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THE GRA

ISSUED SEMI- JIIONTHLI’,

EXECUTIVE, COMMITTEE

  

VISITOR

BY ORDER OF TLIE

MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE.

[Kalamazoo Publishing Co.’s Print.)

Von. 6,-—No. 23. }
WHOLE No. 103

SCHOOLCRAFT, DECEMBER 1st, 1880,

,Entered at the Post Office at School-
craft as Second Class matter.

THE GRANGE VISITOR,

Is Published on the First and Fifteenth of
every Month

AT FIFTY CENTS PER ANNUM,

invariably in Advance.

J. T. COBB. Editor and Manager.

To whom all communications should be ad-
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Remittances should be by Registered Letter,
Money Order or Draft

INDEX TO THIS NUMBER.

Poems of the Week—Report of the Committee
on Transportation and Commercial Rela-
tions, before the National Grange—“l ‘Tend
to my Own Business ”--Cider for Colds—To
Keep House Plants from Freezing W'itliout
Fire 1

Farmer Ben’s Theory—Pickings by the \Vay,
No. 19, ........................................ —- 3

Wanted —- The Agi'ici1ltura1 College — North
Star Liberty Grange, No. 391—l< rain a Weak
Grange—Program 01 Van Buren co. Grange
—Sugar Cane. ——————————————————————————————— —— 3

Railroad Arrangements —The Agricultural
Cel1ege—Delegatcs to the State Grangc~The
Social Science Association — Another Com-
plainant, ————————————————————————————————————— —— 4

Appointments and Addresses-Sweet Items-
“ The Sugar Beet"—Notice of l\Ieetings—Cor-
respondence—Meeting of Montcalm County
Pomona Grange—Woodman for Senator-
To the Patrons of Michigan - Lecturers

.Add ess, ._ ———— —-, ———————————————— -- '3

Not Fit to Be k1ssecl—-The Grange and Its Ben-
efits—A Call for Old Contributors—What Can
a Woman Do'.’—Woman’s Tears—Hard on
the Milkmen-—VVhutAAre Boys Good for?-_
Mr. Jones and the Life Insurance Agent,_ 6

Address of D. VVoodman, Master of Van_B_uren
County C}range—An Imp__(_)_rtant I etit1on—
The National Grange—lzu3-80 — Mutton as
Food—The Reaper, Death. ————————————————— —— I

 

Officers llI|ichig_a_n State Grange.

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

C.—SALMON STEEL, Manton, Wexford Co.

T.—S. F. BROWN, — - Schoolcmft.
SEG.—J. T. COBB, - - - “

G. K.—A. N. WOODRUFF, — Watervliet.
CEBEB.—MRS. C. L. WHITNEY, Muskegon.

Poiro1u——Mr.s. G. W. EWING, Ross, Kent Co.
FLORA-—MBs. J. J. WOODMAN, Paw Paw.
L. A. S.—MBS. A. E. GREEN, Farmington.

Executive committee.

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

General Deputy.
C. L. WHITNEY, - - - Muskegon.

State Business Agents,

Geo. W. HILL 85 00., - - Detroit.
THOMAS MASON. - - - Chicago.
Special Lecturers.

Thos. F. Moore, . . . . ..Adrian,. ... .Lena.wee Co
Geo. W, Woodward. .Shelby, . . . . . . .Oceana Co

E. C. Herrington,. . .Four I‘owns,. .0akland Co
M. L. Stevens,... . .. . .Perry,.. . .Shiawassee Co
L. R. Brown, . . . .Rawsonville,. .Washtenaw Co
Andrew Campbell, . .Ypsilanti, . . “ “
Mrs. S. Steele, . . . . ..Manton,. ....Wexford Co.
Chas. E. Mickley. . . .Adrian . . . .Lena.wee “

Sensible Admonitions.

Don’t buy a piano for your daughter,
when your son needs a plow.

- Don’t let your horses be seen stand-
ing much at the beer saloon ; it don’t
look right. i _

Don’t give the merchant or printer a
chance to dun you ; prompt payment
makes independent men.

Don’t leave to memory What should
be written ; it makes lawsuits.

Don’t become security for him who
waits for the sheriff.

Decent, substantial clothing for your
children makes them think better of
themselves, and keeps the doctor away.

Teach your boys to look up and for-
ward, never backward. .

Cultivate the habit of giving, but
never give up.

Buys farm wagon, before a fine car-

THE superiority of some men is mere-

Iy local. They are great because their
associations are little.—Johnson.

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POEMS OF THE WEEK.

SUNDAY.

Lie still and rest, in that serene repose

That on this holy morning comes to those

Who have been buried with the cares that

make

The sad heart weary and the tired heart ache.
Lie still and rest-
G0d’s day of all is best.

MONDAY.
Awake ! arise 1 Cast ofi thy drowsy dreams X
Red in the east behold the morning gleams.
“As Monday goes, so goes the week,” dames

say.

Refreshed. relieved, use well the initial day :
And see I thy neighbor
Already seeks his labor.

TUESDAY.

Another morning‘s banners are unfurled-
Another day looks smiling on the world ;
It beholds new laurels for thy soul to win ;
Mar not its grace by slothfulness or sin,

Nor sad, away

Send it to yesterday.

WEDNESDAY.

Half-way unto the end—the weeks’ high noon,
The morning hours do speed away so soon I ”
And when the noon is reached. however bright,
Instinctively we look toward the night.

The glow is lost

Once the meridian crossed.

rnunsnsv.

So well the week has sped, hast thou_ a friend
Go spend an hour in converse. It will lend
New beauty to thy labors and thy life
To pause a little sometimes in the strife.

Toil seems rude

That has no interlude.

FRIDAY.
From feast abstain ; be temperate and pray 2
Fast if thou wilt : and yet. throughout the day,
Neglect no labor, and no duty shirk;
Not many hours are left thee for thy work-
And it were meet
That all should be complete.

SATURDAY.
Now with the almost finished task make haste ;
So near the night, thou hast no time to waste.
Post up accounts. and let thy soul's eye look
For flaws and errors in life’s ledger-book.
, When labors cease,
How sweet the sense of peace !

—El1a W'}zeelcr in Chicago Tribune.

Report of the Committee on Transpor-
tation and Commercial Relations,
before the National Grange.

The problem of transportation, in
its relation to agriculture, confronts
every farmerthroughout the land. He
may apply his labor with rare skill,
propitious seasons may bless his efforts,
and the fertile soil under these influ-
ences may return the most bountiful
crops, yet there is the necessity for a
market, and the means of reaching it,
as the prime condition of profit. There
is ever-increasing demand for the pro-
duct of his labor; he makes the supply,
but there is one intervening condition
necessary to bring these two elements
of commerce into profitable union-
transportation. Time was when the
water—ways of the country served the
purpose well, but new and improved
highways of commerce have been pro-
vlded; railroads threading the conti-
nent. the lines laid in advance of the
plow, reaching athwart the broad do-
main of an industrious people, whose
restless energies have thus been led to
new effort, on new land, and this
country has, by such means become the
granary of the world. But while agri-
culture has been enlarged and extended
through this agency, working to pro-
mote its development, it has, by rapid
stages, become subjected to the very

power whose kindly offices were
at first employed to give it
encouragement and support. Be-

tween it and the railways there is close
inter-dependence, reciprocal obligation
that must be honestly observed; for if
it is not, one or the other must suffer.
The railways depend upon the products
of agriculture more than upon all else
foremployment out of which to secure
profitable return for expense of operat-
ing, and capital invested in construc-
tion ; while farmers depend on the
railways to move their crops at such
cost for the service as will leave them
fair :return for their labor and capital
employed. As a question of political
economy, it is clear that these relations
must be maintained for the security
and the welfare of both interests; and
it is equally clear that they will not be
maintained without just rules to define
the obligations.

Experience has shown that the cor-
'porate power which manages a railway
is rapacious. It is marked by encroach-
ments and usurpations. It does not
abide within its sphere, where it is
well nigh autocratic ; it assumes rights

. that belong to the people, forgetful of

the fact that its first duty is respectful
obedience to the people, whence it em-

anated. It taxes the products of labor

at will, because it has usurped the
power to do so, and with astonishing
efl'rontery. it warns the people against
attempts to recover rights they have
carelessly yielded. It makes the plea
that railway property is private prop-
erty. and, therefore, not amenable to
the public for errors and wrongs in its
management, and not subject to regu-
lations offered by the public. As the
outgrowth of this sentiment, there is a
system of charges for transportation
dependent only on the will of railway
managers, and they care only to get
from their traffic what it will bear,
without reference to the interests of the
owners of the property they transport.
That they do so, is not denied ; it is ad-
mitted by themselvcs, and the practice
defended as a right In this they exer-
cise power which even the State wouid
not use without delicate regard for the
interests of citizens generally, look-
ing to their welfare, and yielding
the power in their behalf wisely
lest it might bring suffering. Yet
this corporate railroad power, defi-
ant, challenges the multitude of suffer-
ers and sincere at Legislatures that at-
tempt to impose restraints upon its
rapacity, or to check its assumed pre-
rogatives. Ever alert and unscrupu-
lous, it goes into various districts,
selects its supple servants, and by de-
frauding the suifrages of the people,
puts upon its pliant tools the seal of
authority, by which they become law-
makers, to betray the rights of citizens
at the behest of a soulless master. Or,
if the expedient of direct representa-
tion be not employed, they do not hes-
itate to use bribes upon legislators, for
there is abundant testimony showing
that they have purchased the honor of
Senators and Representatives in many
Legislatures, and trampled manhoodin
the covetous dust of frail nature until
in some States the debasement of law-
makers has become a Pg?-word and last-
ing shame. Even now, while we de-
liberate upon the means of restraining
the monstrous tyranny ofrailroad power
those who wield it are plotting to send
into the United States Senate their
paid attorney from the most powerful
State in this Union to forestall the day
of reckoning, and in four other popu-
lous States, Senators directly in the
service of railways, will soon be chosen
if the people do not make prompt and
vigorous protest. Already these cor-
porations have secured powerful influ-
ence in the Senate. and they have
numerous willing and obsequious ser-
vants in the other branch of Congress,
ready always to barter away their
right in the interests of the maguates
they serve. ‘

Intrenched in the several State Cap-
itals. domiciled in the central citadel,
confident and strong, the railway pow-
er to-day sways the comma.-1'ce of a con-
tinent, and dominates its industries
with cold neglect of the golden rule
that is the vitalizing spirit of free gov-
ernment, and with cynical contempt of
the common honesty and homely vir-
tues that support the structure of civil
liberties. A power within the State,
accelerating in growth, licensed by its
own inordinate greed, usurping as
desire advances, limitless in audacity-
how long will it be before the State
itself will be asupplicant to its creature
that lays lustful hands upon the shreds
of authority yet preserved, swaggers in
every precinct of the legislative.d0-
main, with its mammon defiles the
ermine, and has towering scorn for the
people, and especial contempt for the
class that suffers most by its cruel
exactions—farmers ?

Shall there be an organized effort by
the peo leto recover the rights filched
from t em by the creatures of their
generosity ? Will they mark the limit
of concession and hereafter guard its
boundaries? The time is opportune,
their strength e ual to the requirement
—do they lackt e purpose? Will the
American farmersjoluliu positive, ear-
nest, determined effort to secure just
protection, through the peaceful medi-
um of laws, wise in their design and
just in their operation, whereby railway
corporations shall be gently but firmly
restrained within the limits so defined ?
If they will, the day is near at hand
when their industry will be free to dis-
tribute its profits through all channels
of trade in just measure, according to
deserts, and they will labor in the pri-
mary avocation of man. It is not the
purpose now to mark each step of the
beneficent work, nor can this be done
at once by any legislation ; for there
must be nice adjustment of the great
forces engaged, on the one hand in
production, and on the other in trans-
portation essential to the development
of all useful industry. There must be
wholesome growth of common honesty

{ Y_oUn SUBSCRIPTION
Wlll Expire with No.

so that the legislator will spurn the
bribe insiduously covered in a. railway
pass, a judge be abashed and ashamed
when the hint is given that his palm
can be tickled by favor, and a Senator
of the United States execrated when he
betrays the honor of his high position
by accepting a fee to carry the case of a
railway corporation against the'Govvrn -
ment he has sworn to serve before a
judge whose appointment he has pro-
cured, aud by the damnable prostitu-
tion of honor mulcts the people he is
unworthy to serve. it is not yet enough
that there must be honor and honesty
in high places. Power will not be more
pure than its source ; the people must
be honest and delegate their power only
to those who are worthy of the trust.

In answer to the a:-sumptiou of pri-
vate rights, vociferously proclaimed
by railway attorneys, there is the opin-
ion of Chief Justice Vilaite, delivered
from the bench when rendering the de-
cision in the celebrated ‘ Granger cases,’
so called, carried to the Supreme. Court
upon this very point. These are the
words quoted from the decision: VVhen
therefore, one devotes his property to a
use in which the public has an interest,
he in eflect grants to the public an in-
terest in that use, and must submit to
be controlled by the public to the ex-
tent of the interests he has thus cre-
ated.” This is complete refutation of
the charge that the people assail pri-
vate rights when they try to regulate
the methods of transportation in the
interest of the whole public. They
have an undoubted right to establish
regulations for the conservation of their
private rights, and they ask nothing
more in the restraints they would place
on railway management. They do not
loose sight of the interdependence of
their inteaests and the corporations
created by the State to render a public
service, but they would regulate and
establish these relations on the basis of
common justice.

It may be said that the evils of rail-
way transportation will in due course
of time be remedied by competition. Not
so. A distinguished authority, whose
interest was principally in railways,
has said. truly, that where combination
is possible, competition is impossible.
VVituess the pooling of the t1'unk lines
leading from the grain fields of the
West to the seaboard. So far as the
earnings on the traffic are concerned,
they have a common treasury from
which they draw pro rata, according
to allotment of capital by the terms of
their compact. Here are all the condi-
tions of competition inoperative, be-
cause joint interest necessarially favors
combination. In other cases, where
combination cannot be maintained,
and rates are, therefore, reduced
at competitive points, the abate-
ment is sure to be restricted to
those points, and corresponding addi-
tions are made at other points more
than compensating all concessions. In
this there is an alarming power of dis-
crimination. Citizeus of one locality
are compelled to pay for the support of
industries in another locality, equally
favored by nature and artificially aided
by a power that should distribute its
benefits with impartial regard for all
concerned. It is the power to make or
unmake, to tear down or to build up, an
inequality abhorrent to active enter-
prise, and at variance with the funda-
mental priuclples of free government.

What shall we do? Let us exert the
force inherent in our numbers. Direct
this through the ballot in such a man-
ner that every Leglslaturefitate-and Na-
tional, shall reflect the will of the peo-
ple and their interests rather than of
corporations. Secure in these bodies
due representation of the chief inter-
ests of the land. Let farmers organize
in utter disregard of the restraints that
political parties impose, and let them
keep steadily in view the governing
purpose to urge the body politic of the
venalities that handicap material pro-
gress. They may co-operate with all
persons and all associations that work
in the interest of free and enlightened
administration of justice, but for them-
selves they must move for the protec-
tion of natural rights against the mon-
strous greed of corporate power that
riots in the chaos of principles over-
turned and confused by its wanton as-
sumptions. They must invoke order,
law, piece, justice for all,lest revolu-
tion intervene to clear away with rude
hand the fabric of tyrrany that now
fetters industry and retards develop-
ment. J. H. BRIGHAM, Ohio,

W. A. ARMSTRONG, N. Y,

J. N. LIPSCOMB, S. 0.,

A. B. SMITH, Ky.,

B. R. SPILMAN, 09.1.,
Committee.

Unanimously adopted.

“ I ’Tend To My Own Business.”

He is a bright boy of ten years and
lives in Port Deposit, where, owing to
the pure water and clear atmosphere of
the lofty granite hills, lads of his age
develop a rare precocity. He came to
Elkton recently, with the masculine
author of his being, commonly known
as “ daddy,” who is aprr)u1inentCeci1
County business man. Finding the
companionship of Elktown lawyers
somewhat tedious, Johnny started for a
stroll on his own account to see the
town. Sauntering leisurely along on
the east of the village, he was accosted
by a group of youngsters on the pave-
ment, when from the window above,
the following dialogue was overheard
and enjoyed by an Elkton lady:

Group (in unison)——“ Hello! whet’s
your name ‘? ”

Johnny-—“ My name!
my father’s.”

Group—“ VVhat might it be? ”

Johnny—“ It might be Smith, but it
ain’t.”

Grroup—“ VVliere do you live?”

Johnny—“ In a house, of course.”

Group “ Where is the house? ”

Jr>hnny—“ On the ground. You don’t
think it’s up a tree, do you ? ”

Not making as satisfactory progress
toward the discovery of the identity
and home of the stranger as they ex-
pected, oue ofthe girls, fancying herself
smarter than the rest, with a. self-satis-
fied air, asked:

“ Well, what do you do at home?”

“ ’Tcnd to my own business I ” was the
nonchalant reply: when Johnny, cast-
ing a quizzical glance at his torment-
ors, passed on with an air that plainly
said, “ You thought I was from the
country, didn’t you ‘.' ” At first they
did, and then they didn’t.—Ccc2'l (]l{d.)
Whig.

The same as

Cider for Golds.

We do not know the origin of the
following, but it may be found useful:
“Common sweet cider, boiled down one
half, makes a most excellent syrup for
coughs and colds for cl1ildren—is pleas-
ant to the taste and will keep through-
out the year in a cool cellar. In recov-
ering from an illness the system has a
craving for some pleasant acid drink.
This is found in cider which is placed
on the fire as soon as made and allowed
to come toa boil, then cooled, put in
casks, and kept in a cool cellar. Treated
thus it remains for months as good as
the day it was made. We once saved
the life of an infant, which had been
inadvertantly drugged with laudanum,
and was fast sinking into the sleep
which has no waking, by giving it
strong coffee. cleared with the white of
an egg, a teaspoonfulevery five min-
utes until it ceased to be drowsy.”

To Keep House Plants without Fire.

Ifany of the readers of the World
love plants, but cannot keep them on
account of not having a steady fire,
they need not deprive themseves of
that pleasure any longer, as I know of
several who have kept them without
freezing, and I will tell you how—the
trouble, of course, being to keep them
through the night, when the fires are
out: Take an old bed quilt, put it on
the floor, and set the plants together in
the center. Set a stand over them, and

bring the quilt up over the top. If any ~

of the plants are very sensitive to the
cold, a newspaper pinned around them
would be additional protection.—Ez.

THE word has gone forth, once more
the American farmer has been com-
manded to “Halt, stand and deliver."
On the 22d of this month railroad
freights on grain from the west to the
cast are to be advanced five cents on
each hundred pounds. This, too, in the
face of the fact that the railroads are
pressed to their utmost carrying capac-
ity at this very time. At many places
cars can not be had‘to load the grain.
At Cincinnati, a short time since, for
several days there was a freight block-
ade. But prices are advancing in Eu-
rope and on the seaboard,and on the
principle of afreight tariff on all arti-
clesof “what it will bear,” the giant

corporations are to absorb the rise in,

prices instead of the farmers to whom
it of right belongs.--Ex.

THE bent of the thoughts and affec-
tions is the only decisive proof of char-
acter.

IT is the nature of the human dispo-

sition to hate him whom you have in-
jured. _ ,

 


 

I

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

FARMER BE.\l’S THEORY.

“ I tell ye, its nonsense,” said Farmer Ben,
This farmin’ by books and rules,

And sending the boys to learn that stufi‘
At the agricultural schools.

Rotation of crops and analysis I
Talk that to a young baboon !

But yer needn’t be tellin’ your science to me,

or I believe in the moon.

If yer plant yer corn on the growin’ moon,
d put up the lines for crows,
You’ll find it will bear, and your wheat will,

oo,
If it’s decent land where it grows.

But potatoes, now, are a different thing.
They want to grow down, tha.t’s plain,

And, don’t you see, you must plant for that
Vi/hen the moon is on the wane.

So in plantin’ and hoein’ and hayin‘ time,
It is well to have an eye

On the hang o’ the moon, ye know ye can tell
A wet moon from a. dry.

And as to hayin’, you wise ones now
Are cuttin’ yer grass too soon;

If you want it to spend, just wait till its ripe,
And mow on the full o’ the moon.

And when all the harvest work is done,
And the butcherin’ times come ‘round
Though yer hogs may be lookiu’ the very best,
And as fat as hogs are found,
You will find yer pork all shriveled and shrunk
When it comes to the table at noon-
All fried to rags—-if it wasn’t killed
At the right time of the moon.

With the farmers’meetin’s and Granges now
Folks can talk till all is blue;

But don’t yer be swallerin’ all yer hear.
For there-ain't more’n half on’t true.

They are trying to make me change my ways,
But I tell ‘em I’m no such coon;

I shall keep right on in the safe old plan,
And work my farm by the moon.

—Mm'l: Lane Earpress.

§o:turi:r'a flnzpartmmt.

0. L. WHITNEY, - - - MUSKEGON.

Pickings by the Way, ‘No. 19.

You may think, kind readers, that
the heading of this to be “ Out of the
way,” but it is pickings, nevertheless,
don’t think for a moment that you get
more than a scrap here and there, just
enough to show you that the way is
broad and the field fertile, as indicated
herein.

To CINCINNATI.

On the 12th inst. we left our home
and the loved ones for the great "Hog
City.” At Kalamazoo we found that
an accident upon the G. R. «S: I. R. R.
had been to our advantage. We were
late, yet had time to get supper and
take the delayed train for Fort Wayne,
Ind., where we spent the night, and
upon the following morning continued
our journey, reaching Cincinnati at
1:45 P. M., where we were met by our
old friend and brother, Mortimer
Whitehead, so well known to many
Patrons in Michigan, that we are sure
you will be glad to learn that he is well
and recovered somewhat from his
throat ditficulty, which has prevented
his field work for the year past.

We went at once to the olfice of the
Grange Bulletin, a well known weekly
visitant to so many Grange homes in
Michigan, as well as in other States,
that we need but simply mention it.

The Cincinnati Horticultural Society
had just held its weekly meeting, leav-
ing ample evidence of the show of fruit
at that day’s session.

We had the pleasure of a short visit
with that veteran fruit-grower, Dr. J.
A. Warder, and hope to see him again
in the near future.

A moment’s rest, and we look about
the city. Adirty, dingy city—it is sec-
ond only to Pittsburgh in this respect.
They burn soft coal, and blackness is
everywhere apparent. As we approach-
ed the city a cloud seemed to envelope
us, and we thought it to be rain or
snow clouds, but it was smoke, too
thick to allow the sun to be seen or felt.
Thus enveloped and shrouded, the city
appears d_ark and gloomy. The streets are
dark, the people are dark, and even the
children are brunettes in complexion.
We only saw one blonde,.a.nd she was
visiting there. Night came and we ac-
companied Bro. Whitehead to his
home. He lives four miles out of the
city at Oakley, which can be reached
by a four-mile ride upon the “ buss
line.” But upon the B. & 0. R.'B. it is
12 miles around the city to this station.
We took the railroad, and in a few mo-
ments were at the station, where Morti-
mer, Jr., met us, and a walk of ten rods
brought us home, where we were most

cordially welcomed by Sister M.
Whitehead. The other children, Ed-
die, Fred, Sarah, and Flora all seem-
ed like their parents, glad to see us and
make us feel at home. To say that we
passed a pleasant evening would be to
tell you something unnecessary, when
you consider that we were like soldiers
and sailors '_at reunions. We com-
pared notes of campaigns and
trips since we had parted from our
great “swing around the circle” in
Michigan last year. A good night’s
rest prepared us to visit the border the
next day, which we did. From our
chamber window we could see the not-
e(l Mitchell observatory, which stands
upon the banks of the Ohio river. The
VVa1nut hills lay before us,while beyond
lay the great city from which rose the
usual black cloud.

Monday morning, the 15th came, as
might beexpected, and with it an early
breakfast in time to take a train to the
city. Here we found Bro. and Sister
Smith, Worthy Master and wife of the
Kentucky State Grange, en route for
VVashington. They concluded to wait
over until evening and have “good
company,” so we paid a visit to the
Zoological Gardens together.

A mile or two upon a street car and
up an inclined plane to the height of
-100 fc et, or more, and the gardens were
reached. We can only say the visit was
one of profit in the way of instruction,
for we saw the happy polar bears and
seals in their elements, enjoying the
water, over which the ice was freezing
—more playful creatures we never
saw, not even the monkeys seemed
happier. Cold -and tired we returned to
the city where Brother Wolcott of the
Bulletin met us and accompanied us
across the Ohio, by means of the sus-
pension bridge, to Covington, Ky.,
where, as guests of “Aunt Locksie,”
we dined. We can’t fully express the
pleasure of this meeting and our social
dinner party—we emphatically say we
enjoyed it, and may the much esteemed
and justly prized “Aunt Lockie” of
all our little Grangers live long to their
instruction and advancement. Dinner
over the gentlemen of the party re-
turned -to the city, leaving the sisters
to come later. We called on Col. VV.
H. Hill, of the Ohio Patronls Supply
House, and were agreeably surprised
and pleased at the business here done
and the success obtained. Anything can
behad that the Patrons want, and at the
lowest rates. Michigan Patrons want-
ing heavy machinery, reapers, mowers,
harvesters, etc., would do well to cor-
respond with Bro. XV, H. Hill. We
met other Patrons here,and were pleased
with them. They have formed a stock
company for a wholesale supply house
here. Patrons are taking the stock
rapidly and soon the company is ex-
pected to begin to operate.

VVe also visited James Murdock, Jr.,
who has done so much in furnishing
Granges with seals, emblems, etc. He
is ready to do good work. for us in his
line.

Returning to the Bulletin oflice,
we arranged for tickets, and upon invi-
tation met Sister Whitehead at the
train, she having come to make one of
our party to

WASHINGTON.

At 7 p. m., our party,consisting of
Bro. and Sister Smith, of Kentucky,
Brother and Sister Whitehead and my-
self, took the train upon the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, ‘for our National
Capital, to attend the 14th annual ses-
sion of the National Grange. To bed
and to sleep we went, but on and on-
ward our train carried us, stopping
at only large stations, through
tunnels, over bridges, into deep cuts,
around hills by frequent short turns
we rode on and on, until at daybreak
Bro. Whitehead called us to see the
mountain scenery of West Virginia,
its coal mines, and get breakfast at
Grafton.:All this would be new and
very interesting to the readers of the
VISITOR had we time to enter into the
details more fully. Sutllce it to say
there is altogether too much land to

the acre here to suit our ideas of farms
in Michigan. Some of the land is so
steep that I guess the plow would run
itself down hill and plow agood furrow
if it were only started. The farms
along the route are few and greatly en-
cumbered by masses of rock. The
sheep need small trees and stakes to
lean against while feeding, and plat-
forms built here and there to lie down
upon to sleep, lest While sleeping they
should roll into some other man’s do-
main. '

The natural scenery here is very fine,
especially that upon the Cheat river.
At the side of the track we saw the
Rhadadendron growing in quantities,
and many of large size; it must be very
beautiful when they are in bloom. The
mountain laurel is also found here in
abundance. At noon we reached Mar-
tinsburg and the train stopped for din-
ner, it being late. These old Virginia
towns have an antiquated look, but the
newer houses show signs of some im-
provement. Time, and field, and forest.
and farm, and mountain, and tunnel,
and bridge passed, until we crossed the
Potomac at Harperls Ferry. The
Shenandoah Valley, with its mountain
basin, is indeed beautiful and we only
allude to it here ; it needs to be seen to
be realized and enjoyed. At Harperls
Ferry are to be seen the remains of the
old government buildings and “John
Brown’s Fort,” so well-known in the
historic preface of the rebellion. Bet-
ter farms and larger fields are to be
seen after we leave this latter place,
but as we near Washington the land
seems to grow poorer.

At last the imperial city, run and
ruled by the rings, cheered our sight,
and for the first time we are in the
birth place of our Order and the home
ofits childhood—the Capital City ofour
Nation.

The first man we metwas the worthy
Secretary Bro. Ireland, who was at
the National Hotel busy with the pre-
paration for thg meeting to take place
the next day. Soon we found Brother
and Sister Woodman and their son
Louis. During the evening we came
to the conclusion that the 14th session
of the National Grange was to be a
large one, in numbers at least. New
England, Texas, Florida and other
States already on hand.

THE OPENING.

At 1lo’clock a. m., on the 17th inst...
after the hearty hand-shaking and cor-
dial greetings of meeting members, the
14th session of the National Grange
begun its work, as the gavel of the Wor-
thy Master, Bro. J. J. VVoodman, called
to labor. The preliminary work of
opening and admitting the new mem-
bers entitled to seats was soon passed
and the session was duly opened in
form.

The meeting was held in Willard’s
Hall. In a semi-circle opening to-
wards the stage, were arranged the
voting members of this body, all clothed
in the insignia of the sixth degree;
back of this circlerof members are the
seats of the visiting members and well-
filled they were. Upon the platform
was the Worthy Master, the Worthy
Secretary and Treasurer, the lady ofl‘i-
cers and six of the seven honored broth-
ers who were the founders of the Order,
to-wit: Brother Saunders, the first Mas-
ter, Bros. Ireland, McDowell, Trimble,
J. R. Thompson and Grosh. Bro. Kelly
alone was absent.

The address of welcome was made by
Bro. Wm. Saunders. the first Worthy
Master of our Order, and who held the
position until the sixth annual session
held at Georgetown in 1873. Bro.
Saunder’s address _reviewed the early
history and efforts of the Order and its
struggles to get a foothold in the minds
and affections of the farmer. He wel-
comed the National Grange back to the
home of its birth and infancy and hop-
ed it would there still abide and have
a home. We regret we cannot give

the whole of this pleasant address of
welcome, but must refer you to the
published proceedings which will be
issued as. soon as the session is over.

Bro. Darden, of Miss., the Worthy
Overseer of the National Grange, made
the reply to the address of welcome on
behalf of the Grange, in his usual hap-
py way. Bro. J. R. Thompson supple-
mented the address of welcome by
a few well -timed remarks, which,
like the address and the reply,
were well- received and to the
proceedings we refer all our readers.
The address of the Worthy Master, J.
J. \Voodman, was read and met with a
hearty approval, being universally
commended by those not voting mem-
bers as well as those members who will
vote upon its various recommendations
at the proper times, when reported on
by the several committees to whom re

ferred. The Worthy Secretary read
his annual report, showing the state
of the Order in the several States, and
we were more than pleased to see that
Michigan stood almost first in the con-
dition of the several States. This re-
port, as well as that of the Treasurer,
which followed, were duly referred to
the proper committees.

A recess was taken until the next day
to allow the body to accept the invita-
tlon to attend a reception at. the VVl1ite
House at 7:30 p. In.

THE PRESIDENT AND THE RECEPTION.

At the time appointed the members
of the Order to the number or 200 or
more, under the lead of Gen. De Luc
repaired to theWlIite House and asseIn-
bling in the east room, were soon told
that the President would receive them
in the red parlor. The party passed
slowly through the rooms to said room,
and were there each introduced to
President Hayes, who shook each by
the hand and gave a pleasant word.
As the body had nearly all been pre
sented, it was asked why Mrs. Hayes
was not there,and said that many ladies
Would like to meet her. The Presi-
dent told the company that he had ex-
pected only gentlemen, and was sur
prised to see the ladies.’ He was told
ladies were members as well as the
men, whereupon the President asked
the company to make the tour of the
rooms: and conservatory, which were
thrown open for the purpose and
lighted, while Mrs. Hayes prepared to
receive the visitors. Soon the wife of
the Chief Executive came upon the
scene and each was also introduced to
her. Mrs. Hayes is a plain woman,
and seemed glad to meet us, and had a
pleasant word for each one of us. She
said she was pleased to see some one
from l\Iichigan,as it was near her home.
After the reception, a company of
twenty-five or thirty called upon the
Commissioner of Agriculture at his
house, to take a cup of

AIVIERICAN TEA.

Arriving at the Commissioner’s house
we were kindly received and served a
cup of most delicious, fragrant tea,
grown upon American soil. The tea
was grown near Savannah, Georgia, and
the Commissioner thinks is as good as
can be grown anywhere south of the
James River. This tea is better than
any we can find in the general markets,
and was grown at the cost of about
fifteen cents per pound, and will bring
from fifty to sixty cents per pound
upon the London markets at wholesale.
Experts pronounce it the best tea
upon the market. Fourteen hundred
pounds per acre of this tea can be
grown here, making it quite a
profitable crop to grow, and if grown
extensively, would give us a pure tea
at a low rate, and if enough is grown
for home consumption the sum of $22,-
000,000 annually will be saved to our
country,.which is now sent abroad for
tea. At a late hour we bade our genial
host and his very pleasant wife and
social daughters a “ good night,’ and
walked back to our hotel.

Among the visitors here to-day we
were glad to see Brother and Sister
Osborn, of Macon Grange, Lenawee
County. making six Patrons from
Michigan. Two hundred or more
Patrons are here from New York, sev-
eral from New England, several ‘from

New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and
Virginia, and other States. _

The number of voting members in
attendance upon the session is larger
than usual, while the number of visit-
ing members is also large, and an in-
teresting session is anticipated.

SECOND DAY.

At our hotel we are fast learning to
adapt ourselves to the customs of Wash-
ington life. Our meals are served as
follows, quite different from our daily
home farm life: ourjbreakfast is served
from eight to eleven o'clock A. M.;
dinner from two to six P. M.; supper
from seven to eleven o’clock P. 151., and
we get to bed at midnight and after.

Our Grange session begins at 9 :30 A.

M., and closes at from one to two.
o'clock P. M., while the afternoon ses-
sion begins at 7 1’. M, at the close of
which we take tea.
' The Lecturer’s address was the first
paper laid before that body. Bro.
Esbaugh, of Missouri, gave a good
paper, and we have sent a copy of it to
the VISITOR for publication in the cur-
rent number.

Bro. D. W. Akin, chairman of the
executive committee, presented the re-
port of that body to the Grange, show-
ing what they have done during the
yeariu the interests of the Order. A
new song book seems to be, in the
view of the committee, much need-
ed. They desire more direct com-
munication between the National
Grange and the Subordinate Granges,
through the office of the Secretary of
the National Grange, whom they think
should have headquarters here at Wash-
ington, which should be the place of
the annual
Grange. They also advocate the lease
of the government of the land upon
which stands the small building within
whose walls the Order was organized.

These matters, and many minor
items, will come up for action during
the session, when we will report upon
them.

The reports of the several Masters of
the State Grange.-I upon condition of the
Order in their several States, was the
order of this, the second day. These
re portsindicated. in general, a healthy
condition of the Order. They were
given verbally, and we regret that we
could not get them to send to the V15-
ITOR. They should have been given
in writing, as was that of Bro. Draper,
of Massachusetts, whose reports we
will endeavor to give in the next num-
ber of the VISITOR. Another session,
the Masters are each to give a written
report upon the condition of the Order
in their several States, and the work
done therein during the year. This is
as it should be, for from such reports
much valuable information can be
gathered as to means of obtaining suc-
cess. '

’l‘o day Bro. and Worthy Master
'Woodman was presented with a basket

of strawberries, picked yesterday at
Norfolk, Va., and presented by Sister
Ballard, a memberof Churchill Grange.

Think of it, while we are here, in one
part of our Nation, eating strawberries
grown in the open air, at our home the
snow is a foot in depth.

On the table at the hall was a fine
display of oranges, from the farm of
Bro. Wilson of Florida, while upon the
platform lay a dozen or more cars of
as fine corn as we ever saw, shown by
Sister Rix, of Pennsylvania, near Phil-
adelphia.

SUGAR.

At the close of the session, a large
body of Patrons visited the Agricultur-
al Department, where Commissioner
LeDuc showed us through its various
departments and rooms, and explained
the work there going on. We saw am-
ber cane (sorghum), in all the various
processes of manufacture into sugar;
had a very pleasant interview with
Prof. Collins, the chemist, who gave us
much valuable information relative to
the manufacture of sugar from corn-
stalks, amber cane, beets, &,c., and the
various stages of their growth and ri-

pening.

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Prof. Collins is preparing a compara-
tive chart showing his various experi-
ments and their results. This will be
published in the report of the current

year. The results of the experiments
upon making sugar from corn-stalks
interested us most. Last year the yield
of corn was 69 bushels per acre, and the
stalks yielded 970 pounds of raw sugar
after the corn had been gathered. This
year the experiment was repeated, giv-
ing similar results. This year’s seed
was the corn grown last year. so that
it must have been fully ripened,or it
would not have grown. The yield of
corn this year was 70 bushels of sound
corn per acre, and 1000 pounds of good
sugar. The cost of the sugar was about
three cents per pound, and would bring
six or seven cents wholesale, so that the
value of the sugar was about double
the value of the corn.

This sugar was pleasant to the taste
and better than the amber corn sugar,
and equal, if not superior, to the usual
corn sugar, which it much resembles.

Making a tour of the meagre build-
ings of the Department of Agriculture
of our great Agricultural Nation, we

‘were much impressed by the efforts of

the Commissioner and his assistants in
trying “_to made bricks without straw.”
The building is too small by far, and
is condemned as unsafe at that, with a
laboratory not larger than some pri-
vate persons of our acquaintance have,
and the only wonder to us is that they
can do so well under the circumstances.

We had a very pleasant chat of an
hour, in his otlioe, with Wm. Saund-
ers, the superintendent of the horticul-
tural department, and the first Master
of the National Grange. It was a
pleasure for us to learn of our elder
brother many of the incidents of the
early history of the Grange; and to sit
at the desk whereon was written the
first circular issued, and much of the
foundations of the great fraternity pre-
pared.

VVe afterwards visited the small build-
ing in the old grounds, which may
properly be called the birth-place of
the Order of Patrons of Husbandry,
now holding its fourteenth session in
the city of its birth.

Efforts will doubtless be made to get
a lien upon the land upon which this
building stands, and erect thereon a
building suitable for the needs of our
great Order, to save otfice rent and
many other expenses. We have no
hope that politicians will give us a foot-
hold here, and did they do it, we do not
think that the National Grange is able
to build the necessary buildings there-
on.

Many will be pleased to learn that
the Executive Committee of the Na-
tional Grange have been instructed to
revise and publish a new edition of the
Songs of the Order, and suggestions and
new songs are invited by the Commit-
tee. ~

Wanted.

Early in the history of our Order in
our State, a large number of sheet
publications were circulated as “The
Bryan Fund Publication,” in numbers
from one to twelve. Will members of
the Grange, or any of our readers, who
can get a copy of these, please send me
them, as I Wish to complete my files,
and have them placed in the oflfice of
the State Grange, as a part of its early
history. Copies of Nos. 2 and 8 are on
hand now, and not needed.

We would also like copies of the pro-
ceedings of the National Grange for
1873. Will repay the postage upon all
such matter mailed to me. “Address C.
L. Whitney, Muskcgon, Mich.”

“Actions speak louder than words.”
Think of this, all of you readers who
talk better than you act, who neglect
theopportunities of our Order, yet are
loud in telling others what to do.

.11‘ ma seem paradoxical, but it is

neverth ess true, that a man cannot
smoke a cigar too short unless he
smokes it too long.

Qlummunicatinua.

The Agricultural College.

Editor Grange V1ls13tor.'

In your arraignment of farmers for
their opposition to the Agricultural
College, you charge that they have not
only exhibited bad taste, but it has
been wrong and unmanly, without due
thought or consideration, and that they
have found a great deal of fault with it
when they should have been trying to
make it better. These are sweeping
charges, in general terms, which, we
believe, the facts will not justify. We
know of many prominent farmers who
have been patrons and supporters of
the College, and who believe it to be a
good educational institution, while they
deplore its expensiveness, and believe
that if it was conducted on strict busi-
ness principles, the same as every suc-
cessful farmer manages his business, it
would be more useful, and not much
more than half as expensive. Still we
are willing to admitthat it is conducted
as economically as the average of our
State institutions, all of which seem to
be managed upon the principle that the
public is a great goose, and it is the
privilege of all oflicials to pick her as
bare as possible. The president’s salary
is $3,000, and six professors get $1,800
each, and one assistant $800, with good
houses and other perquisites furnished
them free of cost; and these high sala-
ries are paid for only nine months ser-
vice, which constitutes the school year.
We think all these men would hold on
if their salaries Were cut down one-
third; if not, there are thousands of
men in the world, equally competent,
who would be glad to get their places
at even one-half their present salaries.

Now let us examine the farm man-
agement. One gardener is paid $743;
one foreman $600. with good house and
board furnished himself and family;
another foreman $543, and still another
at $400, with four men at $16 per month
by the year, with board at the farm-
house, where the table is bountifully
supplied with all the luxuries of the
season that can be procured at Lansing,
and the expensive farm garden does
not even furnish the house with veget-
ables, which are purchased at the ex-
pense of the taxpayers. Besides all
this, about $1,000 per month is paid to
students for work on the farm during
the school term, and this vast army of
bosses and laborers are employed at a
cost to the taxpayers of about $10,000
per annum, to run a farm of 676 acres,
and only 300 of that under cultivation.
We know of many farmers {who man-
age farms as large and as well as the
College farm is managed, with the help
of four or five men, at a cost of six or
seven hundred dollars per year.

Will Bros. Childs and Gard kindly
inform us why they should pay any
higher wages, or employ any more help
proportionately, to run the College
farm than their own farms, or why the
Professor of Agriculture should have
four high-salaried foremen under him
to do nothing but oversee the work,
any more than any large farmer who
oversees his own work, for one-third
the salary paid the professor.

In view of the above facts, we think
the taxpayers have just cause for com-
plaint. FARMER. .

v

REPLY BY PROF. w. J. BEAL.

The above article by “ Farmer” was
evidently written by some one who has
not taken much pains to gather correct
information in regard to the Agricul-
tural College, or if he has tried, he has
met with very poor success.

The College is managed by the State
Board of Agriculture, who are selected
from various parts of the State. These
men are selected by the Governor on
account‘ of their business ability and
interestin the progress of agriculture.

“Farmer” objects to the size of the
salaries paid the employes of the Col-
lege.
men to be easily found who are willing
to take their places at much smaller

salaries than those paid at the College.

It is true that there are many_

A few years ago a member of the Leg-
islature said that the professors did not
have much to ‘do. He could teach all
the students alone in every depart-
ment. He could not make the mem-
bers of the Board of Agriculture be-
lieve him. The last two Legislatures
thought the salaries too high. They
reduced the appropriation. The Board
have at last felt obliged to reduce the
salaries. Several good men in the best
places left. It is true, the places are
now all occupied. The Board did the
best they could. The new men are
beginners in the work, and will require
considerable time to gain as much ex-
perience as was possessed by those who
left. '

Prof. Fairchild went to Kansas Agri-
cultural College, Prof. Ingersoll to Par-
dee University, Indiana, both on sala-
ries larger than were paid them here.
Both were well-tried and valuable Pro-
fessors. It seemed that others found
this out, as well as the people of our
State.

The foreman who received $600 per
year and a house, resigned to go on to
his own farm. The herdsman who re-
ceived $365 per year and a house. re-
signed of his own accord.

In point of salary, most men find it
economy to pay good wages and retain
good well-tried help. College profes-
sors. as a rule, are poorly paid for the
work they do, and the expensive train-
ing required to fit them for good posi-
tions. They command a certain mar-
ket price. The best men, being in best
demand, receive the highest wages.

One gardener is mentioned at $743
per year. Then a reference is made to
the vegetable garden. The gardener
has care of the green houses and sur-
roundings. .He has nothing to do with
the vegetable garden. There is no man
who attends to the vegetable garden as
his especial business. There are two
hired men, instead of four, and one for
the horticultural department.

The farm house is supplied with veg-
etables from the College garden, as the
College books will show, except, per-
hops, a few things which are out of
season in this latitude. VVha‘tever the
farm house uses has to be paid for, and
an account kept ofit. It makes no dif-
ference to the farm house, whether they
are purchased down town or of the
College garden.

We are glad to hear that the farm
hands are well fed.

“ Farmer” says $1,000 per month is
paid for students’ work on the farm.
The truth is, not far from $1,500 for the
whole year. Much of this work goes
towards permanent improvements,
clearing, ditching, etc. Over half the
labor of students is placed on the
grounds, orchards, repairs on and mak-
ing new buildings, and extra work.

Many of the professors and members
of the State Board believe that they
should pay the students as much for
work as it would take to hire other men
to do the work equally well. The Wages
paid the hired men are no higher than
Wages paid to hired men in the neigh-

borhood of the College.

A graduate of the College was once a
professor there. He left to engage in
business for himself. He is finally now
employed at $3,000 a year, and a house
found, by a business firm, to do a work
less difficult than he was expected to
do at the College, for much less money.

Many foremen are needed, and fore-
men of good ability to look after the
work of students. No set of men need
showing and training more than a
young set of boys; and the boys, Col-
lege students, will try the patience of
foremen. Some have failed to manage
them and have left. Most foremen get
‘sick of it, after a time, and leave, be-
cause of the perplexities of the place.
The facts that “farmer” refers to, it will
be seen, are not all facts. We think, if
he knew the real state of things, he
would agree with us, that his article
had better not appear in the press. He

would prefer to get information before
criticising. This article is already too
long.

It would be queer if there were not
some things wrong at the Agricultural
College. No one denies that mistakes
are made there.

Because a man receives $150 a year in
one place, it is not a certain sign that
he should always do so if he goes some-
where else. VVe presume “ Farmer”
believes in promotion, as well as all
progressive Americans.

We dare say that “ Farmerls ” State
tax is not felt to be a great burden,
when compared with the other taxes he
has to pay; and when he figures it up,
he will see that his part of the tax to
support the Agricultural College is but
a small part of a cent :1 day, or a few
cents per year. That is, provided he is
not a farmer of unusual wealth.

Last year the State tax for the Agri-
cultural College was $12,040. Total
State tax, $804,831, for institutions, Sac.
Estimated valuation in State, $630,000,-
000, or .000l2 on a dollar, or twelve
cents on aS1,000 of valuation. This is
less than real value. The tax on the
College is too small to be felt by any
one. Divide twelve cents on a thous-
and by 67, and he will get somewhere
near the tax on each $1,000 valuation,
for the College last year. My figures
may not all be exactly right, but are
essentially correct.

Yours truly,
W. J. BEAL.

North Star Liberty Grange, No. 391.

Bro. J. T. Cobb:

It has been a long, long time since we
have seen a word in the GRANGE Vis-
ITOR representing our Grange, and as
we do not wish to have other Grangcs
in the State think we are among the
“ has-beens,” I write a few lines.

VVe still hold our regular meetings
every two weeks; sometimes we have
a full Grange, and sometimes our
numbers are few; Some live a good
ways from the hall, and the weather
or else the roads are not always suitable
for a large attendance. ButI trust that
the disposition is good enough. I can
answer for one, at least. I never go but
what I am glad, before I get home, that
I did go. As the time for election of
officers draws near, ought we not to be
more punctual than ever if possible,
that we may have a chance to exchange
thoughts with our brothers and sisters
in regard to the most suitable persons to
fill official positions? We all know, in
order to have a good Grange, we should
have it managed by good otlicers. Good
management makes us all better Grang-
ers, the same as a good teacher in a
school makes his pupils better scholars.
We have spent both pleasant and prof-
itable meetings in our hall, and hope
we shall continue to do so.

Why is it that there is less corres-
pondence in the VIsI'roR from other
Granges than there was last summer?
Are they becoming less interested, or is
it because there is so much other reading
that is thought more beneficial to
the readers of the VIsi'roR? I love to
read it all, but I also love to hear from
our brothers and sisters of other
Granges. I want to know what they
are doing and how they are prospering.
And let all of us, whose term of sub-
scription for the VISITOR expires with
1880, remember that the year is almost
gone, and another will soon be here.
Hunt up your fifty cents and have it
ready, and if possible induce some one
else to try it. No more this time.

LIBERTY.

Nov. 14, 1880.

From a Weak Grange.

A member would like to know what
can be done for a weak Grange. I say
“weak,” because our members are too
much engrossed in their work to attend
the Grange. We have good members
enough to carry on the Grange and
make it agreeable and interesting, but,
instead of doing so, we have a small at-
tendance, and those that do come don't
seem to take the interest that they ought
to. If the brothers begin an argument,
they generally take some subject which
the sisters do not care to discuss —-— tak-

ing this advantage because’”woman’s
rights” have not yet been declared.
They bring up the subject of politics
for discussion, although wellaware that
politics were strictly forbidden in the
Grange. They have, like a truant
child, wandered from the straight and
narrow path, and entered upon forbid-
den ground. It being so near election,
our VVorthy Chaplain thought there
could be no harm in a little discussion
on politics, our \Vorthy Master did not
seem to think it wrong, so the other
brothers were not so much to blame for
following their example and entering
the forbidden field. B. B.

Program of Van Buren Co. Grange.

Consignment of essays and discus-
sions for the February session of the
Van Buren County Grange :

“ The Highest Type of Womanhood;
How May it be Obtained,” Mrs. A.~
Rice, Lawrence.

Discussion, opened by Mrs. O. Cald-
well, Decatur.

“Agricultural College; its
tages,” C. B. Charles, Bangor. .

Discussion, opened by Jason Wood-
man, Paw Paw.

“Advantages of the Girls of To-day,
Compared with Those of a Century
Ago,” Miss Isidora Harrison, Paw
Paw.”

Discussion, opened by Mrs. J. E.
Packard. of Hartford.

“District Schools : How May They
be Made to Meet the Demand for More
Thorough Discipline‘.”’ W. 0. Cook,
Keeler.

Discussion, opened by Geo. E Breck,
Waverly.

“ Farmers’ Alliance," discussed gen-
erally, sometime during the session.

Each one assigned a part will please
consider this all the notice necessary
for the occasion."

Mas. O. M. Sixns,
Lecturer of Co. Grange.

Advan-

Sugar (lane.

The best time to cut the cane is when
the seed is in the dough. Cut oil’ the
heads first, and then strip with a stick

made in the form of a sword. Cane
must not stand in the field after the
leaves are stripped, as it will soon un-
dergo achange and the juice will be
bitter. Cane may be cut and dried on
the outside, and then piled and kept
for weeks. If piled wet, it will heat
and so spoil it. If it has been frosted
and is not worked up in a few days, it
will sour.

To make good syrup, you must have
good cane. If you wish to make sugar
or good syrup, you must keep every-
thing used in the making of it clean
and sweet. Sorghum juice has a ten-
dency to undergo a change as soon as
pressed from the cane, and in a few
hours it will commence to make alco-
hol. To prevent or arrest this chemical
change is the greatest thing we have to
contend with, and here is the secret of
making sugar or good syrup. So it
becomes necessary to wash the mill and
vats and everything used, with lime-
water, once or twice a day. The clay
process is much ahead of any in the
saving of labor in skimming, etc., and,
b.-sides, the syrup is much cleaner and
clearer, for, if you scald the green mat-
ter in the cane-juice, it gives it a strong
taste.

To clarify with clay, use the white or
light colored clay,dry it, and have a
settling vat, with plugs in one end, to
draw off the liquor. Putthe canejuice
into the vat as it comes from the mill,
add about one half—bushel of clay to 100
gallons ofjuice, mix the clay thorough-
ly with the juice by agitating, until it
will settle clear and show no green
matter, and when it is scalded it is as
clear as water. If you wish, you can
use lime, alum and soda; but I think
syrup is much healthier and better, to
use only sulphite of lime, such as is
used in cider, one package to 100 gal-
lons of juice; put it in as it comes from
the mill. The sulphite of lime will
prevent fermentation. Boil over abrisk
fire. You should stir thejuice until it
boils, to prevent something in the cane
juice from settling down on the pan and
coating it; this burns into the pan and
gives the syrup 9. dark color. If you
have prevented the cane juice from fer-
menting, you need not be afraid of
burning, and the faster you boil the
better.—— Wm. 11. Strong, in me Prairie
Farmer.

A LADY teacher in Boston has car-
ried successfully through,at small ex-
pense, a vacation school for the poor
children whose time would otherwise
have been spent on the streets. The
whole number of scholars was 285,
about one-half being colored children.
Learning to sew, singing, committing
to memory dialogues and poetry, occu-
pied the time. At the close an exhibi-
tion was given which gave great satis-
faction. The good efi‘ect of the school

on the neighborhood was strikingly -

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THE GRANGE VISITOR.

SCHOOLCR-AFT, DEC. 1, 1880.

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J, '1', 0033, - - - - SCHOOLCRAFT.

Oficerii and members of Subordinate Granges
in corresponding with this ofiice, will please
always give the Number of their Grange

RAIL ROAD ARRANGEMENTS.

Rail road arrangements have
been perfected with the Michigan
Central, as follows: Those attend-
ing the Session of the State Grange
will pay full fare to Lansing over
this road and its branches, and be
entitled to a return ticket at one
'cent per mile to their home station,
on presenting to the ticket agent
at Lansing, a certificate of attend-
ance at this eighth session.

These certificates will be issued
by me on application, at any time
during the session.

The Chicago & Grand Trunk will
sell round trip tickets to Lansing
on the 13th and 14th of December,
at all points between South Bend
and Port Huron, good for the full
week of the session, at the rate of
two cents per mile each way.

The Detroit, Lansing & Northern
make the same terms as the C. &
G. T. Tickets must be purchased
on the 13th or 14th, and will be
good for return at any time during
the week.

The Grand Rapids & Indiana R.
R. will sell return tickets from any
station on its road to such Lansing
connecting points as may be de-
sired, at the rate of two cents per
mile each way. But the parties
desiring to secure these tickets
must present an order issued by
the Company, which can be had
by applying to me. We shall send
these orders to delegates Whose
names we have. To any other
parties who wish to attend the
State Grange session, we will send
on application.

The sale of tickets at the re-
duced rate is confined to the 13th
and 14th. Tickets good for return
the entire week.

Our application to the General
Ticket Agent of the Lake Shore &
Mich. Southern was referred to W.
P. Johnson, Chicago, Gen. Passen-
ger Agent of that road. He has
not yet replied, nor has‘ the Gen.
Agt. of the Detroit, Grand Haven
& Milwaukee R. R.

As this reduced rate of two cents
per-mile is a standing arrangement
of the railroads of the State for
all those attending meetings of
this kind, we have no doubt about
these other two roads making the
same rate. The only question is,
how they will fix the matter.

Different agents have dilferent
notions. One wants to limit this
reduced rate to those who attend
the meeting; another don’t care
who goes to Lansing, but limits
the sale of tickets to two days. The
Mich. Central last year adopted
the plan, a_nd continue it this year,
which we have all along recom-
mended, of selling at Lansing re-
turn tickets at one cent per mile
to all applicants who present a
certificate of attendance at the
session of the State Grange. By
this plan the railroad gets its two
cents per mile each way, and they
have but one agent to instruct to
carry out the whole business over
all their lines of road.

Let no one stay away under an
apprehension that they may have
to pay full fare both ways. The

fare on all roads leading to Lans-
ing will be at the rate of two cents
per mile each Way.

THE AGE ICULTURAL COLLEGE.

As the article of " Farmer ”
on third page covered a good
many exact statments in figures,
the correctness or incorrectness of
which we had no means of deter-
mining, we sent his article to Prof.
Beal for reply, and have in con-
nection with the article. his an-
swer to charges preferred. Our
“Farmer" friend,Who sees such mis-
management at the Agricultural
College, may live to see some-
where in the future the manage-
ment of public institutions brought
to as rigid a system of economy
as attends the most successful
farmer. But we do not now know
where to look for just that kind of
work, and we do not expect that
desirable condition of things to be
reached very soon.

Now we look at this matter from
about this stand-point. In these
days of rapid progress, of constant
shifting, our educational institu-
tions are not running in exact
grooves, long since formed and
recognized as permanent, but.
there is a great diversity of opin_
ion. as to what should be taught
at the expense of the tax-payers,
and this is a very proper subject
for discussion, and one that is not
likely soon to reach a settlement
that will be generally acquiesced
in. There is a very general recog-
nition and approval of a common
school system, supported by a tax
upon the property of the country,
and trom this starting point this
matter of furnishing aid to educa-
tional institutions has grown until
nearly department of learning
has presented and successfully
pushed its claims for State aid.
We shall not now discuss this
branch of the subject. But we
hold that no interest of the coun-
try has received so little aid and
encouragement in proportion to
its importance as that which per-
tains to agriculture, and what has
been done, or is being done in this
direction is largely experimental.
We are growing up to some sound,
correct system, but are today in
an embryo condition, and we shall
reach a complete, well—defined
system of agricultural education
only after years of experience.
Right or wrong, the State has
undertaken. not only to take care
of our common schools, but the
University and the Agricultural
College as well, and while this
state of things continues, it be-
hooves the farmers of the State to
do one of two things : either take
hold ofkthis matter in a business
way, and choke otf these large
appropriations to the University
for the education of students for
the professions, or else go in for
the expenditure of such an amount
for the promotion of agricultural
knowledge as the farming interest
of the country is entitled to, on a
basis of what it pays into the
treasury, and its relative impor-
tance to the professions, and other
industries.

We have no objection to criti-
cism upon the management of the
Agricultural College. As we have
already said, it is a growing insti-
tution, and it is more than prob-
able that there is room for im-
provement in many ways. From
what we have seen, we are fully
satisfied that the gentlemen en-
gaged in its business management
and in its several departments of
teaching, are really solicitous, not
only for the success of this partic-

ular .institution, but for the ad-
vancement of the agricultural
interests of the State and country,
and while that Work may be sus-
ceptible of great improvement, we
believe these parties are faithfully
and honestly doing the best they
can.

That the farmers of the State. as
a class, have not been the best
friends of the College, we believe
has been true; that in this respect
there has been a decided improve-
ment within the last three years.
we believe is also true. The farm-
ers who have been in the legisla-
ture, many of them notoriously un-
friendly to the College. have real-
ly, we think, better represented a
prevailing sentiment of the farmer
class, than they have an enlight-
ened progressive public policy.

The series of Farmers’ Insti-
tutes that have been held in the
State undei the auspices of the
State Board, have done much to
dispel the prejudice of farmers
against the College.

We see on every hand abundant
evidence that the great field of ag-
ricultural knowledge hasjust been
entered, that there is much to
learn all around us, and we look
upon the Agricultural College as
one of the essential instruments
in the development of the science
of'agriculture.

Criticise it much as We will, the
object should be for its improve
ment. If any of us know any bet-
ter way than is being pursued,
bring it to the attention of the
Board of Agriculture, or to the
Professors who are teachers at the
College. Insist on improving
the institution until (if that is not
already the case) it is worth more
to the State than it costs. Of one
thing we are quite sure—the Ag-
ricultural College is no high toned
aifair, out of our reach. The Pro-
fessors are in sympathy with the
farmer class, and always glad to
extend their circle of acquaintance
in this direction.

DELEGATES TO THE STATE
GRANGE.

The names of delegates to the
State Grange have all been report-
ed, except from Jackson, St. Clair,
and Saginaw Counties. We hope
that some one in each of those
Counties,who isinformed,willsend
us the names of delegates elected
from them.

We give below the names of
delegates from County Granges,
so far as reported, and shall, in our
next number, publish the entire
list, if delinquents enable us to
make it complete before the 12th

of December:

REPRESENTATIVES FROM POMONA GRANGER
BRANCH—A. J. Wamer,...._    22
Bni;iz1EN-—Fieeinan Franklin. - - - - - - - - - -- 1
CALHOUN-S. E. Woodworth, Battle Creek, 3
CLIN'roN—John M. Dewitt, So. Riley, . . 25
EATON—Wm. C. Howell, Roxand,.. . . . . 28
HILLSDALE——R. W. Freeman, ._ . . . .
INGHAM—A, A. King, Dansville,. ..
IONIA.—A. G. Gibbs. Portland, . . . . .  15
LAPEEB—W. A. Montgomery, BI1I'l1S1de;-- 29
MANISTEE—L. D. Shirtliif,
MONTGALM—J. P. Shoemaker, Amsden
NEWAYGO—A. Terwilliger, . . . . .  . .
OAKLAND ——G-. M. Shattuck, Pontiac,
OCEANA—Wm. H. Barry, Shelby, . - - - - - - -
Sr. CI.AIB—E. G. Manuel, Port Huron;--u 12
VAN BUimN—A. O.G1idden, Paw Paw." - 13
VVAYNE-—Ja.bez H. Padley,---_ -------  3
Wnsrnnx POMONA—-T1105. Wilde, Beflln... 19

 

  
  

  
  

CENTERVILLE, Nov. 24, 1380-
Editor Grange Visitor .- _
Please send my paper to Centerville,
St. Joseph Co., Michigan.
JAMES HOXIE.

Will some of our Centerville
friends who happen to know
James Hoxie, please tell him it
will afford us pleasure to comply
with his request when W818-‘M11
from him to what office We 113-V3
been sending his paper. We have
not time to look over several
thousand names to ascertain, and
cannot afford to send him aI10the1‘
copy to another oflice.

THE SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIA-
TION.

Br the courtesy of Hon. Henry
W. Lord, we find on our table the
proceedings of the seventh annual
session of the Social Science Asso-
ciation of Charities and Correction
held at Cleveland in June and
July last——a book of over 300
pages of valuable reports from
committees and gentlemen inter-
ested in the public charities of the
country, and its penal and reform-
atory institutions.

These annual reports are valu-
able collections of the thoughts
and observations of some of our
best thinkers upon these subjects
which are becoming of still great-
er importance to us each year, as
our immense country becomes
more densely inhabited.

This is an era of change. Old
notions and theories rapidly dis
appearing, and the men who asso-
ciate together. and by rings and
combination, wrest from honest
labor an undue share of its re-
wards, are not the only active
agencies in our land.

To secure wealth, men are
everywhere active and vigilant,
and sometimes as unscrupulous
and as untiring.

It is a relief to know that we
have also men of broad, unselfish
views, ready and willing to devote
some time to the study of subjects
of vital importance to the race.

The percentage of the criminal
and dependent class has, we be-
lieve, been on the increase, as so-
ciety gets farther from the point
of having only a supply of the
necessaries of life. With the
rapid accumulation of vast for-
tunes in the hands of the few,
within the last quarter of a cen-

tury in this country, questions of

social science enter largely into
the weal or woe of the millions
who are to inhabit the vast empire
governed by the United States,
and the well being of society in
the future depends to some extent
on the labors of this class of
minds.

We believe the Grange comes
in as a valuable help to elevate,
not only the agricultural class, but
in a general way to dignify labor,
and exert a repressive influence
over theéendency so prevalent in
this country, to flow from the
rural districts to the villagesiand
cities.

All the agencies for good that
are likely to appear will he
wanted to provide for and pro-
tect the generations that are to
follow us, and we recognize in
this Social Science Association a
pioneer movement in behalf of
society itself, under the direction
of some our best thinkers.

 

AND now one of our lady corres-
pondents gets a talking to. Well,
We happen to know the lady is
well qualified for a skirmish on
paper, and we only refer to the
article of “ Uncle Si’s” to advise
that when he makes another at-
tack, he consult Webster, or some
other good authority, on the exact
meaning of the Word “ slang,” for
it seems to us he has got a little
wide of the mark.

 

THE following Granges are de-
linquent in reports and payments
of dues from the Secretaries for
two or more quarters:

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, 248, 250,
264, 270, 271, 274, 295, 310, 320, 327, 338,
358, 363, 383, 404, 417, 422, 458, 480, 492,
511, 514, 529, 539, 565, 568, 576, 599, 603,
618, 632, 637.

ANOTHER COMPLAINANT.

ln the last issue of the VISITOR.
We had occasion to “rise and
explain,” in our own way. on ac-
count of the literature of the
paper not being entirely satisfac-
tory to a subscriber. And we also,
in another column,referred to a
couple of communications of a
political character. which we de-
clined to pul)lish. This declina-
tion has called forth a letter from
one of the correspondents asking
for the return of his communica-
tioii.

When we take into account. the
number of communications that
have appeared in the VISITOR
Within the last year that related
more or less t.o political matters,
coming, as they have. from mem-
bers of all political parties, We
are not at all surprised that soine—
body lias fancied that we have not
always done quite the fair thing.
Whatever we may think of our
intention and of our work, it is
quite another matter to so do that
work as to have all our readers
feel that we have been impartial.

We are able in this case to com-
ply with the request of the com-
plainant, though we wish it uncle-rt
stood that, as a rule, we cannot
promise a return of i'ejecter’l ar-
ticles. The article referred to was
received after the election, and to
us seemed altogether unsuitable
for these columns. We hardly
think the writer, when he has
re-read his article, will be able to
say that its publication would
have been for the “Good of the
Order.” Our correspondent seems
quite discouraged because Fa-
troiis, after all their talk about a
farmer, failed to sustain one or
the other of the farmer candi-
dates.

We do not propose to go over
the whole ground after the battle.
Our friend evidently expected too

much. We are quite sure that, al- '

though we did not secure a farmer
Governor, that we made some pos-
itive progress in the right direc-
tion. and that all that talk was not
thrown away upon the farmers of
Michigan. If we were to publish
articles of the sort furnished by
our complaining friend, we should
soon all be by the ears, and
besides the general unpleasant-
ness that would arise, the vital
objects of this great brotherhood
would be lost sight of, and we
should lose the advantages al-
ready secured of greater unity
of thought and action among the
farmers of the country.

We believe the future is full of
hope and promise to the farmers
of this country. We do not be-
lieve that, to impugn the motives
of those who do not act politically
in accordance with our notions, is
the sure Way to justify that hope,
and secure for ourselves or our
children a realization of that
promise.

l:’ATB.0NS or MICHIGAN, We expect
to see more of you at Lansingthis
year than ever before. The times
are better-: farmers can better af-
ford to spend a little money in
this sort of recreation than they
could when the universal cry of
“ hard times ” made those who had
everything they needed feel poor,
in common with those who were
really hard up. Now, we started
to write this short article to urge,
not those who have attended a ses-
sion of the State Grange to go
this year—they will all go anyway
—but those who are able to spare
a few dollars for their own enjoy-
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sing, should go this year without

_ fail.

There is probably no State in
the Union where the visiting mem-
bers make a better showing in
point of numbers than in this. In
fact, we have heard of State
Grange sessions with but a dozen
or so ladies in attendance. We
think we have never had so few
as a hundred ladies at any session
of our State Grange since its or-
ganization; aud from what we
hear from different parts of the
State,we expect that Lansing will
be seeded down with Grangers
this year, for three or four days.

Those who have attended a ses-
sion and know what a splendid
gathering of representatives of the
agricultural interests of Michigan
annually convene in the State
Capitol,should invite and urge the
lukewarm Patrons of their ac-
quaintance to go with them to
Lansing on the 13th or 14th of
December. In all these years we
have never yet met a Patron who
attended a session of _the State
Grange, and expressed a regret
for it. The universal testimony
has been that it was worth more
than the cost.

WE expect to get out the next
and last number of the fifth vol-
ume of the VISITOR before we go
to Lansing, on the 13th of Decem-
ber. We have done what we could,
since we undertook its manage
ment, to make the paper of value
to the0rder. We are not attached
to this sort of labor, not having
commenced it until we began to
get grey, and we saall be glad to
surrender it into other hands.

All the business interests of the
Order will at this session be again
in the hands of the representatives
of the Subordinate Granges of the
State, and we hope to have alegis-
lative body of brothers and sisters
come together with an earnest de-
sire to labor for the good of the
Order, and, with the experience of
the past to guide them.we are con-
fident that the r'esult of such labor
will buildup and strengthen all its
interests in this State.

A YOUNG man who is willing to sit
down in idleness, or devote his time
to society, and live ofi‘ the earnings
of his father, is justly looked upon as
a useless, if not a dangerous member
of society. No young man of spirit
or principle will consent to do such a
thing. And further, every man,
however wealthy, if wise, teaches his
son some business by which he can
earnalivelihood. The same p_rinci-
ple should be applied to girls. Every
girl should be taught to be self-
supporting; should be taught that it
is discreditable to live a life of de-
pendency, even upon her father.
Every girl, whatever her social or
pecuniary condition, is liable at any
time in her life to be thrown upon
her own resources and the cold char-
ities of the word, and this emergency
should be prepared for. Besides, the
ordinary duties of liie, require that
boys and girls be taught to work.
whether their parents‘ are wealthy or
not.

“On, THERE'S plenty of time!”
these people always remark. And by
thinking so, the train moves off with-
out them; golden opportunities slip
by them unnoticed; and in the end,
we fear many of them will be just a
little late in securing a safe passage
across the river of death, to that
blissful abode prepared for them that
seek early. If you would prosper in
any undertaking, you must stir about
lively. ,,“Tiine and tide waits for no
man.” Remember this.

A woman’ should never accept a
lover without the consent of her
heart, nor a husband without the’ con-
nent of her judgment.

. a Character is the criterion of destiny,

\

grcturtrh glzpartmmt.

Appointments and Addresses.

On Friday, the 26th 'inst., we go to
Delaware, and speak at Centerville and
Brockinville, at Newark on Saturday
the 27th, and to Port Royal on the 29th,
which closes our work in Delaware.
Our appointments in New Jersey are as
follows:

Wednesday, Dec. 1st, Ewing, Mercer

0.
Thursday, Dec. 2d, Hunterdon Co.
Friday, Dec. 3d, Columbus.
Saturday, Dec. 4th, Mt. Holly and
Medford.
Monday, Dec. 6th, Mqnmouth Co.
Tuesday, Dec. 7th, Mullica Hill.
Wednesday, Dec. 8th, Woodtown,
Salem Co.
Thursday, Dec. 9th, Vineland.
Friday, Dec. 10th, Camden.

Until Dec. 8th, my address will be
Camden, N. J., in care of I. W. Nichol-
son. From that to the 18th, our address
will be Lansing, Mich.

Sweet Items.

Germany exported 12,000,000 more
barrels of sugar in the months of May,
June, and July, 1880, than in the same
months of 1879. This is beet sugar.

Austria has 220 factories for making
sugar from the beet, which gives a pro-
duct of 375,000 tons.

A French company, with a capital of
$2,000,000, ‘has been organized to devel-
ope the beet sugar interests of Canada.
They are importing machinery, and
erecting four factories near Montreal
and Quebec.

The sugar beets planted this year in
Canada will give a fair yie1d—about 20
tons per acre, at $4.00 per ton, or $80.00
per acre.

The Germans learned from France
the methods of cultivating beets, and
have much improved the same. Shall
not the American farmer learn of both,
and then improve upon both !

Is not 20 tons of sugar beets, at $4.00
per ton. better than 25 bushels of wheat
at $1.00 per bushel?

" The Sugar Beet.”

VVe have just received the October
number of the above named quarterly,
devoted to the cultivation and utiliza-
tion of the sugar beet in this country.
It is a twenty - page, three-column
width, sheet, at 50 cents per year. We
commend it to all who would wish to
thoroughly investigate this subject.
Every Grange library should have it.
Address The Sugar Beet, 810 Walnut
St., Philadelphia.

Notice of Meetings.

The last meeting of the year, of Ionia
County Grange will be held with
Pewamo Grange, Dec. 15 and 16. The
election of officers for the ensuing year
will take place at this meeting. and the
following program, arranged at the
November meeting, will be called:
Essay by J. Warren Peake, of Danby
Grange, subject chosen by himself;
Essay by Mrs. Mont. Spaulding, Or-
leans Grange, subject chosen by herself;
Essay by James H. Tibbits, Ionia
Grange, “ Experimental Agriculture” ;
Scrap bag, Lillie Brooks, Ronald
Grange; Essay, Paul Charles, North
Plains Grange, subject of his own
choosing. JAMES L. FOWLE, Sec-.’y.

Ir IS almost astonishing to think of
the quantity of barbed wire used for
fencing on the prairies of Texas. It
is fast superceding other material and
will soon entirely take the place of all
other. It makes a cheap. durable,
and effective fence. Everywhere you
go you see wire fences stretched in
every direction. Its introduction
into the country as a fencing material
seems to have worked up a perfect
mania for it, everybody is so anxious
to have some of it.———E':c.

Love without esteem cannot reach
far, nor rise very high; it is an angel
with but one wing.

‘GOING to law is generally like skin-
ning a new milch cow for the hide, and
giving the meat to the lawyers.

Gimcrsspnndence.

DEAR SIR AND Baornnn: I have
many times thought that I would write
to you, but, as I am old, I thought the
younger ones could do it. In reading
your number of Nov. 15, I had my
thoughts stirred up. Looking over the
“ Ladies’ Department,” I read a piece;
its caption was “Some past delusions
and present conclusions.” I was astou-
ished to think that such slang should
be allowed to find a place in a Grange
paper. I am not a member of the Re-
publican, Democratic, or Greenback
parties; neither am I a member of Neal
Dow’s party. But now I read, “A few
years ago it was generally believed that
the South was conquered, that the re-
bellious spirit which perml:-ated South-
erners and Southern SylJlpa.l.hlZeI‘S was
quelled, but to-day We [who is the
‘we’ ? Patrons?] find it as bitter, active
and determined as before the rebellion,
making the South the living issue of
the day.”

Now, Brother Cobb, was the above
slang fit to be read by the Patrons of
Husbandry‘? Would it not be more
congenial for readers of the Post and
Tribune? 01' have we no brother and
sister Patrons in the South? I have
ever admired modesty in woman. but
this is too much.- Such slang, I fear,
will do not only your VISI1‘()R, but the
cause of the Patrons of Husbandry
much harm.

The National Grange met at Charles-
town, S. C.; and, when our Worthy
Master returned to this State, he spoke,
if I mistake not, of the love, fellow-
ship and union manifested towards the
brethren of the North. “Actions speak
louder than words.” Again,when Gen.
Grant left Mexico, he came to Texas
thence to New Orleans and other
places. He afterwards made a speech,
which was reported in the Chicago
Times. In that speech Gen. Grant tells
a different tale of the South than does
A. L. F.

How beautiful the lesson taught us
in the degree of “ Gleaner” : "Be ever
ready to forgive. Remember, she who
refuses forgiveness breaks the bridge
over which she must pass, for all need
forgiveness.” Hence, my brother, in
my opinion, nothing should be pub-
lished in the VISITOR which is calcu-
lated to irritate a Republican, a Demo-
crat, a‘ National or Greenbacker, as
such. Was not that a fling at the Dem-
ocrats?

Thomas Jefferson said, “ Error can
do no harm if Truth is left free to com-
bat it.” These being my sentiments,
I take my pen to point out several
errors, expressed or implied, in the
communication of A. L. F.: and the
reason why I do so is, because it covers
ground heretofore sown in the VISITOR.
If you publish this, I will touch upon
other points in that piece: but I wish
it distinctly understood that I write
not against the person, but against the
sentiments advanced. UNCLE SI.

 

Meeting of Montcalm Pomona Grange.

AMSDEN, Nov. 22d, 1880.
Brother J. T. Cobb .'

I have expected to see in the VISITOR
a report of the proceedings of the last
meeting of Montcalm Pomona Grange,
N0. 24, held with Ferris Grange, Oct,
28th. Not seeing such report, I send
the following.

The meeting was well attended, not-
withstanding the weather had been uh-
favorable for some days.

After partaking of a sumptuous din-
ner, prepared by the sisters of Ferris
Grange, the meeting was called to order
at 1:30 P. M. The regular order of bus-
iness was gone through with. The Su-
bordinate Granges of the County were
reported as being in a promising condi-
tion.

A recess was taken for supper, after
which an election for the ensuing year
was had, which resulted in the re-elec-
tion of most of the old officers. I. P.
Shoemaker was elected Master, B. B.
Crawford Secretary, and I. P. Shoemak-

er and wife Delegates to the State
Grange

Some very fine essays were read, and a
class of twelve received the fifth degree.

The Grange closed about 1 A. M. on
the 29th. All felt that a large amount
of work had been done in a short time,
and that it was good to be there.

The next meeting will be held at the
Bloomer Grange Hall, Dec. 20th, at 1
o’clock.

Fraternally yours,
I. P. SI-IOEMAKER.

 

To the Patrons of Michigan.

A large and growing trade is now be-
ing carried on at our co-operative store
in Allegan, and under the manage-
ment of Bro. A. Stegeman, is rapidly
gaining a reputation not excelled, if
equalled, by any other store in the State;
and for this success we are greatly in-
debted to him for his zeal and untiriug
energy in managing its business trans-
actions. Therefore, to offer these facil-
ities to all Patrons wishing to purchase
through our agency, the executive com-
mittee of the co-operative association
have made such arrangements that our
agent will fill orders for goods from all
parts of the State.

For further information, address A.
STEGEMAN, Allegan, Mich.

J. S. BID\VELL,
Sec. of C.,A. of P of H.

 

Woridmun for Senator.

At the November meeting of Ionia
County Grange, held with Berlin Cen-
ter Grange, No. 272, the following reso-
lution was adopted:

Resolved, That it is the sense of the
Ionia County Grange that the name of
J. J. Woodman, Master of this State
Grange, be presented to the State Leg-
islature asa candidate for the United
States Senatorship from this stage for
the full term, and that we ask and hrge
our members-elect to use all honorable
means to secure his election: and that
a copy of this resolution be forwarded
to the GRANGE VISITOR for publication.

M. M. CURRIER, Sec’y.

 

Lecturcr’s Address.

The following is the address of the
Lecturer of the National Grange Bro.
H. Esbaugh :

lVo7'lhy Zllaster, Ofiicers, and Jvlembgrg
of the National Grange .-

In obedience to law and usage, I here-
with present a few suggestions for con.
sideration. I

Having been kindly excused from
services in other States, enabled me to
devote my time to the work in my own
State, which, it gives me pleasure to
report is in a healthy and prosperous
condition. ,I have visited but two other
States during the year, Kansas and Illi-
nois, devoting a few days in the former,
and a week in the latter; and while the
Order in the former is in a healthy con-
dition, the latter needs more work.
There is evidently a field open for
Work in'many other States that should
not be left uncultivated by the oflicers
of State Granges.

Farmers are more eager for informa-
tion now than formerly. They begin
to realize the necessity of the organiza-
tion of their class, and are manifesting
more willingness to unite in proper
efforts, promising relief‘ from the bur-
dens of injustice, and that may lead to
the advancement of themselves and
their class.

I do not believe that there ever was a
better prospect for eflicient work in
many States than now. The effort
made by the National Grange at its an-
nual session last year in regard to legis-
lation on transportation and patent
rights, has been a great stimulus to the
Order in many sections of the country,
from the fact that members realized the
work to be in the direction that carries
with it hope for relief; it has induced
new courage, more perseverance, and
greater co-operative effort to carry for-
ward the good work so well begun.

It has produced an inquirv among
non—membership farmers, of what to
do, or how best to aid in the great work,
and has induced many to seek admis-
sion into our Order. It has attracted

the attention of many business men,

who for the first time have considered
our purposes, and as a result, it has
made many of them friendly to our
cause. Renewed efforts in the same
direction and for like purposes should
be made. Past failures should not dis-
couiage, but rather stimulate us to
greater energy in the great work of a
just cause. Could not this body,
through the State Granges, provide ed-
ucational methods. It is quite evident
that the farmers outside of the Order
require a different effort to secure or
enlist them in the work with us, than
did those who united with the Order in
its earlier days, and it may be that
many of them must first be educated,
and then admitted. [believe it to be
of very great importance that this class
be taught in some way to more fully
understand our purposes, and what has
already been accomplished, and what
still remains to be done. as well as the
results to be hoped for.

The educational work must be carried
forward more rapidly within and with-
outfthe gates. Education and (- »-oper-
ation are the fundamental principles
upon which rest the future prosperity
and welfare of the Order. Successful
co-operation depends on successful edu-
cation. The two elements are entitled
to and should receive the most careful
consideration of this body,iu order to
encourage more desirable results.

Could not the National Grange im-
press upon the minds of the Represen-
tatives of each State the importance of
immediate and thorough work in every
State, such as will lead onward to
greater usefulness. and will build up the
Order on a permanent and prosperous
condition in every section of our land.
Our advance has been steadily onward,
and of a. sound and healthy character.
Our claims f'or justice to the agricultur-
al interests of the country will not be
permitted to be longer irifled with.
This body, as the national head of our
great organization must keep in the
advance in the great work, and wisely
inaugurate such progressive steps as
will be more positive in bringing relief
to a depressed interest, and seek pro-
tection for the future to the great in-
terests of our country.

VVhen we do this we will have estab-
lished a clear channel, through which
every State, County, and Subordinate
Grange in the land can work together
for the same desirable objects, and re-
sults made more positive.

Arrangements me being mad‘: for an

EXCURSION PARTY.

to LEAVE KALAMAZOO for

Jacksonville, Florida,

About the 18th of JANUARY NEXT.

Fare for ii0l1Illl'lTlDWlll be $40, or Less,
GOOD TILL JUNE 1s'r.

For further information, address
J. P. E‘. A RL.
Schoolcraft, Mich

PRICE LIST of SUPPLIES

Kept in the orfice ofthe Secretary of the

MICHIGAN S T A '1‘ E GRANGE,
And rem out Post Paid, on Receipt of Cash 01'-

der, over the seal of a Subordinate Grange,

and the signature of its Master or Secretary.

Porcelain Ballot Marbles, per hu.ndred,.. . 60
Blank Book, ledger ruled, for Secretary to
keep accounts with members, . . . . . . . . . .
Blank Record Books, (Express aid), . . . . .
Order Book. containing 100 Or ers on the
Treasurer, with stub, well bound, . . . . . . 50
Receipt Book, containing 100 Receipts
from Treasurer to Secretary, with stub,

 
       

well bound, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Blank Receipts for dues, per 100, boun 50
Applications for Membership, per 100 50
Membership Cards, per 100,. 50
Withdrawal Cards, per doz., . 25
Dimits, in envelopes, per doz.,. . . . . . . . . 25
By-Laws of the State Grange, single

copies 10c, per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
By-Laws, bound, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Patrons’ Singing Book, with music, Sin-

gle copy 15 eta. par doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 80
Rituals, single copy, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

“ per doz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 40

Blank “Articles of Association” for the
Inco oration of Subordinate Granges
with opy of Charter, all complete,. . . . . 10
Notice to Delinquent Members, per 100, . . 40
Declaration of Purposes, per doz., 5c.;
per hundred, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 40
Cushing’s Manuals, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Address, J. '1‘. COBB,
Sac’: MICE. Sun: Giuncn.
SCHOOLGRAFT, MICR-

 

 

 


  

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THE GRANGE VISITO>R.‘

NOT FIT TO BE KISSED.

" What ails papa’s mouf F ” said a sweet little
81 _

Her brfght laugh revealing her teeth white as

pea ,

“ I love him, and kiss him, and sit on his knee,

But the vkisses don't smell good when he kisses
me .

" But mamma ”——her eyes opened wide as she
spoke-

“ Do you like nasty kisses of’bacco and smoke if

They might do for boys, but for ladies and girls

I don't think them nice I ” and she tossed her
bright curls.

“ Don’t nobody’s papa. have moufs nice and
clean ?
With kisses like yours, momma?-~-th-at’s what I
. mean.
I want to kiss papa, I love him so well,
But kisses don't taste good that have such a
smell.

It’s nasty to smoke, and eat ’hacco and spit,

And the kisses ain’t- good, and ain‘t sweet, not
a bit ! "

And her blossom-like face wore a look of dis-
gust,

As she gave out her verdict, so earnest and just.

Yes, yes, little darling! your wisdom has seen

That kisses for daughters and wives should be
clean I

For kisses lose something of the nectar of bliss,

From mouths that are stained and unfit to be
kissed.

gtallica’ gepaxtment. it

The Grange and Its Benefits.

In order to receive the benefits of the
Grange, we must thoroughly under-
stand the purposes for which it was
organized. And how shall we under-
stand unless we study the Declaration
of Purposes, for these we find are the
true principles that underlie the Grange
structure, and those which prompt us
to work for the elevation of the farmer
class. I think it would be a benefit. to
the Order to have the Declaration read
at least twicea year, so as to keep in
view the object of the Grange. I pre-
sume that the reason why so many of
our Granges have died out is for want
of proper knowledge and instruction.
It requires a great deal of thought and
labor to conduct a Grange successfully.
There must not be any drones, they
must all be workers, each willing to
take an active part. Let us remember
that it is as much our duty to assist in
making the Grange interesting as if we
were ofiicers. Each should have a part
to perform: don’t let us ever remark:
because some brother or sister is more
active than others, that “they want to
run the Grange.”

I would like to see zeal enough man-
ifested in the Grange cause to elevate it
to its proper standing among the pro-
fessions. All we want is an equal
chance, and I believe that we have the
chance, if we have the mind to use it,
but, alas! there is a lack of knowledge
which some have not attained, and I
fear much has been owing to- indiffer-
ence; they have not had a care for
What is going on in the wide world,
and they have settled down to the con-
clusion that to work and provide the
necessaries of life is the chief end of
man. But this is not enough; we
should have higher aspirations. VVe
find ourselves placed among a vast mul-
titude of people: for what purpose are
we here? I can’t say ; but seeing that
we are here in the world let us live
to make each other happy; let us lay
hold of all the knowledge within our
reach that will tend to elevate and im-
prove our minds and morals; let us all
be gleaners by the wayside, selecting
for our use only the true, the beautiful
and the good.

I have a few words that I would like
to say, more particularly to my young
brothersand sisters, you who are to oc-
cupy our places in the future. You have
afgood foundation laid, a noble struct-
ure to build upon, and may you build
wisely for those who are to come after
you. Raise your standard high, press
forward to honor and victory, victory
over ignorance and honor over vice. I
want you to love the Grange. It is for
your interest to do so. It will benefit
you in various ways, if you will only
give some of your time and thought to
the Grange cause. By meeting week

after week in the Grange we hear of
many things of much value pertaining
to farming and yarious other subjects,
gnd we also form near and dear social

ties, which serve to strengthen those
fraternal bonds, which you should all
know are necessary and valuable in the
Grange. Let us all try, this coming
new year. to strengthen our bonds of
confidence in each other, wearing the
robe of charity on all occasions, always
cordial, giving each a friendly smile or
how.

And there is one more thing I wish
to speak of, and that is, our obligations
when wejoin the Grange: they are too
soon forgotten by very many of us. Let
us pay strict attention, when there is
labor to be done, that we lose not a sin-
gle word, that we may he able to con-
form to and abide by the laws and C011-
stitution of our Grange.

As I am one of a committee of four,
on the program, to work for the “ Good
of the Order,” in our Grange, I hope
you will forgive me if I make another
suggestion, and that is in regard to our
GRANGE VISITOR. I wish I could per-
suade every Grange family in Michigan
to subscribe for it and read it. I would
not be afraid to warrant a Grange re-
vival by next. spring. The idea of a
Patron trying to be a good Granger and
not taking a Grange paper, is absurd.
Whv, I have known officers of a
Grange that did not take a Grange pa-
per! That seems Worse than all the
rest. Now,my good brothers and sisters,
let us give the GRANGE VISITOR our
hearty support the coming year. And
if we have any among us who are not
able totake it, let us help such out of
the Grange treasury. We all have some
members in our Granges that have hard
work to live and keep up; I would say,
help such and be kind.

Fraternally yours,
AUNT KATE.
GRATTAN GRANGE, No. 170.

A Call for Old Contributors.

Bro. J. T. Cobb .-

Only one articleiin the “ Ladies’ De-
partment " of last Visrionl What can
the matter be ‘.7 Has the winter swoop-
ed down so suddenly as to drive all
who should remember that Department
into the cozy corners of their own fire-
sides? Sisters, though we freeze in

doing it, let us keep a warm corner in_

the VISITOR for those who cannot breast
the storm. VVhat has become of Mrs.
France, away ofl'in Pennsylvania ‘.7 She
wrote in ’7S: will she not write again?
She has large experience, and a heart
for others’ woes. Mrs. Bayley: we,who
are mothers, need your help. Belle Hull,
Grange No. 76, treats her subject grand-
ly : please write again. Mrs. Finch,—I
recognize an old friend,~we enjoy your

spice and originality. VVill not “Aunt.

Mollie” give an article on diet: she
gave such a good one on dress, in the
April number. “Veronica” has been
silent too long. “ Juno” writes sensi-
bly; we want to hear from her again.
“A Sister” who wrote in July, ’78, on
hereditary appetites being transmitted
direct from parent to child, is capable
of doing much good. \’Vill "she not
again come to the front? Can she be
silent while there is so much need of
education in that direction? Where is
Mrs. Woodrufi‘, so much interested in
education ; Mrs. Steele, Mrs. Cox, Mrs.
Remington, and a score of others who
graced the pages of the VISITOR in
former days. “ Mary,” from Paw Paw,
shook the “napkin,” and from its folds
fell sparkling gems of thought. Will
she not give it another shake? Mrs.
Dickson must come again to cheer the
weary with her breezy chat. Myra,
Aunt Margret, Aunt Kate, Mrs. Mayo,
Mrs. Stanton, Mrs. Bradner, Aunt
Hattie and__Anna Fellows, with oth-
ers who would make the.list too long,
have done nobly their part. We want
tohear from them often, but there is
room which the editor has to fill with
“exchange”; we would rather have
our page filled with letters from those
we know are members of our Order,
and one common sisterhood. Once
more,will not Aunt Hattie follow “The
Purse ” with “ Does a man support his
wife?” —she doing the work of the
household?

And now, Bro. Cobb, were I not in
wholesome fear of your “basket,” I
would call every contributor by name,
and see if in future you would have to
fill our department with scissorings.
However, I hope that so many will re-
spond that you will be obliged to cry,
“Enough!” I wish that some good,
benevolent sister would write up the
State Grange, for the benefit of those
who can't go. Mics. O. M. SYKES.

Keeler, Nov. 22.

What Can a Woman do?

Essay by Mary J. Titus, of,’ Center-
ville Grange.

The question of what a woman can-
not do well is one which has been much
debated of late, and it is safe to say that
facts and arguments laid before the
public in the course of the discussions,
have done much to shake the belief
once so universal, that woman was
adapted to do nothing Well but the
domestic duties of the household. \Vc
are proud of American progress! glad
when we reflect that so much of it is
due to the influence of women. To be
sure, no great inventions or discoveries
can ever be accredited to her; still,
to-day we find the doors of our best
Universities are being opened for her
admittance, and steadily and surely,
woman is taking her stand with man,
showing in intellectual development
she is his equal. “Neither scalpel nor
galvanometer,” says Dr. Clark, “has
ever been able to detect the least inferi-
ority in brain power.” VVe naturally
shrink from the word “ woman’s
rigl1t:s,” because it is so suggestive of
the unloveliness and unwisdom which
characterized this movement. VVe,
would not advocate the right of suffrage
for this is a vexed question, but would
insist strongly on the right oi the same
remuneration which man receives when
the work is done equally well. We
laugh at that harvester, who with his
cradle over his shoulder, told his em-
ployer he should be unable to work for
him, and simply because his employer’s
wife had shown physically she was his
equal, for during the forenoon she, with
her rake had ‘followed, and kept up
with him, but although we are not bar-
vesters (if some of us do drive the
reaper) it is with a feeling of the ut-
most bitterness we receive the small
pittance given to us for our work when
man for the same labor receives a third
more.

But the times are changing; even
now, woman is taking her stand in the
rank and file of life; and for her noble
fulfillment of duties is reciving a just
reward. Visit our printing ofiices, no-
tice the fair compositors setting type
with as great rapidity as mcn—the col-
umns of our newspapers, and as they
are paid for the amount of work done,
it places them upon a11 equal footing
with the sterner sex From Michigan

some time ago, went a Miss Perry, in.‘

graduate of our University, to seek her
fortunes as a lawyer at the Chicago bar.
VVell she knew (the code of laws being
so diff'o.-‘rent from her own state) that
it would cost much severe labor and
hart! study before she could pass a cred-
itable examination and be admitted, but
perseverance triumphed, and we read
in the Times an accountof Miss Perry’s
victory, comparing her to the Perry of
old, who caused that memorable dis-
patch to flash over the world: "\Ve
have met the enemy, and they are
ours.” Prof. T. G. \Vormlcy, while
preparing his great speech on “Blood
Poisons,” had for his helper in the
laboratory his wife. She with her
pencil made delicate tracings on paper
of the specimens he had carefully pre-
pared under the microscope. These he
intended as designs for steel plates,
which should illustrate his work; he
took the sketches to some of the princi-
pal eastern cities, but was unable to find
anyone who could successfully etch
them on steel. When almost discour-
aged, he was told that the one who
drew them was the person to prepare
the steel plates. He replied : “ Impos-
sible, gentlemen, for that person was
my wife.“ Nevertheless, the engraver
persuaded him to take home some of
the etching tools. In less than ayear
this persevering woman had accom-
plised for her husband that which he
was unable to procure from man's help.
In his book can now be seen the bean-
tiful steel engravings, results of her
skill—a lasting monument of what a
woman can do. ’l‘o our great Centen-
nial exhibition Harriet Hosmer has
brought some of her pieces of statuary,
and though they are different from
Roger's, they show her to be as great
an artist as he. Her works are consid-
ered ornaments in all the European art
galleries.

In animal painting Rosa Bonheur
stands a peer with Sir Edward Land-
seer, the great English painter.

In the great rebellion Mrs. Stowe and
Julia Howe wielded an influence for
the right, very near, if not equal to
that of Fred Douglass, Wendell Phil-
lips, or Charles Sumner.

In Vassar college the professor of
astronomy is a woman, the daughter of
the celebrated O. M. Mitchell, of the
Observatory of Ohio. It is said she
watches the courses of the stars, and
determines their orbits with a precision
equal to Prof. Watson, of>Ann Arbor.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, we are
told by encyclopedists, was educated in

a masculine range of studies, and with
a masculine strictness of intellectual
discipline, “the poets of Greece were
the companions of her mind. In im-
aginative power and originality of in-
tellectual construction she is said to be
entitled to the very first place among
the later English poets. She had a
statesman ’s comprehension of the social
and political problems which perplex
the well-wishers of Italy, and discussed
them with the spirit of a statesman.”
It is true that all may not attain the
same heights, but the examples given
show that intellectuality is open to
women without destroying her spiritu-
ality. A writer in the nineteenth cen-
tury says, “ Educate man for manhood,
woman for womanhood, and both for
humanity.” _In this lies the hope of
the race, and the words are as true to
day as they were when first uttered.
Side by side grow an apple tree and a
a violet. If the soil is poor they are
both meagre, if the soil is rich they
both flourish. From the same tract one
gathers his golden and mellow fruits,
the other hL"l‘ glowing purple richness.
_You may cover the violet, and stint it
into a pale, puny, sickly thing, or you
may cultivate it into an imperial
beauty. The utmost calculation will
not turn it into an apple treee. The
distinctions of sex.are inate and eternal.
They create their own barriers which
cannot be overleaped. And now the
question urging in our ears, “VViiat
can woman do,” and with the bright
examples before us of those who have
made good use of their God-given tal-
ents, an inspiration to those who follow
them in the Words of Burns, we would
sa '
3 ," Then let us pray, come it may,

As come it will for a’ that,

That sense and worth, o'er a’ the earth

May bear the gree, and a’ that."

In conclusion, We think that there is
nothing more suitable to add than the
dedication of that book, “Our Liberty,”
by John Stuart Mill, a man of culture
so thorough that his has been said to be
the most cultivated mind of the age.
This is his tribute to what women can
(lo: “To the beloved and deplored
memory of her who was the inspirer
and in part the author of all that is
best in my writings——the friend and
wife, whose exalted sense of truth and
right was my strongest incitement, and
whose approbation was my chief re-
ward—I dedicate this volume. Like
all that I have written for many years,
it belongs as much to her as to me; but
the work as it stands has had in a very
insufficicntdegree the inestimable ad-
vantage of her revision; some of the
most important parts having been re-
served for a more careful reexamina-
tion,which they are now never destined
to receive. Were I but capable of inter-
preting to the world one-half the great
thoughts and noble feeling which are
buried in her grave, I should be the
medium of a greater benefit to it than
is ever likely to arise from anything
that I can write, unassisted by her all
but unrivaled wisdom.”

Wonn1n’s Tears.

Stop this scientific business where it
is, and don't let it go any further. It
is robbing life of all that is worth living
for. Only a short time ago one ofthese
scienlific joskins analyzed a tear that
had trickled down upon the check of
a lady who wanted a new dress, and he
found it to contain phosphate of lime,
chloride of sodium and water. Ever
since reading that analysis we have lost
faith in tears, and no matter what a per-
son is bellowing about, we can only
look at the tear as it flows over beauty’s
cheek, and think of the phosphate of
lime, chloride of sodium and water.
The infernal analysis has knocked all
the poetry out of tears for us, and we
feel as though we wanted our money
back. If the scientist will refund what
he has taken from us he can have his
old alalysis. VVe would like to throw
him in a corner and jump on him. He
has robbed us. Oh, give us back those
other days, when tears were tears, and
not cloride of sodium and other nause-
ating drugsl——New York World.

Hard on the Milkmen

Many ofthemilkmen of New York
have worked themselves into trouble.
It appears that Dr. White has made the
astonishing discovery of water in the
milk sold for the babes of the metropolis.
This is such an uncommon occurrence
that every milkman in the nation will
hold up hishandsin holy horror when
he hears of this unprecedented practice.
Bro. White prosecuted the parties de-
tected in this fraud, and has secured the

conviction of eighteen or twenty of

them, on whom fines have been impos-
ed, ranging from $5 to $50.

It was shown that from four to nine-
teen per cent. of the article sold by the
dealers for milk “was some Water or
some otherfluid.” How thankful the
townspeople of this State ought to feel
for their exemption from this outra-
geous imposition practiced upon the
Yorkies- ’Tis true there is a great deal
of very thin milk marketed here, but it
is said to be the fault of the cows, they
never fail to drink at every spring,
creek, and pond in the pasture. Espec-
ially is this the case during the summer
and fall months, when the feed is dry
and the weather hot.—E:c.

THE easiest window-gardening is
done by sitting in a window and di-
recting the man who is digging in the
garden.

What are Boys Good For?

The urchin who answered: “They
are good to make men of,” made an ad-
mirable reply. But the sort of men we
are to have in a few years, depends up-
on the sort of boys we have now. A
man is but a grown-up boy. The pres-
ent crop ofboys contain some hopeful
specimens, who give promise of noble
and useful manhood. But it also shows
a large percentage of boys who must be
reconstructed, before they can possibly
develop into a manhood that can fill
any honorable or useful position in so-
clety. Boys who shun or shirk useful
work _or improving study, and spend
their time in idle dissipations or vic-
ious actlvites, can never become useful
men. Boys who,_ being obliged to do
something for their support, assiduous-
ly seek ‘easy work, are not hopeful
prophesies of manhood. They will nev-
er amount to much. When we see the
tendency of city boys, to beindustrious
only in playing billiards or base-ball,
or some other useless and demoralizing
pursuit; and the disposition of country
boys, to seek in the city for easier dr
more respectable (‘.’) employment than
the country offers, we feel unhopeful of
the l'ulu re. It is from these two classes
that the constantly increasing armies of
shyster lawyers, quack doctors, poor
preachers, bummer politicians, drunk-
en loafers, petty thieves, tramps, dead-
beats, et id omni genus, are chiefly re-
cruited.

Boys, if you want to be men of worth,
don't be afraid of hard work or hard
study.

“Lives of great men all remind us,
We can make our lives sublime."

Read the lives of the great men of the
past and present, and emulate the vir-
tues and imitate the example of their
boyhood. Dr. Benjamin Franklin went
from a soap-boiler’.-l shop, through a
printing office, to fame world-wide and
immortal, by dint ofindustry and study.
What boys have done, boys can do.

Having disposed of the boy question,
anotherof equal, not to say superior, im-
portance confronts us : “ What are girls
good lor?” They are good to make
sweethearts and wives of. Girls were
invented expressly fol‘ those purposes.
They have no other mission or use in
this world but to amuse the young men
and comfort the old. Beg pardon; they
have a minor, yet indispensable duty
connected with the production of the
future crop of boys. We came near
forgetting this. Let us see, have we
forgotten anything else that might
profitably be said on this subject? Ah!
Now we are reminded that girls are good
to make women of; and, although
sweethearts and wives should be wo-
men,yet women need not necessarily
be limited in their functions or ambi-
tlons to so narrow a circle of duties.
Womcn—scme women—make excellent
school teachers, preachers, lawyers,
physicians, etc. Some write books that
are worth reading, some edit newspa-
pers,some—a good many——fill clerkshipe
in Government offices. Why, come to
think, there are almost (we are not sure
but quite) as many uses for women as
formen. This being true, the girls are
as important factors in society as boys.
Finally, what the women are to be de-
pends on what the girls are. We con-
fess, with sorrow, that the outlook for a
large crop of noble women is not a whit
better than itis for acrop of men worthy
to be the companions of noble women.
—E1:c/zange.

Mr. Jones and the Life Insurance Agent.

Matron’s Ofiering Sacramento Grange.

That life insurance agent had proba-
bly been posted as to how he should
take Mr. Jones. He has doubtless been
told what questions Jones would ask,
and advised as to what his answers
should be. He entered the office and
enquired for the old gentleman, and as
the two sat down together, the agent
observed: “Mr Jones, I have heard
you were thinking of taking out a life
insurance policy.” “ Yes, sir,” replied
Mr. Jones, “but I want to go into a
mutual company.” “Ours is run on the
mutual plan,” was the soft reply. “Is,
en! Well, I want to insure in a com-
pany which always makes dividends.”

“We have never missed a dividend .

since we organized,” grandly replied
the agent. “ I wouldn’t go into a com-
pany having any European risks or
stockholders,-"said Jones. “Our com-
pany has neither; It is a home com-
pany in every sense. “ VVell,” growled
the old gentleman, after a long pause,
“I object to an agent making any
commission off my policy." “I'll give
you all the commission,” was the reply.
"I have always objected to Eastern
companies,” replied Mr. Jones, as he
tore up a blotting pad. “Our company
has its headquarters in Chicago, and is
composed entirely of Western men,”
was the reply. Mr. Jones felt that he

-was in a tight place, and after squirm-

ing around in his chair he asked, “ Is
the President of your company a ne-
gro? “He is,” was the quiet reply.
Mr. Jones turned pale, but by great
effort he went on: "Young “man, are
you a Christian?" “Yes, sir.” “What
church?” They looked into each oth-
er’s eyes for half a minute. feeling that
the end was near. The agent" had to
take his chances, and so he answered,
“I am a Baptist.” “Go right out of
here ! ” exclaimed Mr. Jones, as he rose
: “Go right away! What I wantlsa
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Address 01’ ll. Woodrnan._Master of Van
Bnren co. Grange.

Brothers and Sisters: Another year
has passed away, a winter, spring, sum-
mer and autumn have made their an-
nual rounds, fulfilled their missions,
and disappeared; and we can scarcely
realize that stem old winter is again
approaching; indeed, he has already
sent-his foraging parties amongst us,
and they have stripped our forests of
their beauty, laid low the beautiful
flowers, and warned the feathered song-
sters, who have favored us with their
presence and songs during the summer,
to flee to more congenial climes.

How sad it seems, that the beauty of
summer has so suddenly disappeared,
and the old storm king of the north
must send his emissaries among
us, to spy out our condition,
and ascertain our ability to con-
tend against him. If the necessary
preparations are not already made, they
should be attended to at once. Houses,
barns and other buildings should be
put in condition to resist his attacks,
and send him howling along.

Our crops the present year are satis-
factory, we have abundance ofthe pro-
ducts of the farm, and I see no reason
why the farmer should not recuperate
during the coming winter; he should
store his mind with useful knowledge ;
attend the Grange promptly, if he is a
member, if not, he should join at once.

Ourimmediate vicinity has escaped
the ravages of the cyclone, hail, and
destructive storms, which have swept
over some portions of our land, de-
stroying life and property in their path-
way. Yet not far away, even on our
Lake Michigan, some most appalling
shipwrecks have occurred. How terri-
ble it seems that, so many of our citi-
zens, all in health, and only a few
hours before with prospects of long life
as good as ours are at this time, should
be buried in the tumultuous waters of
Lake Michigan. How true the poet’s
words, that “shipwreck, earthquake,
battle, fire and flood are mighty mis-
chiefs not to be withstood.”

We have recently passed, through
another Presidential campaign. The
excitement attending it is passing
away; we shall acquiesce in the choice
of the people, trusting our interests in
the hands of those we have selected as
our rulers and law- makers.

We are now entering upon the fifth
year of our existence as a Pomona
Grange; the prejudice that formerly
existed against Pomona Granges is fast
disappearing; the Subordinate Grange
finds in the Pomona a friend instead
of a rival. We are well aware that all
higher degrees are dependent upon the
fourth. If we have strong Subordinates,
we shall have strong Pomonas and
State Granges. There are now about
28 Pomona Granges in the State, and I
believe all are in a flourishing condi-
tion. The State Grange, at its session
in 1878, first admitted Pomona Granges
to representation in that body, and the
By-Laws of the State_Grange have_been
so amended that the several Pomona
Granges are now entitled to representa-
tion, the same as Subordinates, except
their delegates draw no mileage or per
diem from the State Grange.

I have never been able to harmonize
our Declaration of Purposes with the
By-Laws of the National Grange, in
regard to membership in the State
Grange. I fail to see any good reason
why a good Patron should be obliged
to pass through the Master's oflice, be-
fore he is eligible to membership in the
State Grange.

Six sessions of this Grange (includ-
ing the present) have been held during
the year. as follows : A special at De-
catur in Jan., regular session at Paw
Paw in Feb., and with Waverly Grange
in" May; a special with Woodman
Grange‘ in J one, and a regular session

‘ .Ew:fth—Keeler in Aug. All of these ses-

jipna were well attended, although at

THE GRANGE VISITOR.

the time of the Decatur and Waverly
meetings the weather was very unfa-
vorable; yet good audiences were pres-
ent. All of these sessions have been
open to the public, either in the after-
noon or evening, and the exercises
were, addresses, essays, and discussions.
The essays and addresses were highly
creditable to the authors, and the dis-
cussions show that progress is being
made by members of our Order in
public speaking.

New members have been added at
nearly all of our sessions, and our
membership has steadily increased from
sixty at its organization to its pres-
ent number. .

Our annual Grange picnic, under the
auspices of this Grange, was held in
August, at Four Mile Lake. The at-
tendance was good, and the able address
of Bro. Armstrong was listened to with
interest by all present.

I had the pleasure of attending the
State picnic at Lansing, in August.
This was acknowledged to be the larg-
est gathering of farmers and others that
ever assembled at our State Capital. It
was truly a magnificent affair, and
highly creditable to the Patrons of this
State. I regret Van Buren County was
not more fully represented. I am of
opinion that Patrons cannot spend a
week or so to better advantage than by
attending our Grange, picnics and State
Grange. What does it signify, broth-
ers and sisters, that we should toil, year
after year, to accuinulatealarge amount
of property for others to enjoy '3 \Vliy
not take some good out of our hard
earnings as we go along?

But, I remarked, we are entering
upon another year; it may be well to
scan our doings of the past year, and
candidly ask ourselves these questions :
Have we discharged our duties as good
Patrons? How many sessions of our
Subordinate Granges have we attended
during the year? Have We paid our
dues punctually? Have we been as
much interested in the success of the
Grange as the political party to which
we belong? Are we subscribers to the
GRANGE VISITOR? Can we place our
hand upon our heart and exclaim, I am
agood Patron l I am noted for fidelity I
I will persevere? These are pertinent
questions, and Ileave them with you.

The past is beyond our reach, the
future is before us, let us meet it like
men, let us not shrink the responsibili-
ties resting upon us. I would suggest
that a well regulated programme be
adopted for future sessions of this
Grange. It might beadvisableto occa-

sionally invite our friends‘ outside the.

gate to address us, orjoin in discussions
with us. I would also suggest that this
Grange recommend or furnish a list of
subjects or questions for discussion in
the Subordinate Granges within its
jurisdiction; and further it should be
the duty of the Secretary of this Grange
in addition to the requirements of See.
4, Art. -5, of Pomona Grange By-Laws,
to notify the Secretaries of Subordinate
Grénges of the order of business to be
carried out at the next session of the
Pomona Grange.

Upon request of any Subordinate
Grange for an intermediate session of
this Grange, I would recommend that
their request be complied with.

I learn we are to have a Farmers’ In-
stitute at Bangor during the winter,
and we shall expect to see the Grange
well represented there. The Grange is
in reality a Farmers’ Institute in itself.
It is ever foremost in every good work,
and Ican safely say that more has been
accomplished for the elevation of the
farmer and his household by the
Grange since its organization than has
been accomplished for centuries before,
and yet some of our members seem to
be insensible to the interests of the
Grange, or the benefits to be derived
from it.

I believe the Order is growing strong-
er; dormant Granges are being revived,
new members being added. Grange
halls are being erected, and there seems
to be a determination by the members

of the Order to make it a success.

An Important Petition.

Bro. J. T. Cobb .-

Inclosed please find a petition that
was sent to the last Legislature of the
State of Michigan, for their action. It
was introduced to the House by Bro.
G. W. Pray; spread upon the rolls and
referred to the Committee on Judiciary,
where it was killed.

VVe believe it to be an important duty
of the citizens of the State of i\Iichi-
gan, and of every State, to do all busi-
ness without any unnecessary expense,
and one item is to avoid all litigation,
if possible, and it has been shown in
this County that important cases can
be satisfactorily disposed of by arbitra-
tion, and where a person may be forced
into Court against his Will. and not un-
frequently contrary to law, to truth,
and to justice, they should be allowed
to do their own business, or should they
need help, be allowed to engage sucli
help as they have confidence in.
VVe cannot see why a person should be
compelled to have a lawyer to misrep-
resent him, when he could be ably and
efficiently represented for a tithe of the
cost of the lawyer. VVe therefore sug
gest that said petition be printed and
sent to the Subordinate Graiiges of the
State for signature. The petition is as
follows:

“ To the Iionorablc, the Represeniatives
of the State of illicltigan .-

“VVe, the undersigned citizens of the
State of Michigan, respectfully request
that your honorable body enact a law
that shall allow any person who may
have a case or cause to be tried in any
court in this State the privilege to pros-
ecute or defend his or her case, by the
examination of witnesses and to ad-
dress thejury and court; also, that said
person shall have the right to engage
any person of good moral character to

aid and assist in said prosecution or de-
fence, and your petitioner will ever

pray.” A
 W.

Ionia Grange 

The Natioiiiil Grange—1s'73-S0.

The National Grange lias commenced

its regular annual session in the city of
\Vashington, D. C. After swinging
around the circle and holding meetings
in seven different States, in as many
years, and at all points of the compass,

it once more gathers at the home place,
the place of its birth. The last session
held at Washington (or rather George-
town, a suburb and really a part of the
city) was in January, 1873, nearly eight
years ago. Than the Order was weak ;
now it is strong. Then, it was an ex-
periment, a beautiful theory, an almost
untried plan,its best friends hopeful,
but oftentimes doubting its perman-
cy; now, it is an undisputed success,
and acknowledged as a permanent in-
stitution of the country. Then, it was
before the battle; now, it is after vic-
tories gained. Then, our ranks were
just being recruited, and were unused
to the stern duties and trials of war;
now, it is an army of veterans, purified
and ti'ied by fire. Then, it numbered
hardly a thousand Subordinate
Granges; now, it has as many in a
single State. Then, it covered but a
portion of our country; now, it o’er-
spreads the entire Union, and has ex-
tended beyond our borders. Then, it
had all the trials and troukles, diseases
and dangers of childhood before it;
now, it is a lusty youth, approaching
manhood‘s estate and years of discre-
tion, with its trials past, its dangers
surmounted, ready to grapple with the
great industrial questions of the age.
Then, the child was sneered and scoffed
at by monopolies and giant corpora-
tions, whose nand wasjust being felt in
oppressing the people; then, it found
enemies even in the house of its friends,
farmers themselves being among its
most bitter opponents. Now, the young
giant, strong in his added years, bold
because of the justness of his cause, and
stripped of all entanglements and bin-
drances, commands the respect of those
whojeered and is receiving the most

hearty support of his earlier foes. Then,

the few plain but earnest farmers,

with a small following, gathered quiet-

ly, performed their work, did it well,

and returned to their homes-unnoticed

and unrecognized by the Government,

its Congress or any of its Departments ;

now, they gather as representatives of
hundreds of thousands of earnest men

and women—-—already recognized by the

highest executive of our country, by

some of its Departments, and after hav-

ing gained even the ear and heed of
Congress itself. Now, they go forward

cheered by past successes, firm in the

right; demanding full and complete

recognition,with justice as their watch-

word, asking nothing more, determined
to accept nothing else.

Yes, the seed that then was only be-
ing scattered has sprung into full life,
and is deeply rooted in the afl‘ections of
the people. The ground that then was
being only cultivated is now yielding
its harvest in ten thousand neighbor-
hoods and in the brighter homes all
over our land.

Differentleaders gather now at the
head and front of our cause, but none
the less faithful than those of old, some
of whom have passed to the Great
Grange above. Tried, on the many and
different fields of our Order, they have
come up, some of them from the ranks
to take a foremost place. Different ‘
hands are at the helm, but we doubt not
that, after their work is done, it can be
said of them also, that they “are noted
for their fidelity.”

Yes, under far brighter auspices does
this session open at the capital of our
country, than did that other in ’73.
Guided by the lessons of the past’, every
danger and diificulty that has been
overcome being made plain by the light
of experience; with a better conception
than ever of the great mission of our
Order, we feel sure that this session will
result in great good, and that the ad-
vance and progress made will be equal
if not greater than that which followed
the session of 1873. — Grange Bulletin.

iiuiiuiiil a’sr..o.i.

Col. F. D, Curtis thus writes on the
desirability of mutton. Thirty years
ago but few fat sheep went into the
markets. Now more than a million are
required annually to supply the le-
mands of New York city alone. The
great staple meat food of the cities is
beef, while in the country districts it is
the flesh of swine. F.‘\l‘ll]€l'S cannot
keep whole <:ai'casses of beef on hand,
and if preserved in salt, as they do their
pork, it soon gets liard and unpalatable.
A carcase of mutton being si much
smaller, even in hot weather a consid-
erable portion of it can he used fresh,
and the balance pickled in salt. i\[utt.on
will keep longer in a fresh statr: than
any other meat, and when corned is
equally nutritious with beef, and far
more wholesome than pig meat in any
form. For persons of sedentary habits,
and at all ufiiicted with weak digestion,
a great deal more healthy than beef or
pork. Many people who cannot digest
either of the latter without distress, can
eat mutton and experience no unpleas-
antness whatever. It is the cleanest and
purest meat of the entire animal king-
dom, as a sheep will starve before it
will eat anything dirty or tainted.
Mutton wastes less in the pot than beef
The bones are lighter and finer in pro-
portion to the amount of meat in well-
fed sheep, an(l this alone is an impor-
tant item to those who have to buy.
The less shrinkage in cooking is con-
siderable percentagc in favor of mutton.
The great reason why more mutton is
not eaten is because of its poor quality,
which is the result of no general system
practiced in the production of this im-
portant staple.

AN inter-State Agricultural Conven-
tion will be held at Springfield, lll.,
Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 and 2, 1880. All
Presidents, Secretaries and members of
State Agricultural Boards or Societies,
as well as others interested in the ad-
vancement of the interests of agricul-
ture, are invited to be present and par-
ticipate. Thc object of the Convention
is to discuss and, if possible, adopt a
uniform system of reports, that will
give farmers and others prompt and
reliable information in regard to the
probable and actual grain, fruit and
meat supply of the great West. Papers
are expected upon ihe fsllowing sub
jects: State Boards of Agriculture,
their work and their support; Crop re-
ports and estimates, their scope and
value; The relations of stock—feeding
to grain growing. The relations of State
Boards of Immigration, and Our in-
terest in the foreign grain demand.
These papers are from the Secretaries
of several State Boards. The call is
signed by Secretaries S. D. Fisher of
Illinois, J. K. Hudson of Kansas, and
W. I Chamberlain of Ohio.

THE IIEAPI-IR. DEATH.

DRAKE AND BRISTOL-

Memorial read before Clinton County Pomo-
no Grange, Nov. 17th, 1880..

Worthy Master, Brothers and Sistc7's :—VVhile
we meet to-day in happy reunion and pleasant
greeting, let us not forget that death has en-
tered our Grange and removed from our circle
our beloved sisters, Mary Drake and J ulia
Bristol. Never more will they grace our balls
with their presence ; never more Will they ex-
tend to us the hand of fellowship; never more
from their lips shall we hear words of counsel
or cheer. They have gone elsewhere to the
World, Over '1'/Lore.

For the love and respect we bore them, let us
ever cherish their memory, holding in fond
remembrance their many excellencies, and
profit by their example. To us they were com-
parative strangers, therefore we feel inadequate
to express to you all we might if we were more
familiar with their inner lives. We shall ever
remember Sister Drake as a genial companion,
a. devoted lover of our Order, and an excellent
co-worker.

A neighbor said, in speaking of her death:
5‘ She was a good woman, and made the best of
llfe.” Made the best oflife. Oh! what better
eulogy should we want than that?

“ She gathered up the sunheams
Lying all around her path,

She kept the wheat and roses,
Casting out the thorns and chafi’ ;
She found her sweetest comfort
In the blessings of to-day,

With a patient hand removing
All the briers from the way.”

How many of us here to-day can conscieii-

tiously say we are "making the best of life.
Do we recognize in the hand ot'- our Creator, a
Being who has made varied and lavish provis-
ion for our happiness? Do we feel irresistably
this life was designed to be 21 scene of enjoy-
ment to us F Alas I the masses of us are happy
only partially, fltfully, imperfectly : not many
of us are as happy as the provision made for us
seem to indicate we ought to be.

l-‘ We look before and after,
And pine for what is not '.
E'eii our sincerest laughter
With some pain is wrought.”

Let us follow the example of this sunny-
hearted sister, and “make the best of life.”

In the deatl" of Sister Bristol, the Grange
has lost a gifted member and educator; her
moral excellence and mental endowments there
are none to gains-ay, if we feel her loss irre-
trievzible, how much more. infinitely more,
must be the loss to her family.

Let us, as -.1 Grunge, tender to the respective
families of these departed sisters, our heartfelt
sympathies, and recommend them to the God
that offlicts not willingly, and Who tempers
the winds to the shoru lambs. Bow in humble
submission to the will of the Divine Master,
muvniuring not at this disposition of his Provi-
dence. ‘

“ God's hand is on the fallow, be thou still,
Thou c2uis’t not see Him for thine eyes are dim,
But wait in pati-ence, put thy trust in Him;
Give thanks for love and leave thee to His will.
Mns. H. E. Coxiv,
Mas. R. S. Voonnnns,
Miss Lizziis Wsrnas,
Committee.

LANGDON.—— Died Oct. 21st, 1880, at her
residence at Bowen Station, Sister AMANDA
LANGDON, wife of Samuel Langdon, aged 36
years.

The deceased was a member of Kent County
Poniona Grange, and had held the office of P0-
mona in the first State Grzuige. On the lflth
day of April, l8T£i-— nearly eight years :1go—the
first Grange in Kent County was organized and
named Paris Grange. Of the little band of
eiirnest brothors and sisters who entered as
charter members, Sister Langclon was one, and
from that time till her death her unwavering
fidelity, faith in and love for the Order, and
the ready performance of every duty required
of her, form an example for all who enlist un-
der the Grange banner.

\Vords can not express how much we shall
miss the pleasant face which was seldom absent
from the Grange meetings, and the willing
hands that were ever foremost in every good
work. As a token of love and respect for our
depaited sister, and our syinpatliy for her sor-
rowing family, we slnill, for the first time, drape
our charter in cmpe rind wear the badge of
mourning in our meetings.

\Ve fender our most lieiirtfelt sympathy and
condolence to the afiiicted family and friends of
our faithful and loving sister, whom God in
his Providence has seen fit to remove from our
midst, and we sincerely hope that every mem-
ber of the Grange may be as well prepared to
answer to the call of the Host High.

By order of Purl.-i Grange, a copy of these
few words of brother and sisterly love shall be
presented to the lonely husband and children,
and also to the VISITOR for publication.

Mas. Asa MELUII,

Mas. DUAYNE GOODELL,

Mns. EDWARD Boncnsnn,
Committee.

VAN VltAl\’KEl\'.—-At a regular meeting of
Centreville Grange, No. 76, held on Tuesday
evening, Nov. ltith, the following resolutions
were adopted:

- \VHnP.EAs, It has pleased an all-wise God to
remove from our midst by death our beloved
brother Rev. A. H. Van Vranken, that while we
weep with our heart-stricken sister andfamily,
we bow in submission to the Divine will of the
Master who deprives us of our brother's com-
pany-socially, as a member of our Grange, and
one of our best members in Christian society;

Resolved, That as members of a great and
noble Order we have lost a beloved brother,and
that we cherish his memory for his many excel-
lent qualities of herd and heart, not only as a
member of our Grange, but as an upright, lib-
eral, and virtuous citizen of our community.

Resolved, That in his death his family and
friends have sustained an irreparable loss, and
that we tender to them our sincere and heart-
felt condolence and sympathies, and recom-
mend them to Him “who doeth all things well.”

Resolved, That in token of esteem for our
brother we drape our hall for sixty days.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions
be placed on our Grange records, a copy pre-
sented to the family, and published in the
GRANGE VISITOR and Centeroille Republican.

Did we love our worthy brother?
All our members here can tell,
That in our great and noble Order

There were few we loved so well.

Guiding star in all our councils,
Bringing words of truth and light;

As the moonbeams silvery shining,
Dispels the gloom of sombre night.

Oh, we mourn our reverend brother,
Leader in the heavenly way,

Yet we gather words of comfort
He has scattered day by day.

Shall we forget. him, oh, no never,
For he has gone to heaven to dwell,

And only for a little season
We will say to him farewell.

J urns YAUNEY,
Csnnrn Wmrn.
Wx. B. Lnnonnr,

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THE GRANGE VISITOR. .

It Tasted Queer.

A minister of Newburyport was
once called up, after he had gone to
bed, to marry a couple. The hour
was late, and the minister’s wife did
not rise to witness the ceremony, but
gave her husband particular direc-
tions for the entertainment of the
wedding guests.

"‘ Don’t forget to pass the cake and
wine, doctor,” said she. " The cake
is in the corner cup-board, and you’ll
find the wine on the third right hand
shelf in the sideboard."

The doctor promised obedience,
put on his clothes, and went down to
perform the ceremony. Returning a
half hour later, he found his wife sit-
ting up in bed, with an anxious ex

ession on her face. “ Doctor," she
cried, “ did you give them any wine P"

“Certainly, my dear, just as you
told me.”

“ Not from the decanter on the third
shelf of the side-board P”

“ That is exactly where you direct-
ed me to find it, wife.”

“ Dear! dear! did they drink much
of it?”

“ Why, yes; they emptied their
glasses.”-

“ VVhat shall we do! Doctor, I made
a mistake—it was ipecac wine you
gave them. Oh, how sick they must
be I Do, dear, put on your cloak and
go right after them: they can’t have
got far.”

The doctor found the bridal party
on the corner of the next street.
“What made you drink the wine?”
he asked. “ Couldn’t you tell by the
taste that there was something wrong
about it? ”

The bridegroom answered, between
his qualms, “ She Whispered to me that
it tasted dretful queer. but I told
her ’twas because we was getting mar-
ried? ”

Canada Tliistles.

A subscriber, living in the State of
New York, says, when he found this-
tley lots, they were avoided for corn,
because there was too much hoeing to
be done to keep them down, and the
boy had found that the more you cul-
tivate Canada thistles, the more roots
you make, and the more roots, how-
ever small, the more sprouts and this-
tles Thistles in cats and barley are
a nuisance, as spring crops were put
into the thistley field as soon as possi-
ble. VVell, what was done? The
thistleyfields were made as rich as
possible, and thickly seeded down
with clover and timothy. At the first
mowing there would be big, lusty
thistle stalks, large enough for walk-
ing canes, but always afterwards the
remnants would be scattering and
sickly, and in two or three years none
would be left. Manure and meadows
is the remedy for Canada thistles; the
more manure and the more meadows
the better. If you can make a Canada
thistle grow big and hollow, and cut
it in hot weather, its ownjuice will
cause fermentation and rot. This will
kill it. Grass will choke them out,
and cultivation will increase them.
This is the long and short of thistles.
—Agricultural World.

THE Iowa supreme court, in a. case
appealed from Jasper county, decides
that, where a candidate for office is
elected on the promise that he will
perform the duties of the office forless
than the legal salary, said election is
void, because the candidate’s proposi-
tion is tantamount to a bribery of the
voters,

‘BEST II THE woiiini

    

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Which is the same thing.

Impuro Sales-atul or Bi-Curb Soda.
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y dirty white color. I. may appear
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See thnt your Sale:-stun and 3:]:-
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We Have Again Reduced the Prices of
Our Paints, from June, 1880.

Parins’ hill lllirlis.

For. THE MA1\"UFACTL'RE or

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Mixed Paint is having such an extensive sale. The
annoyance of procuring the various articles necessary
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Proof is given of‘ its enduring twenty years, and still
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can be procured in the ordinary way. Its base is old
English lead and Frencli rod seal zinc, chemically mix-
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many years.

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