intermediate studies.

She was the first State to establish
an Agricultural College. The first to
try the experiment of founding a
State school for indigent children.
Nor has she been less liberal toward
the unfortunate. “With open hand-
ed philanthrophy ” the blind, deaf and
dumb have been provided for at
Flint, the insane at Kalamazoo and
Pontiac. The criminal class, who
having run the gauntlet of the courts
and received a sentence, are provided
with accommodations at Lansing,
Ionia or at Jackson. But in looking
over the field we find with all this
preparation to educate, this vast out-
lay to restrain the vicious and crim-
inal class, and such extensive prepa-,
ration to care for the deaf. dumb,blind
and insane, the needs of this latter
class are increasing faster than in our
liberality we have been able to pro-
vide-. Statistics show that in our two
State institutions but one-half of the
insane and demented people of the
State are now confined: the other
half, some 900 in all, are in poor
houses, and among the people—the
State has no room for them.

The objt-ct of this paper is to call
attention to some important facts.
And first, there is a distinctive differ-
ence in the meaning of the two words
hospital and asylum although used
generally interchangeably. While an
asylum is a place of “ shelter, protec-
tion, and refuge,” its real significance
does not include the curative means

» or processes which pertain to and are

a. part of a hospital. In our care and
management of this unfortunate class,
we have asa State, overlooked this
important distinction and practically
combined the objects of hospitals and
asylum in one building and under
one management. What has been
done is more creditable to our _phi-
lanthrophy, than to our - business
s,,g,,city_ From the showing made
by See. Lord in an institution cost-

ing $1,200,000 that will accommo-
date 600 patients, there is an invest-
ment of $2,000 each, and the average
cost of maintenance and attendance
when all items are included, is $5 per
week or about $7.31, if six per cent
interest on the money expended is
considered, as it should be, entering
as it does as a rule into taxation from
year to year. ‘

Records and statistics show that of
these 600 inmates but a small per
centage are permanently cured. Not
less than 80 to 90 per cent must have
“shelter and protection,” without a
reasonable hope of recovery or of
very considerable mental improve-
ment.

The question, then, presented by
this fact is this: Cannot our insane be
cared for in such manner as to meet
all their actual Wants—in short make
them as comfortable as they now are
at one-half the cost, or even less?

To securely keep and comfortably
maintain an epi eptic, or a poor, de-
mented wreck of humanity, must we
first make a permanent building in-
vestment of $2,000.

The poor We not only have with us
alway, but those who are dependent
are all the while on the increase, and
three-fourths of those for whom we
build these costly asylums are from
the indigent or pauper class.

It is a matter therefore of first im-
portance to determine how the charity
which we must bestow shall be most
effective.

If, as has been assumed by those
physicians who are specialists in re-
gard to insanity, that “expensive
hospitals of magnificent exterior and
costly finish, supplied with every req-
uisite suggested by science, and con-
ducted by men of special reputation
in their several departments,” are es-
sential as remedial and curative agen-
cies for those whose mental malady
is still within the reach of human
skill, then has our State to this unfor-
tunate class done its full share, and
more, for we are to-day providing ex-
pensive hospital accommodations for
several hundreds who are incurable
and have been for many years.

Our costly structures have been
filled as soon as completed and
“meantime the mental malady goes
on,” apparently increasing in greater
ratio than population.

We have encouraged a laudable
pride in our State institutions. With
the return of each Legislative session
some new one is added to the already
formidable list, and it behoves the
people to look after these, their hu-
mane investments, and see if results
are obtained commensurate with the
expenditure.

The people, busy with their own
individual affairs, give little heed to
matters in which they have an actual
interest, but not one over which they
feel to have any control.

In this matter of mental disease the
people need to be educated up to the
fact that the chances of final recovery
diminish with every day's delay in
taking an insane friend to some insti-
tution for immediate treatment. A
diseased mental condition becomes
chronic if the cause is not early re-
moved. Failing to recognize this
truth, and allowing some considerable
time to elapse before curative hospital
treatment is bad, seems to be so gen-
eral a usage that only a very small
per cent of recoveries are expected.

In treating this whole subject, the
State, through its constituted authori-
ties, has failed to comprehend all
these facts, and has expended money
enough to provide not only hospital
care and treatment, but also asylum
accommodations for every insane per-
son in the‘ State, and yet but about
one half of the class so afflicted are
now occupants of State institutions.

The half, not in State institutions are
somewhere, having some sort of care,
no doubt in many cases good care and
treatment, in others very poor, or
none at all. VVhatever it may be. it
lacks system, and the benefits which
system always brings.

The classification of Sec. Lord of
inmates of a hospital of 600 insane
persons,is painfully instructive,but as
he has had unusual facilities for forni-
ing an intelligent opinion, we are pre-
pared to believe that his classification
and conclusions are reliable. From
his paper we quote:

“Among the 600 involved in this great
calamity, there will be found at least 50
epileptics with scarce a prospect of cure
as to one of them. These give the med-
ical superintendent niore anxiety than
all the rest, and are more disturbing to
the household; they should never be
sent to such an institution,if possible to
provide for them otherwise.

There will be found from 30 to 50 pa-
tients wliose malady is euphoneously
called dipsomania, many of whom,
though wildly, often violently, or dan-
gerously insane, when committed to
the institution, are cured within ‘.54
hours, and permaueiitly cured, if per-
manently restrained; but they rarely
stay long before means are taken to dis-
charge them, and they, in a few weeks
or months are discharged, cured,—soIne
of them perhaps several times each, and
their cases go to make up the averages
of recoveries in official reports. In this
afflicted community of 600, the victims
of vicious practices will equal in num-
ber the epileptic-s and the intemperate
combined. There will be at least 100 of
them, and these the most miserable,
disgraced and degraded of all, are gen-
erally so far demoralized, both in body
and mind, before they are sent to an
insane asylum that nothing of much
value in human form can be reared
upon the ruins they bring, and as a
class, in estimating recoveries they
have to be almost excluded from hope.

If there is in the State where our asy-
lum is supposed to be located,1io institu-
tion for the feeble-minded,we shall find
among the 600 at least -10 who are in a
kind of semi-idiotic condition, besides
such of these as shall be included in the
classes already mentioned. These are
of course to be added to the incurable
inmates so far as probabilities go.

There will also be at least 100 elderly
people suffering various degrees of de-
mentia, in many cases the product of
exhausting labor, mental or physical,
complicated with affliction and disap-
pointment; the product not unfre-
quently of poverty and old age, alto-
gether accumulating burdens under
which the limbs totter and the mental
tissues give way. We behold them
through our tears but are obliged to deny
ourselves expectation of relief “until
af'ter life’s fitful fever they sleep well.”

There will also be 25 or 30 patients
of different shades of chronic disease
who have come from other institutions,
or have been several times before in the
one under consideration, to be added as
probably incurable, to those whom we
have mentioned.

These several classes are of the ob-
vious and palpable cases apparently
without remedy.

There is among those not so specified
a large number that will not recover,
sufficiently large tojustify the remark
that in all, but 75 or 80 patients
out the 600 who may be deemed .cura-
ble. VVhile it is probably true that of
the 600 under treatment at any one
time not more than 10 or 12 per cent.
will recover, it is possible that of the
whole number received in an ' one
year25 in 100 may be cured; but as
there would be no way of designating
with more than approximate certainty,
even after some weeks or months of
the treatment in hospital, which par-
ticular patients would make up the 25
per cent. we will include with them 15
per cent. more, making 40 in each hun-
dred to be selected from among the
most hopeful, and to be regarded as
curable, though we know from experi-
ence aiid observation that but 25 of
them, if so many, will really recover.

We propose to select after ample time
for study of the several cases in hospi-
tal, forty patients from each hundred
received, making 2-10 out of 600 in
whose behalf we will continue the rate
of expense contemplated—$2,000 each
for hospital building, and $7.31 each for
maintenance—thus leaving 60 in each
100, or 360 of the 600, to be sup orted
on as different scale of expen iture,

though with equal solicitude and no
less attention to their comfort. VVe
shall find, if the scheme is practicable,
that such an abatement of expenses may
be made on the whole as would enable
Michigan to provide well for all of her
insane at an expense now appropriated
to one-half of them.”

Secretary Lord has gone on and
elaborated his ideas of what an eco-
nomical expenditure of the excess
sunk in “monumental establishments”
might accomplish in the comfortable
maintenance of the demented and
insane who now occupy space to the
exclusion of those recent cases for
whom there is at least a ray of hope.

VVe look upon this paper as a valu-
able acquisition to the opinions enter-
tained by those who have given this
subject their attention, and hope it
will stimulate such discussion as will
gradually give enlarged views to
those who may chance to have it in
their power to give practical direction
to the care and management of the
insane.

THE AGRI(;UL'I‘URAL COLLEGE.
\Ve clip from the Lansfn._q Re-
publican of July 16, the following
item under the head of “Agricultural
College News.”

“ The farm department recently sold
the following cattle: To Wm. L.
\Vebber of Saginaw, Ayreshire bull
calf Fitz James out of Louise Stewart,
by imported Horace; to Nebraska State
University, Ayreshire calf Lord Stew-
art ;. to A. Hagenbuch of Constantine,
a short horned calf out of Hela by Gen.
Custer, and to J. B. Smith, Francisco,
Mich., two Southdown lambs. This
sale of stock which was made during
the past few days, indicates that, de-
spite the speech of representative
Yerks, the college stock is appreciated
throughout the State. Present appear-
ances seem to indicate that the slaI1de1‘-
ous speeches of the representatives dur-
ing the past session will in the end he
of much benefit to the college.

The first sale referred to has no
doubt resulted from the late meeting
of representatives of different agricul-
tural organizations at the College, and
as Mr. VVebber is not a novice in the
matter of farm stock, but has given
attention to blooded stock, and kept
such on his farm for some years, these
sales of valuable animals is the best
reply" to the nonsense uttered by sev-
eral members of‘ the late Legislature
in regard to the College and its stock.

It is a cause of mortification that
the most determined opposition to
the College and every department of
its work, came from some of the
members who are farmers; and the
only crumb of comfort we can get out
of this fact is, that these opposing
farmers were not Grangers.

The State Grange has gone upon
the record as sustaining the College,
and in the appointment of a standing
committee known as the Agricultural
College Committee, whose duty it is
to visit the College and farm, inspect
the work done, become familiar with
every department of the institution,
and make report to the State Grange
at ,each annual session,‘ the Patrons
of Michigan, through their represent-
atives have signified their interest in
the Agricultural College, and recog-
nize the good work it is designed to
perform for the farmers of the State.

TRI-STATE I’ICNlC——AUGUS'l‘ 27th,
28th and 29th.

R. H. Thomas, Sec. of the State
Grange of Penn, and editor of the
Farmers’ Friend proposes to add a
new feature to the Grangers’ Tri State
Picnic, which has been held five years
successively at Williams’ Grove,
Cumerland C0,, Penn.

Large numbers of the farmere of
Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland and
West Virginia have annually attended

these gatherings, and Bro. Thomas,
with characteristic enterprise, has de-

 

 


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termined to add a new feature——a free
exhibition of agricultural products,
implements, etc., to the attractions
which have heretofore drawn from ten
to fifteen thousand people together
each year. . _

The picnic and exhibition will con-
tinue three days. The programme
covers a wide range. A large number
of the prominent talking members Of
the Order have promised to ‘be pres-
ent, and we may safely promise good
speeches from good Grangers, as Well
as a large display of those agricultu-
ral and mechanical products that are
giving us, as a people, such promi-
nence. Reduced railroad rates have
been secured to many points, and the
project is full of promised benefits
and enjoyments.

Tin-3 project of Bro. J. C. English
for 22. Grange picnic of mammoth di
mensions at Grandville, some time in
August, meets with favor in different
parts of the State, and if favorable
rates can be secured, it may be made
a success.

Messrs. Day & Taylor have offered
to prepare the grounds, erect a stand
and provide seats, in a fine grove near
their mill, and from our acquaintance
with these gentlemen we can assure
all our people that no pains will be
spared to provide such conveniences
as are desirable and available for the
accommodation of their Granger
friends who may see fit to seek recrea-
tion for a day at Grandville.

All who go will be able to go into
the mine and see the plaster forma-
tion, the process of mining, elevating
and grinding. In short, learn all
about the business and see the most
complete works for preparing land
plaster for market there is in the State.

SEE drill tooth advertisement on
last page, and editorial notice.

Grange Meetings and Picnics.
Sonvs, July 21st, 1879.
Bro. J. T. Cobb.-

The Berrien County Grange, No. 1,
will hold a regular meeting at the Fruit
Grange Hall in the Township of Roy-
alton, on Thursday, the 26th, of Au-
gust, 1879, at ten olclock A.  All
members of the Order are cordially in-
vited. A good attendance, and a good
time is expected.

Urns. HOG ifE, Se-c’y.

The next meeting of the Hillsdale Co.
Grange will be held at Grange Hall,
.lor_iesville, \Vednesday, Aug. 6th. A
lull attendance is requested, and all
fourth degree members are cordially in-
vited to attend, as the P. of H. County
Aid Association will he brought before
the meeting for consideration. The
meeting convenes at 10 o’clock A. M.

_ G. M. GARDNER, Sec.

Litchfield, Aug. 15th.

AUSTERLITZ, July 14, 1879.
Brother J. 1'. Cobb.-

‘The next meeting of Kent County
Grange, No. 18, will be held at the hall
ofBo_wen Center Grange, ‘No. 219, on
the Zlth day of August next. A gen-
eral attendance of all 4th Degree is re-
llllested, as it is expected that business
0i_ considerable interest to the Order
will be transacted.

Yours fraternally,
M. B. HINE, Sec.

f'1‘he Oakland County Grangers and
“mars will hold a basket picnic at
Orchard Lake on Wednesday, August
13th. The Grangers will meet at the
Ifake at 11 o’clock, from which time
pl] one o’clock will be devoted to re-
reshments, social chatting, etc. The
p,ublic exercises will commence at one
9 clock.  V. R. Trowbridge, of Birm-
Qighami Mrs. Wager, of Waterford;
*E’S- ‘L. A. Pearsoll, of Disco, and Rev.
‘-_ C- Harrington, of Four Towns,
will entertain the meeting with 20 min-
}“6 addresses. Good music will be
llrlllshed by the Birmingham Grange.
Veryone is invited.
C. K. CARPENTER,
SLOAN COOLEY,
MRS. WM. SUTHERLAND.

§a'tur2r’a gcpartmmt.

C. L. WHITNEY, - - -

MUSKEGON.

AUGUST iwfiilncs.

Brother Mortimer Whitehea.d’s
Appointments in Michigan.

The Worthy Lecturer of the Na-
tional Grange will speak as‘fol-
lows:

August 11th, Monday,— ————

August 12th, Tuesday,——Bain—
bridge, Berrien Co.

August 13th, Wednesday,——Paw
Paw, Van Buren Co.

August 14th, Thursday,—Spring-
ville, Lenawee Co.

August 15th, Friday,-Dans
ville, Ingham Co.

August 16th, Saturday,—Romeo,
Macomb Co.

August 18th, Monday,— Allen-
dale, Ottowa Co.

August 19th, Tuesday,—Fen-
wick,Montcalm Co.

August 20th, Wednesday,—Gr’d
Ledge, Eaton Co.

August 21st, Thursday,——Shelby,
Oceana Co.

August 22d, Friday,——Grand
Rapids, Kent Co.

These will be basket picnics, to
which all the farmers of the State
are invited. Come, and bring
baskets enough for both dinner
and supper.

Speaking in the forenoon and
afternoon, and a Grange session in
the evening.

These meetings, with two excep-
tions, are under the auspices of
the County organizations, and the
Executive Committees of such will
attend fully to the details of these
meetings and make them grand
successes.

Forty thousand people should,
and doubtless will, attend these
meetings.

Go twenty or fifty miles to hear
Bro. Whitehead tell how farmers
can " Mind their own business,”
and successfully, too.

Go, and take a load,——take wife
and children, and make a day of
rest and recreation—as well as of
instruction and social enjoyment.

Everyone who is or has been a
Patron should go, and every farm-
er, Patron or not, is cordially in-
vited.

Bro. Whitehead was born and
reared a farmer, and is to-day a
successful farmer in New Jersey.
He “knows how it is himself.” Yet
he is an orator. How can such
things be? COME AND SEE.

At each meeting one or more of
the officers of his State Grange
will be present.

At sonie of the locations ar-
rangements are expected to be
made for excursion rates the day
of the picnic. \Vhy not all? May
not farmers have excursions as
well as anyone ‘t

Brother VVhitehead‘s “ Michigan
Notes by the W'ay," of his last
visit here, occupied more than five
columns of the Cincinnati Bulle-
tin, and gave our State, the Order
here, and the places visited great
credit.

Trusting that these meetings
may not only be successful, but
the means of the more successful
work of our noble Order, I re-

main,
Fraternally yours,

C. L. WHITNEY,
Lect. State Grange.

The Southern Ilusbandman says in
prospectus of the National Grange:

“The Lecturer of the National
Grange, Mortimer Whitehead, of
New Jerscy,is a slender, spare man,
very quiet and unobtrusive, one of
the youngest members, devoted to
the Work, and is a strict construc-
tionist. He speaks clearly, fluently,
and defends his views earnestly.”

The Lever, Temperance Reform
paper at Grand Rapids, reported
Bro. VVhitehead—’s speech at Berlin,
Ottawa Co. on June 12th, to more
than five columns. It showed the
speaker to be able from
capabilities, and a thorough knowl-
edge or the subject, to place the
Order of P. of H. in a better light
than it was ever before seen in that
locality.

All who heard him will go a great
Other com-

natural

way to see him again.
plimentary notices could be given:

From the GRANGE VISITOR,——“ The
more earnest Grangers of Kala-
mazoo County, aiid citizens of the
‘Big Village’ had an opportunity
to hear a first-rate speech of an hour
and a half from Bro. VVhitehead.
Listening patiently that hour and a
half, we saw several of our most.
prominent citizens, bankers, lawyers,
and others, and the undivided atten-
tion and quiet which pervailed gave
evidence of the interest taken by
those who heard, and was highly
complimentary to the speaker. Bro.
Vilhitehead is a rapid speaker, and
says a great deal in an hour and a
half.”

“ Mr M. Whitehead, of New Jer-
sey, Lecturer of the National Grange,
is still a comparatively young man,
and is a fearless but pleasant speaker.
He says he is a farmer and always has
been,‘but evidently has found oppor-
tunity for the culture of mind as well
as body and the soul. He talked one
and a half hours in a plain, straignt-
forward manner, and made many tell-
ing points.—Spr2'ng Lake Republican.

Other Meetings.

Hon. C. G. Luce, of Coldwater. ad-
dresses a Patrons’ picnic at Mt. Clem-
ens. Macomb Co., on the 13th of Au-
gust

The Lecturer of the State Grange
is to address a gathering of Patrons,
under the auspices of Paris Grange,
No. 19, on the 6th of Aug.. near Bow-
en Station, Kent Co.

The Grand Grange Picnic proposed
by Bro. English in the last Visrron,
takes well, and will probably be made
a success. One railroad, the Chicago
& West Michigan, has agreed to give
excursion rates to and from all sta-
tions, and no doubt others will. Fiill-
er programme will be given in the
next number of the Vrsiron, to come
out early.

—“ Could we only get our members
to subscribe for Grange papers the work
would be half done.”—Master, Florida
State Grange.

—‘‘The success of our Grange de-
pends in a great measure upon our
wives and daughters.”—Our Children.

—“The great difficulty in organizing
the farmers is because they do not read
enough to realize their own condition
and understand the weight of the bur-
(lens they bear. ”— Worthy Jllasler Lang,
Texas State Grange.

——Berlin Grange, 2272, Ionia Co., has a
new hall just ready for formal dedica-
tion for the use of the Order.

—Macon Grange, No. 167, Lenawee
Co., is completing a fine hall, good
enough for any, even the best, to be
dedicated in November.

—~Trent Grange, 372, Muskegon Co.,
expects to open its new ball by a meet-
ing of VVestern Pomona Grange, No.
19, in September.

—The members of Spring Lake
Grange, No. 201, of Ottawa Co., have
saved from $20, to $50 each, this season
by the reduction of freight rates upon
fruit, and when the crops and peaches
will have been shipped, the aggregate
for them and their neighbors will be
many thousand dollars. Does it pay ‘.’

—'We would have liked to have had
Whitehead lecture to our Grange, but
did not know he was coming into our
State. Then you doifttake, or taking,
do not read the GRANGE Vi‘s,i'roR.
“ Reading makes a full man.”

“Our Little Grangers.”

- A beautiful little sheet, with an elab-
orately engraved head, of the above
title, lies upon our table. It has been
read and read by every “little Granger”
of our household, and they are waiting
impatiently for the next number. We
had been privately informed of the ex-
pectance of the Bulletin by its friends,
yet we were surprised to see so neat,
tasty and appropriate a little sheet, a
supplement. Could we have things for
the wishing, we’d wish that every
child in America could have this little
paper, and that it came weekly. The
actions of manhood and the crystalized
lessons of childhood—then all praise to
the founder of Our Little G-rangers, al-
though born a \Vhltehead. Ohio isa
stanch old Slate, and leader in the Or-
der of P. of H. The Bulletin of her
State Grange ever lies beside the Vis-
ITOR of our own State on our table.
and now ‘Our Little Grangers will
monthly supplement them both. It is
to go free to every subscriber of the Bul-
letin.

The heading'of Our Little G7-angers
is a study ‘of itself, from the pencil of
the Lecturer of the National Grange,
and does him great credit, as did some
sketches of Michigan scenery seen in
his portfolio while here. , This heading
is emblematical, useful as well as orna-
mental, every part ofitteac-hing lessons
of our Order and of life.

Success to Our Little Grangersand its
guardian!

WE have a communication from “A
Patron,” of Ottawa Co., which we can-
not publish, as the writer withheld his
name, and our rule relating to anony-
mous articles is inflexible.-—ED.


  
  
  
  
 
 
   
  
 
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

giadini’ gllvpartment.

   
 

T0 FLORA IN THE GRANGE.

Flora, dear sister, as wishes are plenty,
And thought turning blindly to thee,
Though ripened with age, or a blossom of
twenty,
Accept this small tribute from me.

Flora, dear sister, I wish that each sorrow
(That waits for poor mortals below)

For you could be always put off till to-morrow.
That morrow you never may know.

Flora, dear sister, I wish that each pleasure
For you could be pure as the day,
And the song of the wild bird, singing at leis-
ure, '
The echo of thy happy lay.

Flora, dear sister, I wish, on life's ocean,
Your bark you in safety may row,
Thine home harbor guided by love’s true devo-
tion,
Secure from the rude winds that blow.

Flora, dear sister, I wish night and morning
Contentment's bright jewel you'd wear,
That gem that a queen in her regal adorning

Might barter her kingdom to share.

Flora, dear sister, I wish that around you
The sunshine of peace shed its ray,
And your loved ones, happy as you, when they
wound you
A wreath from the blossoms of May.

Flora, dear sister, I wish in life’s bower
Thy hope may he always in bloom,

No storms of misfortune to sully the flowers
Or shade its bright colors in gloom.

Flora, dear sister, I wish that each blessing
Vouchsafed to the good and the true
May circle thee round with its balmy caress-
ing,
And make this world fairer for you.

Flora, dear sister, I wish thy life's ending '
May be like the day’s soft decline,

And eternity dawn on thy spirit ascending,
To rest in a region divine.

J. W. KELLEY.
Berlin, Mich.

Some of my “Notions.”

Of late there has been considerable
clamoring for real names to be attach-
ed to the contributions in the secular
papers of these times, and our bright,
cheerful VISITOR lifts up its voice in
the contest.

Men and women from time indefin-
ite have used a nom de plume, choosing
something to suit their fancy or inclin-
ation, and their articles have been
read with interest for the real merit of
the ideas, not because the name suited
the reader. My experience in connec-
tion with hundreds of others, is, that if
it were an inflexible rule in the editor’s
sanctum that no article should find its
way into the columns of the newspaper
unless the real name was given to the
public, many would keep their thoughts
to themselves, and the influence, help-
ful words, and good cheer would lie
dormant, and said columns would only
be filled by those having the “fire, and
talents,” and oftimes there might be a
meagre supply.

One sister asserts “ that it is her can-
did belief that no one can do as much
good as they can by attaching the real
name.” Another says “ we ought not
to be ashamed of our brain produc-
tions.” Not that, sisters, many of us
enjoy putting our thoughts on paper,
whether they will ever find their way
to the hearts and homes of others, or
into the waste basket. But remember
the proverb, “ a prophet is not without
honor, save in his own country,” and
did it ever occur to you that some of
your own neighborhood might “quirk”
their mouths and say, I. did not know
or even suppose that sister A. had any
talent for writing, or that she ever had
an idea worth the printer’s ink, and
really I shouldn’t think she would
thrust them on the public.

We, who use a nom de plume, do not
mean to be dishonest or ashamed,
neither are we afraid of the editor, (for
who ever heard of a cross one,) and if
we give him our real name to show
that we are honest In our writing we
deem that sufiicient. _ _

There is often meaning in a nom de
Pgume, some of them are pretty, others

express strength of character, it tells
one so much, if suitable, if not, it
shows that we want it to be. When
“ ’l‘. T. M.” first entered our circle, and
gave us one of her ofl'-hand talks, I
thought her signature just cute, and
that she was none of the milk and
water sort. I read her articles with
more interest than if she had signed
herself plain, Mrs. Jones, or Smith.
then when “Aunt Betsy spoke to us,
Iwondered if she was the one referred
toin Will Carlton’s poem, “ Betsy and
I are out.” Then again, “ Veronica,”
reminded me ofa beautiful blue flower
of that name. which grewjust in front
of the parlor door in my girlhood, and
my memory reverted back to the scenes
of other days when I had gathered those
delicate blossoms to forms part of a
bouquet to be given to friends, and I
asked the question, where are those
friends to-day? Some have gone to
the better land, others have made
homes for themselves many miles
away and only a few do I meet now-a-
days.

Years ago before the Grange had an
existence, or when farmers thought of
nothing more than being “ mud-sills,”
or entertain ideas of their own, I read
very interesting articles full of good
solid thoughts and helpful words to
brother farmers. They were signed
“Plow-handle,” and I imagined the
writer a good, practical farmer, one
who could wield the pen or the plow
to good advantage.

'l‘o show that I am not alone on my
side of the argument, let me quote from
one or two contributors, one a lady,
signing herself Gleddys Wayne, says:
“As in the pastl could work more at my
ease as a ‘silent partner’ (note the idea)
and as itis the privilege of journalists
to give or withhold real names I avail
mvselfof that privilege,” and with a
move of her eloquent pen she sets this
undue clamoring aside. Another signs
herself “ Rosemond E.” She saysthat
she is willing to answer all communi-
cations sent to her through the editor,
but prefers not to give her real name
to thepublic, and yet she is a good
writer and sends out cheering words,
strengthening thoughts, and a richness
of experience which we all might be
glad to possess. But the main object
ought to be to send out our thoughts
with pure motives and a desire to do
others good, to benefit ourselves, and
to improve the talents given us,be they
pen or money, and if our articles find
acceptance, be thankful, if not, put
forth greater efibrt, good will come to
us even if the world never be wiser for
our effusions. MYRA.

‘Obituary of T. T. M.
POKAGON, July 11th.
Worthy Secretary Cobb .-

Poor Betsey is dead! She died of
ridicule and misrepresentation last win-
ter, she couldn’t stand the pressure, so
she laid away the pencil and burned up
the scribbled scraps of brown paper,
foldled her hands and gave up the goose
qui l.

I thought I would write her obituary,
but tears blinded me-—or wanted to go
somewhere, I don’t remember which
now.

Bro. Cobb, it won’t be necessary to
put the VISITOR in mourning, as our
loss will be the gain of the welcome
little paper.

In her last communication some one
made,“sunshiny kitchen” read “wash-
ing kitchen ;” guessit was little Toots,
in copying, presume she was thinking
of the dishes that had to be washed in
that very kitchen.

Sister Sikes, I am glad you heard
Mrs. Stanton; I wish every lady in
the land could have the privilege. We
don’t live.very far apart, perhaps we
may meet, then you can tell me all
about it. Well, you write a good letter
and I like you, but I am going to give
you ascolding, and I want the privi-
lege of whippinga good brother over
your shoulders. Are they broad enough
to bear it? Youspeak in your letter of
high-cock-alorums; now if you mean
the Plow Company, I haven’t a word
to -say; but if you mean Grangers, I
object. I never saw any such birds in
the Grange, and I have been at the
State _Grange_—at my own expense, of

.course—b‘ut.failed to see anything of the

kind there. When we enter the Grange
we all-go in on a perfect equality—if
we are not all treated alike, it is our-
selves that are to blame. If we go away
from home and draw ourselves into
our shells and keep shut up, we cannot
expect strangers that don’t know any-
thing about us to crack them.

When we visit other Granges let us
act just as if we were glad we were
there, and say “ I am a stranger and a
Granger, are you prepared to take me
in.” I’ll insure you a warm hand
clasp and a hearty welcome, at least it
has never failed me yet.

Now, good brothers and sisters, don’t
let us have any more aristocracy or
high-cock-alorums in the Grange. It is
our right and privilege to feel that we
are all aristocracy, and if we remember
what we learn -in the Grange we can
claim a reasonable share of intelli-
gence.

What a beautiful and a bountiful
harvest we have had, and how easy.
Just think of harvesting 40 acres with
just fourin the family, little Toots, 12
years old, to drive, hired man to bind,
husband to shock up, and your humble
servant to cook, and we finished on the
10th inst., and are happy.

Sorry about Aunt Kate’s age, but I
hope she may not get so shaky that she
can’t Write for the VISITOR.

We have humbugs exposed in the
Grange- H. B. DICKSON.

 

Tiniely Suggestions.

To Ed. Grange Wsitor .-

Are we doing well and wisely? In
these long sultry days in July, when
the mercury is away up the nineties,
when on every farm is heard the hum
ot the reaper and mower, when the
small fruits have all to be attended to,
and on account of the heat there is an
unusual amount of washing to do, the
thought comes up in my mind in the
morning, as I look over the day’s work
that I feel should all be done before
night, can I do it? and many times it
looms up so like a mountain that I al-
most say, I can never do all there is to
be done. And isit wise to tax one pair
of hands and feet to do the work of
two; better do what you are able to do
and let the rest wait, than overdoand
suffer all the rest of the summer and
have a doctor’s bill to pay ; and mark
my word for it, if you are sick there
will be many more things left undone
that areimportant than if you, when
you were well, should look over your
work and say, “This ought to be done,
but it can wait,” and if you will care-
fully do this you may husband your
strength so that you may accomplish
many more of the necessaries than you
at first thought possible.

Now, my sisters, I know wherof I
speak, for I am a little woman, only
bringing 100 lbs. of avordupois weight
and strength into the field to do what
is necessary for a family of six persons.
and I do not look upon hired girls as
the relief that some do, especially if by
good management you can dispense
with them.

The plain fact is, we do too much un-
necessary labor, and are worn out by
it. VVe say our work is killing us,
when it is our own short-sightedness.
When I look over my own past
work and see how I have wasted
my own strength, I can but say, “ Oh,
my sisters, be warned in time, do not
in the summer’s heat and toil lay the
foundation for years of suffering and an
untimely grave. I know you want
your work done; I know each day
brings its own work, but is it not
better to do within your strength than
to have your health and strength both
gone? Of what avail is it to husband
and children that you kept everything
done at the right time and everything
in perfect order, if you are called to lay
down your tired life and go to eternal
rest.

There is no voice in the world like
yours, ob! mothers, to the little ones
who gather at your hearthstonés,there is
no other voice has power to. cheer and
encourage and counsel the husband of
your choice like yours. And is it wise
to be careless or reckless in the use of
your strength. Ofwhat use is a knowl-
edge of the laws of life if we’ do not
obey them.

Now, don’t say I would have you
slight necessary work, for I would not.
I would say if you are not able to do
it alone, get a good healthy girl to help
you. It costs a man less to hire a girl
than to buy a coflin._ But while there
are SO many Things that must be done,
and the heat is so exhausting, I would
say, leave the unnecessary things, let
them wait, almost any one can clip ofl‘
a few things,—don’t wear the garments
that are rufiled, don’t let the men‘ wear
white starched shirts to work in, don’t
keep five kinds of cake on.hand, don’t
go visiting much or invite muc‘h com-
pany that you are obliged to fuss for, if
any of your town friends propose

 

spendinga week or two with you be-
cause the berries are nice and it is so
pleasant in the country, tell them
kindly that it is not possible for you to
entertain them until the harvest is over.
My word for it, they will think none
the less of you for your candor. If
they do, it will be well to find them out
before you have wasted your strength
for them.

Now, there are very many ways we
can lighten our labors if we use our
minds to as good purpose as we do our
hands and feet. The children will
take many steps for us if called on, the
men will bring the milk from the cellar
if it is ready in the pails when they
bringin the new milk; the garments
that have to be changed so often need
not be ironed so tiresomely smooth as
fine clothes should. neither the coarse
towels or sheets, if they are fresh and
sweet, that is the most necessary part.

When I look back over the 20 years
of my housekeeping, and think of the
many useless hours of labor I have
done, and how many useful things I
left undone, I regret I had not more
wisdom to go with‘ my strength in the
beginning. Srsrna ANN.

Summer Visitors.

BY LETTIE LESTER.

Editorial from the Grange Amateur.

Well, it is nearly time that we re-
ceived a visit from our city relatives.
The hay is ready to cut and the grain
nearly so. How beautiful a‘ fine field
of grain looks, as the gentle breezes
blow over it, bowing the bright yellow
heads, it seems to roll in great billows
like the sea. Some morning before long
the farmer will take his reaper and a
small regiment of boys and men and
start for the harvest field.

It is quite reasonable to suppose that
the farmer’s wife has something to do,
with all these men to feed. Three
meals a day for six days in every seven
is what makes a great deal of work.
Then, too, the men must have luncheon
in the field at about ten A. M. and three
P. M., and the tired wife may be thank-
ful it‘ she is not required to take it to
the field after preparing it.

Well, while the farmer’s family, from
the oldest member to the youngest, are
in the work up to their eyes. there
comes a letter stating that their great
uncle’s family, or some other relatives,
are coming from town to visit them.
They are requested to meet them at the
cars, and, as usual, the letter was not
received until the Last moment. The
horses are hurriedly taken from the
wagon or mowing machine, and after
being fed, are harnessed to the double
buggy, or carriage, and are driven off
to town in haste, lest the cars should
get there first. and the friends he kept
waiting.

I said they went with the double
buggy, yes, for no single buggy would
accommodate them all.

Does the farmer’s wife put on a pret-
ty cool dress, and go with her husband
to meet their friends, and so get a little
rest and recreation ? Perhaps so, occa-
sionally, but oftener by far she stays at
home, cooking in some little hot
kitchen, or gathering fruit in the equal-
ly hot sun, and doing a great deal of
extra work to get ready for her expect-
ed visitors, and have something nice
for their supper. She knows, by the
time she has tried it one season, that
something good to cat was one of the
inducements which the friends have
held out to themselves, - and which
caused them to brave for a time thlS
land of worms and mnsquitoes; and
they get the best the house affords, too.
and are not quite satisfied then unless
they can have all kinds offruit and veg-
etables at the same time' They seem
to think they all should be ripe at once-

When they arrive at the farmhouse
they are warmly welcomed, rather too
warmly for the farmer’s wife, whose
face is still flushed with heat from the
stove over which she so recently bent.
and her face, if she is at all sensitive.
loses none of its rosy hue when she ob-
serves with what looks of mild surprlse
they view her soiled dress and apron,
which she has not as yet seen a spare
moment in which to change.

After the guests, with their numerous
boxes, bags and bundles, are stowed
away in the largest and best rooms I11
the house, where they may wash and
rest before supper, the tired wife hur-
ries back to the kitchen and soon sum-
mons them to a repast which the_m05t
fastidious epicure might eat greed}1Y-

The new comers’ do ample justice t0
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they retire to the parlor or their room
and there remain while the dishes are
washed, chickens fed, milk cared for,
and some preparation made for break-
fast.

Of course you can hardly expect your
guests to get up and take breakfast with
the family, or to eat at the table with
hired help at any time, so there are
many extra meals to be got by some
one. If there are small children in
either family it makes much more work
to look after them and keep them clean.

So it goes on day after day, the farm-
er’s wife working hard from four in the
morning till eight or nine at night,
hardly seeing her guests, except at meal
time, for they spend the most of their
time in the parlor, or in making excur-
sions to the woods, or other cool and
pleasant places in the vicinity, and how
surprised they look at night, when the
wife sinks into a chair and says, “ Oh,
how warm it is, and I am so tired!”

\Vell, they stay several days or weeks
as the case may he, and when at last
they take their departure they exclaim,
“We’ve had such a nice visit, we shall
surely come next summer!” And then
they add, as they gather up their bags
preparatory to stepping into the buggy
which takes them to the cars, “Now,
you must come to the city soon, and if
you do, be sure and call on us.”

\Veston Grange, No. 276, July 3rd, ’79.

Essay on Style and Habits.

(Written for the May meeting of the
Western Pomona Grange, No. 19, by a
sister of Lisbon Grange—and being
read at the meeting, a copy was asked
for the columns of the VISITOR.)

You ask me to write something for
the Pomona Grange. VVhat shall the
subject be? Having never had the
happy privilege of meeting that august
body but once, I hardly knew _what
would be most congruous, neither do I
feel capable of writing anything for the
edification of the many brothers and
sisters who have had the benefit of
many such meetings, for I do consider
them very beneficial. They assemble
there from different parts of the Coun-
ty, who think aiid act with regard to
the important interests of the farmers,
and who realize the necessity of an
awakening in this direction. ’l‘he idea
of the farmer playing pollywog is fast
becoming an absurdity, so long as he
can be the more magnaminious toad, by
improving his opportunities, which
should mean nothing more nor less
than improving the mind. The plug
hat covers no more intellect than one
of the hay seed order, yet we are apt to
pay homage to such and take a back
seat. And why? Because his plug hat
seems to be sort of signboard_ impart-
ing to us the all important iii1'ormation
that this gentleman is a man of culture
——and_ culture is something that the
most ignorant admire, and yet stand in
awe of, for they are made to feel their
great deficiencies. Butas surely as all
is not gold that glitters, so it is not al-
ways a sure indication of culture to see
a being wearing the human form with
such a hat on,—yet we are more apt to
expect it under such circumstances,
and are the more disgusted if we find
the reverse.

The Grange organization has been a
power for good to the farmer and his
family in more ways than one. First,
it has taught them that a day occasion-
ally can be set apart for recreation and
no loss of time ensue, as the knowledge
aiid_rest thus obtained is more than an
equivalent, and that to command re-
spect the farmer must “fix up a little”
(to use a common phrase). By that I
do not mean to diess extravagantly.
Oh! no; by no means, only resort to
the shears, if needed, for who can en-

ure a “ shock-headed” man? Next
the razor, as an untidy face is unbecom-
"18 to the most perfect features, and
the free use of the tooth brush every-
One will decide to be very essent-iai.

en his common business suit, neatly
brushed, and the visible part of his

_ _tS (or such parts as should only be
Visible in the presence of ladies) should
be touched up with a little blacking, is
about all there is needed to make him
Presentable. and agreeably so, too. If
there are any etceteras needed, the tidy

oiisewife is ever ready to supply them.
_ e_have seen such a change wrought
In this direction since the Grange was

‘St Organized that many times it has
provoked a smile, to see how the trans-
formation has stiffened the spinal col-
“mm 0 signs of rickets are now
39°". and the sister, although she may
WW’ the cheapest material, has been

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from home and learned to fashion her
clothes, and she has thus been trans-
formed from the ". dowdy” 353.1135
heretofore been dubbed, to the neat and
tasteful lady, and she is now. fully as
capable of gracing her home and socie-
ty, and conversing as intelligently
upon di_fl'erent topics, as her sisters of
more leisure, and you can. read in her
flashing eyes, “N o more back seats for
me.” She says, “I can now compre-
hend that old adage, 'All work and no
play makes Jack a dull boy,’ forit has

ad similar effect upon Jill, and we
have felt it.”

Brothers and sisters, we all admire
the work ofa model farmer, yet we dis-
like to see one’s mind narrowed down
to the plow, harrow, stack and crops,
and can comprehend nothing else. A
genuine farmer of the Patron stripe
will managea good sized farm and then
find time to allow his thoughts to wan-
der ofl‘ to fields beyond the boundary
lines of his own possessions, and such
minds have developed the noble Order,
and without such it would not have had
an existence to day. While such were
working and prospering, the philan-
tlirophy went out after their neighbor
who had not the capacity to grasp more
than one idea at once without assist-
ance. Thus the farmer elevated his
neighbor from his lower plane and set
him upon a hill that he might observe
the works of his more enterprising,
thinking neighbors and partake of the
results of their superior thoughts and
actions.

I would liken this institution to a
beautiful and extended hill, where we
are elevated to a height from whence
we can see in every direction. The
dwarfed and crippled soul is here al-
lowed to expand and have free range in
fields of light and knowledge, instead
of ever groping in the valley of dark-
ness.

I leave this subject very abruptly and
pass to a few thoughts upon one of the
most pernicious habits of the time-the
excessive use of tobacco. If it is as
injurious to the human system as it is
demonstrated to be, it is time we made
it a study and the special work of or-
ganization to correct. It should be
both a duty and a pleasure to do so, for
it would give world-wide renown to our
Order if we could but cause people to
see the evil effects of it, and persuade
men to abandon the use ofit, and future
generations would have cause to rise
up and called us blessed. Itis conceded
by our best physicians to be one of the
greatest causes of increasing insanity.
It deadens the intellect’ of the most
promising students, and worst of all (I
suppose it would be decided) it arouses
all the combativeness that a. woman’s
nature is possessed of to have the
fumes of it puffed into her face at every
street corner, to be shut up in the scent
of it day after day, and night after
night, until the very air becomes ob-
noxious to her, and then try to love the
being who subjects her to such treat-
men t, just to satisfy an unnatural appe-
tite that he has created by the greatest
perseverance, when the smell of it was
.oathsome to him at flrst.

This matter needs to be well weighed
and thoroughly ventilated, for I con-
tend that when a man or woman is
thoroughly convinced of an error, they
are ever ready to_turn from it, if there
is one spark of humanity left in them.

Now I would propose that we go to
work in this manner: Let each Grange
get a list of its members who use tobac-
co, and each make a statement of the
amount he uses, the expenses thereof,
and the benefits derived. if any; and if
agreeable to the husband, the wife
might add her experience, the sorrows
and pleasure it gives her to have him
use it, as it might lend intereet to the
report, and thereby give him a chance
to see himself as she sees him——“ for
better or for worse.” These reports are
to be read quarterly at the local Grange
where made and published annually in
the GRANGE VISITOR, so that it‘ there
are any good results from it each
Grange shall receive the happy infor-
mation, as it will be an incentive for us
to persevere, and, as in all the battles of
life, we need the encouragement of each
other.

Now, brothers, I would not willingly
leave you with no remedy for this great
evil when I think I have an effective
one, if it be thoroughly applied. It is
this, carry a nice tooth brush in your
pocket and each time,in_1mediately after
chewing take a bit of _soap and give
your teeth a good scrubbing, then wash
them off with clear soft water, and
rinse the mouth well, and _always_do
the same after smoking, but in addition

to this you must remove your, hat, coat
and vest and hang them at some dis-
tance from you, as they retain the scent
so long. Then if you could strike an
attitude where the wind would blow the
smoke from you,.the effect would be
very satisfactory Iain sure to yourself
and friends, if you have any.

I know if this is persevered in it will
break the habit completely in avery
few months, for whoever saw a woman
clean, scrub and brush her floor and
then wilfully dirty it again. Why
such a thing cannot be found on record
Neither will a man put foul stuffinto
his mouth many times after fcleaiiing
it thoroiiglily, if so, I have my opinion
of him as a Patron.

Tobacco, though an Indian weed,
Is very useful (?) ' Yes, indeed.
In every room
Is sweet perfume,
If you have a. man who smokes tobacco.

A man with teeth so pale and white,
Wherein anyone could take delight.
Ali! noble fellow,
He turns them yellow,
By ii. constant use of tobacco.

Some think the habit very wrong,
But then it makes men awfully strong.
VVith lips so neat
And breath so sweet;
Oh I who would use tobacco I‘

If a quarrel you should provoke,
It would always end in smoke.
Smoke and chew,
Either will do,
To prove that he loves tobacco.

Like breath of morn, or flowers fair,
Or groves of spices, rich and rare,
As by your side
He takes a. ride.
And puffs in your face tobacco.

And then how sweet to see him laugh,
Until his mouth is open half.
Some turn away
Without delay;
But it is only a. chew of tobacco.
AGGIE.

To DESTROY VERMIN.-—CI‘0t()I1 bugs
and red ants can be driven off by
sprinkling the floor with pulverized
borax, and leaving a place for them to
get out: to kill them, mix borax with
sugar, so they will eat it. For ants or
other vermin, wash the shelves with a
strong solution of borax; then sprinkle
the same with borax mixed with sugar.
When white-washing your room, add a
tablespoonful of pulverized borax to
each pailful of lime.

A SIMPLE way to remove iron rust
from any cotton or linen fabric is to
soak it for several days in sour milk.
This rarely fails, but if it should, phos-
phoric acid (liquor) may be applied suc-
cessfully aiid without injury. No pro-
cess is required but to touch the spots
with the acid and let it dry.

VVETTING the soil thoroughly with
boiling water, previous to putting it in
pots, always proves a sure preventative
of worms in pots. Lime water will
kill insects in pots without injury to
the plants. A tablespoonful of ammo-
nia, in a pint of water, is also good for
the same purpose.

KEEP Your: MOUTH SHUT.—MaI1 y
a man has prospered in life by simply
knowing when to keep his mouth shut;
many a home has been rendered happy
from an exercise of this faculty on the
part of husband or wife. It appears
that health is also dependant in a degree
upon keeping the mouth shut. , Dr.
Hall tells us that we should breath
through the nose as much as possible
when in the street, where dust and dirt
fill the air. Also when goingfrom the
house in cold weather, until the system
becomes acclimated to the frosty atmos-
phere.

DID you ever think,that of the singu-
lar freaks of language, -the living ani-
mals ox, calf, sheep, deer and pig, be-
come after killing, beef, veal, mutton,
venison and pork. Live animals have
Saxon names, while dead ones derive
their names from the French.

THE New York Sun commenting_up-
on the recent Bankers’ Convention,
says: “ The contradictory notions
were almost as numerousas they would
have been if the convention had been
one of Grangers.”

(lliurrrfipnndmrr.

Outside the Gates.

SPRINGVILLE, GRANGE, ;\'o.279, l’

June 14th, 1879. l
Bro. J. T. Cobb .-

The members of Springville Grange,
for recreation and a social visit, Wend-
ed their way at the above time to the
comfortable home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Maxwell. After gathering in fair
numbers, the following questions were
agreed upon for discussion. “ Does it
pay to summer fallow 1”’ The follow-
ing views were entertained by Daniel
Marlatt: He had better luck raising
wheat on summer fallow ground than
any other way, but could not tell
whether it paid better or not, having
never made any figures.

E. R. Kilbury sowed after oats as a
general rule; if summer fallow was
well worked, he thought, on an aver-
age, one could get from 8 to 10 bushels
of wheat more per acre.

F. I. Kinney’s experience in summer
fallowing was that it don’t pay when
we sow only a little wheat, or have a
small farm, but if he was going to raise
50 or 60 acres, he would plow hisground
about the first of July and take a crop
and stubble in for a second one.

Win. Ousted, having a large farm,
thought it paid to summer-fallow, but
could get good wheat by sowing after
oats.

Geo. Ousted wanted his fallow plowed
two or three times.

John Sheeler never had much expe-
rieiice in summer f'allowing, most al-
ways sowing his wheat after spring
crops.

Wm. Aldrich used to think it paid to
summer fallow, but now followed a ro-
tation of crops, corn, oats and then
wheat.

S. Mosey thought if a man didn’t
raise but a few acres of wheat, and had
a small farm, he would loose money by
[allowing his ground, but with a large
farm, and a poor field, it would pay to
fallow it.

During the discussion a committee
were rambling about the premises, and
brought in the following report: Mr.
Maxwell is located on 80 acres of land,
with 65 under cultivation; the soil is

generally loam, with a rolling surface, .

and is well fenced. with buildings con-
venient and in good repair. The fol-
lowing crops we find growing: 10 acres
Wheat, 9 of_oat”s, 7 of corn and 12 of
meadow. The farm stock consists of
three work horses, one young colt, three
cows, five yearlings, 75 sheep, 10 hogs,
and three calves, all showing care in
breeding and are also well grown, prov-
ing that Mr. Maxwell is a good farmer
and a credit to his chosen vocation.

The Fourth of July again found them
assembled at the house of Daniel Mar-
laws, to celebrate the 103d birthday of
our Nation’s independence, and the fol-
lowing programme was carried out :

lst. Singing.

2d. Prayer.

3d. Music.

4th. Select reading.

5th. Recitation of the “Star Spangled
Banner” in the sign language, by Miss
N ora Mosey.

6th. Impromptu speaking upon the
question, “What can we do to secure
the most real happiness?”

8th, and last, was the enjoyment of
that which is necessarv to sustain the
outer man. During this time iced lem-
onade to the amount of one barrel was
freely dispensed among all present, and
all things conspired to make a pleasant

and happy day. I E G
.. . IBBS.

MEAD’s MILLS, Wayne Co. 1

July 11th, 1879 I
Bro. J. T. Cobb.-

Inclosed please find fifty cents, for
which you will please send the VISI-
TOR, and oblige.

Farmers are commencing their har-
vesting under unfavorable circumstan-
ces. Wheat is badly crinkled down by
insects and recent heavy rains. Many
fields can be cut but one way. The
yield of straw is not great, but the
heads‘ are large and generally well filled.
The variety the most grown here is the
Clawson. It yields well, but the flour
is not liked, and I think farmers will
select some other variety to sow this
fall. I should like to hear through the
VISITOR what varieties are raised thro’
the State, and what kinds are liked
best. -, Yours in haste,

RUFUS BABBITT.


  

 

TI-IE GRANGE

VISITOR.

Monterev Matters.

MONTEREY, July 19, ‘T9.
Bro. J. T. Cobb:

The members of No. 247 are a happy
set of fellows. Cause why, they have
got a good crop of wheat and have had
a good time to secure it, and they have
got pretty much through.

At our last meeting, last Thursday
evening, we had some good suggestions
on co-operation by a worthy brother
who has been one of those middlemen,
but has got through that kind of busi-
ness and proposes to use his knowledge
and experience in helping to make our
Order a success in co—operation, and I
think the time is not far distant when
the members of 247 will use only such
tools on their farms as can be bought
direct from the manufacturers by the
P. of H.

I hope the time is not far distant
when the Grangers of this State will
be. so thoroughly organized that the
men who manufacture the spring tooth
barrow will have to sell to us direct or
not at all. They would not sell to one
of our Bros. this spring in any quantity
because they did not want their har-
rows sold through the Grange.

Now, if all the P. of H. in this State
had my grit they would not buy one of
those barrows until they would recog-
nize us.

Patrons, who is it uses their harrows,
is it the farmer or the middleman ‘.7
Who ought to have the benefit of that
commission on those harrows, the farm-
er or the middleman.

Now, I do not mean to make the
spring tooth harrow aspecialty, but I
would not buy any tool,from a treshing
machine down to a hand rake, that I
could not buy direct from the manu-
facturer.

' Yours frateriially,
A HIGH PRIVATE,
in N 0. 2-17.

VVE wish to call attention to the Kal-
amazoo Drill Tooth Co., Whose adver-
tisement has had a place in the VISIT-
OR for some months. VVe have visited
their inanufactory and find them doing
a large business. and from what we
have seen, and heard from those who
have tried this new drill tooth, we are
prepared to advise our friends to accept
an offer which they make to send a set
of their new teeth for trial to any inem-
ber who may order under seal of the
Grange. The teeth can be attached to
any drill in place of the old kind, and
we think they have such obvious ad-
vantages that they w'rll soon supersede
them. Patrons will be supplied at
wholesale prices. J. T. C.

THE REAPER, DEATH.

CORNWELL.——In Salem, on June 13th,
1879, Mas. FRANCIS CORNWELL, of lung fever,a
worthy sister of Monterey Grange, No. 24]’,
aged 35 years.

M. V. B. MCALPINE,
Sec. Monterey Grange, No. ‘.247.

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For Sa1e.—-Choice Italians in movable-comb
hives. For particulars and price address,
Sournann & RANNEY,
Kalamazoo, Mich’.

The Hiisfmndmanl

EVERY FARMER Should TAKE IT.

It is thoroughly Reliable
and Practical in Every
Department.

It is Owned, Edited and Managed
by FARMERS, and is an able Ex-
ponent of the Agricultural
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from the farmefs standpoint. It demands that
the burdens of taxation should be more equita-
bly placed on all classes of property, and that
the farming interests be thereby measurably
relieved.

THE HUSBANDMAN contends against unjust
discrimination in freight charges, by which the
present railroad management is heaping heavy
burdens on the farmers of this and other States.

No other farmer’s paper pays as careful heed
to its Market Reports, which are thoroughly
reliable and accompanied with comments show-
ing the condition of the market and tendency
of prices.

In short, TEE HUSBANDMAN seeks to promote
in every way the greatest good of the agricul-
ral class, and is such a paper as farmers every-
where ought to read and support. The reports
of the discussions of the famous

Elmira Farmers Club

occupy about one page of the paper each week,
and are alone worth more to any practical
farmer than the cost of subscription.

Many of the leading farmers in different parts
of the country are among its large number of
correspondents. V

Hon. Alonzo Sessions, the present Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, and an old and successful
farmer, in a letter urging the farmers of his
own county to take this paper said: “ I have
read THE Husnsnmmn for more than two
years, and I do not hesitate to recommend it as
the BEST FARMERS PAPER that I ever read.
I take and read several other papers, but I will
say frankly that no paper comes to my house
that is more welcome to myself and to all my
family, and not one that is read with so much
pleasure and profit.”

As a representative of the GRANGE, THE
HUSBANDMAN is highly prized by the leading
members of the Order, in all sections of the
country. It is not sensational, but is candid
and influential.

The I"-lusbandman is a Large Eight-Page
Paper, and Only $1.50 per year.
Postage Free.

The interesting character of Tm: HUSBAND-
MAN, and low price, commend it at once to
farmers everywhere, and make it an easy task
to secure a club of subscribers in any Grange or
community. Send for sample copies which are
furnished free. Address,

IIUSBANDMAN. Elmira. N.Y.
We will send Tim HUSBLNDMAN and THE
GRANGE VISITOR for one year, for 81,70.
and in Clubs of live or more, 81 .60 each.

OUR DESCRIPTIVE

    Illustrated rains use

 

For Fall of I879

will be issued about August 25th. All orders for

 PAYS  

 them must be accompanied by nine cents for each
copy. These Lists will be complete 111 every de.
tail, illustrated with over 1,000 cuts, and contain
the descriptions and prices of over ten thousand
(10,000) different articles, such as

I311‘? G-OOIDE,

Gloves, Hosiery, Notions, Clothing, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes,
Carpets, Oil Cloths, Cutlery, Silver and Silver Plated
Ware, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Sewing Machines,
Trunks, Traveling Bags, Pipes Tobacco, Cigars,

Teas, Tinware,

Harness,

Saddles, Horse

Equipments, Guns, Revolvers, Groceries,
and thousands of articles with no special classification, which you may learn the price of for

niiie cents.

We sell all goods at wholesale prices in quantities to suit the purchaser. The only insti-

tution of the kind in America who make this their special business.

Address,

MONTGOMERY WARD 80 CO-,
227 and 229 Wabash Ave., Chicago.

I WILL SELL

THREE INCH AND THREE AND ONE- j

FOURTH INCH THIMBLE-SKEIN
WAGON, COMPLETE, FOR $45.

THREE AND ONE-HALF INCH FOR $48 ,
THREE INCH AND THREE AND ()NE- 1

FOURTH INCH, WITHOUT BOX
OR SEAT, $85.

THREE AND ONE-HALF INCH, WITH-I.

OUT BOX OR SEAT, $38.

ONE-HORSE WAGON, THILLS, BOX AND
SPRING SEAT, $35.

%"Delivered on Cars at Niles, Mich.
E. MURRAY.

MAs'rEn’s Orrrcn,
Paw Paw, Mich.. April 20th. E
1:’. Murray, Niles, il[icIz.:

DEAR Sm.-—Your’s of the 7th came in my
absence, hence this delay to answer. In reply
to your inquiry, I will state that the wagon you
sent me, and which has been run one year, is
entirely satisfactory. As yet, every part is per-
fect. There are several of your wagons in this
vicinity that have run for several years, and I
have heard of but one complaint, and that I do
not regard as strictly reliable.

Yours truly,
J. J. VVOODMAN.

Grange HEADQUARTERS.

THOMA—S— MASON,
General llummissinn Merchant.

133 sourn WATER STREET,
CHICAGO. - - "ILLINOIS.

Purchasing Agent /or the Patron: of Husband-
ry, authorized by Executive Committe of the
Michigan State Grange ; Agent of the N. W.
Produce Eavchange Association, principal ofiice,
Buchanan, Mich. ; also, Agent of the Michigan
Lake Shore Fruit Growers’ Association, Steven-
ville. Mich.,
Respectfully solicits Consignments of

FRUITS. VEGETABLES. BUTTER. EGGS.

Poultry, Wool, Hides,
PELTS, TALLOW, and DRESSED HOGS.

GRAIN, HOGS, and CATTLE
In Car Lots. Also,

L UMBER in Car or Cargo Lots.

Having a large and conveniently arranged
House in the business part of the city, we are
prepare to handle goods in any quantity, and,
being on the SHADY SIDE of the street, can
show PERISHABLE goods in BEST CONDI-
TION, throughout the day. With

SUPERIOR FACILITIES,

and close personal attention to business, we
hope to merit, receive, and retain a liberal share
of our patronage.

Orders for goods in this market will be filled
at lowest wholesale rates.

Cash must Accompany Orders
to Insure Prompt Ascension,

——REFERE1\TCES :—
Executive Committee of Mich. State Grange.
J. J. Woodman, Paw Paw, Mich.
J. T. Cobb, Schoolcraft, Mich.
Herman, Schaifner an Co., Bankers, Chicago, 111.
Thomas Mars, Berrien Centre, Mich.
W. A. Brown, Sec’y Mich. L. S. F. G. Ass’n,

Stevensville, Mich.
g" st97W'l-3: Shipping Tags, and Market Re-
ports fwrniched on application.

Conniasronmixcsi Somcrrnn. mar.12’79

 

GEO. W. HILL & CO.,
’ 80 Woodbridge St., — - Detroit,

Are now prepared to handle

W/teat, Oats and C’0i'n,

IN CAR I.()TS.

2 Having plenty of storage room we can also
handle

APPLE S.
BEANS.
CHEESE,

POTATOES,
BUTTER,
EGGS.

and in fact anything and everything that a
farmer has to sell,

On an Favorable T0l']lIS as any
[louse in the City.

“We also PURCHASE ALL KINDS OF

GUODS for STORES, CLUBS and Families

At the Lowest Wholesale Price.

);@°’ Consigniiients and Orders Soliciled.
jyl2-no70tf.

5-TON STOCK SCALES;
$ 5 0 ..

FREIGHT PAID, AND NO MONEY ASK
ED TILL TESTED.

JONES, of Binghamton,
BINGHAMTON, N. Y

may6m

Paw Paw, Mich., May 18th, 1873-
J ONES, or BINGHAMTON: _

My Scales give entire satisfaction. I _haV}5
subjected it to the most severe tests. and had it
not only correct in weighing large or am
amounts, but perfectly reliable.

Yours, Fraternally,
[Signed]

J. J. WOODMAN.
Paints and Paris Green.
rmcrs REDIIEED FOR 1879.

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lngersoll’s Ready Mixed Paints,
Paris Green and Brushes.

Best cm-d Cheapest P(Vl:'l'l:t8'l'xll:
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Freight paid on Paint and Paris Green t_0 5“
parts of the country. So it makes no dlfie"
ence where you live, you get goods at the same
price as if you were at the Factory.

9‘
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————'l‘RUS'l‘EES 2-——

T. A. Thompson. Pres., Past Leo. Nat. Grflfge
Samuel E. Adams, of Minn., Master “ ‘

D. Wyatt Aiken, of S. 0., Ch’m Ex. Com-
Mortimer Whitehead, of N. J., Lee. Nat. 8
O. H. Kelle , Past Secretary National 01395 '
J. W. A. right, Master Cal. State Gl'fl'1E°-
M. D. Davie, Master State Grange, K6!1t“°ky'

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