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Grange, P. of H.

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SCHOOLCRAFT, OCTOBER 15th, 1879.

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Officers National Grange.

MASTEB—S. E. ADAMS, Minn.

0vEs.sEisr.— J. J . WOODMAN, Mich.
LEc'ruizEia.—M0RT’MR WHITEHEAD, N J.
S'l‘EWAB.D—-A. J . VAUGHN. Miss.

Assr. STEWABD—WILLIAM SIMS, Kansas.
CHAPLAIN—-A. P. FORSYTH, Illinois.
TREASURER-F. M. MCDOWELL, N. Y.
SECRETABY—Wm. M. IRELAND,Wash’ton,D.C.
GATE-KEEPEB—O. DINWIDDIE, Indiana.
CERES-MRS. S. E. ADAMS, Minnesota.
POMONA—MBS. J . J. WOODMAN, Michigan.
FLORA—-MRS. J AS. T. MOORE, Maryland.
LADY ASSTISTANT STEWARD-MISS CARRIE A.

HALL, Kentucky.

Officers Michigan State Grange.

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

C-SALMON STEEL, Bear Lake, Manis’e Co
’l‘.—S. F. BROWN, - - Schoolcraft.
SEC.—J. T. COBB, - - - “
G. K.—A. N. WOODRUFF, - Watervliet.
CEBEs.—Mns. C. L. WHITNEY, Muskegon.
POMONA—MRB. G. W. EWING, Ross, Kent Co.
FLORA—MRS. J . J . WOODMAN, Paw Paw.
L. A. S.-Mas. A. E. GREEN, Farmington.

Executive Committee.

F. M. HOLLOWAY, Chairman, - Hillsdale.
J . WEBSTER CHILDS, - - - Ypsilanti.
C. G. LUCE, - - Gilead, Branch Co.
WESTBROOK DIVINE, Belding, Ionia Co.
THOMAS MARS, Berrien Center, Berrien Co.
WM. SATTERLEE, Birmingham, Oakland Co.
J, 0,. A. BURRINGTON. Tuscola, Tuscola Co.
J. J. WOODMAN, J. T. COBB, - Ex. Ofiicio.

state Business Agents,

GEO. W. HILL & C0., - - Detroit.
THOMAS MASON, - - - Chicago.
General Deputy.

C. L. WHITNEY, - - - Muskegon.
Speclal Lecturers-

R. E. Trowbridge,..Birmingha.m, Oakland Co.
Thos. F. Moore, . . . . . . Adrian, . . . . .Lenawee Co
Geo. W, Woodward. .Shelby. . . . . . . .0cean& C0

Samuel Laugdou, ..Bowen Station,.. .Kent Co
E. O. Hen-ington,. . .Four I‘owns,. . Oakland C0
M. L. Stevens,.. . . .. ..Perry,... .'Shiawassee Co
L. R. Brown, . . . .Rawsonville, . .Wa8ht6B3-W 00
Andrew Campbell,. .Ypsilanti,. . “ “

Mrs. S. Steele,. .Monroe Centre,..G.Trav’se Co

   

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this.

AN ANTI-GRANGER.

The Grange is a humbug the farmer said,
As Lstopped to greet him in passing by,
The farmers are fools who are wiled away.
It's a hoax and a humbug and sure to die ;
They didn't strike out in good old times
No fol-de-rol nonsense in father's days,
But they lived and prospered to their content--
And I am pursuing their wise old ways.
I looked at my neighbor; his clothes were torn,
His shoes ran out in a fancy heel
His face was wan and his features worn,
And his hogs leaned upon the fence to squeal
Mere shadows of pork that was to be,
His cattle were hides stretched on bones—
While his horses, all hide,Aand hair, and tail
Were hunting for hay amid the barnyard stones.
His barns were rheumatic, and creaked and
groaned
At_ every blast of autumn breeze,
With side ventilators of broken boards,
Propped up by the bodies of half trimmed trees,
His fences down and his gates awry,
His tools all scattered with careless grace,
VVatched over by chickens that scarce could fly-
VVhile the genius of shiftlesness ruled the place.
His house unpainted, with windows out,
Looked much like a relic of Noah's day,
VVhile his children with patches of dirt adorned,
VVere raving like ragged recruits at plz.
His trees bedecked with the Webs of Wm ,,
His weeds peeped over the garden wall.
While holes ran through for convenience sake—-
That hogs unable to climb, might crawl,
I thought of my home on a distant range,
Where neatncss and plenty were both com-
bined.
Of the hints obtained in our cheerful Grange,
From women of Worth and men of mind,
Of the happiness felt in a. hundred ways,
By mingling with men of moving kind,
And pitied my friend, as I sought my home,
With satisfied soul, and a heart resigned.

Put Yourself in His Place.

\Vhat a diflicult thing to do, in this
busy bustling America of ours where
the strong crowd down the weak and
the rich ride over the poor, there is
very little of changing places in imagi-
nation. “ Do unto others as you would
have others do unto you ” is often
sounded in our ears but seldom carried
into practice. If a man can drive a
sharp bargain he forgets that as he
gains, the other person proportionately
sufi'ers.

This putting one’s self in another’s
place should especially be brought
home to the employer who has a large
number of hands in his employ. Too
often he thinks only of himself. If he
can pile up wealth he does not look to
see if his employees have a bank ac-
count. he looks after them no further
than to see that they are supplied with
bread. If he is told that as he is mak-
ing money he ought also to allow
them to make money, he simply replies
that he is paying as much as others and
if they do not choose to work for that,
there are plenty who will. He forgets
to put himselfin their place. Often in
this changing land of,ours employees
and employers do often change places
in reality. The men that are down
will rise to the top, While those_who
ruled fall into the ranks. VVe smile at
other-’s misfortunes but the day may
not be far away when they may smile
at our’s.

Parents sometinies have no sympathy
with the sympathies of their children
because they forget the days .when they
were young. By putting themselves in
the places of their children the troubles
of childhood would be lessened one-
half. _

Before speaking unkindly to those
who may not agree with us, let us put
ourselves in the place of the offending
one and see if there would be some ex-
cuse for our actions. “ Put yourself In
his place" is a maxim that is safe 
use on all occasions.—Roclcy Mountain

Husbandman.

The Grange Secret.

The Colleton (S. C.) Democrat, a re-
cently established Grange paper, pub-
lishes the following exposition of the
“secrets” of the Order :

As there seems to be a desire among
outsiders to know the secrets of the
Grange, we deem it not ainiss to divulge
what these secrets are. As a condition
precedent to being initiated into the
mysteries of the Order, the applicant
should understand the principles of the
higher law in the “eleventh comand-
ment,” which, when reduced to com-
mon sense, means that lie should “ mind
his own business, and let others alone.”
The next step is that he should under-
stand and feel his own individuality,
in that he may think and act for him-
self; that he owes no allegiance to any
body or class of men, and that he has
certain inalienable rights to protection,
life, the blessings of liberty, and which
further admits of the pursuit of happi-
ness. That he is to consider himself
untrammeled in his modes, as well as
he shall not adopt, any lines of thought
because they happen to be advanced by
an acknowledged profound thinker
without severely testing their practica-
bility for himself. That as a class he
shall wage no aggressive warfare against
others’ interests, and shall not permit
any to be made upon our own; that no
agrarian idea enters into our creed, and
shall oppose any tyranny and monopo-
lies that may be attempted against the
Order ; that we shall regard it as true
progress to advance the cause of educa-
tion among the uneducated masses, by
all just and legitimate means in our
power, that to this end we shall advo-
cate the establishment of agricultural
and industrial colleges, where agricul-
ture and other domestic sciences are
taught in their courses of instruction;
that as a class we intend to place the
science of agriculture along side by side
with other sciences, esteeming as we do
that success in agricultural pursuits is of
paramount consideration, and as the
foundation of the substantial prosperity
of any country—the pivot indeed, upon
which the success of all other classes of
business hinge.

That we shall invite rivalry in a fair
field and upon equal ground, but shall
oppose selfish ambition and unjust dis-
crimination, whether it be found in our
own ranks or that of others; that we
shall oppose discrimination in favor
(whether by legislation or otherwise) of
one class of our citizens. in other pur-
suits, to the detriment ofour own; that
we are not enemies of railroads, nor of
any corporation that does not inonopo-
lize to their exclusive benefit, but shall
tend honestly to promote in a fair busi-
ness way their industrial interests or
pursuits. But we are opposed. and
shall be unflinchingly so, to any enter-
prise that tends to oppress our people,
and rob them of their hard earnings.
That we do not regard the principles of
our Order to be a new departure from
any established rule of conduct in res-
pect to the protection of our interests,
but the simple assertion of our right
based upon the principles of equity and
justice, and upon the old and broad
ground of equality of rights of all
classes and conditions of men, and in
which assertion, and the maintenance
of them, we shall deem to be syn-
onymous terms; that we recognize to
the fullest extent the laws of trade—of
supply and demand—-of the distinctive
position of buyer and seller; that they
were not necessarily antagonistic be-
cause they were diverse, and shall not
war against anyone because of differ-
ence of occupation, of opinion or_ of
interest, but will invite fair competition
in buying and selling, holding one
condition only to be of paramount im-
portance: That we purchase where We

can get the most and best goods for the
least price, and to sell where We can
obtain the highest prices for what we
have to sell.

Lastly, we recognize emphatically
that Woman is the helpmeet of man,
and hold to a proper appreciation of ‘her
usefulness and ability, the essentials of
which are to make home happy; to
strengthen by the excellencies of char-
acter and gentle ministrations the at-
tachment to our homes, and to encour-
age us in our pursuits by her earnest
co-operation. That she presides, and
naturally, over our household ; engages
in-_the domestic employment and su-
perintendence of the diary, the henery,
the garden——vegetable and horticultur-
a_l—combinin2' harmoniously and beau-
tiful and useful; grace, a natural char-
acteristic, with utility. To beautify
and adorn, and embelish; to enlarge
the sympathies and broaden humanity
are the provinces of woman, and some
of the sacred trusts committed to her
keeping, as the secrets of the Grange.

A Mercantile View of the Grange.

Extract from an address read before
the Farmers’ Club of Ingham County,
by N. A. Deming.

Everything should tend toward mak-
ing this feeling more friendly, and all
obstructions thrown in the way will
sooner or later be removed. For this
reason I am not in favor of the Grange
movement. They seek to antagonize
these two elements of business——to de-
tach a. portion of the machinery neces-
sary to run the business of this world,
that the other part may run faster.
They proclaim open war, instead of in-
telligent argument. I heard a. promi-
nent member of that Order say that the
Farmers’ club has had its day; that
all the time should be given to the
Grange. My friend could not have been
more mistaken. I could not help con-
cluding “that the wish was father to
the thought.” That farmers’ clubs
have no other object than that of dis-
seminating knowledge and practicing
the social virtues. While that remains
true, its labors and benefits cannot be
dispensed With, and in my opinion
will go forward increasing in strength
and influence until the whole commu-
nity of farmers will constitute one vast
Farmers’ club, whose influence will be
felt upon coming generations until the
end of time. It is founded upon cor-
rect principles, and must succeed. The
Grange is far different. While bearing
upon its banners, " Down with monop-
olies”——if it should succeed in its ef-
forts it would build up the greatest mo-
nopoly the world ever saw. They seek
to drive out the buyer, or middle-man
(so-called). _

Let us look at it a moment. VVho
ever traveled over a railroad built by
the Grange? Who ever walked the
deck of a ship constructed by them?
Who ever sent a telegram over a line
they have established? Where are
they in all the vast enterprises that
mark the foot-prints of time‘! Where
are their manufactures, their mills.
their boards of trade, or great business
exchanges, that they must use even in
their secluded manner of doing busi-
ness ? They exist only in the brain of
some zealous or visionary member.
When a comparison of the two are
made, it will be found that the Farm-
ers club stands far in advance.

The Grange may succeed for a time
in diverting a small portion of trade
out of its regular course; but the great
bulk of business, like the mighty river
rushing with majestic force toward the
sea, may have a small part of its Wat-
ers drawn into another channel to per-
form some particular work; but the
great body of its waters will ever con-
tinue to flow grandly on in t1;e,;gd.

_...ued_tothe
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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

channel, made'decp and wide by cen-
turies of constant use, unmindful of
the trifling interruption. There are
many things, however, connected with
that order that are commendable and
deserving of praise and will doubtless
receive recognition.

Qifiumnumimtiuus.

THE GRANGE.

Come listen all unto my song,
For it is rather strange,

’Tis all about that noble man
Who organized the Grange.

Bold Saunders says, one day, says he,
“ ’Tis for our own salvation

That we must organize a Grange
For farmers of this nation.”

Then the merchants and the lawyers said
The farmers couldn’t do it,

They might as well go hang themselves,
They never could go through it.

But Saunders was a valiant man,
A man of firm decision,

And heeded not their mocking words,
Their laughter and derision.

He went to work with will and power,
And brought into existence

The rules and regulative laws,
With no aid or assistance.

He organized a noble band
Of farmers and their wives,

And all agreed that Saunders was
Most wondrously wise.

0’er all the land the tidings spread,

And soon, through all the nation,
The farmers organized their Grange
_ With profoundest admiration.

And now, in almost every town,
Although ’tis rather strange,
The merchants, doctors, lawyers, all—
They recognize the Grange.
Snc’Y or MORENCI GRANGE,

The Necessity of Organization, and How
the Grange Meets It.

I shall confine myself in my brief
remarks to only two distinct proposi-
tions. viz:

First, The necessity of some organi-
zation among farmers, and, secondly, I
shall endeavor to show how complete-
ly the Grange meets this necessity.

There is no trade or occupation the
prosecution of which is calculated to
be more interesting to the intelligent
and thinking mind, or opens a broader
field for thought and investigation,
than farming; and it is a greater mis-
take to suppose that a farmer needs less
mental culture for the successful prose-
cution of his business than other men.
But such has been the generally re-
ccived and expressed opinion, and
farmers have, until very recently, co-
incided in this opinion.

They educated their sons who were
intended for lawyers, doctors, mer-
chants, preachers, and last, but not
least. agents-,—but failed to see the ne-
ccssity of an equal amount of educa-
tion for those who were to follow the
plow.

'l‘he consequences of these almost
fatal mistakes are plainly discernable,
in the fact that our brothers have in
many respects taken the front seats.
Each successive generation were farm-
ing it just as their fathers did, but no
better. Not_having obtained the men-
tal discipline which education gives the
mind, can it be wondered at that, year
after year, they run along in this leth-
argetic old rut.

But now and then, some lawyer or
agent, perhaps, would suddenly awaken
to a sense of their duty, and start out to
organize a farmers’ (I !) club or associa-
tion, for the benefit of the “poor farm-
er,” preluded by a heavy fee, and after
they had extracted all the money they
could from the farmer, the club would
suddenly collapse. _ _

This has been the history of our
country; and now, to_sllEf_1it UP llfleflyv
each farmer was “ going it on his own
hook,” as it were. But, on the other
hand, every trad.e_and I‘0feBSl0I1 W88
‘i’ and sustained y a well con-

‘spowerfulassociation. And,
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it

finally, the farmers were compelled,
from sheer necessity, to organize them-
selves on some co-operative plan for
self-preservation.

Our friends outside of the gate have
an erroneous idea in regard to the ob-
jects of the Grange. I refer, in partic-
ular to the idea that financial benefit is
the main object of the Grange. Al-
though pecuniary benefit occupies a
prominent position in the Order, it is
by no means paramount.

We propose, by bringing the pro-
ducer and consumer closer together, or
in direct communication with each
other, to do away with those who stand
between us with their large per cents.

If we want a wagon, or any farming
implement. we know where to find it,
its cost, and all about it. If we need a
bushel of clover seed, or any certain
kind of wheat, the Grange system is
intended to point out the man who has
it for sale ; and so with anything else
the farmer needs.

But some object to this, because it
practically ignores the local dealer; and
right here let me read a paragraph
from the New York Grocer, an organ
devoted to the interest of the local re-
tail dealers. It shows us how we are
regarded by our enemies,—enemies be-
cause they please so to style them-
selves:

“ The Grange has made its influence
felt in a keener and closer competition
amongst dealers and a nearer approach
to a cash basis of business. In driving
us to sell closer for cash, it still leaves
us with a mixed class of customers,
who want credit, and are not the most
desirable. But the worst feature of the
business is that farmers are getting in
the habit of clubbing together and
getting their orders filled elsewliere.”

The first charge here is that the
Grange has made its influence felt in a
nearer approach to a cash basis. We
may as well plead guilty, forthis isjust
our principal, and the sooner this is
accomplished the better for all con-
cerned. The next charge forwhich we
are arraigned is that we bulk our or-
ders and send elsewhere to have them
filled. The probable reason for this is
that we can buy cheaper elsewhere,-
and this is the most convincing proof
that the services of the local dealer is
not needed until he can command
capital enough to sell as cheap as we
can buy elsewhere.

But, as I said before, this financial
benefit is by no means paramount. We
have no fight to make against any legit-
imate industry. Our object is, first, to
place the farmer in a prosperous, inde-
pendent position, controlling the pro-
ducts of his own labor, and then we
can present a. sound pattern for all
other industries.

There are, I believe, about 27,000
Granges now in our land, and we can
see that here is a great power, if wield-
ed in the right direction, and that po-
litical leaders and demagogues have
not succeeded in the least particular, in
capturing the Grange, is epough to con-
vince the most skeptical that the
Grange is not a political party. Here
Republicans, Democrats and Green-
backers “ meet upon the level and part
upon the square."

'I‘he Grange is intended as an educa-
tor. By bringing farmers and matrons,
their sons and daughters together to
discuss questions of interest, and by a
comparison of views, they are indi-
vidually and collectively benefitted. It
is only by friction, rubbing against each
other, that man’s best ideas are brought
out.

The social feature of the Grange am-
ply pays for all the cost and trouble in-
curred.

And now, in conclusion, it will not
be amiss to say a few words in regard
to Forest Grange, No. 3132. It received
its charter the 6th of April, 1874, with
upward of -10 members, many of whom
supposed they could now fold their
hands and they would soon become
rich on their investment of $3, and the
result was that they soon began to
witherand die. They did not seem to
realize that “the Grange is what we
make it.”

There has been considerable pruning
done among these dead branches.
and Forest Grange stands forth to-day
as determined to live as ever.

The poor season for crops which we
are experiencing, of course has a de-
sponding effect on all farmers. But let
us not forget that we must take “ the
bitter with the sweet.”

In every country there is always a
class of people who are continually
croaking about the country. They are

always on the sell-—just a-going to a

warmer climate. I sometimes think if
these men were in Paradise they would
want to cross the valley to that other
and warmer climate, where thev will
eventually fetch up, if they do not stop
this whining.

And now, brothers, let me say,
“Honor your occupation, teach others
to respect it, and educate your sons and
daughters to it. Let us not forget the
precepts of our Order, seek to adddig-
nity to labor; and when the Great
Master above shall sound the gavel,
may _we be found clothed in the proper
regalla. VV. D. H OPKINSON,

M. of No. 302.

The State Fair.
B'r0.J. Z’. Cobb .-

I have just returned from a visit to
our State Agricultural Fair, and the oft-
repeated question comes to me again,
“Why call it an agricultural fair?”
How much of the real managing is
done by real farmers, and how much of
the management is in the interest of
agriculture ?

Very true, no farmer can go to one of
these fairs without seeing many things
useful to his business, a.nd without be-
ing benefitted by contact with the vis-
itors, which are always in attendance.

But under the head of this agricul-
tural fair, so many things are admitted
and encouraged that in farming com-
munities are looked upon as disreputable
—-if not disgraceful, that the presence of
farmers and the fact that these things
are under the management of the State
Agricultural Society, implies a respon-
sibility which few farmers are willing
to accept.

Now why is it that the farmers do
not take a greater interest in the man-
agement, or less'interest in attending
them than they do.

I am told that only 75 votes were cast
for the oflicers this year, all told, and
that the tickets sold during the fair
were 14,000 short of last year, notwith-
standing the unusual attraction of
President Hayes.

One of the principal managers says
that one of the great objects of an agri-
cultural fair " is to get people together
to give them an opportunity to get
plenty to eat and drink, and enable
them to have a good time. High and
ennobling object truly!

While men of such notions manage
the fairs, the proscribed horse trot will
be encouraged, and beer guzzling coun-
tenanced. But as to long continued
success under this «management, the
public. with the past history of the so-
ciety before it, may well entertain a
serious doubt.

That the large falling off in attend-
ance of the present year is due largely
to the dissatisfaction of farmers with
this management there is little room
for doubt, but whether this rebuke will
be effective in reformingthe abuses, re-
mains yet to be seen.

At all events, the farmers of the State
owe it to themselves, not to kill the
Society, but to reform its management,
that they need not blush to have it
called an agricultural fair. ‘

 

 

Quarterly Report of Ronald Grange,
No. 192.

SEcai:'rAnY’s OFEICE, 1
PALO. Ionia 00., Oct. em, ’79. I

As “ old_ reliable ” 192 does not often
get into print, except on the right side
of the column in your figure tables,
perhaps a word as to our status and
espru dc corps will not be amiss.

Our number, as appears by the en-
closed report, rounds up 100, the most
of whom are earnest, active, vigilant,
Patrons, sound in the «faith, and ani-
mated by an intelligent and inflexible
purpose to wagea relentless and exter-
ininating war on all monopolies, of
whatever name or nature, and to reap
in the fullest fruition the almost incal-
cuable benefits and blessings sure to
flow_ from a faithful carrying out of the
glorious principles set forth by the
iounders of our noble Order in their
Declaration of Purposes.

For a period covering nearly two
yea“. Ronald Lodge has never failedto
i'esp0nd to roll call and hold its regular
sessions. We meet once in two weeks.

Within the last two years we have
built a large and commodious hall —
dimensions as follows: Main buildiiig
28x58; audience-room, 28x50. We alsd
have a wing attached, 18x20, which we
use as a store; and the best thing about
1518. We 0W_e no man a dollar upon it.

Our meetings are usually well attend-

ed, and the interest well maintained.

We "would be proud of an occasional
visit from our speaking brethren and
sisters,and bid one and all welcome to
our hall and homes.

Fraternally yours,
W. S. PHILLIPS,
Sec-’y 192.

Letter from Lieut.-Gov. Sessions-l\'o. 4.

HOME, Oct. 8th, 1879.
Bro. J. T. Cobb .-

If any apology is expected for delay,
it will be remembered that I am an old
man, and the amount of work 1 can do
is limited. My time is not all subject
to my control, and it is more important
that what I say should be well consid-
ered than that my letters should appear
promptly.

There is no preseut need of haste in
what I have to say.

In a very brief space of time, within
the memory of many of us, this beauti-
ful Stnte of ours has been redeemed
from the condition of a wilderness

To-day, its beautiful farms teaming
with fertility, and made more fertile
year by year; its comfortable, commo-
dious buildings being constantly en-
larged, improved and increased in ca-
pacity and numbers; its busy,intelligent
and enterprising people, daily increas-
ing and improving in all the arts of
civilization and progress, place it in the
first rank of States.

If we look around us, on the whole
earth, I think no place can be found
where all the comforts of life can be
obtained more easily ; where the iii-
ducemeiits to labor are more adequate,
or its results more certain. No place
where there is more comfort, more
peace, more happiness, more progress.

The foundation of all this, let me re-
peat, for it cannot be repeated too often
—is our farms and our farmers. But,
growing from this, and auxiliary to it,
we find in almost every township or
vicinity, thriving, prosperous, beautiful
cities or villages. They furnish need-
fulsupplies; they are convenient re-
sorts for thetransaction of business, in-
cluding the sale and purchase of pro-
ducts. They are often convenient,
sometimes necessary, adding to the im-
portance and wealth of the place where
they are located, increasing the value
of products, and stimulating produc-
tion and enterprise. Yet they are
not the State, and while giving due
credit for all the benefits they confer,
recognizing the fact that good men and
women inhabit all our villages and cit-
ies, that our most valuable and useful
citizens are often found there, we can
not, with prudence, ignore the fact that
people of a different class often congre-
gate there, and that they are often—too
often I feai'—the fruitful nurseries of
indolence, dissipation, extravagance,
pauperism and crime. That this class
are often so numerous and busy that
they get control and are able to exert
an undue influence in our legislation
and in the administration of our laws.
But if all our cities and villages ‘are
controled by the better class there is no
good reason why they should have any
wider representation in the Legislature
—much less that they should have the
power to control it.

In a future letter your readers will be
given an opportunity to consider some
facts regarding the past history of leg-
islation relating to and affecting town
and country, by which I believe both
have suffered, though not, perhaps, to
_an equal extent. There is no purpose
to excitejealousy or rivalry, for I as-
sume _that the interests of everbody,
when they are properly considered,
are mutual, that there is no occasion
for a charter or special laws for a city
or village, more than there is for a
township or county.

If it shall appear that the kind of
legislation referred to,occasions a heavy
expenditure of time and money at each
meeting of the Legislature, resulting
often in injustice and hardship, always
in endless expense and trouble, there
will be an effort to seek a remedy and
apply it.

_ My purpose is to give a fair presenta-
tion of the matter, so far as may be pos-
sible. Yours truly,

ALONZO Snssrons.

BASEBALL, it will be remembered by
old settlers, is a game played by eight-
een persons wearing shirts and drawers.
They scatter around the field and try to
catch a cannon ball covered with raw-
hide. The game is to get people to
pay two shillings to come inside of the

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THE GRANGE VISI'POR.

Meeting of the State Grange.
Now that the election is over, the
attention of farmers is no longer com-
pletely absorbed by their interest in
politics, and as the evenings are getting
longer, they will again turn their
thoughts to the Grange. During the
noise and excitement incident to an
active political campaign the calls of
the Grange are not heeded. and per-
haps not even heard ;. but now that the
dust and smoke that the politicians
have raised is settling down, it is seen
that the great contest has largely been
a scramble for office, and that farmers’
interests have not been considered, or
even thought of, at all.

In a short time the annual meeting
of the State Grange will be announced,
and during the few weeks that inter-
vene before this meeting, there are
several matters that need thoughtful
consideration and discussion, in the
subordinate Granges, that represeiita-
tives may be prepared to act upon them
intelligently when they come together.
There is a growing sentiment through-
out the laiid that farmers must take
upon themselves morelargely the direc-
tion of public matters, or everything
will be soon in the interest of the few,
while the rest are forced into bank-
ruptcy and ruin.

\Ve are in receipt of letters almost
every day, asking what farmers can do
to save themselves. The iollowing is
an extract from one written by one of
the thoughtful farmers of Maine, who
has had large experience, and large ob-
servation:

“I think the time is not far distant
when it will be expedient for the
Grange to consider in a judicious and
practical manner what their relations
shall be to political parties and ques-
tions, and by discussion and delibera-
tion ascertain if there is not some way
to open the door, so that farmers can
act together with more effect and better
results. \'Ve want a larger representa-
tion, iii our N-atioualand State govern-
ments, of that class of our population
who own and till the soil and pay the
taxes. Our farmers are tired of issues
purely in the interest of the partisan.
lrejoice that there are men who are
willing to speak out boldly.”

We doubt not our correspondent is

correct in supposing that the Grange
will at no distant day have to define
itself with relation to political parties,
but we believe the Order of Patrons of
Husbandry can never be used as a dis-
tinctivemeans for procuring the legis-
lation ‘that even agriculturists are so
badly in need of. But it does not pro-
hibit its members from taking an active
interest in the advancement of true
husbandry, or acting together for its
protection, by securing a fair represen-
iation in the State and National gov-
ernments; but this it must do iiide-
pendent of the Grange. The incom-
parable value of the Grange lies in this,
that it is the training school where
farmers are fitted to act well their part
both in public and domestic life.
1‘ During the time Maine has been a
State it has sent over 200 representa-
tives to Congress, only five of whom
were farmers. Since the advent of the
(xrange, farmers have come to think,
talk, and weigh matters for themselves,
and we shall be surprised if, ere long,
they are not foun acting for them-
selves. There are many farmers at this
day who could hardly be persuaded to
believe that they would not be as well
represeiited if every member now in
(,4-Oflgress from this State were an actual
tarmer.—1)i1-igo Rural.

 

The History of Wheat.

It_is difiicult, in the present day, to
realize the fact that wheat was at one
time unknown in America: yet prior
1-9 the discovery of this continent by
_(«0lumbus there was no cereal in Amer-
ica approaching in nature to the wheat
Plant.

It was not, observes the American
M‘“€7_'. until 1530 that wheat found its
W3)’ into Mexico, and then only by
Chance. A slave of Uortez found a few
grains of wheat in a parcel of rice, and
Showing them to his master he was “or-
dered to plant them. The result
showed that wheat would thrive well
011 Mexican soil, and to-day one of the
finest wheat valleys in the world is at
the Mexican capital.

|'0m Mexico the cereal found its
V3)’ to Peru. Marie D'Escobar, wife of
1} Diego de Uhauves, carried a few
03103 to Lima, the entire product be-
elrlg used for seed for several successive

At Quito, Ecuador, a monk of the
Order of St._ Francis, by the name of
Fray Jodosi Bixi, introduced a new
cereal; and it is said that the jar which
contained the seed is still preserved by
the monks of Quito.

. VVheat was introduced in the present
limits of the United States contempo-
raneously with the English and Dutch.

 

Worn out Farms.

I look with sincere pity, says Profes-
sor R. C. Kedzie, of the Michigan Agri-
cultural College, upon many farmers
who are settling down into discourage-
ment over the condition of their farm;
their crops are light from want of inan-
ure, their manure heap is small from
Want of crops; from Want of anything
to sell they are too poor to buy fertiliz-
ers, and in regular hopelessness they
exclaim: “Farming is a poor busi-
ness.” I do not speak of this to add to
the discouragement, but to give a word
for cheer —to point, if I can, to some
way to better the farmer's lot. I be-
lieve the cheapest and easiest way to
bring up a run down farm——is by green
manuring. Suppose your farm is too
poor for clover, and grass only makes a
feeble growth, put on it a manual crop
that will grow, such as rye; turn this
under with your plow, and you can
then raise something better; keep feed-
ing your soil with everything you can
shovel and your team can command-
ashes, leached ashes. if you can get
them by drawing them within five
miles—muck, marl, anything that will
bring green mantle over your fields.
Soon you can get the clover pump to
work, pumping up to the surface the in-
exhaustible resources of your subsoil.
If an animal dies, don't bewail your
luck and exclaim, “Everything goes to
the dogs on my farm!” Don’t send it
to the dogs at all, but compost it with
muck, or even manure and thus secure
a most valuable manure. Sampson
performed amiracle by taking honey
from the care ss ofa lion; out do that
wonder by ext acting wheat from the
carcass of your dead cow. Pick up all
the bones you can find; put them un-
deriover and mix with them two or
three times their bulk of ashes from the
kitchen; moisten them with enough
water so that the potash may act upon
the gelatin of the bones; stir them
over ohcea week, and in a month or
two you will find the bones so tender
that you can cut or crush them by a
blow from your shovel; beat the whole
into a powdery mass, and you will have
a manure better than the average of
superphosphates which you feel too
poor to buy. Give a handful of this to
each hill ofcorn and see how it will
wave its banner of green, and pour into
your basket the golden ears of corn.
But in bringing your soil into good
condition do not neglect green manur-
ing; let every wind that blows over
your fields bring them a blessing in the
the shape ofatmosphere plant food. Do
all these things patiently and hopeful-
ly without urging your soil beyond
what it can do, and you will yet
out of the fullness of a grateful heart
exclaim ‘Bless God for the Farm.’--Ex.

The Pay of Foreign Agricultural La-
borers.

In Belgium, the most densely popu-
lated country in Europe, agricultural
laborers are paid 17 to 20 cents a day tor
men, and 15 to 17 cents a day for
women. When hired by the month,
with board and lodging, wages are from
$1.75 to $2 a month.

France has 10,000,000 and upwards of
land-owners, and 18,000,000, or about
one-half the population, is engaged in
agricultural occupations. Farm labor-
ers are paid $3.19 per week without
board, and with board and lodging $1-
.36 per week. VVith these low wages
laborers save enough to become land-
owners, and are said to be better off
than the laborers of the same class in
the United States.

In Germany farm laborers are not so
well off with $3.90 a week without
board, and $1.80 with board and lodg-

mlgii England, with the beer drinking
habits of laborers paid $4-25 3 Wefki
they are unalle to live comfortably ,. so
they leave for the United States hoping
F03 Taxmo our Scoit_cH.——-Ifa Shirt
bosom» or W  i°"“"~‘.""..’i‘.”.‘.*.‘..."‘Ei“.‘.‘.
scorched in lI'0lllng1_ 9-3;,‘ on ‘it It
bright sun will fail dlfeb Y -

will take it entirely out.

Full Care of Calves.

It often happens that calves make a
fair growth in the early part of the
season, when they ge_t whole milk, or
even a plentiful supply of skimmed
milk: but when these are withdrawn,
if suddenly, they are not able to keep
up injcondition. Ifthey have been sup-
plied for some time with agood pas-
ture, or fed green food, or hay in racks,
and become accustomed gradually to
depend upon such food, they will not
fall off much in condition. But the
skillful feeder will strive to keep his
calves constantly growing-constantly
devcloping every part of the system.
And as milk is withdrawn, it becomes
important to substitute some conceIi-
trated food in its place, so that the nu-
triment may be abundant to keep up
its flesh. Any check in growth is at
the loss of the feeder, for it will cost
more extra feed to regain it afterward,
besides the loss of time. The pasture,
also, usually becomes less nutritious,
and there is the more necessity that
some extra food should be given.

Here the most important food that
can be given as a substitute for milk, is
linseed oil cake, or oil meal. It is the
food principally used for this purpose
by the best English feeders. The calf
is quite apt to become constipated when
the milk is discontinued, and the oil
meal is slightly laxative, having a
small percentage of oil, which has a
very soothing effect upoh the stomach
and intestines. It is also very nitroge-
iieous, being in this respect similar to
milk. It is not necessary to feed more
that one pint of oil meal per day to
each calf. Calves may be accustomed
to eat aquart of oil-meal andnniddiings
mixed before the milk is wholly with-
drawn. Oats are an excellent food for
calves, and they should be taught early
to eat them. The calf seems to have
the power of digesting oats very well
without grinding. A pint ofoats given
to each call‘ at first, and soon increased
to one or two quarts, will keep the
growth steady. Oats are the best sin-
gle substitute for oil-meal, but wheat
middlings and oats make the best com-
bination. Alittle corn mingled with
these will do very well, but corn, as a
single food should be avoided for young
animals. The albuminoids and phos-
phates are in too small proportion in
corn to grow the muscles and bones.

As a. simple question of economy,
calves should get a small grain ration
all through the month of August and
the fall months. This extra lood will
pay the greatest protit, for it will add,
as a general rule, two dollars to the
value of the calf for each dollar in food
given. Another important considera-
tion is, that the better the condition of
the young animal the better it will
stand the cold weather when_it comes.
This is the more important to \Veste_rn
feeders, who do not provide warin win-
ier quarters for their calves. A nice
layer of lat on the outside is equal to a
heavy overcoat to the human being.
Every feeder must see that his success
in raising good cattle will depend large-
ly upon his ti-eatineiitof the call.—.Nal.
Live Stock Journal.

Vulgar Words.

A distinguished author says; “ I re-
solved when I was a child never to use
a word which I could not prononce be-
fore my mother without offending her.”
His rule and example are worthy of
imitation. Boys readily learn a class
of low, vulgar words ‘and expressions
which are never heard in respectable
circles. The utmost care of the parents
will scarcely prevent it. _Of course, We
cannot think of girls being exposed ‘to
this peril. We cannot imagine a girl
using words she would not give utter-
ance to before her father or mother-
Such vulgarity is thought by some boys
to be smart, “the next thing to swear~
ing,” and yet not so wicked. But 15 IS
a habit which leads to_ profalllliyx and
fills the mind with evil thoughts. It
vulgarizes and degiades the soul and
prepares the way_for many of those
gross and fearful sins which now cor-
rupt societv.—Eav. -

To MAKE candied lemon or pepper-f
mint for colds : boil one half pouiid 0
sugar in a half-pint of water till it be-
gins to candy around the sides;_ put 111
eight drops of essence. p_0u1' 1‘? “P011
paper and cut it with a. knife.

 

 
NORWAY is the smallest nation of
Europe in most respects. lfuliflllls t°,;’i‘;‘d'
merce is such that its fleet is 9

Filtering Clsterns.

Our bread and meat are no more im-
portant for our well being than
the liquids we drink. The outlay for
food is so constant. that purchasing all
the variety of which our solid nutri-
ment is composed has become a second
nature; but when we see water on ev-
ery hand, and often are injured by the
torrents from above, we do not willing-
ly trouble ourselves with any great out-
lay to collect and purify this luxury
and necessity of every day and almost
every hour.

For many years our constant drink
at Montclair was rain water collected
upon an ordinary tin roof, painted,(not
with a white lead paint, however, as
we consider that injurious to health,
and our builder knew that we wished
to use the water for cooking and drink-
ing purposes), flowing tlience into a
large cemented brick cistern, whence it
was pumped into the kitchen. This cis-
tern was made different from the ordi-
nary pattern only on this wise: a part
of the bottom of about two feet in width
and running across the cistern, and di-
vidingitinto two unequal parts, was
excuvated some two feet below the level
of the remainder of the floor; through
the center of this canal was built a brick
wall, from the bottom of the depressed
portion up to the top of the cistern.
with some small openings left through
it at the very bottom. This cistern
was all cemented, bottom and sides of
this canal, before the wall was built.
Upon each side of this wall six or
eight inches of charcoal were laid and
covered with well-washed small stones
to the depth of six inches. This cover-
ing is only intended to keep the char-
coal from floating. The rain-water
now falling into the larger division pas-
ses down through the stones, the char-
coal, the wall, the charcoal on the oth-
er side and lastly the stones, and is
pumped up. It is well that the larger
division should cover about three-
quarters of the bottom so that the filtra-
tion may be rather slow.

We have used this cistern many
years and only had trouble once, when
some toads got in at the top,which was
just at the surface of the ground.
Should your house be small and the
suppl y of rain-water therefore from its
roof be sometimes inadequate, do not,
therefore, lessen the size of your cis-
tern, but rather increase it, tor with a
small cistern you will occasionally be
obliged to let the water go to waste in a
wet Lime, and will suffer in a dry time,
whereas a cistern that would never
overflow, would be more likely to give
a supply even throught a protracted
ClI‘OllLl1. It‘ you areiu a dusty situation,
seveial plans will suggest themselves to
you, whereby a few pailfuis at the first
of each rain will not be be allowed to
enter the cistern but practically this is
of butlittle moment. The small quan-
tity of dust that may enter from the
roof, will not interfere with the purity
of the water unless the house is in a
very exposed place. If the roof be
steep, much dust seldom accumulates,
as the winds both deposit and remove
it —[ona, in Moore’s liural Life.

THE Scientific Farmer says: " To
keep roots spulpld ahndhplifimp, Mr. Bepj.
P. Ware 0 ar ie ea a success ’ul
gardener: cuts off the line, roots close to
the body, and pares away the crown of
the turnip, or beet sufliciently to destroy
all buds or rudiments of buds. The thus
doctored roots are then placed in barrels
of sand, or covered with earth in the
celli:)r,dto pfleveqlt tigvilting. t Eéfiiqoviig
the u s an roo e preven s a cor -
iness so common with these roots when
kept till late in winter, which is caused
by the support of sprouts and rootlets
using up much of the more edible and
tender substance of the roots._ Turnips
and beets thus treated are as nice for the
talble ipi latte; Wil1t:i'dO’l; early spring as
w en rs arves e .

No insect which usually infests the
house and crawls over the floors or
woodwork can live under the applica-
tion of hot alumn water. It will de-
stroy red and black ants, cockroaches,
spiders and chintz bugs. Take two
pounds of alum and dissolve in three or
four quart of boiling water; let it stand
on the fire until the alum is all_melted,
then apply it with a brush (while near-
ly boiling hot; to every joint and crev-
ice in your closets, bedsteads, pantry
shelves, etc. It, in whitewashing a
ceiling, plenty of alum is addedtothe
whitewash, it will keep oi!‘ insects.

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

SCHOOLCRAFT, OCT. 15, 1879.

.§mrtary’:3 gljrpartment.

J. '1‘. COBB, - - - - SCHOOLCRAFT.

Oflicers and members of Subordinate Granges
in corresponding with this oflice, will please
always give the Number of their Grange.

1

THE PLASTER BUSINESS OF
DAY 3:‘. TAYLOR.

As we were desirous of getting at
the exact facts of the plaster business
before the sales of another season
commenced, we concluded to make
the most of the little time we could
spare from the various duties devolv-
ing upon us, and include a visit to
Grandville in the day we set apart
for attending the fair of the Western
Michigan Agricultural and Industrial
Society.

Leaving home at 4:45 P. M. on VVed-
nesday, the 24th of September, we
were at Grandville a little after nine
o’clock.

The Patrons of Michigan, and par-
ticularly those who attended the State
picnic at Grandville, August 22d, and
examined the plaster quarry of
Messrs. Day & Taylor, will be inter-
ested in every important change that
occurs there that in any way affects
the manufacture of plaster.

Those who went into the pit will
remember that there was a constant
flow of Water from invisible fissures
in the rock in many places, so that it
was found necessary to run the large
pump, which had a capacity of 1,000
gallons a minute, several hours every
day, to keep the mine clear of water.

This flow of water had been slowly
increasing for some months, requiring
more working of the pump, until
about the 20th of Sept., when the in-
creased flow of water into the mine
was so rapid that it soon became evi-
dent that the quarry would have to
be abandoned, and all hands were set
to work to clear the pit of‘ tools and
fixtures that were certain to be flood-
ed and lost in a few hours.

The pump was run up to its ut-
most capacity for some hours, While
the work of removing implements,
cars,turn-tables, track, &c., was going
on, and when, by an accident to the
engine, the pump could no longer be
worked to advantage, “the tug of war”
commenced.

Here was the large pump, weighing
seven tons, 50 feet below the sur-
face of the earth, submerged with
water, and every moment the diflicul-
ty of getting it out was increasing.

But the industry, ingenuity, pluck
and perseverance which has enabled
Day dz Taylor to prosecute the plas-
ter business for the last four years, in
the face of the most formidable oppo-
sition and competition, was suflicient
for the emergency, and the pump, with
discharge pipes weighing more than
800 pounds each, were somehow got
out of the pit.

Though the larger part was saved,
yet considerable property was irre-
coverably lost. When we were there,
five days later, the pit was nearly full
of water, with a mass of lumber and
timber floating on its surface, which
will be recovered-

Here is a body of water, with_ a
surface, including that portion of the
quarry which had been excavated un-
der the rock roof, of nearly an acre.
The open space covers about one-
third of acre, with water 50 feet

(1 e .
elfio. Taylor thought a body of

water of that size was entitled to a

TI-IE GRANGE VlSIT()R..

name, and forthwith christened it
Weston Lake.

With this statement it looks very
much as though the Grangers were at
last beaten, not by the enemies of the
Order, not by plaster manufacturers
or middlemen but by the forces of
nature herself.

VVe have, however, too much confi-
dence in the fundamental principles of
the Order to believe that nature’s
laws were transgressed when the Or-
der was launched upon society, and
that therefore she would aid our
monopolist friends in destroying the
business of Day & Taylor. And so
had they, for within a week after
“ Weston Lake” had quietly come
into existence and had evidently
“ come to stay,” Day and Taylor had
eight teams and forty men at work
removing the earth from the plaster
rock some sixty rods from the mill,
and before our readers get this sheet
well read, a horse railway will have
been constructed from this newly
opened quarry, and rock will be car-
ried over it to the sheds near the mill.

At first sight, this flooding of the
quarry, that had cost so much time
and money to develop appeared like
a great calamity, yet the cost of run-
ning such a powerful pump for so
large a portion of the time as was nec-
essary to keep the quarry free from
water and elevating that water some
sixty feet,was so great,that in the end
we believe it will prove an advantage
rather than a misfortune. The real
loss was in the amount of rock upon
which labor had been bestowed, and
which was nearly in condition to be
drawn out of the pit and corded up
under the sheds. This was quite a
loss but will not in any way incon-
venience their customers,as they have
some 5,000 tons of rock under the
sheds, well seasoned, which is now be-
ing ground. This ‘will be sufficient
to supply all orders they will be like-
ly to get before next March, and the
rock they are now getting out from
the new quarry will be well seasoned
before the old stock is exhausted.

The other manufacturers of’ course
were well posted as to the condition
of the old quarry, and have looked
forward to the time when the deep
pit of Day & Taylor would drive
them out or make ‘the expense of
mining so great that inevitable ruin
would overtake the business and
close out this tenaceous Grange inno-
vation that so wickedly put the price
of plaster down fifty cents per ton
four years ago. Well, that was a
little wicked, when as the combina-
tion stated in open court, plaster
could not be profitably sold for less
than $4 per ton and afford a fair prof-
it on the investment, and that exam-
ple of wickedness has been so followed
by all manufacturers of plaster in the
State that several have gone to finan-
cial ruin altogether, and others have
been and still are working at a loss.

The flooding of the quarry of Day
& Taylor was apparently an event of
quite as much importance to the oth-
er manufacturers as to Day & Taylor,
as it seemed that the “good time com-
ing” had come. But their expetcations
that this flood of water will prove an
ally more powerful than “ cheap plas-
ter” are destined to disappointment.
These Grange manufacturers are still
going to make and sell to other
Grangers cheap plaster, and the
“good time” that was so near has
been indefinitely postponed and the
end has been farther removed from
the begz'7zm'ng by a new lease of life.

VVE find that by an unfortunate ar-
rangement in our reports as tabula-
ted, a few Granges that were entitled
to representation in the County Con-
ventions held on the 7th inst,:were
omitted in our published notice.

As these all held our receipt for
dues paid for the quarter ending March
31st, 1879, we hope they were allowed
to participate in the work of the Con-
vention—have heard of no instances
where representation was denied tho’
the mistake involved the representa-
tion to the State Grange in two_ in-
stances that have come to our notice.

FARMERS’ CLUBS VS. THE
GRANGE.

We find in the Mich. Honzestead of
Oct. 2d, an address delivered by Mr.
N. A. Dunning, a merchant of Mason,
before the Farmers‘ Club of Ingham
County. His subject: “' The relation
between the Farmer and Merchant”
is one that the Farmers’ Club might
very properly desire to have discussed,
and the selection of an intelligent
merchant in their midst to Write up
this subject for their information was
suitable and proper, and we do not
present a part of the essay with any
disposition to find fault either with
the Farmers‘ Club for calling upon a
merchant to enlighten them, or with
Mr. Dunning, for assuming the place
of instructor, but rather to criticise
so much of his essay as relates to the
Grange. VVe gather from the pub-
lished report that Mr. Dunning has
great faith in the sufflciency of Farm-
ers’ Clubs to meet every want that
organization among farmers can ac-
complish.

Mr. Dunning has stated many truths
in that part of’ his address which, for
want of space, we have omitted,
and is probably a very fair sort of a
man, and would have written a much
better'essay if‘ his prejudices had not
stood in the way, or in other words if
he had better understood his subject.
He has evidently accepted the ill con-
sidered talk of some zealous Granger
as the declaration of principles of this
Order, which includes within its mem-
bership such large numbers, that
Farmers’ Clubs numerically consider-
ed dwindle into insignificance in com-
parison. This public instructor seems
not to have discovered the fact that
large numbers of the most intelligent
farmers of the country are members
of the Order, and understanding the
objects and purposes of the organiza-
tion, and what it has already accom-
plished for the agricultural class of
this country are giving the whole
weight of their influence to its support.
It is very common for men to talk that
sort of nonsense on street corners
which Mr. Dunning uttered, but few
men of intelligence at this late day
venture to advertise their ignorance
of the principles of the Order of Pa-
trons of Husbandry from the platform
and spread it before the people of the
State through the press. Mr. Dun-
ning’s mercantile experience has failed
to teach him some quite obvious
truths which it seems to us that con-
stant contact with men, which belongs
to his business, should have made
him acquainted with.

Men are not alike, never have been
and never will be, and being unlike
they always have and always will
travel over different roads to reach
the same objective point. This is true
in religion, in politics,and the various
kinds of education which men seek,
whether it be agricultural, mechanical
professional or scientific.

With some Agricultural Fairs are
the more important means of advanc-
ing the agricultural interests of the
country. With others the Agricultu-
ral Press is sufficient to supply every
need. These have overlooked the
great work of agricultural improve-
ment undertaken by Farmers’ Clubs,
and which to Mr. Dunning furnishes
sufficient foundation on which to build.
With some sanguine, eagar good peo.
ple, the Grange is the only instruc-

tor of value to the farmer. Is it wise
to ignore any of these various means
of’ progress which belong to our time,
but should we not rather encourage
all.

Against the narrow view of our mer-
chant friend, we present the fact, that
the “Declaration of Purposes” of the
Order of P. of H. is an instrument
above all narrow prejudices, broad in
its conceptions, and breathing in every
line a philanthrophy that has shielded
it from criticism from the hour of’ its
adoption by the National Grange until
now.

The Grange presents a complete
system-——an organization for the farm-
ers of the country. not an isolated as-
sociation here and there, having no
connection except the objects held in
common.

That mistakes are sometimes made
by individual members, by subordi-
nate and State Granges, no one will
deny. But the objects and purposes
of the Order cover the educational.
social, and pecuniary interests of the
agricultural class including both
sexes, and the results have so farjust-
ified the means employed, and vindi-
cated the founders of the Order.
Much has already been accomplished
in the brief period of its existence, in
the work of elevating the farmers of‘
the country to a higher plane, and
securing for his class that recognition
which his calling deserves, and we
are thankful to Mr. Dunning for pub-
licly expressing his views of the Or-
der as such statements attract at-
tention, provoke discussion, and
materially aid the Order in the work
it has undertaken.

THE MEETING on THE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE at Grand Rapids,of which
notice was given in the VISITOR, was
held on the evening of the 7th and
continued on the eighth until three
o'clock P. M. All the members were
present. Some cases of appeal which
had been referred to the committee
were disposed of satisfactorally,We be-
lieve. The usual committees were ap-
pointed to make arrangements for the
seventh session of the State Grange
which will probably be held at Lan-
sing, opening on the 9th of Decem-
ber.

Messrs Day & Taylor were present
on the 8th, and a new arrangement
for supplying the Patrons of Michigan
with plaster was entered into. It is
perhaps sufficient for us to say now
that by co-operating with Day & Tay-
lor the Order has not only had cheap
plaster, but last year more finely
ground and really better plaster than
that furnished by other mills. Of the
truth of‘ this last statement we had
abundant evidence of farmers outside
of the Order,who purchased our plaster
in preference to any other, as they
said it was really worth as much again
as that manufactured elsewhere.

Cheap as the plaster has been to the
farmers of Michigan on account of the
successful resistance by our Order to
the combination, the season of 1879-
80 will find it still cheaper, as the
dispositon to kill on the part of the
strongest companies has not yet been
exbausted,and this persistency inures
to the benefit of‘ the farmers of the
State. In our next issue we shall
perhaps have something more to say
on this subject.

A very full account of the Conven-
tion proceedings of the County of
Genessee held at Flint on the 7th inst.
sent me by the Secretary, B. Turner,
would indicate that the Granges in
that County are alive and awake to
the value of the Order, and the impor-
tance of' the work it has to do. He
writes that the Convention unani-
mously resolved to invite Bro. White-
head to deliver an address to the good
people of Genessee in the city of Flint

 


  

      
      
    
     
    
    
     
     
       
     
     
     
      
  
      
    
     
      
      
      
         
       
        
      
       
       
        
        
 
       
       
       
         
       
       
    
   
   
     
   
        
  
      
      
       
       
      
       
         
  
    
       
    
 
   
    
       
          
     
    
   
   
   
     
 

 

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at such time as Bro. 'VVhitney may
determine, and an efficient committee
of arrangements was appointed at the

' time.

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C. L. VVHITNEY, - ° -

MUSKEGON.

Among the Patrons.

The equinoctial storm came on the
13th and 15th of the month, and was a
genuine storm, lasting several days.
\Ve know, because on the 13th there
was to be a grand gala day, with a pic-
nic and boat-ride at Mona. Lake, three
miles out of Muskegon, towards Kala.-
mazoo. Special trains were to stop at
the grounds. reduced rates were to be
given on the trains,and VVorthy Master
Woodman and his wife were to be pres-

: and enjoy the occasion,—but rain

veiliiz, it did from morn till eve., and nd
* eclal trains were needed.
“The rain did not however spoil our
anticipated visit with Bro. and Sister
Woodman, both of whom spent Sunday
with usi _ f U 1_th 1

On tie morning 0 ie a tie
Master and Lecturer of the ’State
Grange took train to Fremont Centre,
en route for Hesperia, where they were
booked for the day. At Fremont Bro.
VValker took us in charge, and with his
strong team soon took us to our desti-
nation.

We were much pleased with the char-
acter of the County through which we
passed, and can see, in the not distant
future, many fine Patron homes, with
surrounding orchards, gardens and
vineyards, backed by well-cultivated
fields antll) pasltiures, where ‘today is
forest, or u a eginning mat e.

Arriving at the little hamlet ef Hes-
peria, we livere escorted by the band to
an unfinished church, where the
speaking was to be. VVhile the pro-
cession was being seated we looked
about and found that there were some
good Patrons here, for fruit, grain and
flowers were displayed in abundance.
We counted at least twelve fine, large,
bouquets of flowers. Pears, apples and
other fruit, with the grain, gave evi-
dence that the brothers and sisters of
this locality have not heard the teach-
ings of our noble Order in vain.

The programme of exercises was ex-
cellent; tlfe choir was well trained, and
gave some fine selections well ex
ecuted,——they were contentlto use the
old Grange songbook, than which we
have never had a better. ”l‘is true,
some of the tunes were old, but all the
better for that, old or new, good or bad,
they are appropriate-while very many
ofthe selections used on such occasions
may be new, they lack appropriate
iie(s)si.d ISomeCclpoirs mig)l_it aspvelltpiiig

8.11)” o e or “ ixie as iose
they somefimes select to sing at Grange
meetings, whether picnics or private
meetings.
thOur friends at Hesperla have our

aiiks for appropriate selections, well
sung.

The meeting being duly called to
order by the Master of the Grange, and
3«_Pl€Ce sung by the choir, the chap-
lain lead in prayer,brief and well adapt-
ed to the occasion. Music followed,
igtelrk which the chaplain, Rev.

21 er, made abrief but well timed
address of welcome, by which all were
made to feel th t th ‘er welcome
indeed. Anothir selzctlbn ewas reu-
dered by the choir, and the Lecturer of
the State Grange was introduced and
Spoke for an hour to a very attentive
allvdience,

l‘lie labors of the forenoon being
Completed, we went to the hall for din-
nel‘. which, as usual, was both good and
iilbaitllrliant. At2P. M. the rain began

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and liirglle en‘Z.‘.’gi‘i“i.. llfii ‘ii: ‘.335.
BF_0. Woodman made one of his best
e,fl01't-S. which seemed well appre-
0lated by all who listened and as the
Pain continued, the audience wduld not
let tile  M stop untila late hour,
Just in time to get home to do the
°h°1'€S. and back to the meeting for in-
Struction in the evening. _ d S t
e we ' , '
McColluri1ef?)l'Sl%: eaflido foljlheaiilightls er

The evening session was well attend-
.°d. many from a long distance remain-
"1t§- All seemed to enjoy the social,
‘:1d._When called to order, everything
, 33 111 place. Fruit, grain and flowers
*1 abundance and in their places;
°'°"Kreen trimmings added to t e gen-

    
   

D

eral effect. In opening, we noticed
that the music was adapted to the occa-
sion. The Grange being open in form,
every person in full regalia, and worn
with dignity and honor, we took espec-
ial pride in giving the higher instruc-
tion of our forms and explaining the
emblematic lessons taught bv our sim-
plest work. ‘

VVhen Patrons shall all learn to think
as well as to act, the Grange will be
better of itself to them, an(l will exert,
quietly but. powerfully, through its em-
blematic instruction, an influence for
good, to-day unknown.

Remember that there is nothing done
in vain. Every sign and signal hasa
lesson; every ceremony is made up of
a series of lessons, taught, it may be.
ever so silently, yetjust as truly. Keep
every ,law, obey every edict, follow
every precept of the Order, and study
its “ Declaration of Purposes,” its pre-
amble and constitution, and every les-
son of its beautiful ritual. In short, be
afull Patron.

Bro. Whitehead.

The VVorthy Lecturer of the Nation-
al Grange will visit Michigan again
this month. His appointments are as
follows:

Tuesday, Oct. 21, To be filled; \Ved-
nesday, Oct. 22, ’l‘o be filled ; ’l‘hur.~day,
Oct. 23, Ccnterville, St, Joseph Co.;
Friday, Oct. 24, Grattan, Kent Co.;
Saturday, :Oct. 2-3. Fremont Centre,
Newaygo Co.; Monday, Oct. 27, South
Boston, Ionia. Co. ; Tuesday 28, Berlin
Centre, Ionia. Co.; Wednesday, Oct.
29, To be filled; Thursday, Oct. 30,
Trent, Muskegon C0.; Friday, 31,
Flint, Genesee Co.

Let every one spread these notices,
and endeavor to attend, and bring his
neighbors with him. All, whether
Patrons or not, should attend these
meetings, and all who have ever been
members should be sure to attend the
Private evening meetings.

The Lecturer of the State Grange
will be with the National Lecturer at
all the meetings to assist him, and will
be glad to meet Patrons and arrange
for future meetings in this—the open-
ing of the winter campaign.

llall Dedication.

The Patrons of Trent, Muskegon Co.,
have their new hall nearly ready for
use. it will be formally dedicated on
Thursday, Oct. 30, 1 o’clock I’. M., at
which time Bro. Whitehead, Lecturer
of the National Grange, will be present
and address the farmers present. All
are invited

Worth Preserving.

1,000 laths will cover 70 _yards of siir-
face, and 11 pounds of nails put them on.
Eight bushels of good lime, 15 bushels
of sand, 1 bushel of hair, make about
enough mortar to plaster 100 square
yards. A cord of ston-3,3 bushels of
lime and a cubic yard of sand will lay
100 cubic feet of wall. One thousand
shingles laid 4 inches to the weather,
will cover 100 square feet of surface, and
5 pounds of nails fasten them on. One-
fifth more siding and flooring is needed
than the number of square feet of_ sur-
face, because of the lap in the siding
and the matching of the floor. Five
courses of brick will lay 1 foot in height
on a chimney; 6 bricks in a. course will
make a flue 4 inches wide and 12 long,
and 8 bricks in a course make a flue 8
inches wide and 16 long.

 

CUTTING GRASS.—CllemlC:ll analyses
and common experience has proven
that grass cut when in blossom is bet-
ter for cows than when cut later. For
horses and working cattle it is better
when more nearly ripe, lfut not woody.
Asa rule farmers dry iay too much.
Cured grass is far better every way,
cheaper to make and better to feed.
Grass cut in the morning and shaken up
once or twice in agood hay day, is cured
enough, as a rule, to be carried to the
barn in the afternoon. With a. good
mowing machine to do the work quick-
ly, time may be saved by not cutting un-
til the dew is ofl'. Or the same result
will be obtained by late cutting in the
afternoon, the grass lying flat prevents
the dew from getting to the ground, and
only the top is moistened.

________—————-

A little girl asked her grandma. how

many glasses of beer _it took to make
9. person walk lame.

THE THREE LESSONS.

There are three lessons I would write—
Three words as with burning pen,

In tracings of eternal light,
Upon the hearts of men.

Have Hope. Though clouds environ now,
And gladness hide: her face in scorn,

Put thou the shadow from the brow—
No night but hath its morn.

Have Faith. Wherc’re thy bark is driven ,
The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth,
Know this, God rules the hosts of Heaven,

The inhabitants of earth.

Have Love. Not love alone for one,
But man, as man, thy brother call.

And scatter like the circling sun
Thy charities on all.

Thus grave these lessons on thy soul,
Hope, Faith and Love,and thou shalt find
Strength, when life’s surges rudest roll,
Light, when thou else were blind.
—ScInlIer.

The Good Conversationalist.
The good conversationalist has many

gifts, none of which are intrusive. He

or she is called by some general term——
charming, delightful, fascinating, but
seldom clever. All the gifts are spon-

taneous; felt, not criticised; but, where

the one that posesses them comes into
the room, a light seems to enter. Good

conversation is never ostentatious ; it is
facile and simple, gently capricious,

gracefully lively; it has the easy charm

that makes something of nothing, giv-
ing a value to the common place from

the fashion of its utterance. lt must be
Protees-like—ever changing. It must
never be prepared, never be a pre-oc-
cupation or a pretension, never seek to
be epigramatic, witty, sentimental, or
romantic. Fate has its revenge on those
who seek to elude this law of sponta-
neity. If it be aggravating enough to
think of the repartee that would so
egectively have capped our friend's last
speeeh, when the discussion between
us in a thing of the past, and he is out
of earshot, it is yet more mortifying,
when next time we meet and cunningly
bring round the talk to the point where
we left off, and at the proper place shott
off our poli.-hed and cherished repartee,
to find it fall, nevertheless, like an ar-
row from an unstrung how. The secret
of conversation liespar eascellence in its
improvisation. It is the word rising
fresh and sparkling from the inspiring
source of the present emotion.

Home Coniforts allllltlltflr Eift-ct upon
Health.

It is not clear, but it may be sus-
pea-ted that there is some element at
work in the present state of civilization
which renders the more gently nur-
tuied, or more highly cultured, mem-
beis of society especially unfitted to
resist malarial influence. Connected
with this, must be born in mind the
manner in which the external annui-
phere is more and more kept out from
our houses. Doors and windows close
better. Drafts are more carefully ex
cluded than formerly. Appliances are
introduced for artificially warming the
passages and vestibules, the natural
function of which place is to afford a
gradual transition from the warm at-
mosphere of a chamber to the external

temperature. Clothing is much more‘

complex than was formerly the case.
In the time of our grandfathers a man
was considered a puppy who wore an
overcoat. VVhat would these hardy
gentlemen have said to the ulst_er of
the present? or the seal skin jacket and
coat '2 Human habit is so much modi-
fied by circumstances, that the adop-
tion or all these safeguards against an
occasional chill may have a direct ten-
dency to lower the resisting power of
the constitution. And there are well-
known facts that square with this view.
Such is the influence on the constitu-
tion of the prolonged heat of tropical
or sub-tropical countries. The infer-
ence is not unnatural that the greater
comfort, as we regard it—-at all events,
the more sustained heat which we are
steadily giving to our abodes—is really
tending to lower our constitutional
power of resist-ence, not only to the
great tonic, cold, but to those influences
against which that tonic has the prime
function of strengtlining the frame.——
Builder.

 

Autumn leaves will wear the same
colors this year as last. There is no
fashionable nonsense about Nature.

Advice to Young Writers.

\Villiam Cullen Bryant once gave
the following sensible advice to a young
man who had offered him an article for
his paper:
My young friend, I observe that you
have used several French expressions
in your letter. I think, i‘ you will study
the English language, that you will
find it capable of expressing all the
ideas that you may have. I have always
found it so, and in all that I have writ-
ten -I do not recall an instance where I
was tempted to use a. foreign word, but
that, on searching, I have found a bet-
ter one in my own language.

Be simple, uiiaffected; be honest in
your speaking and writing. ‘Never use
a llolng word when a short one will do as
we .

Call a spade by its name, not a well
know oblong instrument of manual la-
bor; let a home be a home, and not a
residence: a place not a locality, and
so on of the rest. VVhen a short word
will do, you always lose by a long one.
You lose in clearness; you lose in lion-
est expression of meaning; and, in the
estimation of all men who are capable
of judging, you lose in reputation for
ability.

The only true way to shine, even in
this false world, is to be modest and un-
assuming. Falsehood may be a thick
crust, but in the course of time truth
will find a place to break through. Ele-
gance of language may not be in the
power of us all, but simplicity and
straightforwardness are.

Write much as you would speak, and
as you think. If with your interior,
speak no coarser than usual: if with
your superior, speak no finer. Be what
you say, and within the rules of pru-
dence. No one ever was a. gainer by
singularity of words or in pronunciation.
The truly wise man will so speak that
no one will observe how he speaks.
man may show great knowledge of chem-
istry ‘by carrying bladders of strange
gases to breathe; but one will enjoy bet-
ter health, and find more time for busi-
ness, who lives on common air.

Sidney Smith once remarked: “After
you have written an article, take your
pen and strike out half the words, and
you will be surprised to see how much
stronger it is.

A Saving of Time.
It is narrated in the “\Vorks of Dr.
Franklin,” by VV. Temple Franklin, that
at one time the youth Benjamin, having
found that his father was very long in
his graces before and after meals, one
day after the wiiiter’s provisions had
been salted, advised him that “he
thought if he would say grace over the
whole cask once for all, it would be a
great saving of time,” a suggestion that
poor Richard had an eye to business
and time as the basis of wealth even as
pertaining to spiritual matters, the prac-
tice of which, we think, would be of
great benefit in the present day; and
could the return of our philosophical
friend he heralded, we must needs ex-
pect to hear of him in his practical nian-
ner greet the old apple woman, who so
eager to follow the examples of the
printer boy, and that in old age her fail-
ing inemory to be prompted by them
has been pleased to attempt her daily
vocation seated at the head of the grave
of this venerable seer in Christ’s Church-
yard, Philadelphia.

   

Ixxocnxr MiR'rn.—There are a large
class of people who deem the business
oflife far too weighty and momentous
to be made light of; who would leave
merriinent to children, and laughter to
idiots; and who hold that a joke would
be as much out of place on their lips 21.‘.
on a gravestone or in a ledger. Surely
it cannot be requisite to a. man’s being
in earnest, that he should wear a per-
petual frown. Is there less of sincerity
in Nature doing her gambols in spring,
than during the stiffness and harshness
of her wintry gloom? And is it then al-
together impossible to take up one’s
abode with truth, and to let all sweet
homely feelings grow about it and clus-
ter around it, and to smile upon it as a
kind father or mother, and to sport
with it, as with a loved brotheror sister;
and to fondle it, and play with it, as a
child.

COURAGE AND Mi«:ExNr~:ss.—Courage is
always greatest when blended with
meekness. Intellectual ability is most
admired when it sparkles in the setting
of modest distrust. And never does the
human soul appear so strong as when it
forgoes revenge and dares to forgive in-

jury.

  
  
 
  
  
   
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
  
  
   
 
 
  
 
 
  
  
 
   
  
  
  
 
  
  
 
   
  
  
 
  
   
   
   
     
     
        
        

 


 

The Electric Light.

 

The above is perhaps one of the most
mentioned and least understood mat-
ters of interest at the present time. The
general reader is continually reminded
that Edison or some other man has just
done, or is about to do, or has failed to
do something of special importance to
the subject under consideration, but
what the nature of that something was,
or would have been, people of ordinary
information are about as much in the
dark as if the thing had been put under
a bushel before lightinginstead of after-
ward.

Up to the time of seeing, a few weeks
ago, such lights in apparently success-
ful operation, I had not been able to
obtain from the public prints the least
idea as to how the electricity was gen-
erated, conducted or utilized in the pro-
duction of light. My only apology for
now attempting a fewlines in reference
to the affair is found in the supposition
that multitudes of others are still situ-
ilarly ignorant. What little insight I
gained of its mysteries was by ques-
tioning the superintendent, who was a
mechanic and could make the machine,
but not being versed in the science of
electricity did not profess to explain it.
In the first place, the generator is sim-
ply a machine, and nothing else, since
no battery, combustion. decompo-
sition, or other destruction of parts or
substances is involved, save only the
friction of the best-oiled journals. It
is called the magneto-electric machine,
butis is said to contain no permanent
magnets. The machine proper is about
the size of a large threshing-cylinder,
and when disconnected from the wires
is more easily revolved, since only
obout one-third is required to move at
all, the ends being stationary. VVhat
the working parts of the machine con-
sists of, besides soft iron and insulated
copper wires, or how they are com-
bined, I am unable to explain, and can
find no description of it in works of
comparatively recent date. A single
copper wire, about No. 9. I should
judge, makes a complete circuit of the
buildings and grounds where lights are
to be used, and has its ends attached to
the ends of the electric machine.

This much arranged, producing elec-
tricity appears to be simply a question
of velocity and power. The light itself
seems but an electric spark on alarge
scale, sufiicieiitly multiplied to make it
continuous. For this purpose a simple
break in the wire and aseparation of
the parts, not to exceed one-eighth of
an inch, would be all that is necessary,
only for the fact that the ends of the
wire would be speedily melted. making
the separation too great, and thus ex-
tinguishing thejlight. To obviate this
difficulty, points or pencils of carbon,
about three-eights of an inch in diam-
eter, and one footin length, are used to
make what we might term the broken
connection. So intense is the heat that
the carbons are consumed at the rate of
one inch per hour, a piece of ingenous
mechanism, regulated by the current of
electricity, causing them to approach
each other as fast as consumed. The
lights are enclosed in glass globes,either
of plain or ground glass, and for out-
door use, are placed 20 to 30 feet high.
Such lights are estimated at 2,000 can-
dle power each, displacing from 25 to
100 gas burners with a single light. I
was informed the light itself was not
larger than the sulphur end ofa match.
Small bugs and flies buzzing around
the light cast shadows as large as
hawk or pigeons, the shadows being
lively as well as large. A single hair
passed through the light at a distance
of more than fifty feet from the light
casts a distinct shadow. A small wire
passed through the light meets the
same fate as a thread passed through
the blaze ofa candle. So much for ef-
fects, and now a little in regard to
causes.

The machine which I saw was called
an 18 light machine, smallerones being
made for a less, aud larger ones for a
greater number of lights. The first
natural conclusion would be that where
so much is coming out of a machine,
something must be done to keep up the
supply; cut this is an exception. It ‘IS
only a matter of a little more coal,_oil,
and attendance, whether the light
burns till morning or only until mid-
night. The material of which the
light is formed seems to be everywhere
present and inexhaustable. The wire
is not luminous, though some faint but
lively sparks are seen, as though there
was a little crowding among the parti-
cles of electricity attein ting 10 89'? 011
the wire. The magnet c wheel is run

 GRANGE VISITOR.

ata veloclty of nearly 800 revolutions
per minute, requiring a force of a little
less than one horsepower for each light
burning, A knife blade, or other piece
of steel, held within a few inches of
the revolving wheel, becomes perma-
nently magnetized. If watches are
carried too near the machine, while in
motion, the springs and other parts of
steel become permanently magnetized
so as to destroy their usefulness forever
as time-keepers.

The electric lamps are removed from
tne circuit in much the same manner
in which a telegraph instrument is de-
tached from connection with the wire.
Turning offa portion ofthe lights with-
out not-if 'ing the engineer, rapidly in-
creases t e velocity of the machine,
while turning them all off‘, or what is
the same, cutting one of the wires, has
the same effect as throwing oil‘ the belt.
If an engine were pumping water we
can easily see why greater power should
be required to run 16 hydrants or foun-
tains than 12, but where nothing is
raised or drawn except what can pass
along a solid wire without increasing
its weinglit or bulk, it is not so easy to
tell just what that extra power is doing
—or why the loss of it is so quickly
felt. Again, two miles of wire is equal
to the resisistance of a single light, so
that a machine capable of running 16
lights close at band, could only supply
half that number located 16 miles
away, unless the power could be corres-
pondingly increased. This fact would
show one of the difficulties of using
the same methodjof generating electric-
ity for telegraphic purposes, while reg-
ulating the current would doubtless be
onother. Another natural supposition
would be, that the light nearest the
machine, measuring on the line by
which the current was sent, would be
the most brilliant, each succeeding one
diminishing according to its numerical
position ; but I could not learn that
such was the case. There was no indi-
cation, not even in the last light, that
the oil had been burned before.

Judging from appearances, as well as
from the statements of those who
ought to know, the electric light is a
success, economically considered, asa
means of furnishing light in large
quantities. Since no material is used,
the wear of machinery is very slight,
tho cost of power is about the only one
that enters into the calculation. VVhere
power is cheap or already in use, that
objection is easily removed.

Whether such lights can be furnished
on a small scale, or in small quantities,
is yet a matter of experiment, with the
chances seemingly favorable to success.
The field for such experiments is large
and greatly diversified. There are
times when, if the farmer had some
cheap and effective means of illuminat-
ing his harvest fields and barns, the
hardest of the work might be done
during the coolest part of the day, in-
stead of under the scorching rays of the
sun. Think also of the saving that
would result from handlinggrain with-
out any unnecessary waste by shelling.
For dwellings, a small machine might
perhaps be operated by heavy weights
to run down slowly, as in automatic
churn powers, etc. By attaching the
concern to an alarm clock, a bright
light in every sleeping room and a fire
in the cook-stove could be started at a
certain hourin the morning. Getting
up early in cold weather would thus be
robbed of half its terrors, and regular-
ity of habits great promoted if the same
uniformity prevailed at night. Editors
and newspaper correspondents might
be furnished with individual instru-
ments operated by a treadle, so that
when one stopped to think the motion
of the foot would naturally cease, leav-
ing the writer in the dark literally in-
stead of figuratively, as is now so fre-
quently the case. if stopping to think
was made the easiest part of the writ-
ing and less writing the result, the en-
tire reading public would be put under
everlasting obligations to the success-
ful experimenter.

I have no disposition to “make
light” of this matter, but most espec-
ially am in earnest in hoping this
crude sketch may be the means of
provoking some competent person to
furnish a plain and practicisl treatise on
the subject, for the benefit of those who
are unable to obtain such information
from purely scientific works. 0.
—Husbaudman.

 

LABOR and capital are Siamese
twins. Together, they must continue
in harmony, or neither can be satis-

fied, and sundred, both must die.

Why am I a Gangerl

VVhile the principles, purposes, and
work of the Grange have been uniform
and unchanged, it will readily be ac-
knowledged that many persons joined
the Order with expectations and de-
signs foreign to what was contemplated
by its founders, and what a subsequent
experience proved to be the true iri-
terest of the farmer. Many were tempt-
ed by the baldest and most childish
curiosity to see and know what this
secret society with a new and untried
name was. Others, and not a few—
needy, poor, in debt. looking for the
sheriff—saw in it a money-making
scheme to lift them out of the mire.
Still others, with an itching palm for
oflice, saw in it a royal road to prefer-
ment and political dignities. And
others, looking with undisguisted con-
cern at the rapacity, extortion, and
far-reaching purposes of monopolies
and imposing corporations, saw a rem-
edy in the consolidated effort of the
great conservative class of the country.
With all these there was still another
element, few in numbers, strong in
faith and principle, who believed that
the Grange was simply a development
and outgrowth of the times, having for
its object the advancement of agricul-
ture, and the highest good to the tiller
of the soil.

V-Vith these diverse opinions and pur-
poses, the Order swept through the
land likeawhirlwind. In the turmoil,

confusion, and uncertainty, the Na-
tional Grange in session at St. Louis,
published to the world its “Declara-

tion of Principles,” which in eloquent
terms stated what the Grange was and
what it proposed to do. It tore aside
the veil of mystery; held up to the
public view the object it sought to
attain, and laid bare the secret processes
of its machinery. This public paper
dissapated the expectations of many
who had joined the Order and built
their air castles on a false and shadowy
basis. That they failed is not a matter
of surprise. They who joined in the
first instance, from narrow and selfish
ends, or who failed to see its b‘eneficent
reach and intent, dropped out by the
way, and left a moiety to work out the
problem which so nearly concerned the
entire agricultural class. It becomes
pertinent, therefore, to ask the question
that forms the caption of the article.
VVith a clear conception of the aims
and purposes of the Order, and its
methods of accomplishing these ends,
there need be no apprehensions of the
ultimate triumph over all opposition,
and that through this agency will be
developed a conservative power essen-
tial to the best and permanent interests
of the country.-—Bulletin.
________m___.__
Causes of Commercial Depression.

The following is the passage in his
speech at the Lord Mayor’s dinner in
which Lord Beaconsfield referred to
the causes of commercial depression:

“ My Lord Mayor, I should be glad if
on this occasion I could congratulate
the city of London on the termination
of that commercial depression which
has now for more than four years
weighed, not only on this, but on every
civilized community. Thisis not the
occasion on which one can enter into
any analysis of the causes of that re-
markable depression. Without, ho V-
ever, venturing now to enter into the
primary cause of this distress, I think
I am not indulging in any unauthor-
ized belief when I say that among its
secondary and immediate causes we
may ascribe much of what we have
been sufi"ering to a reckless spirit of
speculation. The course of affairs in
these periodical collapses in our general
industry seems to be something in this
wise: The wealth of the world is sud-
denly augmented, for example, by a
series of good harvests, or by the in-
crease of precious metals. Then there
is great enterprise; it generally takes
the form of public works, like railroads
in this country thirty years ago, or re-
cently in Russia and the United States.
All goes on_very well till the enterprise
degenerates into speculation. Men get
intoxicated with prosperity; they act
without attempting to estimate the ca-
pacity of consumption; they assume
that exceptional circumstances will
never change- , that there will always
be exuberant harvests, always an in-
creasing flow of the precious metals,
and that mankind will never cease to
construct railroads. Acting without
any reference to the requirements of
mankind, there comes a collapse. I

‘—‘—*—~

fear there is no cure for these evils ex.
cept time and the beneficence of Provi-
dence. Considerable time has already

elapsed. Those who study the situa.

tioii with the attention it deserves,’

have even now for some
signs of amelioration ;
signs of amelioration are
the ample harvests of the
ally we may have seen
hour. ”——Euem‘ng Post.

time observed
and if these
supported by
world gener-
the darkest

 

What a Boy Did.

In the report of the poultry commit-
tee of the Massachusetts Board of Ag.
riculture we find an account of a youth
who two or three years ago “ took into
his head” to keep fowls for profit, and
this is what. he did: VVith his own
hands he built a moderate sized henery
which improved his mechanical ability,
purchased a small number of fowls and
took care of them while attending school
and doing his proportion ofthe“chores.”
In about one year and a half he cleared,
after paying for everything that his
fowls consumed, one hundred and forty
dollars, and yet he spent no more time
with his fowls than most of his school-
mates did in their amusements, which
brought them nothing and without
doubt caring for his pets gave him as
much satisfaction as anything else could
have done. He made his money simply
by having a regular daily system of
cleanliness and feeding those few fowls,
and properly caring for their eggs and
increase. Some Saturday in the fall,
when “school did not kt-ep,l’ he drew
in a lot of gravel, which he piled in a
convenient place, kept a layer of that
fresh, flne gravel on the floor of his hen
house for the fowls to wallow in. He
kept the walls and ceiling of the house
whitewashed, and sprinkled a little
powdered sulphur about to keep off the
lice. On a board platform a little above
ground, under the roosts, he caught the
droppings, which he cleared off every
week, sprinkling the floor of course
with ashes or sand, or the two mixed.
He kept oyster shells before the fowls
constantly, and often threw to them
cabbage leaves, turnip tops and the like
and gave them a variety of food at regu-
lar intervals. He generally gave them
a variety—usually a warm dish ofscald-
ed Indian meal and shorts every morn-
ing, and often in cold weather seasoned
it with pulverized cayenne pepper. In
the afternoon be fed whole grain, such
as damaged wheat, oats or corn (we
would advise the boys to feed good grain
always). Once or twice a week he gave
a little chopped meat or scraps, and
keptalittlc tub of fresh water in one
corner. The consequence was that
many afternoons he collected from fif-
teen to twenty-five eggs even in the
coldest days of winter. Now what is
there to prevent the children of the en-
tire “Nation’s” family from doing so
well as this Yankee boy did ‘? They
may not have a taste for the care of
poultry but is there not something that
may be done about the farm and home
that may give healthful, innocent
amusement, and at the same time help
on to a life of pecuniary independence '.’

Won't they all take hold and see what
they can do ‘!—Rev2'ew.

   

John Smith—and twenty-six of him
at that——is in the Massachusetts States
prison.

A Delaware girl calls her beau Luci-
fer, because he is such a good match.

A lame farmer was asked if he had a
corn on his toe. “No,” he said, “ but
I’ve got lots on the ear.”

John Dog petitioned the Massachu-
setts legislature to change his name, and
they made it John Kerr, and he was
happy.

Too austere a. philosophy makes few
wise men; too rigorous politics few
good subjects; too hard a religion, few
religious persons whose devotion is of
long continuance.—St. Evremond.

MILDEW. —— Moisten the mlldewed
spot with clear water then rub over it a
thick coating of castile soap. Scrape
chalk with the soap, mixing and rub-
hing with the end ofthe finger. Some-
times one coating suffices,but generally
several are required.

3' _It has been decided that stamps on
misdirected letters that have not been
transmitted through the mails though
canceled, be accepted as good ; also that
stamps on letters for foreign countries
requiring prepayment, stopped for de-
ficient postage, shall be regarded as an
installment of the proper prepayment.

I


  

garlic’ glcpartment.

   

THE CHILDREN.

When the lessons and tasks are all ended,
And the school for the day is dismissed,
The little ones gather around me,
To bid me good night and be kissed ;
Oh l the little arms that encircle
My neck in their tender embrace ;
Oh l the smiles that are halos of heaven,
Shedding sunshine of love on my face.

And when they are gone. I sit dreaming

‘ Of my childhood. too lovely to last;

of joy that my heart will remember,
While it wakes to the pulse of the past;

Ere the world and its wickedness made me
A partner of Sorrow and Sin,

When the glory of God was about me,
And the glory of gladness within.

Oh I my heart grows as weak as a woman's
And the fouiit of my feelings will flow,
When I think of the paths, steep and stony,

Where the feet of the dear ones must go;
Of the mountains of Sin hanging o'er them,
Oithe tempest of Fate blowing Wild ;—

Oh ! there's nothing on earth half so holy,
As the innocent heart of a child.

They are idols of hearts and of households,
They are angels of God in disguise ;

His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses—
His glory still gleams in their eyes ;

Oh 3 those truants from home and from

sg heaven, _
They have made me more manly and mild,

And I know, now, how Jesus could liken
The kingdom of God to a child.

 

I ask not a life for the dear ones
All radiant as others have done :

But that life may have just enough shadow
To temper the glare of the sun ;

I will pray God to guard them from evil,
But my prayers would bound back to my-

self;

Ah I a saraph may pray for a sinner,

But a sinner must pray for himself.

The twig is so easily bended,
I have banished the rule and the rod;
1 have taught them the goodness of knowl-
edge ;
They have taught me the goodness of God.
My heart is a dungeon of darkness,
Where I shut them for breaking a rule ;
My frown is sufficient correction ;
My love is the law of the school.

I shall leave the old house in the autumn,
To traverse its threshold no more ;
. h 1 how I sigh for the dear ones,
That meet me each morn at the door:
I shall miss the “ good-nights” and the ki
And the gush of their innocent glee ;
The group on the green, and the flowers
That are brought every morning for m

I shall miss them at morn and at even»-
Their song in the school and the street ;
Ishall miss the low hum of their voices,
And the tramp of their delicate feet.
When the lesssons of Life are all ended.
. And Death says : “ The school is dismis-
-. sedl ”
' May the little ones gather around me,
To bid ine good-night and be kissed.

—Charles Dickinson

Bro. Cobb :
Sister Sikes asks where our former
contributors are. I can't say, but I wish
they would speak for themselves. I am
sorry the ague had hold of Sister
Sykes when Bro. Vvhitehead was here.
I looked for her at Bainbridge, and
Wondered why she was not there, but I
said to myself, “ She will be at Paw
P_aw.” I learned from a neighbor out-
Eltle the gates that they had a rousing
meeting at Paw Paw.
Just following Sister Sykes’ letter, I
See one from Royallon. I thought I
law many things there (but noth-
mg to criticise). but I cannot point out
9 good sister who went without
Uoinbing her hair, or the ones who but-
toii their boots on the way. So I guess
that is as good a way as any—certainly
better than to stay at home, or be late.
. “la Perhaps, I was too deeply engaged
_ll1e business before the Grange to
.,- notice closely;if so, I hope everyone
;— 9 59 Was as much interested I do not
‘men have the privilege of attending
he Grange, and when I do get a
ie 31106 to listen to the discussion of an
nleresting subject, I give that all my
‘mention. I received more new ideas
and Old ones expanded and placed in a
Ce“ llght at that one meeting of the
.°““t.Y Grange, than I could have
_ mcked up in one year of staying at
- o;’“1e._ we did before the Grange was
_ m.3“’"Ztfl. The foregoing brings to
.. ""3 this thought, How much less the
, ‘angel’ women” visit and gossip
0 ‘It their neighbors than they used to
bel

I Ollly all farmers’ wives could
“ [119 Grange, and once become in-
_In the work, there would be
‘°'“°thing besides senseless and oft-

THE  VISITOR.

times damaging gossip to claim their
attention, when two or more of them
meet together; and, again, much of
endless neighborhood visiting would be
dropped, when all meet together every
fortnight ; or oftener, we would not be
called upon to put in half a day every
three or four days to entertain com-
pany.
_ Do not understand me as discourag-
ing sociability among neighbors, but
merely liiiitingtlie idea of a neighbor-
hood where the women had ideas above
gossip and contriving a way to get
something good to eat away from
home

Hope some good sister will find fault
with this, so that I can have a chance
to say something more on the subject.

Fraternally,
. F.

Banged Hair.

That many of the prevalent fashions
are extremely unbecoming it is well-
nigh useless to mention. Everybody
knows except the women who wear
them. They may know it, too; but
they are so set on the fashion that some
of them would rather be thought fash-
ionable than good-looking.

Of all the positive ugly methods now
current, the mode of wearing their hair
“ banged, ” or combed down over the
brow, is perhaps the ugliest. It had its
origin, we think, among the demi-
monde of Paris, where so many fash-
ions rise, was copied in England, par-
ticularly in London, and was finally
imitated here. It clearly betrays its
origin, and is worthy thereof, for it
gives a woman a bold, hard, impudent
look, such as com ports with the charac-
ter, or absence of character, of its orig-
iiiators.

There never has been a human crea-
ture who was not detcrioated by this
style of wearing the hair, unless per-
haps a. person of receding forehead and
imbecile semblance In such a case, as
the defect of the brow is partially hid-
den, banging may be recommended.
But very few women who bang their
hair could hardly be persuaded that
their facial outline denotes weakness
of intellect, although the habit certain-
ly does.

Banging entirely destroys the effect
of a fine forehead, and lends to the
whole face a degree of insipidness, even
of vulgarity, which hardly any banger.
if she could realize its full force, would
incur.

It is suprising how many women,
very nice women some of them, bang
their hair in this, and in other cities —
I-V. Y. '1’/'2'bune.

Tell Your Wife.

The following advice from a corres-
pondent of the Couritry Gentleman is
well worthy of acceptance, but we would
add a little more to it in the form of a
suggestion, that in case you are a. farmer
and have no wife———get one.

lfyou are in any trouble or quandary,
tell your wife—Ll1at is if you have one
—all about it at once. Ten to one her
invention will solve your difiiculty
sooner than all your logic. The wit of
woman has been praised, but her in-
stincts are quicker and keener than her
reason. Counsel with your wife, your
mother, or your sister, and be assured
light will flash upon your darkness.
Women are too commonly adjudged
verdant upon all but purely womanish
matters. No philosophical students of
the sex thus adjudged them. Their in-
tuitions, or insights, are the most sub-
tle, and if they cannot see a cat in the
meal, there is no cat there. I advise
a man to keep none of his affairs :1
secret from his wife. VVoman is far
more a seer-and a prophet than man.
Many a home has been happily saved,
and many a fortune retrieved by a
man’s full confidence in his wife. Asa
general rule, wives confide the minu-
test of their plans and thoughts to their
husbands. Why not reciprocate, it but
for the pleasure of meeting confidence
with confidence‘? I am certain no man
succeeds so well in the world as he who,
taking a partner for life, makes her the
partner of his purposes and hopes.
What is wrong of his impulse o_rjudg-
ment, she will check and set right by
almost universally rightinstincts. And
what she most craves and most deserves
is confidence, without which love is
never free from a shadow.——E:cchomge.

A New York woman says. Wml much
truth: “ Were it not for the self-sacri-

ficing women of the land, who marry

-“ It runs fast enough to suit us.

and suppoit so many men, the number
of tramps would be largely increased.”

Gliurresixumlente. I

VEmroNrviLLi-2, Oct. 10th, ’79.
Bro. J. T. Cobb‘.-

Vermontville Gruiigc is neither dead
nor buried. but is trying to work out
its own salvation after such method as
itseems best able to lay hold of.

For the quarter ending March illst,
our Secretary holds your receipt for 74
members. During May we adopted ar-
ticles of association, and became incor-
porated. This course gave some of our
indil'l“erent and inactive members an
opportunity to slide out, which some
of them did very gracefully. This, of
course, discouraged us somewhat, but
we kept at work, holding meetings,
discussions and Socials, and are hoping
to regain what we have lost.

Books have been opened for subscrip-
tion to stock for the purchase of a site
for a Patrons’ storehouse for the ship-
ment of our faam products.

A plow trial was appointed for Oct.
8th, on the farm of Bro. Lockwood
Ward, but, owing to the rain, it was
not a success. Six plows appeared and
were tried only as two-horse plows, in
sod. These trials have been held by
nearly every Grange in the County, but
as some of them have been so incom-
plete, a general trial has been called for
Oct. 14th, near Charlotte.

Recently We have admitted three
members, one of whom, Bro. Mears,
you will remember seeing at the last
State Grange. We have lost by death
one of our older and charter members,
Bro. W. W’. VVarner (also a pioneer of
Eaton County), who was buried with
our ceremony last Tuesday.

So we pass, mingling trial with toil
and pain with pleasure, learning to
labor and to wait.

Fratcriially yours,
B. E. BENEDICT.

Bro. J. T Cobb:

A few words in favor of Grange busi-
ness. I met more earnest working
members this year at the convention
than ever before. The Order appears
to be reviving a little in our County,
and with a little help I think we can
have a grand revival. The convention
gave a unanimous vote to have a Coun-
ty Grange formed here. It was left
with Bro. J. Dennis to communicate
with the General Deputy. The com-
miltee extends an invitation to all to be
present when we meet for that purpose.

Yours fraternally,
R C. N.

ORANGEVILLE, Barry Co. Mich,

Grange Meetings.

The regular meeting of the Living-
ston County Council will be held in
Knapp’s block, Howell, Tuesday, Nov.
4th. Festival at 11 o’clock, prompt.
Business of importance will be brought
before the council at one o'clock.

MRs. \V. K. SEXTON.
Secretary.

Cass County Pomona Grange will
hold its regular quarterly meeting at
Cassopolis, on Wednesday, Oct. 29th, at
10 o’clock A. M. All members of the
Order are cordially invited to attend.

Respectfully,
WM. E. VVILLIAMS.
Secretary.

THREE RIVERS, Oct. 13, 1879.
Bro. J. 1‘. Cobb.-

St. Joseph County Grange will hold
aspecial meeting in Burr Oak, at the
Grange Hall, on the first Thursday in
November, at 10 o’clocd A. am. All
members of the Order are cordially in-
vited to attend. Fraternally_

VV. G. LELAND, Sec.

ON a railway line, recently, a passen-
ger stopped the conductor and asked,
“ Why does not the train run. faspfar? ”

you
don't like the rate of speed get off
and walk," was the rejoinder.” .“I
would,” replied the passenger settling
back in the seat, “ but my friends
wouldn’t come for me until the train
comes in, and I don't want to be wait-
ing around the station two or three

hours.”

Grange Politics.

The politics as taught in the Grange
are intended to enable the farmers to fit
themselves to fill, with ability, any po-
sition in the government. Not that we
desire any class legislation, but that our
profession and interests shall no longer
be ignored.

In the Grange meetings we can come
together as good citizens, looking not
only to our own welfare and interests,
but the we] fare and interest of the
whole country, and of all people of
whatever class or profession; and calm-
ly and intelligently consider some of
those expensive trappings of govern-
ment, both State and National, and see
if they cannot be dispensed with, with-
out any very great injury or detriment
to the public service. We will go fur-
ther, and see if some very important
improvements may not be introduced
to enhance the general prosperity, and
while doing this we will also have an
eye to our own great agricultural inter-
est, upon which resls the prosperity of
all others. We will constantly and per-
sistenlly insist that the Agricultural
Bureau shall be recognized, and shall
be conducted in the interest of the
farming community, instead of parti-
san politicians, and that it shall have
at its head a Cabinet olficer, who will
see to it that it shall be so conducted.——

Virginia Granger.

Discipline in the Grange.

The value of discipline is seen in a
well trained army, or any other body
of men. when contrasted with those
where there is no order or discipline.
Proud achievements mark the course of
one, disaster and ruin the other. The
sailor, the soldier, the mechanic, the
merchant, the lawyer, and the doctor
must each be trained and skilled in his
calling or he is a failure. \Vhy should
not a farmer be trained to do his work
skillfully and in accordance with ap-
proved scientific principles? The farm-
er works.‘ as hard perhaps as an aver-
age of other trades and professions, but
very often not to so good purpose.
Does not a farmer frequently seize a
stump a log, or a stone and move it by
main strength, when a little manage-
ment would have done the same thing
just as well and easier. It is the duty
ofevery one to use his faculiies, and
not to waste his strength; the farmer
who uses his brains and his hands suc-
ceeds much better than he who uses
his hands alone. But to be affective,
the work of the farmer must be done
with precision and exactness, for work
but half done is better not done at all.
One who would succeed islike a m."Iks-
man firing at a target—if his shots miss
the mark there is a waste of powder.
So it is in the Grange, it is a great
school for farmers, but what we do
must be done so it will count or we will
make but poor lieadway.—Der2'go Ru-
rul.

DIVERTING ATTENTION.—— A child
naturally cries when it is hurt, and it is
cruel to try to hush its cries by threats.
A thousand times better it is to soothe
it kindly by stories, by explaining pic-
tures, or by providing it with new toys.
“We have, many a time.” saysa famous
doctor, “in our professional experience,
as to sick children, found more benefit
to be derived from a beautiful or inter-
esting toy than from a dose of physio.”
The greatest humanity a mother can
exhibit in respect to her sick child is to
divert it in all pleasing ways possible,
as we ourselves, who are larger chil-
dren, feel sometimes really sick, when
a. cheerful face and much-loved friend
has come in, and before we know it-, we
have forgotten what was the matter
with us.

If you would have any friends at all,
don't set yourself up for a critic. If you
do not like any oiie’s nose, or object to
any one’s chin, do not put your feelings
into words. If anyone’s manner does
not please you, remember your own.
People are not made to suit one taste ;
recollect that. Take things as you find
them, unless you can alter them. Even
a dinner, after it is swallowed, cannot
be made any better. Continual fault-
flnding, continual critcism of the con-
duct of this one, and the speech of that
one, the dress of one, and the opinions
of another, will make home the unhap-
piest place under the sun. If you are
never pleased with any one, no one will
be pleased with you ; and if it is known
you are hard to suit, few will take the

pains to suit you.


  

 

 

What Not to Kill.

The French Minister of finance has
done a good deed in causing a placard
to be posted which it would be wise for
citizens of all countries to have before
their eyes. It tells farmers, sportsmen,
boys, and others what creatures not to
kill, as follows:

Hedge-hog.—Lives mostly on mice,
small rodents, slugs and grubs——ani-
mals hurtful to agriculture. Don’tkill
the hedge-hog.

Toad.——Farm assistant; he destroys
20 to 30 insects per hour. Don’t kill the
toad.

Mole. — Is continually destroying
grubs, larvae, painter worms, and in-
sects injurious to agriculture. No trace
of vegetation is ever found in the stom-
ach. Don't kill the mole.

Birds.—Each departmentloses sever-
al millions annually through insects.
Birds are the only enemies capable of
contending against them. They are
the great caterpillar killers and agricul-
tural assistanti. Children, don’t dis-
turb their nests.

Lady-bird.—Never destroy, for they
are the best friends of farmers and hor-
ticulturists, and their presence upon
aphis-ridden plants is beneticial.——(}. R.
Democrat.

Salt or no Salt for Stock‘!

 

,Certain inorganic substances are re-
quired in the field—chloride of sodium
is one of them. It is just as esssen tial
that chloride of sodium should exist in
the food as phosphorus, iron, lime or
sulphur. They are all necessary to
carry on the function of nutrition.
Then when we find salt necessary, and
we find it in all good soils, but in dif-
ferent quantities in different localities.
Near the sea-coast the common articles
of food contain more salt than those
produced in the interior, because it is
inhaled with the atmosphere. There-
fore it is necessary that we should feed
more salt to stock in the interior than
we do near the sea-coast. Take a per-
son from the mountains of Virginia or
North Carolina. and drop him at Nor-
folk. For a few days he will salt every
article of food he takes,__but after a
while he will forget to salt his oysters.
Why? Because he inhales an atmos-
phere saturated with salt. Cattle re-
quire but little salt given them within
thirty miles of the sea-coast.—Cor. Am.
Farmer.

 

“ BUB, did you ever stop to think,”
said a grocer recently, as be measured
out a peek of potatoes, that these pota-
toes contain sugar, water, and starch?”
“No, I didn't,” replied the boy: “ but
I heard mother say that you put beans
and peas in your coffee, and about
a. pint of Water to every quart of milk
you sold.” The subject of natural phi-
losophy was dropped right here.

The Jackson Patriot comes up stifly
in support of a practical common-school
education, and declares that “from year
to year the dreary farce goes on until
our country is fast becoming filled with
graduated ignoramuses.”

Prof, A. Hennequin of the university
has been invited to read a paper at the
December meeting of the state teachers’
association ln this city, on the teach-
ing and study of modern languages in
American schools and colleges.—La-ns-
lng Republican.

 

COLLEGE

-—~~AND-—

WRITING INSTITUTE,

KALAMAZOO. MICE.
f"'Send for JOURNAL givinl particlilan.

parts of the country. So it makes no differ-
ence where you live, you get goods at the same
price as if you were at the Factory.

with 20 Brilliant Colors, Brushes, etc., illustrat-
ed, mailed free upon application to PATRONS'
PAINT C0., 162 South St., N. Y.

T. A. Thompson. Pres, Past Lec. Nut. Grange
Samuel E. Adams, of Minn., Master “ “
D. Wyatt Aiken, of S. C., Ch’m Ex. Coin. “
Mortimer Whitehead, of N. J ., Lec. Nat. “
O. H. Kelle , Past Secretary N ational Grange.
J. W. A.
M. D. Davie, Master State Grange, Kentucky.

TI-IE GRANGE VISITOR.

TOO LATE

It soon will be. The rise of more than half in
the price of Iron is more than we can stand.
For a very short time only we will receive or-
ders at old prices, viz; 5 Ton Wagon Scales,
$50. All iron and Steel. Sold on trial-
freizht paid by—-no money asked till tested and
found satisfactory. All sizes.

JON ES OF BINGIIAMPTON ,

Binghampton, N, Y.

Paw Paw, Mich., May 18th, 1878.
JONES, or BINGHAMTON:

My Scales give entire satisfaction. I have
subjected it to the most severe tests, and find it
not only correct in weighing large or small
amounts, but perfectly reliable.

Yours, Fraternally,
[Signed]

J. J. WOODMAN.
Grange HEADQUARTERS.

THOMAS MASON,
General Commission Merchant,

183 SOUTH WATER STREET,

CHICAGO. - - ILLINOIS.
Purcha.s‘ing Agent /or the Patrons of Husband-
ry, authorized by Executive Committe of the
Michigan State Grange ; Agent of the N. W.
Produce Exchange Association, principal oflice,
Buchanan, Mich. ; also, Agent of the Michigan
Lake Shore Fruit Growers’ A.sso(:ia!ion, 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 Attention.

—-REFERENCES :-——
Executive Committee of Mich. State Grange.
J . J . Woodman, Paw Paw, Mich.

J. T. Cobb, Schoolcraft, Mich.

Herman, Schaifner & Co., Bankers, Chicago, Ill.
Thomas Mars, Berrien Centre, Mich.
W. A. Brown, Sec’y Mich. L. S. F.
Stevensville, Mich.

% Stencils, Shipping Tags, and Market Re-
port: furnished an application.
Coanssroxnsivcii SOLICITED. mar.l2’79

G. Ass’n,

Paints sail Paris Green.

PRICES REDEEED FOR 1379.

PAIHUNS’ Pl|_NI CIIMPANYI

Ingersoll’s Ready Mixed Paints,
Paris Green and Brushes.
Best and Cheapest Paints in
the World.

Freight paid on Paint and Paris Green to all

Our Book “How Every one can Paint,”

——'I‘R USTEES '—

right,Muster Cal. State Grange.

The Husbandman.

SIXTI-I X’EAR..

REDUGEIIPRIGE 1

$1. A YEAR-.$1.

S The HUSBANDMAN has been widely recognized
as standing in the front rank of agricultnral
journalism. While treating fully all questions
embraced in

PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE.

it discusses with fearless ability the economic
problems that affect all productive industries.
It strives earnestly to incite thought, broaden
conception and increase understanding of the
wrongs through which agriculture has suliered,
especially the

UNJUST TAXATION

fastened upon it, and the hurtful discrimina-
tions by which its products are cheapened be-
low the cost of the labor employed in their
production.

It would stimulate self~ respect among farin-
ers through well-applied thought, fitting them
to represent their industry in the halls of leg-
islation as a vital necessity to national pros-
perity.

All the well-known features of the HUSBAND-
MAN will be maintained, including full reports
of the famous

ELMIRA FARMERS CLUB DISCUSSIUNS,

and from time to time editorial letters of travel
and observations abroad.

ITS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

will embrace many writers whose work has al-
ready added largely to the interest and value of
its columns. V  --

It will present ‘complete reports of NEW
YORK and PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.

A FREE COPY will be sent. to any person
who forwards in one order the names and ad-
dresses of ten subscribers, new or old, with ten
dollars in payment there for.

Remittances may be made by draft on New
York, Postoifice money order, or in currency.
Checks on country banks involving_eXpense in
collection must have ten cents added to meet
such cost,

" ‘Drafts, Postoflice money-order and checks
should be made payable and all letters ad-
dressed to

HUSBANDMAN.
ELMIRA, N. Y.
Sample copies free on application.

 

THREE INCH AND THREE AND ONE-
FOURTH INCH THIMBLE-SKEIN
WAGON, COMPLETE, FOR 348.

THREE AND ONE-HALF INCH FOR 850.

ONE-HORSE WAGON, THILLS, BOX AND
SPRING SEAT, $40.

i§°Delivei-ed on Cars at Niles, Mich.

The advance in iron and all the material we
use makes this s mall advance in the price of
wagons absolutely necessary.

I]. MURRAY.

MASTER’S OFFICE,

Paw Paw, Mich., April 20th. 5
E. Murray, Niles, JlIich.:

DEAR SIR.— 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 trul ,

Our 25th De-
scriptive Illus-
trated Prlce List
for Fall -.1’ 1379
will be sent to
any address upon
receipt of NINE
CENTS. It con-
tains prices of
over 10.000 ar-
ticles wlth over
1,000 Illustra-
tions. No PER.-
SON who con-
templates the
purchase of any
article for per-
sonal or family
use, should fall
to send for 9.
copy. We sell
most every class

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~-—..
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ot goods known
to the clvllized
world. We sell
all our goods at
wholesale prices
direct to the con-
sumer (no mid-
dle men). The
only house in
A in er 1 c a who
make this their
special business.
One of these val-
uable Price Lists
and Reference
Books is indis-
pensable. Ad-
dress Montgom-
ery Ward & Co.,
227 and 239 Wa-
bash Avenue,
Chlcago, Illinois.

 
GEO. W. HILL & 00.,

80 Woodbridge St., - - Detroit,

Are now prepared to handle

TV/zeal, Oats and Corn,

IN CAR L()TS.

Having plenty of storage room we can also
handle

APPLES.
BEANS.
CHEESE,

PO TATOES,
B U'I"I‘ER,
EGG S.

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

011 as Favorable Tel-ins as any
House in the City.

We also PURCHASE ALL KINDS OF

GOODS for STORES, CLUBS and Families

At the Lowest Wholesale Price.

nfi (7rmsi_qnments and Orders Soliciled.
jyl2 no70tf.

MAKE YOUR HOMES Pl.EASAl\'T.

To aid all Patrons to do this, I offer to ship
in orders of one dozen or more, choice varieties
of Geraniuins, Fuschias, Coleus. Roses, Smi-
lax, Begonias, &c., from If to 3 inch pots, at
$1.00 per dozen, adding enough to pay the
expressage.

These are T5 to 20 cent plants; we sell low
because we need money more than the plants.
This offer is good for one month. Send
early to C. L. WHITNEY.
Sept. 10th, 1879 Muskegon.

PRICE LIST of SUPPLIES

Kept in the oflice of the Secretary of the

IVIICI-IIGAN S TA T E GRANGE.

And sent out Post Paid, on Receipt of Cash 0r- ,
der, over the seal of ll Subordinate Grange,
and the signature of its Master or Secretary.

Ballot Boxes, (hard wood,) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1 2")
Porcelain Ballot Marbles, per hundred,. . . 50
Blank Book, ledger ruled, for Secretary to
keep accounts with members, . . . . . . . . . . 1 00
Blank Record Books, (Express paid), . . . . . 1 00
Order Book, containing 100 Orders on the _
Treasurer, with stub, well bound, . . . . . . 90
Receipt Book, containing 100 Receipts
from Treasurer to Secretary, with stub,
well bound, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5_’0
Blank Receipts for dues, per 100, bound,. . /9'0
Cushing’s Manual, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . ‘)0
Applications for Membership, per 100,.. . . '20
Membership Cards, per 100, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0?
Withdrawal Cards, per doz.,. . ... .. .. . . . 20
Dimits, in envelopes, per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . 95
By-Laws of the State Grange, single ' _
copies 30, per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 ’
New kind of Singing Books, with music,
Single copy 15 cts. per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 50
Rituals’, single copy, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
" per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 50
Blank “Articles of Association” for the
Incorporation of Subordinate Granges
with Copy of Charter, all complete, . . . . 1”
Patron’s Pocket Companion, by J . A. Cra-
mer, Cloth, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Notice to Delinquent Members, per 100. . . 40

Address, J. T. COBB.

Sac’)? Mien. Sure Gannon,

J . . WOODMAN.

 

SCHOOLCRAFT, MICH.