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COMMITTEE 

Grange, P. of H,

SCHOOLCRAFT, NOVEMOBER 15111, 1879.

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Officers Na1o_nal Grange.

MAB’rEE—S. E. ADAMS, Minn. _
0VEB.SEEB—-J. J. WOODMAN, Mich.
Lno'ruai«:a—MORT’MR WHITEHEAD, N J.
S'l‘EWABD—A. J. VAUGHN. M15!-

Assr. STEWABD—WILLIAM SIMS, Kansas.
CHAPLAXN—A. P. FORSYTH, Illinois.
TBEA5UBEB—F. M. MCDOWELL, N. Y.
SECBETABY—Wm. M. IRELAND,Wash’ton,D.C.
GATE-KEEPEB.——0. DINWIDDIE, Indiana.
CEBES——MRS. S. E. ADAMS, Minneso_ta._
POMONA——MBS. J. J. WOODMAN, Michigan.
FLOBA—MRS. J AS. T. MOORE, Maryland.
LADY ASSTIBTANT S’l!EWARD—MISS CARRIE A.

HALL, Kentucky.

Offlcers Michigan State Grange.

M.—J. J. WOODMAN. - - Paw Paw-
0.—THOS. F. MOORE, - - - Adrian.
L.—C. L. WHITNEY, - - Muskegon.
s.—s. A. TOOKER, - - - Lansing.
A. s.—s. E. GREEN, - - Farmmgtom

C.—SALMON STEEL, Monroe Cen. Gr. Tr.Co

T.—S. F. BROWN, - - Schoolcraft
Sac.—J. T. COBB, - - - “ _

G. K.—A. N. WOODRUFF, - Watervhet.
CEBES.—MBS. C. L. WHITNEY, Muskegon.

POMONA—-MES. G. W. EWING, Ross, Kent Co.
FLOBA—MBS. J. J. WOODMAN, Paw Paw.
L. A. S.—Mns. A. E. GREEN, Farmington.

_ Executive committee-
F. M. HOLLOWAY, Chairman, - Hillsdale-

J. WEBSTER CHILDS, - _- - Ypsilanti-
C, G, LUCE, - - Gilead, Branch Co.
WESTBROOK DIVINE, Belding1 101113 00-

THOMAS MARS. Berrien Center, Berrien Co.
WM. SATTERLEE, Birmingham, Oakland C0.
J, Q. A. BURRINGTON. Tuscola1 Tnscola Q0-
J. J. WOODMAN, J. T. COBB, - Ex. Ofiicio.

State Business Agents.

GEO. W. HILL 6: 00., - - Detroit-
THOMAS MASON, - - - Chicago-
General Deputy.

o. L. WHITNEY, - - - Muskeson.

special Lecturers.

R. E. Trowbridge,. .Bii-minghain, Oakland 00-
Thos. F. Moore, . . . . ..Adrian,. .. . .Len8-W6° 00
Geo. W, Woodward. .Shelby. . . .OcBanH- 00
Samuel Langdon, . .Bowen Station,. . .K8I1t C0
E. C. Herrington,. . .Four I‘owns,. .Oakla11d C0
M. L. Stevens, . . . . . . . .Pe‘i;:'1y,.. . . Shiawafisee C0
L. R. Bi-owi1,....Rawson ‘ le,..Washtenaw Go
Andrew Campbell.. .Ypsilanti, . . “ ’ ‘

Mrs. S. Steele,..Monroe Centre.. .G.T1'9-V 59 C0

   

 

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ber that we depend on them for mat-
ters of interest to the readers of the
VISITOR, and that so far we have re-
lied on volunteers. Do not oVel‘100k
this.

Address of Welcome.

The following original address was
read by S. T. Walton before an open
Grange, held under the auspices of
Pennypack Grange, No. 8, P. of H.,
Pa., at the house of VVorthy Past Master
A. L. Phillips, on Thursday evening,
Oct. 23, 1879:

Kind Iflatrons and neighbors who’ve listed our
ca ,

With greeting fraternal we welcome you all ;

And we trust that your coming to meet with
us here

Will be fraught with those pleasures which
brighten and cheer.

We meet here to-night for the work of the
Grange,

Which gives to farm labora respite and change,

For when we return to again till the soil,

We are made to forget half the worry of toil.

Now, vge know the opinions you’ve some of you
ha ,

That the Grange is a. humbug, and that
Grangers are bad :

But we hope to dispel all illusions like this,

And to show what outsiders in consequence
miss.

No mind can imagine, no tongue can express.

The power the Grange has the farmer to bless,

If all would unite, and enlist in the plan,

Devised by its framers to benefit man,

But many of those for whose good it was
reared,

Were first to cry out “ ’tis 8. thing to be
feared,”

And they reasoned with those whom they
blindly could sway,

That “the Grange was all wrong, and would
soon pass away.”

But thanks to the kindness of Fortune and
Fate,

The Grange is still living, tho’ numskulls still
prate l _

And while it continues to recompense give,

With greatness increasing ’tis likely to live.

The Grange is designed as a. school for our
clan ;

And as scholars we come and we learn all we

can ;

And, firm for the right, we march forth as a
band _

To grapple with wrong that we find on each
han —

Monopolies, middlemen. credit, and all

Of the evils that long have held farmers in
thrall ;

It is these we desire to combat and abate

Before in our ears shall be sounded “too
late.”

We earnestly strive for the good and the true,

And jointly we labor in all that we do ;

Our motto inspires and encourages all ;

’Tis “ United we stand. and divided we fall.”

With “ Faith,” “ Hope,” and “ Charity ’.’ lead-
ing along

We socially mingle and thus we grow strong;

“Fidelity” next to our creed we must add,

And now we would ask, “Do you think us so

, bad F”

Again, in the name of our Pennypack Grange,

I welcome you here, and may nothing estrauge,

But sentiment, speech, and discussion, and song

Fill the hours with gladness while passing
along. —Farmer’s Frzend.

An Expensive Trial.

A dispatch from Syracuse says of the
case of Nathan Orlando Greenfield,
three times tried and twice sentenced
to be hanged, that an efl'or_t is being
made to secure a fourth trial. Over
$40,000 have been expened in the three
trials, and the County of Oswego which
has been compelled to pay an enor-
mous expense, is on the verge of bank-
ruptcy in consequence. The prosecu-
ting officer relates the story, making
startling charges against the counsel
and friends of Greenfield and says: ‘I
look upon the whole matter, so for.as it
relates to Ke1logg,to Taplin or to Haines,
as an act of desperation on the part of
Greenfield and his friends to save _the
guilty man from deserved punish-
ment.” 1

Lawyers seem to be alike the world
over; no matter what it costs the peo-
ple, they are always ready to do all in
their power to aid in turning a scoun-

drel loose upon the community.—ED.

The Patrons or Husbandry as Viewed
by an Outsider.

BY E. G. D. HOLDEN, EX-SEC. or STATE
OF MICHIGAN.

Any person who has attentively ob-
served passing events. and carefully
noted such as have advanced and bet-
tered the condition of the people, can-
not fail to be favorably impressed with
the aims and objects of the Patrons of
Husbandry, as evidenced by its history
and good works. Scarce yet a dozen
years have passed since the advent of
this Order, yet it has become a mighty
power in the land.

It has made a noble record. Its kind-
ly influences, like those of kindred in-
stitutions, are not confined to itself
alone. If it were a purely selfish insti-
tution, it could not do that; for when
the Patrons have benefitted themselves
they have also benefitted the State, and
all with whom they come in contact.
It is the good light that cannot be hid,
and has become the beacon of many
souls, that for years groped about in
doubt and darkness, seeking the proper
channel for their own betterment.

'1‘o the agriculturalist-, and those in-
terested in their success, the Grange
seems to be the channel sought; in that
it has discovered a new world to its vo-
taries.

In reference to it, to an outsider, sev-
eral things are self-evident. They do
not need to be proven ; and prominent
among these is the widely known fact :
the improved condition of the class to
which we have referred—the farmer,
and those connected with him. And
not alone does he seem to be benefitted
in the mere matter of dollars and
dimes; but in all things else as well,
that go to make up the sum of a happy
intelligent life. The Grange has large-
ly assisted in the development of his
sociabilities, and those of his wife and
family. It has lifted them from the
position of daily and almost thankless
drudgery; whose experiences in life
We well remember; and has put them,
in common with the manufacturing,
mercantile, and other leading interests,
into a position to command that re-
spectful recognition which was always
their due. It has taught them the fact
that the producer_ is the power that
moves the world. It has, to a large ex-
tent, emancipated them from the over-
reaching ability of men well trained in
business pursuits, many of whom, con-
scienceless and full of guile, have al-
ways regarded the honest tiller of the
soil as their legitimate plunder. _In
time that emancipation, under the in-
fluence and instruction of the Grange,
will be complete; and it cannot come a
moment too soon for the good and wel-
fare of the people. '

Associations of mutual interest, and
community for mutual relief, operating
through friendly channels of fraternal
regard, necessarily improves the condi-
tion of every member. A better knowl-
edge of the world is reached. Selfish-
ness to a large extent, is rubbed out.
The heart is enlarged. Men come to
know each other better. Each member
feels that he no longer stands alone.
He feels that others are interested in
him, and he in turn is interested in
them. And this interest, among the
Patrons, if we have read them rightly,
is not by any means confined to the
price of a bushel of Wheat, 9. reaper, or

a ton of plaster; nor yet to the health.

of his neighbor’s family. Thesethings
are included among the good it does,
but its true greatness after all is not
measured in dollars saved, or dollars
earned.

It rises so far above that, that all
right-minded men have come to regard
the Grange as a national help. It is
the backbone of the country, and has.be-

come a mostim t tf ' _
vancement of Spt‘:)a.IteZI.1 i%t°i§l§11thfh?d.
because it has educated many mind’
that waited only for opportuniti S
The eagerness with which it was ere:
braced, but too plainly proved that it
ll '
l1a:St.,l’)een, long looked for, come at

Our observat' h -
institution hasl01iiota<)SnIl)y0l‘)y(?el2ln t(1)]fatg:'1e1;%
g‘t3:teefi;ntg l‘\,t‘St.memb91‘S1 but also to the

a ion. The one proposition
proves the other. Anything that ben-
fits the people benefits the State. They
are ofiehand can never be divorced.
The one is the other, and nothing can
ever be taken away from itself.

If, therefore, the Grange has tau ht
its members better modes of busingess
habits, better modes of buyin and
Selling. taught them lessons in dgomes-
tie and P01itiCa1 €C0l10lIly, and opened
up new avenues of_thought and progress
to (tihotsfi “Uthm “S g§iteS. it has also
{Ila e - e State wealthier and happier -
in that it has thereby improved thé
condition of the people. As we View
 t_hg 913989 has accomplished all

151 u. even this, grand as the result
may be,1s not all. The Grange hall,
and the session,_ becomes not only a
place where social greetings are ex-
Eended, where those formerly far apart,

ave been drawn closely torvether but
it has also been made the sd?-1.01f5r 151;-
erary and scientific researc. all the
time educating, and all the'A:.3me bet-
terlng 9Ve1'.Y0n‘_3 Permitted to Hi} Within
the shadow of its mystic fold. The old
man is there with his wisdom The
matron with her kindly counsel.’ They
can tell with all the eloquence of truth
how hard it was to get along in the old
times, “when they were young}:

:I‘_l(iie young man is there, and [the
11,141 9I1._ Who are soon to take the places
oi the pioneers in life’s duties, In the
light of the experience of others, they
are taking lessons for the future; while
all the benefits of the present, and the
co-operation of the whole for the bene-
fit of the class they represent; reliev-
mg each_from many cares, gives time
for socialities and culture that makes
manlier men and Women more wom.
anly. Acting thus upon its members,
each one to the outside world presents
a newer, brighter surface. The good
that IS in them radiates. Each walks
the earth with a steadier tread; going
about his or her work,bu0yed up by the
thought, always true, but never thor-
oughly_wrought out until now: That
the agriculturist is the most important
factor in the progress and welfare of the
States. and that at last a way has
(l:?(t3;l};ef(;.;1(l;:tT1 that compels a recognition

VVe take it, that with the sources of
social and intellectual culture; which
the Grange affords; with the chance it

gives, relying upon the members of its .

own brotherhood, where each may
profit by the experience of others; and
there will be fewer dissatisfied sons on
the old farm homestead than formerly,
and fewer wanderings of inexperienced
boys to the great city centers, where in
times past they hoped for all things and
had little or no ability to accomplish
anything. We were once one of that
sort. We know how it is. We have
been there. Things have changed
since we forsook the old homestead,and
the very ambition that drove us out
alone, and inexperienced,to battle with
the world should now keep the boy
from wandering away in search of those
privileges, which the Grange has, with
liberal hand brought to his very door.
More than this, the Grange has given
a new dignity to the profession of the
farmer. It has taught him that he is
no longer the one always to work, but
to be served. He commands the situa-
tion. It has given him new ideas of
his independence, and has the more im-

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

pressed upon his soul the truism, that
the soil is the source of all wealth, that
in the prosecution of business affairs,
others must depend more upon him
than he upon them.
The very causes, which brought the
Grange into existence, and its rapid
growth during the few years of its life,
are a stronger proof than anything else
can be, of the necessity for its organiza-
tion. It has taken a firm hold upon the
affections of the people. It benefits
them, and thus benefits all. And nar-
row, indeed, and uneducated must be
the mind and heart, that does not ex-
tend to it a hearty hand and wish it
God speed, and good prosperity in its
glorious mission, its first inception was
at Washington, and of men who were
not farmers, men who had noticed with
alarm the depression of agricultural in;
terests, cast about for means to remove
the cause; and on the 5th day of Aug-
ust, 1869—at the time nameless—but
full of the germs of a noble life,the first
Grange was organized. It took three
years for the institution to number thir-
ty—eight Subordinate Granges; which
in five years more, numbered thirty
thousand, with a membership of two
millions and a half! This grand show-
ing was not the resultofaccident. The
institution grew because it must. Be-
cause it recognized from the start the
good influences of true womanhood.
Because its aims were just; its means
manly and right; and when it had
thus quickly attained a giant strength,
it used it only for the good of the
State and Nation. It has never been
strong for anything but good. It has
wronged none; while the millions it
has instructed both inside and out-
sideits mystic gate, arise and call it
blessed. It has always been popular,
but never more so for its worthy work
than to-day, at the close of its first
ten years of its life. We do not be-
lieve that it will take any step back-
ward. VVe do believe that it will hold
to its steady,dignified way, and become
more a power for good in all our broad
land. All, therefore, who love the
State whose material interests the
Grange in every way advances-—though
not permitted to become members-
should extend to the Patrons their
Warmest sympathy. All who love the
Nation should aid all those influences
that make a nation great. The Grange,
as we view it, is one of the mightiest of
these, and thus it will continue, so long
as it remains; what we as an outsider,
believe it now to be; an institution
whose aims are all for good, for God,
our Country, and Trnth.—Agrz'cultural
W'orld, Grand Rapids, Jllich.

 

More Ad ulteration.

A great deal has been said of late, in
the newspapers, concerning the trick
of English cotton manufacturers in fill-

. ing their goods with sizing to make

weight and add to the appearance of
the same. The sizing comes out when
the cloth is washed. leavinga “strainer”
cloth instead of thick shirtings and
sheetings.

This poor subterfuge is not confined
to England, it is practiced in our Rhode
Island cotton mills. On a recent visit
to a mill We were shown cloths filled
in with white clay, such as is often
used by the paper manufacturers.
Other cloths were shown that were
filled with sizing. Both presented a
fine and durable appearance.

Dealers in and judges of silk goods
know that a similar trick is performed
by the silk manufacturers. The silk is
repeatedly bathed in iron—that is, the
nitrate of iron——until it acquires the de-
sired weight. Then it gets a blue tint
from prussiate of potash, and then baths
in gambier and acetate of iron. Then
to give lustre it is served with logwood

d soa .
anThe “phonest black” silk manufact-
u;-ed by Messrs. Cheney, at Manches-
ter, Conn., was recently tested, and
found to contain 17 per cent of these
materials, and they were comparatively
light of them when compared with a

lot of foreign silks. _

So you see, as we Americans are fond
of mying, “ There are tricks in all
trades but ours.”— W00"30C"€t (R- 1-)
Patriot.

 

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THE GRANGERS.

Dedication of the New Macon Grange
Hall. Distinguished Visitors Present—
A Large Gatheriug—Detailed Report of
the meeting by James Cook.

Last Thursday, Oct. 30th, occurred
one of the pleasant and profitable meet-
ings which Lenawee County Farmers
are making so popular, at the old
church in Macon, where for some time
past Macon Grange has held its meet-
ings, and where they now meet for the
last time. It was a joyful farewell
meeting, at the old church, for this time
it was “out of the old house into the
new ” with them, and they had invited
in their almost numberless friends to
assist them in the transfer.

Our Macon farmers never do any-
thing by halves. The dedication of
the new Grange Hall was advertised to
take place on Thursday last and accord-
ingly the Macon Grangers prepared for
agrandjubilee. Our business engage-
ments rendered it impossible for us to
be present on Thursday, but we had
the pleasure of attending the exercises
on Friday forenoon, and did onr share
in stowing away a square meal, at the
close of the morning’s program.

First, it may be proper to give a de-
scription of the new hall. It is located
on the corner, a few rods East of the
Reformed Church, and opposite Cyrus
Mead’s farm, in Macon. The building
is 26x50 feet in size, and is two stories
high. The lower floor is divided into
a» vestibule, store room and cook room,
(these taking 12 feet on the North end
of the building), and a large dining
room 26x38 feet.—The upper floor is
divided in a similar manner, the 12 feet
at the North end being used for the
stair-way and two ante-rooms, with a
fine hall beyond, 26x38 feet in size.

The upper hall is certainly the most
commodious and tasty room of its
size we know ofin the county. The
building is provided with inside
blinds, and the hall is seated with 200
chairs and warmed by a furnace. The
Grange owns a fine cabinet organ,
which is placed in the upper hall.
The building cost $800 and was erected
by Alex. Easlick on contract, and the
Grange is well pleased with the excel-
lent manner in which the work has
been done.

The attendance throughout the meet-
ing was large. Among the noted visi-
tors present were Master J. J. Wood-
man, of Paw Paw, Hon. J. VV. Childs,
Chas. Mickley and T. F. Moore. The
different Granges in the County sent
delegates. and nearly every town in the
county was represented. Dinner and
supper were served Thursday to about
three hundred people, and nearly
two hundred people took dinner there
on Friday. Where all the provisions
came from is a mystery, for the store-
room was pretty well filled with re-
serves after the Friday’s dinner had
been disposed of. The otficers of the
County Grange assert that the meeting
from first to last, was a perfect success,
and was the best celebration of the
kind ever held in the county.

The County Grange having been in-
vited to hold their meeting this time
with the Macon Patrons, first “opened
the ball” with a short session in the
fifth degree,after which all adjourned to
the lower story of the new hall, where
such a feast was spread as a man scarce-
ly sees more than once in a life time,
and never unless he is a Patron of Hus-
bandry. Two long and beautifully ar-
ranged tables, reaching the length of
the room, and filled to overflowing with
the handiwork of Matron, Gleaner,
Shepherdes and Maid, stretched out
before the eyes of the two hundred visi-
tors, fairly groaning beneath the
weight of their eatable burdens. A
short and feeling prayer was made for
a blessing upon the bountiful repast by
the veteran Chaplain, J. L. Reming-
ton, then all proceeded to “ refresh the
inner man” with the good things there
set before them.
Right in this connection let us give a
word of well merited praise to the com-
mittees in charge of these tables. No
tiresome waiting, no delay and withal
no confusion; every one seemed to have
become perfect in the part assigned to
him or her, and the large number pres-
ent were all served, and all served
quickly and well. ,
All things, pleasant or otherwise,
must have an end, and so with this
dinner. At its close the new building
was’ again vacated, and the old church,
once more resorted to, whereupon be-
ing called to order by the Worthy

Howell, the object of the meeting was
stated by him, which statement was to
the efi"ect that “ having erected a Hall
for the use and occupancy of the
Grange, they now desire to have the
same formally dedicated to the ser-
vice of the Patrons of Husbandry in ac-
cordance with the forms and usages of
the Order.”

To which Hon. J. J. Woodman,
Master of the State Grange, responded
that he “had been informed of their
enterprise and was there to inspect,and
if found suitable and satisfactory, with
the help of the Grange to dedicate
(tiheir Hall, which he was then ready to

o. ’

The Master of ceremonies, J. NV.
Baker, then proceeded to form the Pat-
rons there assembled into line, accord-
ing to order laid down in the ritual;
this being done they moved toward the
new hall, or rather to be strictly truth-
ful, the procession reached from one
building to the other. and at the word
from Bro. Baker the two ranks opened
and facing inward waited for the lady
members and the installing officer,
Master Woodman, to pass up the cen-
ter of the avenue thus formed, and en-
ter the Hall, they being quickly follow-
ed by the whole company, two by two.

Then followed the formal dedication
ceremonies, which are beautiful and
impressive, and would be given here
did space permit, and yet they must be
seen and listened to in order to be at all
appreciated,—sufiice to sa.y it was con-
ducted in a thorough and dignified
manner, and no person present will
soon forget the impression made. At
the close of dedication an address was
delivered by Master Howell, of Macon,
the same being responded to by Master
Horton, of Lenawee County Grange.
Though short, these speeches were ex-
cellent.

VVe tardily mention here that Macon
Grange is blessed with a good choir,
and and at intervals during the cere-
monies, and in fact during the whole
meeting they made their presence
known by singing in a pleasing man-
nera number of Patrons’ songs, with
accompaniments by their accomplished
organist.

About 3 P. M., Hon. Bro. Chas. E.
Mickley, of VVeston Grange, was in-
troduced and made a noble speech of
about 30 minutes, which every farmer
in Lenawee should have heard. He
was in his happiest vein and good com-
mon sense was the burden of his com-
munication, for it is common sense at
all times to give the Giver of all good
our homage, and to realize at all times
how closely the agricultnralist especial-
ly is connected with Him in his every
‘day occupations, and this was the
principal theme of the speaker.

He was followed by Master VVood-
man upon the objects and aims of the
Order. The expense of running the
same, etc. All more interesting to Pat-
rons than to others. At the close of
this speech the choir sang. “The
hand that holds the bread.”

In the evening the fifth degree, or
degree of Pomona was conferred upon
23 candidates, and at 8 P. M. the doors
being thrown open to the public, Hon.
Bro. J. \V. Childs, of VVashtenaw, was
introduced and spoke one hour to an
appreciative audience, in his usual elo-
quent manner; all were sorry to see
him sit down. He was followed b
Hon. Bro. T. F. Moore, of Adrian
Grange in a pithy half hour speech,
and he by Master Woodman, who was
called for so urgently that he came for-
ward for a halfhour, and closed up the
meeting for the night with some of his
solid reasoning that he is noted for.

At the close of the evening session,
Master Horton announced that the
County Grange would hold its regular
business meeting the next morning at 9
o’clock, which would be held in the
4th degree. A goodly number were
present, most of the brothers and sis-
ters having accepted the hospitality of
Macon Patrons and staid over. At
this meeting resolutions of respect and
condolence were drafted and adopted
for our departed sister, Joanna Vedder,
of Adrian, who lost her life by the ac-
cident at the fair. The customary
“ Reports from Subordinate Granges ”
of the county was listened to with in-
terest, and also from several‘ Granges
outside the county, which were repre-
sented there. The members were also
highly gratified by listening to a his-
tory of the patent-gate-swindle fight in
this State from the lips of the man
and Patron who conducted the same
to a successfal issue, Bro. Platt of Ypsil-
anti Grange. It being necessary to

Master of Macon Grange, Bro. George

  

elect two delegates to the State Grange,

an informal ballot was taken for the
same, and the Secretary of the County
Grange with his wife, were unanimous-
ly elected, and a resolution passed to
defray their expenses while acting as
such delegates. This was a put-up-job
on the Secretary, planned deliberately
and with malace aforethought, as a
surprise for him, and the surprise was a
complete one.

The meeting closed at noon, and af-
ter another hearty dinner, prepared as
before by these inimitable ‘Maconers ’
all started for home.

Cleaning of Wool.
An interesting contribution to our
knowledge of wools is afforded by an
article by Mrs. Helen H. S. Richards
of Jamaica Plain, incident to an inves-
tigation of oils (the natural oil or grease
of sheep’s wool) for the purpose ofabat-
ing fire by spontaneous combustion.
This study is in reference to the clean-
ing wool by means of naphtha, or
what is [known as gasoline, of about
86°. Naphtha of this quality boils at 90°
to 100° F., and air of 50° to 60° F. com-
pletely removes it. The process of
cleaning the wool by naphtha was simp-
ly to pack it in a closed vessel, allow-
ing it to remain in Contact with it for
about twenty minutes without any ap-
plication of heat. The liquid was then
run offand fresh naphtha applied; this
process being repeated two or three
times according to the amount ofgrease
in the wool.
After this process the wool is dried,
then beaten ofits dust, and washed in
warm water, without the aid of any
other substance than the soap of potash
which is left on the fibre, and which
the naphtha does not remove. The wool
after being thus cleaned, is very white
and soft, and has a “ crinky ” appear-
ance. Formerly this process of clean-
ing was objected to, because it was
thought to remove the natural oil too
completely, a part being needed to
work the fibre. It was thought to ex-
tract the grease from the inner tube of
the fibre, and the caustic potash was
believed to injure the wool. But Mrs.
Richards shows that these objections
are not tenable,but that the naphtha has
these positive advantages—lst, the
cleansing of the wool is done more
perfectly than by any other method;
2nd, the fibre is in better condition for
taking dyes; 3d, the waste products of
the wool are readily recovered.thus pre-
venting a further pollution of streams
from wool-washing establishments.
The oil removed from the wool by the
naptha is “equal to the best” for curry-
ing leather, and is not liable to spon-
taneous combustion.
._____________

No GRANGE will ever complain of
dullness or a want of interest where
the otficers are in their places and the
the Lecturer has marked out Work to
be done. Just here is the secret of suc-
cess or failure. A live presiding officer
and a. live Lecturer can make a live
Grange. Mark out in advance what is
to be done. He who every evening
plans the transactions of the succeed-
ing day, and carries out that plan, will
as surely attain success as he shall make
the effort. The Grange is no exception.
Try it, worthy ofiicers! Don’t let the
work flag from your indolence or in-
efficiency.

The Grange contemplates three
things concerning the farmer — the
making of money, the acquisition of
knowledge, and the building up of
character; or which may be expressed
in three words—labor, culture, fidelity.
The true Grange keeps these constant-
ly in view, and works to promote them.
Differences of opinion may exist as to
the best mode of attaining the ends
aimed at, but to insure success it will
not do to ignore any of them. Each
must-have its attention, because each
has its bearings upon the farmer’s life,
and he only can be called a successful
man who has given due attention to
all. The Grange is a blessing only in
the good which it dispenses.—Gromg6
Bulletin. -

.__________.________

It seems the people of this country
are beginning to think that the dog has
had his day, and it is about time to
give sheep a reasonable chance for
their lives.—T_yler 00., W. V., Inde-
pendent.

.____________________
PROF. SWING says that while no ma-
chine has yet been invented for pick-
ing a goose or shearing a sheep, the ar-
rangements for plucking a poor man

 

are tolerably complete.

  


TI-IE GRANGE VISI'FOB..

Glinmmuniratiuua.

Grangrs vs. lsarmers’ Clubs.

J. T. Cobb.-

The “Mercantile View of the Grange”
of N.A. Dunning ought to do the Grange
good, by drawing out thoughts and
discussion.

He says, “VVho ever rode over a rail-

road built by farmers,” &c. We can as
pertinently ask the same questions in
regard to the farmers’ clubs, and we
will add a few more: Who ever knew
a farmers’ club to contest a patent gate
swindle, or any other swindle, by which
thousands of farmers were being rob-
bed, and win the suits, thereby saving
hundreds of thousands of dollars ‘! Who
ever knew of a farmers’ club or clubs
grappling with a huge monopoly, like
the plaster ring in this State, who were
charging the consumer double the cost
of mining and manufacturing an article
almost wholly consumed by the farm-
ers ? \Vho ever knew a. farmers’ club
effecting business arrangements where-
by the farmers were able to purchase
farm implements and other goods di-
rect from the manufacturer, saving to
themselves from 25 to 50 per cent, with-
out causing the manufacturer to receive
any less for his goods? Who ever knew
of a farmers’ club whose membership
was composed largely of women, who
perform more than half the hours of la-
bor connected with the farm, and their
taking the part in the exercises they do
in the Grange ‘.9 VVlio has ever known
ofa dozen commodious halls being built
by as many farmers’ clubs, where they
can hold their meetings and invite lec-
turers to address them, inviting the
whole neighborhood to attend, without
any fear of being short of room? VVho
has known of a Grange that has found
it necessary to call upon a merchant to
write its essays '2 Who has known
of merchants or business men asking
farmers to do the same for them ? Who
has ever known a farmers’ club to in-
augurate a high or graded school in one
of their halls, where their children can
advance as far in education as they can
by attending the graded school in town
——unless it be that education that tends
to corrupt good morals ‘.’

As to the Grange diverting trade out
of the old channels, we will ask Mr.
Dunning it he always buys his goods at
the same place, of the same firm, or
does he look about and purchase where
he can get the best and most goods for
the least money. If he does the latter,
he is doing business on Grange princi-
ples, and he should accord us the same
right.

Where has Mr. Dunning lived these
last three years that he has to inquire
where the Grange plaster mill is ? I
am sorry he did not let us know of his
ignorance of such a manufactory before
last August. II he had posted us before
the picnic at Grandviile, we would
have given him a special invitation to
attend, and had he complied, it would
have saved him exposing his ignor-
ance in this direction.

Mr. Dunning says we seek to drive
out the buyer, or the middleman, so
called. We do ask to do away with
unnecessary or surplus middle-men,and
no farther; and it Mr. Dunning is suc-
cessful in business, we have no doubt
he is doing the same, by purchasing
his goods as near direct from the manu-
facturer as possible.

is not Mr. Dunning unreasonable to
berate the Grange because it has not
done that which it took the world cen
turies to do, while the Grange is only
about a dozen years old ?

We have dwelt on these minor points
longer than we wished, but they were
In the way and must be passed over,

. and we will say to Mr. Dunning that

one of the first principles of the Order
is to develope a higher and better man-
hood and womanhood. and one of the
means to this end is to secure for our
children a higher and better education
than the mass of farmers and farmers’
children have been able to receive here-
tofore; and it is for this purpose that
schools are being and have been inaug-
urated in our halls that will furnish the
Same. or better, facilities for educating
Our sons and daughters than the towns
have been supposed to furnish us here-
tofore.

Bringing these schools within reach
Of the masses, where the poor IIla:‘{-['5
children can enjoy these benefits-,' ‘as
Well as those who are well-to-do in the
world,is astep well calculatedjo accom-
plish the above object.

The Grange seeks to educate its mem-

bers in a broader sense of the term
than the club in its meetings. Bring-
ing before them, as it does, all the sub-
jects. which pertain to the farmer's call-
ing_ in a business way, as well as that
which pertains to the raising of crops,
etc. It seeks to call into action the
younger as well as the older members.
_ It seeks the refining and ennobling
influences which only woman can give,
and which will inspire us to a higher
and nobler manhood.

I would not under-rate the farmer’s
club. I believe they have done much
good, and they may answer now in
some localities. \Ve consider the
Grange compares with the club just as
we consider the mowing machine com-
pares with the scythe. The scythe was
very good till we got something better,
and We keep one yet, to mow fence
corners, and find it useful. But when
we reach that higher civilization where
we shall do away with fences, we ex-
pect the scythe will become of little
use.

Believing we shall be appreciated ac-
cording to our works, and when- our
principles are better known, I remain,

Fraternally you rs,
J. C. ENGLISH.

The True Patron.

Bro. Cobb .-

A copy of your very excellent, clean,
smooth,tidy,well-printed paper,reached
me yesterday, and I want to thank
your Worthy State Lecturer, Bro. C.
L. Whitney, for it. The VISITOR
should be a welcome guest at the fire-
side of every happy home in your
noble State. Well pleased indeed was
I with its general appearance, and
thrice welcome may its worthy contrib-
utors ever be received and honored in
the old Sucker State, at our Grange
halls and pleasant homes.

Brothers and sisters of our noble Or-
der, let us wave the rules of etiquette
and have a social chat. To meet to-
gether, chat together, co-operate to-
gether, and enjoy the sweets of life,
liberty and happiness together, is our
choicest privilege.

Extend our acquaintance, improve
our morals, educate our minds, and
elevate our class, by practicing a broad-
er and nobler charity, and it will make
us better men and women, and that is
the aim of our Order.

There is much more good in the
world than many think,—to prove this
it is only necessary to become better
acquainted with the people.

Is it not a fact that the better we get
acquainted, the more highly we appre-
ciate each other, as a rule.

I want to tell you, if what I know
was written in one book, and what I
don’t know in another, you can very
easily imagine which would be the big
book. Yet I must say that I have
learned agreat many useful lessons in
the Grange. Before it was organized
I was not acquainted with one-fiftieth
of the persons in my own County,-
not even with many I now consider
my neighbors. We are now acquainted
more or less in every one of the 102
Counties in the State. In our humble
opinion, we have, one and all, received
benefits, in proposition, as we have at-
tended school, and labored. You will
infer from this that we consider the
Grange a school. Yes, my dear friends,
a school of the very greatest impor-
tance to the farmer. The Grange is to
the tiller of the soil what the common
free school is to the youths of our land.
A child, to obtain an education and be
profited thereby, must study diligently
and regularly, and labor hard for years ;
so must a Granger. The child that at-
tends school most regularly, studies
hardest, grumbles least, loves the school
most, derives the greatest benefit. So,
also, is it with the Grange. .

, The Grange is just what we make it;
so is the farm, our homes, our selves.
A good Grange, like a good farm, will
produce a good crop if well cultivated.

Over here in Illinois we have a great
many good Grangers, good farmers.
and happy homes; and we would like
to hold an inter-State picnic, compare
notes, swap ideas, and become better
acquainted with the worthy m_ei_nbers
of our excellent Order in the adjoining
States of Michigan, Missouri, Ken-
tucky, and Indiana. Something like
an old-fashioned camp-meeting.

all, clothe all, pay for. all, Why 1105 “V9
up to the highest privileges of all.

Our natural enemies (middle-men)
have come to the conclusion that the
Grange is a fixture, that it has come to

stay. Well, it has taken them 9. good

As it it is our lot to dig for all, feed.

while to find it out, but better late than
never.

The Order is now solidifying, and its
influence will be greater and more ap-
parent as we move to a higher plane
and stand closer together. Let our
motto ever be, “Equal and exact justice
to all, and farmers’ rights forever.”

S. T. DAVIS,
Lect. Ill. State Grange.
Perry Co., Ill., Nov. 5th, 1879.

Farmers’ Clubs and the Grange—-No. 2.

Bra. .7. T. Cobb.-

I have been connected with an Agri-
cultural Society for 30 years, taking an
active part in nearly all of its business
meetings and its annual fairs.

This society embraces a large and
populous County, and its farmers will
surely compare well in intelligence and
thrift with those of any other County
in the State. '

At two or three different times during
these thirty years we have tried to es-
tablish in connection with this society
a club for the discussion of farm topics ;
but each attempt has proven a failure.
From the whole County we could not
get together more than three or four
farmers who would take part in these
discussions, hence it was impossible to
get up sufficient interest to make a suc-
cess. The proper method of reaching
and enlisting the farmers seems to be
wanting, so it was given up, and for sev-
eral years previous to the advent of the
Grange movement no eflbrt of the kind
had been made in the County.

My observation and acquaintance

.has extended over several other coun-

ties, where like efforts have been made,
and with like results. The Lenawee
County and the Volina Farmers’ Clubs
are the only ones I can now call to
mind which have existed for any
length of time, and whose published
proceedings have become a part of the
farm literature of the State.

These loca.lities have simply been for-
tunate in having men who could and
would take hold of such an organiza-
tion and make it a success.

Most of the men throughout the State
who had realized the necessity of some-
thing of the kind, and who had worked
to establish Farmer’s Clubs, readily
entered the Grange movement, seeing
at once the advantage of having the
great central power in the State Grange
—-which the best club system must al-
ways lack, and so far as my acquaint-
ance goes there is now no antagonism
existing between the clubs and the
Granges,—nor should there be, for they-
both seek to accomplish the same thing,
and what matter if they do differ in
their methods of doing it.

I do not at present know of a farmer,
or merchant, or business man of any
kind in Michigan but will readily admit
that the Grange, in defeating the plans
of the plaster ring, a few years ago, ac-
complished something which the farm-
ers’ clubs, with their imperfect organi-
zation, would never have presumed to
undertake.

In the defeat of the slide-gate swin-
dle, too, no simple organization could
have done what the Grange has.

In speaking of our efforts to form a
Farmer’s Club in our County, I said we
could find but three or four farmers in
the County who would take an active
part in the discussions. We now have
a County Grange, with a dozen or more
subordinate Granges, and when we
meet as a County Grange we can count
our members (both men and women)
by the score who are able and willing
to take part in the discussion of any
subject pertaining to the farm or the
household; and right well can they
acquit themselves in these discussions.

From my stand-point, I regard this
as a great achievement for the farmers
and farmers’ wives of the County, and
one which will benefit the agricultural
interests of the whole County, and I
think that this achievement has been
gained by’ the educational character of
the Grange. C.

Programmes for Capital Grange, Lau-
sing, Mich., 1879.

Nov. STH, 1:30 o’cLocK, P. M.—Initia-
tions during this and the succeeding
Saturdays. “ Will it justify a farmer
to make improvements on borrowed
capital?” Warren Smith, Wm. Hol-
loway, C. D. Buck. Essay, Miss Melis-
sa. Creyts. Reading, Miss Florence
Lansing.

Nov. 15TH, 7 0'CLOCK, P. M.——"_An
antidote for poverty," Mrs. J. Cortrite.
“Fattening cattle most profitably, prop-

er age. food and breed,” VVm. A. Lee,
Frank Gulley, A.Wheeler.

Nov. 22Ni), 1:30 o’cLocK, P. M.—-
“VVhen and how to do outside paint-
ing," Geo. Limebeck. Reading, Har-
ry Gladden. Essay, Mrs. Emily Long-
bon. Essay, Clayton Clarke.

Nov. 29TH, 7 o’cLocK, P. M.—“The
best way to market wheat and wool,”
John Creyts, George Williams. “Econ-
omy,” Mrs. E. Nichols. Essay, Mrs.
E. H.§Gladden.

DEC. 6TH, 1:30 o’CLocK, P. M.—“Fire
Insurance,” Win. Gladden, A. G. Gun-
nisson. Reading, Miss Alma M. Slo-
cum. “ Selection and discussion of our
agricultural papers,” Wm. E. West,
L. T. Sutliff, Mrs. Geo. VVilliams, Mrs.
Celia Gunnison.

DEC. 13TH, 7 o’cLoCK, P. M.-“ Man-
agement of manure in winter,” Henry
Robbins, Thomas Reeve. Essay, Miss
Marion Creyts, Mrs. S. M. West, Miss
Jennie Buck.

DEC. 20TH. 1:30 o’cLocK P. M.—E1ec-
tilcén of new ofl-icers and reports of the
o

DEC. 27TH, 7 o’cLocK, P. M.—“ Plans
and resolutions for the new year,” by
the oflicers elect. Essay or Reading,
Munson Lamb, Frank Lee, Wm. Mc-
Roberts, Wm. Reeve, Wm. Sharp,
Evatta Gladden, Mary Goodnoe, Eliza-
beth Lee.

JAN. 3RD, 1880. 1:30 o’cLocK, P. M.—-
Show of wheat, oats, and Indian Corn ;
results of experiments, Managing com-
mittee; for wheat, James Cortrite, H.
C. Everett; for oats, E. S. Thompson,
H. D. Felton ; for Indian Corn, E. B.
Nichols, Charles Taylor.

JAN. 10TH, 7 o’oLocK, P. M.—Instal-
lation of oflicers.

Programmes of Birmingham Grange.

The following are the programmes of
Birmingham Grange for the balance of
this year: ,

Nov. 8TH, 7 o’cLocK P. M.

“Care and Management of Horses,”
J as. H. Peabody.

Discussion.

Song.

Intermission.

“Culture of House Plants,” Mrs. Sat-
terl.ee.

Select reading, Hugh Kenny.

Nov. 15TH, 7 o’cLooK P. M.

“ Care and Management of Sheep,”
Wm. Satterlee; followed by a discus-
sion.

Intermission.

Comic song, J. H. Peabody.

Essay, Mrs. Crosby.

“Bread-ma,king,” Miss VonDaniels.

Nov. 22m), 7 o’cLocK P. M.

“ Economy in Household Labor,”
Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Jackson.

Intermission.

“Grange Monitor,” Miss Flora Ad-
ams

Song.

“Book-keeping for Farmers.”

Nov. 29TH, 7 o’cLooK P. M.

“ How to Make Homes Attractive,”
Mrs. Benjamin ; followed by discus-
sion.

Intermission.

“Plans Ahead on the Farm,” G. C.
Gibbs; followed by discussion.

DEC. 6TH, 7 o’cLocK P. M.

“The Model Farmer,” Jas. M. Hunt;
followed by discussion.

Intermissson

“ The Model Granger,” Mrs. Frank
J enks.

Select Reading, Miss Maggie Brown.

DEC. 13TH, 7 o’cLooK P. M.

Discussion——Resolved,"That Country
Life is Preferable to City Life._” Affirm-
ative, Joseph Jackson; negative, Hugh
Kenny.

Intermission.

“ The Model Neighborhood,”
Susie Trowbridge.

DEC. 20TH, 7 o’cLooK, P. M.

Election of officers for next year.
, Feast. -

Miss

“EDWARD, you have disobeyed your
grandmother, who told you just now
not to jump down these steps.”-
“ Grandma didn't tell us not to, papa;
she only came to the door and only
said, '1 wouldn’t jump down_ those
steps, boys, and I shouldn't think she
would, an old lady like her! ”

SUNDAY-SCHOOL teacher : f‘ You must
remember that all that I am telling you
happened one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine years ago.” Pupil:
“ Lor, Miss, how time do slip away?’


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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

SCHOOLCRAFT. NOV. 15, 1879.

.§metary’:% fiepartmeut.

- SCHOOLCBAFT.

J. T. COBB, - - -

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

STATE GRANGE SESSION- HOTEL
RATES.

Favorable hotel accomodations have
been made by the committee for our
numerous friends who will attend the
December session of the State Grange
in Lansing.

The Lansing House will charge
$1.50 per day. The Hudson same as
last year. 1.25. The Chapman Everett
and several other houses $1 00 per day.
There are several places where good
board can be obtained at a dollar a
day or less. We gave them such a
good run last year that we have rea-
son to believe they will expect to see
a host of Michigan Patrons and be
prepared for them.

THE GOVERNOR 014‘ MICHIGAN

Not his excellegzy C. M. Croswell.
the present popular Governor of Mich-
igan, for no boom has been started for
him, but the Governor of 1881 and
’82.

By this time, perhaps, some good,
conscientious Patron has mentally
raised the question, perhaps accompa
nied with a protest: Is the Grange
going into politics? ‘Veil, we are not
going so far but what any of our
timid brothers may get back. where
they started from very soon, if they
don’t like what we say.

VVe have noticed that several news-
paper men, or their correspondents,
have become interested in this matter
of who shall be the next Governor of
Michigan, and although this is an
agricultural State, and its farmers
constitute more than one-half of its
population, and really represent its
most important interest, that these
newspapers, and these correspondents,
in each instance have selected gentle-
men from some profession or calling
other than farming. _

And as these other professions and
callings have been represented for sev-
eral years, and well represented too,
in the gubernatorial office,we Grangers
—not specially as Grangers, but as
farmers—think it time to raise the
question, why not select a farmer for
Governor? _

At one time we would have finished
that sentence by adding, providing
we can find a competent farmer.

But we have outgrown that condi-
tion of‘ hesitation and doubt, and say
most unequivocally that among the
farmers of Michigan we have as many
men every way qualified as can be
found in any other, or all the other
classes together. _ _ _

Now, the Visiron is going into
politics that far at least, and it invites

the members of the Order everywhere
to come right along with us so far,
and talk about this matter, write

about it, and make other farmers out-5

side the gate talk about it, think about
it and look this thing in the face.
’It is the professed mission of the
Grange to educate farmers to a higher
lane not onlv in the line of their
profedsion, but" in every other direc-
1I;)ion, where their interests are in-
I
voilcfeiisu conceded by all these good
- - are so willing to serve
fitéiizrentoggay and their adherents,
farmers have no representation in
gosdgress or in any or the important
3

THE GRANGE _V1SITOR.

departments of‘ government, because
they, as a class, do not come to the
front and demand anything.

The farmers have been so intent on
raising corn and cabbage in this coun-
try for a hundred years that they
have not stopped and consulted to-
gether and then gone to work in a
systematic way, like bankers, manu-
facturers. and other classes to take
care of‘ their own interests.

You mention this matter to the
next man you meet, be he farmer or
not, and he will probably tell you that
he don’t believe in class legislation—
that we send men to Congress to leg-
islate for the people of the United
States, and not for bankers, mer-
chants, farmers, or any class in partic-
ular.

That sounds well, and it is a pity
our representatives don’t seem to un-
derstand that such is their duty.

But when we find the agricultural
interests of the country, so far as
governmental direction and support
is concerned,committed to a Commis-
sioner of‘ Agriculture, and he restrict-
ed to the expenditure for promoting
the vast agricultural interests of this
immense country, to a few thousand
dollars per annum, by legislative bod-
ies that at every session appropriate
millions of dollars for all sorts of pur-
poses and projects,—-when, I say, such
iiiggardly support is rendered that
the Commissioner cannot provide
such machinery for prosecuting expe-
riments in the manufacture of sugar
as any enterprising citizen of‘ ordinary
means would have used in the prose-
cution of the same work on private
account—is it not time for farmers, as
such, to look around to see what class
of men they have committed their in-
terests,in the legislative and executive
departments of the country.

This country sends millions of dol-
lars every year beyond its borders
for sugar, and continues to do so after
it has been demonstrated that we have
all the requirements,except experience
in the manufacture, to supply the
wants of this whole country, and fur-
nish employment to a host of farm
laborers, in the production of beets,
sorghum, and other sugar producing
staples of the country.

But the field for criticism, like the
field of improvement, is large, so large
that we can but cross the border, and
then return to the first and main ques-
tion, Shall the farmers of Michigan
take any interest in the chief magis-
tracy of the State and demand that
her next Governor shall be a farmer;
or shall they follow the lead of the
politicians, and disregard alike their
rights and their interests.

Let us hear from the farmers of‘ the
State,—write to the Visiron, write to
all the agricultural papers of the State,
write to the County papers of all po-
litical parties, write to the large city
dailies, and say that the farmers of
Michigan want as a matter of right a
farmer for Governor. Express your
several preferences for this man or
that, but stand by the main proposi-
tion with a determination worthy of
success.

THE following Granges are delin-
quent in reports and payments of‘ dues
to the State Grange for some one or
all of the quarters of 1878 and the
first three of 1879.

Some of them are undoubtedly dead
or dormant beyond hope of resurrec-

tion while a considerable number of
them are delinquent on account of the
remissness of their Secretaries.

3,10, 16, 21, 22, 32, 41, 47, 51, 52, 61,
63, 69, 81. 82, 86, 94, 126, 128, 144, 147,
157, 163, 168, 172, 200, 214, 229, 236, 239,
241, 245, 256, 261, 263, 264, 268, 274, 289,
310, 317, 321, 328, 329, 334, 342, 345, 358,
364, 381, 383, 385, 391, 494, 402, 409, 417,

422, 425, 426, 427, 436, 452, 456, 457, 460,

464, 465, 470, 432, 435, 487, 499, 514, 518,
521, 523, 528, 539, 553, 554, 556, 562, 582,
589,590,592, 606, 614, 616, 632.

 

GRANGE LEGISLATIVE SES-
SIGNS.

Before we were hardly aware of‘ it,
the summer of 1879 was past and the
shortened days of Autumn had come.
These, with the lengthened evenings
anda storm of snow, and the brief
proclamation of the Master of the
National Grange waked us up to the
fact that just before us lay the annu-
al session of the National Grange,
and following it closely would come
the State Grange session of this year.

Many enquiries have been made
during the season as to the probabili-
ty of getting an excursion from Michi-
gan, or reduced rates for those who
may ‘wish to attend the National
Grange session at Canandaigua.

Accordingly we endeavored to
make some arrangements with the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
R. R. and its branches for reduced
rates to Buffalo, but did not succeed.
Our former experience with the M. C.
R. R. had been so unsatisfactory that
we made no attempt in that direction.

But J. F. McClure, Ass’t General
Ticket Agent, at Detroit, of the De-
troit, Graiid Haven & Milwaukee R’ y
Co., is a live railroad man, and thro'
his assistance special rates have been
secured over the line of that and the
Canada roads to Buffalo or Suspension
Bridge.

Ticket agents on the line of the
railroad at the points named below
will sell round trip tickets on presen-
tation ofa certificate signed by me.
This is a requirement of the Com-
pany.

I have sent to Secretaries and prom-
inent Patrons along the line of this
road a good many certificates, and
shall be glad to supply all Patrons
with certificates who may apply by
letter or telegraph.

This Company having kindly con-
sented to sell tickets for this trip at
their ticket oflfice in Detroit, good on
either of the Canada roads. The time
of using is limited to Dec. 3d, and the
purchase of tickets to the 19th inst.
This will accommodate some who will
find it convenient to get to Detroit
over the other roads.

We give herewith round trip ticket
rates from stations on the D., G. H. &
M. R. R. to Buffalo or Suspension

Bridge:

Detroit,-----$ 9.60 Ovid, ..... _..$12_90
Det. Junc.,_- 9.60 St. Johns,__- 13.30
Pontiac,---__ 10.40 Pewamo,-_-- 13.85
Holly, __-__- 11.25 Muir, ..... __ 14.10
Fenton,-___- 11.40 Ionia,----_-- 14 35
Gaines, --_-- 11.85 Saranac, ---- 14.65
Durand,_-_-- 12.05 Lowell,__-_- 14 95
Vernon, ____ 12.15 Gr. Rapids,- 15.50
Corunna, _-_ 12.35 Nunica,_-_-- 16.55
Owosso,-___- 12.50 Gr. Haven,- 16.90

0w’so Junc., 12.50 Muskegon,-- 17.30

A single fare from Buffalo or Sus-
pension Bridge to Canandaigua is
$1.95.

The Western Grand Trunk, former-
ly Peninsular, has agreed to have
round trip tickets for sale at its oflices
along the line from Valparaiso Ind.,
to Port Huron, Mich.

Those taking this route will, of
course go via the Grand Trunk thro‘
Canada. We have no table of rates,
but two cents a mile each way for
round trip tickets will be charged.

N o certificates required on this
road, and tickets good for thirty days
from Nov. 14th.

As before stated, many inquiries
have been made of Brothers Wood-

man and VVhitney, as well as at this
ol1ice,in relation to this matter of re-
duced rates to the Nat. Grange, and
we are sorry that this arrangement
was not perfected so that notice
could have appeared in the VISITOR
of Nov. 1st.

We are aware that many of those
who talk about going on such a trip
are quite likely to give up, but it has
seemed to us that perhaps as many
would be likely to go as could be
well accommodated. But we hope no
one will hesitate about starting, as the
lateness of this notice will be a bar to
some who would have gone if they
could have been making their arrange-
ments for a month past.

We have attended three annual
sessions of the National Grange, re-
maining three days each time, and
never for a moment regretted the
trip.

Times have improved. This has
been a good year for farmers in nearly
all parts of the State, and those who
can spare the means to visit the Nat.
Grange, and in many cases include a
visit to eastern friends in the trip,
should by all means do so. It will
not be money thrown away, but we
think a good investment. If the
annual session of the Michigan State
Grange did not follow so soon after
the National, I should try to get
away somehow and spend a little time
at Canandaigua. But before we are
aware of it the 9th of December will
demand that the Master’s gavel shall
call to order the

STATE GRANGE OF MICHIGAN

in the hall of the House of Represen-
tatives, which, one year before, the
Patrons of Michigan dedicated to the
temporary use of the Order. That
was a proud, historic Week to the Pa-
trons of Michigan who saw not less
than 800 of our members feeling quite
at home in the new State Capitol, to
which they had been invited by the
authority representing the State.

The ready and hearty response of
all the State officers to meet every
want, and the cordial good will and
friendly feeling manifested by each,
from the Governor down to the em-
ployes about the building, made us
feel that we were indeed welcome to
the first occupancy of the State House
as a legislative body.

The success of the sixth session
makes us feel that large numbers of
the earnest Patrons of Michigan will
meet with its voting members in the
new Capitol in Dec. next, and partic-
ipate, so far as they may, in the Work
of the session.

With the reduced railroad and hotel
rates which were obtained last winter,
and which we may confidently expect
this year, the expense of attending
the session will not be a. serious or
weighty objection to attending the
seventh session of the State Grange
in Dec. next.

All those present last year were
more than compensated, and we are
quite sure that many of them will be
present at the next session.

We shall be glad to see them and
renew those cordial greetings which
are among the evidences of the great
value of the Order, and hope they
will not fail to bring many of their
Patron friends with them.

There is ample room, and with
greater hotel accommodations in the
city, we can promise that all who
come will be richly rewarded.

These annual meetings are not only
a fruitful source of enjoyment to those
who attend during the session, but the
influence that goes out from and per-
meates the great body of the Order,
increasing and strengthening the faith
of some, and the hopes of all, becomes
apotent agency for good to the Or-
der. We therefore advise all who can
to attend these legislative sessions of
th_e,,Order, National or State, fully be-
li‘e,v.,ig that, to all who can afford it,
the investment of time and money is
a good one.

 

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TI-IE GRANGE VISITOR.

5

PLAS1‘ER—GRANGE PLASTER.

The season has arrived when the
Patrons of Michigan should begin to
think not only about the next session
of the State Grange in the new CAPI-
TOL at Lansing in December, but also
of that other matter of primary inter-
est to them,—their supply of plaster
for the season of 1880.

The Executive Committee of the
State Grange have, you all know, been
watchful of the interests of the Order
in this matter of plaster, and you will
remember how they proved their faith
and fidelity by their works when
they became individually responsible
for thousands of dollars, and that
committee are determined that this
arrangement for keeping the price of
plaster down to a reasonable figure
shall never die on their hands so long
as they have the co-operation of Day
& Taylor, of Grandville, in this work.

The Committee at their meeting in

October renewed their contract with
Day & Taylor at a rate equivalent to
a dollar less per ton at the mill than
before. And we confidently expect
that every farmer worthy of the name
of Patron will arrange to order with
his neighbor of Day & Taylor what
plaster he will want to use next sea-
son. These gentlemen have, with un-
exampled energy and push developed
a new mine since“ VVeston Lake” was
created and have already got out
nearly 2,000 tons of rock, and are
bringing more to the surface every
day.
They had a large amount piled up
under sheds when the water overcame
them in their old quarry. This dry
rock they are now grinding, and it is
in perfect condition of A No.1 quality.
It cannot be excelled.

\Ve call up this matter thus early
to advise all those localities that have
good warehouses to order their plas-
ter early in the season before cars be-
come scarce. Plaster wont evaporate
if you get it right off, and it is not
liable to loss from any cause. It is so
cheap and heavy no one will want to
steal it, and if you get it early you
will be sure to have it when you want
it.

Messrs Day & Taylor propose to
furnish it in bags at only ten cents
per ton more than in bulk and allow
Patrons to return the bags or pay the
wholesale price for them. This is a
very liberal offer and it seems to us
that it will require a large number of
bags to supply the demand.

This will enable farmers to take
their supply of plaster right from the
cars already weighed, and unload a
car in a very short time. Now,
Brothers remember that to the Grange
you are indebted for this opportunity
to buy plaster at a very low price; and
remember another thing, that if you
sustain Day & Taylor, the days of
cheap plaster will not depart from
you. Attend to this matter and at-
tend to it early and well, for in this
Vyay you take security on the future.
btand by your friends who have so
faithfully stood by you, and order
your plaster early of Day & Taylor,
of Grandville. '

Grange Meetings.

VanBuren County Pomona Grange,
No. 13, will hold its annual meeting in
the village of Lawrence, Nov. 27th, ’79,
for the election of oflicers and such
other business as may properly come
before it. F. Goss, Sec‘y.

THE time will come, says the Dan-

,“1'Y News man. when all civilized na-

tions will speak one language and drink
0116 beer.

 

IF A man is to be considered as absent
when his senses leave, there are many
men who could hardly ever be found
It home.

gvrturera flepartment.

0- L- WHITNEY. - - - MUSKEGON.

Among The Laborers.
October 27th.

At 8 A. M. we bade good bye to home
and family and were soon en route by
rail in company with Brother \Vhite-
head, for South Boston where we were
expected to labor.

At Lowell Bro. Stannard met us and
took us to the hall. As we came near
we_ saw plenty of Grange signs, by
which We knew we were expected, and
thatby a large number. Dinner was
served in the dining-room, as before,
when therein June. At the hour of
labor the hall was filled to overflowing,
and for two and one half hours good
earnest attention to the words of the
Lecturer was given.

In the evening. Bro. Whitehead gave
an excellent good-of-the Order talk,and
then spent the night at the home of
Bro. and Sister St-annard.

Thursday, Oct. 28th,

Found us at the home of Bro. Barn-
ard, the \Vorthv Master of Berlin
Grange, No. 272, whose new ball was
to be dedicated to the use of the noble
Order. Breakfast over, We took some
exercise in looking over the farm and
buildings of our host.

Ten o’clock came and found us at the
door of the hall, where, with the VVor-
tliy Lecturer of the National Grange,
we were warmly welcomed, not only
by Berlin Centre Grange, but by hun-
dreds of visiting brothers and sisters,
coming many miles to assist in the la-
bors of the day. ,

At the appointed hour of 10:30, the
Patrons, clothed in regalia, assembled
at the old hall and formed in proces-
sion, in the usual order, and proceeded
to the new hall, which was duly in-
spected and filled to its utmost capacity.
The exercises of dedication followed as
soon as the company were seated, in
which we were assisted by excellent
singing from the choir.

All the olficers did well their parts,
and we would particularly mention the
Chaplain and lady officials, who clearly
and impressively gave their charges.
The dedication proper was followed by
a short address,— when, the hour of
dinner having arrived, we were called
from labor to refreshment.

This gives us a place to say a word
about this new hall. It is two stories
in height, finished below into a large
room, lecture room, or any purpose to
which the Grange may wish to use it,
or allow it to be used. In front is the
stairway leading to the upper rooms.
Through suitable ante-rooms we pass to
the Grange hall, which is large, well-
fiiiished and furnished for the use of
the Grange. It was beautifully deco-
rated with evergreen, grain, fruit and
flowers, mottoes and pictures. A plat-
form eight inches high passes entirely
around the outside of the hall, and adds
greatly to the convenience and capacity
of the hall.

The dinner tables were also well dec-
orated by tasteful hands aiid supplied
by bountiful larders with everything
appetite could desire or taste suggest.

After dinner Worthy Master Wood-
man appeared, to the delight of all, as
shown by the hearty welcome he re-
ceived.

The exercises of the afternoon began
by packing every space in the hall.
After singing, Bro. Whitehead was in-
troduced and spoke in his usual happy
manner for an hour or moi*e—wnen
Bro. Woodman took the stand, and in
his usual pleasant and impressive man-
ner addressed ;tne assembled Patrons
for an hour or more, edifying and in-
structing all.

Supper was now served to those who
were to remain to the private session.

An hour or more of social chat and
visiting, and the Grange was opened in
due lorm and instructed by Bros. Wood-
man and Whitehead in the higher
work and lessons of the Order, until a
late hour, when all said good-bye and
went home and to rest.

The three W.’s were guests of Bro.
Barnard, the Worthy Master of the
Grange, who was to give us an early
breakfast and a ride to Ionia, to take
the early trains-——Bro. Woodman to
Lansing and Bro. Whitehead and our-
self to St. Johns. '

October 29th.

A short ride on the well-managed D.,
G. H. as M. R. R. brought us to St.
Johns, Clinton County, Bro. Hale

met us at the depot and directed us to a
pleasant place of waiting, and for
Writing. After dinner we met a goodly
number of farmers in the Court House,
and briefly addressed them, being fol-
lowed at length by the Worthy Nation-
al Lecturer.

\Ve thankfully accepted an invitation
to tea with Mrs. A. Stout, where we
were pleasantly entertained, an hour
was passed all too fast. Our hostess was
well supplemented by her daughters
and mother, the latter almost. if not
quite, proved to be a relation of Brother
\Vhitehead’s.

On reaching the hall of St. Johns
Grange. No. 140, we found even more
Patrons present than at the afternoon
meeting. The Grange was opened in
due form, the Worthy Master, Frank
Conn, presiding.

VVe addressed the Patrons briefly
upon the needs of the Order and the
necessity of thorough organization,—-
and during the recess that followed
took many names for the VISITOR, and
an application fora Pomona Grange,
signed by 80 persons.

Bro. Whitehead followed the recess,
teaching the lessons of our temple
work, until the hour for departure upon
the west-bound train.

_ October 30th.

, Six hours rest at Sweet's hotel, Grand
Rapids, reached at midnight, and we
were called to breakfast, after which
your two Lecturers took a large amount
of exercise and did the town thoroughly.
Missing the train on one road, we took
one upon another to Cooperville, Where
by carriage‘ we rode to Trent, Muske-
gon County, and found a large crowd
waiting for us to begin our labor, the
dedication of the new hall. Looks of
disappointment passed into smiles
when we drew up and all become hap-

y.

Dinner eaten, the order of duty was
begun. Patrons in regalia formed in
procession at the old school, where the
Grange has so long met, and proceeded
in order to the new hall and inspected
it, and the exercises of the hour began.
The best made and handsomest altar it
has been our pleasure to see in a
Grange hall was put in position, and
decorated by fair hands with flowers,

‘fruits and grain, beautiful emblems of

the iaiih, hope and charity so appro-
priately taught by our Order.

Bro. Mortinier Whitehead gave one
of his characteristic addresses in the in-
terest of the farmer and the advance-
ment of Agriculture, to which all gave
attentive ear,gathering food for thought
in the coming days, and which shall
yield sooner or later an abundant har-
vest of fine fruit.

During the recess hour given for
supper and rest we noted the size and
plan of the hall, 30x60 feet, two stories
in height. The lower rooms well ar-
ranged for a dining room and kitchen
purposes, while the Grange Hall, one
of the largest in the State, occupies the
upper floor. The anterooins, staircases,
passages, etc., are abundant and ample
in size. The facilities for lighting are
the best we have seen in any Grange,
and we congratulate 'l‘ieiit Grange,
No. 372, that it has so thoughtfully
provided so beautifula home.

The evening feast over, for we had
two feasts this day, Worthy Master
Woodward, of Trent Grange, read an
address of welcome to the Weston, Po-
mona Grange, No. 19, and gave the
hall into the possessson of Bro. Nathan
Whiting,Master of the Pomona Grange,
who at once opened the Grange in form
in the Fourth Degree. Worthy Bro.
Whitehead then gave instructions on
the lessons of the degrees. Recess fol-
lowed. When work was resumed, it
was in the Fifth Degree. ’J.‘hl1‘ly-six
applications and nine dimits were re-
ceived, adding forty-five members to
the lists of Pomona Grange, No. 19,
Ottawa, end Muskegon.

At a late hour the large meeting
departed for the night to gather strength
for the coming day. The meeting at
Trent may be called a “successful
meeting.” Patrons being present from
four counties and fifteen Granges. Sev-
eral members from Kent and Newago
Pomona Granges viere present. The
officers and members of Weston Grange
took part in the dedication, making a
fine appearance in the procession.

October 31st.

A long ride across the country from
Fruit to Cooperville and -we made a
warm room and bed at 3 o’clock A. M.,
with three hours to sleep and rest. At
6o’clock we took breakfast and then
the train for Flint, by the way of Holly,
reaching our destination at 12:15 P. M.
We ate dinner and then were conduct-

ed to the court house, where we found a.
goodly number of the faithful awaiting
us, and who for two hours listened to
words of the lecturers--State and Na-
tional. In the evening we met the Pa-
trons at the same (place, and again
words of cheer an encouragement,
also, of instruction and advice.

The Order in this county’ has made
some mistakes and has suffered largely
by the same, but we found the true
spirit of the Patron there and think
and hope that they too will advance
with the rest of the line, and gain
strength as we know they will by each
and every effort. Let them, and all
others remember, that by continued
peisevering effort: and repeated blows,
the great obstacles will be overcome and
our object, if just, will finally be at-
tallied.

With the earnest brothers and sisters
We met at Flint at the helm of the
County and Pomona Grange, we see no
reason why they cannot recover all lost
ground and steadily move forward to
ultimate success. Unite, then, and for-
-ward to victory.

’ November 1st.

Having no appointment, we take a
good rest, and then answering our cor-
respondents bade Brother Whitehead
good bye and parted, he to go to his
home and dear ones and we to our hum-
ble home and loved ones.

November 5th.

After a few days in looking to home
interests and getting ready for the near
winter, we again take the train and
bring up in Bro. and Secretary Cobble
care, with whom we arrange for cir-
culating the notices of the rates to the
National Grange and return, obtained
through the courtesy of Mr. J. F. Mc-
Clure, of Detroit. We hope that many
Patrons can find it convenient to attend
the meeting at Canandaigua, and de-
rive great benefit therefrom. For par-
ticulars, see elsewhere in this number,
and then write to Bro. Cobb or me for
certificates of membership.

Items.

Clinton County Patrons have sent in
an application for at Pomona Grange in
their County with over 80 names at-
tached. The State Lect. has appointed
Thursdav, the 13th inst., for the insti-
tulion of such Pomona Grange.

Barry County Patrons met on the
14th inst., at Hastings for a lecture
from the State Lecturer and to or-
ganize a County or Pomona Grange.
This is the beginning of success in this
County.

The field work of the State Lecturer
is increasing. Calls come in plentifully,
showing that the Order is putting forth
new energy and zeal. Many applica-
tions have been made for the reorgan-
ization of dormant Granges.

AN OHIO man has obtained a judg-
ment against a school board for depriv-
ing his daughter of the advantages of
the public school. The board had de-
cided that the pupils should _study
drawing, but the fund parent in ques-
tion declared that she should not, and
she was expelled in consequence. It is
mournfully added by a. correspondent
at the seat of war that if this verdict
stands the studies arranged by boards
of education will not be compulsory on
scholars. That would be a pity, in-
deed. If the tax-eating managers of
public schools everywhere could be pro-
hibited from prescribing drawing, em-
broidery, Deutsch, French and other
ornamental studies for the benefit of
the few, there would be a prospect that
the more essential accomplishments of
reading, writing and ciphering would
be easier of attainment to the many.
Ajudgment like the one in Ohio above
mentioned will not, of course, suflice.
even ifit is sustained, as in that case
studies would be optional with parent
or child, and system would be out of
the question. More common schools
are needed, not with university appli-
ances, but with room and teachers
enough for all who may wish to secure
elementary instruction. The only way
to secure them without largely increas-
ing the burdens of property-owners is
to forbid by law the expenditure of the
people’s money for that which individ-
uals should pay for. It is possible that
the Ohio difficulty may lead to a refor-
mation of this kind.-Times.

 

INDIAN summer this.’ And speaking
of Indian summer, that’s about all that

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

[From the Dzriya Rural.]
A TRIBUTE TO BASKEN HEGAN
GRANGE.

BY A VISITOR.

A little band was gathered there,
Their cares as well as joys.to share
Bound by sweet ties of brotherhood,
Each working for the other’s good.

N o lodge or order in the land
Contains a more peaceful, happy baud,
Where hearts beat more in unison,

To fast increase the good begun.

The sisters spread the festal board,
With tempting food their homes afford ;
Thanks are returned as gathered round,
To him who all their labors crowned.

While social converse cheers the hour,
Each Patron feels the hallowed power
Of the fraternal ties, that bind

Each devotee in heart and mind.

New friendships formed, old ones renewed,

And from their social band eschewed

All thoughts of strife or selfish gain,

They’re bound by sweetest friendship’s
chain.

These honest tillers of the soil,

Enjoy the fruits of patient toil ;

With ready hands their lands arefitilled
Till barns and granaries are filled.

May richer fruits and blessings come
'l‘o cheer the farmer’s humble home !
Ma.y God their earnest efforts bless,

And crown each effort with success.

And when they all have done with care,
May they, united, gather there;
And not one link be missed above,
To bind the chain of perfect love.
June, 1876.

I ;-yaaitr’ Qepartmmt.

More About Letters.

Worthy Bro. Cobb .-

“A word fitly spoken is like apples of
gold in pictures of silver.” This prov-
erb was brought to my mind while
reading Bro. Cobb’s editorial in the
VISITOR of Oct. 1st, and I was so ‘glad
that he jotted down the ideas on paper
and sent them out to benefit its numei-
ous readers.

Every now and then, while reading
the article, I felt like tossing up my hat
and giving three cheers for Bro, Cobb :
but, then, that would be so unlady-like,
that I contented myself by saying that
I enjoyed it ever so much, from begin-
ning to end,—as I am somewhat fastid-
ious on this subject.

Several times during the past year,
when I have been thinking of some-
thing to send to send to the columns of
the VISITOR, this subject would present
itself to my mind, and I would as often
set it one side, thinking, perhaps, that
somebody would call me an egotist, set-
ting myself up for a teacher over
older and wiser persons, instead of tak-
ing my place as a scholar.

But as the subject has been brought
out, I will say a little something upon
it, not expecting to add to its interest-
only coroborating its statement, and
showing my appreciation of the arti-
cle.
The readers of the VISITOR have
learned by this time that Myra has a
great deal to say about personal experi-
ence. Well, we all have hobbies, and
some of us ride them unmercifully.
Perhaps this is one of mine. I want
to tell you how, and why, I became so
fastidious. The last of my school days
were spent at Albion College. Our pre-
ceptress was a beautiful English lady-
when I say beautiful, I mean more than
that she had a pretty face,delicate hands,
and a fine form. She was beautiful in

‘ herloveliness of character, sweetness of

temper, and earnestness for the future
welfare of the young ladies under her
supervision. I presume she saw very
many defects in our every day deport-
ment that needed correction ; and in-
stead of seeking her own pleasure, and
resting after a week’s teaching, she set
apart the hour from nine to ten on Sat-
urday morning to call our attention to
the little niceties of life, to tell us where
we might improve our notions, habits
and practices,‘ and, among_ other
things, the subjectof letter-writing was
thoroughly discussed. The inside of
the letter received as particular atten-
tionas the outside, telling us how to
date, whereabouts to commence writ-
ing, how to address persons on busi-
ness or comparative strangers, or dear
frjegfds, The directions for the outside
correspond exactly with ,Bro. Cobb’s
views. We. were told to P1309 the P05‘?
3“ _5m,mp on the left-hand corner,

crossways, so that when it was stamped
at the post-ofiice it might not interfere
with the superscription. I do so most-
ly, but I never receive one where the
stamp is placed in that manner, and it,
perhaps, is not the rule to go by now—a-
days. The experience of that hour on
Saturday morning is worth more to me
than dollars and cents; and though I
have been very remiss in following
these teachings, I fancy I have not
wandered so wide from the mark as
though I had never had them. But
who of us do follow exactly our ear-
lier teachings?

Some persons may say that it is more
nice than wise to stickle for these fine
point, if the letter is only Well writ-
ten, or well worded, no matter if the
outside has an unsightly appearance, or
the superscription is ready to topple
off, or as crooked as a rail fence.

But, my friends, you are mistaken.
Good taste, correctness in notions, hab-
its, and practices, is the lubricating oil
that prevents friction in the machinery
of every day life. All may not have
had the privilege of such teachings, or
of reading a treatise on these little
things. But all may keep their eyes
open, and be observing and willing to
learn the better way.

I know a young man that had almost
as soon go withoutaletter from some
of his friends than be so mortified as to
claim such unsightly letters at the
ottice.

And now a word to the brothers:
When your wife wishes you to take a
letter to the office for her, don’t put it in
your pocket along side your cigar or
tobacco, old strings, etc., and carry it
two or three days, forgetting to put it
in the office, and aftera time, when it
looks more like a dog-eared spelling-
book than the neat little missive it set
out to be.

The last point made in Bro. Cob )’s
article about the little things that make
no show on commencement day will
bear considerable ventilation. Let us
hear about it. MYRA.

Once More.

'l‘he other day I meta little girl
of“ten summers,” and I presume as

' many winters, although those are usual-

ly expected to be supplied by the read-
er. I met this little girl, on a bright,
lovely day, coming home from school,
pale, hollow-eyed, faint, spiritless, with
the inevitable load of school-books, to
be studied when she should reach home.
She had the “headache,” she said, as
well she might have; and under her
dress she already wore “ braces ” to
correct a painful defect in her shoul-
ders.

School from nine till two; then les-
sons out of school—braces and head-
aches! The latter following just as
surely as that night succeeds _day. Oh !
how I longed to go home with that
child and say to those parents: throw
those books aside. Take that child out
of school entirely. 'I‘ake off those bra-
ces, and buy her instead a hoop and
stick and turn her out to play, till
those shoulders straighten t/zemsel-ves,
as her health shall improve. Of course,
it would have been considered a great
impertinence, for me, personally, to
have interfered in such a matter. But
as I looked into that intelligent, beauti-
ful little face, and saw the settled ex-
pression of pain and weariness. I had a
great mind to risk it. “ Perhaps,” said
I, "dear it would be as well for you
to leave off going to school until you are
stronger.” “Oh! dear, no!” exclaim-
ed the child. “ Then Mamma says I
should be behind the other girls.”
That is it I “Behind the other girls.”
And for this her little body has to be fill-
ed with pains and aches; her nights are
to be wakeful and wearisome; and if
she lives to be married, as probably she
will not, she is to leave her first baby
motherless. What of all that if she
were not “ behind the other girls”?

I say again, as I have said a thous-
and times, that every mother who per-
mits this, is a. cold-blooded murderess;
and every teacher who permits it isjust
as criminal. '1‘he world is filled to-day
with nervous, dyspeptic women from
just this cause. ’l‘he moment one of
these girls is married and her cares be-
gin, the doctor’s chaise becomes a fixed
fact before the door, till the hearse re-
places it. My very soul sickens with-
in me when I meet these girls day by
day, as school is dismissed. It is the
most egregious, astounding folly on the
part of parents and teachers that was
ever perpetrated by human beings
claiming to be intelligent. Nowadays
it isa very rare thing to find a young

girl with, a straigth back or shoulder-
blades that match one another. This is
monstrous, it is impious. It should be
noticed under the head of “Cruelty to
Animals” by our legislators, and pun-
ished accordingly.

The poor lambs that are jolted over
the pavements to the slaughter-houses,
in carts, tied by the legs, with their
tongues protruding, and their eyes
starting from their sockets, as their
heads hang helplessly over the edge of
the cart, to be grazed by the revolutions
of the wheels, are not half as much to
be pitied as these young girls. For the
lambs will shortly have their throats
cut, and there will be an end of it;
while the girls are to drag on year after
year of a miserable, spiritless existence,
defrauded of the freshness, and spring
andjoy of their youth,and then bedeck-
ed and handed over to some thought-
less husband to be nursed.

This is not an overdrawn picture.
Would thatitwere. I have such seen
young wives sitting in their nurseries,
appalled at their accumulating cares,and
their total and increasing inability day
by day to meet them. Men, even the
best, haveplittle patience with an invalid
wife,and she has this misery to bear with
the rest. Why won’t mothers think of
this in time? _ VVhy won’t they say
decidedly .- My daughter shall study no
lessons out of school; but, instead shall
have out-door relaxation ?
some mother who reads this may say
so. When they all do it, then our
school system will be changed, and not
till then, for teachers but echo the wish
of their patrons.—Fa1my Fern.

 

A Smart Wife.

The other morning a citizen called at
a. hardware store on Woodward avenue
and said he wanted a key to a door in
his house, and he took up and carried
away almost the first key handed out
to him. On his way down town after
dinner he stopped and exchanged the
key for another, explaining that the
first wouldn’t fit. These changes took
place twice a day forthe next four days,
the citizen being unable to get a key to
fit. On the sixth day he drove up to
the store with the door on a dray, and
calling the proprietor, he said :

“Bring your box of keys out here and
we’ll get a key to fit that lock. Here I

have been running back and forth.

about a week, and I might not have got
a fit for a whole month if my wife had
not suggested that I bring the door
down here. Some of these women are
mighty smart.” .

“But why didn't you take the lock
ofl‘ and bring it down in your pocket?”
asked the dealer.

The buyer looked at him in a vacant
way, stared at the door, and sat down
on the curbstone with the remark:

“It’s a wonder that the whole family
wasn’t sent to the fool-house ten years
ago!”

Josh Billings on Marriage.

Sum people marry bekase they think
wimmin will be scarce next year, and
live to wonder how the stock holds out.

Sum marry to get rid of themselves,
and discover that the game was one
that two could play at,and neither win.

Sum marry for love without a
cent in their pocket, nor a friend in
the world, not a drop of pedigree. This
looks desperate, but is the strength of
game.

Sum marry in haste, and then sit
down and think it carefully over.

_ Sum think it carefully over fust, and
then set down and marry.

N 0 man kan tell jist exactly
where he will fetch up when he touch-
es calico.

No man kan tell jist what calico has
made up her mind tew do. Calico
don’t know herself. Dry goods of all
kinds is the child of circumstance.

 

CHILDREN who drink tea and coffee,
says Dr. Ferguson, of England,asa rule,
grow only four pounds per annum be-
tween the ages of thirteen and sixteen :
while those who drink milk night and
morning grow fifteen pounds each
year. When diseases are prevalent in
the neighborhood, children who use
these drinks have less power to resist
sickness than others.

Paorasson.-—"(.‘an you multiply
concrete numbers together?” The
class are uncertain. Professor—“What
apples mul-

Pupil (tri-

will be the product of five
tiplied by six potatoes?”
umphantly)-" Hash.)

Perhaps’

Important Accession.

The following rules have been adopt-
'ed in the Chicago Tribune. VVe hope
to see all of the eleven amendations re-
commended by the American Philogi-
pal Association added to the T/-z'bzme’s

ist:

Omit ue in demagog, catalog, peda-
gog, dialog, decalog, and other words
ending in logue and gogue.

Omit the superfluous me in program,

Omit the second min dilemma (di-
lema).

Omit the superfluous te in cigaret,
etiquet, parquet, coquet, except Gazette,
when applied as the name of a news-
paper.

Spell definite in all its forms without
the final 6; thus definit——ly—ness, in-
definit—ly—ness.

Spell infinite without the final e;
also infinit——ly—ness.

"Omit final e in liypocrit, favorit:
also opposit—ly—ness and apposit——ly
—ness. , -

In words ending in lessness, drop
one s from less, viz: carelesness, thank-
lesness, etc.

Omit the fourth s in assassin (assasin)
and other forms of the word.

Spell somerset, not somersault.

Spell canon with a Spanish 11, or spell
it canyon.

Changephtof in fautom, fantasm,
and all forms of the Word; also, in fo-
nic, fonetic—s——al, fonografy, ortho-
grafy, aliabet, diagraf, difthong.

Sensible. The VISITOR will follow
suit hereafter.

The Oleander.

 

This beautiful plant, when under
proper culture, is truly a gem among
flowers. This is a good time for mak-
ing cuttings of it. The best way to
root them is in a bottle of rain water set
in the window. Thecuttings should be
no deeper in the water than half way
up to the second joint, and when the
rootlets get to be half an inch long, care-
fully pot in rich, sandy loam. After
the plant blooms, cut back to within 15
inches or a foot of the ground, when
three branches will come out; let them
grow until it again blooms, after which
cut them all back aboutsix inches from
the main stalk, and every time it
blooms repeat cutting back, and in
a few years a very beautiful plant will
be the result; in fact, with proper care,
it will grow more beautiful with age.——
iS'c2'ent7_Tfic American.

Schoolboy Blunders.

The Lyon County (Nev.) Times,
writing of the ludicrous mistakes at a
recent school examination there, says:
Although the replies indicated a reason-
ably high degree of proficiency among
the schola.rs, some ludicrous mistakes
were made :

A boy was told to correct the follow-
ing sentence: Milo began to lift the ox
when he was a calf.” The reply was:
“Milo, when he was an ox, began to
lift the calf.”

A little boy was asked: “ \Vhat are
the principle minerals in Nevada?”
He replied without the least hesitation :

Gold, silver, and trout.”

“ To the question, “How would you
go from New York to San Francisco by
water? ” a boy in the same department
replied promptly, and with the ut-
most assurance: “ By boat! ”

Another scholar in the same class be-
ing asked, “ Why do you celebrate the
Fourth of July ‘B ’’ answered unhesitat-
ingly: “ Because three Presidents died
on that day.”

A boy in the high school having been
required to give the plural of two, an-
swered “ Three ! ” and resumed his
seat with aself-satisfied air.

 

A VERY genteel way to be a knave in
these latter days is to put your property
all in your wife's name and constitute
yourself her agent for the transaction
of the business. In this way you can
lie, cheat, steal, all in your wife’s
name. You can drive fast horses and
ride in fine carriages, no matter whether
you can pay your honest debts or not.
You can amass wealth in spite of your
creditors. In short, you can be the
meanest man on the face of the? earth
and yet pass for a gentleman. If y0_u
are an honest man, or have a consci-
ence, it may not be so easy for you to
act in the capacity of your wife’s agent;
but if you are not an honest man, and
not troubled with very much of a con-
science, it will just be splendid.—-G‘. R.
Lever.

 


  

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THE GRANGE VISITOR,

éliurrminnxlenri.

Report from Berrien County.

BERRIEN SPRINGS, Nov. 3d, ’79.

Worthy Bro. J. T. Cobb .-

I am exceedingly glad to inform you
of a visit Bro. Cowins and myself, with
our wives, made to the Cass Co. Pomo-
na Grange, held at Cassopolis on the
29th of October.

\Ve did not find a very large gather-
ing, but those that were there seemed
to be wide awake Patrons. Some said
that they read three different Grange
papers. I would advise all Patrons to
read more Grange news, even if they
neglect the political papers.

I have no doubt that in a few years
the number of members in Cass Co. will
be greatly increased.

At the Berrien Co. quarterly meeting
of our Pomona Grange, held the second
Tuesday in October, we had an attend-
ahce of 500 members, and an interesting
meeting.

I think it would be a good plan for
the Secretaries of the Pomona Granges
to make out and send to your paper a
notice of the meeting of their Grange,
so that members from other Counties
could visit them,—as we always are
glad to see any from other places at our
meetings, and enjoy visiting other
Counties, and learn their methods of
working.

\Ve, in this County, do well in ship-
pingour produce to Bro. '1‘. Mason, in
Chicago, and he sells it for us and
makes us good, fair and honest returns,
which we did not always get before a
man of our own Order entered the
commission business,-—and we think
we can safely recommend him to all
farmers, or anyone that has produce to
sell, as he lived among us twelve years,
and we think we know him well. He
is a quick, sharp, faithful worker, as all
know that are aquainted with him.

Fraternally yours,
JOHN H. FEATHER.

LANSING, Nov. 7th.
Bro. J. T. Cobb:

Permit me, through the VISITOR, to
call the attention of the Patrons to a
few points that will come before the
annual meeting of our State Grange,
soon to be held at Lansing.

There is quite a general complaint
that we did not get such legislation as
the farming interests needed ; an-d there
was a strong feeling of opposition to
nearly all the measures that were re-
commended by the State Grange at its
last meeting, and much of this was
merely to condemn the Grange for dar-
ing to suggest needed reforms.

One of our mottoes says, “In union
there is strength,” and why should
we not show our strength, by such po-
litical action as will secure members
favorable to our views.

One of the first and most important
subjects, and one that all Grangers
are agreed upon, is a better support of
the Agricultural College, and from
what we have learned since the failure
01 the last Legislature to make proper
appropriations, we can not betoo em-
phatic in our recommendations, and
there is but one way to secure the re-
sults we wish, and that is by the ballot.

Every one who will take the .trouble
and time, and look over the organiza-
tion and history of this College, will
see that there has been a. strong and
determined effort to secure the. funds
of this College for the University, and
to place a Professor of Agriculture in
that institution, which would comply
with the land grant to the letter of the
laws. but would leave your experiment-
{ll farm and practical agriculture as not
In the list of State institutions.

At the last session of the State Grange
We were too general in our suggestions.
We made a strike at general results,
and failed to concentrate. We hope
that this time there will be more defin-
lie points made.

If we cannot get all we think we are
entitled to as the leading industry of
the State, let us gain a little. Why 11015
insist that there shall be a veterinary
denartmenti in the Agricultural Col-
lege? But let us be sure that, by some
"Fans. We can teach the Board of Ag-
Tlculture, and induce them to keep a
few of those men who have made so
fa" 8 !'eputatio§ that other States are
“curing their fiwices, by more liberal
33-llrles than our State has been willing
b0pay_

We made a small gain in the inter-
est law of the last Legislature, but we
failed in the fees for foreclosing mort-
gages. _

You are now paying $25,000 into the
military fund, to reimburse those who
served in the campaign of 1877, and
kept down those terrible riots; who
ever heard of those terrible riots until
that bill was on its way through the
last Legislature? \Vhat do we want
of a military department?

These are some of the questions that
will be talked about in the State
Grange. But why talk about these
things—resolve that things should be
thus and so, and then go home and, in
the heat of the political campaign, go
straight to the polls and cast a party
Vote; go for your party, and bind your-
selves for another two years to the party
rings,—and then regret that you have
failed! L. G. HUNT.

ROME CENTRE, Nov. 6th, ’79.
Bro. J. T, Cobb.-

I am always interested in reading the
communications in the VISITOR from
different Granges in the State. These
letters indicate the successful workings
of many of the subordinate Graiiges,
and show that the writers are awake to
the means that are calculated to en-
hance the objects of the Organization,
viz : “ To make the daily lives of men
and women better, truer, holler and
happier; to encourage education, social
culture, and a better development of
the nobler faculties of our nature; to
make the wilderness bud and blossom
like the rose.”

VVhile we have been thus interested
in the account of the doings of others,
it is, at least presumable that they may
be pleased to hear an occasional word
from us. ,

Our Grange numbers about 50 mem-
bers,—of these 15 or 20 are the real
workers, while the others come in only
occasionally, when they expect to_ be
entertained, and if their expectations
ai'e not realized, they find more pleas-
ure or profit elsewhere. _ _

I presume we are no exceptions in
this respect to many other Graiiges.
This needs reform.

At our last meeting we were favored
with a visit from some ‘friends of a
neighboring Grange. Visitors have a
right to expect to be entertained. But
in this case we were as illy prepared
for company as the busy housewife
while passing through the metamor-
phosis of house-cleaning. . We had
only a little business of local interest to
transact,—no candidates to initiate, no
programme for the evening, but few of
our working members present, and the
meeting promised to be a. dull one in-
deed. Nevertheless, the workers began
to bestir themselves; some made re-
marks, and some read selections, out of
which a lively discussion arose, and our
visitors as well as our own members be-
came interested and animated.

The ennui that was anticipated now
disappeared, and the meeting _was_ a
revival, and we hope it was indicative
of good things to come. _

Let us pause a moment to consider
the great amount of good that may be
accomplished by a little fr_ienclly inter-
course between neighboring Granges.
I believe that social and mental culture
might be very much promoted. Let us
hope that this will receive more atten-
tion in the future than it has in the
past. Fraternally yours,

P. H. DOWLING,
Sec’y.
FENWICK, Montcalm Co., Mich.,
Nov. 6th. 1879.

Worthy Sec. Cobb .-

Not having reported any doings from
this Grange since Bro. Whitehead vi-
ited us, the 19th of August, I‘ would
say that BushnellGrange, l\o. _4._37, still
exists and is in a healthy condition, al-
though many that. joined us at our 01‘-
ganization, and since, have fell by the
roadside. Yet we are strong in num-
bers, and our Grange IS C‘0mP0Sed Of
those who have come to stay, they real-
ize the object of our organization. It
is composed of those that joined, not
through curiosity, or the hope of saving
a few dimes in making their purchases,
but of men and women who realize the
objelclt, spugillat for, socially, morally, and
' ua y. _
maleetbontinue our meetings weekly.
At our last meeting there was fourteen
new members balloted for, and all ad-
mitted and they will take the first de-

) _ I
gree at our next meeting-
Fraternall)’. ,
R. W. 1107, Sec y.

CANNON GRANGE, }

Nov. am, 1879.
Bro. J. T. Cobb .-

Our Grange is in a very prosperous
condition at present. We have sixty-
five members, and they still continue
to increase. ’l‘liree committees are ap-
pointed to make reports on different
subjects, and they are required to make
their report whenever the \Vorthy Lect-
urer calls on them.

We also have a paper read once in
four weeks, called the Cannon Grange
Journal. To this each member ought
to contribute, though all do not. Every
item of news that can be picked up
during the month, and articles from
members; so that it is really interesting
and useful.

GEO. M. HARTWELL,
Secly.

Protecting Trees from Mice.

Whenever snow falls to any consid-
erable extent in winter there is always
more or less danger of mice gnawing
the bark from the stems of fruit and
other trees. During cold weather, ap-
ple orchards iii particular are frequent-
ly seriously injured in this manner,
and it is very difficult to remedy this
evil; although its prevention is easy
enough, as the mice work mainly under
the snow and near the foot of the stem ;
it is plain that if this part of the tree is
protected there will be little danger of
furtherinjury. The best way to pro-
tect trees in an orchard is to wrap the
lower part of the stems, from the ground
upward, a foot or two with some mate-
rial which mice either cannot or will
not eat or gnaw; perhaps one of the
cheapest materials for the purpose is
tar paper, such as is used for tinning
bulidings, and which may be found in
almost any country village as well as
in cities; it can be cut up into strips
of the size required to go around the
trees, and then tied in place with strong
twine. Where this material cannot be
conveniently obtained, strong broom
straw or manilla paper may be used, by
first coating one side with coal tar and
then applying it as in the first instance,
keeping the tar on the outside. Bark
peeled from other kinds of trees, old
pieces of tin and sheet iron can also be
employed for this purpose, but tar pa-
per is the most readily applied and re-
moved. A few hours work this fall in
protecting the trees against mice, may
be the means of saving orchards which
have taken years of waiting, and much
money and labor to produce.—.Ex.

THE Rochdale system rescues from
the all engulfing maelstrom of com-
mercial competition, millions on mil-
lions for the producer, which have
heretofore been not only absorbed, but
wrecked and utterly lost in the whirl-
pool of unscientific, unorganized com-
merce. Such commerce is wasteful
and blundering in its blind operations,
skillful in oppressing both consumer
and producer, and eminently successful
in bringing about financial wrecks and
storms which periodically embarrass
and distress the laboring millions, and
leave all over the land bankrupts and
paupers, idle manufactories and popu-
lous alms-houses in contrast with the
mansions of enormous and often acci-
dental wealth, easily acquired, and of-
ten wastefully or profligately spent.

To introduce order, harmony, benefi-
cence, and the sunshine of unvarying
prosperity into such a scene is an ex-
ploit worthy ofa god ; but it seems to
have been the achievement of thelium-
ble Roclidale weavers, and there is no
nobler mission recorded on the historic
page than that of introducing the
Rochdale system, crowned with suc-
cess, to the intelligent freemen of
America. But shall we of America be
merely the passive recipients of the
fruits of their wisdom, and merely re-
produce the organization and prosperi-
ty which we have seen in England ?—
Iria,uguralAddress of Dr. J. R. Buchan-
an, as president of the American Co-op-
erative Union, November 5, 1875.

“ I rise for information,” said a mem-
ber of a legislative body. “ I am glad
to hear it,” said a by—stander, “ no one
needs it more.”

IT has been said that every man has
his price. VVe go still further and say
that there isn’t a man living that hasn’t
been sold at some time or other.

THE question of a dog tax was sub-
mitted to the voters of Monroe Co.,
Ohio. The majority for dog tax was
853 in the County.

Patrons vs. Railroads.

That corporations have money, so
they use it in the interest of the people,
is meritorious rather than otherwise.

The Grange has further demonstrated
that transportation companies have
been more ready to shake hands with

.tlie farmer and do his carrying trade,

whenever the farmer was in any condi-
tion to know what he wanted, than they
have had credit for.

Before the organization of the
Grange there was no co-operation of
farmers, and consequently no combina-
tion of their accumulated products.
Each one acted for himself, and the in-
dividual farmer could only ask the rail-
road company, “What will you carry
my bushel of wheat or my basket of
peaches to New York City for?” The
amountof his business"was not worth
competing for, and hardly worth the
trouble of handling. But since the or-
ganizatioii of the Grange and the co-
operation consequent thereunto, a Pat-
ron can approach a railroad company
and contract for so many cars per day,
for so_ long, for the shipping of wheat
o£_fruit, or anything he may desire to
s ip.

The Patron knows what he wants
done, and the large amount of freight
he ships makes it worth competing for:
and to-day, where such co-operation
exists, the farmer can secure as good
rates as any other business man, and
through this intelligent action of the
Grange the farmers and railroad men
have a common interest and an increas-
ing frieiidship.—-Agricultural World.

Practical Communism.

that in his palmiest days a man called
upon him, armed with a revolver. “ I
am a French Communist,” said he, “I
believe in a distribution of property,
and I want some of your money, or
your life. I believe money should be
equally divided.”

“So do I,” said Astor.

“You are said to be worth ten mil-
lions,” said the man.

“\Vell, I suppose that is about the
sum,” said Mr. Astor. “Now how
many people are there in the United
States 2”’

“About ten millions, I believe,” said
the Communist.

“Now, how much would that be
each? About one dollar?” asked Mr.

stor.

A“Yes, about,” said the Communist.

“There’s your dollar,” said Astor,
laying down a bill.

How to Return ii Favor.

 

An old Scotchman was taking his
grist to the mill in sacks thrown across
the back of his horse, when the horse
stumbled and the grain fell to the
ground. He had not strength to raise
it, being an aged man, but he saw a
man riding along, and he thought he
would ask him for help. The horseman
proved to be a nobleman, who lived in
a castle hard by, and the farmer could
not muster courage to ask a favor of
him. But the nobleman was a gentle-
man also, and not waiting to be asked,
he dismounted, and between them they
lifted the grain to the horse's back.
John—for he was a gentleman, too-
lifted his cap and said:

“My lord, how shall I ever thank
you for your kindness ?’”

“Very easily, John,” replied the
nobleman, “whenever you see another
man in the same plight as you were in
just now, help him, and that will be
thanking me.”

THERE are five great natural grazing
regions in the world. The oldest is the
interior of Asia, which has furnished
rich pasturage, summer and winter,
since the the time of Abel, who was a.
keeper of sheep. The second is the
large pasture ground of South Africa,
extending from 10° south latitude to
Cape Colony in 35° south latitude,
which feeds immense herds of cattle
the year round, and has done so for
years. The interior of South America
is the third great pastoral region; the
fourth great pastoral region is the inte-
rior of Australia, and the fifth is the
vast trans-Missouri and Mississippi re-
gion of our own country, which sur-
passes, in every natural advantage, any
part of the world as a great grazing
section, the capabilities of which are
only yet but partially developed.-Am.

Agriculturist.

 

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TI-IE GRANGE VISITOR.

THE BEAPER, DEATH.

MxI>nLEviLi.E GEANGE HALL,
October 8th, 1879.
WHEnisAs, Death has removed from among
usour Brother HENRY W. CoLviN, who died
September 24th, 1879; therefore,

Resolved, That in the life of our deceased
Brother, he left us the example of a true Pa-
tron, with honest purpose advanced by good
works, and as a Brother was ever ready to help
needy, therefore,

Resolved, That we tender our sympathy to
the bereaved wife and family in their affliction.

Resolved, That our charter be draped in
mourning, and these resolutions be inserted in
the records of this Grange, and a copy sent to
the family of the deceased, and also to the office
of the GRANGE Visiroa and the Republican
for publication. C. MCQUEEN,

P. PABHEB,
J . A. BoeEE'rsoN,
Committee.

CRAIG—Died October 21, 1879, in the 28th
year of his age at'Bedford, Calhoun Co. THOM-
AS CRAIG, a worthy and useful member of Bed-
ford Grange, N o. 65,

The usual resolutions of respect and condo-
lence were adopted by the Grange.

O. J. ANrHoNY, Sec’y.

VEDDER.—WHEnEAs, Our days are num-
bered, and,

WHEnEAs, “ N 0 man knoweth when the
hour cometh,” and,

WHEREAS, In the midst of life and breath
a terrible calamity overtook our dearly beloved
sister, J OANNA VEDDEB, and called her beyond
the border land, and

WHEE.EAs, In the death of our Sister, we,
the undersigned,'of Lenawee Co. Grange real-
ize that we have lost a. true and faithful Sister,
and friend, therefore be it

Resolved, That we tender our heartfelt sym-
pathies to the bereaved family and friends of
our departed Sister, and mingle our tears with
theirs, ever believing that our Heavenly Father
doeth all things well.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions
be spread at large upon the journal of this
Grange and published in the GRANGE Visivon,
and that a copy be furnished to the parents of
the deceased.

Sister VEDDEB lost her life by the falling of
the Adrian Grand Stand, October 2nd. She
died October 7th, was a most active member of
Adrian and Lenawee Co. Granges.

J. COOK, Sec’y.

 
 



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WRITING INSTITUTE,

KALAMAZOO. Ml CI-1.
@'Send for JOURNAL giving particulars.

'1'. J’. STRONG,

Monterey, Allegan 00., NIich..

Breeder and Shipper of Pure

Improved Chester Whites

Bred from the Noted Herd of S. H.
TODD, of Wakeman, Ohio.
§’Correspondence Solicited.

HAPPY CHILDREN‘:

1 er to many urgent Requests from Town
n gnaw and Country, the Publishers of

“ OUR LITTLE GRANG-ERS ”

Have concluded to issue it by itself at

ONLY 25 CENTS A. YEAR!
his will 've thousands of Boys and Girls a
chhrnce to hagvle a good paper ALL THEIR OWN.
The only paper ever published specially for
farmers’ children. It contains fine pictures, nice
gtories, verses, puzzles, letters from little
G1-angers all over the country : pieces to speak
at school or exhibitions ; about gardens, and
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Get up a Club at your Grange, or school, or
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“ GRANGE ULLE'1‘IN_°Q" .
nov.1-Gin 148 W. our-thSt..Cinc1nnat1,0.

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——
freight paid by—no money asked till tested and
found satisfactory. All sizes.
JONES OF BINGHAMPTON,

Bingliampton, N. Y.

Paw Paw, Mich., May 18th, 1878.
J oNEs, 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 Enmrnisslnn Merchanl.

183 SOUTH WATER STREET,
CHICAGO. - - ILLINOIS.

Purchasing Agent /or the Patrons of Husband-
ry, authorized by Executive Committe of the
Michigan State Grange ; Agent of the N. W.
Produce Emchange Association, principal office,
Buchanan, Mich. ; also, Agent of the Michigan
Lake Shore Fruit Growers’ Association, Steven-
ville, Mich.,

Respectfully solicits Consignments of

Fllllll'S. 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

SUPERIO R FA CILITIES,

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

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

Cash must Accoinpany Orders
to Insure Prompt Attention.

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

J . T. Cobb, Schoolcraft, Mich.

Herman, Schaffner & CO., Bankers, Chicago, Ill.
Thomas Mars, Berrien Centre, Mich.

W. A. Brown, Sec’y Mich. L. S. F. G. Ass‘n,

Stevensville, Mich.
§’ Stencils, Shipping Tags, and’ Market Be-
ports furnished on application.

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. mar.l2’79

Paints and Paris Green.

PRICES REDUCED FOR 1879.

Pllllllls’ PAN" E{lMPANll

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
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.

Our Book “How Every one can Paint,”
with 20 Brilliant Colors, Brushes, etc., illustrat-
ed, mailed free upon application to PATRON S’
PAINT CO., 162 South St., N. Y.

——TR USTEES 3

T. A. Thompson. Pres, Past Leo. Nat. Grange
Samuel E. Adams, of Minn., Master “ “
D. Wyatt Aiken, of S. C., Ch’m Ex. Com. “
Mortimer Whitehead, of N. J ., Lec. Nat. “

O. H. Kelle , Past Secretary National Grange.
J. W. A. ri ht,Master Cal. State Grange.
H. D. Davis, aster State Grange, Kentucky.

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it discusses with fearless ability the economic
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It strives earnestly to incite thought, broaden
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production.

It would stimulate self- respect among farm-
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of Geraniums, Fuschias, Coleus. Roses, Smi-
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$1.00 per dozen, adding enough to pay the
expressage.

These are 15 to 20 cent plants; we sell low
because we need money more than the plants.

This offer is good for one month. Send
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