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VISITOR

BY ORDER OF THE

MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE.

[Kalamazoo Publishing Oo.'s Print]

Von. 6,—No. 22. 3,
WHOLE No. 102

SCHOOLCRAFT, NOVEMBER 15th, I880.

Entered at the Post Oflice at School-
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INDEX TO nus NUMBER.

Noveniber—Sugar Making—-Instructions ——No
. Farmer Governor——There was a Sound of
Revelry, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Master J. J. Woodman‘s Address to the Nation-
al Grange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2
What Has the Grange Done for Me——Fattening
Fowls—-“ Brighting all it Can." . . . . . .. .. . . 3

The Visitor—Delegates to the State Grange-—
The Railroad Commissioners’ Annual Report
—Bi'other Secretaries——Ma.sters’ Department
-Notice of Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4

Pickings by the Way—_When to beg“-} a Hall-
On the Wing—Michigan Patrons Aid Society.
Would it be for the Good or the Order to
Make the Vrsrron a Weekly Paper ?—An In-
qui-ry—Some Past Delusions and Present

‘ Conclusions-—Mattere for the Consideration
of Voters..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. 5

Pickings by the Way, No. 18 ............. .. 6

Pomona Granges-—The Campaign-To Increase
an Interest -— What Have You to Sell I’-
“ Where is Thy Brother F-Help Thy Neigh-
bor——Try for One-A Satisfactory Candidate
for Life I.nsurance—— Papa’s Letter-Important
Resolutions-The Reaper Death . . . . . . . . .. 7
Do We Eat Too Much ?—Farmers and Politics
—Advert-isements,      8

 

Officers M|chlg_a_n state Grange.

ir.—J. J. WOODMAN, — . Paw Paw.
O.—’1'HOS.F. MOORE, - - - Adrian.
L.—C. L. WHITNEY, — - Muskegon.
s.—s. A. TOOKER, - - - Leasing-
A. S.—A. E. GREEN, ' F”'““1ston.

C.—SALMON STEEL, Manton, Wexford Co.
‘l‘.—S. F. BROWN, - - Schoolcraft.
Sno.—J. T. COBB, - - - “
G. K.—A. N. WOODRUFF, - Watervliet.
Cnnns.—M.ii.s. C. L. WHITNEY. Muskegon.
PoKo2u.—Mns. G. W. EWING, Ross, Kent Co.
FLORA-—M.BB. J. J. WOODMAN, Paw Paw.
L. A. S.—Mns. A. E. GREEN, Fanning-ton.

Executive committee.

J. WEBSTER CHILDS, Chairman, Ypsilanti.
F. M. HOLLOWAY, - - Hillsdale.
C. G. LUCE, - - Gilead, Branch Co.
WESTBROOK DIVINE,
THOMAS MARS. Berrien Center, Berrien C0.
Wilt. SATTEBLEE, Birmingham, Oakland 00.

J’, 0. A. BURRINGTON. Tuscola, Tuscola Co.

J. J. WOODMAN, J. T. COBB. - Ex. Oflicio.

General Deputy.
C. L. WHITNEY,

' state Business Agents,

GEO. W. HILL & 00., - -
THOMAS MASON. - - - p

Speelal Lecturers.

Muskegon .

Chicago.

Thps. F. Moore, . . . . . .Adria.n,. .. . .Lenawee Co
Geo. W, Woodward. .Shelby, ..... . .Ocea.na Co
E. C. Herrington,. . .Four Towns, . .Oakland Co
M. L. Stevens, ...... . .Pe ,... .Shiawassee Co

L. B. Brown,.. ..Bawson ‘ le,. .Waslitenaw Co
Andrew Canipbell,. .Ypsilanti,. . “ “
Mrs. 8. Steele, .... . .Manton,. . . . .Wexford Co.
Chas. E. Mickley. ...Adrian.. . .Lenawee “

THREE pens, three hogs, each nearly
full grown, and about equal in weight
and thriftiness, were fed four months
as follows: One pen, soaked corn ; one
pen, cooked corn meal: one pen, dry
corn. At the close of the experiment,
those fed on dry corn had made the
most weight.— The Producer.

How To TREAT A FRIGHTENED
HOBSE.——A man who has had much
ex rience in managing horses, says:
Whfanever sensible horsemen notice
their horse directing his ear to any point
whatever or indicating the slightest
disposition to become afraid, let them,
instead of pulling the rein to bring the
horse towards the object causing its
nervousness, pull it on the other side.
This will instantly divert the attention
of the horse, and in iiinety-nine cases
out of a hundred, the horse will pa no
more attention to the obiect, from w ich
he will ‘fly away if forcibly driven to it
by pulling on the wrong rein. The
practice ‘most persons have of forcing-a
houeup to the object frightening it, is
dufigerousand use ess. I

 

Belding, Ionia Co.

Detroit. -

NOVEMBER.

ORIGINAL.

The leaves have drooped and withered,
The trees are brown and bare,

The wood looks cold and lonely,
That once looked warm and fair.

October's brilliant splendors
Have faded from our sight ;

Gone is September's sunshine,
The field with frost is white.

November's breath of winter
Sweeps the beautiful away,
Prepares the earth for slumber,
Lengthens night and shortens day.

Yet we welcome the cheerless comer
That brings the bitter after-sweet,
For her duty unaccomplished,

Nature’s work is not complete. A‘ L

Giummggimtiuma.

Sugar Making.

BY WM. HULL.

About 23 years ago no one but politi-
cians received the reports or seeds from
the Agricultural Department. Dr.
Richardson, of Centreville, received a
few seeds of sorghum, and as he was
visiting my house,professionally, at the
time that he was extracting the juice
and experimenting with it, he called
my attention to it, and the next spring
I procured a pound of seed of the Chi-
nese variety, and planted an acre with
it, _a.h‘d it was the best acre of sugar cane
I ever raised. I had made an estimate
of what it would yield by what Dr.
Richardson had said one stalk would
yield of juice, and multiplied that by
ten, the number of stalks on a hill, and
that by the number of hills in an acre.
Before starting to make it up I sent
my hired man to Three Rivers for a
load of barrels to hold the molasses,
with orders to get not less than ten, but
he could not get more than four. How-
ever I thought best to commence opera-
tions and fill them before procuring
more. Well, I did not send for the
rest,but I did fill the four notwithstand-
ing the imperfect machinery we used.
I boiled the juice in a kettle, and one
evening I put into a two-quart
basin some of the molasses I
had boiled that day and put it upon the
stove to boil down to sugar, expecting
to see it granulate as soon as cool,
as we were in the habit of seeing maple
syrup do ; but I was disappointed, and
giving up all hopes of making sugar, I
set it away and went to bed. In the
morning it was a solid mass of sugar,
thus demonstrating at that early day
that there was grainable sugar in large
quantities in sorghum, but I have nev-
er been able to produce the same results
since, until I commenced work after
Professor Stuart’s plan.

About three years ago, in reading a
report of the Agricultural Department,
my attention was called to a process
that F. L. Stewart had {discovered by
which he could make sugar from sorg-
hum and corn stalks. I immediately
opened a correspondence with him; and
being satisfied that it was a fully de-
monstrated fact that there were large
quantities of grainable sugar in sorg-
hum,thereupon the next springI plant-
ed 14 acres and made preparations for
making it up, and what more might be
brought to me.

On the first of August I made an or-
der upon Prof. Stewart for chemicals,
which he senttothe factory to be filled;
but owing to the large number of orders

in ahead of methey were unable to fill it

untiljafter a heavy frost came and ruin-
ed it for making sugar. But in the
meantime I had procured a small quan-
tity from another source so that I could
fairly test it before the frost came. I
lost fouror five hundred dollars by not
getting the chemicals in season to make
up the crop into sugar, and thus having
to make it into a poor article of molas-
ses.

With these results before me. and not
believing that it was not my duty to
develop this industry for the benefit of
the Nation therefore I concluded to go
slow and depend upon making for oth-
ers this year. But it has come in most-
ly in small lots and they preferred to
have it made into molasses, so the su-
gar-making has been limited, but I
have made several lots and have not
failed in a single instance where I have
attempted to make sugar, and I believe
it can be made at the rate of six or
eight, and perhaps ten pounds per gal-
of dense syrup. I shall soon drain my
mush sugar, when I can give the exact
figures. I intend to plant several
acres next year, but I find that to make
it successfully will requre a considera-
ble outlay. A granulating house where
an even temperature of 90° to 100°
can be maintained, besides all the
appliances for draining the sugar. It
is not yet known what the best means
are for this process. At my age I do
not feel like going to a great expense to
develop an industry solely for the bene-
fit of others. But I hope the Grange
will agitate the question and get our
Legislature to appropriate money to
our Agricultural College, and let them
fully develop this interest. We need
not look to Congress for any assistance,
for they refused even the introduction
of an amendment to a bill.asking for
$50,000, (a sum that our State might
well afford to give), that the Agricultur-
al Department might bring it before
the people, and had they given the en-
couragement, which its importance de-
mands, it would now have been a well
established industry all over the coun-
try, whereas, now, I am the only one
in Michigan who has verified it, and
only a few others throughout the
United States.

To show the state of feeling that ex-
ists in Congress I will give a short ex-
tract of a speech made by Mr. Gillett,
of Iowa:

“ I say this commltiee does not rep-
resent the agricultural interests of the
people of the country, and has no con—_
ception of thelr needs, as is proved by
this bill. I was educated upon a farm
and went through a course of study in
the State Agricultural College of New
York, and am afarmer. I do not say
that I ought to be on this committee.
But I do claim that when I do get up
here, representing the farmers of Iowa,
a State capable of feeding the whole
country, and ask to put upon this bill
a little amendment in their interest, I
should not be crowded out by the objec-
tion of a lawyer from New York, who
has no practical interest In agriculture
in this country.

I went to that gentleman, the chair-
man, and begged him to allow me ‘_to
present my amendment, and let it come
to a vote. I went to another member
of the committee and begged him to
urge the chairman to let the amend-
ment come before the House. And four
different times Iarose on this floor to
urge that gentleman to Withdraw his
objection, that the House might vote
upon my amendment, which, I believe
is as important as all the rest of the bill
put together. Yet four difl‘erent times
he put his veto upon me and sat down
upon me, and got the chair to rule that
my amendment should not be enter-
tained, and that I should not be allowed
to say a word upon it.

Mr. Chairman, I want the farmers of
Iowa and of the whole country to un-
derstand the black imfamy ofthese rules

‘g YOUR SUBSCRIPTION
will Expire with No.

under which this House is controlled
by 1\ew York lawyers and capitalists,
men \vho take $100,000,000 a year out of
our treasury to pay as usury to the rich,
who recently appropriated over $8,000,-
000 for what is called the river and har-
bor_steal, and to-day, refuse to the great
agricultural interest even a quarter of a
million. I want the farmers of this
great Nation to rise up like men and
swear by the Great Eternal that the
despotism of this House shall be over-
thrown, and every member they send
here shall have as much to say about
this Government as if he came from
New York or Philadelphia. There was
never a code devised better calculated
to overthrow free government than the
rules of this House, which convert it
into apolitical bastile for those Repre-
sentatives who come in the interest of
the farmers and producers and to crush
out monopolies and all forms of abuse
and injustice.” ,

Let us for a moment look at the im-
portance of this subject that they refus-
ed the small pittance of $50,000 to pro-
mote. During the year 1879 we im-
P0Tt€d $79,000,000 worth of sugar and
molasses, and during the last ten years,
$820,000,000 worth, and the Michigan
proportion would not be less than
$3,000,000 annually, giving employ-
ment to thousands of our people, and
adding so much wealth toour State, in-
stead of sending it away to foreign
nations to be returned again by eastern
capitalists to draw interest from our
people, yet pay no taxes, thus robbing
our citizens. But let us look to our
own State for aid, for here we have a
right, as we pay most of the taxes.
If anyone doubt it, let him look at the
table of taxes as equalized.

The following are the taxes to be
raised in this County, in addition to
the township taxes, and the purposes
for which they are to be used :

    
  
 
 

University aid, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1,838 26

Normal School, . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 509 29

State Orphan School, . . . . . . .. 1,275 46

Reform School, . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,015 65

Deaf and Dumb, . . . . . . . . . .. 1,146 70

Agricultural College, . . . . .. 344 48

School for Blind, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286 11

Girls’ Reform School, . . . . . . . . . 186 ll

Military Purposes, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.335 88

New Capitol, . . . . . . . 42 29
Fish Commission... 143 06

General Purposes, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 14,820 56
County Indebtedness to State, . . . . .. 3,762 62
Total,.......................326,599 74

It will_be seen by the above that the
Agricultural College only gets a very
small slice, and yetit is doing as impor-
tant a work for the tillers of the
soil as any for which the State has pro-
vided for in other branches.

It makes our cheeks blush with
shame, and our blood tingle with in-
dignation at such gross injustice.
To multiply professional men upon us
to sap away our earnings, $18,000, and
only $344.48, for the {great agriculturist
class of Michigan.

And now I look to the Grange to
right these wrongs. They have been
instrumental in righting many wrongs,
and have done many things to be proud
of. No combination of causes has ever
done so much to elevate the farmers,
and teach them their true position in

society. And now let us persevere,
always holding to the good old Jack-
sonian principles. “Ask for nothing
but what is right, and submit to noth-

ing that is wrong.” WM. HULL.
Centerville, Mich.
Instructions.

At a meeting of Hillsdale Pomona
Grange No. 10, the following resolution
passed unanimously :

Resolved, That as the sense of this
Grange, we instruct our delegates to the
State Grange to use their influence and
votes to have the laws of the Grange so
amended as to make all 4th degree
members eligible to be representatives
in all legislative bodies of the Order of
P. of H., and that a copy of this reso-
lution be sent to the VISITOR for obli-
cation. G. M. GARDNER, ec.

No Farmer Governor.

Mr. HOPE GRANGE. No. 87,
November 13, 1880. i

Bro. Cobb .-

I am somewhat disappointed that
the election returns did not give us a
a farmer for Governor, or representa-
tive in this district, who were tillers of
the soil. I had made up my mind that
the majority of the Republican farmers,
especially brother Patrons of this State
would go to the polls, as I did, and
vote for Holloway or Woodman, as
they might choose, and ul'ge others to
do likewise. But I see I am fooled.
They nearly all voted straight Repub-
lican, trusting their business into the
hands of bankers and lawyers as before,
and as it were, crushing the very hope
of the fraternity, from whom, it seems,
we expected too much. I ask how
long will you do so ‘.7 Will this be the
last time ? Or, so long as you remain
a voter, will you vote in favor of party
regardless of your own interest, and
the, interest of your brothers and
neighbors? No, pray don’t, but stop
and consider the effect it will have on
the farmers of the State, and at the
next election vote independent of
political management, straight or
scratched. Just think, with 20,000
Patrons in the State, and two farmer
candidates in the field, and a banker
for Governor. But what hurts me
worst is, that this district sends a little
kid-gloved lawyer for representativeto
the State Legislature. G. K.

‘-”l‘liere Was a Sound of Revelry.”

 

Over one hundred of the friends
and neighbors of Brother Charles
Ingalls and wife of Lyndon,Vt., met at
their residence, Oct. 15, to celebrate
the 25th anniversary of their wedded
life. Members of the County Grange
were present from eight towns. The
visit was a surprise. The good
friends that gathered together to make
the occasion eventful were called to
order by Bro. Bradley Ingalls, Master
of the Pomona Grange of Caledonia
County, in a few appropriate remarks.
A song from the Grange choir, follow-
ed by prayer by Rev. Bro. Osgood,
and a highly interesting and appro-
priate poem by Sister Oscar Brown
(the Grange poet of Caledonia Co.)
were interesting features of the occa-
sion.

Bro. Osgood, in behalf of the friends
presented, in a few well chosen re-
marks, a nice reclining chair, and
other valuable presents. Bro. Ingalls
was unable to express his feelings,
called upon Bro. W. P. Bowman, who
expressed the thanks of the recipient
for the presents and the many tokens
of respect and esteem that had been
tendered him now and in times
past. The Worthy Master announced
that a dinner, which had been pre-
pared by the visitors, was waiting.

This silver wedding and Grange
dinner, for variety and abundance
has never been excelled in this com-
munity, and the gathering was pro-
nounced by all present as the most

interesting and pleasant ever held in
Caledonia County.

FIVE courses of brick will lay one
foot in height on a chimney‘, nine
bricks in a course will makeaflue eight
inches wide and twenty inches long,
and eight bricks in a course will make
a flue eight inches wide and sixteen
inches long.

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TI-IE GRANGE VISITOR.

luster J. J. Woodinan’s Address to the
National Grange.

Worthy Patrons and Members of the
National Grange.-

In obedience to the constitution of
our Order, and the action of the last
National Grange, we have met to-day
in this beautiful city, the capital of our
Nation, and birth-place of our Order;
and organized for the transaction of
such business relating to the inter-
ests of our organization and the wel-
fare of its member as is required
of the National Grange; and to con-
sider and act upon such questions re-
lating to the great interests of agricul-
ture, and the relation which agriculture
bears to the general prosperity, as the
exigencies of the times seem to de-
mand.

The present year has been one of
unusua prosperity to our country. The
earth has yielded a bountiful harvest.
No scourge has been visited upon our
people, and the husbandman rejoices in
well-filled granaries, and increasing
prosperity.

As good Patrons, placing faith in
God, let us seek his aid and guidance
in the discharge of the duties before us,
and render thanks and praise to Him
for His blessings bestowed.

On the 4th of December, 1867, the
National Grange was organized in this
city by the founders of the Order, with
Worthy Brother William Saunders as
Master. At that time there was not
a Subordinate Grange in all the land,
and the oflicers of the National organ-
ization were without a constituency,
and constituted all there was of the
Order.

The first Subordinate Grange was
organized here by the founders of the
Order as a school of instruction, and to
test the efficiency of the manual. In
January following a circular was is-
sued to the farmers of the country,
stating briefly the primary objects of
the Order, and the necessities for such
an organization among those who till
the soil and produce the wealth of the
world. The following from the cir-
cular will indicate its character:

“ It is evident to all intelligent minds
that the time has come when those
engaged in rural pursuits should have
an organization devoted entirely to
their interests.

Surh it is intended to make the Order
of Patrons. It was instituted in their
interest, and is destined to be one of
the most powerful organizations in the
United States. Its grand objects are
not only the general improvement in
husbandry, but to increase the general
happiness, wealth and prosperity of the
country. It is founded on the axioms
that the products of the soil are the
basis of all wealth, that individual
happiness depends on general prosper-
ity, and that the wealth of acountry
depends upon the general intelligence
and mental culture of the producing
classes.”

“ Women are admitted to full mem-
bership, and we solicit the co-operation
of women because of a conviction that
without their aid, success will be less
certain and decided.” .

“The Order of the Patrons of Husban-
dry will accomplish a thorough and
systematic organization among farmers
and horticulturists throughout the
United States, and will secure among
them intimate social relations and
acquaintance with each other ,for the
advancement and elevation of their
pursuits, with an appreciation and
protection of their true interests.”

“By such means may be accom-
plished that which exists throughout
the country in all other avocations, and
among all other classes, "combined
00 operative associations for individual
improvement and common benefit.”

Upon this brief but comprehensive
platform of principles was our Order
founded; and whatever of good it has
accomplished, must be largely attrib-
uted to the wisdom and integrity of its
founders. in understanding the condi-
tion and wants of agriculture, and
faithfully providing for its necessities.

The first dispensation to a Subordi-
nate Grange was issued some three
months after the organization of the
National Grange ; and the whole num-
ber organized during the _first three

cars, or up to January lst,1871, was
but 88. From that time the work of
organization seemed to take new life,
and during that year 105 dispensations
were issued, and in 1872, 1,185, making
atotal of 1,378 in January, 1873, when
the first annual meeting of the Nation-
al Grange, composed of Masters of
State Granges. convened in this city.

Up to that time the founders of the
Order had made and executed the laws,
but now their long cherished hopes
were about to be realized,and the Order
become a reality. Eleven State Granges
were represented—by intelligent repre-
sentative farmers, who had tested the
practicability of organizing the cultiva-
tors of the soil into a. brotherhood,‘ and
the adaptability of the Order for accom-
joilishing that end. The founders ofthe

rder were in full possession of all rec-
ords and authority up to that time. all
of which they generously turned over
to the representatives of the State
Granges, with the _following request:
" Make such a constitution and by-la'ws
as, in your judgments, the good of the
Order requires, and we will endorse it.
We have worked to build up an institu-
tion which, in our judgment, was ab-
solutely needed, and now all we ask is
that you shall legislate for its future

good

Their flve years experience in per-
fecting and systematizing the work, to-
gether with that of the Masters of the
State Granges, fresh from their fields of
labor in organizing and instructing
Subordinate Granges, proved to be of
great value in framing a constitution
adapted to the wants of the Order.

By the new constitution, the voting
members were confined to the represen-
tatives of the State Granges, and this
received the cordial support of all the
founders, and thus deprived them-
selves of even a vote in the organ-
ization which they had labored so long
and under so many discouragements to
bring into existence; and volunta-
rily took the position of honorary mem-
bers of the National Grange. Such
instances of unselfish devotion to a
noble cause are rare, and did great
credit to those who gave us this Order.

Up to this time, the progress of the
work of organization had been attend-
ed with but very little excitement, and
farmers aifiliated with it only after a
careful investigation of its principles
and purposes. The war had stimulated
wild speculation in all business circles,
and corporations were formed for al-
most every conceivable purpose. with
special privileges denied to individual
enterprise. Combinations were formed
among dealers, shippers, and transpor-
tation companies, for the purpose of
controlling prices and increasing profits
without regard to the ruin they were
bringing upon the wealth-producing
classes. The exorbitant prices which
farmers were compelled to pay for al
most every article or implement used
or consumed upon the farms or in the
household, and the low price of farm
produce, caused by excessive transpor-
tation rates, and high commissions,
combined to absorb the profits of the
farms. and consequently farmin g ceased
to be remunerative. Debts were con-
tracted and mortgages given bearing
high rates of interest: so that when the
financial crisis of 1873 burst upon the
country, carrying ruin to almost every
department of business, it fell most
heavily upon the agricultural classes,
causing a sudden shrinkage of the value
of farms and farm products unprece-
dented in the history of the country.
The absence of any real co—operation
among farmers for the mutual protec-
tion of their interests, made them an
easy prey to the organized and incoi po-
rated combinations, operating and con-
trolling other interests. Realizing their
situatinsi, and the necessity for organ-
ized effort to protect their rights and
redress their wrongs, farmers sought
the Grange as the best mode of organi-
zation ever presented to them, and dep-
uties went forth to organize them
wherever a sufficient number could be
got together to fill the oflices of a
Grange.

The movement which at first seemed
but a ground-swell, now became a tidal
wave, and during the month of Decem-
ber,l873, and the five following months,
more than ten thousand Granges were
organized. To organize and properly
instruct so many in so short atime was
impossible. Many of the Granges were
hurriedly organized, and left, never to
be visited by the Organizing Deputy
again. Thousands joined the Order
without acorrect knowiedge of its real
purposes, vainly believing that in doing
so they would be able to correct all the
evils, and redress all the wrongs, they
had suffered, or which had interrupt-
ed their business prosperity; and Wllh
little or no effort upon their own part,
further than joining the Grange. This
movement attracted the attention of the
whole country, and the combined and
incorporated capitalists became appre-
hensive that the farmers were organiz-
ing not only to correct existing griev-
ances, but to retaliate for past wrongs,
and would soon be able to assume con-
trol, and carry out their purposes. Am-
bitious men worked their way into the
Order, and in their efforts to become
leaders, sought to influence the minds
of members with the hallucination of
a farmers’ party that would be able to
crush out all others and build up an
agricultural aristocracy.

Our Declaration of Purposes, adopted
by the National Grange, they treated
as a compilation of “ glittering general-
ities,” and intimated that the real aims
of the organization were hidden in its
secret mysteries. While these influ-
ences had the effect to increase the
membership, yet they deepened the
suspicions, and aroused the opposition
of those engaged in other pursuits.
The membership doubled in 1874, and
when the National Grange convened in
Louisville, in November, 1875, the
Secretary reported 24.290 Granges, with
a membership of 762,263, a growth un-
precedented in the history of similar
organizations, and too rapid and crude
to be healthy and permanent. A re-
action was inevitable. A great brother-
hood, organized .for the education and
elevation of a class, could not live and
accomplish its mission without system,
discipline, and united action. The
Order must pass through an ordeal, in
reorganizing and consolidatingGranges,
enforcing discipline, and systematizing
its work, that would reveal its weak-
ness and inefficiency or demonstrate
the correctness of its principles, and
establish its strength and perpetuity.
Through that crisis we have passed.
Though somewhat depleted in numbers,
yet better organized, better disciplined,
and better prepared to make the prin-
ciples of our Order understood and ap-
preciated. There can be no better evi-
dence of the vitality of our organization

and the value of its principles, than is

to be found in the fact that under such
circumstances so many Granges have
lived and prospered. and that so many
intelligent high-minded men and
women all over our land are still labor-
ing in its ranks, and advocating its
principles.

All there _is of our organization is in
the Subordinate Granges, and with
them all authority is vested. The Na-
tional and State Granges are but repre-
sentative bodies created by them, to
legislate for their good, and make such
recommendations for their united
action as the welfare of the Order, and
the great interests of agriculture seem
to require. Representing the Subordi-
nate Granges, and all the diversified
interests of agriculture of our common
country, we come from the north, the
south, the east, and the west, to look
over the situation, counsel together,
and take such action as, in our judg-
ment, is necessary to foster and protect
the interests we represent. In yonder
spacious hall, beneath the dome of our
Nation’s capitol, the representatives of
the people annually assemble to legis-
late for the common welfare. In the
past, but few representatives ofour class
have been found there, and in the leg-
islalion of the country, the greatest
interest, agriculture. has been almost
entirely neglected or ignored, while
other interests which are managed by
corporations created by legislation,
have been the recipients of legislative
favors to such an extent as to enable
them. not only to fix the price of every
farm in the land, but in the language
of the New York Board of Trade and
Transportation, “to control absolutely
the indu.s-trial and commercial interests
of our country, and the value of its

products."

Corporations are necessary and bene-
ficial, just so far as they return to the
people benefits equivalent to the fran-
chises granted to them; and capital
invested in such corporations should be
equally protected with that employed
in other legitimate business.

Congress is clothed with power to be
exercised only for the common benefit,
and every favor granted to a particular
class, or franchise given to a railroad
or other corporation, which does not
return to the community, or people at
large, some real benefits commensurate
with the privileges granted, is an act of
injustice to the people; and members
lending their influence or votes to per-
petuate the wrong, violate not only
their most sacred obligations of office,
but the trust confided in them by their
constituents.

In a constitutional government like
ours, founded upon the principle of
political equality, and the general con-
sent of the governed, legislators, if true
to their trusts, are anxious to solegislate
as to meet public favor, and satisfy the
popular will, as indicated by memori-
als, letters and petitions from the peo-
ple, or those authorized to speak for
them: and when legislation is sought
to fostera particular interest, with little
or no opposition from other interests
affected by it, and no remonstrances
from the people, it is generally taken
asthe consent of the popular will, and
the favor granted. .

The indifference of those engaged in
agriculture. and the other industrial
pursuits, to matters of legislation and
public affairs, has in other times and in
other countries, been the primary course
of class legislation, which has degraded
labor and robbed it of itsjust rewards,
built up a moneyed aristocracy and mo-
nopolies, which owii and control not
only the wealth of the country, but the
government itself. Such a condition
of affairs can only be averted in this
country by educating the wealth pro-
ducing classes to understand their priv-
ileges, and in the full exercise of their
political rights, demand a fairer repre-
sentation in the legislative departments
of the government, and equal protec-
tion to their interests.

For this great work of educating and
elevating the agricultural classes of
this country, and to save them from the
impending fate that has bl-fallen the
agriculturists of the Old VVorld, was
our Order created; and its future pros-
perity will depend largely upon the
legislation of this body, in connection
with that of the several State Granges.
That the Subordinate Granges, as a
whole, are better organized and disci-
plined, better united, and have a more
thorough knowledge of the work and
the real purposes we aim to accomplish
than ever before, cannot be doubted ;
and consequently are prepared to take
an advanced step, and place the Order
upon a higher plane. To do this effect-
ually, there must be a well matured
system for uniform and practical work
for Subordinate Granges, whereby the
meetings may be made more interesting
and beneficial to the members, and at
the same time aim directly to re-
move the obstacles in the way of an
intelligent, elevated, honored and pros-
perous agriculture.

SUBORDINATE GRANGES.

The aim of ourlegislation and recom-
mendations should be to encourage and
strengthen the Subordinate Granges.
Let this object be kept constantly in
view, for upon their prosperity depends
the very existence of our Order, and
the principal hope for an independent
and untrammeled agriculture in this
country. Every available means for
disseminating information among the
members should be employed. The
press is the cheapest and most efi'ective
educator of the masses; and it is grat-
ifyin to know that we have agricul-
tural J0l]l'IJ8lB devoted especially to our

cause, ably edited and true to every

rinciple. Put these in the hands of
at ons and farmers generally, with a
well arranged program for discus-
sions, literary exercises and social cul-
ture in the Granges, whereby the
knowledge acquired by reading may be
familiarized, preserved, and put to
practical use; and add to these the in-
spiring work of competent Lecturers,
who should be constantly in the field ;
and the questions will no longer be
asked, “How can we fill the vacant
chairs in the Grange halls, revive dor-
mant Granges, and stimulate farmers
to co-operate for their mutual inter-
est?”

Useful reading stores the mind with
knowledge and will make wise men,
discussions and the practical use of
knowledge will make strong men,
but the stirring eloquence of the living
orator, “ speaking from the tongue,
beaming from -the eye, inspiring every
feature, and urging men onward, right
to their object," is sometimes necessary
to make active, earnest workers, even
in a good cause.

Measures should be inaugurated to
put a good Grange paper into every
family connected with the Order.
Where members are not able to sub-
scribe, appropriations to meet the ex-
pense should be made from the Grange
treasury. The funds can be put to no
better use.

A program for literary exercises
and social recreation, with a compre-
hensive list of topics suitable for dis-
cussion, relating to the farm and house-
hold, edncation, social culture, business
co—operation, and political economy,——
avoiding only those questions of a sec-
tarian or partisan nature, which are
forbidden by our laws—should be pre-
pared and sent to every Grange in the
land.

To furnish a corps of lecturers sulfi-
cient for so wide a field, at the expense
or the National Grange. with its pres-
ent revenue, is out of the question. This
work must be mainly provided for by
the State Granges. The Lecturer of the
State Grange should be kept in the
field whenever there is work to do, and
the Master of the State Grange should
be prepared to respond to every call,
whenever other duties will permit.
Competent Lecturers should be con-
tracted with in different portions of the
State by the Executive Committee of
the State Grange, with a fixed per
diem, which, together with travelling
expenses, are to be paid by the Granges
employing them, and a list of the same
furnished to every Subordinate Grange.
Local lecturers should be pressed into
the field whenever needed, and the
Lecturers of Pomona and Subordinate
Granges should ever be on the alert.

The dead cannot raise the dc: d,,nor
the indolent inspire to industry. If
dead Granges are to be resurrected and
the dying and dormant saved, the
trumpet calling to life must be sound-
ed, and the work of salvation accom-
plished by those that are living and
prospering.

From almost every quarter comes the
request for Grange literature. public
lectures, and some system for uniform
and practical work; and I trust that
this subject will receive the attention
which its importance demands.

COUNTY AND DISTRICT GRANGES.

These organizations, authorized for
the purpose of aiding and strengthen-
ing the Subordinate Granges, and to
more thoroughly break up theisolation
which exists among farmers, and better
unite them in social and business rela-
tions, have proved to be of great value
to our Order, where they have been
properly organized and conducted.
They seem to be quite as necessary for
the County or district, as the State
Grange is for the State, or the National
Grange for the Nation. They give the
members within their jurisdiction an
opportunity to become acquainted with
each other, and to counsel together,
and more efl"ectually co operate for the
advancement of the social, educational
and business features of the Order. As
they pay no dues to either State or Na-
tional Grange, they have funds to em-
ploy lecturers, and meet the necessary
expenses of public meetings and the
annual harvest feast, so much enjoyed
by all good Patrons. Their organiza-
tion should be encouraged wherever the
Subordinate Granges will unite and
sustain them.

AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
AND DIGEST.

The constitutional amendment sub-
mitted by the National Grange at its
last session, has not been ratified bya
sufficient number of State Granges to
give it effect, and the constitution re-
mains unchanged. Radical changes in
our organic law do not seem to be de-
manded: but there is a very general
desire that girls at fourteen years of age
be admitted to membership, and I can
see no good reason why this request
should not be granted.

I deem it also of great importance to
the welfare of the Order that the mem-
bers of the State Granges be in posses-
sion of the full published proceedings
of the National Grange at the first
meeting of their State Grange thereafter.
The National Grange meets in Novem-
ber, and most of the State Granges
in December following, before the
proceedings have been published and
distributed. The State Granges are
therefore unable to profit by the work
of the National Grange when most
needed, or act upon the recommenda-
tions while the causes for action exist;

and the whole is passed over, and much

of the value of the proceedings is lost
to the Order. It is of the highest
importance that the proceedings of this
body be published and distributed at
the earliest possible moment after the
final adjournment.

All amendmends and additions that
have been made to the Digest of the
Laws and Rules ofthe National Grange,
or that may be made at this session ,should
be carefully compiled, and printed in a
form suitable for an appendix to that
volume, and sent to the Subordinate
Granges. Harmony among Granges,
uniformity of work, and obedience to
law, cannot be expected, unless the laws
are understood.

THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT,
AND GOVERNMENTAL AID TO
AGRICULTURE.

_ Admitting the correctness of the ax-
ism, that “ the earth is the source of all
wealth, and labor develops it,” eve
rt-fleeting mind must be impressed will
the fact that the wealth and prosperity
of a Nation depend largely upon the
condition and prosperity of its agricul-
ture. Hence a wise statesmanship
would seem to require that agriculture
should be fostered and protected by
governmental aid. This principle in
political economy has been acknowl-
edged, and is practiced by most of the
nations of Europe. and the advantages
which accrue from this policy of gov-
ernment are everywhere admitted to be
of inestimable value, in some instances,
saving the very life of the nation itself.
But there, as a general rule, the mon-
eyed powers own the soil, control the
labor, and constitute the government.
'l‘h_erefore it is not so diflicult to obtain
legislation for the protection and ad-
vancement of agriculture, as in this
country, where the soil is owned by
the farmers who perform the labor, and‘
content themselves with being an inert
factor of the government.

If departments of agriculture, ex-
perimental stations, agricultural col-
leges, academies, and schools; schools
of agricultural chemistry, animal
phisiology, and technology; stock, dairy
and experimental farms, are necessary
there, to preserve and increase the fer-
tility and productiveness of the soil,
they are just as important, and would
be quite as valuable, here. Educated
and skilled labor, and the application
of science, is quite as necessary to
secure success in agriculture, as in
manufactures and the mechanic arts.
If it is good statesmanship and_ wise
economy to maintain such institutions
there at public expense, does not Wis-
dom und the best interests ofour govern-
ment demand them here, where the
whole people constitute the govern-
ment, and its success and perpetuity
depends upon their intelligence, pros-
'periLy, and contentment?

The establishment of the agricultural
department was a step in the right di-
rection; and the efforts of the present
commissioner to remove it from the
influence of politics, and make it serve
the interests of agriculture, must meet
the hearty approval of all good citizens,
and especially those engaged in the
cultivation of the soil. The act of
Congress providing means to enable
him to prosecute the experiments in
sugar making, begun under the most
embarrassing circumstances, is also an
indication of increasing favor, and will
meet with general approval; but in my
judgment it is not asking too much to
request the new administration to make
the commissioner of agriculture a mem-
ber of the president’s cabinet, where he
can have a voice, and exert an influence
direct with the government. The re-
cent establishment of experimental
stations and agricultural colleges in
some of the States, and the growing
popularity of the agricultural colleges,
heretofore established, is another sign
of progress, and indicates that the
good seed which has been sown is
bearing fruit. Let us continue to sow
the seed, in full faith, thatwe may here
after reap an abundant harvest.

PATENT RIGHTS.

The farmers of our country are often
put to great inconvenience, expense.
and exasperation in being black mailed
and robbed, under threats of prosecu-
tion in the United States ‘Courts, by
unscrupulous patent right claimants,
or their agents, for using, or having
sometime used, an article or implement
claimed to be an infringement upon
some patent. although the article or
implement may have been purchased
of the manufacturer or vendor in good
faith, with no notice or knowledge of
its being an infringement, and no
means of obtaining that knowledge.

A memorial was sent to Congress by
the last National Grange, calling at-
tention tothis subject, and thousands
of our citizens petitioned for such
amendments to the patent laws as
would give protection to innocent pur-
chasers of patented articles from such
cruel and unjust extortions. Butthe in-
fiuence of a few men who fatten and
grow rich by such ill-gotten ain, had
more infience with the peop e’s repre-
sentatives, than the prayers of their
victimized constituents.

A bill, purporting “to give protection
to innocent holders of patented ar-
ticles,” was reported favorably by the
House committee on the revision otlaws,
and I am informed passed that body, but
failed in the Senate. Had that bill
become a law, it would have utterly
failed to accomplish the desired object.
The bill contained but one valuable
feature, and that was a tacit acknowl-
edgment of the power of Congress to

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a patented article, and relieve the
“innocent holder,” from the payment
of cost. This removes every obstacle
in the way of legislation to correct this
evil, and our efforts in that direction
should be -renewed.

TRANSPORTATION .

Intimately connected with the inter-
ests of Agriculture is the question of
transportation, and in our declaration
of purposes, we say " that transporta-
tion companies of every kind are nec-
essary to our success, that their inter-
ests are intimately connecte d with our
interests, and harmonious action is mu-
tually advantageous.” “We shall there-
fore advocate for every State the in-
crease in every practicable way of all fa-
cilities for transporting cheaply to the
sea-board, or between home producers
and consumers, all the productions of
our country." “We are not enemies to
railroads, or of any corporation that
will advance our industrial interests.”
* * * " We are not enemies to capital,
but we‘ oppose the tyranny of monop-
olies, and such spirit and management
of any corporation or enterprise as
tends to oppress the people, and rob
them of theirjust profits.”

This is the most important question
of public policy that now agitates the
minds of the people. That our efforts
to enlighten public sentiment upon the
unjust discrimination made by trans-
portation companies, and to induce Con-

ress to regulate inter-State commerce
Ey National legislation, soas to protect
the industrial interests from unjust ex-
tortions, were based upon well-ground-
ed causes the following extracts will

show: »
In 1873, when the farmers of the
West were agitating the question of

~ legislation to regulate commerce, Sena-

tor Carpenter. of Wisconsin, said :
“ The producers of the West are given
over to the tender mercies of railroad
corporations, whereas a regulation of
this trade by Congress, fixing the rates
of compensation for carrying, would
enable the producers, instead of the rail-
road companies, to profit by advances
of produce in the Eastern markets.
But, in the absence of any general reg-
ulation upon this subject, it is in their
power so to adjust and vary their
charges, as to sweep into their overflow-
ing coffers the fruits which equitably

belong to the farmers of the VVest.

This evil is visited upon every branch
of inter-State commerce. The whole-
sale stores of New York are filled at
times with merchandise from cellar to
garret, intended for and needed in the
Western States, because it cannot hear
the exorbitant prices fixed upon trans-
portation by rail, and must therefore
wait the opening of navigation. Flour
is carried by railroads, and by propel-
lers on the lakes, which are owned by
the railroad companies. Therefore, the
railroad companies put up the prices
for transporting flour from ten to thirty
cents per barrel above the price for
transporting a corresponding amount
of wheat; thus creating a discrimina-
tion against the manufacturer of flour
in the Western States, which has al-
ready proved very detrimental to the
milling interests.” '

As early as 1871. in a speech delivered
at Minneapolis, Horace Greeley said;
“ A dozen or so of railroad magnates,
summoned by private message, meet
from time to time in one of our great
cities. They consult in secret, dine
and wine satisfactorily, adjourn and go
their several ways. Next morning the
telegraph wires willhave flashed across
the land their decision that every
bushel of grain going to market,
every bale of goods passing inland,
shall pay twenty to thirty per cent
more freight than has hitherto been
paid. In effect, this bevy of railroad
kings have arbitrarily reduced the value
of every farm, every quarter section,
everv bushelofgraiu in the great West.
If they owned the whole country and
all who live in it, they could not lord
it over us more tyrannically. And per-
haps they will proceed next day to
make a script dividend, or additional
issue of stock. representing nothing but
their own rapacity, so as to conceal
from dull or careless eyes the fact that
they are exacting from their customers
an annual profit of 15 or 2-5 per cent on
their actual investment.” * * *

“ I ask this State and every State to
afilrm and exercise its right of fixing
proper and reasonable rates of fare and
freight on every railroad subject to its
jurisdiction.” * * * *

'-‘ I can see no reason for doubt that
the same power which sufliced to give
the farmers’ houses and lands to a
company at a price virtually fixed by
the State, will sufiice to insure the
farmers the right to use that railroad at
prices likewise fixed by the State.”

Mr. Greeley wasa true friend to agri-
culture, and all the industrial interests,
and his opinion and advice greatly en-
couraged the farmers of the country in
their efforts for reform in railroad man-
agement. They have repeatedly ap-

aled to Congress for the necessary
legislation, but as yet but little has
been done further than to appoint a
committee on transportation to inquire
into our grievances, and report upon
the same. The following from the
report of that committee will show the
conclusions at which they arrived :

“With the rapid and inevitable
progressof combination and consolida-
tion, these collossal organizations are
becoming stronger and more

imperious. The day is not distant, if

Rhos not already arrived, when it will
be fie duty of the statesmen to inquire

whether there is less danger in leaving
the Property and industrial interests of
the people thus wholly at the mercy of
afew men who recognize no responsi-
bil_ity_ but to their stock-holders, and no
principal of action but personal and
corporate aggrandizement, than in
adding somewhat to the power and
patronage of a government directly
responsible to the people, and entirely
under their control."

Senator David Davis, of Illinois, in
his lately published views upon this
question says: “ The rapid growth of
corporate power. and the malign in-
flence which it exerts, by combination
in the National and State Legislatures,
is a well-grounded cause for alarm.
A struggle is pending in the near
future between this over-grown power,
with its vast ramifications all over the
Union, and a. hard grip on much of the
political machinery on the one band,
and the people in an unorganized con-
dition on the other, l'or the control of
the Government. It will be watched
by every patriot with intense anxiety.”

It is most gratifying and encourag-
ing to know that so able and influential
bodies as the New York Chamber of
Commerce, and the Board of Trade
and Transportation of that city, are
giving their whole and united influ-
ence to secure State and National legis-
lation, to regulate and supervise the
management of railroads; and are do-
ing valuable work in enlightening the
people upon the great wrongs commit-
ted by the railroad companies against
the public interest, and the influence
of the managers over the press, the
politics, and the legislation of the
country. The following is from the
report adopted by the Chamber of Com-
merce, June 3d, 1880:

“The bad faith of the railroad man-
agers, in their professions that they are
willing to treat the public with equality
and justice, is evident. They have
been so long accustomed to disregard
the principle of highway, and wield
the power of their great organizations
to enrich themselves and their favorites
that they object to any supervision or
control. Instead of accepting in good
faith, and trying to conform to princi-
ples of management manifestly just,
they seem determined to dictate, and
adhere to their own policy, and perpet-
uate abuses which are opposed to all
principles of right, and which were so
gross that they at first denied their
existence, but which they now seek to

justify and perpetuate.”

The Board of Trade and Transporta-
tion, in their report of June 9, 1880,
say: “ It is evident that the public
welfare, both State and inter-State,
should be supervised and regulated in
the interest of the public, and that in
this State the reforms which have been
so materially progressed during the
past year must be followed up until the
rights of all classes of citizens are rec-
ognized on these modern highways.
It is reported that the railroad mana-
gers will oppose, to the bitter end, any
and all attempts to control them; that
free passes, advertisements, and other
favors are being extended to the press
more freely than ever before; that a
“vigorous policy will be pursued; ”
that expressions upon this subject in
political platforms will be suppressed;
tuat legislators who made themselves
conspicuous in behalf of the public, if
seeking re-election, will be beaten
wherever money can accomplish it;
and, in short, that the policy of repres-
sing public opinion will be pursued,
instead of making concessions to it.”
* * * “ Honestly and equitably
managed, railroads are the most bene-
ficial discovery of the century, but per-
verted by irresponsible and uncon-
trolled corporate management, in which
stock-watering, and kindred swindles,
are tolerated, and favoritism in charges
is permitted, they become simply great
engines to accomplish unequal taxatioh,
and to arbitrarily re-distribute the
wealth of the country.” When this
state of things is sought to be perpet-
uated by acquiring political power, and
shaping legislation through the corrupt
use of money, the situation grows more
serious. It is not too much to say that
cirporations are chiefly responsible for
the increasing use of money in our
elections, and so often has lavish
expenditures of money, “ wrung from
the people to purchase the people’s
representative,” been successful in de-
feating honest men who were not sulfi-
ciently subservient to corporate inter-
ests, that in the selection of candidates
now the questions most likely to be
asked are not, “is he honest and cap-
able?” but “how big a barrel has
he?” or, “who stands behind him?”

The prompt and hearty ‘response of
most of the State and Subordinate
Granges to the recommendations of the
last National Grange to memoralize
and petition Congress, and the State
Legislatures to so legislate as to correct
these great evils, is sutlicient evidence
to convince us of the deep interest
Patrons are taking in this matter; and
we shall fail to meet their expectations
if we neglect to maintain the position
we have taken, and test the efliciency
of our organization to bring about
these much needed reforms. We have
assumed the aggressive: and let no
backward step be taken.

REORGANIZATION OF STATE GRANGES.

There seems to be no well defined pro-
visions of law for suspending or revok-
ing the charter of a State Grange, where
(from any cause) it fails to meet the re-
quiremente of a State organization ; and

reorganizing" the same,when the welfare

of the Subordinate Granges within its
jurisdiction demands it. The jurisdic-
tion and laws of the National Grange
should be extended over Subordinate
Granges which areleft without the pro-
tecting arm of a Slate Grange, until it
can be reorganized or the Granges and
territory placed under the jurisdiction
of some other State Grange. Special
attention should be given to this sub-
ject.

CONCLUSION.

The relation of National, State,
Pomona, and Subordinate Granges
should be of the most intimate
and fraternal character, and all legisla-
tion so directed as to produce united
action upon all questions affecting our
common cause. Practical business co-
operation should be encouraged among
our members, and all doubtful enter-
prises involving the common funds of
the Order or liability of Granges should
be avoided. Business should be con-
ducted upon business principles. Busi-
ness operations which cannot be made
self-sustaining will result in ultimate
loss, and the experiment of salaried
agents by State or Subordinate Granges
should not be repeated Where associa-
tions have been formed upon the co-
operative plan, and wisely managed
they have generally proved successful-
in some instances surpassing the most
sanguine expectations of Patrons. But
nothing can do more to popularize our
Order with the farmers and bring it in-
to general favor than an active, bold,
and determined policy to ameliorate
the condition of agriculture and protect
it from the grasping avariciousness of
combined and incorporated power.

Our organization is an experiment,
and its power to remove the great ob-
stacles in the way of a prosperous agri-
culture in this county has never yet
been fully tested ; but the efforts which
have been made, and the steps taken to
bring about these results, have been
crowned with sufficient success to
establish its ability, if properly
directed, to accomplish that object,
and the time has come when
the test must be made. The con-
flict is upon us, and every member is
expected to do his whole duty. It re-
mains to be seen whether this country
is to be controlled by the rapacious
railroad transportation companies man-
aged by a few men “ Who recognize no
responsibility except to their stockholders,
and no principle of aclion but personal
and corporate aggrandizement," or by
the sovereign people.

It is encouraging to know that we
are receiving infiuential allies from the
commercial and manufacturing inter-
ests of the country, and if we stand
firm and bring the whole strength of
our Order into action the contest can-
not be a protracted one or the result
doubtful. Then let every Patron do
his whole duty. Do not enter the field
half-hearted: damp zeal is like damp
powder, it will not burn and has neith-
er fire nor force in it; but work in ear-
nest and make your work practical. It
does not require the gift of eloquence to
convince fair minded men of the bene-
fits of the Grange, and the practical ad-
vantages of membership. There are no
faults incur organization to apologize
for, and but little prejudice to overcome.
Every principle of the Order is founded
upon equal and exactjustice. There is
no law or rule that gives one member
greater rights or privileges than an-
other. There are no favored few, no
privileged class,—-all stand alike upon
the same platform, governed by the

laws, and protected by the same power.

Our declaration of purposes challenges
the admiration of all classes and profes-
sions of men, and no one has been found
to criticise them. This movement is
one of the most important known to
history, and the first attempt of the
agricultural class of a Nation to main-
tain their social, intellectual. and politi-
cal equality. As the means of social
advancement, enliglitenrnent, and lib-
eralism our Order possesses a power
hithertounknown; and guided by the
light of its principles, it mustovercome
every obstacle and hold its way steadily
onward “ bringing all within its influ-
ence nearer to the good, the beautiful
and the true.”

Let every member then, be inspired
by renewed faith, hope and zeal, in
building up the Order and extending
its sphere of usefulness, until in these
quiet Grange halls all over our land,
shall exist a power, and go ontan influ-
ence which shall carry hope and good
cheer, not only to the husbandman, but
to the toiling millions of the world, and
make our country in truth, not only
“ The land of the free and the home of the

brave,” but

The land of the good, and the home of.the
hlest. .

“ POLITENESS is benevolence in little
things.”

A DOTING mother labeled her pre-
serves, “ Put up by Mrs. D.” Her son
ate them, and wrote on the labels,
“ Put down by Johnny D.”

 

DB. DoBBs says: “Some time since
I was at an association. The windows
were closed; the people were gasping.
At a suitable point I rose and address-
ing the Chair. I said: ‘ I rise, sir, to a
question of privilege.’ The moderator
said, ‘ Reverend Doctor Dobbs will
please to state his question of privilege.’

said, “ My question is this: would it
not be a privilege for us to breathe?’ ”

lllummunimtions.

   

What Has the urangebone for llei

[An essay read before Decater
Grange, No. 346, in response to the
above question, by Henry Brown.]

This question is a very good one, but
I think it savors a little of selfishness.
What has the Grange done to better
the social condition of mankind in
general? would he a little broader, and
look as though a grand principle lay
beneath this exterior-——a principle
struggling to break through the fossil-
ized selfishness of the human heart,
and establish the standard of good will
among the people. ‘

I suppose the object of the Grange,
and nearly all societies, is to enlarge
our benevolence and charities, beyond
our little home circle; and not work
for self alone, but for the good of
society.

Selfishness is the greatest enemy to
human progress that we have to over-
come, and all these benevolent moves
are but skirmishers, sent out tb spy out
the strong holds, and make inroads to
her possessions.

The Grange is one of those myster-
ious movements in nature, sent out by
the Ruler of the Universe, like a
great wave sweeping over the land, and
preparing it for another, and another,
till the millenial dawn shall light up
the moral heavens, andestablish the
glorious principle of brotherly love,
and good will to all.

Thousands rushed into the Grange
prompted by selfish motives, but not
finding what their selfish appetites
craved, and failing to comprehend its
great underlying principles, they
turned back like the children of Israel,
to the leeks and onions of Egypt.

The Grange is doing a great deal for
me. When I see it elevating my
Brothers and Sisters I know if they are
being benefitted I am. We are all de-
pendent one upon another, and it is
our work to establish harmony by
learning and practicing the principles
of right between man and man.

The elements of the mind and soul
are so interwoven that we cannot act
indepentent of each other. The ma-
chinery of life is very complicated, and
we can only learn it item by item, step
by step. The principle of association
is infinite; it manifests itself in all
conditions of matter and mind. Differ-
ent elements combine, and form the
various minerals of the earth. Vege-
table and animal associate through dif-
ferent classes and species. The plane-
tary world is one vast field of associa-
tions, yielding obedience to the laws of
nature, and carrying out the principle
of harmony. Man is the highest type
of organized matter and of mind, and
the principle of association is manifest
in proportion to his development.

What has this co-operative principle
done? - It has associated men and
women to fight the battle of freedom
against opposition, right against wrong.
It has said to woman, “Come, take
your place beside man, as God designed,
and that very act stands out in bold
relief on the page of progress; and we
shall see the good results ofjustice to
women. The freedom of women is one
of the wrongs that is slow to be righted.
The Grange has taken a noble stand
on that point.

The Grange has also attacked the
great monopolies of the world. Union
and perseverance will conquer; only
by these weapons can we ever expect
to bring down these giants of oppres-
sion, and clear the way for the progress
of the angels of truth and justice.

Yes,'the Grange is doing a greater
work than it knows. We may have to
stand the sneers of the haters of justice
——that is nothing new. All reforms
have to meet the same kind of opposi-
tion. It works not only for its mem-
bers, but for humanity; a work which
we may-not see or realize so much as
our children and coming generations
will. We look back with pride and
veneration to the pioneers of all great

movements, and we may well be proud
that We are among the workers for
reform. Reform is the ladder which
reaches to heaven. We must climb
step by step if we ever reach that
happy place.

Let us make the Grange what its
founders intended it to be—a refuge
from oppression, and a temple of free-
dom for women.

 

Fattenlg Fowls.

It is better to begin to fatten fowls
now during mild weather than to wait
till the severer weather, when it will
take so much more food to keep up the
natural animal heat. The same amount
of food will go much farther now, and
also bring the fowl in such condition as
not to lose much by a cold snap.

It is of great importance that they
have warm quarters. “Old Poultry”
does not confine fattening fowls as
closely as some do. Has a chicken
house that is used in summer for wean-
ing spring chicks. Out of each door is
a yard or park about ten feet square.
The park simply consists of a wide
board close to the ground, and laths
nailed upright on that. Here fowls
have enough exercise to promote health
and give them an appetite; and they
are contented, which is quite an item,
as they feed to more profit than a
restless, nervous fowl.

In regard to food, corn meal wet up
with hot milk is the thing for morning,
with a tablespoonful each of sulphur,

salt, and cayenne pepper to six quarts.

of feed. Feed all they will eat up
clean, and then take away. Towards
noon give them a vegetable food of
some kind. It keeps them healthy, aids
digestion, and increases their appetite.
Apples are plenty, and answer as well
or better than anything else. In the
afternoon feed with the meal again,
and vary occasionally with barley,
wheat screenings, etc. Give them a-
little meat occasionally to stimulate the
appetite, and but little; meat can be
more profitably fed to laying hens.
For the last meal give them whole
corn. Keep clean, fresh water con-
stantly before them, also ashes, gravel,
and powdered charcoal. Keep every-
thing in dishes clean, as it will bemore
appetizing, and they will eat the heart-
tier. Have covers something after the
fashion of an inverted trough, over the
feed and drinking troughs. One side
or board of the cover can be put on
with hinges, making it handler t0
raise and fill the feed trough. These
covers should be high enough to enable
the‘fowl to get at the food readily, and
still keep it dry, and prevent the fowls
standing in the feed. Fowls will fatten
in from nine to twelve days by this
process. No great process about it,
either; only some facts that everyone
knows, but might not think of.
OLD Pourxrnv.

“ Brlghtlng All It Can.”

The day had been dark and gloomy,
when suddenly, toward night, the
clouds broke and the sun’s rays stream-
ed through, shedding a flood of golden
light upon the whole country.

A sweet voice at the window called
out in joyful tones, “ Look! 0 look.
papa! the sun’s brighting all it can."

“ Brighting all it can ? So it is ” an-
swered papa, “ and you can be like the
sun, if you choose.”

“ How, papa? tell me how ! ”_ _

“ By looking happy and smiling on
us all day, and never letting any tear-
ful rain come into the blue ol those
eyes; only be happy and good. that is
all.”

-The next day the music of the child’s
voice filled our ears from sunrise to
dark; the little heart seemed full of
light and love, and when asked why
she was so happy, the answer came
laughingly, “ Why, don’t you see, pa-
papa, I’m the sun ? I’m brighting all
I can.”

“And filling the house with sunshine
and joy;” answered papa. '

Cannot little children be like the sun
every day, “ brighting " all they can '2
Try it, children.

THE following from the Philadelphia
Record, an independent political paper,
is a mite in aid of the Grange move-
ment: “As the Grange continues to
prosper the farmer's children will con-
tinue to be better educated, and parents
will come to better understand the ne-
cessitiesof their calling and their own
relation to society and government.”

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

SCHOOLCRAFT. NOV. 15, 1880.

 

Srcrctaryh flcpartmeut.

J. T. COBB, ~ - SCHOOLCBAFT.

Oficers and members of Subordinate Granger
in corresponding with this oflice, will please
slways give the Number of their Grange.

THE first number of the GRANGE‘

VISITOR was issued in April. 1875.
At the close of that year we had
540 subscribers. Each succeeding
year has added to the number, un-
til now our regular semi-monthly
edition is 6,000 copies. By a little
figuring we find that over~t00,000
copies of the VISITOR have been
printed and distributed since its
first issue. We have endeavored
to make a paper acceptable to our
readers. Have done the best we
could with the limited time at our
disposal for this work. with what
success our readers have deter-
mined by the steady growth of its
subscription list, which has not
been secured by such a variety of
premium oifers and special induce-
ments as we find on almost every
page of every issue of some of our
cotemporaries. '

But we have not pleased all our
readers, and here is the proof:

. Y1>sILANTI, Nov. 6, ’80.
J. T. Cobb: V

SIR: Will you be kind enough to
stop sending the GRANGE VISITOR to
my address, as I wish no more of its

literature. Yours truly,
* * 3:

As this is the first set-back of the
kind that we have ever received,
we read it over and over several
times, pondering in our mind the
question, Shall we resign? With-
out reaching a conclusion at 9
o’clock P. M., we left our oflice and
started home, a half-mile distant,
quite undecided what to do.

Before reaching our domicile, We
decided, as the meeting of the
State Grange is so near at hand,
to engineer the VISITOR another
month, and then that, and all
other business of the Order, will
be in the hands of the representa-
tives of the Subordinate Granges
of the State for disposition.

The date of the card leads us to
the belief that the complainant in
this case was not well pleased with
the result of the election, and
while in a disturbed mental condi-
tion, he has made the VIsITOR the
victim of a temporary mental mal-
ady that the lapse of a little time
has probably cured, though too
late to save the sacrifice of the
few remaining copies of the cur-
rent volume of the VISITOR which

V he had paid for.

We have not only invited our
Patron friends to contribute to
the VISITOR, but really depend on
them to a considerable extent for
matter to fill up its pages, and we
think o11r Ypsilanti brother has
made a mistake in this order to
discontinue. If its “literature”
was objectionable, here was not
only an opportunity, but a real
duty was presented to abrother
Patron, which has been disregard-
ed.

The organ of the Order should
not be allowed to go wrong month
after month with no effort at cor-
rection. _

This brother’s style of writing

we like. It is brief, courteous and
comprehensive, and the man who
can so express his ideas, can be a
valuable contributor, and in this
instance should have undertaken
to point out the mistakes commit-
ted by the VISITOR, rather than
by this curtly expressed order,
severed our relations.

 

WE continue the publication of
the names of the delegates to the
next session of the State Grange,
which will convene in Represent-
ative Hall in the new Capitol at

10 o’clock A. M. on Tuesday. Dec.
14, prox. Our list is 11ot yet com-
plete. The Secretaries of the
County Conventions of Barry,
Jackson. St. Clair and Sagi-
naw Counties have failed to
report to this office the names of
the delegates elected 011 the 5th of
October, to represent the Patrons
of those Counties at the Decem-
ber meeting, as have also quite a
number of Secretaries of Pomona
Granges. We don’t like to be-
lieve that any Brother was elected
Secretary of any Convention who
has not enough interest in the
Order to take the GRANGE VIsIToR.
But such must be the case, and
we now call on any brother, living
in these Counties, who knows who
was elected, to send us the names
by card or otherwise. and u1uch

oblige.

ALLEt}aN-S. 1’. Albertson, Watson, . . . . . . . 154
M. V. B. McAlpine, Monterey,. .247
L. 0. Gilbert, Molina, . . . . . . . . ..2-18

BARB.Y—- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

BEBBIEN—E. Nickerson, Benton Harbor . . . . . .

Sam’l Mars, Stevensville, . . . . . . . 84

John Clark, Pipestone . . . . . . . . . . . . .

BRANCH— D. A. Thompson, Gilead, . . . . . . . .400
G-. W. Vanacken, Goldwater... .137

CASS—-.. . Thos. Odel, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..427
CALHOUN—A. F. Johnson, Battle Creek, .. .. 130
John Hough, White’s Station 2
CLINTON— Courtland Hill, Bengal... . . .
Nathan Ellis, St. J ohns,.

 
  
 

  

Robt Hamilton, Wacousta, .
EA’1‘0N— Aaron Bark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .260

S. L. Bentley _ . . . . . . . . . ..360

GEN1ss1;n— J as Glass, Flushing,... . . . . . . .387

HII.I.sm.I.E—L. Ranney, Allen, . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Isaac H. Gibbs, VValdroI\, . . . . . .285

Christian Fink. Cambiia. Mi|ls,. . 78
GBA'1‘IO’l‘— Alonzo W. Noddin, Lafayette. . .529

   

   

lNGHAlK—— D. V. Smith, Okemos, . . . . . . . ..235
W. A. Higdon, Leslie, . . . . . . . . . .287
IONIA—- Henry J . Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
J. Warren Peaks, Portland... . .185
A. S Stannard, Lowell, . . . . . . ..175
J.;cxsoN—. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
KALAMA.ZO0— H. Fellows, Schoolcraft, 8
A. B. Judson, V1cksburg,. . . . 61
KENT— G. H. Cahoun, Lowe1l,. . . . . . 113
J. L. Wells, FIshers,.  . . . .350
Jonathan Best, Grand Rapids. . .10?
Geo. D. Wood, Grattan, . . . . . . . .170
E. C. Whitney, Rockford . . . . . . . 110
LAPEEB— Elijah Bartlett. Dryden, . . . . . . . . .396
LENAWEE-M. E. Elmore, Kelley‘: Corners.-138
Martin Odell, Jasper, . . . . . . . . . . .278
LIv1NosToN— J. S. Briggs, Fowlerville,.. . .613
MACOMB— J. J. Snook, Mt. Vernon, . . . . . . . .403
MANI5TEE—GBO. B. Pierce, Pleasanton, . . . . 557
MUSKEGON—D. N. Hanson, Casnovia, .... . .316

MDNTCALM—Ch&E. R. Dickerson, Carson City. .
NEWAYGO—H. W. Noble, Denver, . . . . . . . . .495
OAKLAND—E. C. Newman, Milford. .

     

W. E. Carpenter, Pontiac . . .
OTTAWA-—H. D. Weatherwax. Georgeto
ST. J osIr.1=n—Gutelius Snyder, Three Rivers 178

Daniel Heinbangh, Burr Oak,. .303
SEE[AWASEEE—A. B. Clark, Moi-ric-s,.. .1 .. ..15l
ST. CLAIB.— . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .
SAGINAW— . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .._ . . . . . . . .
TUECOLA— Hiram R. Perry, Ell1ngton.. .

  
 

VAN BUREN —-E. Warner, Lawton, . . . . . . £3
J. D. Robinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
D. W. Sins, McDonald, . . . . . . . .. 26
WASETENAW——AlbD1‘t Day, RawsonvIlle,. . . 59
H. Baldwin, Chelsea, . . . . . . . . . . .239

FIRBT DISTRICT.
Bar AND MIDLAND~ J as. Filker. Aubui-n,. .635
SECOND DIsTR1cT.
GRAND Tnsvnnsn, Wnxronn, AND AN'1'RIM—
S. A. Gardner, Traverse City,. .624
Tnmn D1sTRIcT.
LEELANLW AND BENzII:.-—Addison P. Wheelock,
Almira, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
FOURTH DIsT12IcT.
OCEANA AND MASON—Wm. F. Lewis, New Era.
FIFTH DIsTRIcT.
MONROE AND WAYNE—N. T. BI-adner, Red-
ford, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
SIXTH D1sTRIcT.
MECOSTA AND 0SCEOLA——J. V. Armsti-ong,.517
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
HURON AND SANILAC— Richard F. Welwood,
Marlette, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641

REPRESENTATIVES rnon POHONA cannons.
BE13mnN—Freema.n Franklin, . . . . . . . . . . .

  
 
 

 

CLINTON—-John M. DeWitt, So. Riley, .' . _ 25
EATON—Wm. C. Howell, Roxand, . . . . . . . . . 28
HII.Lsn.u.n—R. W. Freeman, . . . . . . .. .. . 10

I1m}mu—A, A. King, Dansville,.. . . . .
M.ANIS'l.‘EE—-L. D. Shirtlifi, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 21
OAKLAND —G. M. Shattuck, Pontiac, . . . .
0CEANA—Wm. H. Barty, She1by.. . .
WAYNE—-Jabez H. Padley, . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Wnsrnnn POMONA—Tl10S. Wilde, Be '11 .. 19

THE V1sIToR depends on its
friends to increase its circulation.
Are they doing all they can for it?

 

GRANGE VISITOR.

THE RAILROAD COMMISSIONER-‘S
ANNUAL REPORT.

We find on our table the annual
report of Hon. B. W. Williams,
Commissioner of Railroads of this
State. It is a document of nearly
600 pages and covers very definite
statements of everything connect-
ed with railroad matters, much of
it tabulated with care. A consid-
erable portion of the bookis taken
up with the annual reports of the
several railroads of the State to
the Commissioner, as required by
law These annual reports, to-
gether with their careful compila
tion, are an interesting study to
intelligent men who have a taste
for investigation and criticism,
but the general reader seldom
gives such books more than house
room, with frequently an unkind
remark.

We think more exact knowledge
by the more intelligent class of
our people is much needed, for
with it would come a more gener-
al demand that the railroad busi-
ness of the country should be con-
ducted upo11 sound business prin-
ciples.

Perhaps that point will be reach-
ed if left to themselves, though
we hardly think it, but expect it
will be reached only through
legislation, and that legislation
will not be had until demanded by
the people.

From our acquaintance with
Commissioner Williams we are
well satisfied that he will do what
he can to provide for and protect
the interests of the people of the
State; and for this eighth report
he has our hearty thanks. VVhen
we get time we shall endeavor
to draw upon it for some items to
give our readers concerning Mich-
igan railroads.

THE VIsIToR has been persistent
in pressing upon the attention of
the farmers of this State the im-
portance of atte11ding to their own
business. It has from time to time
endeavored to show that the neg-
lect of those interests in gover-
mental afl'airs was a chronic con-
dition of the American farmer,
and that this Grange organization
was the most direct and hopeful
means by which the agricultural
class might be aroused and made
to see their true position, and ap-
ply the remedy.

We invite our readers to a care
ful perusal of the article on the
first page, on sugar-making, by
Hon. Wm. Hull, of Centerville.

These are figures that should be
read and remembered by every
farmer in Michigan— by every
voting farmer in the United States.
If read, remembered and talked
about, at the end of the next de-
cade, we shall not be sending
$100,000,000 a year to other coun-
tries to sweeten this, nor will 76
per cent of Congress be lawyers
and but four per cent .farmers.

A COPY of the 1Vatz’onaZ Oizizen
and Soldier, a Washington week-
ly, just entering its sixth year, has
found its way to our table. We
have given it a careful examina-
tion and are well pleased with it.
It is independent in politics and its
editorials indicate a breadth of
view and independence that com-
mends it to our favor. We hope
to become better acquainted.

BROTHER SECRETARIES.

We must remind delinquent Sec-
retaries that Nov. 30th closes the
fiscal year of the State Grange,
and that elections in Subordinate
Granges occur in December.

Although we shall soon reach
the close of the fiscal year, there
is ample time to make reports and
pay dues, and place your business
relations with the State Grange in
a satisfactory shape. It is claimed
that the Grange is in better condi-
tion in this State than it was one
year ago, and we have a good deal
of evidence of the truth of this
claim, and we should like some
additional evidence from those
delinquents, whose numbers we
give below. We claim that the
Grange is an educational institu-
tion, but we notice that it has not
educated some of our farmers, who
are Secretaries of Granges to a
habit of promptness in the dis-
charge of official duty. We expect
to make a good showing for the
State, and shall be very sorry to
designate a Grange here and there
as delinquent.

.Granges delinquemrin reports
since June 30, 1879 :—

13, 57, 83, 97. 102, 103, 125, 126. 128.
140, 144, 155,160,185, 189, 199, 201. 213,
219,221,235, 236,241, 243, 246, 243, 2.50,
264, 270, 271, 274, 295, 310, 320, 325, 327,
338, 358, 363, 383, 404, 417, 422, 458, 430,
492, 511, 514, 529, 539, 565, 568, 576, 599,
603, 618, 632, 637.

MAS"l'ER’S DEPARTMENT.

On the inside of this paper will
be found the address of Worthy
Master Woodman before the Na-
tional Grange, in the city of Wash-
ington, at its fourteenth annual
meeting, which convenes on the
17th inst.

We need not say to those Pa-
trons who are acquainted with Bro.
Woodman that the address is a
good one, for that acquaintance
has given them that assurance,
and all such will turn to it and read
its Words of wisdom, so kindlv and
well expressed, with genuine sat-
isfaction.

This address should be read by
the Lecturer of every Subordinate
Grange, at its 11ext meeting, and
its points discussed by the mem-
bers. And our friends should not
only read it themselves, but should
take some pains to have it read by
their neighbor farmers outside the
gate. Lend this number, and ifit
is not returned, send for another
copy for your own file.

THE Michigan School flloderator,
“devoted to Michigan school mat-
ters and to general education,” is
a 16-page weekly, -established in
the enterprising city of Grand
Rapids, October last. Chas. Cum-
mings, publisher, and Louis Gale,
editor. Price $2 per annum. The
appearance of the Moderator is in
its favor, and if it maintains the
high standard fixed by the three
numbers issued it will succeed.
A perusal of these has satisfied us
that there was an unoccupied field
in Michigan for journalism. and
We Welcome thejlloderator to its
occupancy, confident that the edu-
cational interests of the State will
be advanced by this new venture.

WE have an article from an old
correspondent, touching the Agri-
cultural College and its manage-
ment, which will appear in our
next.

WE have a couple of communi-
cations, of a political character,
making reference to some person-
al and party action, that we deem
not quite the thing to interest the
readers ot' the VIs1ToR, and we
have therefore branded the arti-
cles “ rejected.“ We hope this
will not deter others from writing
for the VISITOR, for we should fail
to make an acceptable paper if
the brothers and sisters scattered
over the State did not contribute
to its columns, a11d that reminds
us that the Ladies’ Department. of
this number is offirst-class quality
yet in quantity we are much be-
low our usual supply. By the
time the Sisters have this number
well read. the house - cleaning
will all have been done, and much
of the extra work of preparing
for winter, when We shall ex-
pect a liberal supply of articles for
the Ladies‘ Department of the
next number.

Shall we have them .4

WE invite the attention of our

farmers who keep sheep to the ad- -

vertisement of T. W. Lawford. a
farmer who has furnished us an
abundance of testimonials of the
value of LITTL1«:’s CHEMICAL FLUID.
We do not believe that well peo-
ple should take medicine, or well,
sheep be dipped, but if any of our
farmers have sheep that need any
treatment more than food and
care, we hope they will corres-
pond with M1". Lawford. and try
his curative.

Notice of Meetings.

TRAVERSE CITY, Nov. 3, 1880.
Bro. J. T. Cobb.-

The last quarterly meeting of Trav-
erse district Grange, No. 19, for 1880,
will be held in the hall of Traverse
Grange No. 379. _at Traverse City,
commencing at 2 o’clock P. M. Tuesday,
Dec, 7, and continuing two days.
Officers for the ensuing year will be
elected and installed. Tuesday evening
a grand time is anticipated. All mem-
bers of the 5th degree are earnestly re-
quested to be present, and all 4th degree
members are cordially invited to attend
the session. S. A. GARDNER, Sec.

MIDI>LRvII.LR, Nov. 3. 1880.
The next quarterly meeting of the
Barry County Pomona Grange will be
held at the Rutland Grange hall on the
26th of this month at2 o’clock P. M.
A full attendance is requested, and 4th
degree members are especially invited.
Subject for discussion, The Education
of the Mind. J. A. ROBERTSON,
Secretary.

GALESBURG, Oct. 25, 1880.

The regular annual meeting of the
Kalamazoo County Pomona Grange
will be held al Eureka Grange Hall,
commencing at 10 A. M. Thursday,
Dec. 2, 1880.

I am informed by the Chairman of
the Executive Committee, that refresh-
ments are to be furnished from the has-
kets of the members attending, except
tea and coffee. Tables and dishes are
to be provided. Z. O. DURKEE,

Secretary.

fL1TcHrIELD, Oct. 6th, 1880.
The annual meeting_ of Hillsdale
Pomona Grange for the election of
oflicers will be held at Grange hall,
Jonesville, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1880,
at 10 o’clock, A. M. Let every member
that can, be present. '
G. M. GARDNER, Sec.

 

HE that cannot forgive others breaks
the bridge over which he must pass
himse1f.—George Herbert. .

ONE thousand laths will cover seventy '

yards of surface, and eleven pounds of
ath nails will nail them on. .

  

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0. L. WHITNEY, - - - MUSKEGON.

Plcklgs by the Way, No. 18.
[coN'riNui~:D.'|

Sunday, with its snow and storm,
was spent at the pleasant home of
Bro. and Sister Manwarring, of
Lapeer. Taking dinner with their
recently married daughter, Mrs.
Johnson at her snug and newly fur-
nished home. We say to her:
“ Vangie,” you have begun well.

Monday we went to Caro, and
storm-bound, spent the night there.
On Tuesday, the 9th, we went to
Almer with Bro. Hugh L. Watson,
and spoke to a fair audience in the
town hall, most of whom heard of the
aims and objects for the first time. In
the near future a Grange will be or-
ganized here. Spent the night with
Bro. Watson, and were ready at an
early hour to accompany Bro. Hatch
and wife, and Bro. Watson to Caro,
where in spite of snow, rain, and mud
we met members from every Grange
of the County, and Tuscola Pomona
Grange, No. 30, was duly instituted,
with the following oflicers to-wit:
Master, Bro. A. N. Hatch; Overseer,
Bro. N. B. White; Lecturer, Bro. J.
Q. A. Burrington; Steward, Thomas
Duncan; Asst. Steward, Geo. Fairer;
Chaplain, H. Palmer; Treas., W. J.
Davis; Sec., John Mason; _G. K.,
Warren Schenck; Pomona, Sister S.
A. Hatch; Ceres, Sister H. Perry;
Flora, Sister Alice Holecker; L. A.
S., Sister Agnes Cline; also Bros.
Burrington and Perry, members of
the Executive Committee for_ two
years; and Bros. Davis and Dawson,
members for one year. The officers
were duly installed in the beautiful
lessons of the 5th degree. VVe pre-
dict success for this new organization.
It has a broad field for active labor.
At once the Executive Committee
met and organized for business, by
electing Bro. Burrington chairman,
and Bro. John Mason, Secretary.

Our work done here, we took the
train, and riding all night upon four
railroads, found ourselves at home
in time for breakfast and correspon-
dence.

when to Begin a Hall.

The time is approaching, almost at
hand, when Grangcs contemplating
the building of a hall should begin
the work. Go to work with system.
Determine the size and plan. Count
the cost. Be sure of the ways and
means. Then begin at once. It costs
but little out for a Grange in most
parts of our State to build a hall.
The timber and lumber can be had for
the cutting, sawing, and hauling, and
the same is true of the stone for
foundation. There are good work-
men in nearly every Grange who

‘would work out a large amount of

subscription. We know of members
paying up back dues by work upon
hall, and have heard of the fees of
admission being worked out in a
similar way. Thus good members
have been reclaimed or gained by the
building of a hall. The most a
Grange needs to raise in money will
be for the purchase of nails, sash,
doors, lime, and similar things.
Every Grange should own or have
a long lease of a good hall—a home
of their own. The beginning of a
hall is .8. visible evidence of the life
and energy of a Grange, and always
conduces to the, growth and strength
of the organization. We knew of a
poor Grange of only 17 members, that
began to build a hall, and worked on
to‘ success, and when done had 30
members, and within two weeks after
dedieation had over 50 members, all
h,ich;a1_-e still retained. Now is a

good time to begin the preparatory
work of building a hall. '

 

On the Wing.

For rest and ‘recreation, as well as
for instruction, etc.. we take a vaca-
tion. The Secretary has been West,
the Master East, and now why may
not the Lecturer go South At this
writing, Nov. 12, we are enroute to
Cincinnati, where we shall stay until
the 15, then go to Washington, D. C.,
to attend the National Grange. On
the 25th we go to Delaware to spend
ten days in Grange work, thence to
New Jersey for a few days. and then
come home in time to attend the State
Grange. Letters will reach me until
the 23d at Washington, D. C., care of
National hotel. From 23d to Dec.
6th at Milford, Delaware, care of J.
J. Rose. We shall send copious
notes from the National Grange, and
other items of general interest.

Mich. Patrons’ Aid Society.

It is thought best to call a meeting
of all parties interested in the organ-
ization of an Aid Association among
the members of our Order in Michi-
gan, at the time of the State Grange
meeting at Lansing Dec. 14.

Let everyone who feels interested
in this organization attend the meet-
ing, or write to me expressing his
views. C. L. WHITNEY, Sec.

Would it be for the Good of the Order
to Jlake the Visitor :1 Weekly Paper‘!

Bro. J. T. Cobb:
Permit me to express, through the

columns of the VISITOR, a few
thoughts and suggestions in regard
to making the VisiroR a weekly
paper.

It is very evident, I think, to any
person who has read the Visiron dur-
ing the past year, that questions of
great importance and value, not only
to farmers, but to other classes as
well, have been considered in the
VISITOR.

The wrong and injustice done to
the laboring people and taxpayers by,
the oppression of bad laws on the
one hand, and the wrong and injury
done to the same class for the want of
laws to control corporations and
monopolies on the‘ other, and also
the tendency to continue such abuses
have been so plainiy pointed out as to
convince every person not pred-
judiced, of the truth of the positions
taken by the VISITOR

It is evident also, I think, from the
letters the VISITOR has contained
from members of the Order from
various parts of the State, that they
not only realize the importance of
certain questions which have been
considered, but they have come to
correct conclusions as to what, course
it is necessary to pursue in order to
remedy the wrongs and evils that
exist.

They have wisely come to the con-
clusion that to repeal certain bad
laws, and to enact just laws in their
stead, that the rights and interests of
the people may be secured, it is ab-
solutely necessary that men should
be selected as members of our State
and National Legislatures who are
not only in favor of, but who are
deeply interested in accomplishing
such important objects.

Many have come to. the conclusion
that wemust select honest capable, in-
terested men to fill these important
positions, without regard to what po-
litical parties they may belong. That
it is many times more important that
men should be selected for_oflicial po-
siiions, who are well qualified, and
whose intentions are good, than it is
to know that they belong to any po-
litical party.

I believe that a great many readers
of the Visiioii have come to the con-

clusion to lay aside partisan politics
and unite to elect good, competent

men to office, who will work to ac--

complish what the members of the Or-
der desire, no matter to what politi-
cal party they belong.

Suppose the VISITOR pursues the
same wise neutral course it has pur»
sued for two years, (it is the only
safe course) ; showing the people the
injustice of our laws, and the neces-
sary course to be pursued to reach a
desired remedy. Until every vot-
ing member of the Order is willing to
unite to select just the right kind of a
mun for oflice, could they alone elect
them? I think it very doubtful.

Now if a paper like the \'isIToi:,
which is working for the interests of
the people, that is not a partisan pa-
per, and never should he, could be
made a weekly instead of a semi-
monthly Visiroii and be enlarged,
and contain some other kind of infor-
mation in addition to what it now
contains, which would be interesting
to farmers generally so as to be an in-
ducement for the majority of them to
patronize it. a sufficient number
through its teachings might see the ne-
cessity of uniting with the members
of the Order to accomplish some good
results. 4

There is certainly not enough mem-
bers of the Order alone to effect much
ofa change, and the partisan sheets
in general, which farmers read, will
never prepare them for such wise ac-
tion.

I hope to see the time when the
VISITOR will be enlarged and become
a weekly and will be read by thirty or
forty thousand people instead of by
only six thousand.

It ought to be made the leading
paper in the State for farmers because
it defends and advocates the interests
of farmers where other farmer periodi-
cals have failed. It could be made
the most interesting paper in the State
for farmers, and with judicious man-
agement, could do a vast amount
of good to the people of the State.

It is well known that the news-
papers of to-day mould to a great
extent the opinions of the public, and
often influence people to work and
vote against their own interests.

A newspaper with a large circula-
tion, taking the stand that the Visi-
TOR has for the past year, is not only
a necessity, but would do more to
educate the farmeis in the right di-
rection and prepare them to protect
their interests than all other means
put together. Hundreds of farmers
who were once members of the Order,
and thousands of others, sympathizing
with the Grange movement, would
undoubtedly patronize such a paper
were it printed, and they had the op-
portunity to subscribe for it.

I desire the opinion of others on
this important question.

 

AN

Worthy Master, what of the Grange .9
Is it doing well ?
Are the laborers all on duty is
Can you tell P
Does the Overseer rightly,
Comprehend his work to-day f
Is the Steward always faithful ?
Heading what you say ?
Does the guard, while at the entrance,
Keep a watch o'er all F
Are the Assistant Stewa.i'd’s ready
At the Master's call ?
What of Ceres and Pomona I’
What of Flora, do you know .7
Do your words of council reach them?
Does their work a fruitage show ?
Does the Chaplain at the altar,
And the Lecturer forsooth,
Do the work thou hast assigned them ?
Do they always speak the truth ?
Is the Treasurer, entrusted
.With the keys, faithful and true 7
Does the scribe keep ample record ?
We will leave it all to you ;
You the Master, we the laborers,
In the fields to-day,
Knowing not the Master's pleasure,
Till he points the way.
Then as Laborers we’ll rally
To the Master’s call ;
In our separate paths of duty
We must stand or fall.
S. P. Bxnmnn.

INQUIRY.

’l‘wnN'rY-six numbers of the GRANGE
VISITOR for 50 cents.

garlic’ Qlepartmmt.

Some Past Delusions and Present
Conclusions.

In glancing back over any interval
of past time, we can discern with sur-
prising ease a multiplicity of delusions,
that influence the great minds as well
as the small, whose existence has been
recorded in history; which record
stands, classed though it may be with
the monuments of folly —-a convinciiig
evidence that we are progressing.

These false beliefs stand side by side
with the grand old truths for which our
forefathers fought and died; hand in
hand with the greatest researches of'hu—
Lnan wisdom; sometimes fettering the
noblest ideas, and again advancing
sublime conceptions; so while many
exulted in their downfall,others lament-
ed, “And fondly mourned the dear
delusion gone.”

They seem to have existed in all
grades of society, and affected religion,
politics, commerce, literature, science,
and art.

Among the most conspicuous ancient
delusions is the Ptolomic system, which
taught that the earth was the center of
the universe. For ages it was the
accepted belief.

And then the Alchemists doctrine of
transmutation had its day and follow-
ers. Their belief in the philosopher’s
stone and the elixer of life was one of
the most deeply rooted of ancient
beliefs; but its overthrow was com-
plete,and to-day we brand it a delusion,
while we acknowledge it the parent of
modern chemistry.

Also the fallacious doctrine, known
by the names of superstitious magic,
necromancv, or witchcraft, was toler-
ated to a degree which we, living in an
atmosphere nearly destitute of super-
stition, can scarcely comprehend. But
these have long since passed away, and
we know of them only through his-
tory. which Mucauley says is stranger
than fiction. But following in their
path are others ofa more recent date,
whose influence upon the present is
easily realized.

For instance, there was a time within
the present century, that a few deluded
minds seriously asked, “Ought women
to learn the alphabet?" and many
cherished the belief that higher educa-
tion was a detriment to woman, and
that co-education, legal existence, equal
wages with men for the same work,
professional life, a position on a school
committee, the privilege of speaking
from the pulpit or rostrum, was not
practicable, would have a demoralizing
influence, was the height of folly, and
an unheard of concession on the part
of the opposite sex. '

Deluded mortals! grateful are we
that your nurtured hopes and desires
were but phantasms, which a little
wholesome intellectual sunlight in-
stantly dissolved.

And again, there are those who en-
tertained the idea that moral suasicn
would be a sufficient remedy for in-
temperance, but the majority of the
people, if not of the voters, have con-
cluded that legal suasion is also necessa-
ry to exterminate the evil. A few years
ago it was generally believed that the
South was conquered, that the rebel-
lous spirit which permeated Southern-
ers and Southern sympathizers was
quelled, but to-day we find it as bitter,
active and determined as before the
rebellion, making "the /South” the
living issue of the day.

These, together with others, show
that a multitude as well as an individu-
al, a nation as well as amultitude, the
wiseas well as the ignorant, will follow
delusions. So we, as Patrons, are not
alone, if, asit has been claimed, we are
among the deluded, that in striving to
educate the farmer we are grasping at a
phantom, unsubstantial and unattain-
able.

That further research will do away
with many accepted theories we can-
not but believe, and the more enlighten-
ed a people are, the less prone they are

‘newspapers

to adopt mistaken theories: therefore,
organizations for mental improvement
cannot be too numerous, and the agri-
culturalist resembles the rest of inan-
kind inasmuch as he needs to improve,
and cannot keep pace with civilization
without an effort.

VVe claim that the Grange is and has
been a benefit, and we can prove it.
That it might have done more we will
not dispute, but if itimprovein aslight
degree, the intellectual, moral or social
condition of the farmer it deserves per-
petuity. But if this institution should
instantly become extinct, it would leave
memories behind.lhat would never per-
ish. It has led many to take steps to-
wards improvement that they would
never retrace. So long as nothing better
is offered the conclusion is that we
should redou hle our efforts for the good
of the Order, and whether it be classed
among the great commanding move-
ments or not, it will eventually aid not
one alone. but all mankind.

ANNA L. I-‘i:i.i.ows.

Oct. 16, 1880.

Matters for the Consideration of Voters.

During last week’s session of the
State Grange there were several res-
olutions adopted on subjects vital to
the material interests of this coast.
There was one or more declaring
it to be the sense of the farmers of
this State that the Commissioner of
Agriculture should be made a cabi-
net officer, and in favor of appro-
priations suflicient to establish and
maintain at least three experimental
agricultural stations on this coast.

Also, there was passed a resoluiioii in
favor of offering aid and encouragement
in the prosecution of the work of cin-
structing a ship canal across the isthmus
dividing North and South America, to
the end that our commerce may be in-
dependent of railroad combinations.

Also, there was passed a preamable
and resolutions, declaring in favor of
Congressional legislation by which the
freights and fares on all inter-State
railroads shall be controlled.

This course of action on the part of
farmers is being advocated by all the
prominent men of the Order through-
out the United States. The National
Grange, at its last session, advocated
and counseled substantially the same
action, which is here outlined. The
Grange and agricultural periodicals and
throughout the length
and breadth of the land are fully in ac-
cord with this view of the situation, and
are working earnestly to secure needed
reforms, by endeavoring to unite the
farmers of the nation to ignore all par-
ty lines whenever measures necessary
for the relief and protection of the farm-
er may be secured by united action.
The agricultural interest is paramount
to all others, and therefore should be
secure from the combinations which are
endeavoringtolive and fatten on the
fruits of the farmer. The farmers of
the nation constitute over 40 per cent.
of the entire population, and hence
hold the balance of all political power.
By unity of action they can dictate the
policy of the National administration,
and control all legislation necessary to
secure immunity from the vampires
who seek to live on their substance.
A party organization among the farm-
ers is unnecessary; in fact would be
voidofany good results. Our power
lies in being able to elect or defeat any
man, or set of men which the politi-
cians may nominate; conscquently the
farmers, acting as a body can get from
the general party nominees all the
pledges and guarantees necessary to
receive whatever legislation we may re-

uire.

range passed the resolutions alluded
to. When they are submitted to our
Congressional nominees we will see
what they will say about them. We
believe that every one of these men
will agree to aid to the extent of his
ability, if elected, to secure the passage
of the measures proposed. But should
any one or more ofthein refuse to aid
the farmers of the Nation in their land-
able undertakings, then we say defeat
him or them, whatever the political
complexion of the candidates. Let the
party go to the wall whenever there is a
conflict between the interests of the
party and the welfare of the country.
Ifthe farmers of this State have not
suflicient continuity of purpose and
unity of action to stand together in
support of measures so manifestly in
their interest, then they deserve noth-
ing better than to serve their taskmas-
ters until they learn to act as a unit in
self-defense.—0al2jform'a Patron.

EIGHT bushels of,good lime, sixteen
bushels of good sand, and one bushel
of hair will make enough mortar to
plaster one hundred square yards.

ARISTOTLE was asked what one
would gain by lying, and he laconical-
ly replied, “ Never to be believed when
he spoke the truth."

A CORD of stone, three bushels of lime

and a cubic yard of sand will lay one

hundred cubic feet of wall.

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.‘

gmums flcpartmcnt.

0. L. WHITNEY; ‘ ' - MUSKEGON.

Pickings by the Way, No. 18.

Among the many letters that lay
upon our table the morning of Oct. 12,
were applications for Pomona Granges
in Lapeer and Tuscola Counties. In
the evening we took the train for our
to-morrow’s work. Went to Grand
Junction to spend the night, and. took
an early train for Bloomingdale, which
on a. slow train was soon reached, and
with Bro. Wigging's was soon en route
to

THE CHESHIRE FAIR.

We passed some fine ‘lands, fine
farms, good homes, with orchards well
laden, all showing the industrious and
thrifty farmer. We expected to have a
good meeting. We saw signs of it by
the way. On coming in sight we saw
that our anticipations were to be more
than realized. Teams and people in
every direction. Yards and fields full
of men and women. Grange hall and
a school house nearly full also. Reach-
ing the hall, many greetings of old
friends and hearty welcomes were ours.
“ To dinner" was the first order. We
obeyed, as we always do at such times,
for the “ Good of the Order.”

“ Old Poultry ” must have grown the
chickens, for they were good, as was
everything else, especially the pie, of
which one sister held her lap full, wait-
ing for us to eat.

Enough being a feast, we were ready
to look about and see the fair. The

, lower room of the hall was fitted up

with tables, all of which were well
laden with fruits, all choice and good
of their kind. Here were also shown
vegetables and grains of many varieties,
equaling in quality as well as in quan-
tity the show in many County fairs.
In the upper room of the Grange hall
was the needle and fancy work, and a
large show of good work, all the pro-
duct of the farmers’ wives and

daughters, for be it understood, none‘

could exhibit here except Patrons in
good standing. The canned fruit, jel-
lies, dried fruit, and cake and pies, and
bread and butter, all had a place, and
were shown in abundance. Plants and
flowers were also upon exhibition, but
we have not room to enumerate all,
and cannot say less than that they
would have done credit to a State fair.
In the fields adjacent to the hall we
found the cattle, sheep, horses, swine,
and poultry, and a good exhibition of
each, better than sometimes seen at
County fairs. ’
This fair was gotten up by Cheshire,
Woodman, Trowbridge, and Scott
Lake Granges. No money was re-
quired, and no money to be paid, yet
this large attendance, and fine exhibi-
tion was secured. From the Secretary,
Bro. S. S. Stout, we learn that there
were between 600 and 700 entries, which
gave the committees something to do to
tie on the blue ribbons,for there were
many first premiums awarded, and
there had to be some second prizes
taken. Such an exhibition should be
held by every Grange, each year, either
alone, or in conjunction with others, as
here. This is in accordance with
Grange teaching. We a_re'taught to
‘<‘ persevere and bring together for ex-
hibition, at proper seasons, the choicest
productions of orchard, farm, garden,
dairy, and household skill, that wemay
incite one another to good works.”
Yet what good this, unless that inform-
ation be given that will enable others
to achieve equally valuable results.

We would gladly have known who
produced many articles upon exhibi-
tion, and by what process, but gained
no information except what cold figures
could give. We suggest that the ad-

dress of each exhibitor be given, for
the instruction of the public, who ‘will
be the real judges of the merits and
demerits of the articles shown. A
truly qualified committee will judge of
me article, and not the person who

shows it.

>would not permit us to come.

We have mentioned that this exhibi-
tion was in the hall of Cheshire Ban-
ner Grange. This hall is new, unfin-
ished—yet it does the Grange great
credit, and they are to be congratulated
upon the wisdom and discretion in
providing a Grange home. When
completed and formally dedicated, a
full description will be_given by some
one, and we can only say it is a two-
story building 40x22 feet. The hall
proper and ante-rooms will be above,
and a banquet and store room will be
found below. Trowbridge Grange, we
are happy to learn, is building a suit-
able building for a hall. The Wood-
man Grange is preparing to build
a hall also. Persevere, brothers and
sisters, and add permanancy to the
Order by giving it fixed and commo-
dious places of abode.

At 2 P. M., the appointed hour, the
people assembled at ‘the side of the
building to hear the address, which
duty was assigned to us. We werepleased
with so large an audience, who gave an
attentive ear to our instruction. Two
brass bands gave music for the occa-
sion. Bro. David VVoodman 2d, Master
of Van Buren Pomona Grange, fol-
lowed us with some well chosen re-
marks, after which the crowd dis-
persed, except the members of the Or-
der present, who assembled at 5 1-. M.
in the Grange hall (changed as by mag-
ic from an exhibition room), to have a
talk upon the inside work of our Order.
An hour was taken in this duty, then
we went to tea. At 7 :30 P. M. we met
a hall full of people, and gave another
talk upon the objects and aims of our
Order. Bro. Stout and wife invited us
to their home for the night, which we
accepted and enjoyed, and were well
prepared for the duties of

OCTOBER 14.

The forenoon was spent in writing.
In the P. M. we rode over to Blooming-
dale, and .met the Grange there in
private session for instruction in the
higher work of the Order. Bro.
Haven’s invitation to tea was accepted
by us, and we enjoyed it in company
with Bro. Wiggins and Sister Dickson.
The hour for the evening public meet-
ing brought a hall full of people, to
whom, after some excellent singing, we
spoke for an hour. At a late hour we
bade good-by to friends, and rode home
with Bro. Dickson, of Woodman
Grange, to spend the night. Rest and
breakfast prepared us for an early ride
to Gobleville, where we took the
train to Kalamazoo, where dinner was
eaten, and then a freight train was
made useful in going to Schoolcraft,
where we found much to do and enjoy
as usual.

THE GALE 0F1880
will be a period in the cycle of time long
to be remembered by many. We were
awakened at an early hour on the
morning of the 16th by the heavy
wind that howled fiercely about the
corner we occupied. We can’t take
time or space to give in detail the
events of this day. Our delayed return
home in the evening by the trees fallen
upon the track that had to be out before
we could pass, and the general scatter-
ing of fences, etc., at home, was exper-
ience enough for us, but What of the
anxious moments of those whose
friends were upon the Alpena, and
other fated vessels upon Lake Michi-
gan. We wisely pass what We cannot
do justice to,~ and leave the remainder
of the chapter to abler chroniclers.
NORTHWARD AGAIN.

On Monday, the 18th, we started
from home again for the Grangework
upon our north-west border. Traverse
City was reached at 6 P. M., and seek-
ing the home of Bro. and Sister R. A.
Campbell, found rest for the night.
Too rough upon the Bay for a boat,
and none to go, we took the stage on
the 19th to fill an appointmant at Elk
Rapids, but found disappointment, as
the rough weather, it was thought,
The
night was spent at Bro. J. Sours, and
arrangements made for another visit.
Bro. Sours has a line farm three miles

-way to Empire.

south of Elk Rapids, lying upon Elk
Lake. An orchard of 20 acres, just

‘coming into bearing, took our attention

for an hour or more, and the fruit
shows the wisdom of the owner in
setting out. Such fine Baldwins’, Rus-
setts, Greenings, Peck’s Pleasant, and
Northern Spy, as Bro. Sours showed
us, we have seen but seldom. After
dinner we boarded the Queen of the
Lakes, and found the genial Capt.
Johnson ready as ever to do his duty
towards all entrusted to his care, and
we could wish that as genial and ac-
commocating oflicials could be given in
charge of all routes of travel, as well as
depots and post-ofiices, and especially
do we wish one might be found at the
post—ofiice at Traverse City. In the
cabin of the Queen our “Pickings”
grew by the way, while we passed the
beautiful inland lakes and rivers
noticed before, and at last we made
Eastport to find Bros. Williams and
Drake, with their wives, waiting to
take us to Atwood on the State road.
The night was spent at Bro. Drake's
home near Eastport. In the morning,
a few moments was taken to look over
the surroundings, and see the orchard
of choice fruit, which yielded prolific-
ally this season, peaches, pears, plums,
and apples. The day was mostly spent
in writing, and the evening was given
to a large and attentive audience, to
whom we endeavored to give instruc-
tion upon the purposes of the Order.
ACROSS THE BAY.

On Friday morning, the 22d, Bro.
Jas. Williams came for us quite early,
and took us to Torch Lake, where we
took dinner. The hotel was partly
closed, only enough in use to accom-
modate Mrs. Lewis, and her small fam-
ily. The steamer City of Grand Rap-
ids came in good time, and gave usa
pleasant trip to Northport. Bro. Green
met us at the landing, and took us in
charge. We had a small audience in
the evening, a husking bee and sur-
prise party being each better attended.
We had the pleasure of meeting Rev.
Geo. N. Smith and Prof. P. D. Cornell,
both of whom are much interested in
the work.

Onithe following morning the ques-
tion was, “Houv to get out,” there
being no boat. It is said, “ ’Twere
better to be born lucky than rich,” So
we thought when we learned that Bro.
Cornell was going to Traverse City
with a buggy, and we could ride with
him, and help shorten the 30 miles. A
good team and light wagon were pro-
vided, and we had a very pleasant ride
indeed. Our route was mostly along
the shore of the Bay. The road was
mainly good, and We saw some good
farms and fine orchards, stopped at
Sutton’s Bay, to rest and feed the team,
and made Traverse City at 3:20 P. M.,
about five hours upon the road. The
many beautiful trout brooks pleased us.
This County, like all this part of Mich-
igan, is well watered. We rested until

Monday morning, when Bro..George-

Hedden. of Old Mission, come with
conveyance to take us to
KASSON.

A little way out of Traverse City. it
began to rain, compelling us to stop at
Bro. Brooks, in Solon,‘ and waited an
hour or two and got dinner. Just be-
fore night we reached Bro. Whitels,
and after tea, gave a public and private
talk to the people of Kasson Grange.

OCTOBER 26
was a little wet, but with many direc-
tions and explanations we took our
We had no trouble in
finding our way through the forests and
over hills to Bro. John Dorsey’s, on the
south side of Glen Lake. After dinner
we took in Bro. Dorsey, and rode
around the Lake through Glen Haven
and Glen Arbor, to Bro. Fisher's,
where Bro. Hedden left us to go to the
top of Miller Hill. A very pleasant
night of rest at the home of Bro. and
Sister Fisher prepared us for a
Lone WALK,

which, under the guidance of Bro.
Dorsey.» we took at a moderate pace,
soon leaving the beautiful little hamlet

of Glen Arbqr behind. Then we passed
up! up! until we reached the top of
the hill overshadowing Glen Haven.
The top of the hill is a broad plateau of
many hundred acres of good clay soil,
From our standpoint over 300 feet above
Lake Michigan, at the foot of the hill
we could see the “kingdoms of the
earth,” or part of them. For the first
time we saw the Manitou Islands. The
South Manitou lay to the northwest,
just over Sleeping Bear Point, and nine
miles distant. This island is about
three miles long by two miles wide,
and has about 100 inhabitants, engaged
mainly in wrecking. Two members of
our Order dwell upon this island, and
keep the light-house. ’I‘o the north lay
North Manitou Island, a little longer
than its companion, being seven miles
long by five miles wide, and is fifteen
miles distant from the mainland. A
few families live upon this island, but
like their neighbors of South Manitou,
are not much troubled with politics, as
they have to go to Beaver Island to
vote, if they exercise that right. We
are told that the soil upon both of these
islands is good, well adapted to fruit
culture. Beyond the North Manitou
some 30 miles distant, we could discern
the Fox Islands. After another look
at the Sleeping Bear, with its vast area
of drifting sands, We made our way
down to Glen Lake, and to Bro. Dor-
sey’s to dinner. With Bro. and Sister
Dorsey we rode to Dr. Allen-‘s, where
we met a goodly number of people,
and gave a public lecture, after which
we had some excellent music by Misses
Mary and Martha Allen, grand-
daughters of host and hostess. A
Grange feast and a social chat passed
the time until the private meeting of
the Grange was called. An hour of
instruction was given, and then come
an hour’s social enjoyment with music,
etc., etc. ’I‘oo soon came the time for
saying good-bye to many pleasant
friends. VVe hope we may have occa-
sion to some time visit this place again.
Bro. Tweddle, having hitched up his
bovine team (one had no horns), he
called “All aboard!” and we took
a seat with the driver, and were soon at
his home warming by a welcome fire.
To BENZIE.

At an early hour we took a look over
the frosted landscape about the home
of our host. This farm pleased us very
much. The house is upon a bluff 80
rods from Lake Michigan, and al-
though 200 feet above the lake, yet a
higher and well wooded hill lies be-
tween the house and the lake, protect-
ing the former and the orchard. Bro.
T. has about 80 acres cleared, every rod
of which is in full view from the house.
After breakfast Bro ’l‘weddle took his
horse and wagon, and we‘ started for
our afternoon labors. We called upon
Bro. S. Berry, of Platte Grange, whose
members are all demitted, and we hope
will attach themselves to Empire
Grange soon. The country we passed.
is very fine indeed, and is being settled
by those who will make smiling homes
of plenty from the forest wild. At
noon we reached Bro. P. Palmer’s, and
enjoyedagood dinner. At 1:30 P. M.
we went to Almira Grange, and their
friends, at the frame school house,
where we spoke.

Among our auditors were Bro.
Brooks, Worthy Master of ‘ Traverse
City Grange, W. M. Wheelock and
wife, and Bro. and Sister White, of
Kasson Grange. But for some’ reason
the Master of Almira Grange, who of
all persons should have been present.
was not at hand. Many who are not
Patrons seem to be more interested in
our public meetings than some of our
members, SHAME. The much needed
private meeting could not be held, for
those who most needed it were absent.
upon invitation we went to the house
of Bro. Mattice to tea, and he then took
us to Bro. White’s.

AN EARLY RIDE.

Up at three o’clock the next morning,
and after breakfast taken, we started
with Bro. White for Traverse City,
which we reached just in time to get

our mail. and breakfast again wlth Bro.
Campbell, and board a train for our
next appointment.

A dispatch informs us of our nomina-
tion for ofiice. It says, "Come home
and work,” but our appointments for
every day until election are out and
must be kept. So late a nomination
has saved us a newspaper representa-
tion, and our political, social, private,
public, special and general character
and reputation,etc., etc., have not been
analyzed, and so did not give our oppo-
nent a fair chance. Most of our friends
did not know we were in the field,
and we hardly knew it ourselves.

Bro. S. A. Gardner met us at the sta-
tion, and we the first time looked upon
his home, which by his own efforts he
has hewn from the wilderness. Bro.G.
has 160 acres of very fine land, 100 hav-
ing been cleared,.and have given excel-
lent crops. Good barns and tools are
needed upon such a farm, and Bro.
G. has them.

Our oft asserted theory of the adapta-
bility of sheep to Traverse County has
been satisfactorily demonstrated by
their use upon this farm. The health,
increase, and yield of wool of this flock
will convince anyone. What the inas-
ter of this place is to work outside,
Sister G. is to the household and its
management——a competent mistress in
every respect. We are pleased to an-
nounce that Bro. and Sister Gardner
will both be voting members of the
next State Grange. Dinner over, our
host took us again in charge, and with
a good team were soon at Wexford,
eight or ten miles away. On our route
we met a sewing machine agent, with
his sample machine, trying. to sell
it, or another similar to it, for $40. We
spoiled his sale at one place by referring
the would-be purchaser to the fact that
Bro. 'G. had just bought the same
machine for a member of his Grange
of Bro. Mason, our Chicago agent, for
$18.40 and freight. The agent was told of
this fact, but used the same old story in
return, to-wit: “ It is an old machine,
or made of_iron, etc.,” when it was a
warranted machine, and just as good as
the agent ever sold. Will it pay tojoin
the Grange to save $21.60 in asingle
purchase? We learned some other facts
which we put under the

SIGN or CAUTION;
not only in the case just cited,
but in most all the work done by
canvassers, especially in the case of
fruit tree peddlers or agents. In this
section, they have done a great deal of
sharp work. Armed with a few cases
of fruit, they go upon their errands.
They have gooseberries as large as hen’s
eggs, and many other wonderful things.
Their chief stock in trade seems to be
the Russian apple. “Three-year old
trees on six-year old imported stocks at
$1.00 each, they only wish to sell a tree
or two in a place, to introduce the
variety. which will bear in two or three
years, when the variety will become so
famous that they will return, and sell
millions of trees. One man in Grand
Traverse County gave a chattel mort-

thus be caught. Thousands of Russian
apples can be had at 10 or 15 cents
apiece, and less by the hundred. A
word to the wise is sufiicient.

A night of rest, and an early break-
fast of fresh venison, killed the day
before near by, prepared us for

OUR LAST DAY’S WORK HERE.

Bro. and Sister Gardner and their
two children accompanied us to Trav-
erse City, the surroundings of which
upon the south we greatly admired.

Traverse City Grange met in the
afternoon in regular session. We were
pleased to meet with them in their hall
dedicated nearly ayear since. At the
request of Worthy Master Hyde. we
acted as Master, and had the pleasure
of conferring the instruction of the
degree of Husbandman upon two
brothers, and that of Matron upon a
like number of sisters.

The session over, we started for Elk

Lake. Bro. H_oxie, of Acme, a worthy

gage for $80.00 to secure some of these ,
and like trash. No true Patron will '

 

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‘November for the east.

TI-IE GRANGE VISITOR.

member of Traverse City Grange, took
us in charge. With Sisters Hoxie and
Rennie we rode eight miles to tea,
which Sister Hoxie served to us in her
own home, upon the east shore of the
East Bay. The brother came also, and
having eaten, we again took to travel,
and were soon at the Sour’s school
house, eight miles further on. A fair
number of people met, in spite of the
wind and rain, and after an hour's talk
Elk Lake Grange, No. 469, was duly
re-organized with 21 good members,
and Bro. Neil Monroe, Master, and
Bro. Henry Gee, Secretary. As many
new members will be added to this
Grange soon, or we are much mistaken.
At a late hour with Bro. Hyde we
lunched and retired to rest at Bro.
Neil Monroe’s home.

Our host has a fine farm made from
the wilderness. It is one of the many
good farms upon the fertile ridge 50
miles long, lying between Traverse
Bay on the west, and Elk Lake upon
the east.

We reach Bro. Hoxie’s for dinner,
after which we bade this brother and
sister good-by, and in company with
Bro. Hyde and Sister R. were carried
to Traverse City. We then found the
pleasant home of Bro. and Sister
Ramsdell, and rested until morning.
When our work was completed here,we
took the train for home, feeling that as
far as we were concerned, this part of
the Grange territory cannot complain.
All the Granges here ought to do better
work than before, and at least eight or
more Granges should be instituted here
during the coming winter. We have
partly planned to do this work later,
after the State Grange.

Larsen COUNTY.

A renewal of acquaintance with wife
and children, election over, etc., We
took the afternoon train on the 4th of
To-day, the
5th, we have met the Patrons of the
Granges of Lapeer County, and insti-
tuted Lapeer Pomona Grange, No. 29,
with the following officers duly elected
and installed, to—wit: Bro. Win. A.
Montgomery, Master; Bro. J. F. Muir,
Overseer; Bro. Wm. North, Lecturer;

_ Bro. H. Bradshaw, Steward; Bro. R.

H. Williams, Asst. Steward; 31'0-
Normand Burley, Chaplain; Bro. E-
Bartlett, Treasurer‘; Bro. G. W. Rudd,
Secretary; Bro. I. D. Nye, G. K.;
Sister Sarah J. Muir, Ceres; Sister
Marcy Lockwood, Pomona; Sister N.
F. Bradshaw, Flora; and Sister P.
Howard, L. A. S. The following were
chosen to act as Executive Committee
with the Master and Secretary, Bros.
E. Bartlett, John F. Muir, H. Brad-
shaw, and Richard Barnes. Of the
good dinner and pleasant time,of course
we had them. Upon invitation of Bro.

’ Wm. North, we spent the night with

him and family—a genuine farmer
home, and the following morning, a
good horse and good company, made
the wayseem short to Imlay City,
whither we went over a muddy road,
and through the rain and sleet.

 

Pomona Granges.

We call attention of all ofiicers and
members of the County or District
Granges to the laws under which they
exist and work. Let everyjone read and
become familiar, especially with See.
8, page 19, of the Mich. State Grange
By-Laws, especially the last clause:
“All members of County or District
Granges shall be on the alert to aid the
Subordinate Granges in their District,
“.1!

Now is the time to begin this aid, in
both an individual and organized capac-
ity—by meetings, lectures, and every
other-available means, to secure a thor-
ough revival of interest everywhere:
to spread a general knowledge of the
aims and purposes of the Order, to the
increase of membership andinfluence,
and to promote the higher welfare of
the tiller of the soil.

Let all members of the Order, as all
true members will, join the Pomona

. Grange at once, and enlist in the gen-

enladvanoeall along the line. Then,

by a well directed system of meetings,
public and private, with every Subor-
dinate Grange, carry out the plans so
formed. Send lecturers into every part
of the District, whether there are
Granges there or not, and call out the
farmers to teach them the value of or-
ganization, and enlist all in the good
cause.

Thus may the prosperity of our Order
be greater next year than in any previ-
ous year, and the results thus gained be
of importance in all the coming years.

7 The Camirlgn.

The people have read and talked pol-
itics in the partisan sense until weary
of it, now let the farmers, at least, tu'rn
their attention to themselves and their
surroundings. Let the farmers and
their families begin a campaign higher
in its aims, deeper in its purposes, and
purer in its motives than the one closed
on the 2d inst. Let us begin a vigorous
campaign for the development of a
higher and better manhood and wom-
anhood among ourselves.

Begin now by instituting a well con-
ducted series of Grange meetings. Meet
oftener than heretofore. Meet every
week; have something to do, and do it,
at every meeting. Make the halls pleas-
ant and attractive, by decorations of
green trimmings, mottos, emblems, pic-
tures, etc. Make every meeting more
instructive and attractive than the pre-
ceding one. Bring into action all the
members, old and young, by some plan
that will interest all. Win back all the
old members on the retired list, and
give them something to do. Instead
of grumbling and finding fault with
others, go to work yourself; be too busy
to have time to see others’ faults. Shirk
no duty laid upon you by the Grange,
but promptly discharge all.

Let this autumn’s and winter's cam-
paign be one of promptness, regular-
ity, industry and prosperity in your
branch of our beloved Order. Study to
improve it and yourself.

When you have set your Grange
home in order, then look about you to
see whom you can invite tojoin you in
the ‘enterprise, and show them you have
a welcome for them, and that there is
room and work for them. Send and get
ahundred or more copies of the “ Dec-
laration of Purposes,” and see that
every member has a copy to read. Send
one to every family without the gates
whose members you would interest in
the Order and induce to become mem-
hers. Get every Grange family 0 take
the VISITOR-— even get those without
the Order to subscribe and become
readers of this growing paper. Become
familiar with the precepts of the Grange
and live and teach them. Learn your

_duties as olficers or members, and per-

form them to the best of your ability.
Do this, every member, old or young,
male or female, and note the results.

To Increase an Interest.

If your Grange is dull— poorly at-
tended, and the members not well in-
terested, get all you can of the members
to go to the State Grange at Lansing.
The effect will be surprising. Go your-
self, if you have never been, and get all
you can to go with you.

It will pay any farmer to visit Lans-
ing, see the beautiful city, our fine State
House, the Reform School, our own
Agricultural College and farm, 650.

Every Patron .should go not only to
see these, but to take his wife and chil-
dren, if members, and attend the ses-
sion of the State Grange.

The farmer stays too much at home,
as a rule. Low rates at hotels and upon
railroads will be given. Come and enjoy
the State Gran ge.

What Have You to Sell?

The GRANGE VISITOR is a good me-
dium in which to advertise. If a farmer
has anything to sell, or wishes to buy
anything, from a farm to a pair of fowls,
he will find the VISITOR, that visits
nearly 10,000 homes every two weeks,
an excellent medium to use. Try it, and
see what will result.

To Dormant Granges

A baker’s dozen or more of you have
ceased to be dormant during the past
year, by re-organization. Some, also,
by their own efforts, have gone to
work, and will be representedthis win-
ter in the State Grange. Let this be an
example, and encourage those of you
that have not yet made an effort. Noth-
ing great or good can be accomplished
without effort. Try what you can do—-
send for some sample copies of the VIS-
ITOR and the “Declaration of Purposes.’,
Get up what interest you can, and if
there are even afew whowish to return to
the fold. write to the State Lecturer and
ask his aid, and if as successful as most,
or all, who have asked it, will have an
active working Grange before spring
comes._

Try earnestly, and keep trying, and
you will certainly succeed.

" Where is Thy Brother? ”

This is addressed to every Patron
Thy brother farmer, why is he not in
the Grange‘? Is it not thy fault ? Hast
thou been a consistent Patron, setting
in all respects a worthy example for
him to follow? Has the example been
supplemented by the excellent precepts
given you to teach?
grown tired of the noble work of the
Order? Have you not been a stum-
bling-block to him? Is it thy duty to
win him back‘? You feel it good for
thee to be a Patron? Is is not well for
every farmer to be oue— well for him,
and better for thee? What then is thy
duty? Seek to find thy brother, and
enlist him in developing a higher and
better manhood.

Help thy, Neighbor.

We mean that neighbor Grange of
thine? Is it tired? Help it by an
earnest, prompt, and efiicient effort.
Go to the old members, awaken them
to activity again ; interest them in the
advance the Order is making, and in-
struct them in the way to return to the
ranks of activitv. Show them the
Vrsrron, and get them to take and read
it, if for only six months. Follow
effort up with repeated effort. Get all
the members of your own and neigh-
boring Granges to assist you, and see
what you can do. Remember that
every effort you make will assist your
own Grange, strengthening it, and the
Order, and develop your own ability
and resources.

Try for One.

Read the offer in the last GRANGE
VISITOR of four numbers free, if sub-
scriptions are taken now for one year.
Tell this to every Patron and urge him
to subscribe for his family. Show the
paper, and tell every farmerin your vi-
cinity how cheap it can be had, and
urge him to take it a year, and get the
two months free. Try it at least six
months.

A Satisfactory Candidate for Life Insur-
once.

Josh Billings says : “ I kum to the
con:-lusion lately that life was so onsart—
in that the only wa for me tu standa
fair chance with other folks was tu git
my life insured, and so i called on the
agent ov the Garden Angel Life Insur-
ance Co., and ansurd the following
questions, which was put to me over
the top ov apairov gold spects, by a
slick little fat old feller. with a little
round grey head, and as pretty a little
belly on him as enny man ever owned :
Q,uestion—-1st. Are you male or fe-
male, and if so, pleze state how long
you have been so. 2d. Are you subject
to fits, and if so, do yu ever have more
than one at a time? 3d. Did yu ever
have enny ancestors, and if so, how
much?‘ 4th. Do yu ever have enny
nite mares? 5th. Are yu married or
single, or are you a bachelor? 6th. Do
you believe in a future state? If you do,
state it. 7th. Have yu ever committed
suicide, and if so, how did it seem to
affect yu? After ansuring the above
questions like a man, in the confirme-
tif. the slick little fat old feller with
gold spects on, ced I was insured for
life, and proberly woold remain so for
aterm ov years. I thanked him, and
smiled one uv my most pensive smiles.”

ENDEAVOB to be what you would
appear to be.

Why has he ’

PAPA’S LETTER .
I was sitting in my study,
Writing letters, when‘I heard,
“Please. dear mamma. Mary told me
Mamma mustn't be ’istu.i-bed.

“But I’se tired of the kitty,
Want some ozzer fing to do.
Witing letters, is ‘on. mamma ?
Ta.n’t I write a letter, too ?"

"Not now, darling, manima’s busy;
Run and play with kitt now. '

“No. no, mamina, me wite etter—
Tan if ‘on will show me how.”

I would paint my darling's ortrait
As his sweet eyes search my face-
Hair of gold and eyes of azure,
Form of childish, witching grace.

But the eager face was clouded,
As I slowly shook my head.

Till I said, " I’ll make a letter
Of you, darling boy, instead.”

So I parted back the tresses,

From his forehead high and white,
And a stamp in sport I pasted,

‘Mid its waves of golden light.

Then I said, “ Now, little letter
Go away, and bear good news.
And I smiled as down the staircase
Clattered loud the little shoes.

Leaving ms, the darling hurried
Down to Mary in his glee,
“Mamma’s witing lots of letters ;
I’se a. letter, Mary—see ! "

No one heard the little‘prat1:ler,
As once more he climbed the stair,
Reached his little cap and tippet,
Standing on the entry stair.

No one heard the front door open,
No one saw the golden hair,

As it floated o'er his shoulders
In the crisp October air.

Down the street the baby hastened,
Till he reached the office door,
“I’se a letter, Mr. Postman,;
Is there room for any more ?

“Cause dis letter’s doin’ to papa ;
Papa lives with God, ’ou know,
Mamma sent me for a. letter,
Does ’ou link ‘at 1 tan go ‘.9 ”

But the clerk in wonder answered,
“ Not to-day, my little man."
“Den I'll find anozzer ofiice,
‘Cause I must do if I tan."

Fain the clerk would have detained him,
But the pleading face was gone,

And the little feet were hastening—
By the busy crowd swept on.

Suddenly the crowd was parted,
People fled to left and right,
As a pair of maddened horses
At the moment dashed in sight.

No one saw the baby figure-
No one saw the golden hair,

Till a voice of frightened sweetness
Rang out on the Autumn air.

’Twas too late—-a moment only
Stood the beauteous vision there,

Then ‘the little face lay lifeless,
Covered o’er with golden hair.

Reverently they raised my darling,
Brushed away the curls of gold,

Saw the stamp upon the forehead,
Growing now so icy cold.

Not a mark the face disfigured,
Showing where a hoot‘ had trod :
But the little life was ended-
‘; Papa's letter " was with God.

Important Resolutions.

[We clip from the California Patron
some resolutions, and an editorial arti-
cle, that shows our California friends
are progressive. We take it that the
mission of the Grange is not ended,
nor will it be in our day. With these
convictions, we say to our California
brothers, “ You are on the right track;
go ahead.”——ED.]

The following resolutions, in which
every farmer of the State is directly
interested, were almost unanimously
adopted by the late California State
Grange.-

Secretary of Agriculture
mended—-By Amos Adams:

To the Congress of the United States .-

WHEREAS, We, the Grangers of Cali-
fornia, in State Convention assembled,
repeat the oft-declared truism, that
agriculture is the greatest of all inter-
ests in the United States. That with-
out it our great Nation would sink into
insignificance, if not out of sight.
That we, representative agriculturists
of California, demand that this great
interest should be represented in the
councils of the Nation by a Cabinet
officer, and that our delegation in Con-
gress be, and are hereby requested, to
procure the passage of a law creating a
Cabinet oflicer, to be known as the
“ Secretary of Agriculture.”

Resolved, That considering the great
ability, zeal, and good judgment the
Hon. Wm. G. LeDuc has exhibited in
the discharge of his duties as Commis-
sioner of Agriculture, singles him out
from among the many qualified persons
as being pre-eminently fitted to fill the
position of Secretary of Agriculture,
and we, therefore, earnestly recommend
him as a suitable person to be appointed
to that position.

Resolved, That the interests of agri-
culture on the Pacific slope imperative-
ly demand the establishment of at
least three agricultural or experimental
stations—two to be located in Califor-
nia, and one in Oregon.

Recom-

Resolved, That our Sentators and
Representatives in Congress be request-
ed to procure suitable appropriations to
carry out the objects 01 the preceding
resolutions.

Inter-oceanic Canal—-By J. V. Web-
ster:

WHEREAS, The material interests of
the Pacific coast are seriously circum-
scribed and embarrassed by combina-
tions controlling the present lines of
transportation from the Pacific to the
Atlantic seaboard; and

\VHi-mi-:As, The prosperity of Cali-
fornia, and the adjoining States de-
pend largely on the opening up of a

commercial highway above and beyond '

individual or corporate control: there-
fore, be it

Resolved, By the State Grange of
California, that all the moraland finan-
cial aid possible should be extended in
the direction of the promotion of the
commencement and completion of an
inter-oceanic canal across the Isthmus
connecting North and South America.

Endorsement of the Reagan Bill on
Freights and Fares.—By J . V. Web-
ster:

WHEREAS, 'I‘he agricultural and com-
mercial prosperity of the Nation is
largely under the control of railroad
combinations; and

VVI-IEREAS, The Supreme Court of
the United States has declared the jur-
isdiciion of State and Federal author-
ity over the regulation of freights and
fares on all lines of railroad transpor-
tation; therefore be it ,

Resolved, By the State Grange of
California, that we demand such Con-
gressional legislation as will secure an
equitable and uniform rate of freight
and passenger transportation on all
inter-state railroad lines, to the end
that all discrimination as between in-
dividuals and places, and the “pooling”
of freights and fares shall cease. And
we further declare that the Reagan bill

‘(so called), presented for the considera-

tion of the last Congress by Judge
Reagan, embodies: the sense of this
Grange on the subject under considera-
tion.

Pacific Coast Branch Agricultural
Department.—By Amos Adams:

Resolved, That in view of the radical
difi‘erence between the agriculture of
the Eastern States, and that of the
Pacific coast, we require a branch of
the Agricultural Department, whose
special function shall be to collect and
diffuse information respecting the pe-
culiar wants of this coast; and we
respectfully ask Congress for continu-
ance of the appropriations made for
that purpose in the last agricultural
appropriation bill, and an increase of
the same, and our Senators and Repre-
sentatives are requested to press this
demand.

STAY not until you are told ofo por-
tunties to do good—-enquire aftert em.

—Rest is not quitting
This busy career;
Rest is the fitting
Of self to one’: sphere.
— Selected.

Tun lnnnrnn. nmrrn.

BALl)WIN.- Died Sept. 10th. 1880, at her
fa.tiiei"s liiiuse in Olive, our young sister DELLA
BALDW x‘. of that dread disease, consumption.

She ‘A115 is worthy member oi’ Olive Grange.
No. 358, and was buried under the auspises of
the Grange. Coimirran.

SCOFIELD.—Died at Royalton. Oct. 30th,
1880, Bro. HENRY I... SCOFIELI). The following
resolutions of respect were adopted by Fruit
Grange, No. 104, P. of H., at its next meeting:

Wnnanns, The all-wise Ruler of the Uni-
verse has removed from our midst by death
our worthy and esteemed Brother Harvey L.
Scofield, therefore;

Resolved, That in the death of Brother Sco-
field, Fruit Grange recognizes and mourns the
loss of a worthy member, a staunch supporter
of the Order and a genial brother.

Resolved, That our Grange manifest its re-
spect fcr our deceased Brother and our sympa-
thy and condolence with the bereaved famil in
this, their hour of sorrow, by draping our c ar-
tet in mourning, insci-ibing these resolutions on
our records, sending a copy to the GRANGE
Visiron, to the St. Joseph Republican and Ber-
rien County Journal for publication.

GEO. P. PULLEN,

J. M. BROWN,

0. O. Spannnmo,
Committee.

PEASE.—-Died, at his residence in (Jason,
Mich., on Nov. 2d, 1880, Bro. A. S. Pnnsn, aged
45 years ;

Wnnanxs, It has pleased an all wise Provi-
dence to remove by the relentless hand of
death, our highly esteemed and much beloved
brother, A. S. Pnnsn. awotthy member of East
Casco Grange, N o. 338; therefore be it

Resolved, That, while we bow with reverence
to the all wise decree of the great Master above ,
we deeply mourn, with sorrowing hearts, our
sad loss ; therefore, be it

Resolved, That, as laborers in the great cause
of humanity, we have lost a noble worker, a
charter member, and a lover of our Order ;
therefore, be it

Resolved, That we sympathize with the wid-
ow, and children, and friends of the deceased
brother in their and bereavement, and commend
them to that God who is too wise teen and too
good to do wrong.

Resolved, That our hall be draped in mourn-
ing ior sixty days, and that a copy of the above
resolutions be presented to the family of the
deceased, and to the GRANGE Visrron for pub-
lication. ' C. O. Woon,

J. E. Bunny,
H. M. Bncmut,
Committee.

 


  

 

TI-IE GRANGE VISITOR.

Do We Eat too Much.

The amount of nutriment which a
person needs, greatly depends on his
constitution, state of health. habits
and work. A sedentary man require
less than one whose duties demand
the exercise of his muscles. and a
brain worker needs more than an
idler. But unqestionably the great
majority of us take more than we
need. Indeed food and Work are dis-
tributed most unequally. The man of
leisure is the man of means. and ac-
cordingly. fnres sumptuously every
day, while the laborer toils for eight
hours and finds it difficult to get
enough to repair the waste of his tis-
sues. Yeta Cliinaman or a Bengalese
will toil under a tropical sun and find
a pice worth of rice or jowrab sufli-
cient to sustain his strength.
A Frenchman will not eat one-
halfwhat an Englishman engaged in
the same work will demand, and a
Spanish laborer, content in ordinary
times with a watermelon and a piece
of black bread. will toil in the vine-
yards and grow fat on a dietary of
onion porridge and grapes. It is true
that Mr. Brassy. when building the
continental railroads, found that one
English navy was worth two of spare-
fed foreigners. But on the other
hand the British Columbia and
California gold-diggers, than whom a
more magnificent set of atheletes does
not exist, live in the remote mount-
ains of the far west. mainly on beans,
flavored with a few cubes of pork.
But they also obtain the best of water
and the purest of air,and their out-door
life and active exercise enable them
to digest every ounce of their frugal
fare. The English soldiers are better
fed than those of any other army, ‘ex-
cept the amount of solid nutriment
which the idlest of club-loungers cou-
siders indispensable for his suste-
nance. An athletic in training is al-
lowed less food, yet he prospers on
the limited fare, and prolongs his life
by the regimen to which he has been
subjected. King Victor Emanuel
was a man of the most robust phys-
que; yet he only ate one meal a day,
and it is manifestly absurd for any
man to require three more or less
weighty meals and an afternoon cup
of [tea to support the exertion of
walking to the club, riding an hour in
the park, writing a note or two, and
dancing about a couple of miles
arounda ball room. The ancients
had their “amathustoi,” or “sober
stones.” by which they regulate their
indulgence at table. The moderns
have not even this. But they have
their gout and their livers to warn
them. when it is too late, that nature
has been over tasked. — London
Standard. . -

Farmers and Politics.

The question often comes up, is it
proper or profitable for farmers to en-
gage in politics to any extent? We
answer yes. We believe every farm»
er, Granger or otherwise, ought to be-
come a well-informed, well-posted
politician. Don’t misunderstand us.
By “ politician ” we do not mean that
despicable, half mongrel concern that
we often meet, labeled, as such, who
is ready to sell honor and honesty,
what little he may have, and would
even pawn his soul, if he had a soul
worth pawning, to secure alittle pow-
er and a heap of spoils, or further the
interests of “ party.”

We should become perfectly famil-
iar with all the leading measures pro-
posed by the different political parties
of the day, and be fully qualified to
use our own judgement in adopting
those which it will be for our best in-
terests to have adopted. We should
be able to choose between measures,
as well as men. So far, our farmers
should become politicians.

We should go further, having learn-
ed what to do. our next duty is to do
it. There is another great error often
committed by our farmers. It won't
do to fold our hands, and let others
prepare the tickets for us to vote, and
then go and do their bidding like
quiet cattle, but we must insist upon
having a hand in when those tickets
are prepared, and see to it that none
but men whom we can support are
placed in nomination. Then we shall
become true politicians, and not till
then will the farming interests be
properly represented in our legisla-
tive halls. It will do no good to ask
for our rights. We must take them.
This is a selfish world. All classes

are looking out for their own interests
— except farmers.

It is pure stupitidy on the part of
farmers that gives other classes such
an advantage in the legislation of’ the
country. They have the numerical
strength to use it? It would seem
so, else why do they fold their hands,
and let other and weaker classes to
out-general them at every point?

VVe do believe in or advocate
class legislation. No people can be
perfectly free or prosperous thus.
And that is what we complain of, and
what we ought to, and can be politi-
cians enough to prevent, if we only
will. Shall we do it, or shall we still
be. as in the past, governed by other
classes, who are still far behind us in
numbers, and not behind us in brains?

We must have parties. It won’t
do for every one to go about “fighting
on his own hook.” VVe should join
some one of the political organiza-
tions of the day, and having joined,
we must act. That is what makes
the true politician. If we find errors
—and what human organization is
perlect—we must labor for reform.
It won’t do to trust to what others
tell us. Neither will it be policy to
desert our party just because a rouge
or two happens to crawl in now and
then. Rather be vigilant that none
but the deserving are allowed to
“ run the machine” in future.

In conclusion, We ask, how can
farmers expect to be properly repre-
sented in our legislative halls. unless
they can become politicians enough
to take part in selecting those who
are to represent them there ?— lV2's-
consin Bulletin.

J. \VAxni~*Ii~;Ln.

Fremont, Oct. 20, 1880.

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