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INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.

Our Agricultural College and its Mission-—By=
Laws of the State, Pomona, and Subordinate
Gra.nges—~Editoi-ial — Circular -— Clinton Co.
Pomona Grange, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Address of Rev. Thos. K. Beecher before the
National Grange ——A Representative Com-
mission House, . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - -- 2

Living Truths-—A Farmer Governor—Liability
of Express Companies —The Wheat Question
The Grange in St. Clair Co.——Liberty Grange
No. 391,- Orion Grange and P|aster—A Cot-
rection—Killiig the Potato Beetlc— Resolu-
tion of Thanks—Willow Grange, No. 618,—

A Good word for a Good Man, . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
California, No. 2, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
J. T. Cobb. Secretary Mich. State Grange-

Pickings by the Way, No. 6, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Rules and Regulations for the H‘ _usehold—Er-
rors of Society——-Dress—-Dextx.-r Srrange Mat-
ters. Emnomizing our St-.=pa— Alieal Live
Grange”—Over-Worked Wo:uei_ 6

 ems ' tive—-A Que-tn,-n for the
Query Box—-Golden Wad-’S?ai;g——L}overned by
Lawyers—New| Item—Piaster—Short, but to
the Point—-Grange Na 270, . . - - - - - - - - - » -- 7

Lecturer’a Appointments—Not_ice of Meetings—
The Reaper, Death.-—Advertisements . . . . . . 8

 

Officers National Grange.

MAsrnn—J. J. WOODMAN, Michigan. _
OYE‘BsEEB—PUT. DARDEN, Mississippi.
LEDTUBEE—HEN[tY ESHBAUGH, Mo.
srnw.um—A. J. VAUGHN. Miss.

Assr. STEWABD—WILLIAM SIMS, Kansas.
CKA.PLA1N—S. H. ELLIS, Ohio.
TnnAstm.n3—F. M. MCDOWELL, N. Y.
sncn.mny—Wxn. M. IRELAND, Wash’?-‘.on,D.C.
GATE-KEEPER.-O. DIN WIDDIE, Indiana.
Cniz.i:s—Mizs. J,. J. WOODMAN, Mich. . _
Poxoiu—Mns. PUT. DARDEN, Mississippi.
FLo1?.A—~Mns. J. W. NICHOLS, N. .I.

my ASSTISTANT S-r1-*.wu2n—Mns. WILLIAM

SIMS, Kansas. -

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE :

A S .C r li a; H.JsM.Es Ind.;
D. vVYATTVV.KG2l’VVosr:E? bllew York. I

Offlcers Michigan State Grange.

M.—J. J. WOODMAN. * - Paw Paw.
O.——THOS. ‘F. MOORE, - - - Adrlan.
L ,__G L_ WHIT , - - Muskegon.
s.—S. A. TOOKER. - - - Li_mS111g-
A. S.—A. E. GREEN. — - Farmmgton.

C.—SALMON STEEL, Monroe Gen. Gr. Tr.Co
v1v__g_ ]'_ 31?.0WN, Schoolci-aft.
S:Io.—J. T. COBB, - “ _

G. K.—A. N. WOODRUFF, - Watervliet.
0nnns.—Ms.s. 0. L. WHITNEY, Muskegon.
Poxoin—Mns. G. W. EWING, Ross, Kent Co.
Fx,onA‘—M.Bs. J. J. WOODMAN, Paw Paw.
L. A. S.--1138. A. E. GREEN, Farmington.

Executive committee

J’. wnnsmn CHILDS, Chairman, Ypsilanti.
3-_ M. HOLLOWAY, - Hillsdale.
c_ g._ LUCE; . Gilead, Branch 00.
WESTBROOK DIVINE, Belding. Ionia 00-
THOMAS MARS. Berrien Center, Berrien Co.
Wilt. SATTERLEE, Birmingham, Oakland Co.
J‘ Q. A. BURRINGTON. Tuscola, Tuscola Co.
I.’ J. WOODMAN, J. '1‘. 001313, - Ex. Oflicio.

state Business Agents,

eno. w. HILL dz co., - - Detroit-

THOMAS ‘MASON. - - - Chicago-
‘ Genera|_|'36PU‘¥-

G‘ L  , - - - Muskegon.

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0ur Agricultural College and Its Mission."

By an act of Congress approved
July 2, 1862, there was donated to
each State an amount of public land,
equal to 30,000 acres, for each of its
Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress, according to the census of 1860,
for the “endowment, support and
maintenance of at least one college,
where the leading object shall be -
without excluding other scientific and
classical studies and including mili-
tary tactics — to teach such branches
oflearning as are related to Agricul-
ture and the Jllechanic Arts.’,’ The
Legislature of 1863 accepted the do-
nation in the following act, approved
Feb. 25,1863 : '

“ The People of the Slate of Mich-
igan enact: That the grant of land
accruing to the State of Michigan
under and by virtue of an act of Con-
gress donating public lands to the
several States and Territories which
may provide colleges for the benefit
of Agriculture and the Jlfcchanic Arts,
approved July 2, 1862, be. and the
same is hereby accepted, in accord-
ance with all the conrlit2'ons and pro-
visions in said act conta7Zw_zcd."

Section 8, of the act approved
March 18, 1863, bestowing these lands
upon the Agricultural College, reads
as follows :

“ The money received from the sale
of said lands shall be paid into the
State Treasury, and the amount there-
of shall be placed to the credit of the
Agricultural College fund, upon the
books oi the Auditor General, to
constitute a perpetual fund, the capi-
tal of which shall remain ioiever un-
diminished ; and the annual interest
thereon, computed at seven per cent,
shall be regularly applied, under the
directions of the State Board of Agri-
culture, to the support and mainte-
nance of the State Agricultural Col-
lege, where the leading object shall
be--without excluding other scientific
and classical studies and including
military tactics——to teach such branch-
es of learning as are related to Agri-
culture and the Jllechanic Arts, in
order to promote the liberal and prac-
tical education of industrial classes
in the several pursuits and professions

of life.” _

It will be seen that the Act of
Congress defined the purposes for
which the appropriation was made,
and that the State accepted the grant
of land. subject to “all the condi-
tions and provisions in said Act con-
tazTneol”; and that the endowment
was given to the Agricultural College;
and by statute law-—binding upon the
law making and the law enforcing
powers—pledged the good faith of
the State to carry out the specific
objects of Congress in making the
grant. The object sought was a
commendable one, and demanded, not
only by the industrial classes, but by
every wise consideration of public
policy and good statesmanship.

A government deriving its powers
from the consent of the governed,
and its strength and perpetuity from
the intelligence, well directed indus-
try, and prosperity of the people,
must provide means of education
suited to every want and condition in
life.

our whole system of colleges and
,« universities in this country,is literary
f and professional; it assumes that the
‘students are to be physicians, law-,
yers, editors, teachers, clergymen,etc l
The High Schools of our State, being 5
closely connected with the colleges
and universities, must exert the same
kind of influence on their pupils, as
an inevitable consequence. As the
popular professions are over-crowded,
and but few of the graduates succeed
in them, when the struggle with an
active business life begins, the want
of a more practical education is
u keenly felt.‘ The object of establish-
ing schools of “Agriculture and the
Mechanic Arts ” was to supply a long-
felt want in this country. Skilled
labor was in demand, which could
only be obtained from the technical
schools of Germany, Swerlen,Fi'ance,
Italy, and other countries in Europe.
Our agriculture was suffering for want
of more thorough know edge of theo-
retic and scientific, as well as practi-
cal farming.

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Our American companies and ar-
tisans were compelled to take subor-
dinate positions in the factories, mills,
and workshops, under the directing
control of imported superintendents
and overseers. The same cause
depressed labor in almost every de-
partment of business Where skilled
labor was required. This led to the
organization of the meclnnics of the
country for their protection; and the
demands which were made upon Con-
for the establishment of schools for
the education of the industrial classes,
resulted in the passage of the act by
Congress above referred to, the con-
ditions of which were accepted, and
the faith of the State pledged to carry
out the objects of the grant. How
well that faith has been kept by our
State, the history of the legislation for
the maintenance of our Agricultural
College will show. - Umler the condi-
tions of the grant, and the laws of the
State, “ branches of learning, relating
to the Mechanic Arts, must be
taught as well as those relating to
Agriculture.” Do the mechanics of
the State generally know that their
rights in this respect have been
entirely ignored by the legislation of
our State, and no provisions made
for their sons and daughters who
desire to become skilled artisans?
Education should be universal; and
to be useful, should be practical.
There is as much necessity for edu-
cating men for the farm and work-
shop, as for the law and ministry.
The wealth of a nation is in its labor;
and skilled industry is the sure road
to prosperity and progress. Of such
vast importance is this subject of
techinal education considered to be
in some of the older countries of
Europe. that they are reorganizing
their whole school systems, on the
basis of industrial education. The
following relating to‘this question is
from an Italian document:

“The special purpose of technical
schools is to prepare pupils for enter-
ing at once on some chosen vocation.
Hence the branches of study to be

retained are those which will com-
municate some ability in this line;

The general spirit which controls

[ be those w
,'ture. Even though an accountant
1 may know nothing of the life of Pe-
; trarch or of the verses of Achillini;
though he cannot interpret Dante,
and is ignorant of the exploits of
Charlemagne —— this will not prevent
him from practicing his art with ad-
vantage to himself and to others, I
will add,that he who shall have ac-
quired marked ability in his calling,
will preserve a greater inclination to
study than those who have become
cloyed with a great amount of ill-
digested knowledge. At his leisure,
and according to his tastes, he will
learn better than the others whatever
can be acquired without the aid of
teachers and school.”

In view of these facts, would it not
be well for the mechanics of our State
to unite their influence with the farm-
ers, and bring such a power to bear
upon our next Legislature as will
result in making our Agricultural
College what the laws of the State
declare it shall be—a school “ to pro-
mote the practical and liberal educa-
tion of the industrial classes in the
several positzons and professions of
life "-—and in providing ample accom-
modations and means of instruction
for all who desire to avail themselves
of its advantages?

By-Laws of the State, Pomona. and Sub-
‘ ordinate Eranges.

One thousand copies of a pamphlet
containing the Coiistitution of the
National Grange, Declaration of Pur-
poses of the Order, revised By-Laws
of the State Grange, also revised
forms of By-Laws recommended by
the State Grange for Pomona and
Subordinate Granges, were printed,
and sent out on orders at 6 cents a
copy, or sixty cents a dozen.

The supply is entirely exhausted,
and orders are in which cannot be filled
until a new edition is published. This
is a valuable document, and shomld
be in the hands of every Patron in the
State. It is the cheapest way that
Granges can supply their members
with the printed By-Laws of their
Grange. Secretaries are requested to
call the attention of their Granges to
this matter, and have all orders sent in
as soon as consistentyso that we may
be able to judge with some degree of
accuracy, how many copies of the
new edition will be required.

Editorial.

It is not expected that the readers
of the VISITOR will hold us person-
ally responsible for all that is said by
correspondents on questions of a
political nature during the [absence of
Bro. Cobb. The columns of the
paper were thrown open for a free
discussion of certain questions; and
we shall not apply the “ gag” to
any who desire to express their views
upon questions of‘ public policy; pro-
vided, they‘ discuss them from a
Patrons’ standpoint, and keep within
the letter and spirit of our Declara-
tion of Purposes.

 

SEVERAL articles which should have
appeared in this number of the Vis-
ITOR have been deferred, in order to
give room for the able and valuable
address of the Rev. Thos. K. Beecher,
of Elmira. N. Y., which was delivered

while the studies suppressed should

before the National Grange. It

hich pertain to general cul-

will Expire with No.

‘lshould be read by every earnest

Patron. by every Christian, by every-
3 body, and not only read, but stud-
ied. It is agood document to read
before your Grange. Place it
in the hands of your best reader,
hold an open session, announce that
the address of the Rev. Thomas K.
Beecher will be delivered, and invite
your friends in to hear it.

THE following, from the President
of the Agricultural College, speaks
for itself: the members of the Execu-
tive Committee of the State Grange
will take notice:

LANSING, March 24, 1880.

Hon. J. J. lVoodman, lllaster of the
State Grange .'

DEAR SIR.— The State Board of Agri-
culture extend io the Master and Execu-
tive Committee of the State Grange a
cordial invitation to meet them at the
College Thursday morning, June 10th,
on the occa.-ion of the annual visit of
the Executive Committee of the State
Agricultural Society. Please to make
known this invitation to the several
gentlemen included in it.

Sincerely hoping you may be able to
favor us with your presence at that
time, I remain

Sincerely yours,
'1‘. U. Annorr,
Pres’t State Agr’l College.

;s..;....;.;; I

GRANDVILLE, Mich., Ma
To the Fariners of the West :
The subscribers beg leave to call the

rch 1, 1880.

~'aitention of all CCl‘lSll1lei‘E'. of Land

Plaster to the uollowln facts, viz :

1st. That we have been manufactur-
iifg Land Plaster for the last four years,
under a special contract with the State
Grange of Michigan. out of pure gyp-
sum rock, therefore in the interest of
the farming public generally and all
who use Land Plaster,

2d. All other mills are taking out
such of their rock as will make any or
three grades of stucco, thus leaving for
Land Plaster only the poorest quality,
being greatly inferior to Plaster manu-
frctureii by us.

3d. A chemical analysis of Grand
Rapids Plaster and our’:-I demonstrates
the fact that a large per cent of their
Plaster is foreign matter, while in our’s
is found scarcely anything of a foreign
nature.

We append to this’ circular in state-
ment from J. J. Woodman, Master of
the National Grange:

PAW PAW, Mich,'Marcli 1-5, 1880.

Ifully endorse the above; and, for
the information of Patrons and farmers
generally, will state that the Plaster
_Mill of Day & Taylor, at Grandville, is
the Grange Plaster Mill of Michigan;
and all Plaster manufactured by them,
and sold through the Granges, their
agents or employee, to the farmers of
this or any other State, is subject to all
the conditions specified in their con-
tract made with the Executive Com-
mittee oi the Michigan State Grange,
which stipulates that the Plaster shall
be ground from pure gypsum rock, from
which no portion has been taken for
other purposes. All other mills manu-
facture stucco, and the best and purest
rock is selected for that purpose; and
what remains is ground for Land Plas-
ter.

VVe have found Messrs. Day & Tay-
lor to be prompt and reliable business
men, and I am confident that they will
be able to give satisfaction to all who
deal with them. Patrons and Farmers,
this is your interest; will you sustain
it? J. J. WOODMAN.

 

Clinton County Pomona Grange.

The April meeting of Clinton County
Pomona Grange will be held at South
Riley Grange Hall, the 21st inst., at 11
o’clock A. M. The following resolu-
tion will be discussed:

Resolved, That the products of the
dairy have not in the past nor are not
receiving at the present time the at-
tention of the agriculturalisis of our
County that their great and growing
importance demands.

FRANK CoNN, Sec.

 

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

Address of Rev. Tlios. K. Beecher
before the National Grange.

Worthy Brothers and Sisters .--—

It was an accident—an accident
which I did not regret—that gave me
the title to stand with and among you
as a Granger. How it came to pass, is
a fitting introduction to the theme I
would discu‘ss.

Years ago, being worn by the cares
that fall -to every Christian pastor. I
used to find change and rest in reading
the reports of our farmers‘ clubs. This
club I supposed to be all one with
the Chemung Valley Grange. I sup-
posed all farmers to be Grangers——a
pardonable error in a clergyman, and
the more easily pardoned when it is
remembered that the Worthy Master
of our Grange is also a laborious and
useful ofiicer of the Club, and withal,
for many a year a valued friend.
Thinking to gain yet more benefit by a
membership in the Club, I applied,
and my application was favorably
looked upon by the Grange, and with
docility and meekness, I journeyed the
perilous road that leads to acceptance
as a laborer, and the after honors of
Patrons. Here a surprise awaited me.
I found the Chemung Valley Grange
to be, indeed,but another Church ; the
occupation of the meetings but a re-
newal of the same profitable exercises,
to which the Church that I have so
long served, addicts herself.

There were gathered men and women;
there were son s and prayers, and
“opportunities for remarks,” and
readiness to receive information; be-
times the well spread tables, and the
after frolic of the dance. And when
“ meeting " was out the couples paired
off‘ and went home, with the same
general symptoms of shy delight that I
am wont to see at the doors of our own
meeting house.

The Church that I serve is then a
Grange with one or two elements
added, and one or two missing. As an
active Christian pastor, I shall do
what I can to make the Church more
Grange~like. And were it possible for
me to do my full duty as a Granger,
and were I a Master, I should try to
make the Grange more Church-like.
Thus would they become more human
——humane—divine.

You see, brothers, that the Grange
and Church are both alike in this-
they both propose the betterment of
men and women. If either fall into
the mistake of purposing the mere
pleasure, or indulgence, or happiness,
of men and women, that one will come
to evil days, and will not endure for
any long time. The love of pleasure
and self-indulgence is not a suflicient
inspiration. -,

Some things the Grange can do,
which alas! human nature will not
permit the Church to undertake. -In
the Woods where I spend.my summers
is a long string of meandering farms
forming a school district. Fifteen fam-
ilies in all; three miles long as the
water runs. These families have come
together on Sunday in a school house,
and words of wisdom and piety have
been there spoken to them by an
earnest minded Christian. He asked
me not long ago whether it was worth
while to attempta church organization,
and the simple sacraments of a Chris-
tian's faith. Mark now! These fami-
lies, as long as you say nothing about
Church, come together with cheerful
faces to Sunday service in a school-
house, and are as one in their prayer
and song. But let the word “Church”
be spoken to them, there’s old man
B—will get up his back in a moment,
he’s a “ seventh day man,” and there
is that man bound to “ live and die a,
lllethodzls,” and here is a family, and
there is another, and another, no two
alike in their Church history. So I
thought the thing over and wrote to
that earnest-minded Christian there,
“Were I you, I would not attempta
Church, nor speak a word of sacrament;
were I in your place, I would get a
charter ‘for a Grange, and I would
gather these strong men and their fam-
ilies together in unity as honest labor-
ers, rather than set them by the ears_as
quarélling Christians. For I verily
believe that farmers at peace one with
another in a Grange are more nearly a
Church, illustrating the unity of them
who stand upon the footstool of God,
than they who, look_1ng_up towards the
throne, breathe in inspirations of con-
troversy and discord only. Better to
grow as honest farmers than to quarrel
as mistaken Christians. Therefore, I
said, “A Grange can sometimes do a
work which alas! is forbidden to a
Church.” -

But while I speak thus frankly to
you, do not misunderstand me as_a
flatterer of the Grange. Already in
the various lessons and lecturers 
which I have listened again and again
with profit, I discern that we have a
savor of true religion, or outlook
toward God. This outlook, in my
judgment, is the life_ of the Grange.
only as men grow up into the sunshine
of God's presence do they become

ghildren of the light in whom is no

dm-knees. And no man, by 5'15’ Dossi-
, can make attainments as a ntian,
t he have the help and inspira _ion
§f°§ God. These things I testify.
Let them sink down in to your ears.
I ze the Grange, then. 85 I d0
other Church. There are quali-
331:: the Church which I serve that I

juggsoaee illustrate the Grange. There

' tag which I see in the Grange
I long to transfei-to the Church.

I speak to you then this evening of a
theme which has been the meditation
of my life-time. We are God’s hus-
bandry, says the Apostle. That is to
say, God intends to grow a crop of men
and women. And of all the crops that
can be raised upon a farm, I know of
none more worthy of attention; and
further, I know of none that receives
less attention.

Only two days ago, the eminent
Secretary of State, Mr. Evarts, in a
graceful after-dinner speech, said (I
do not give his words): The recent
civil war, stimulating invention and
compelling labor-saving devices, has
changed the aspect of farming. It has
lifted the farm from the level of mere
labor, and made it a spot where capital
and commercial sagacity find ample
scope. I have noted the same thing
in the Valley where I live, and in the
discussions of the farmer's club. Said
one very intelligent farmer, “There’s
no money any longer in butter making;
western creameries, etc.” Another,
“ There’s no money in pork.” Anoth-
er, "We can't compete any longer in
wheat.” I have heard it said, “ There
is no money in farming, anyhow”;
That is to say, the commercial outlook,
or the making of money, has become
the leading thought among our higher
class of farmers. '

Brothers, I certify you that the coin-
mercial idea, which, indeed, is the
inspiration of the present age, is the
death of manhood. It is an undeclared,
smouldering, universal war. The ar-
mies of industry yield their wounded,
dead, and missing after every great
commercial crises and panic, in greater
numbers than any army that has follow-
ed banners, and at the sound of drum
and trumpet marched to glory so-called.
The machinery of manufacture,the rest-
less tides of commerce, the great law of
demand and supply, inspired from end
to end with selfish fears and selfish
ambitions, grind out their superb
results of gaudy glory. But the ma-
chinery itself is lubricated with blood,
its bearings are heated with hate, the
grist is bone dust of crushed men.

You farmers yourselves know this is
true when you fall into the grip of the
usurer and lose your farms. You know
that your loss does not make him a
noble man while it embitters you. You
know as you look upon the thin, sharp,
shrewd ways of money changers with
whom you come in contact in the city,
that they are without grace, mercy, or
peace. You call them little-souled,
pinching men. “Such a soul would
have more room in a mosquito’s eye
than a bull-frog in the Pacific ocean.”

Now our honored Secretary says that
the era of commercial farming has
come. He is right. It has. And be-
cause the era of commercial farming
has come, farmer}; intent-upon the com-
mercial idea wiil lose sight of my
theme for to-night— the only crop
worth raising on a farm—men and
women. Because the farm can be
looked at as a great food factory for the
nations, and success is measured by the
cash balances, it measurably ceases to
be a home. And that which every
Christian pastor mourns over as he
lives and labors in a city, he has need
to mourn over, when the city idea,
which is making money, reaches out
and blasts the farm homes, as it al-
ready has the city homes.

There are two ideas of farming,
please to notice: the one is the idea
of the home, the other is a money
making machine or “plant.” The
farm house is superintended by a man
whose chief thought is the culture and
development of men and women, The
machine farm is conducted by a man
whose chief thought is to add acre to
acre, and dollar to dollar, and when he
has gained the whole world he finds, to
his wretched disappointment, that he
has lost his own soul, the soul of his
wife, and the souls of his children. By
this I mean, not the superstitious idea
that he has lost his own soul and is
going straight to hell—about that let
God speak his mind—but I mean that
he has lost his soul in the sense that
his life has lost its leisure, its bloom,
its fragrance, its health, its conscious
richness and depth. There is no play
on that farm; there is no grace on that
farm. All are driven.

I endeavor thus to quicken the
thought among you as representative
farmers from nearly every State in the
Union, that you may carry back with
you a testimony that there are these two
different notions. a money making farm
and a home farm. The money making
farm that sacrifices men and women;
and the home farm that enlarges men
and women, who dwell together in a
healthy contentment.

Don’t suspect me of uttering the
shallow thought that money is dross.
I do notcallit “ filthy lucre.” I do not
bid you despise it. That would be the
old fashioned hackneyed talk of the
pulpit. On the contrary, I tell you
that money, subordinated to manhood,
is the best thing that life can bring you;
for whatever man can give to his
fellowman, money can buy. But the
gift of God which is the gift of life,
health, growth, cannot be bought
with money. Consider these two
things separately, I pray you.

If you want a piano, money will buy
it. If you want a mowing machine,
money will buy it. If you want a
sulky rake or plow, money will buy it.
You can save your labor, and have
more leisure by the help of money. If
you want a tip-top talker to make
speeches to on on Sunday, money will
buy him. f you want a poem, money

will buy it. If you want a picture or a
statute, you can get them with money.
If you want a big house to rattle ‘round
in, and makea show of gentility and
provoke envy, money will build it.
Nay, if you want a highly improved
farm, to look upon which shall give
you pleasure like that which God had
when he looked upon the work of his
hands, you can buy the labor of many
willing hands with money. You shall
bring skilled doctors from afar to your
sicknesses, famous surgeons to you-r
bruises and broken bones, with money.
In short, I repeat, whatever man can
do for his fellow man, you can buy
with money.

But, fathers and brethren, man can
do but very little for his fellow man
along the lines of culture, development,
growth, life. Man can lay all manner
of layers of external ornament and
decoration upon his follow man, but
man cannot give to his brother
man those gifts of growth and life
which come from God to those only
who, wisely asking, work with perse-
verance.

Notice what you can and what you
cannot do upon your own farms with
money. Money will buy two hundred
and fifty choice fruit trees. You plant
them, guided by choice books that
money bought. Possibly you fertilize
them with costly fertiltzers. But you
very soon come to the time when you
can buy nothing more to give those
trees. You can buy things and bring
to the trees. but they will be no profit
to the tree. That is to say: VVere you
so foolish, you might buy gold leaf, and
vermillion, and ivory black, and deco-
rate the trunk until it would arrest
every eye with its barbaric gaudiness,‘
but you have not made a better or
bigger tree of it. You can buy satin
ribbons, and set the tree all aflutter
with silken glories, but you have not
done the tree any good. Thus you see
there is a limit to what you can do
with money for the welfare of that live
tree: it must grow, you cannot tell
how.

Consider the colts and yearllngs that
are growing up on the farm, and we
Come to the same truth again. Money
will buy you a healthful, well venti-
ated barn and stable. Yes, I have seen
stalls for pet thoroughbreds, where the
posts were of polished locust, and the
mouldings were of mahogany, and the
manger was of enameled metal. and a
marble drinking trough, and gilded
bars to the hay-rack, plated links to
the halter chain, and if you please,
embroidery on the check straps. You
see in a moment that these are wasted.
They don’t better the colt. There is a
limit,then,to the amount of money that
can be wisely spent on the yearlings
and colts. Having done a certain
amount for these four-legged forms of
life, money is powerless to do anything
further. You have to wait for the
powers of life, which God alone regu-
lates for the rest.

Now you have outrun me here. In-
stead of trees, yearlings and colts, say
boys and girls. You perceive that the
same law must apply to them. There
is not room; it is not possible to spend
more than avery modest sum of money
upon the manhood and womanhood of
the farmer and his wife, and the
growth and health of the household.
And the farm that is run on the home
idea will need but little money; while
on the farm that is run on the commer-
cial idea the need of money will become
a feverish appetite that never will and
never can be sated. And, brothers, I
confess, city born and city bred that I
am, I have a yearning in behalf of the
farmers of Chemung County, that
amounts to almost a positive and steady
ache, when I see them, or fancy that I
see them. losing the idea ofa home
farm, and taking instead the dazzling
lie of a commercial farm.

One drawback to the farmer's life is
his enforced solitude. This drawback
is measurably remedied when the
farmer and wife are blessed with an old
fashioned family. Children are a gift
and blessing from the Lord. As arrows
in the hand of the mighty, so are chil-
dren. Happy the man that hath his
quiver full. He shall not be ashamed.
He shall defy all enemies at his gate.
But as the commercial idea spreads
1tself—children are apt to become costly
and unwelcome cares on the farm, as
they are, alas! too often, in the city.

There is a necessity, also, that house-
holds should be affiliated and brought
together. Here should come to pass a
Church of God, but for reasons already
declared, it is impracticable to bring
families together on a basis of piety.

Here, then, is the opportunity of the
Grange, as one factor in the solution of
the problem which is my theme this
evening—the raising of that costly
crop, men and women.

The Grange, rightly considered, is an
occasional but regular gathering for the
purposes of human culture of a neigh-
borhood of earnest-minded farmers.
And conferences at the Grange send
back a quickening and a guidance to
the culture of the farm. Permit me
then (perhaps to manifest my ignor-
ance) to venture definite so gestions as
to the farm itself, and the range con-
ferances or operations.

I recall with pleasure the first lesson
that was given me by the “ Overseer,”
when I was‘admitted laborer. It was
a wise lesson. Make it something more
than a ceremony. I call to mind a
farmer in Courtland County,who in dai-
ly practice is illustrating the very things
which, as a ceremony, were announced
to me aslstood before the “Overseer”

for his charge. I know a man whose
knife is always sharp, whose eye is
always watchful. A man who, if he
be going a third of a mile to his
meadow, sees everything between his
house and the meadow. He touches
now a plum tree, and now a little
peach tree; is picking up and examin-
ing a stone now and then; is regulat-
ing a fence that has begun to show
decay. He is an active presence for
good. His brain never ceases to guide
his hands wisely. And his farm is so
heavenly in its mingled industry and
beauty that, in my household, we have
a phrase when wearied with the ways
of men, “ Oh, I wish I could die and
go to Boyd’s! "

Geology is not learned out of books.
There are stories on your farms. There
is where geology begins. Botany is
not learned out of books. There is
“Flora,” at least a thousand varieties,
on your farms. Chemistry is not
learned out of books. There are chem-
ical mysteries staring up in your faces
on every square yard of your farms.
They only need patient looking at to
yield a lesson.

01- again, the farmer should be and
may become master of nearly all
trades. It is, indeed, a grievous thing
to see, as I saw, an old man in harvest.
when every hour was worth a day of
ordinary time, come four miles to get
me to whittle out and make a rake-
head. Now by this one illustration,
learn the whole story: A complete
rake can be bought at a store for
tweiity-five cents. I insist that if you
will buy five or six dollars worth of
tools, and sit down with your boy, jack-
knife in hand, in some prepared shop,
and go to making a rake—teetli, head,
hoops, and stale——and so that rake costs
you three and a half or four dollars.
Commerce says you are a fool to pay
three or four dollars for twenty-five
cents worth. Wisdom says you are
wise. Your boy has learned some-
thing; he is a bigger boy. He knows
now how to use tools. You’ve got two
shillings in your rake, twenty shillings
in your boy!

There are many empty hours in the
winter time which make nothing
toward the money income of a farm,
which are the very hours which make
toward that costliest crop which a man
can raise on a farm—his sons and
daughters.

These little achievements of home
ingenuity, furnish, as it would seem to
me in my dream, the stuff to take to
the Grange with you as topics of con-
versation. I have no particular respect
for that girl who goes to the store, and
for a dollar and a half buys a half-
worked pattern to finish up the other
half; all the hardest and artistic work
being done by dainty fingers in
Europe- She sits down and fills in the
ground, and makes: a present to her
mother of an ottoman, or to her father
of a pair of slippers. I don't see that
the girl has gained any faculty what-
ever.

But suppose that same girl should buy
at a store an assortment of worsteds,
and should pluck form the garden a
pansy, and lay it out on her canvass,
and make a piece of embroidery. You
can buy something handsomer than
that for two dollars. But I say, that
the girl who can make her own em-
broidery patterns has gained a faculty.
She is more capable and more lovable
than the girl that has been merely
ornamented with all that money can
buy. And the boy brings his rake and
his jack-knife to the Grange, and the
girl brings her devices of embroidery
to the Grange; and these things are a
leaven.

But, brothers, that is a cheerless
farm home, in which the care of the
milk enslaves the women, and the
clank of the churn is the morning call
to labor, and a hundred firkins of but-
ter is the yield of the farm; and the
farmer brings back a story of net
profits, one thousand dollars to a wife
and family who do not and cannot use
wisely in the culture of manhood and
womanhood more than two hundred
and fifty dollars ~

I would further suggest: There is,
there must needs be, in every gathered
Grange a diversity of attainment. At
that Grange center, when you come
together, is one who knows more about
literature that all the rest put together.
Let that one, then, make a selection of
periodical literature; and let it be
brought to the Grange center, and
carried home from the Grange meeting
and circulated throughout the Grange
district-. There is a better way of
selecting newspapers, believe me, than
subscribing to the sectarian paper of
your Church, or the party paper of
your politics. Read all sides.

The same may be said as to books.
Obtain books for consultation. An
enclyclopaedia of botany ought to be in
every Grange library, to be consulted
by every bright eyed boy or girl who
wants to know what the plants are
that grow upon the farm.

There ought to be a microscope, the
property of the Grange, to be used by
him or her of approved skill in using
it, to tell others what may be discov-
ered, and to teach others how to make
the discovery. A circulating library is
part of the apparatus of the Grange.
Three dollars from each family will
give one hundred dollars of books to
the thirty ‘families every year (for
buying by the quantity, you will buy
cheaper.)

Brothers, my message to you is
ended. Those matters as to which you
hold prolonged oonference—the regula-

tion of railways, and combinations to
escape the extortions of middle-men
and attain economies by your join
action——touchl-ng all those matters,
I have given you neither exhorta-
tion nor counsel. You are vastly my
superiors. But I have called your
attention, in contrast, to that costliest
crop ever raised by man on any farm-
viz: the man himself, his wife. his
children, his man servants, his maid
servants. As the real welfare of man
is, in the last analysis, a gift from God.
'l‘lierefore that which can be bought
with money is of small importance
compared with that into which we
grow by patient continuance in well
doing, rooted and grounded in love,
speaking the truth in love, and growing
up into our Head and Father in all
things

If you ask me to tell you how to
make money out of your farms, I
decline to asnswer your question. I
don’t know. If you ask me to tell you
how to bring happiness, contentment,
manliness. and immortal hope to ass
I think I have spoken to you wor s of
truth and sober suggestion.

Brothers, I congratulateyou upon the
unity, and health, and good will, and
helpfulness illustrated by a neighbor-
hood of farmers, who together partake
of the first sacrament for cure of souls
——honest, sweaty labor. Here is a foun-
dation for unity. Standing upon this,
build as high as you can. And as you
build, depend upon it, the heavens
above us are bowed over the endeavor-
ings and upreaching growths of the
virtuous. And we shall attain to the
higher unity and thelasting life, which
God gives to his upgrowing sons.

A Representive Commission House.

Among the firms on South Water St.,
which have become prominently iden-
tified with this important interest, and
that stands in the front rank of all that
pertains to honest, square dealing, that
of Thomas Mason takes the leading po-
sitlon. This gentleman has been in
business here for twenty-five years, and
having at one time carried on two of
the largest retail stores in this city is
therefore qualified to meet the wants of
both shippers and buyers His inti-
mate acquaintance with the prominent
business men and houses, give him op-
porfunities and advantages in buying
and selling that very few others pos-
sess. Mr. Mason is prepared to fill or-
ders for dry goods. notions, and sewing
machines of leading manufacturers at
wholesale rates. He pays particular at-
tention to this branch of the business
and is enabled to purchase at lowest
rates. Persons in the interior can save
time and expense by having their or-
ders filled at this house. Terms are
strictly cash with the J . . ‘
son is the general representative of he
Michigan State Grange,whii-h is noted
for its advance business principles. He
is under heavy bonds as a guarantee for
the faithful performance of his duties,
and being the proprietor ofa ninety acre
farm in St. Joe, Mich., used exclusively
for raising small fruit, be thoroughly
understands the requirements of fruit
shippers. During the season his sales
of fruit are probably larger than any
other house, and having the very best
patronage in the city, has unusual facil-
ities for disposing of satisfactorily atthe
highest market price this perishable
commodity. VVe wish to impress par-
ticularly upon our readers the benefit of
shipping to this house, from the simple
fact that this gentleman is interested in
holding up and maintaining prices.
He sells upon the system of merit, that
is to say he sells the goods consigned to
him for the highest price they will bring
and remits accordingly. The-system of
returning an average price to all, irre-
gardless of what the goods have been
been sold for, is a dishonest and unjust
transaction. Mr. Mason is a firm be-
liever in returning to the farmer or
or shipper the actual proceeds of sale,
so that the producer ofgood fruit realiz-

es :3. better figure than his neighbor’

whose fruit is not so marketable. In
addition to this branch of the business,
Mr. Mason solicits consignments of
vegetables, butter, eggs, poultry, wool,
hides. pelts, tallow, dressed hogs, cattle
etc. He has a capacious and convenient
building, adapted for storage purposes,
which is four stories in height, 28 feet in
width and one hundred feet in depth,
and is situated on the shady side of the
street. Mr. Mason is agent of the N. W.
Produce Exchange, and the Michigan
Lake Shore Fruit Growers~Associatia-
tion, Stevansville. Michigan. His rep-
utation is A. No. 1 as an upright busi-
ness man and can be relied upon to
serve all with fidelity and satisfaction.
His place of business is 183 South
Water Street.

References—Executive Committee of
Michigan State Grange; J. J. Wood-
man. Paw Paw, Mich.; Herman
Schaffher &. Co., Bankers, Chicago,
Ill.; J. T. Cobb, Scoolcraft, Mich. ;
First National Bank, Centralia, Ill. ;
Thomas Mars, Berrien Center, Mich.;
W. A. Brown. Sec’y Mich. L. S. F. G.
Association, Stevensville, Mich.—0hi-
cago Grain and Provision Review.

 

A FARMER in Bangor, Me. noticed
that wheat was being picked from the
heads of standing grain, and finding
flocks of ellow birds flying about shot
some of tab
he found only three grains -of wheat

‘and, by actual count, 350 weevils. It

is better that farmers know whether
they kill friends or foes.

 

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THE

GRANGE VISI»;.l.‘()I?..

 

LIVING TRUTES.

Worthy Master, can you fathom
Life and its behest,
Can you measure the outreaching
Of those truths the Gmnge is teaching
All, who would be blest,
By the prestige of their labor,
By the lessons of the past,
That are crowding memory's portal ;
Acts of kindness all immortal,
By a friendship cast.

In the compass of affection,
0, how bright they are !

In the measure of devotion,

Like the waters of the ocean,
They refiect the Star

That should guide us, as we gather
’Round our altar, to express

Those ennobling powers in action,

Whose enriching hen efaction.
Comes to aid and bless.

Brothers, what a wealth is ours,

In our hours of need;

We have felt the qnickening spirit
Of the good our actions merit,

While our cause we plead.
Sisters, you may well be proud,

Of your gift so full of meaning,
Thus endowed to live and labor,
For the good friend and neighbor,

Like good Matrons gleaning.

In the harvest fields of duty,
May we one and all,

Strive to reach by our endeavor,

Highest good, the fruit of labor,

Bids us heed the call

Of the Master of the vineyard,
Father, God, whom all adore,

May the lessons life are teaching,

Fill our souls with love outreaching,
Now, and evermore.

Read at Fraternity Grange, No. 32, and com-
posed by B. T. Ballard.

alummunitatiom‘-.

A Farmer Governor.

BYERS, Mich., March 20, 1880.
Bro. J. T. Oobb .-

I see by the ever welcome GRANGE
VISITOR, that the question, “ Shall we
have a farmer for the next Governor? ”
is becoming very interesting ; and as a
general invitation is given to all Pat-

-»w s their opinions on this

subject I will'say yes, let us have a far-
mer for Governor, and let him be a
“dyed-in-the-woobGranger.” The far-
mers of the State will never have a bet-
ter opportunity to elect one of their
own number to that office than the
present, and if they will lay aside their
partisan “ specks,” and not look
through stalwart Republican or progres-
sive Democratic, or National Greenback
glasses, but through clear, uncovered,
unbiased Grange eyes, and lay aside all
their old political feelings, they will
have no difiiculty in uniting upon
their men. If either of the existing
parties do not place a Granger at the
head of their ticket, let us as farmers
and GI-angers nominate a ticket com-
posed of men of our own Order, whom
we know to be honest men, and caps-
ble of administering the affairs of the
State.

Let us stand by our principles and
show the managers of the nominating
mills that we mean business, have pow-
er enough to do our own grinding, by
placing such men as we want before
the people to be voted for next fall, and
then as one man walk up to the polls

- and sustain our principles by our votes.

A question arises here, will the men
nominated on such a ticket stake their
political fortune by accepting the nom-
ination? I for one have faith enough
in any of the men named in the VISI-
TOR that they will lead in defending
our principles by our votes, and if we
should fail in it this time we will have
the satisfaction of knowing and show-
ing our strength.

In regard to politics in the Grange,
did not the State Grange of 1878 de-
mand certain amendments to our laws
by petitioning to the Legislature?
Have we not as an Order, by authority

from the National Grange, sent peti-

tions to Congress in regard t9 the ques-
tions of transportation and patents ?
Let me ask what benefit we have deriv-
sex, as a class, from these inst demands
either from State or National Legisla-

‘ £313.: Have our petitions been heeded ?

mgwer most emphatically, no!

- I say \Voodman_.first; Holloway, next.

Well, why not? Our petitions were
certainly just.

We as farmers, have let the agents
and hirelings of these parties, who are
benefitted by the laws as they are, and
who have an eye to -their own inter-
ests, do all the nominating, all the talk-
ing and writing, and we as Democrats
and Republicans have sat with open
eyes and ears, took in all they said, and
voted the straight ticket The conse-
quence of this is, that politicians pool
their issues, combine their forces, and
make laws for the benefit of their em-
ployers. Now, ifit is right to petition 
to have the laws so amended as to do 
justice to all classes, why is it not right !
to use the means in our power as an‘
organization to elect men who will pay
attention to our petitions ‘.’ Our Declar-
ation of Purposes is plain and outspok-
en, and well understood, but what is
the use of declaring it we do not act in
electing men who are of us and with
us, and who will stand by us in spite of
combinations, monopolies and rings.

In regard to a candidate for Governor,

Here let me say the man who started
the Woodman “ boom ” for Vice Presi-
dent had better reconsider his action,
for it is a position beneath his capabili-
ty and usefulness. You do not often
hear of a man who is elected Vice Pres-
ident or Lieutenant Governor ever get-
ting beyond those positions, and if they
do it is only by accident.
JOHN F. BYERS.

Liability of Express Companies.

At Oxford, Oakland County, a few
weeks ago, the safe belonging to the
American Express Co., was broken
open by burglars, and some $2,500 in
money stolen, including a package for
H. dz C. H. Seeley, produce dealers at
Oxford. One of the firm had been told
the night before that there was some-
thing in the express for him, but the
money was left in the hands of the
Company, and'was taken with the rest
of ‘the contents of the safe; and now
the Express Company refuse to pay
Seeley the money, claiming that the
notice given by the agent relieved the
Company from responsibility, and
Seeley has commenced suit to recover
the money. This involves an impor-
tant principal, and one of much
interest to those sending money by
express. If the Company is not liable
in this case,the question is, what safety
is there in sending money by such con-
veyance?

The Wheat Question. ‘

Wishing to give each side of the
Wheat question, we commend the fol-
lowing from the Financial Chrom'cl6’s
London correspondent, to the attention
of our readers: ‘

“A leading feature of the ‘trade is
that as our imports of late have been
below our requirements, a large inroad
has been made into our accumulated
supply of foreign wheat and flour.
The supply of wheat and flour afloat is
known to be considerable, and as the
weather is very mild, and the belief
prevails that Eastern Europe will be
able to furnish us with larger supplies in
a very short period. Millers operate
with great caution. Any one, however,
who takes the trouble to inquire into
the question, is well aware we have a
limited supply of home-grown produce,
and that the quality is very unsatisfac-
tory. Our dependence upon foreign
countries was probably never greater
than it is now, and for some weeks to
come the consumption of bread is
likely to be at its maximum point.
Potatoes are bad and high in price, and
vegetable food, owing to the very
severe winter, is just. now very scarce
and dear. Bread, therefore, at 6d and
8d the four-pound loaf, or lid to 2d per
pound, has become a more general
article of consumption, for what food
so ready for use is obtainable at so low
a price? The future of the wheat trade
has, for a long time past, been a matter
of great| uncertainty, and there ap-

ears to be as many who believe in
higher rates as those who think there
will not be much variation from the
prices now current. The season is fav-
orable for planting, but the belief is
that farmers have not devoted much
attention to the production of wheat,
barley, or oats: beans,and peas,and veg-
etables pay better, and where practica-
ble these articles are cultivated.”

Qlurmponzicute.

The Grange in St. Clair Counly.

PoRT HURON, Mich..
March 19th, 1880. J

Worthy Bro. J. T. Cobb .-

Perhaps the Patrons of the western
and southern portions of Michigan are
not aware that there are any Patrons
in St. Clair Co. \Vhethe1- they are or
not, it is a fact that there are a few-
not as many, by hundreds, as there
ought to be, and not so many now as
formerly.

Those that stand fast, do so, feeling
that if our Order goes down, the last
hope of the farmer is gone.

VVe have a few live members in Port
Huron Grange, No. 404, who have reg-
ular business meetings every four weeks
—which brings our meetings every two
weeks. \Ve are holding our own, and
just now, I think the prospect fair for
adding to our membership.

St. Clair Pomona Grange held its reg-
ular meeting the l7th instant, at which
the retiring W’. M., Bro. Geo. Carleton,
assisted by Bro. B. VV. Jenks, the retir-
ing Overseer, installed the olficers for
the present year, to-wit:

Master—Moses Locke.

Overseer—Lucius Beach.

Lecturer——Geo. W. Carleton.

Steward—John VVuguer.

Ass’t Steward—E. G. Manuel.

Chaplain-—Theodore Batluey.

Treasurer—Jonathan Morden.

Secretary—Moses F. Carleton.

Gate-Keeper—Ephraim Pearce.

Ceres—Mrs. Moses Locke.

Pomona—Mrs. E. G. Manuel.

Flora—-Mrs. Jonathan Morden.
L. A. Stewart.l—Netta Burns.

It added much to our pleasure on the
occasion to see the faces of stranger
brothers and sisters from Sanilac Co.,
who had taken advantage of an excur-
sion on the Pt. H. & N. W. R. R. to
visit our city, and finding that our
Grange met on that day, visited us.

It has been talked of some, and it
was renewed at that meeting to in-
duce a portion of the Sanilac Grangers
to unite with our Pomona Grange. If
the idea is carried out, we hope it will
revive the Order here anew.

I notice in the VISITOR, just received,
many articles advocating the idea of a
farmer, and, if possible, a Patron, for
Governor. That is right, and may not
that idea he carried to all the oflices of
trust that farmers are eligible to! We
say, Yes! and intend to work to that
end. Fraternally yours,

M. F. CARLETON.

Liberty Grange, No. 391.

Bro. J. T. Cobb .-

Having been a reader of the VISITOR
a long time, and not having seen any-
thing from Liberty Grange, No. 391,
I thought I would try and pen a. few
lines, though I don’t feel competent to
do so, but have waited in vain along
time for either our Lecturer, or Master,
or Secretary, or some member of the
Grange to take the initiatory step, as I
know we have those who are compe-
tent. We have a good little Grange
that meets every two weeks regularly.
We have a. little home of our own,
nearly paid for, and the best of feeling
prevails. All seem to enjoy our meet-
ings. Still we have some things to dis-
courage us. At the time our Grange
was organized, April 15th, 1874, there
was a great rush to join the Grange.
It was a popular thing with some, who
expected to be benefitted by it finan-
cially, but I fear, have been disap-
pointed in the expectation, and one by
one have dropped off. In the summer
of 1876, we built a Grange hall, and as
we had not the money to pay for it all
down, we got in debt. To help pay
for it, we voted on ourselves double
dues, which was the means of losing
some members for non-payment of
dues, and some have taken dimits and
moved away. We had a great many
young people at one time, nearly all
of whom married outside of the
Grange, and have failed to put in an
appearance since. This is not the case
in every instance, but in very many.

ent, as many of the old ones are coming
back, and new ones are coming in.
And when you meet one of our mem-
bers, the first thing you hear said is,
“ Vvhat a good Grange we are having ;
we never had a better Grange than we
are having now.” VVhat members we
have now, we feel sure they are of the
right stripe, and can be depended upon
every time. I am satisfied that the
Grange is founded on the right princi-
ples, and hope, in the end, we may
accomplish all we desire to. How I
wish the farmers could see things in
their true light, and unite with us to
accomplish the great purposes of our
Order. But 1 am sorry to say that
some of our best farmers have both
their eyes and ears closed to all Grange
movements, and will not believe the
Grange ever will accomplish, or ever
did accomplish, any good. Let us all
hope and pray that they may be led
to see these things in a different
light. I hope that some of our mem-
bers who read this, will write you more
of our prosperity. LIBERTY.

Orion Grange and Plaster.

ORION, April -3th, 1880.
Editor Grange Visitor.-

After the Orion Grange passed the
resolutions in regard to plaster that were
published in the VISITOR of March 15,
an arrangement was made with Owen
Bros, of this place, to furnish the mem-
bers of the Grange the Day & Taylor
plaster at $5 per ton, and to handle no
other plaster. No sooner was this
fact known than an agent was sent
from Grand Rapide to ofl'er the Grand
Rapids plaster at reduced prices; and
the refusal of Owen Brothers to handle
that plaster at any price greatly in-
censed the agent, and he forthwith
hunted up and put into the market
another agent, who is making all
possible efforts to sell this plaster, but
so far with very light sales; for the
Grange are a unit that they will not
use the Grand Rapids plaster at any
price, and the prospects now are that
the farmers outside the Grange are
going to do the same thing. They be-
gin to realize the great service done to
the farmers of the State by the Grange
in breaking up the ring, and now the
desperate effort on the part of the com-
bination to destroy the Grange plaster
supply is opening the eyes of many
who had heretofore been indifferent to
the subject.

Then again, many farmers who have
used the Grandville plaster. believe it
to be much better than any other they
ever used. I find that it is 10 pounds
lighter to the measured bushel than
any other I ever used. Then the fact
that none of the purest of the stone is
taken out for stucco, I have no
doubt makes it Worth more by 25 per
cent than any other plaster in market.

C.

Orion Grange had a maple sugar
festival Saturday, April 3d. Notwith-
standing it was a rainy day, a goodly
number were on hand. The sugar was
enjoyed, and the programme was duly
carried out.

About $200 worthlof groceries from
G. W. Hill & Co. were distributed by
the Secretary, and gave good satisfac-
tion.

The Grange is doing nicely. The
printed programme in advance works
admirably, and does much toward
keeping up a general interest in the
work. Our Grange is making of us
better, farmers, better housekeepers,
better men, better women, better chil-
dren. .50 it pays.

A Correction.

Brother Cobb .-

In your issue of March 15th, you
publish the name of Joseph H. Went-
wort as President of Allegan Co. Coun-
cil, Which is a mlsta.ke—Joseph H.
Wetmore is correct.

Fraternally yours,

M. V. B. MCALPINE,

W _
Never strike an average when 1t’s

down.

But we are greatly encouraged at pres-

Sec. A. Go. Council.

Killing the Potato Beetle,

Bro. J. T. Cobb.-
I wish to announce my method of

the “ ounce of prevention” kind.

I find them on the war-path, but as
there are no tops, they are thankful for
the bulbs, which they eat greedily. I
cut up potatoes, sprinkle with Paris
Green, and thus give them a “ feast of
death."

If all were to unite in this treatment,
I believe it would exterminate them.
Care must be taken, or stock may get
to the poison. Yours truly,

J. H. PEABODY.

Birmingham, Mich.

Resolution of Thanks

LITCHI~‘n-:LI>, Mich., 1
March 18th, 1880. ;
Bro. Cobb .-

At the regular meeting of Hillsdale
Pomona Grange, No. 10, held at Grange
hall, Jonesville, March 3d,1880, Bro.
D. Timms, on behalf of Hon. Edwin
Willets, presented to Pomona Grange,
twenty-three volumes of Agricultural
and other Reports, which were duly
accepted, and the following resolution-
unanimously passed:

Resolved, That we tender a vote of
thanks to Hon. Edwin VVillets, our
Representative in Congress, forthe lib-
cral donation of twenty-three volumes
of Reports, as an addition to our libra-
ry, and that a copy of these resolutions
be sent to Hon. Edwin Willets, and also
be published in the GRANGE VISITOR
and County papers.

G. M. GARDNER, Sec.

Willow Grange, Io. 618.

Bro. J. T. Cobb:

Willow Grange owns its ow" nail,-
it is 22x50 feet, frame, and is built of
the best material, finished with white
ash, painted outside ' .nd inside. It was
built in 18713, and oat $300, which is all
paid f0r,—~-- ‘ not one cent.

The C l’:  ~ = - a prosperous condi-
tion; we are .‘«-.u ' ing new members at
almost every ',..-xgiug; we meet every
Tuesday evening ; last year we held 52
regular and six. special meetings. The
attendance is al ways good.

Yours fraternally,
Ronnnr BRIGHTON,
Secretary.

Wyandotte, Mich.

A Good Word for a Good Man.

We take pleasure in publishing the
following resolutions, passed by Berri-
en Co. (Mich.) Pomona Grange. ' We
know Bro. Mason well, know him to
be a good man, know that he is doing
a good work for the Order.

WHEREAS, Bro. Thomas Mason, for-
merly Lecturer of this Grange. has been
placed in 9. General Commission busi-
ness in the city of Chicago by the
Northwestern Produce Exchange As-
sociation, which was organized by the
Patrons of Michigan, and

WHEREAS, Bro. Mason has been ap-
pointed Business Agent of the Order of
Patrons of Husbandry in the city, of
Chicago for the State of Michigan, by
the Executive Committee of the Michi-
gan State Grange, and

WHEREAS, Our Agency in Chicago
has proved of great benefit to the ship-
pers of farm produce to the city of Chi-
cago, in aiding to establish a standard
of values,it has maintained prices in
times of depression, is always first to
advance prices after large shipments
to, and a consequent glut in the mar-
ket, and
WHEREAS, Through the energy of
our Agent, as also by means of the hon-
esty of shippers in carefully grading
their goods, our Chicago house has ac-

. quired and maintained the commercial

value to shippers and consumers of
farm products, Therefore,

Resolved, That Berrien Grange, No.
1, State of Michigan. Patrons of Hus-
bandry, do hereby recommend Bro.
Tliomas Mason, ot'183. South Water
Street, Chicago, as being worthy of the
confidence and support of all atrons
throughout the Northwest.

Resolved, That the Master and Sec-
retary of this Grange be authorized to
tender the foregoing preamble and
resolutions to all State and Subordinate
Granges tributary to the Chicago mar-
ket. FREEMAN FRANKLIN, Master,
CHAS. HOGUE, Secretary.

Dated at Buchannan, Berrien 00.,
Mich., Jan. 16th, 1880.

We clip the above from the recogniz-
ed organ of the Order, published at»
Sringfield, Ohio, and desire to say in
addition, that Mr. Mason is a man who
can be implicitly relied upon as honest,
straightforward and capable. Shippers
who desire a quid pro quo for their
goods should consign to this house.-

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

SCHOOLCRAFT, APR. 15, 1880.

§imtary’5 flepartment.

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Oflioers and members of Subordinate Granges
in corresponding with this office, will please
always give the Number of their Grange‘.

Los Angelos Co.. Cal.,$
March 30th, 1880.

Three weeks from the day of
leaving home, we find ourselves
at this, the objective point. for
which we started on the 9th inst.

At 2 P. M. today, we reached
Los Angelos, found our friends

waiting for us at the depot, and
after getting dinner, we rode out
to this place, eight miles from the
citv. .

The roads were good, and but for
the disappointment We felt at l1av-
ing to wear our overcoat buttoned
up to the chin, we should have
been entirely happy.

But though _the vast plain over
which we passed was green with
growing grain or grass, and in
many places bright with tiny yel-
low flowers, yet the air was cold,
and winter clothing was none too
heavy or warm for protection and
comfort.

We had not associated this land
of oranges with flannels and thick
clothing, and with our two weeks

, acquaintance with this climate,
vhich the residents are so ready
,.;~praise, we have not recovered
from the surprise occasioned by
this apparently anamalous condi
tion of thingr. An overcoat has
been essential,to comfort every
hour that we have not been in-
doors. But then the “oldest in-

habitant. " has never known such a

cold winter and backward spring

on this coast, and as we are one of
the youngest, we have,-perhaps, no
right to complain.

We had expected to reach this
place within ten days after leav-
ing home, but (for cause) changed
our program, and staid in San
Francisco a little more than a
week.

As we have repeatedly said that
we have taken this trip to get
away from work, and as a full ac-
count of what has come under our
observation would occupy too
much space in the VISITOR, we
shall shun the task of describing
very fully the unusual things that
have interested us, and hope our
readers will be satisfied with a

brief mention.

While in the city we visited
Woodard’s Garden, which is (as
far as it goes) to. San Francisco
what Central Park is to New
York —— a place of resort —

CALIFORNIA—,N0. 2.

SAN GlABRIEL,

"where fine walks, with collections

of rare and beautiful flowers
and shrubs, artificial grottoes and
fish ponds, stocked with finny
beauties and ugly wonders; all
kinds of birds, beasts and creeping
things, foreign and domestic ; to-
gether with bath houses, swings
and boats, music, museums and
cabinets, a saloon, restaurant. and
theatre; and things big and little,
new and old, fair and ugly, rare
andcommon, gathered together
from all parts of the earth, that
city and country people may come.
state and wonder, be amused and
instructed, and Mr. Woodard be
profited for his large investment.
Before leaving the garden we
took some tea and toast at the res-
taurant, to qualify us for the work
of the afternoon, which included a
ride of two and a half miles over
the California Street R. R., the cars
of which, attached to a dummy,
were moving along, up hill and
down, in amost wonderful way.
We- had seen, in. othencities,
dummy engines, _with their pufl'
and steam, dragging street cars,
but this dummy. car, with seats
facing outward, suflicient for 18
passengers, running around on all

.gides, was a quiet fellow that stop-

ped and started, with a. big load or
none at all. and drew an ordinary
street car, loaded with passengers,

_feet above the surface of the water.

But what drew the dummy ‘.4-
that was what puzzled us, until we
learned more about it. Then we
found that the steam which we
had looked for was really the mo-
tor which propelled our vehicle.
At the end of the street is a pow-
erful engine. which drives an end-
less wire cable, laid under the
middle of the track, and kept in
place by friction pulleys. Above
the cable, on a level, equa-distant
from each, and parallel with the
rails, lie two heavy strap rails, an
inch apart. In the middle of the
dummy car is a lever arrange-
ment, extending througli the bot-
tom of the car, and armed at the
lower end, out of sight, below
these strap rails, with a grip,
with which the engineer siezes
hold of the moving cable at his
pleasure, and away goes the dum-
my, with car attached, until a
street is crossed, and some passen-
ger wants to get off, or another get
on, when the engineer lets go his
grip and applies the brake, stop-
ping at once both dummy and car.
The conductor jingles the bell, the
engineer siezes the invisible cable
with his lever grip, and away we
go, meeting, every few minutes, a
dummy on the return track, pro-
pelled by the same cable. Some-
times a half-dozen of these cars
are in sight at once.

In the two and a half miles of
California St., traversed by these
dummy cars, we cross four high
ridges, or hills, with intervening
valleys. The grade is so steep that
horse cars are quite impracticable,
the top of the hills being over 200
feet higher than the valleys. All
the important streets of the city
that run over these hills are pro-
vided with these cable railways.
“California” is a street of magnif-
scent residences. Several of the
Central Pacific railroad princes
live here, having houses and
grounds costing nearly half a mil-
lion of dollars each.

From the terminus of the street
railway, we crossed to Geary
street, on which is Mountain Home
Cemetery, where we stopped for a
half-hour. Thence our party of four
took'a ’bus line that goes over a
finely-graded, macadamized road-
way to the Cliff House, three miles
farther, or six miles from the cen-
tral part of the city.

As indicated by its name, the
Cliff House is perched upon a cliff
rising abruptly from the ocean, its
terrace 80 feet above the water.
The long row of splendid vehicles
under the shed near by, the rattle
of billiard balls, and the array of
glass ware and fixtures that orna-
ment a first-class bar, together
with gaily—dressed people in the
parlors and (in the porches, show-
ed a liberal city patronage. While
we were looking about, two splen-
did four-in-hand turnouts dashed
up and M. de Lessepps, the famous
French engineer, and his party
alighted. A few minutes’ stop, and
the party left by a winding road-
way, 25 feet wide, cut out of the
cliff to the beach below. This
well-gravelled road runs along the
beach to Golden Grate Park, re-
turning to the city by another
route—making a grand drive of
some fifteen miles for the high-
toned city bloods who love horse-
flesh and fun. We went down to
the beach by the roadway and, for
the first time, gave our fraternal
grip to the-waters of the Pacific.
Forty rods, more or less, from the
hotel some huge rocks rise a few

From the balcony of the hotel we
could see not less than fifty seals,
that had crawled up from two to
ten feet above the water and were
lazily sunning themselves on the
rocks. They looked in the distance
very much like a lot of hogs tak-
ing a comfortable snooze, with
here and there one more restless
than the others making a little
disturbance in the family, and a
noise somewhere between a grunt
and a grow].

We returned to the city by
dummy car over another street,
and, after devoting the remaining
hour of the day to a walk through
Chinatown, we returned to our
hotel, well satisfied with the work
of the afternoon. The Chinese
uarter is in the heart of the city.
aving but a minimum amount of

' , apparently with ease.

cursory examination. We took in
the josh house, a first-class res-
raurant, and in the evening a
Chinese theatre. The josh house
disappointed us, there was so little
of it. At the restaurant we took
tea. cake, some preserved water-
melon rinds or something else,
paid a quart.er and departed. Half
an hour at the theatre, and we
were ready to go. The perform-
ance was funny to the 2,000 China-
men present, but, to us, un-
meaning jabber soon became
monotonous,‘ and we sought our
hotel and a night’s rest.

Having accepted an invitation
f'rom Bro. Webster to spend a day
at Fruitvale, we went to his ofiice
the afternoon of the 20th ii1st.,and
atfive o’cl0ck we took the Oakland
ferry from the foot of Market
street. A ride of five miles
brought us to the pier, which runs
out on piles two and a half miles
into the bay. This was a big job,
but the Central Pacific has under-
taken a bigger one in filling up
this entire distance with rock
brought thirty miles over their
road. A ferry ticket entitles the
holder to a four-mile ride through
the city of Oakland on a Central
Pacific train running in connection
with the ferry. Having passed
through Oakland, we take a street
railway two miles to Fruitvale.
This road was built by Bro. Web-
ster and his neighbors, to enhance
the value of their lands and ena-
ble them to live in the country and
do business in the city.

Fruitvale, as its name implies, is
a lovely place. Its residents are
gentlemen of means, who have
money to build, improve, and
adorn afertile valley that nature
clothed with beauty before man
undertook to improve upon her
Works.

We found Bro. Webster and
family occupying a fine residence
surrounded with all the conven-
iences and luxuries that a culti-
vated taste demands. The cordial
greeting of Sister Webster made
us feel quite at home, and with
such favorable surroundings we
were sure of a pleasant visit. The
next morning Bro. VVebster or-
dered out his carriage, and for
three hours we traveled the ma-
cadamized streets of Oakland and
the adjacent hamlet of Alameda.
Oakland is a city of residences.
With a climate more mild than
San Francisco, it has become the
home of thousands of her business
men, who daily throng the ferry,
which, with street railways, bring

home and business within conven-
ient reach of each other. On our
return to Fruitdale, we found din-
ner waiting, which disposed of, we
took a stroll over the premises of
our host, and about the neighbor-
hood. This is a goodly land; and
but for that dissatisfied element in
man, which craves what he has
not, or covets what others have,
with its fruits, and flowers, and
varied scenery of mountain and
plain, its occupants in the sunshine
of their prosperity, would say
“Enough—I am content.”

We bade adieu on the following
morning to our friends at Fruitvale.
For them and theirs we shall long
cherish pleasant recollections.

While in the city we visited the
U. S. Mint. In the reception room
we registered, as required, and
were favored with an obliging
conductor, Mr. W. M. Keefer. We
made a rapid inspection of the
institution; were first shown into
a room of furnaces, where huge
bricks of mixed precious metals
from Arizona, worth about $8,000,
and weighing nearly 400 pounds
each,,were being melted, sepa-
rately, and cast into ingots of 30
to 40 pounds. To the pure metal,
whether silver or gold, is added
ten per cent of alloy in the ingot.
These ingots are then heated and
rolled into bars of the thickness
of the coin to be cut from them.
Silver bars are annealed in a
furnace before being taken to the
stamping room, where after being
greased, the bars are run through
an edger, to make them as near
perfect in width and thickness as
possible. From the edger, the
bars are passed to the cutting
machine, through which the baris
run by hand. The dime or dollar
is pushed through the bar at the

Yankee curiosity, we gave it but a

rate of 160 per mingte. Gold bars

receive the same treatment,except
that when annealed they are
placed in copper cylinders: 5909133’
l_v sealed before being placed In
the furnace, and waxed bef0I‘e
being run through the edger and
cutter. Before the work of mill-
ing or raising the edge Of the
piece to a greater thickness by_a
stamp process, is done» fhe 001“ 13
taken to the adjusting room,
where each piece is weighed, and
if found too heavy, the excess is
quickly filed away. _ If too _ll.£l1te
the piece goes back for re-coinage.

This work gives employment to
about fifty ladies, who bring their
lunch-baskets, and take ‘their
lunch in a room nicely equlpped
for their use, the institution sup-
plying tea and coffee. These em-
ployes do not leave the building
until their day’s work is done.

When adjusted and milled, the
coin is heated to a red heat, to
soften it for the final stamp pres-
sure of 124 tons, which brings to
light, if not to life, the American
bird, the Goddess of Liberty, and
all the distinctive features that
determine its nationality, at the
rate of ninety per minute. At
different stages the metal or com
is immersed in muriatic acid, to
restore its natural color. We
passed too rapidly through the
assay and refining rooms to ven-
ture upon a description of the
work done.

The counting of the coin is done
by a very simple process. A
hinged board, on an incline with
dividing ridges, has ten long
spaces of the width of the pieces
to be counted, running from top
to bottom. Upon this the coin is
cast, the board shaken, and the
coin gravitates to the channels in
single lines over the whole sur-
face. The hinged portion of the
counting board is dropped with
the excess, and an even 100 pieces
are spread with mathematical
precision before you. ’Tis the
work of a moment, but the accu-
racy of the count is beyond the
possibility of a mistake.

These are four large stamping
machines, and two smaller ones
ior dimes and half-dimes. A
special privilege of visiting the
vault was granted us, where were
piled with perfect regularity,
sacks containing 3,760,000 in silver
coin.

The amount of gold coin on
hand was not large. In one
department was a gold brick
worth $25,000, which we were
invited to lift. VVell, it was heavy,
looked rich. and if we could have
lugged it_ oil’ as our own, I suppose
we Would have felt rich, even if
we did not know what to do with
it.

We should have mentioned in
place, that the mixed metal brick
referred to as brought from Arizo-
na,are cast so large and heavy that
highwayman cannot capture and
hurry away with the precious
metal while in transit over the
mountains to San Francisco.

This mint has, we are informed,
a greater capacity for the manu-
facture of coin than any other in
the world, and greater than all
others belonging to our govern-
ment.

It has about 230 employes, and
is under the superintendency of
H. L. Dodge, Esq., with Mr.
Horace Beach as cashier. We
delayed making memoranda of
many things we saw in the mint
until other matters have so over-
laid them that we cannot safely
undertake further description. We
were treated very courteously, and
are under obligations to the offi-
cers in charge.

On the afternoon of the 23d, we
went to San Reafel, some twelve
miles up the Bay. This is a fine
little town of a few thousand in-
habitants, noted for both health-
fulness and beauty, almost sur-
rounded by the Coast Range of
mountains, and is a favorite resort
for San Francisco, Some of her
business men reside here as well
as in Oakland. '

We found the residence of our
friend, D. H. Whittemore, Esq., a

friendly cordiality that we shall
long remember. Mr. Whittemore
was raised in our town of School-

cosy place, and his family minis- 1
tered to our enjoyment with a d

- ' lie
occupying a VGTY fin‘? Olfice "1 E
Stock Exchange. lZ)l]ll(lll1g‘?§r::aeI;
Francisco, and from happed lucm
we conclude that he 33 3
m‘A3fl)eri'l(atli3v:.ek’s city residence,we
concluded to SI)’ airide Otviiiiy
miles into the country. t tlhe
waiting in the afternoonbat O 6
depot, who should drop 1“ th“ “I
old friend, Marshall Hale. €EV§1'Y
man we were going to 59? ad tin
Jose? We at once rfffillfeb tt 6 :
truth of the old saying. IF i n9 fer {;
to be born lucky than 1'lC , or
Bro. Hale at once took _us, rilur
wife and our wife’s sister inton is
protecting care, nor did he a _ow
us to escape until the fol,loW1_n:‘!.
Monday. A two hours ride
through probably the finest valley
in the State, brought "5 to 5.311
Jose. The fields were green with
wheat and barley along the entlre
distance. ' _

Smaller houses and ‘Still smalle,i;
barns than we have “in the States,
as the Californians say, age _a D9-
ticeable feature of 0allf0l'nl3
fai-nis. This valley is some twelve
miles in width, mostly cultivated,
and with the recent‘rains gives
promise this year of abundant
cm s.

Vighile in the city We made the
acquaintance of Bro. Settle, Pres-
ident of the -

“FAnMEn’s UNION,”

established in 1875. This institu-

tution, like the Grange ‘Business
Association of San Francisco, is no
picayune concern. It started out

with high hopes, and, like many

other California enterprises,under- 
look to cover more eggs than it ‘
could keep warm, but alter some
adverse experience, that cost it
some money and the Order some
friends, we find it to-day on a firm
foundation, occupying and owning
the best building in this city of
15.000inhabitants, with a paid-up
capital of $120,000, and carrying a
stock of goods worth from $60 to
$75,000. Their building is of brick,
60x150 feet, three stories high,
with a good cellar, besides
barn, sheds, and yard room in .
abundance. Their stoek.--~i-iii§l»'.ides~- ~- ».- '
groceries, hardware, tinware, agri-
cultural implements, and nearly
everything farmers use, except

dry goods and boots and shoes. In

their iron house was a large
amount of iron and nails bought

last summer, when these goods
were low. This dry County uses

an immense amount of iron pipe,

of which the Farmers’ Union keeps
afull line and large stock. All
these heavy goods are shipped
around Cape Horn, and of course

are several months in transit. It is
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long way from market. Some fif
teen hands are required to run the
business. The sales of 1379

amounted to $235,000, and, as the
business and stock is now in better
condition than ever before, they
expect the sales this year to ex- 3
ceed last by $100,000. The Farmers’
Union has surmounted all Opposj_
tion, has an established good char-
actor, and, with sufficient capital
§;‘§e§l§nl.‘iVZ“§agei-12*"5” "“s“‘°“
e ms 1 e t ‘ "
‘this remark of Presid<§ntOJS»u:t?ltg,
towfwf’ ha‘7,'-" 305 Wllere we are
no a raid of anything but an
earthquake.”
Swhlle at San Jose (pronounced
9".’ H0343): We took a dav to
visit the ” ‘
t All-MEDAF QUIoKsILvEii MINES,
We ve miles distant. The well
“mm "°a,d leading Hi the reducing
woi'ks, situated near the foot; of
the mountain, the mines, and the
blue ‘Image of the miners near
the t0Pa indicated business and
W01‘k§ for the road has no import
ance beyond the miners: village
A letter of introduction to the
manager. obtained for us by Bro.
Hale, enabled us_to gather the fol-
.°Wm2‘~’ 1591115. which we hope will
interest our readers : .
About 100 tons of Cinnebar rock
01' We 13 Sent down the sides of
ltlhe mountain daily_ to the store-
ouses situated on its side, above
éhe 'I'{ed“‘?"‘g W°Tk5- by a double-
rag drailroad. A cable lets 9.
0a e car down over one track

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other track atefig sllimeanfimg? the

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craft,and is a gentlemanly lawyer,

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furnaces. These are u ri ht '
cylinders some nine fest iii dilaliciil
eter W1 Perhaps t-hirtv feet hi l]
The °1'e is Dut. in at tlie top oifcé
in two hours, in lots of 1600
P011nd_S. to Which'288 pounds of
coke is added. The covering is
made Very close to prevent kfhe
escape of the fumes. ’

Three Openings: with a fire
space in the sides of these cy1jn_
drical furnaces in a lower story
admits the wood fuel for heating
the mass» From the sides toward
the top are large pipes leading
IMO the C00l.ing chambers. The
fumes from the heated ore loaded
with quicksilver in a volatile state
pass to the cooler, and through
long passages. until they reach a
1-‘rlrge Plpe two or three feet in
diameter, running several hun-
dred feet up the mountain side,
and terminating in large chimneys
not less than fifty feet high.

All along the way through the
cooling chambers and pipes to the
chimney tops the quicksilver is
precipitated, as the fumes from
the furnaces cool, and by its
weight, seeks, through the chan-
nels prepared for its escape, the
receiving cauldron in a lower
room, where we found a man
dipping the slippery stuff into a
suspended scale hopper, from
which it was quickly turned
through, a tunnel into an iron
flask, the iron cork of which is
securely screwed in.

Into each flask is put 76% pounds
——an amount corresponding to
some old Spanish standard weight,
adopted when these mines were
worked by the Spaniards long
years ago. The chimneys are
swept occasionally, and the soot
washed, the quicksilver passing
out of the kettle bottom through
a small crooked pipe. The ex-
hausted ore, which is very light, is
drawn from the bottom of the
furnace at stated intervals into a
car, and dumped at a distance
down the hillside. The ore re-
mains in the f'ui":ace about two
days before it reaches :.l'.e bottom.

This. Almedan mine has the
-§-':€.a.t-9812--production .of' aiiy in
:l;e country, and is exceeded by

but one in the world—that of the’

same name in Spain. The inonth-
ly product is about 2,000. flasks, or
150,000 pounds, worth forty cents
per pound. The Gaudaloupe mine
isa few miles away, and 1S very
valuable. _ _ ,

Our party. consisting of Sister
Hale Mrs. Cobb. her sister. Mrs-
Brigols and the Secretary for
drive:-Jr,’ voted the ride tlirougli the
vallev. and up the hillside, a
delightful one, the ml) 3 Sllccessv
and the day well sI>eI1’f--

; T Cobb, secretary Michigan State
‘ ' Grunge.

Jerome T. Cobb: Secretary _°f the
Michigan State Grange: and edlmr .°f
the GRANGE VISITORq W35 born "1
Goshen, Litchfield Count)’: 111‘ the
State of Connecticut. December 29th,
1821. His parents, With 9' 5a““1_3' ‘ff
seven children, emigmted 130 M1°_h"
gun in 1830, and located land on which
they settled, near the village of School-

craft in the County of Kalamazoo.
Michigan was then a wilderness, and
pioneer life in its rudest features
was the common lot of all. Within
three years his father dledy suddellly
cutting off all hopes of that P1'°SP€‘Y1_l5Y
which the work of these brief years Illn-
dicatedto be in the near fi1tl1I‘6- 15
educational advantages commenced
the following winter, 1834, in a log
school-house built by the settlers. For
six successive winters he attended this
school, doing chores and cutting
wood for the family when out of the
school room, and laboring on the
farm during the summers. This;
with two months at a high school in
the neighboring Tilhge Of K.”'.lam.“'
zoo included all his opportunities in
the,schools. His time had been so
well improved, h°"'°V°’i that he
tgught school successfully for four
succeeding winters,’ in the” good old
d‘ys of u ding round. -
He was mrried in Al18“5l"' 1846470
Hi! Jnlinnm. Benton, of Ameuia.
 S 'V County, N. Y., and settled
" may Prairie Ronda» _Wh1_°h
guns‘ andcultivntes.  ‘"10
ggfiiibu, yegs‘a.fl.er their mar-
’  union, hehadone son,

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THE (ERIAISIGE VlSIT()R.

\

VVillian B. Cobb, a practical and suc-
cessful farmer, owning and cultivating
a farm near Schoolcraft. He was again
married in 1852 to Miss Harriet Felt,
his present wife. She was a resident
of his own township. Twenty-seven

union.

From boyhood until 1865, with the
exception of a single year, he had
lived upon the same farm, and had
applied himself closely to its im-
provement and cultivation. By good
management, untiring industry, and
economy, he made farming a success
He always enjoyed the full confidence

included among his personal friends.
In 1865, he made that mistake so
common to American farmers. Not
satisfied with “ letting well enough
alone,” he rented his farm, moved to
the neighboring village of School-
craft, and engaged in trade, only to
repeat the experience of a large ma
jority of farmers who try that experi-
ment. In closing out one branch of
business, he struck into another
which be prosecuted successfully for
four years His prosperity in bus-
iness was, however. soon interrupted
by unforeseen accidents: Two fires
and other losses, covering a total of ov-
er $12,000. after leaving his farm, were
business reverses which would have
discouraged most men in his circum-
stances. Not so with him. With
renewed energy and indomitable per-
severance, aided by an established
character for integrity, he surmount-
ed all dilficulties, recovered lost
ground, and is now in easy circum-
stances, enjoying a pleasant and bean
tiful home, with pleasant surround-
ings, and in the possession of aliberal
share of‘ all lifels blessings, with
social relations that few men more
fully appreciate and enjoy. With his
worthy and estimable wife, they make
their house the center of a generous
hospitality that recognizes the value
and importance of securing the
rational pleasures and enjoyments of
life within reach. If proud of any-
thing, it is of his “ practical philoso-
phy,” which is to make the best of all
the circumstances of life, belittling its
ills, and intent on appreciating and
appropriating all its blessings “ before
they take their flight.” He is not a
politician in the partisan sense, al-
though he takes a lively interest in
everything which relates to the public
welfare, and has accepted oflice only
when voluntarily offered him. or
urged upon him by his numerous
friends. He has several times been
elected Supervisor of his township,
and for twenty years has held the
responsibe oflice of County Superin-
tendent of the Poor, discharging the
duties of the position to the entire
satisfaction of all concerned.

He united with Schoolcraft Grange
in February, 1873. a few weeks after
its organization, and has since been
an active, working member. He was
present as a visiting member at the
organization of the Michigan State
Grange, April 15th, 1873, and on
account of his well-known ability

and fitness for the position, was unan-

of his neighbors, and nearly all were i

 

years of married life has proven this .
to have been a proper and fortunate 3
i system,

imously elected Secretary of the State
Grange—a position which he still
holds, having been three times re-

=elected, and by nearly a unanimous

vote. He carried into his office the
same business habits which had char-
acterized his operations as a farmer
and business man—-method, order,
promptness, and untiring
energy. His oflice is a type of neat-
ness and order, and his records do
credit to the great fraternity which
has honored him, and which he in
turn has honored by his long and
faithful labors.

VVhen the Executive Committee of
the State Grange decided to issue a
“Monthly Circular” as a medium of
communication between the State and
Subordinate Granges, its preparation
and chief management were placed
under his control, adding new and
responsible duties to his office. But
time has proved him equal to the
emergency. Under his judicious
management the little sheet soon
threw off its swaddling clothes, and
assumed a dress more fitting and
becoming. Its size has been increased
to an eight-page, five-column paper,
and is issued semi monthly by the
Michigan State Grange, as its official
organ, he having the entire editorial
management. It has a large circula-
tion, which is steadily increasing. He
is alucid writer, the articles from
his pen are numerously copied into
other journals. He rendered valuable
aid to the Executive Committee of
the State in their efforts to break up
the plaster monopoly of Michigan,
which resulted so favorably to the
Order, and to farmers generally
throughout the Northwest; and when
material aid was required to accom-
plish this enterprise, he contributed
his full share with the other members
of the Committee.

In person he is of medium height,
fine form, light complexion, well pre-
served, and every motion indicates a
man alive with nervous energy. As
you enter his office, you will find him
generally seated at his desk, with pen
in hand,writing rapidly,and‘apparently
absorbed in deep thought; but at the
sound of your footstep, he will raise
his head, and give you a quick,
searching glance from a pair of keen,
grey eyes; and when he rises from
his chair and takes you by the hand,
it is with a cordial salutation which
inspires confidence and makes you
feel perfectly at ease. He is ever
cheerful, social, and witty. And if
what an eminent divine has recently
said be true, that “he who makes
two laughs come where there was but
one before. is a greater benefactor to
his race, than he who makes two
blades of grass grow where there was
but one before,” then J. T. Cobb is
truly a benefactor.

He is emphatically a self-made
man. What he is, and what he has,
have been earned by hard work and
square dealing. He is well known and
very popular among the farmers and
Patrons of this State, and much of
the success which has attended the
work of the Patrons of Husbandry can
be attributed to his earnest and faith-

ful work.

5

§§2i:turer'5 grpartmmt.

0- L. WHITNEY. - - - MUSKEGON.

Pickiiigs by the Wuy—No. 6.

March 13th brought us to Fruitport,
en route to Spring Lake to fill an ap-
pointment there. Leaving the cars at
Fruitport, at the head of Spring Lake,
we took the little steamer upon the
lake, and although thus early in the
spring there was no ice to be seen. On
our way we saw the new iron smelting
works, just finished and running,
manufacturing six or eight carloads of
pig iron each day. It is a busy place
about the point of their works, which
are in sight of Fruitport. Reaching the
landing at the village of Spring Lake,
we went directly to the ever hospitable
home of Bro. Frank Hall, Master of
201. In the evening we had the pleas-
ureofmeeting the faithful few of this
Grange andafevv of their neighbors,
and we gave them a public lecture,
from which we hope some good will re-

sult.
HUDSONVILLE.

On the 16th of March we took an
early train from home for the eastern
part of the same County as Spring
Lake, viz., Ottawa. Reaching Grand
Rapids we made our fourth change
of cars, and were soon shaking hands
with Bro. Hudson, the worthy Master
of Hudsonville Grange, No. 112.

The evening being the the time of
regular meeting of this Grange we had
the pleasure of attending, and seeing
something of their work. In spite of
mud and darkness there was a fair at-
tendance, and among those present,
Bro. H. D. Weatherwax, the Master of
Georgetown Grange, No. 458. At. this
Grange we always have a cordial wel-
come and enjoy a good meeting of wor-
thy Patrons. The Grange was address-
ed for an hour by your humble servant,
when Bi'o. Weatherwax made some
timely remarks, edifying and instruct-
ive. A

VARIOUS.

On the 22nd the Express train of the
C. & VV. M. R. R. bore us from home to
Watervliet, where we met old friends.
We took much pleasure in visiting
the farm of Messrs Parsons & Baldwin,
where we saw some fine cattle of the
short-horn breed,and a very fine animal
among them bred by Avery & Mur-
phey of Port Huron. VVe were shown
some fine colts,progenies of the Duke of
Percheron stock. The plan of the
barns and cellar for roots, where the
above stock is kept, will pay one to
make a visit to them.

Mr. H. C. Sherwood took us home for
the niglit.where a pleasant evening can
always be had.

011 Tuesday morning we rode to Ben-

ton Harbor, with Mr. Sherwood, and
went from thence by train to Hartford,
and thence by stage and the “ Narrow
Gauge” to Paw Paw, where we found
the Master of the National Grange,
busy as usual with the multiplicity of
his duties. As once before, we run in-
toasocial at Bro. Wcodman’s house,
but we did not regret it, as it brought a
number of good Patrons to us—Worthy
Master Gould and wife, Worthy Secre-
tary Sheldon and daughter, and other
members of Paw Paw Grange, No. 10.
We were pleased to learn that No. 10,
like a great many other Granges is
“ booming.”
After good night’s rest, we were on
the 24th, ready to labor at the desk in
the morning, and in the afternoon to
go to Dowagiac upon a business visit,
and at a late hour of night to Kalama-
mazoo, to rest briefly in preparation for
the duties of the marrow, the 25th.

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY.
We went to Mendon by appointment,
and found brothers and sisters from
several adjacent Granges, but very few
from Mendon and vicinity. After con-
sultation, it was arranged tomeet again
on the following week. Bro. Chas. W.
Sheldon, of Burr Oak. took us with
him to Sturgis, where with Bro. Chas.

E. Mickley, we were advertised for the

evening. Bro. M. made a tine address
full of telling points, and we followed.
briefly. Old friends, Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas, claimed us for the night, and
hosnitably enferfertained us.

The morning ofthe 26th inst., hinted
rain, but that did not prevent us writ-
ing letters, etc., and at the appointed
time riding to Burr Oak, where we were
received by Bro. and Sister D. Heine-
baugh, and dined with them. After
dinner Bro. Mickley came, and soon a

in the largest hall in this town, ready
to hear Bro. E. C. Mickley speak,
which he did to the edification and in-
struction ofall present. We followed,
briefly, adding our mite to the good
cause.

The evening was rainy, and it was
well that no evening meeting was at-
tempted. We enjoyed a real good visit
with our worthy and always earnest
Bro. from Le-nawee, and retired at an
early hour for rest, but was as early dis-
turbed by our Bro. leaving our bed
(which he shared,) to take the early
train. Yet we were soon resigned to
the fact and asleep again, disturbed on-
ly by call to breakfast.

To-day, the 27th, is the regular meet-
ing of Burr Oak Grange, No. 303, and
in spite of the rainy morning there is
a good attendance at the Grange to take
part in conferring the third and fourth
Degrees upon a number of candidates,
partake of the feast, exchange books in
the 6%-ange library, and receive such
instruction as we had time to give. The
singing was good, and all the work
showed that this Grange had been over
the ground before. Of the hall of this
Grange we have spoken before. Of the
dinner,—a feast, they are always good.
Ofthingsin general, and Grange work
in aspecial sense, Burr Oak has much
to be proud of. Let her keep right on,
andat least once in six months have
some public lecturer come to help keep
up the interestin the Order.

At 3 o’clock we took the train to Stur-
gis, and thence to Mendon, When Bro.
Henshaw, of Parkville Grange, met us
and took us to his pleasant and sumptu-
ous hoine,where we were to meet the old
members of Parkville Grange, now for
some time dormant. The night was
dark and stormy, yet WH had a good
number out, and after a short talk re-
organized Parkville Grange, No. 22,
with thirty members, which number
will soon be increased to fifty at least.
This comesof taking the Grange out of
the little village where it had been treat-
ed with much indifference. The Master
elect is Bro. D. Henshaw, and the Sec-
retary, Bro. John Mathewson. The ease
with which this once good butlately
dormant Grange has been resuscitated
is a lesson, and an example to others to
go and do likewise We will help you,
if needed.

The labors of the day completed, we
accepted the invitation given us to go to
Bro. Langley’s and spend Sunday. For
how could we help it? “ Put yourself
inlhis place,” and anwser. You would
have gone, of course, andso did we. and
at a late hour rested from the day’s
labor.

Easter Sunday, 1880, will not soon be
forgotten, by us at least. Of course we
had eggs for breakfast. Our’s had a
potato bug on it, but want of space for-
bids further comment on the day and its
doings. In the evening we madea very
pleasant call upon Bro. and Sister An-
geniue, of No. 22, and retired torest for
the labors of the coming day. Until
dinner on Monday, the 29th, we spent
the time reading, writing, and inspected
the farm of Bro. Langley, and almost
envy him his pleasant location. Din-
ner over, Bro. and Sister Langley and
daughter, Sister Klime, took usto Men-
don, wherein the Odd Fellows hall we
heldapublic meeting, and at its close
overtwenty members gave their names
for a revival of this Grange, some years
dead; and we appointed the following
evening for such work; and to this all
assented. We then took the train to
Schoolcraft, which we reached at mid-

night.

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§mIita’ gll-apartment.

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RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR
THE HOUSEHOLD.

  

Our grandma shall stately sit,

And as it suits her, saw or knit,

Make her own bed, one for our mother,
And also one for Tom, our brother ; '
And when our aunts and cousins call,
“ Do the agreeable ” for all-

And sundry little matters tell,

In style that has no parallel.

Our father, daily at his store,

His work shall do, and when ’tis o'er,
Return—behind him casting care-
And seated in his rocking-chair,

With slippers on and lamp in hand,
Will read the news from every land,
Then quietly will take :1 book,

From which he'll sometimes slyly look,
And list to what the young folks say.
Or haply join them in their play.

.

Our mother's charge (when she’s at home)
Shall be bath. store, and dining reom;
Morning and night she'll Wash the delf,
And place it neatly on the shelf ;

To her own room she will attend,

And all the stockings she will mend;

Assist the girls on washing day,

And put the ironed clothes away ',

And have a general oversight

Of things, to see that all goes right.

Twice every week shall Edward go
Through sun and rain, through frost and
And what the market can afiord, |_snow,
Bring home to grace our festive board ;

Shall bring in coal the fire to cover,

And go to bed when that is over.

Anne the lamps shall daily fill,

And wash the tumblers, if she will;
Shall sweep her room. and make beds two,
One for herself and one for Lu’ ;

Make starch and starch the rufiles, caps,
Collars, and shirts, and other traps ;
Sweep all the entries and the stairs,
And added to these trifling cares,

Shall, as our mother sometimes goes

On little journeys-—so she does

Assume her duties, and shall try,

Ii she cannot her place supply,

Thomas shall close the house at night,
And see that all is safe and tight ;

When snow falls, paths make in the yard——
He cannot call that labor hard ;

Wait on the girls wheu'er they go

To lectures, unless other beau

Should chance his services to proifer,

And they choose to accept his offer.

Our cousin and our sister Lizzie

Shall part of every day be busy ;

Their own room keep in trim,

And keep our brother’s neat for him;

The parlors they must take in care,

And keep all things in order there ;

Must sweep, ond dust. and wash the glasses,
But leave for Anne all the brasses ;

On wash-day set the dinner table,

And help fold cloths when’er they're able ;
Should lend their aid in ironing too.

And aught else they incline to do.

And then, when they have done their share
Oi work, if they have time to spare,
Assist their cousin, A. C. T.,

'Till she’s their cousin, A. C. B.

Dear little Lu‘ shall be the runner,
Because Hatty— blessings on her-

To boarding-school has gone away,

Until bright Spring returns to stay.

Her tireless kindness won each heart,
And we were grieved with her to part;
But in this thought found ease from pain,
That our great loss was her great gain.

Sarah shall in the kitchen be,
Preparing breakfast, dinner, tea,

And keeping free from dust the closets,
Where flour, etcetsra, she deposits.

Anne shall on the table wait,

Attend the door, see to the gate,

Clean the front steps, and pavement too,
And many other things she’ll do,

That all may in such order be

As each one of us likes to see.

Thus all their duty may fulfill,

And if ’tis done with cheerful will,

A sure reward to us will come,

In finding a. most happy home.

 

ERRORS OF SOCIETY.

An Essay by Mrs. Albert Dickinson, read
before Battle Creek Grange, March
I 3, l 880.

The subject brought before you this
afternoon is not a new one. It was
so forcibly impressed upon our minds
afew days ago while visiting a friend
that we felt as if a few words, though
feebly uttered, might not come amiss.

We were conversing upon the great
responsibilities resting upon a mother
in training to lives of usefulness
and respectability the young and ten-
der plants entrusted to her care. Our
friend remarked, “She would rather
bring up half a. dozen boys than one
girl. And “Why?” we asked. “Be-
cause,” said she, “ Society looks upon

the false and erring stepsof a young

man with so much more leniency than
ofa young lady.” We will stop a mo-
ment and enquire if this is true. ‘Look
around us, compare circumstances -that
have come under our own observation,
and then ask the question, is this true ?
fiethinks we shall have to acknowl-
edggg it ia,alas,too true. Then, mothers,
‘,3 guy we tremble, and our hearts
be filled with anxiety for the future
mg of both our sons and daughters.
 pgeoepts of right, your watchful

-‘ad tender care, your anxiou solicitude

is all for naught. Your sons can forget
their manliness, they can degrade
and lower themselves virtally and mor-
ally, and what does it matter? Society
makes no difiE‘erence,society will receive
them, raise them to high positions just
as quickly, just as confidentially as
though virtue and principle wreathed
their brows. We would ask, is this
right? Ifnot, whereistheerror? Let
us examine and see of what society is
composed. Of fathers, mothers, broth-
ers and sisters. Then to our thresholds,
to our very hearth-stones has this evil
been traced. Perhaps we have not
thought of it in this light, but we will
give an example to illustrate. A short
time since we attended a literary enter-
tainment, where among those who had
assembled to hear the exercises was a
man, a fit subject for the penitentiary,
if justice were done him. When the
time came for debating the question,
judges were chosen from the audience.
He came forward, filling his part of the
program with as much dignity and
composure as if his reputation was un-
tarnished, and at its close we saw as
many shake hands with him as cordial-
ly as though he were not a criminal be-
fore the law and in the sight of God.

What an example for our boys, an
example speaking more plainly than
words, “Go thou and do likewise,” for
society will receive, will welcome you
again to our midst. But were it one of
yourdaughters who had stepped from
path of rectitude, think you she
would have received the same welcome
given him? Nay, verily proving the
assertion too true, that " Society looks
upon the erring steps of a young man
with much more leniency than upon
those of a young lady.” Fathers, you
have something to do in rectifying this
error, as the illustration will show.
Withdraw your kindly greetings, and
let your manners show that you look
upon crimes of every kind with indig-
nation and scorn. If an individual be
not worthy of a front seat or a high po-
sition,from a lack of pure principle, let
him take a back one, there is his place.
Let him be ever so well qualified, he is
all the more dangerous.

We claim that this state of society
has been brought about by the false
education of our daughters. It is only
surface education we give them, only
just enough to meet the demands of
society. The dazzling, intoxicating
show of dress, the polished affectation
of manners, is the depth to which this
education extends. They are taught
that to get a husband should be the
chief end and aim of every woman’s
ambition. Our young men know this,
and they know too that they may be
addicted to_ habits of immorality and
yet be most kindly received in society,
flattered by our young ladies, greeted
most cordially by mothers, and when
they wish to marry, enter the homes of
our most respectable families, and
make their choice of a wife from the
most estimable and amiable. No in-
quiries are made as to how and where
his leasure hours are spent, or how
much integrity of character or princi-
ple would be found Wanting if weighed
in the balance. Society receives him,
he is a good catch,a nobby fellow.
There is no need of our young men ris-
ing to a high degree of moral worth-
our young ladies do not demand it of
them.

Mothers, it devolves upon us to rem-
edy this great evil, by educating our
daughters that they are independent
beings, able to meet and cope with the
stern duties of life as well as their
brothers. A daughter should be edu-
cated to care for herself, rather than
unite herself to a man devoid of pure
principles.

If mothers would thoroughly impress
upon the minds of their daughters that
every young man must possess some
standard of moral excellence, before
they can enter their society, it would be
the means of working a more speedy
and sure reform than in any other
way. This independence of character,
this being able to care for herself, will
not be any drawback to her when she

takes upon herself the responsibity of
wife and mother. It is far better
to gain this needful knowledge
from the kindly teachings of a
mother, than to gain it by her own sad
experience in after years. While fath-
ers, husbands, brothers are agitating
questions relating to their welfare,
mothers and sisters, are we to sit with
folded hands and allow this giant spec-
ter of society to enter our homes, and
coil itself like a serpent around our lov-
ed ones, until they are nearly crushed ?
Let us rise from this surface work, and
come down to good, practical common
sense teachings; and indellibly im-
pressing upon the minds of both sons
and_ daughters from their childhood,
that the first and only thing to be hon-
ored in man or woman is uprightness
and integrity of character. Merit
should be placed before riches. A well-
stored and educated mind should be
held superior to ignorance well dressed.
Teach them that there is dignity in
labor. Plant their feet firmly upon
these principles, and they will not be
likely to depart from them.

 

Dress.

In dress, we should study utility and
beauty. It should be made to subserve
our needs and comforts, and not to
impair our usefulness and appearance.

Our dress is a type of our lives, and
if we ever expect to rise to the dignity
of true womanhood, we must throw 011'
the shackles of s1avery,_that we carry
about with us in our present mode of
dress.

Who among us do not look with pity
upon the poor worn out consumptives
that are daily falling around us, caused
by their own torturing manner of dress.
The lungs are compressed to less than
half their volume, and this, too, from
little-girlhood. The blood—vessels are
compressed, and the circulation im-
peded, till Nature, disarmed of its pow-
er to resist, yields the contest, and un-
timely death ensues.

Mothers, are we not much to blame
for this ? A fond mother was heard
to say, “I must put stays on my little
girl (7 years of age), to make her form
more beautiful,” just as though Nature
could not form our little ones beautiful
enough. '

Sisters, how long do you think our
noble brothers would carry on the
work assigned them, if they were so
dressed as to render it impossible to
get a full breath of life-giving air, and
with weights so heavy, attached to their
hips, and drawing after them, as to
render it impossible for them to walk
any distance, but be compelled to ride.
I fear they would fail very soon.

If we want better health and more
strength, it is our privilege to study up
ways to get it. There is no need of so
many invalids among women. If we
would set ourselves to_work, and im-
prove our condition, by adopting a
more sensible mode of dress, and spend
less time in studying up the last fash-
ion plate, and in making over our
dresses, so as to keep in fashion, we
would have more time for the great
work God designed us to do, in looking
after the poor, the weak, and erring
ones, all around us, and in lendinga
helping hand, or speaking a cheering
word in time of need, as we are taught
by our beloved Master to do.

If we but live properly, and make
good use of our will power, there is
no more need of our fainting at the
sight of a drop of blood, or a crushed
limb, than there is of our brothers. A
good and true women went to the hos-
pitals in the time of the civil war, and
engaged to care for the sick and wound-
ed. She was led out of the hospital
three times in a fainting condition, and
her friends said she could not bear it.
She said, “I will do it; are not our sons
brothers and husbands standing be-
tween us and the enem_v’s guns? and
cannot I bear the sight of a wound ?”
Her resolute “ I will” took her back,
and she did a great deal of worthy
work in connection with the Sanitary
Commission, until the close of the war.

She was no other than our worthy Mrs.
Mary A. Livermore. God bless her!

Another woman, a common farmer’s
wife, went to the city on business, was
left by the train, her pocket-book was
not full of greenbacks, and she walked
the eight miles that lay between the
city and her country home, and was
none the worse for it, but she had
plenty of room to breathe, and her dress
was clear of the muddy roads. In her
home and neighborhood she was the
center star, all went to her for aid and
council in the hour of trial; and in
sickness she was foremost, comforting,
caring for and doing good.

Some say it is unladylike to walk
much, it looks coarse; but I think it is
ladylike to do all the good we can.

Excuse me for taking up so much
space. AUNT MOLLIE.

Lawrence, Mich.

 

Dexter Grange Matters — Economizing
our Steps.
DEXTER GRANGE, No, 351. 1

March, 26th, 1880. I
Bro. Cobb: .

In looking over the GRANGE VISITOR
and seeing no report from the Dexter
Grange, I venture to write a few words.

We meet once in four weeks, Thurs-
day afternoon, and have a good social
time, while essays are read by the sis-
ters, and Grange business transacted
for the good of the Order.

We recently gave a large order for
goods to G. T. Hill & Co., of Detroit,
which was filled quite satisfactorily.

We have a committee appointed to
look over the farms, crops and stock,
and report at the next meeting.

Our Grange, like many others, has
gone through a sifting, and some of
our members have declined to remain
among us as Patrons,—but our remain-
ing‘members seem firm, and determin-
ed to hold the fort.

It seems to me that every Patron
who loves his liberties and his country,
should live up to the principles of the
Grange, and come forward and do his
very best to advance the farmer and
his calling.

For my part, I enjoy the Grange. To
me, it is second to no organization,
save that of the Church of Christ.

I would like to saya few words to the
sisters, and to those in particular who
never find time to_attend the Grange.
Would it not be well to economize our
steps, and save our feet from blistering
and our toes from corns ? A large part
of the weariness of housework comes
from the number of steps taken while
performing it. The going up and down
stairs, the vibration between the kitch-
en and dining room, the cellar and
other parts of the house, wears out the
strength quite as much as all other
tasks combined.

If my sister can find in her laundry
everything necessary for washing and
ironing, the work is comparatively
easy.

If she can find in her pantry every
requisite for compounding bread, pas-
try, cake, &c., and have no occasion to
run here and there to get things to-
gether and put them away again, her
task will seem light.

Likewise in the sewing-room, if she
can put her hand on everything re-
quired by the seamstress, without the
perplexity and trouble of hunting up
linings, thread, buttons, braid, &c.,
that task will be relieved of half of its
weariness.

But comparatively few houses have
been planned with reference to this
saving of steps. The majority of fam-
ilies have no special room fitted up as
a laundry or sewing-room. The wash-
ing utensils are usually kept in the cel-
lar, and must be brought to the kitchen
and carried back again. If the woman
does her own work, the sewing-ma-
chine stands near the cooking-stove, so
that she can have an oversight of the
cooking while busy at the machine.
But her material for sewing cannot all
be within reach, yet, by using her
brains as she does her feet, she may
save the latter many an unnecessary
trip. If you must go down cellar for

anything, pause a moment and see if
there is not something to be carried
down, or if there is any errand there
that may be attended to other than the
one you go on. Also, as you go up
stairs, consider how much there is to be
done that you can accomplish with once
going there,—and it is the same with
almost everything else. A great deal
can be done by planning work to make
it easy. If a woman has arranged a
program in her mind, and goes to work
systematically, she will accomplish,
with half the fatigue, what (taken at
random) might be entirely beyond heg-
strength.

Children can be trained so as to save
their mother’s steps, by setting and
clearing away the tables, and putting
their own toys and playthings in place,
and they can do very much to lighten
the toils of their mother in this man-
ner. Yours fraternally,

Mns. M. D. BRUEN.

" A Real Live Grange.”

COLOMA, Mich., March 15th, ’80.
Bro. J. T. Cobb:

Having started, I hope I shall not get
so far as to fall into that dread receptio-
al, the waste-basket,——for I want to say
that Home Grange, No. 188 has just
purchased a ball, and our name is no _
longer a shadow, but a blessed reality.
VVe are few in numbers, but strong in
Grange faith and principle. VVe are a
real live Grange, and we try to make
our Grange a “ Home ” in every sense
of the word.

We are a happy family, and every
one of us feels proud to say, “ I am a
Patron.” A

The Patrons of Michigan will never
realize what a priceless gem the VISIT-
OR is, unless we lose it, a catastrophe I
hope will never occur.

Metaphorically, I take Jane by both
her hands, and say, “ Sister, you have
lifted a weighty burden from my mind,
on the washing question, for which I
thank you. Write again.” M. A. J.,
yourisentiments are No. 1*.“ Have had ‘
-a. bit of experience of my own when
mother was gone to County Granges,
County Conventions, etc., and once
dealt, single handed, with thrashers,
when mother was gone to County

Grange. A day or two of such experi-
ence, now and then, is of more real
worth to us girls than months of labor
laid out and directed by mother, as it is
necessary to think as well as act. Let
us hear from you often.
A GRANGER GIRL.

 

Over-Worked Women.

Nothing is more reprehensible and
thoroughly wrong than the plea that
a woman fulfills her mission by doing
an amount of work that is far beyond
her strength. She does not fulfill her
duty, but she most signally fails in it,
and the failure is truly deplorable.
There can be no sadder sight than that
of a broken down over-worked woman
who is tired all her life through. If
the work of the household cannot be
accomplished without being systematic,
and with moderate work withoutthe ne-
cessity of working from morning until
night, never ending,never done.——with-
out making life 9. tread-mill of labor,
then for the sake of humanity let the

‘ work go, better live in the midst of dis-

order than to have’ order purchased at
such a price. The cost is health, hap-
piness. strength, and the sacrifice of all
that makes life enjoyable. '

The woman that spends.her life in
constant physical labor is unfitted for
the higher duties of home, she has no
time for social and intellectual im-
provement. She becomes the houshold
drudge instead of the careful, intelli-
gent advisor and educator of ‘her chil-
dren, and the tender confident and
help-mate of her husband. Now, is it
possible for a woman exhausted in
body and mind, to perform either of
these duties? N o, it is not possible, the .
constant wear is too great, nature can-
not stand the strain, and must succumb
to the burden of never ceasing work.-

Homer Grange. , ,

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Make Home Attractive.

The poet, in “auld lang syne,” has
sung, “Home, sweet home; be it ever
so humble. there is no/ place like
home.” And we have all felt in our
hearts that there is no place equal to it.

We may wander among the palaces
of the great ones of this world, and be-
hold, with a thrill of pleasure, the
noble works of art that richly decorate
its walls, and we may gaze upon the
stupendous grandeur of the sublime
works of the Almighty Hand, and feel
entranced by the view, and ready to
say, “ Here will I dwell.”

But after all, when we come in sight
of home, our pulse beats quicker and
quicker, and we feel we are entering
upon the hallowed precinct of home,
where dwell the loved ones of our
hearts. What, then, shall we do in or-
der to make our homes places of rest
and love, to the dear ones that occupy
them with us.

I think, in a general way, that we,
the wives and daughters of farmers.
are sadly remiss in striving to make our
homes attractive.

I know by experience that it is no
easy matter for the tired hands to do
much towards ornamenting home, that
every day through the week have their
allotted task to perform—-and I some-
times fear bur work is not duly appre-
ciated, and that we do notget the cred-
it we deserve. _But how can our hus-
bands and brothers comprehend the
complicated and perplexing work of a
housekeeper ; how, when we are doing
one thing, we have to watch that some
thing else does not spoil,—it is here a
little and there a little, and so on all
day and every day.

It is no wonder that we lack energy
enough, after such a hum-drum, weari-
some life, to put on a smile of compla-
cence and exert ouisclaes to enter-
tain and be attractive. L at we may do
VVe
can have our tables set neatly and in
order, our food, if it is plain, cooked
nicely, and put on the table in an at-
tractive form, we can decorate it with
fruit and flowers. It takes off a great
deal of the tired feeling to look over
our table, and see it looking nicely,
—and I have learned in my life that I
feel better through being pleasant than
to be cross, if I am tired.

We all can, if we will, be neat and
clean in our person. In this day of
cheap calico,_tliere is no excuse for be-
ing seen in a soiled dresss, and a neat
white collar; and a bright bow of rib-
bon, will greatly add to ourappearance.

Make home pleasant for the little
ones, enter into their sports, be a child
with them sometimes, it will serye as a
cord to bind them to home, and it will
take some of the foot-prints of Time
from our brow, and plant a rose in our
hearts.

I often bless God for my happy child-
hood; its loving remembrance still
clings to me ; that bright spot of my
life has been a delight to look back to.

I would say to those who have little
ones, give them a happy childhood.
make home attractive to the grown-up
sons and daughters; providethem with
books and papers and amusements to
entertain them, and the sons will soon
find home more attractive than the
street corners, and will shun the path-
ways of vice. A daughter who has
confidence in a mother’s love, and hon-
ors her, will not go astray.

Oh! my sisters, woman has a mis-
sion to perform, a noble work to do.
Not to mount the rostrum, or attend
the polls—that we may cheerfully leave
to ourhusbands. We have a nobler part
in teaching the young to rightly form
their habits,to correct their vices,to mold
the plastic mind of youth, and instill
type and honest principles, that they
may grow up to noble manhood and

ahqnid be our delight to beautify
‘ It shows a cultivated mind

TI-IE GRANGE VISITOR.

the surroundings of a farm house neat
and orderly, shaded with trees and or-
namented with flowers. A love for the
beautiful and ornamental is an innate
principle of our nature, implanted by
the, great Author of our being, left to
us to cultivate or abuse. He would not
have given us this love of the beautiful
that fills our whole beings, if we were
not to manifest it in the adornment of
our dwellings. God made all things
beautiful, even the smallest and hum-
blest flower that grows is painted with
exquisite skill. May we not, as far as
our finite power extend, do all we can
to make our lives beautiful 1‘

There is more attention paid to these
things than there used to be, and it has
a beneficial efl‘ect upon the mind, it
tones down, and refines, and brings
back, in a measure, the purity of Eden
before the’ fall.

There are many unhandsoine things
that are a necessity on a farm and around
adwelling, but they may be made to
look as well as they can, and many a
deformity may be hid, or at least the
repulsiveness be removed, by labor and
care.

In making our homes attractive. we
lay a foundation for future enjoyment,
for who can tell of the pleasure we may
receive when our busy hands are forced
to remain still. \Ve have in them
something to rest the weary eye upon,
and cheer the drooping heart—for a
“thing of beauty is ajoy forever.”

Our homes should not be merely a
place to live in, but something loftier,
a place to expand the affections of the
heart, to draw out all the noble quali-
ities of our nature, to teach us
prudence, patience and endurance.
We have calls every day to practice
these virtues, and adorn ourselves with
ameek and quiet spirit. Those little
adornments make home happy, for it
is the life of true enjoyment.

To make home attractive, requires
the active co-operation of every in-
mate. If left to one, to do the work of
all, the strain would be too great, and
there would be no good accomplished,
“‘A house divided against itself cannot
stand.” If each one did all they could
to make home attractive, our country
would soon be filled with beautiful, cul-
tured, happy and attractive homes

Mus. M. G. SPENCER.

A Question for the Query Box.

Why, when a wife works as hard as
her husband, should he hold the purse
strings, and she be a beggar forliis char-
ity?

Why is it that she must come to him
a supplicant, with a weary heart and
quivering nerves, and solicit him for a
few shillings, or dollars, to supply the
wants of the household, when it is
her’s by right, she having fairly earned
them ‘.7
Is it that she feels she is inferior to
him by nature, or rather that she dreads
a scene,—-l:1tes to hear from the lips of
the man she loves, and who has sworn
to honor and protect her, a lecture up-
on extravagance and mismanagement,
when she is conscious that she has done
her best?

Let us believe, if we can, that such
men do not realize the pain they cause,
or see the tears forced back by eyes too
proud to weep. There is nothing noble
or manly about the man that thus
forces his wife to the humiliating posi-
tion ofmendicant, and teaches her to
deceive (as she often is compelled to do)
in order to live in peace.

And yet, women are the most to
blame for this state of things, nothing
is so much in woman's way as she is
herself.

The average man believes that he is
socially authorized .to subordinate his
wife to his own desires and purposes,
and the average woman has no self-
directing, self-sustaining, qualifications
—either by inheritance or education;
so she, as a matter of cource, acquiesces
to his every wish. He knows that
everything is referred to him, and that
his decisions are final. What wonder,

‘ dhposition, when you see

less of what she does or does not ap-
prove, to the utter ignoring of her en-
joyment—or even, perhaps, her com-
fort.

“ But," says the husband, “ a woman
earns nothing; there is no money due
her 1abor——it don't amount to any-
thing.”

Is that it, pray, sirs‘? Who cooked
the meals for yourself and men, washed,
mapped, baked and churned, sewed
buttons upon your pants, and patches,
too; worked early and late, day in and
day out, and raised your babies besides,
while you were earning this money,
—and now it is yours, she has no right
to spend a dollar of it, without your
approbation.

Every wife that has common sense
knows as well as her husband what she
can afford to have, if he does his duty
and makes her conversantwith his bus-
iness. Her husband's interests are her
own—-she, therefore, will accept the
necessary limitations that belong to his
condition.

Let her refuse to be treated like a
menial, and make her demands upon
him in a firm manner, as if she meant
what she said—as if she was, as she
maybe, his equal in all things. Let
her leave ofl‘ drudging and complain-
ing, and rest when Nature requires it.
Read and improve the mind, and try
to live a higher life, always using love
and forbearance; and her husband will
respect and love her better (for we be-
lieve he does love her, if he does have
a queer way of showing it) than the
tired, fretful wife that can be moulded
to his every wish, with no thoughts
above the dead level of their bodily
Wants. AUNT HA'rTIE.

Golden Wedding.

KEELER, Mich. March 29, 1880.
Worthy Bro. Cobb.-

How many heart thrilling associa-
tions cluster around a wedding at any
time. even under the most unfavorable
circumstances. It is the cementing of the
interests of two individuals who havein
most instances known each other but a
short time, and whose plans for life
may have been very different, but now
they must be turned into the same
channel, and woe be it to the one who
finds the process irksome. Some one
has said “marriage is a heaven or a
hell, there is no middle place in it.”
VVe are inclined to think thisa mistake,
although We frequently find people who
seem to have no time for the little et
cetev-as of life: to them there is no ideal-
ity, no poetry, none of the little com-
plimentary nothings that help to keep
the fire bright on the altar of love; their
lives are filled up with labor, real ab-
sorbing labor; the wife thinks it hardly
worth while to wear her most becom-
ing gown, or to remove stains from
hands accustomed to all kinds of labor,
or to be particular about the brown
braids her lover admired so much,
since he is her husband now. And the
husband, who while only the lover
must “ shine” his boots, and brush his
hair, and must never be found visiting
his lady-love without a collar and a
cravat; how is it now? If he wears
_his collar on Sunday, the neighbors
stare But not of this kind is our
friend, J. R. Hendryx and wife, of
Hamilton Grange, No. 355, who cele-
brated their golden wedding on the
11th inst. They invited some of their
friends to assist them in the festivities
of the occation. About two hundred
responded in person, and the many re-
grets that found their way to the table
told how many would like to have
been there, but could not. To them
nothing seemed common, even work
was an inspiration.

The bride, happy as a lark, fitting
here, casting proud glances at her hus-
band, as brides will whether they are of
fifty years or one day ; and what of the
husband? Do my ears hear aright,
“ Proud of his wife as the day she won
his heart.” Can it be that in this fast,
degenerate age, two people be true to
each other for fifty years and live to-

if he goes on his dignified way regard-

gether all those years? Do not their

happy hearts proclaim the fact, and
long tried friends confirm it? Their’s
has been a happy union, for half a cen-
tury have they been growing into each
other’s ways. and joys, and sorrows
have cemented the human love. until
it is akin to that Divine love which
knows no diminution.

Many and beautiful were the presents
that earnest friends brought them, but
none so valued as the friendship which
prompted them. The presentation was
conducted by Mr. Copley, of Decatur,
He very neatly reviewed the scenes of
the early life of the Captain and his
wife. Their cup has not been all joy,
six times have they stood by an open
grave,each time holding the casket con-
taining the form of the household pet.
Of their seven children, only one is left
to comfort their old age. The orphan
and the homeless have ever found a
warm place in the heart and home of
the large hearted Captain and his noble
wife.

A poem was written for the occasion
by "our farmer poet,” Mr. Stoddard,
who being present, read it with spirit.
There were other poems, both grave
and gay.

The day was a “white day ” to all
who entered into the spirit of the oc-
casion. Our hearts will cherish the
memory of it for many a day. Such
festivals relieve the monotony of our
lives, making better men and women,
cementing the bond of brotherly love,
enlarging the sympathies for suffering
humanity, and giving us all together
more happiness than could he found in
labor alone. But all things must come
to an end, and so did that golden wed-
ding day; we took our leave amid the
good—by greetings and good Wishes of
the departing guests.

iiovcrncd by Lawyers.

The Senate of the United States con-
sists of 76 members, and of this number
59 are practicing lawyers. Of the 293
members of the House of Representa-
tives 2l9 are lawyers. The President
and Vice—President of the United States
are lawyers, and nearly all the Govern-
ment departments are headed and di-
rected by the same profession. In the
Senate, especially among the Senators
themselves, each member's ability is
gauged by his rank as a lawyer. When
the status of an incoming Senator is
under discussion the remark is very
often make: “He is a fine lawyer and
will make a good Senator.” Because
the man is a good lawyer the supposi-
tion with senators is that he must
therefore make a first-class statesman.
Why the people of the United States
give such preference to the profession
of the law in selecting their rulers rind
legislators is a question that cannot be
answered. In the Senate there is only
1 physician, and in the House there
are but 6. ‘ There are among the sena-
tors 8 bnsiness men or merchants, l
doctor, 1 editor, 2 planters, 2 farmers,
1 banker, 1 mine owner and operator,
and one ofno profession or business.

Besides the 219 lawyers in the House
there are 25 inc-rchants, 5 bankers,
3 capitalists. 2 inventors, 5 manufactur-
ers, 2 teachers, 12 farmers, (iphysicians,
1 architect and builder, 4 editors, 2 min-
isters, 1 stone cutter, 1 insurance agent,
2 millers and 3 operators of transporta-
tion lines.——E:cchange. '

It will be seen by a little figuring
that in the United States Senate 77%-
per cent. are lawyers, 2; per cent. are
farmers, 10 per cent. are merchants,
and 10 per cent. of the remainder are
quite miscellaneous. Where are the
mechanics and manufacturers who
rank next to farmers in the census ‘?

In the House 74;» per cent. are law-
yers, 4 per cent. are farmers, 8 per cent.
are merchants, and 13; per cent. of all
others.

Was this the status of affairs in the first
Congress of the United States when
it needed statesmen to manage affairs ?
The patriots of the first Congress served
this country; those who draw pay now
serve, lst, themselves, and 2nd, their
party, the machine that elected them.

News Item.

The Patrons at Orion have made
arrangements with the dealers at that
place to handle no other plaster but
the Day & Taylor. The belief is be-
coming prevelant that the Grandville
plaster is worth at least one dollar more
per ton for agricultural purposes than
any other.

 

Plaster.
OFFICE or DAY 4; TAYLOR,

J ENISONVILLE, Mich., Mar. 17th.
J. T. Cobb.-

DEAR SIR—-In looking over the Vis-
ITOR of March 15th, we find a commu-
nication from Edwin Phelps, of Pon-
tiac. in regard to our agent selling
plaster to Mr. Dewey, of Pontiac. In
reply would say that Mr. Taylor had
authority from us to sell all the plaster
he could at $150 per ton on board the
cars at Grand Rapids, and for no less
price; and that Mr. Dewey did pay us
at that rate for what plaster we shipped
him, which is precisely what we
charged Mr. Phelps. As far as any
other statements Mr. Taylor made him
we only have this to say, that he had no
authority from us to make any such
statements.

As far as drifting back into the old
channels is concerned, we have this to
say: during last season we sbipped80
tons of plaster to Pontiac; 30 tons to
Seth A. Paddock, ofcommerce; 28 tons
to G. M. Shattuck; 12 tons to Perry E.
Smith, of North Farmington; and 10
tons to Edwin Phelps.

\Ve do not know for what Grange G.

M. Shuttuck ordered his plaster, but '

allowing it to be for Pontiac Grange,
it would only make 38 tons for a town
Where we should sell at least 100 tons.
Mr. Taylor saw Mr. Paddock, and it
was his request that Mr. Dewey should
keep our plaster, as they had rather pay
him extra than to handle it himself.
As far as the Executive Committee is
concerned, they have nothing to do
with this matter. We claim a right to
sell to any person we please. All that
our contract calls for us to do, is to fill
all orders we may receive from Patrons,
at $1 50 per ton and freight from main
dc ot in Grand Rapids.

Ve would like to have you publish
the whole or any portion of this letter
you may see fit; also the enclosed let-
ters from l\Ir. Dewey, if you think best.

Yours Fraternally,
DAY & TALOR.

The‘ letters referred to from Mr.
Dewey confirm the above statement
made by Brothers Day dz Taylor in
regard to the price which he paid
them for the plaster shipped to him.
It appears that there was a misunder-
standing between Mr. Dewey and Mr.
Taylor (Day & 'l‘aylor'.=r agent), about
the price of the plaster which was
explained by Day & Taylor to the
satisfaction of Mr. Dewey, as the
following extract from his letter to
Day dz Taylor, under date of Febru-
ary 25th, will show : _

“ I enclose draft for $63.80, being
full amount of your bills. I have
thought the matter over since writing
you, and made up my mind that you
could not afford to put the plaster
over to the Rapids for the same as the
Grand Rapids folks charge; but it
does not leave me anything for my
labor after paying for unloading and
putting out. Mr. Taylor might not
have intended to carry such an im-
pression to me, but I so understood
it. If the Patrons take any amount
of me (which they have not done yet),
I may want more; as I have agreed to
furnish them, I will not go back on
my Word, if I do not make anything,
or even los_e money by it.”

The contract made with Day :5:
Taylor by the Executive Committee
of the State Grange for plaster at
$1.50 per ton, was upon the express
condition that they should have the
privilege to sell plaster to any parties
who desired to purchase,——ED.

I( tTthe. "Forum." '

Worthy Secretary .-

At a regular meeting of Woodard
Lake Grange held Thursday evening,
March 25th, the following resolution,
after some discussion, was unanimous-
ly "adopted, and the Secretary instructed
to send the same to the GRANGE Visi-
TOR for publication :

Resolved, That our next Governor
should be a farmer.

GEORGE RAY, Sec’y.
Grange No. 270.

ISARANAC, Mich., April 5, 1880.
Bro. J. T. Cobb .- .
We are moving along very pleasant-

ly_, and no element of discord appears
to mar our harmony. Have received
19 applications since December 1st, and
are about purchasing an organ for our
ball. A long-needed rain improves
the appearance of our wheat, and does
much to redeem from failure wheat
upon low, loose soils that had “heaved”
badly during the winter.
Fraternally yours,
D. C. JOHNSON, Sec’y.

 

 

  


 

 

 

 

Appointments.

The present week is being spent, as
announced, in Kent Co., at Sparta, Aus-
terlitz, Grand Rapids, Cannonsburg,
and Rockford.

On Thursday, 20th, we are to be at
Ionia ; Wednesday, 21St,Lapeer; Thurs-
day, 22d, North Branch; Friday, 23d,
Burnside,——last time in Lapeer Co.

Monday, 26th, expect to go to Gage-
town, Tuscola Co.; on the day following
to Brookfield, Huron Co.; on the 28th,
Ellington, or Caro, Tuscola Co.

Shall also arrange "for Ortonville,
Oakwood. and Dryden on this trip.

Send mail to Lapeer, Lapeer Co., un-
til 26th.

Hopesoon to arrange to go into Gra-
tiot and Isabella CountieS—— also St.
Clair and Sanilac Counties. Members
of dormant Granges should correspond
with me at once.

Arrangements are pending for a trip
through Monroe and Lenawee Counties,
also one through the Grand Traverse
district.

Notice of Meetings.

THE next quarterly meeting of Cass
County Pomona Grange. N o. 20, P. of
11., will be held at Cassopolis Wednes-
day, April 21, 1880, at 10 o’clock A. M.
All Fourth Degree members are in-
.viled to be present.

WM. E. WILLIAMS, Sec.

THE next meeting of Kent County
Grange, No.18, will be held at the hall
of Cascade Grange. No. 63, in the vil-
lage of Cascade, Wednesday, April 28,
1880. All Fourth Degree members are
invited to attend.

GEO. W. EWING, Sec.
, HOWELL, Apr. 5, 1880.
Bro. J. T. Cobb:

The next meeting of the Livingston
County Council of P. of H. will be
held at Howell Grange Hall Tuesday,
May 4, at 10 o'clock A. M. All Pa—
trons are cordially invited to attend.

Fraternally yours,
N J HOLT,

Sec. Liv. Co. COIIDCIIIOI: P. of H.

THE REAPEII. DEATH.

TELLER.—0n the 29th day of Jan., 1880,
death removed from our midst a. beloved sister
-and charter member, who was endeared to us
by her high moral and intellectual qualities
and amiable deportment ; therefore,

Resolved. By the Patrons of Bronson Grange,
No. 91, that in the~dea.th of sister VV. H. TEL-
LEE, our Order has lost an appreciated member,
an eficient helper, and a. useful citizen to the
community.

Resolved, That the members of this Grange
ofier their hearftelt sympathies to the bereaved
brother and family, in this their sad bereave-
ment.

Resolved, That these resolutions be spread
upon the records of this Grange, a copy pre-
sented to the family of the deceased, and also
published in the GRANGE VIsIToE.

Resolved, That our charter be draped in
mourning for sixty days.

BRO. S. REID,
SISTER N. E. REID,
SISTER M. MONROE,
Committee.
Bronson, April 7th, 1880.

'I.‘ANNER.—During the past week, death has
visited us, and Ellena. Grange, No. 350, mourns
the loss of one of its oldest and best members,
Bro. W. D. TANNEE passed away Wednesday
forenoon, March 31st. and was buried April 1st,
under the auspices of the Grange and the U. S.
of I., being a member of both. He was an old
resident of this place. loved and respected by
all who knew him. In his death. both Orders
have lost a loved and worthy brother, and the
family a kind husband and father. In behalf
of Ellena Grange. I extend to them our I.]9fll'I.'r
felt sympathy, in this. their afiliction.

FANNIE M. ABEL, Pomona.

 

The H. L. C. Leather Dressing.
MIDDLEBUSH, N. J ., May 23d, ’79.

The can of L.’ D. came safely to hand.
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I remain, yours fraternally,
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PLAINVIEW, Wabash Co., Minn.,
July’l6t.h, 1879.
A. D. STRONG. ESq.:

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Yours truly,

. V . T. A. THOMPSON.

Write to G. W. Hill & Co., or any

r Grange Agent for general Cir-
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TI-IE GRANGE VISITOR.

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Muskegon, Mich.

Illa:-ch 15, 1880.

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A. VAN DENBERG,

' MANUFACTURER,

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN

Harness, Whips, Blankets, Trunks, &c.,

92 Monroe Street.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICK.

I take. pleasure in presenting to your favor-
able consideration my CASH Price List of
Harness Work—HAND MADE. ALL of my
own manufacture—e.nd also to return thanks
for the liberal patronage I have received from
the different Granges throughout Michigan. I
shall do in the future as in the past, furnish the
best goods for the least money.

Farm Harness. White Trimmed, Breech-
ing; Round Lines. Snaps, Rum Straps,

 

and spread rings, complete, . . . . . . . . . . .829 00
The same without breeching,.. . . . . . . . 26 00
“ “ with Flat Lines, . . . . . . . . . . . .. 28 00

“ “ “ “ “ without bre’ch-
$25 00

mg, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Double light Buggy Harness, white trim-

med, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..from $25 to 30
The same Nickel Trimmed, from $35 to 50
Single Buggy Harness. with Round lines,

 
    
  
  

white trimmed, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 13 00
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Nlckel Trimmed.. .3315, $16, $18, $20 and 25 00
Flat Lines, with Snaps, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2 50
Round Lines, with Snaps... . . 4 O0
Hame Straps, per doz., . . . . . . .. . 1 20
Headstalls, Blinds, Road Checks, . 4 25
Collars, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 25
Five-Ring Halters, . . . . . . . . l 15
Breast Straps, with snap, . .. 1 00
Martingale, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 00

ALL ORDERS RECEIVED UNDER SEAL

OF THE GRANGE

Will be shipped at once, and may be returned
at my expense if not entirely satisfactory.

GILEAD, Mich., Sept. 2d, 1878.

I have ordered several setts of Harness of A.
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years, and have recently seen nearly all of the
purchasers, and find that the work has given
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(Signsd,) C. G. LUCE.

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92 MONROE ST., GRAND RAPIDS.
86-97

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Applications for Membership, par l00,.... 50
Membership Cards, per l00,.. 50
Withdrawal Cards, per doz.,. .. 25
Dimits, in envelopes, per cloz., ......... .. 25
By-Laws of the State Grange, sing!

copies 6c, per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 60
New kind of Singing Books, with music,

Single cop 15 cts. per don, ..... ....... l 80
Rituals, sing e copy, . . . . . .. . . 15

“ er doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. I 60
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Inca ration of Subordinate Grangss

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