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VOLUME  2. 

LANSING,  MICHIGAN,  TUESDAY,  MARCH  2,  1897. 

NUMBER  9. 

Washington's  Birthday  Exercises."^ 

The  exercises  commemorative  of 
Washington's  birthday  were  highly  en 
joyed  by  students  and  faculty.  The 
orator  of 
the  occasion,  Washington 
(Gardner,  pleased  all  in  the  address 
given. 
It  was  an  opportune  time  he 
thought,  the  time  in  which  Washing 
ton  lived,  for  such  a  man.  The  exist 
ence  of  such  men  as  Franklin,  Otis, 
the  Adamses,  Greene  and  Lee  served 
essentially  the  work  of  Washintgon. 
After  a  glowing  tribute  to  the  common 
soldier,  who  in  every  struggle  of  war 
makes  possible  the  careers  of  great 
leaders,  the  speaker  briefly  described 
the  life  and  services  of  Washington. 
The  greatest  contribution  of  our  great 
hero,  he  observed  in  closing,  was  his 
character.  "It  is  his  character  which 
secures  his  position  unchallenged  as 
first  in  the  hearts  of  his  countrymen, 
and  first  of  Americans  in  the  vener 
ation  of  mankind." 

The  program  arranged  by  a  commit 

tee  of  the  faculty  was  as  follows: 
Our  National  Hymn 
Invocation 
Glee—Let  the  Hills  and  Vales  Re 

Assemblage 
Rev.  Clarence  Swift 

sound 
Address—Life 

and  Services  of 

Choir 

"Washington 

Keller's  American  Hymn 
Benediction 

Rev.  Washington  Gardner 
Choir 
Rev.  Clarence  Swift. 

Transmission  of  Tuberculosis  by 
Means  of  Infected  Milk. 

By  request,  Dr.  Gi'ange  went  to  Me 
nominee  week  before  last  to  apply  the 
tuberculin  test  to  Congressman  S.  M. 
Stevenson's  dairy  herd.  He  was  seen 
lifter  his  return  last  week  and  reported 
an  appalling  condition  of  affairs. 

The  herd  tested  contained  47 head  of 
cattle,  mostly  Holsteins,  and  the  test 
resulted  in  typical  reactions,  diagnos 
ing 
tuberculosis,  in  39  animals,  the 
largest  percentage  on  record  in  a  herd 
of  any  considerable  size.  These  ani 
mals  were  slaughtered,  and  the  exist 
ence  of  lesions  caused  by  tuberculosis 
was  plainly  shown  in  every  instance. 
One  cow  was  sick  in  such  a  manner 
that  the  test  could  not  be  applied  in  a 
proper  manner;  but,  at  the  request  of 
the  owner,  this  animal  was  killed  and 
a  post  mortem  held  upon  her  by  Dr. 
Grange.  The  presence  of  the  disease 
was  well  marked. 

The  most  distressing  circumstance 
in  connection  with  this  investigation 
is  that  the  disorder  seems  to  have  in 
vaded  the  family  of  one of  the  owners. 
About  a  month  ago  one  of  the  cows 
took  sick  and  died.  A  post  mortem 
showed 
a  disease 
the  presence  of 
which  the  owner  suspected  was  tuber 
culosis.  Up  to  this  time  his  children 
had  been  using  milk 
and 
the  milk  of  the  diseased  cow  had  been 
going  in  with  the  rest.  The  milk  sup 
ply  was  at  once  cut  off,  but  not  until 
too  late,  as  later  developments  seem 
to  indicate. 

freely, 

One  morning  it  was  discovered  that 
the  little  daughter  could  not  open  one 
of  her  fingers.  She  was  taken  to  Chi 
cago  for  consultation  with  one  of  the 
most  eminent  physicians  of  that  city, 
who  dissected  a  tumor  from  the  finger 
of 
little  one.  After  examining 
the  tumor  for  two  days  he  discovered 
tumor 
the  germ  of 
was  also  taken  from  her  neck,  but  in 

tuberculosis.  A 

the 

this  no  germ  of  the  disease  could  be 
found.  Owing  to  the  age  of  the  little 
girl,  the  surgeon  holds  out  a  slight 
hope  for  her  recovery.  Her  brother 
has  also  been  taken  to  Chicago  and 
will  have  the  tuberculin  test  applied 
to  see  if  the  presence  of  the  disease 
can  be  detected.  This  is  probably  the 
initial  step  in  the  application  of  the 
tuberculin  test  to  the  human  family. 

The  citizens  of  Menominee,  a  large 
number  of  whom  have  been  using  milk 
from  the  infected  herd,  are  very  much 
excited  by  the  recent  developments. 
A  special  meeting  of  the  city  council 
to 
was  held  last  Tuesday  afternoon 
the 
consider  an  ordinance  requiring 
application  of  the  tuberculin  test  to 
every  cow  furnishing  milk  for  the  city 
trade;  and  there  is  no  doubt  that  such 
an  ordinance  will  be  passed. 

New  Members  of  the  State  Board  of 
Agriculture.-Arthur  C.  Bird. 

When  Governor  Pingree  appointed 
Arthur  C.  Bird  to  a  position  on  the 
State  Board  of  Agriculture,  he  gave 
recognition  not  only  to  the  sterling 

worth  of  one  of  our  most  progressive 
and  successful  young  farmers,  but  also 
to  a  leader  in  the  work  of  elevating 
and  educating  the  tillers  of  the  soil. 
an 
Mr.  Bird  has  for  years  been 
earnest  worker  in  the  Farmers'  Club 
movement. 
It  was  at  his  suggestion 
that  the  State  Association  of  Farmers' 
Clubs  was  organized  two  years  ago; 
and  as  its  first  secretary  and  second 
president  and  its  department  editor  in 
the  Michigan  Fanner  he  has  been  the 
prominent  and  guiding  spirit 
in  its 
work. 

Arthur  C.  Bird  was  born  at  High 
land,  Mich.,  May  22,  1864,  where  he 
attended  the  district  school  until,  at 
the  age  of  fifteen,  he  entered  the  Ag 
ricultural  College.  At  the  age  of  nine 
teen  he  graduated  with  the  class  of 
'83,  and  of  the  thirty  to  graduate  in 
that  class,  he  was  one  of  the  best  in 
scholarship.  By  his  own  exertions  lie 
very  nearly  paid  the  expenses  of  his 
college  course,  and  he  now  thinks  that 
it  would  not  have  been  possible  for 
him  to  graduate  had  it  not  been  for 
the  lahor  system.  "Of  one  thing  I  am 
certain."  he  remarks,  "that  the  benefit 
derived  from  my  college  course  has 
heen  by  far  the  greatest  factor 
in 
what  little  success  I  have  since  worked 
out." 

The  fall  after  graduating  Mr.  Bird 
bought  110  acres  of  the  farm  of  270 
acres  which  he  now  owns.  Here  he 

thoroughly  enjoying 

has  lived  ever  since,  giving  his  chief 
to  the  management  of  his 
energies 
farm,  and 
the 
work;  and  to  this  work  he  expects  to 
devote  himself  always. 
In  the  fall 
of  1893,  in  recognition  of  his  success 
as  a  farmer,  the  State  Board  of  Ag 
riculture  conferred  upon  him,  the  first 
alumnus  of  the  College  to  receive  this 
distinction,  the  degree  of  Master  of 
In  addition  to  his  farm 
Agriculture. 
is 
property  at  Highland,  Mr.  Bird 
largely  interested  in  the  West  Mich 
igan  Nurseries  at  Benton  Harbor,  and 
does a  considerable  business  at  loaning 
money  upon  farm  mortgages  for  pri 
vate  individuals.  He  is  also  one  of 
the  associate  editors  of  the  Michigan 
Farmer,  and  devotes  one  day  each 
week  to  work  on  that  paper. 

Mr.  Bird  was  married  in  August, 
1889,  to  Miss  Josephine  S.  St.  John  of 
Highland,  a  graduate  of  Ann  Arbor. 
They  ihare  one  child,  a  boy  of  four 
.  years,  and  a  model  country  home  in 
all  that  the  word  implies—good  loca 
society, 
tion,  good  buildings,  good 
good  neighbors,  and,  best  of  all,  a 
happy  family.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Bird  are  natural  students,  and  they 
have  built  up  one  of  the  best  libraries 
to  be  found  in  any  farm  home  in  Mich 
igan.  They  are  regular  subscribers 
for  the  North  American  Review,  Popular 
Science Monthly, Forum,  Atlantic  Month 
ly.  Century,  Review  of  Reviews, 
the. 
Michigan  Farmer  and  other  weeklies, 
and  have  never  been  without  a  daily 
paper. 

Mrs.  Bird  is  an  enthusiast  in  music, 
and  finds  time  each  day  to  do  some 
thing  in  that  line  to  make  home  pleas 
ant.  Both  spend  a  great  deal  of  time 
in  study,  rarely 
letting  a  day  pass 
without  some  good  work  among  their 
books;  but  both  work  also  at  the  daily 
routine  of  farm  labor,  Mr.  Bird  upon 
the  farm  in  active  work  and  Mrs.  Bird 
in  the  kitchen  and  in  the  general  care 
of  the  home. 

financial  success  of 

I  cannot  close  this  sketch  more  fit 
tingly  than  by  giving  Mr.  Bird's  own 
words  to  the  writer:  "We  are  simply 
trying  to  solve  the  problem  of  making 
a 
farming,  and 
yet  never  for  a  moment  forgetting  that 
there  is  a  better  element  in  true  living 
which  must  not  be  neglected,  even 
temporarily.  The  greater  share  of  the 
property  we  possess  we  have  had  the 
pleasure  of  earning  ourselves." 

Some  Causes  of  Crime. 

A  large  audience  assembled  in  the 
chapel  last  Friday  evening  to  hear  the 
lecture  by  Bishop  Gillespie  of  Grand 
Rapids.  He  spoke on  "Some  Causes  of 
Crime"  and,  in  his  introductory  re 
marks,  said  he  should  make  but  small 
use  of  statistics.  He  did  not  fully  be 
lieve  the  assertion  that  figures  do  not 
lie;  remarking,  somewhat  facetiously, 
"There  are  black  lies,  white  lies,  and 
statistics."  He  was  not  able  to  say 
whether  crime  is  or  is  not  increasing 
in  proportion  to  population,  but  quoted 
good  authority  to  show  that  it  is  on 
the  decline  in  England,  Scotland  and 
Ireland. 

As  some  of  the  causes  of  crime  he 
enumerated  early  influences,  the  condi 
tions  of  society,  administration  of  law, 
ami  the  life  of  the  criminal. 

It  would  be  extremely  difficult 
to 
fiud  an  individual  of  Avhom  we  could 
say,  "he  was  led  into  mine  by  educa 

tion,"  While  we  can  go  into  prisons 
and  point  to  a  few  lawyers,  doctors, 
college  graduates,  such  cases  are  ex 
tremely  rare;  and  it  is safe  to  say  that 
fully  three-fourths  of  those  who  go  to 
prison  have  been  conducted  into  crime 
through  neglect  of  education.  He  de 
nounced  in  strongest  terms  the  prac 
tice  of  giving  "soft  jobs"  to  educated 
prisoners,  to  prisoners  who  have  come 
from  good  society  and  good  influences. 
They  have  not  had  such  temptations  as 
they 
have 
should  be  given  the  hardest  Avork  and 
the  worst  treatment  that  the  prison 
can  give  them.  He  blamed  our  edu 
cational  system  for  one  thing—for  the 
In  many  in 
lack  of  moral  training. 
stances  this  training  is  not  given  in 
the  homes,  the  churches  get  hold  of 
young  people  but  one  day  in  the  week 
or  even  less  than  that;  why  not,  then, 
introduce  a  little  moral  philosophy  into 
our  school,  the  ten  commandments,  if 
nothing  more? 

ignorant  class  and 

the 

In  the  conditions  of  society,  Bishop 
Gillespie  finds  many  causes  of  crime. 
Illiteracy  lessens  the  number  of  occu 
pations  a  man  can  engage  in.  Out  of 
employment,  the  steps  to  want,  theft, 
a  life  of  crime,  punishment,  are  eas3r. 
Hordes  of  immigrants,  40$  of  whom 
are  recorded  as 
"having  no  occupa 
tion,"  swell  the  ranks  of  our  unsettled 
population. 
So  too,  do  a  large  num 
ber  who  have  an  indisposition  to  cer 
The  inordinate 
tain  forms  of  labor. 
desire  for  gold,  for 
sudden  wealth 
without  commensurate  exertion,  leads 
many  into  crime. 
Intemperance,  too, 
comes  in  for  a  share  in  the  causes  of 
crime.  The  dense  population  of  our 
large  cities  furnishes  one  of  the  most 
productive  sources  of  crime. 
In  tene 
ment  districts,  where  by  the  congested 
condition  of  society,  all  semblance  of 
home  life  is  crowded  out,  crime  flour 
ishes;  the  child  is  the  product  of  crime, 
is  born  a  criminal,  grows  up  a  crim 
inal. 

Speaking  of  the  influences  of 
the 
press,  he  said  the  daily  newspaper  is 
an  educator  in  and  an  encourager  of 
crime.  Such  glowing  accounts  of  suc 
cessful  burglaries,  train  robberies,  etc., 
are  given  that  it  makes  such  things 
seem  easy—such  an  occupation  an  easy 
way  of  getting  a  living.  New  meth 
ods  of  crime  are  sent  broadcast  over 
the  country  and  are  duplicated  as  soon 
as  the  report  reaches  the  eyes  of  a 
criminal  out  of  work. 

He  thinks  much  improvement  could 
be  made  in  the  management  of  our 
penal  institutions,  that  it  is  unfortu 
nate  that  every  political 
revolution 
should  result  in  an  entire  change  of 
prison  officials  and  that  the  daily  pa 
pers  should  be  put  into  the  hands  of 
prisoners  to  keep  them  posted  in  the 
methods  of  crime.  The  contract  sys 
tem  in  prisons  allows  no  classification 
of  prisoners. 

The  distrust  of  society  is  one  thing 
that  makes  a  man  "once  a  criminal,  al 
There  is  a  very 
ways  a  criminal." 
marked  reluctance  to  giving  positions 
to  men  who  have  served  a  term  in  a 
Such  a  man  finds  him 
penitentiary. 
self  at  the  end  of  his  term  free 
to 
choose an  honorable  vocation,  but  hon 
orable  positions  are  withheld  from  him 
and  he  finds  himself  crowded  back  in 
to  crime  again.  Ex-President  Hayes 
had  no  patience  with  those  who  would 
not  help  a  man  when  he  was  trying  to 
reform. 

In  closing,  Bishop  Gillespie  empha-

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T HE  M.  A.  C.  R E C O R D. 

MARCH  2,  1897. 

sized  the  necessity  of  studying  the 
problems  of  penology  and  pauperism. 
He  was  followed  by  Rev.  Osborne, 
who  very  briefly  supported  the  points 
advanced  by  the Bishop.  Asked  if  he 
could  suggest  any  better  method  of 
employing  prisoners  than  the  contract 
system,  Bishop  Gillespie  said  he  could 
not.  The  best  place  to  employ  them 
is  in the prisons,  and  the  best  way yet 
In 
devised  is by  the contract  system. 
whatever  way  they  are employed  they 
must  come  in  competition  with  free 
labor. 

At  the  College. 

Dr.  Edwards'  office  was  newly  pa 

pered  last  week. 

The Eclectic  Society  enjoyed  a  social 

hop,  Friday  evening. 

Lieut.  Bandholtz  has returned  and is 

keeping  bachelox-'s  hall. 

Rev.  C. F.  Swift  gave  his  sermon  on 
Romola  at  the  College,  Sunday  after 
noon. 

The  baby  daughter  of  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Edwards  has  been  quite  ill  but  is now 
improving. 

Mr. A. L. Westcott  had  a  finger  quite 
badly  injured  in  the  machine  shop one 
day  last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Westcott  entertained 
at  six-handed  euchre,  Monday  even 
ing  of  last  week. 

Dr.  Kedzie  went  to  Chicago  last  Sat 
urday  to  attend  the  banquet  of  the M. 
A.  C. Alumni  Association. 

The  mechanical  department  has  pur 
chased  a  four  jawed  chuck  for  the 
new  Henley-Norton  lathe. 

Prof.  Smith  was  away  during  the 
latter  part  of  last  week  attending  in 
stitutes  in  the  southern  part  of  the 
state. 

Miss  Blanche  Yaughn  and  Miss 
Lane,  teachers  in  the  Portland  high 
school,  visited  Miss  Amy  Vaughn,  '97, 
Saturday. 

The  King's  Daughters  will  meet 
with  Miss Lilian  Wheeler  tomorrow  af 
ternoon.  Text,  "Trust;"  leader,  Mrs. 
Holdsworth. 

Those  interested 

in  bicycling  have 
decided  to purchase  a  "bicycletrainer," 
a  machine  for  indoor  practice,  the  cost 
of  which  will  be $25. 

E.  A.  Baker,  '99,  left  College  last 
Saturday  to accept  the position  of  ship 
ping  clerk  with  the  Hamilton  &  Ken 
wood  Co., Grand  Rapids. 

Mr.  H.  P.  Gladden,  of  the  horticul 
tural  department,  and  Mr.  H.  W.  Ful 
ton,  of  the  farm  department,  will  take 
part  in an  institute  at  Delta  today. 

The  following  men have  been  elected 
club  stewards  by  the  various  clubs: 
Club  A, I.  X. Boyer:  club  B,  D. C. Mc-
Elroy;  club  D,  F. W. Robison;  club  E, 
II.  L.  Becker. 

"The  Art  Club" met with  Mrs. E. M. 
Kedzie,  Saturday  afternoon. 
Prof. 
Holdsworth  gave  a  short  talk  on  his 
visit  to  Boston,  and  Miss  Champion 
read  a  paper  on  Grecian  art. 

Don't  miss  the  Feronian  entertain 
ment  in  the  chapel  next  Friday  even 
ing. 
It  will  cost  you  but  12% cents— 
12  cents  if  you  make  change.  Seven-
thirty  is  the  hour. 

Messrs.  Loomis,  Townsend,  Fulton 
and  Parker  left  College  for  Owosso, 
the  latter  part  of  last  week,  to  repre 
sent  our  Y.  M.  C.  A.  at  the  Twenty-
Fifth  Annual  State  Y. M. C. A.  conven 
tion. 

The  farm  department  has  sent  a 
number  of  the better  varieties  of  wheat 
to  the  "Round-up" 
institute  at  St. 
Louis,  Mich.,  and  will  also  make  an 

exhibit  of  dairy  apparatus  and  M. A. 
C.  butter. 

Mr.  W.  S.  Leonard,  roreman  of  the 
machine  shops,  has  been  confined  to 
his room  for  several  days  with  catarrh 
al  pneumonia.  He  is  now  improving 
and  will  probably  be  out  again  in  a 
few  days. 

Miss  Essa  Singleton,  '00,  has  been 
obliged  to  give  up  college  work  on ac 
count  of  her  health.  She  has  gone  to 
Constantine  to  visit  Miss  Myrtle  Pash-
by,  with  '99,  a  couple  of  weeks,  after 
which  she  will  return  to  her  home  at 
Caseville. 

Prof.  Woodworth  is  making  more 
room  for  the  physical  apparatus  by 
building  wall  pockets.  To  one  who 
visits  the  laboratory  it  is  quite  appar 
ent  that  we  need  a  larger  building  for 
the  department  of  physics  and  elec 
trical  engineering. 

The  feeding  experiments  being  car 
ried on by the farm  department  at  pres 
ent are the feeding  of beans to sheep, on 
which  Mr.  J.  N,  Goodrich,  '97,  is  pre 
paring  Lis  thesis;  and  the  feeding  of 
potatoes  and  corn  meal  to  hogs,  which 
is  the  thesis  of  Mr.  S.  J.  Redfern,  '97. 
farm  department 
weighed  the  corn  in  the  crib  to  deter 
mine  the  amount  of  shrinkage.  When 
put  into  the  crib  in  the  fall  the  com 
was  very  damp  but  kept  well. 
It 
weighed  eight  tons  when  put  up  and 
on  reweighing  was 
found  to  have 
shrunk  nearly  one-third. 

Last  week 

the 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Club  Boarding 
Association  last  week,  Messrs.  H.  E. 
YanNorman,  C.  C.  Pashby  and  J.  W. 
Rigterink  were  appointed  a  committee 
to  revise  the constitution  so as  to  place 
the  management  of  the  association  in 
the  hands  of  a  board  of  directors,  the 
object  being  to  centralize  responsibil 
ity. 

Extensive 

improvements  are  being 
made  in  the  experiment  station  chemi 
cal  analysis  room.  All  the  old.  rick 
ety  tables  and  cabinets  are  being  re 
moved  and  new  ones  of  modern  design 
will  take  their  place.  New  equipment 
will  be  added  that  will  make  it  one of 
the  best  appointed  rooms  of  its  kind  in 
the  country. 

Mr.  C. S. Kelsie,  of  Battle  Creek,  vis 
ited  M. A. G,  Saturday.  He is  deeply 
interested  in  the  advancement  of  the 
beet  sugar  industry. 
"I  never  before 
realized  what  good  taste  the  people  of 
Michigan  had," said  Mr. Kelsie  to  your 
reporter. 
"I  have  visited  nearly  all 
of  the  agricultural  colleges  but  none 
of .them  compare  with  yours  in  beauty 
of  location." 

During  six  years  beginning  about 
October,  1890, the  Botanical  Club  has 
had  presented  two  hundred  nineteen 
subjects.  During  much  of  this  time 
a  meeting  was  held  every  week,  sev 
eral  subjects  being  presented  at  each 
meeting.  The  topics  were  botanical 
agricultural  and  horticultural,  and  in 
most  cases  were  illustrated  by  draw 
ings  or  specimens  or  both. 

The  next  military  hop  will  be  held 
by  the  cadets  in  the  Armory  on  Fri 
day  evening.  March  12.  The  popular 
price  of  twenty-five 
cents  will  be 
charged  both  to cadets  and  others.  It 
is  desired  by the officers  in charge  that 
this  be  made  one  of  the  very  best  of 
our  series  and  every  student  is  urged 
to  take  part  in  it  and  make  it  a  suc 
cess.  Further  announcement  will  be 
made  next  week. 

The  Union  Literary  Society  enter 
tained  the  members  of  the  faculty  and 
their  wives,  Saturday  evening.  The 
program  consisted  of  an  oration,  by 
E.  A.  Robinson;  a  declamation,  by  G. 
N.  Gould;  a  debate,  by  W.  R.  Kedzie 

and  F.  W.  Robison;  vocal  music  by 
the  society  quartet;  a  reverie,  by  Paul 
Thayer,  and  a  criticism  by  L.  S. Mun-
son. 
Following  this  came  social  en 
tertainment  and  light  refreshments,  all 
of  which  contributed  to  the  passing  of 
a  very  pleasant  evening. 

Among  the  many 

specimens  and 
photographs  to  be  exhibited  by  the 
Botanical  Department  at  the  "Round 
up"  institute  at  St.  Louis  this  week, 
are  a  number  of  photographs  of  tropi 
cal  agriculture  and  horticulture  in 
southern  Asia. 
Some  of  the  most  in 
teresting  ones  are  a  group  of  natives 
hulling  rice,  a  pepper  plantation,  a co-
coanut  plantation,  a 
tapioca  planta 
tion,  a  tea  plantation,  a  coffee  planta 
tion,  and  another  showing  the  method 
of  drying  coffee,  a  tobacco  plantation, 
one  showing  ten  teams  of  Asiatic  cat 
tle  plowing,  one  of  sago  palm  trees,  a 
sago  manufactory,  an  extra  large  gut 
ta-percha  tree,  one  of 
tropical  fruits 
of  Singapore  arranged  in  gi-oups  and 
labeled,  one  of  fruit  sellers  of  Ceylon 
and  another  from  Ceylon  of  an  ele 
phant  drawing  a  cartload  of  cocoa-
nuts,  an  orange  grove  of  California, 
one  of  wild  corn  12  feet  high,  grown 
in  Tennessee,  the  seed  of  which  had 
been  collected  in  Mexico.  Also  sever 
al  series  of  photographs 
illustrating 
road-side  planting  near  the  Agricul 
tural  College;  eight  views  of  Grace-
land  cemetery  near  Chicago,  a  set  of 
14  views  illustrating  the  condition  of 
forests  in  northern  Michigan  largely 
from  Wexford  county,  will  be  shown. 

on  the  manner  of  fastening  the  wires 
to  the  stays,  which  was  simply  to 
staple  them.  The  idea  was  so  new 
and  valuable  that  The agent  had  done 
quite  an  extensive  business  selling 
It  may  be 
farm  rights  for  his  fence. 
true,  as  several  farmers  said,  that  it 
was  a  good  fence  and  the  plan  was 
worth  the  price  charged;  but  the  fact 
remains  that  paying 
something 
which  is  perfectly  free  is  extremely 
unbusinesslike,  and 
the  ad 
vances  of  other 
swindlers,  many  of 
whom  leave  nothing  whatever  in  re 
turn  for  the  money  they  receive. 

invites 

for 

M.  W. F. 

Senior  Honors  and  Officers. 

Last  Monday  evening  the  faculty 
elected  as  commencement  orators  John 
W.  Righterink.  of  the  Union  Literary 
Society,  to  represent  the  agricultural 
department,  and  Earl  H.  Sedgwick,  of 
the  Columbian  Literary  Society,  to 
represent  the  mechanical  department. 
Prof.  Liberty  H.  Bailey,  '82,  will  give 
the  commencement  address. 

The  following  day  the  seniors  elect 

ed  officers  as  follows: 

President,  Sanford  H.  Fulton,  Co 

lumbian. 

Yice  president,  William  R.  Goodwin, 

Olympic. 

Secretary,  Amy  Yaughn,  Feronian. 
Treasurer,  LeAvis  S.  Munson,  Union 

Literary. 

Orator,  Elwood  Shaw,  Olympic. 
Historian,  Cass  B.  Laitner,  Hesper 

ian. 

Prophet,  Sadie  D.  Champion,  Feron 

The  Patent  Right  Man. 

ian. 

Yarious  kinds  of  sharpers  are in  the 
habit  of  considering  the  farmer  their 
legitimate  prey.  Among  these  what 
might  be  termed  the patent  right  man 
has  been  very  active  and  has^ in  his 
day,  done  as  large  a  business  as  any 
the  whole 
other.  He  has  worked 
field  from  the  common  slide  gate  to 
drive  wells  and  has  gathered  in  many 
hard  earned  dollars,  leaving  little  or 
nothing  in  return.  His  methods  have 
been  so  often  exposed  that  it  is  sur 
prising  to  find  him  still  doing  busi 
ness,  but  he  is  very  versatile;  when 
one  scheme  has  been  worked  to  its 
limit  the only  thing  necessary  is a new 
thing  to claim  a  patent  on and his busi 
ness  again 
flourishes.  The  rapid  do 
ing  away  with  old  forms  of  fencing 
and  the  introduction  of  the  wire  fence 
has  opened  a  new 
for  patent 
rights,  and  in  institute  work  this  win 
ter  the  work  of  the  patent  right  man 
has  been  much  in  evidence  in  some 
places. 

field 

During  a  discussion  of  fences  at  an 
institute  this  winter  the  question  was 
asked  if  a  certain  method  of  bracing 
end  posts  was  not  patented.  The 
questioner  believed  it  was  for  he  had 
paid  fifty  dollars  for  the  privilege  of 
selling  farm  rights  for  that  form  of 
bracing  in  the  county.  The  device  in 
question  has  been  used  >or  some  time 
in  various  parts  of  the  state. 
From 
the  discussion  which  followed  it  ap 
peared  that  many  of  the  farmers  had 
paid  for  the  right  to  use  the  device. 
Not  the least  significant  fact  which ap 
peared  was  that  the  same 
territory 
claimed  by  the  first  speaker  was  also 
held  by  another  man,  showing  very 
plainly  the  methods  of  the  owner  of 
the  claimed  patent. 
This  was  more 
forcibly  brought  cut  when  on  inquir 
ing  the  whereabouts  of  the  owner  of 
the  patent  some  one  volunteered  the 
information  that  he  was  "in  the jug." 

At  another  place  the  M. A.  C.  fence, 
or  a  fence  almost  identical  with  it, was 
being  introduced  as  a  patented  fence. 
The  agent  claimed  that  the patent  was 

Poet,  J.  Dewitt  McLouth,  Hesperian. 
Editor,  Edward  C.  Green,  Colum 

bian. 

The  societies  have  elected  the  fol 
lowing  representatives  for  the  com 
mencement  contests  in  oratory,  debate, 
and  declamation: 
Thomas  A.  ChiTtenden 
Columbian 
Clinton  D.  Butterfield 
Eclectic 
.E.  Pearl  Kedzie 
Feronian 
Albert  T.  Cartland 
Hesperian 
Olympic 
Elwood  Shaw 
Phi  Delta  Theta..Charles  F.  Herrmann 
Floyd  W.  Robijon. 
Union  Literary 
These  contests  are  for  gold  or  silver 
medals  offered  by  the  College,  and  will 
occur  some  evening  of  commencement 
week. 

San  Jose  Scale  Again. 

Professor  Barrows  spent  Tuesday, 
the  23d, in visiting  farms  and  orchards 
in  Ottawa  county  in  search  of  the  San 
It  had  been  located  the 
Jose  scale. 
in  and  near  an  or 
week  previous 
chard  in  Jamestown 
township,  near 
the  line  between  Allegan  and  Ottawa 
counties.  This  place  was inspected  on 
Tuesday  as  thoroughly  as  a  driving 
snow  storm  would  permit, and the scale 
was  found  to  be  well  established,  hav 
ing  infested  pear,  plum,  peach,  cherry 
and  apple  trees.  Some  of  the  latter 
were  old trees  of  large  size  and  stand 
ing  so  close  to  other  trees  as  to  make 
it  probable  that  the  whole  orchard 
may  be  affected.  The  source  of  the 
trouble  was  in  six  Bartlett  pear  trees 
obtained  from  a  New  Jersey  nursery 
about  six years  ago.  They  were dug up 
and burned  three -years ago, but the scale 
had  spread already to  neighboring trees, 
young  and  old,  and  a  second  consign 
ment  of  young  trees  from  the  same 
nursery  spread  the  pest  still  further. 
The  infested  area  is  still  quite  small 
and  is  so  situated  that  the  scale  is 
not  likely  to  have  spread  to  neighbor 
ing  farms  and  orchards,  but  this  can 
only  be  determined  by  a  long  and 
thorough  search.  Professor  Barrows 
visited  four  other  orchards  in the  same 

MARCH 2,  1897. 

T HE  M. A.  C.  R E C O R D. 

3 

trees  found  will 

township  which  had  received  nursery 
from  suspected  New Jersey 
stock 
nurseries,  but,  so far as could  be  de 
termined  by a  rapid  examination un 
der  unfavorable  conditions,  the scale 
did  not  appear  to have  gained  a  foot 
hold  in any  of these.  The  owner of 
the  infested 
take 
heroic  measures  to free  his place of 
the  dreaded  insect,  and  more  thorough 
and  extended  search  will  be  made by 
the  department  as  soon  as  the  weather 
permits.  Meanwhile  the entomologist 
would  be glad  to receive  samples of 
any  scale  insect  which  is  found on 
trees,  shrubs,  or vines  in any  part of 
the  state. 

The  Spirit  of  Discontent, 

J.  W.  RlGTEKINK, '97. 

[Read  before  the  Union  Literarv  So 

ciety,  Jan.  30,  1897.] 

What  a  strange  mortal  is  man! 

•Angels  announce  the glad  tidings of 
his  arrival.  A mother's  heart  is made 
new  with  a wondrous  love.  His  birth 
marks  the beginning  of his race, the 
magnitude  of which  he has no  con 
ception.  Carefully  guarded  by  his 
mother,  influenced  by  her  prayers  and 
devotion,  molded  by environments, he 
is  waxed  strong  to begin  his journey. 
Ere  many  years  roll  by  some  faint  con 
ception  of life  begins  to dawn  upon 
him.  He regards  the past  as a  by 
gone  and begins  to build  his  castles 
of  hope  on the future.  To him  the 
world  becomes a great  picture  gallery. 
He  begins  to employ  himself  busily 
represents  to him a 
painting  what 
marvellous  futiire.  But  he  soon  begins 
to  realize  that  there  is a  discouraging 
difference  between  his ideal  painting 
and  the stern  reality  of life.  Slowly 
there  curiously  begins  to weave  into 
his  existence  a  spirit  of  discontent. 

How  many  start  out  to run  the 

race  of  life  perfectly  contented? 
I 
am  disposed  to think  that  at  times, 
whatever  be his station  or condition, 
there  is something  that  fills  him  with 
scorn  and contempt,  and causes him 
to  complain  or  rebel  with  existing  con 
dition of things.  The  child  of the  poor 
looks  upon  the  luxuries  of the  rich as 
something  creating  happiness  and  en 
joyment.  The  child  of the  rich,  with 
everything  at  his  command,  is dissat 
isfied,  but  knows  not  why.  The  knowl 
edge  o'f his wealth  creates  in him at 
an  early  period a haughty  spirit. Who 
these  products of 
has  not  observed 
wealth 
laborer 
taunting  some  poor 
with  various  remarks.  The laborer 
responds  either  with  a  reserved or 
with  an  audible  curse. 

That  a  deep-rooted  feeling  of dis 
content  pervades  the  masses,  none  can 
deny.  I do not  mean  despondency,  still 
less  despair,  but merely  discontent, 
that  is to say, disquietude,  restless 
ness,  dissatisfaction  with  the  world as 
this  generation  finds it.  There  are  two 
kinds  of  discontent.  One  is that of 
those  who wish  to be as they  once 
were,  or, in the case  of  nations, as 
their  ancestors  were.  The other  is 
that  of those  who  would  fain  be  what 
they  never  have been,  neither  they  nor 
their  predecessors. 

It  is not within  the realm  of  this 
paper  to discuss  fully  discontent  as  it 
affects  nations.  We must,  however, 
give it a passing  notice.  Monroe's  ad-
misistration  was  one  of general  pros 
perity.  It was  known  as the  "Era of 
good  feeling."  After  the ravages of 
the  war, the attention  of  all  was 
turned  to the  development  of the  in 
ternal  resources  of the  country  and to 
the  building  up of industries.  But 
turn  over  a few  pages  and  find  an ac 
count  of the  crisis  of '37.  The  finan 

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prince  had  everything  at his  command, 
—playthings,  horses,  gardens,  boats,— 
that  could  possibly  con 
everything 
tribute  to  his  happiness.  But  he  wore 
a  scowl  continuously,  as if it were  his 
complexion.  A  kind-hearted  man 
thought  he possibly  knew  a  remedy. 
The  young  prince  was asked  to  go 
a*>ng  to  the  country.  Here  he was to 
watch  a  flower  garden  from  time to 
time.  As the tiny  plants  made  their 
appearance  the  young  prince  Avas  sur 
prised  to see  that  they  were  arranged 
to  read  "Do an act of  kindness to 
someone  every  day."  Tradition  records 
it  as a  change  in the young  prince's 
life.  Were  it within  the province of 
this  paper  to make  suggestions, we 
would  say,  be less  conscious  of self, 
and  still  more  so if you  have  any  pe 
culiarity  that  you  can  change  no  more 
than  can  the  leopard  his  spots.  Con 
sider  an ennobling  character  consti 
tuting  personal  worth.  "Do  an act of 
kindness  to someone  every  day." 

We  feel  desirous  to repeat  at  this 
point  what  seems  to  us  has  some  bear 
ing  on our  subject,  although  you  may 
have  often  heard  it before: 
"I  live  for those  Avho  love  me, 

Whose  hearts  are  kind  and  true, 
For  the  heaven  that  smiles  above  me, 

And  awaits  my spirit  too; 

For  the wrong  that  needs  resistance, 
For  the  good  that  needs  assistance, 
For  the future  in the distance, 
And  the  good  that  I  can  do." 
The  value  of life  is enhanced  by the 

degree  Ave  live  for others. 

Poster  Art. 

"Said  a  Beardsley  boy  to a  Bradley 

girl 

Whom  he  met  on a poster  blue: 

'I  haven't  an idea  who  I  am, 

And  who  the  duce  are  you?' 
Said  the  Bradley  girl  to the  Beards-

ley  boy: 

'I'll  tell  you  what I think: 

I  came  into  being  one  night  last  week 
When  the  cat  tipped  over  the  ink.' " 

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cial  storm  which  had been  gathering 
through  the preceding  administration 
terrible  fury.  The 
now  burst  into 
banks  contracted  their  circulation,  fail 
ures  were  everyday  occurrences,  con 
fidence  was  destroyed,  consternation 
seized  all  classes,  and  trade  stood  still. 
We  might  turn  over a few  more  pages 
and  find  an account  of the  antipathy 
of  the  north  toward  southern  slavery. 
But  let us proceed,  and  take  a glance 
at  the condition  of things  as we find 
them  at present.  We are surely not 
experiencing  an  "Era  of good  feeling." 
From  . the  universal  discontent 
that 
prevails  today  among  our people we 
must  conclude  that  something  is radi 
cally  wrong  with  either  our  social of 
our  political  machinery.  We  may  not 
be  able  to state  the  cause  or causes, 
but,  nevertheless,  discontent  remains. 
I  have  but  to  refer  you  to  the  farmers, 
or  the  Farmers'  Alliances,  as a  single 
example  for abundant  evidence  of dis 
satisfaction.  Some  will  attribute the 
cause  to our present  financial  policy, 
and  assert  that  a  change  herein  will 
effect  better  times.  Again  we  will  find 
cases  where  discontent  has become 
local.  The  Chicago  strikes,  the  Brook 
lyn  street  railway 
amples. 

trouble,  are  ex 

this 

their 

Let  us now turn  our attention to 
discontent  that  is of a more  personal 
nature.  With  some  it seems  as if  it 
constitutes 
entire  make - up. 
Thousands,  undoubtedly,  are  affected 
fermenting  microbe and 
with 
whine  away  their  lives.  One  is  contin 
uously  conscious  of some  physical  pe 
culiarity  or deformity,  another  of race 
or  blood,  still  another  of social  condi 
tion,  and still  another  of that  some 
thing  to  which  he can give  neither 
form  nor meaning.  Byron,  a  great 
man  in  some  ways,  furnishes  us a good 
example.  He was  able  to  express 
what  undoubtedly  thousands  have  ex 
perienced.  But  what  he  has  left  to  the 
world  fails  to be  inspiring,  helpful  and 
ennobling.  He  laid  down  his  life  with 
the  remark  that  life  is not worth  liv 
ing.  There  is a  tradition  of a  young 
prince  named  Arthur,  which  often 
furnishes  material  for a nursery  tale, 
but  which  will  serve  some  purpose, 
methinks,  at  this  point.  The young 

T HE  M.  A.  C.  BE  C O R D. 

MAKCH  2, 

1897. 

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Minutes  of  Board  Meeting1. 

the  College  Thursday 

The  State  Board  of  Agriculture  met 
at 
evening, 
February  25.  All  members  were  pres 
ent. 

Franklin  Wells  was  elected  presi 
dent;  C.  J.  Monroe,  vice  president;  I. 
H.  Butterfield,  secretary;  B.  F.  Davis, 
treasurer. 

Friday  morning  the  Board  met  with 
all  members  present.  The  president 
appointed  committees  of  the  Board  as 
follows: 

Finance—Garfield,  Bird. 
Farm  Management—Marston,  Bird. 
Botany  and  Horticulture  —  Garfield, 
Monroe. 

Employes—Monroe,  Moore,  Snyder. 
Buildings  and  College  Property-

Moore,  Monroe. 

Institutes—Monroe,  Garfield. 
Mechanical—Moore,  Marston. 
Veterinary—Bird,  Marston. 
Military—Marston,  Moore. 
Land  Grant—Bird,  Garfield. 
Experiment  Station—Garfield,  Moore. 
Weather  Service—Monroe,  Marston. 
Library—Bird,  Garfield. 
The  Board  approved  the  draft  of  bill 
for  appropriation  for  Farmers'  Insti 
tutes,  Avhich  has  been  approved  by  the 
executive  committee  of 
the  State 
Grange,  appropriating  $6,000  annually 
for  two  years  for  Farmers'  Institutes. 
The  question  of  making  a  College 
exhibit  at  the  Tennessee  Centennial 
Exposition  was  left  with  the  president 
of  the  Board  and  the  president  of  the 
College. 
The 
adopted: 

resolution  was 

following 

Resolved,  That  the  faculty  of  the 
College  is  hereby  requested  to  consider 
the  feasibility  of  giving  a  short  sum 
mer  course  in  normal  instruction  along 
agricultural  lines,  adapted  to  the  use 
of  teachers  in  rural  schools,  and  re 
port  to  the  Board  at  next  meeting. 

Resolved,  It  seems  equally  desirable 
to  bring  the rural  schools in touch  with 
the  Agricultural  College,  and  to  reach 
the  individual  farmers  with  the  results 
of  work  at  the  Experiment  Station. 
In  order  to  make  both  the  College  and 
the  station  most  effective, 
it  is  im 
portant  to  reach  the  people,  old  and 
young,  with  something  of  practical 
value  that  emanates  from  these  insti-
tions;  to  this  end  the  Board  of  Agri 
culture  desires  to  call  attention  of  the 
College  faculty  and  council  of  the  sta 
tion  to  the  desirability  of  putting  into 
book  or  pamphlet  form  lessons  in  fa 
miliar  science  as  applied  to  rural  oc 
cupations,  to  be  used  as  reading  text 
for  advanced 
rural 
schools.  To  report  at  next  meeting  of 
the  Board. 

classes  in  our 

The  purchase  of  soil  apparatus  for 
use  in  class  room  in  the  agricultural 
department  was  authorized. 
following 

resolution 

was 

The 
adopted: 

Resolved,  That  the  advertising  com 
mittee  of  the  College  shall  consist  of 
the  president,  secretary  and  College 
field  agent.  The  field  agent  shall  be 
clerk  of  the  committee  and  may  be  re 
quired  to  perform  the  detail  duties  of 
the  committee.  He  shall  be  furnished 
with  sufficient  clerical  help  to  proper 
ly  perform  said  duties. 

Resolved 

further,  That  beginning 
with  the  next  term,  the  advertising 
committee  of  the  College  shall  have 
the  business  management  of  the  M.  A. 
C.  RECORD;  that  the  size  of  the  paper 
be  then  reduced  to four  pages  of  about 
the  present  size;  that  all  outside  ad 
vertising  be eliminated  as soon  as prac 
ticable;  and  the  expense  of  publishing 
be  reduced  to  the  lowest  possible  limit 
consistent  with  good  business  manage 
ment,  and  in  compliance  with  postal 
regulations. 

two  members  of 

The  president  was  instructed  to  ap 
point 
the  faculty, 
who,  with  himself,  shall  constitute  a 
committee  to  arrange  for  the  fortieth 
anniversary  of  the  opening  of  the  Col 
lege  in  1857. 

The  committee  on  experiment  sta 
tion,  to  whom  was  referred  so  much 
of  Director  Smith's  report  as  refers  to 
the  matter  of  analysis  of  substances 
sent  in  to  the  College,  desires  to  re 
port  that  in  its  judgment  the  Experi 
ment  Station  should  do  as  much  of  this 
work  of  a  public  nature  as  it  can  con 
sistent  with  the  prosecution  of  other 
necessary  duties  of  the  station  force. 
If  there  shall  be  some  doubt  about 
performing  work  of  this  character  be 
cause  of  the  nature  of  the  request  that 
may  come  to  any  attache  of  the  Ex 
periment  Station,  the  matter  shall  be 
referred  to  the  director  of  the  station 
to  decide,  and  if  the  request  of  the  ap 
plicant  shall  be  rejected  the  explana 
tion  shall  be  made  by  the  director  of 
the  station.  In  case an  analysis  or  ex 
amination  shall  be  made  by  any  em 
ploye  of  the  station  for  which  it  shall 
be  proper  to  collect  a  fee,  such  fee 
shall  be  turned  in  to  the  secretary  of 
the  station  to  be  credited  to  the "con 
tingent  fund  of  the  station. 

The  next  meeting  will  be  held  at 

the  College  April  7. 

The  State  Fertilizer  Inspection. 

THORN  SMITH. 

"No,  I  don't  sell  fertilizers  any  more. 
I  did  keep  them,  but  those  Lansing 
chemists  made  so  many  mistakes  in 
their  analyses  that  I  quit  the  business. 
analyzes 
Probably  the  fellow  who 
these  fertilizers 
don't 
know  a  bit  more  about  chemistry  than 
you  or  I  do."  "That  is  no  doubt 
true,"  was  the  reply. 

at  Lansing 

Fortunately  the  above  was  the  only 
encounter  approaching  anything  of  a 
serious  nature  during  the  two  weeks 
of  fertilizer 

inspection  in  1890. 

Before  the  first  of  May  every  manu 
facturer  who  expects  to  dispose  of  fer 
tilizers  in  this  State  is  expected  to 
express  a  sample  of  each  and  every 
brand  that  he  manufactures 
to  the 
secretary  of  the  Board  of  Agriculture. 
Each  sample  must  be  accompanied  by 
a  guaranteed  analysis  and  a  license 
fee  of  $20.  Sometime  during 
that 
month  an  inspector  is  sent  out  by  the 
board  whose  duty  it  is  to  secure  from 
the  open  market  a  sample  of  every 
fertilizer  that  he  may  find  offered  for 
sale.  One  may  visit  four  or  five  lo 
calities  in  succession  and  not  find  a 
for  sale. 
fertilizer  offered 
trace  of 

them 

to  no  little 

The  next  place  may  have  three  or  four 
dealers,  disposing  of  a  large  amount 
yearly.  The  dealers  are  as  a  rule 
pleased  to  show  their  goods,  it  often 
putting 
inconven 
ience,  owing  to  the  distance  the  goods 
are  kept  from  the  office.  There  is  so 
much  objection  to  the  odor  that 
in 
many  of  the  larger  cities  dealers  have 
ceased  handling 
Their 
Avarebouses  have  been  moved  farther 
and  farther  from  the  center  of  activi 
ties,  so  that  they  prefer  to  drop  the 
business. 
In  the  smaller  places,  and 
especially  near  the  cities  where  market 
garden  stuff  can  be  disposed  of,  large 
In  some 
quantities  are  annually  sold. 
of  the  little  villages  near  Detroit  more 
fertilizers  are  sold  than  in  three  or 
four  cities  in  wrestern  Michigan,  whose 
population  Avail  aggregate  100,000. 

fertilizers. 

If  is 

When  one  is  hunting  the  state  over 
for  unlicensed  fertilizers  he  cannot  be 
particular  as  to  where  he  goes.  He 
doesn't  know one  day where  he  will  find 
himself  on  the  next. 
simply 
cover  as  much  territory  as  possible, 
making  good  time.  Occasionally  one 
gets  into  a  community  expecting  to 
find  several  brands  offered  and  dis 
covers  to  his  sorrow  that  the  use  of 
fertilizers  is  unknown.  Then  ensues 
a  depot  wait  of  two  or  three  hours  be 
fore  he  can  get  out  of  the  place.  Up 
and  down  back  streets  where  siide-
Avalks  have  never  been  built,  counting 
railroad  ties  far  a  mile  at  a  stretch, 
and  wading  through  sand,  ankle  deep, 
are  every  day  experiences  and  to  be 
expected  (after  the  first  clay. 

fixed  by 

At  the  close  of  the  inspection  the 
samples  are  pulverized  and  made  to 
pass  through  a  seive  whose  mesh  is  of 
a  certain  dimension 
the 
Association  of  Official  Chemists  and 
an  analysis  ensues.  To  make  the  work 
uniform  the  analyses  are  all  made  by 
following 
the  official  directions.  Ni 
trogen,  potash,  total  phosphoric  acid, 
and  the  insoluble  phosphoric  acid  are 
determined.  The  difference  betweeu 
the  total  phosphoric  and  the  insoluble 
is  called  the  available  phosphoric  acid. 
On  these  results,  the  value  of  the  fer 
tilizer  is  fixed.  All  work  is  carefully 
done  in  duplicate,  that  no  error  may 
creep  in,  and  thus  injure  the  sale  of  a 
really  honest  sample.  The  results  are 
tabulated,  coimpared  with  the  claim  of 
the  manufacturer,  and  embodied 
in 
an  Experiment  Station  bulletin. 

In  studying  results  one  is  surprised 
to  what  an  extent  the  manufacturers 
obey  the  law.  Very  seldom  does  the 
station  analysis  fall  below  the  claim 
of  the  manufacturer,  and  this  com 
monly  occurs  only  in  goods  made  by 
small  manufacturers  who  base  their 
claim  year  after  year  upon  the  same 
analysis.  The  dealer  spoken  of  at  the 
beginning  had  been  selling  goods  of 
standard  manufacture  made  by 
a 
company  whose  standing  could  not  be 
impeached.  The  analyses  were  cor 
rectly  made  and  reflected  no  discredit 
on  the  manufacturers.  The  dealer 
simply  did  not  know  how  to  interpret 
the  results. 

One  thing  noticed  in  the  inspection 
is  the  manner  in  which  ithe  dealers 
keep the goods.  On  damp  floors  where 
the  soluble  elements  are 
constantly 
leaching  into  the  earth  under  dripping 
eaves,  and  in  fact  any  place  where 
least 
nothing  else  can  be  stored,  at 
half  the  dealers  keep  their 
supply. 
The  loss  must  be  an  appreciable  one, 
especially  in  goods  kept  longer  than 
one  season. 

Is  the  use  of  fertilizers  increasing  in 
Michigan?  is  a  rather  difficult  ques 
tion  to  determine.  In  the  ten  years 
that  the  fertilizer  law  has  been 
in 
force,  the  number  of  brands  licensed 

the  sales  have 

has  increased  from  15 in  1886  to  70  in 
in 
1896.  Whether 
creased  in  the  past 
few  years  or 
wmether  the  entering  of  neAV  brands 
has  simply  decreased  the  sale  of  others 
is  a  question.  As  compared  with 
neighboring  states,  Ohio  for  instance, 
Michigan  is  poor  territory  for  the  fer 
tilizer  business.  In  that  state  the  num 
ber  of  different  brands  offered  for  sale 
approaches  500.  In  many  of  the  east 
ern  states  the  number  is as  great  as  in 
Ohio. 

Chemical  Department. 

The  Life  Principle  of  Nations. 

ALBERT  T.  CARTLAND, 

'97,  OF  THE 

H E S P E R I AN  S O C I E T Y. 

All  the  visible  Avorks  of  man  are 
perishable.  Not  only  is  this  true  of 
the  lesser  works  of  his  hands;  but 
those  mighty  structures  which  are  the 
product  of  long  years  of  toil,  sacrifice 
and  bloodshed—governments  and  em 
pires—they  also have their  day  and then 
vanish  from  the  earth.  Death  is  alike 
the  enemy  of  men  and  of  nations. 

the  march 

And  yet  there  is a  brighter  and  more 
cheerful  ArieAV  of  human  history. 
of  mankind 
Though 
tln-ough  the  ages  has  been  painfully 
SIOAV  and  sad,  and  though  the  entire 
Avay  is 
strewn  with  the  Avorks  of 
Death,  still  Ave  can  see  that  the  path 
leads  ever  heaATenAvards,  and  mankind 
is  moving  slowly  but  surely  towards 
better  things.  Nothing  is  more  certain 
than  that  there  has  been  a  progress,— 
a  pressing  forward,  an  advance  up-., 
Avard—and  so  strong  and  sure  has  that 
progress  been  that  all  the  powers  of 
evil  and  of  death  could  not  prevail 
against  it. 

to 

life 

But  if  we  can  hardly  hope  that  the 
nation  Ave  love  shall  liAre  on  forever, 
it  neA'ertheless  is  the  plain  duty  of 
eA*ery  loyal  citizen  to  use  what  poAver 
he  has  for  the  extending  of  his  na 
its  greatest  possible 
tion's 
length.  HOAV  then  may  a  nation  live 
out  its  full  allotment  of  time?  or,  in 
other  words,  of  Avhat  does  the  life-
principle  of  nations  consist?  This  is 
too  great  a  question  to  answer  in  a 
feAV  AArords,  and  perhaps  it  may  seem 
presumptuous  for  one  Avho  lays  claim 
to no ATery large share  of  AArisdom  to  a t-
tempt  ansAvering  ;t. 

the 

the 

But  I  am  quite  sure  of  one  thing, 
namely,  that  a  nation,  if  it  would  en 
dure,  if  it  would  prolong  its  life  to  the 
utmost,  must 
conditions 
fulfil 
which  lie  at  the  bottom  of  the  uni 
race.  The 
versal  progress  of 
ansAArer  to  the  question,  then,  lies  in 
determining 
truly  what  have  been 
these  constant  factors  in  the  Avorld's 
progress;  and  having  determined  them, 
Ave shall' be  able  to  put  our  own  coun 
try  to  the  test  and  find  out  thereby 
Avhether  Ave  are  in  the  way  of  Life 
or  in  the  way  of  Death. 

Bear  in  mind,  then,  that  I  am  not  at 
tempting  to  explain  conditions  of  prog 
ress  which  relate  only  to  some  particu 
lar  form  of  goA'ernment,  but  simply 
those  uniArersal conditions AArhich are the 
primary  factors  in  all  human  progress, 
and  which  are  therefore  applicable  to 
every  nation. 
I  will  only  attempt  to 
name  three  AATiich  appear  to  me  the 
most  important  and  most  true. 

The  first  is  thrift.  By  a  thrifty  peo 
ple  Ave mean  a  sober,  industrious  and 
frugal  people.  Thrift  is  a  character 
istic  of  all  early  nations  in  the  periods 
of  their  most  healthy  growth.  Rome, 
for  example,  ere  she  was  yet  corrupted 
by  conquests  and  a  too  brilliant  pros 
perity,  was  a  laboring  people—a  thrifty 
people.  She had  a  bold  and  prosperous 
peasantry,  Avho  turned  all  Italy  into 
one  great  fertile  garden.  Not  until 

MARCH] 2, 

1897. 

T HE  M.  A.  C.  R E C O R D. 

5 

the  second  P u n ic  war,  w h en 

after 
it 
became  possible  for  the  men  of  Italy 
to  live  not  by  t he  sweat  of  their  own 
brows  but  by  t he  s w e at  of  other  men's 
brows,  did  Rome  begin  her  decline. 
Not  until  h er 
thrifty  p e a s a n t ry  had, 
become  an  idle  city  throng,  were  the 
seeds  of  corruption  sown  among  those 
g r a nd  old  R o m a n s. 
I  believe  you  will 
find  t h at  thrift  ever  goes  h a nd  in  hand 
with 
says 
Carlyle,  "even  in  its  worst  state,  indi 
cates  a  g r e at  people.  T he  Dutch,  for 
example,  t he  people  of  New  England, 
the  Scotch—all  great  nations! • In  short 
it  is  the  foundation  of  all  m a n n er  of 
virtue  in  a  nation." 

true  progress. 

"Thrift," 

in  short,  t he  mass  of 

Another  condition  which  a l w a ys  at 
tends  true  progress  is  a  hallowed  do 
mestic  life  among  the  people.  W h e re 
home  is  held  sacred;  w h e re  w o m an  is 
loved; 
honored;  w h e re  children  are 
wherever, 
the 
people  recognize  t he  t r ue  relationships 
of  life,  there  you  will  find  a  people 
whose  life  a d ds  something  to  t he  for 
w a rd  m a r ch  of  t he  race. 
It  seems  to 
be  a  p a rt  of  the  divine  order  of  things 
t h at  an  enduring  national  life  shall  be 
based  on  an 
life. 
enduring 
W h en  fatherhood  ceases  to  be  consid 
ered  a  noble  ambition;  when  mother 
hood  loses  its  sacredness  and  begins 
to  be  held  in  low  esteem,  we  m ay  be 
sure  t h at  some  death-principles  have 
come  amongst  us. 

home 

sixteen 

No  more  foolish 

idea  has  entered 
into  t he  recent  thought  of  the  Amer 
ican  people  t h an  this  idea  of  t he  "new 
woman."  As  though  it  were  possible 
for  w o m an  to  become  new  again  after-
having  been  here  on  earth  a n y w h e re 
thousand 
b e t w e en 
six  and 
y e a r s!  As  though,  also,  she 
thought 
t h at  she  could  in  some  w ay  re-create 
herself!  which,  of  course,  she  never 
can  do.  The  old  saying  t h at  the  hand 
t h at  rocks  the  cradle  rules  the  world, 
is  not  simply  a  nicely-sounding  bunch 
of  words;  b ut  it  has  a  great  truth 
in 
it,  a nd  this  rocking  of  cradles  is  not 
a  responsibility  which  can  be  safely 
shifted  to  the  public  school  and  Sun 
day  school  teachers  of  t he  land.  Home 
education  has  ever  been  more  import 
a nt  t h an  school  education,  and  nothing 
is  more  necessary 
progress 
to  real 
this  home  education  and 
t h an 
home  life  be  p u re  and  true. 
"Honor 
thy  father  a nd  thy  mother,"  said  an 
It  were  well  also 
ancient  wise  man. 
for  a  nation  to  honor  its  fathers  and 
mothers  t h at  its  days  may  be  long. 

t h at 

it 

A 

an 
(if 

chiefly 

observes 

t r ue  because 

righteousness, 

third  p r i m a ry  condition  of  pro 
gress,  which  is  by  no  means  less  im 
portant  t h an  either  of  the  other  two, 
but  which  h as  no  lines  sharply  divid 
ing  it  from  them,  is  uprightness.  You 
know  w h at  an  upright  m an 
is—one 
"justice,  mercy,  and 
who 
t r u t h ."  The  upright  m an 
is  usually 
the  strong  man,—not  always,  but  gen 
erally.  So,  also,  is  t he  upright  nation 
the  strong  and  enduring  nation.  This 
progress—universal 
is 
advance 
progress—is 
t o w a rd 
is  not, 
then  it  is  no  progress),  a nd  no  nation 
can  long  endure  unless  it  fulfils 
this 
condition  of  progress.  Uprightness  is 
no  small  thing,  either,  in  individual  or 
It  is  the  opposite  of  all 
national  life. 
forms  of  weakness  and 
and 
sin;  so  t h at  t h e re  is  little  chance  for 
corruption  and  decay  w h e re  it  abounds. 
H ow  sad  and  stormful  w as 
life 
of  the  old  H e b r ew  nation!  F r om  t he 
time  of  Moses  d o wn  to  t he  heroic  Mac 
cabees,  w h at  a  s t r a n ge  m i x t u re 
strength  and  weakness,  of  rushing  for 
w a rd  a nd 
backward,  of 
shameful  disobedience  a nd  pitiful  re 
pentance,  characterizes  t he  life  of  the 
chosen  people;  while  ever  a nd  anon 

stumbling 

frailty 

t he 

of' 

is  heard 
t he  voice  of  s o me  prophet 
"O  i s r a e l!  if  thou  wilt 
shouting  out: 
but  keep  my  c o m m a n d m e n t s,  s a i th  the 
Lord,  a nd  Avalk  in  my  ways,  and  obey 
my  voice,  I  will  prolong  thy  days  a nd 
m a ke  of  thee  a  great  nation;  but  if  thou 
wilt  not  keep  my  commandments,  a nd 
follow  not  after  my  ways,  thou  shalt 
utterly  be  cut  off  from  among  the  na 
tions  of  the  earth." 

B ut  Israel  w as  so  lacking  in  stead 
fastness,  so  devoid  of  t he  principle  of 
uprightness!  Living  for  a  great  end, 
t he 
and  fulfilling  a  g r a nd  mission  in 
world,  she  still  never  succeeded 
in 
casting  out  t h at  element  of 
frailty 
from  from  her  life;  t h at  frailty  which 
Goethe  calls  "the  seed  of  corruption," 
and  which  I  believe  you  will 
find 
markedly  present  in  all  declining  na 
tions.  The  H e b r ew  heart  w as  a  w a rm 
heart,  full  of  love  and  b e a u t y;  but  so 
fitful  a nd  flashy,  so  wild  and  passion 
ate! 
Israel  at  no  t i me  could  be  called 
t r u ly  an  upright  people.  H ow  con 
sistent  they  were,  w h en  they  w a n t ed 
upright 
to  describe  "a 
man,"  to  go  down  into  the  land  of  Uz 
and  bring  forth  J o b!  T h e re  cannot  be 
too  high  a  value  p ut  upon  uprightness 
as  a  principle  of  national  strength  and 
endurance.  Let  a  nation  not  d a re  to 
do  a n y t h i ng  t h at  will  undermine 
its 
integrity,  its  moral  rectitude;  for  if  it 
does,  t h e re  will  surely  come  a 
time 
of  repentance,  or,  if  not  repentance, 
t h en  a  time  of  weakness  and  degener 
F or 
ation. 
is  moving  on 
the  world 
toward 
righteousness,  and  we  may 
depend  upon  it  t h at  none  b ut  t he  up 
right  nation  shall  stand. 

perfect  and 

.  sion  of  their  souls.  Strange 

In  t he  rush  and  h u r ry  of  life  men  a re 
prone  to  forget  or  pass  over  the  funda 
mental  conditions  of  their  well-being. 
All  sorts  of  vain  fancies  t a ke  posses-
illusions 
rise  before  them.  They  imagine 
t h at 
there  a re  new  a nd  short  roads  to  a 
higher  life  and  a  brighter  future  which 
their  fathers  before  them  knew  not  of. 
themselves  with  m a ny 
They  delight 
wonderful  and  strange  theories  of  pro 
gress.  But  all  these  we  cast  a w ay 
from  us  as  utterly  worthless,  and  turn 
back  again  to  the  old  beaten  p a t hs  of 
toiling 
the  ages,  wherein  we  behold, 
steadily  up  the  long  slopes  of  time,  the 
Thrifty,  the  Lovers  of  Home,  and 
t he 
Upright. 

The  S q u i r r e ls  of  t he  Campus. 

Even  the  casual  visitor  to  the  Col 
lege  grounds  can  hardly  fail  to  notice 
the  unusual  abundance  of  squirrels, 
in 
while  t he 
structors 
to 
their  presence  t h at 
their 
n u m b e rs  they  are  commonly  ignored. 

resident  students  and 
become  so  accustomed 

in  spite  of 

food.  The 

Of  course  there  a re  reasons  for  their 
presence  in  such  numbers,  the  first  be 
ing  the  almost  absolute  freedom 
from 
danger,  and  the  second  t he  abundance 
of 
hickory,  beech,  and 
maple  trees  afford  a  liberal  supply  of 
attractive  food  during  t he  a u t u mn  and 
winter,  while  other  seeds  and  fruits, 
together  with  buds,  bark,  insects,  a nd 
even  eggs  a nd  young  birds,  lend  va 
riety  to  t he  diet  at  other  seasons.  Oc-
casionly  a  gray-squirrel  or  a  fox-squir 
rel  is  seen  or  heard  on  the  campus,  and 
one  or  t wo  of  t he  houses  at  least  a re 
inhabited  by 
b ut  all 
these  are  comparatively  rare,  while  the 
red  squirrel  (Sciurus  hudsonius) 
fairly 
s w a r m s. 

flying-squirrels, 

L a st  fall 

the  oak  trees  ripened 

a 
heavy  crop  of  acorns,  and 
beneath 
some  trees  t he  ground  w as  completely 
covered  with 
to  eat 
them  all,  or  even  to  hide  them,  and 
apparently  unwilling  to  see  them  going 
to  waste,  t he  industrious  little  animals 

them.  U n a b le 

spent  hours  at  a  time  in  tearing  off 
times 
t he  shells,  scoring  them  a  few 
with  their  chisel-like  teeth,  and 
finally 
throwing  them  to  t he  ground  again  to 
decay.  D u r i ng  the  heavy  snows  of  t he 
past  t wo  m o n t hs  t h e se  same  improvi 
dent  squirrels  might  be  seen  daily  bur 
rowing  in  t he  snow  in  search  of  buried 
treasure,  a nd  obliged  oftentimes 
to 
content  themselves  with 
the  peeled 
a nd  discarded  acorns  which  t h ey  h ad 
scorned  in  times  of  plenty. 

t he 

is  a 

T he  red-squirrel 

t h em  up.  strip  off 

truly  boreal 
rodent,  and  yet  no  m a t t er  how 
far 
north  he  is  found  he  never  hibernates, 
b ut  remains  active  a nd  cheerful  and 
vigorous  all  through  the  snowy  winter. 
Primarily,  he  is  a  pine-tree  squirrel, 
loving  the  spruce  and  pine  before  all 
other  trees,  and  finding  no  small  p a rt 
of  his  table  delicacies  in  their  seeds. 
tallest 
He  will  go  to  t he  top  of 
white  pine  or  Norway  spruce  and  cut 
off  half  a  dozen  of  t he  h e a vy  cones, 
letting  all  b ut  the  last  one  drop  heavily 
to  t he  ground,  w h e re  he  will  after 
the 
w a rd  h u nt 
scales  and  enjoy  t he  nutritious  seeds. 
Any  cones  overlooked  at  the  time  a re 
buried  by  t he  winter's  snow  and,  to 
gether  with  buried  nuts,  acorns,  etc., 
serve  as  a  reserve  supply,  in  tunneling 
for  which  the  little  imp  may  cool  his 
temper  a nd  work  off  his  superfluous 
energy.  T h e re  is  no  denying  t h at 
the 
red-squirrel  is  vicious  as  well  as  vi 
vacious.  Not  only  is  his  temper  uncer 
tain,  and  at 
time  uncontrolable,  but 
his  appetite  often  leads  him  to  commit 
acts  t h at  we  as  h u m an  being  can  hard 
ly  look  at  as  less  t h an  crimes.  Noth 
for 
ing 
breakfast 
t h an  a  plump  young  robin 
or  sparrow  or  bluebird,  and  the  non 
chalance  with  which  he  will  seat  him 
self  artistically  and  proceed  to  dispose 
of  such  a  breakfast  would  be  admir 
able  were  it  not  abominable.  T he  hap 
struggles 
less  and 
featherless  bird 
faintly 
its 
suffering 
captor  soon  p u ts  it  beyond 
and  then  eats  it  with  as  much  relish 
as  a  schoolgirl  shows  for  a  pickle  or  an 
olive.  These  little  lunches,  however, 
often  are  rudely  broken 
in  upon  by 
t he  w r a t h f ul  p a r e n ts  of  t he  u n h a p py 
birdling,  and 
scene 
which  is  w o r th  witnessing.  The  squir 
rel  h as  need  of  all  his  agility  to  dodge 
the  blows  aimed  at  him  from  all  di 
rections  by  t he  outraged  birds.  Not 
infrequently  several  p a i rs  of 
birds, 
and  even  several  species,  unite  in  the 
enemy,  but 
t he  common 
a t t a ck  on 
after  m a ny 
escapes  — tail-
n a r r ow 
breadth  escapes  perhaps—and  perilous 
leaps  and  cunning  subterfuges,  t he  as 
sassin  usually  reaches  some  hollow 
t r ee  or  other  safe  refuge  where  he  may 
dress  his  ruffled  coat  and  reflect  on  the 
uncertainties  of  life. 

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1897. 

Our  A l u m ni  Do  Not  F o r g et  M.  A.  C. 

An  institution  could  not  desire  more 
loyal  support  t h an  our  alumni,  every 
where  and  upon  all  occasions,  give  to 
M.  A.  C.  So  far  as  in  us  lies,  we  shall 
a l w a ys  try  to  be  as  constant  in  our  de 
votion  to  them.  T h at  we  are  not  for 
gotten,  the  following  from  ,T. Y.  ('lark. 
'85, 
the 
in  his  report  as  c h a i r m an  of 
committee  on  cooperation  at  the 
last 
State  Grange,  convinces  u s: 

through  which 

have  ever  stood 

As  n a t u r al  allies  and  as 

T he  state  and  subordinate  granges 
of  Michigan 
as  a 
mighty  working  force  for  a  high  stand 
a rd  of  morality  a nd  general  education. 
legitimate 
to  work  out 
avenues 
these 
objects,  among  m a ny  others, 
stand  prominently  the  Michigan  State 
Agricultural  College,  the  state  series 
F a rm 
of  F a r m e r s' 
H o me  Reading  Circle,  and 
the  state 
libraries.  T he  first  men 
circulating 
tioned  of 
in  an  especial  sense 
should  be  the  charge,  care,  and  ward 
of  the  Michigan  State  Grange. 

Institutes, 

these 

the 

to 

As 

instruments  powerful 

the 
farmers'  advancement 
they  are  most 
worthy  objects  of  our  hearty  cooper 
ation,  and  their  interests  and  ours  will 
be  bes.t  subserved  by  introducing  their 
literature,  attending  and  promoting 
their  meetings,  affording 
them  consid 
erate  pecuniary  support,  and  by  with 
holding  the  ruthless  hand  that  would 
effect  reform  by  the  process  of  revolu 
tion,  not  evolution. 

An  Amusing  L i t e r a ry  B l u n d e r. 

the 

that 

translator  came 

In  Fenimore  Cooper's 

tale.  "The 
Spy."  Mr.  Whnrton.  one  of  the  charac 
ters!  lives  at  a  place  called  "The  Lo 
translator 
custs." 
a  French 
This 
rendered  "Lev  Savterelles." 
Fvidently 
he  had  not  heard  of  a  tree  called  the 
locust;  hence  his  mistake.  But  m a rk 
followed. 
the  ludicrous  blunder 
Presently 
to  a 
passage in  the story  where  it  was  state:! 
that  a  visitor  had  tied  his  horse  to  a 
locust.  We  can  imagine  him  scratch 
ing  his  head  perplexedly  over  this,  and 
having  strong  doubts  about  his  previ 
once 
If 
ous  rendering. 
again 
to  his  dictionary,  he  evidently 
found  no  assistance:  so  he  wrote  witli 
the  rider  had  se 
a  bold  hand 
cured  his  steed  to  a  santepette. 
Then, 
taking  a  fresh  dip  of  ink,  he  clinched 
t he  m a t t er  by  gravely 
the 
insects 
reader  that 
in  America 
grow 
that, 
to  an  enormous  size;  and 
in  this  case,  one  of  these—dead  and 
stuffed,  of  course—had  been  stationed 
at  the  door  of  the  mansion  for  the  con 
venience  of  visitors  on  horseback. 

informing 
these 

he  turned 

that 

A  R a re  Collection. 

found 

to  which 

illustrious 

in  students' 

interesting  specimens 

interesting,  perhaps,  is 

Among  the  many  collections  of  rare 
rooms 
specimens 
the  most 
the 
collection  of  relics  owned  by  Mr.  W.  R. 
Goodwin.  '07.  in  room  32.  Among  the 
is  a 
numerous 
is  attached 
bullet 
the  fol 
lowing: 
"This  is  t he  identical  bullet 
which  so  tragically  ended  the  earthly 
statesman 
career  of  our 
and  savior  of  his  country,  A b r a h am 
It  w as  procured  from  Hon. 
-Lincoln. 
Win.  Seward 
after  Lincoln's 
soon 
death  and  presented  to  the  Goodwin 
is  also  a  'satchel 
collection." 
with  a  r e m a r k a b le  record. 
"This  lit 
tle  old  satchel  has  a  wonderful  his 
tory. 
It  was  carried  by  the  explorer-
Stanley  on  his  journey  through  Africa, 
t h at 
and  it  w as  in  this  same  satchel 
t he  bones  of  Livingstone  were  con 
veyed  back  to  civilization."  We  also 
find  t wo  small  specimens  in  this  col 
inter 
lection  which  possess  no  little 
ill-
est,  one  being  a  board  from 

There 

the 

of  his 

is  supposed 

This  speci 
fated,  steamer  Chicora. 
men  was  picked  up  on  the  beach  by 
Mr.  Goodwin 
father's 
back 
farm,  near  the  place  where  this  steam 
er 
to  have  disappeared. 
The  other  specimen  is  a  feather  from 
t h at  crew 
the  plumage  of 
when  Peter  denied  his  Master. 
In 
this  collection,  is  also  found  a  horn  of 
enormous  dimensions  with  a  sonorous 
in  magnitude  between 
tone,  ranging 
that  of  the  whistle  of  an  ocean 
liner 
and  the  bray  of  an  ass. 

the  cock 

Other  specimens  are  found,  too  nu 
merous  to  mention.  Any  one  interest 
ed  in  relics  will  be  well  repaid  for  call 
ing,  but  callers  are  earnestly  requested 
not  to  come  during  study  hours,  and 
are  also  asked  not  to  handle  any  tiling 
found  in  this  museum. 

A m e r i c an  M a c h i n e ry 

for 

(Jernian 

S t e a m e r s. 

this 

the  building  of  these 

The  huge  liner,  Kaiser  Wilhelm  der 
Grosse.  now  building  at  Stettin,  which, 
with  its  sister  ship,  will  be  the  largest 
vessels  afloat,  is  equipped  with  Blake 
puinping-engines,  made  in  this  country. 
London, 
fact  Enpinecrinfj, 
Of 
speaks  somewhat  enviously  as  follows: 
"Although 
t wo 
fine  steamers  will  lie. a  gain  to  civiliza 
tion  at  large,  it  would  be  hypocritical 
t h at  we  would  r a t h er  h a ve 
to  deny 
seen 
in.  t he 
world  produced  in  British  yards.  Fail 
ing  that,  however,  it  would  have  been 
a.  source  of  satisfaction  to  us  h ad  t he 
the 
German  builders  come  to  us  for 
auxiliary  machinery  not  m a de  in  their 
own  country,  in  place  of  going  across 
the  Atlantic  for  so  important  a  p a rt  of 
the  equipment  as 
the 
pumping 

the  whole  of 

largest  ocean 

installation." 

liners 

the 

(Queries  A n s w e r e d. 

" W h at  ails  our  newspaper  agency7" 
"Slow;  today's  papers  always  come 

to  Morrow." 

A  Mason 

fifth  grader  was  asked: 
" W h at 
is  a  c a t a r a c t ?"  T he  a n s w er 
came  back  promptly  and  confidently. 
" W a t er  flowing  over  a  preceptress."— 

Instructor  (to  1st  arithmetic  class)— 
"How  m a ny  in  a  family  consisting  of 
husband,  wife  and  child?" 

Smart  Boy—"Two  aud  one  to  carry." 

—Bar. 

Teacher—"James,  you  may  point  out 
to  the  class  a  spot  upon  your  m ap  as 
yet  unexplored  and  unexplained,  and 
of  which  tlie  world  at  large  is  in  utter 
ignorance." 

Pupil—"Yes.  m a ' a m; 

this 

'ere 

ink-

spot."—  Ex. 

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Did  you  ever  notice  this. 
W h en  a  fellow  steals  a  kiss 
. F r om  a  righteous  maiden  calm  and 

meek. 

H ow  her  scriptural  training  shows 
In  not  turning  up  her  nose, 

But  in  simply  turning  round  the  other 

cheek? 

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meeting  second  F r i d ay  evening  of  each 
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tory  at  6:30. 
T.  G-unson,  President. 
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Shakespeare 

Club—Meets 

every 

Wednesday  evening.  Dr.  H o w a rd  Ed 
wards,  President. 

M.  A.  C.  Athletic  Association—C.  B. 
Laitner,  President.  G.  B.  Wells,  Sec 
retary. 

Columbian  Literary  Society—Regular 
in 
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their  rooms 
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President.  A.  J.  Weeks,  Secretary. 

in 

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fourth 
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at  7:30  p.  m.  D.  C.  McElroy,  Presi 
dent;  T.  H.  Libbey,'  Secretary. 

Feronian  Society—Meets  every  Fri 
day  afternoon  at  1:00 
in  Hesperian 
rooms.  Miss  P e a rl  Kedzie,  President. 
Miss  H a t t ie  Chase,  Secretary. 

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rooms  in  the  west  w a rd  of  Wells  Hall 
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President.  C.  fit.  Krentel,  Secretary. 
Society—Meetings 
held 
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evening  at  7:00.  G.  A.  P a r k e r.  Presi 
dent.  A.  E.  Wallace,  Secretary. 

Union  Literary 

in 

T au  Beta  Pi  Fraternity—Meets  every 
two  weeks  on  T h u r s d ay  evening  in  the 
tower  room  of  Mechanical  Laboratory. 
G.  A.  P a r k e r,  President. 
wick,  Secretary. 

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Club  Boarding  Association—I.  L. 
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T ry 

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a l t e r n a te 
D a u g h t e rs  — Meets 
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News  from  G r a d u a t es  a nd  S t u d e n t s. 

H e n ry  Lake,  '95m,  is  teaching 

t wo 
grades  in  t he  Gunnison  schools,  Col 
orado. . 

W.  W.  Morrison, 

'90,  and  wife, 
Bryan,  Ohio,  were  on  the  grounds  last 
Tuesday. 

R.  S.  Campbell,  '94,  h as  been  nomi 
nated  by  the  republicans  of  St.  Clair 
county  for  commissioner  of  schools. 
Hon.  H.  F.  Buskirk.  '78,  representa 
the 
last 

tive  from  Allegan  county,  w as 
guest  of  Mr.  Hoyt  one  evening 
week. 

AY. J.  Breese,  '91m,  is  still  employed 
as  d r a u g h t s m an  by  t he  Carnegie  Steel 
Company.  H is  address  is  310  L a r i m er 
avenue,  P i t t s b u r g h,  Pa. 

J o hn  F.  Evert, 

'82,  Mendon, 

is  re 

nominated  for  commissioner  of  schools 
in  St.  Joseph  county;  ditto,  E r n e st  P. 
Clark,  '83,  Berrien  county. 

L a st  week  George  Simmons, 

'94«i, 
who  is  a  d r a u g h t s m an  for  the  Illinois 
Central  11. Pi.  Company,  w as  prompted 
to  a  position  next 
to  head 
d r a u g h t s m a n. 

in  r a nk 

B.  F.  Bain, 
'93m,  began  work 
last 
t he  General  Electric 
Tuesday  with 
Company,  Schenectady,  X.  Y.,  where 
L.  C.  Brooks  has  been  working 
for 
two  months. 

F r om  Prof.  L.  H.  Bailey,  82,  we  re 
ceived  for  t he  alumni  library  last  week 
his  four  volumes  of 
''Garden  Craft 
Series," 
for  which  Ave  acknowledge 
our  obligations. 

A.  L.  Bemis,  with  '83,  editor  of 
addressed 

the 
Carmn  City  Gazette, 
the 
Michigan  P r e ss  Association  at  Detroit, 
Feb.  22,  on  "Collecting  Subscriptions 
and  Collecting  Agencies." 

At 

t he 

state 

convention  of 

the 
League  of  Republican  Clubs 
in  De 
troit,  F e b.  22,  George  C.  Monroe,  '91, 
Avas  elected  delegate  from  the 
fourth 
district  to  t he  national  convention. 

W.  L.  Kossman, 

'89,  spent  several 
days  in  Chicago  last  Aveek, a nd  attend 
ed  the  banquet  of  t he  Chicago  M.  A.  C. 
Association  S a t u r d ay  evening.  Mrs. 
Kossman  is  visiting  her  sister  at  Eaton 
Kapids. 

AYe are  glad  to  learn  of  the  appoint 
ment  of  Glenn  C.  Lawrence,  '85,  Ypsi-
lanti,  to  a  position  on  t he  P o rt  H u r on 
customs  force.  Mr.  LaAvrence  had  an 
average  standing  of  over  90  in  the  civil 
service  examination. 

an 

eastern 

F.  E.  Barr,  with  'i)7m,  Avho  h as  been 
representing 
publishing 
house  in  northern  Illinois  and  southern 
Wisconsin,  will  shortly  return  to  Michi 
g an  as  state  representative  for  another 
Arm  in  the  same  line  of  work.  He  Avili 
be  in  Battlte  Creek  this  Aveek. 

H.  C.  Matheson,  vvitli  '97,  of  South 
Frankfort,  after  successfully  manag 
ing  a  creamery  at  New  Haven,  Mich., 
has  decided  to  go  to  Lewiston,  Idaho, 
to  enter  his  uncle's  machine  shop  at 
that  place.  He  has  been  ill  most  of 
the  winter  with  congestion  of 
the 
lungs,  due  to  repeated  colds  contracted 
in  the  creamery. 

for 

chemist 

A.  L a t c ha  W a t e r s,  '90,  is  now  min 
ing  engineer  and 
the 
United  Globe  mines  at  Globe,  Arizona. 
It  is  a  large  a nd  powerful  concern,  a 
branch  of  t he  great  Copper  Queen  at 
It  owns  nearly  30 
Bisbee,  Arizona. 
mining  claims,  Avhich  it  is  rapidly  de 
veloping, 
expense 
its 
a m o u n ts 
to  over  $800.  A.  L.  AV.  is 
highly  pleased  Avith  t he  new  departure 
at  M.  A.  C.  in  t he  Avoman's  course, 
and  feels  t h at  Avhen  he  m a k es  his  pile 
he  will  take  a  special  course  at  M.  A. 
C,  s t u d y i ng 
the  coeds,  for  certainly 
noAvhere  else  are  there  such  fine  young 

daily 

a nd 

men,  a nd  t he  s a me  m u st  be  t r ue  re 
garding  the  merits  of  their  sisters. 

in 

Horace  A".  Shattuck.  with  '92m,  died 
at  his  home  in  Adrian.  J a n.  15.  Since 
leaving  College  he  has  spent  consider 
able  time 
in  search  of 
the  West 
health.  Last  April,  under  t he  advice 
of  his  physician  he 
returned  home 
from  Phoenix,  Arizona,  and  to  all  but 
himself  it  w as  apparent  that  he  could 
never  go  back.  Then  folloAved  " w e a ry 
m o n t hs  of  waiting,  of  hope  deferred. 
Avheu  health  seemed  almost  within  t he 
grasp.  He  so  longed  to  live  to  finish 
t he  lifeAvork  which  he  had  only  m a de 
himself  ready  to  begin.  But  Avlien  the 
certainty  came,  and  he  knew  t h at  his 
days  were  fast  being  numbered,  he 
could  only  say,  'There  m u st  be  a  pur 
pose  in  it  all.  God  knows  best, 
l am 
willing  to  leave  it  all  with  Him.'  " 

t o w n; 

H.  C.  Newman,  with  '98,  Avrites  from 
"I  visited  "Pat'  and 
Provo  City,  U t a h: 
Mr.  H o me 
I  arrived. 
the  day  after 
Pat'  and  his  wife  are  comfortably  lo 
cated  in  a  little  Xloby'  or  gray  .brick 
house.  Such  homes  a re  very  common 
in  this  country.  Provo  City  is  a  typical 
Mormon 
it  has  g r e at  n a t u r al 
beauty,  but  the  people  h a ve  done  b ut 
little  to  improve  it  and  m a ke  it  like  a 
modern  city. 
Salt  L a ke  City 
.. 
is  the  queerest  and  yet  the  most  beau 
tiful  city  t h at  I  have  ever  A'isited,  it 
is  surrounded  on  three  sides  by  moun 
tains.  Along  t he  north  end  of  the  city, 
just  at  the  foot  of  the  mountains,  is  a 
stone  wall  built 
the  people 
from  going  to  and  from  the  mountains. 
The  streets  are  wide; 
the  business 
blocks  are  modern  and  exceptionally 
line." 

to  keep 

.

.

They  asked: 

"And  Avhat  is  space' 

The  trembling  student  said: 
"I  can't  think  of  it  at  present, 
But  I  have  it  in  my  head." 

Boar d\>TAg  r i c u l t u r e. 

Hon.  F r a n k l in  Wells,  President 

Constantine. 
Hon.  Chas.W.  Garfield.  .Grand  Kapids. 
Hon.  Chas.  F.  Moore 
St.  Clair. 
Hon.  C. J.  Monroe.  . . . . . . S o u th  Haven. 
Hon.  T.  F.  M a r s t o n ..  . .AVest  Bay  City. 
Highland. 
Hon.  A.  C.  Bird 
Gov.  H a z en  S.  Pingree 
Ex  Officio 
The  President  of  the  College.. Ex  Officio 
Hon.  I.  H.  Butterfield,  Secy... 

Mich.  Agr.  College. 

F a c u l ty  a nd  O t h er  Officers. 

J.  L.  SNYDER,  A.  M.,  Ph.  D.,  Presi 
dent. 
R O B E RT  C.  K E D Z I E,  M.  A.,  M.  D., 
Professor  of  Chemistry,  a nd  Curator 
of  the  Chemical  Laboratory. 
AV1LLIAM  J.  B E A L,  M.  S.,  P h.  D.. 
Professor  of  Botany  and  Forestry,  and 
Curator  of  the  Botanical  Museum. 
E.  A.  A.  GRANGE,  V.  S., 
Professor  of  Veterinary  Science. 
L E VI  R.  T A F T,  M.  S., 
Professor  of  Horticulture  and  Land 
scape  Gardening,  a nd  Superintend 

ent  of 

t he  Horticultural  De 

p a r t m e n t. 
HOAVARD  E D W A R D S,  M.  A.,  LL.  D.. 
Professor  of  English  Literature  and 
Modern  Languages. 
H E R M AN  K.  V E D D E R,  C.  E., 
Professor  of  Mathematics  a nd  Civil 
Engineering. 
H A R RY  H.  B A N D H O L T Z,  2d  Lieut. 
6th  Inf.,  U.  S.  A., 
Professor  of  Military  Sciences  a nd 
Tactics. 
I.  H.  B U T T E R F I E L D, 

Secretary.  • 

CLINTON  D.  S M I T H,  M.  S. 
Professor  of  Practical  Agriculture,  and 
Superintendent  of  t he  F a r m. 

' 

CHAS.  L.  W E I L,  S.  B.,  , 
Professor  of  Mechanical  Engineering 
and  Director  of  the  Mechanical 
D e p a r t m e n t. 
W A L T ER  B.  B A R R O W S,  S.  B., 
Professor  of  Zoology  and  Physiology, 
a nd  Curator  of  the  General 
Museum. 
F R A NK  S.  K E D Z I E,  M.  S.. 
Adjunct  Professor  of  Chemistry. 
W I L L I AM  S.  HOLDSAVORTH,  M.  S.. 
Assistant  Professor  of  Drawing. 
P H I L IP  B.  W O O D W O R T H,  B.  S., 
M.  E. 
Assistant  Professor  of  Physics. 
A L V IN  B.  NOBLE,  B.  Ph., 
Assistant  Professor  of  English  Litera 
ture  and  Modern  L a n g u a g e s. 
C H A R L ES  F.  W H E E L E R,  B.  S., 
Assistant  Professor  of  Botanv. 
W I L B UR  O.  H E D R I C K,  M.  S., 
Assistant  Professor  of  History  a nd  Po 
litical  Economy. 
W A R R EN  BABCOCK,  Jr.,  B.  S., 
Assistant  Professor  of  Mathematics. 
E D I TH  F.  M c D E R M O T T, 
Trofessor  of  Domestic  Economy  and 
Household  Science. 
MRS.  L I N DA  E.  LANDON, 
Librarian. 
H.  W.  M U M F O R D,  B.  S. 

Assistant  Professor  of  Agriculture. 
R U F US  H.  P E T T I T,  B.  S.  A. 
Instructor  in  Zoology. 
A.  L.  W E S T C O T T,  B.  M.  E., 
Instructor  in  Mechanical  Engineering. 
DICK  J.  CROSBY,  B.  S.. 
Instructor  in  English. 
M E R R I TT  AV.  F U L T O N,  B.  s!, 
Instructor  in  Agriculture. 
B U R T ON  O.  LONGYEAR, 
Instructor  in  Botany 
CYRUS  C.  P A S H B Y,  B.  S., 
Instructor  in  Mathematics. 
GORDON  H.  T R U E,  B.  S., 
Instructor  in  Dairying. 
C H A R L ES  E.  M A R S H A L L,  Ph.  B,. 
Instructor  in  Bacteriology. 
H.  E.  S M I T H,  B.  S. 
Instructor  in  Mechanical  Enffineerin" 
K.  L.  B U T T E R F I E L D,  B.  S., 
Supt.  F a r m e r s'  Institutes  and  College 
Field  Agent. 
D.  B.  B A L D W I N. 
Engineer. 
T H O M AS  GUNSON, 
F o r e m an  of  Greenhouse. 
F.  C.  K E N N E Y, 
Assistant  Secretary. 
E R N E ST  W I T T S T O C K, 
F o r e m an  of  the  F a r m. 
W.  S.  L E O N A R D, 
F o r e m an  of  Machine  Shop. 
T H O M AS  D U R K I N, 
F o r e m an  of  t he  Horticultural  Depart 
ment. 
C H A R L ES  E.  HOYT, 

and 

f o r e m an  of 

t he  Wood  Shops 
F o u n d r y. 
E.  S.  GOOD, 
Clerk  to  President. 
C H A CE  N E W M A N, 
Clerk  of  Mechanical  Department. 

S t a t i on  Council. 

Clinton  D.  Smith,  M.  S ..  .. 

. . .. 

Director  and  Agriculturist. 

J o n a t h an  L.  Snyder,  Ph.  D.,  P i es 

L.  R.  Taft,  M.  S 
Robert  C.  Kedzie,  M.  A.,  M.  D 

Ex  Officio. 
Horticulturist 

Ira  H.  Butterfield, 

Chemist. 
Secretary 
and  Treasurer. 

Advisory  a nd  A s s i s t a nt  Staff. 

A.  A.  Crozier,  M.  S 

Assistant  in  Agriculture. 

H e r b e rt  AV. Mumford,  B.  S 

'  Assistant  in  Agriculture. 

H.  P.  Gladden,  B.  S 

Assistant  in  Horticulture. 
M.  L.  D e a n.  .Assistant  in  Horticulture. 
Thorn  Smith,  B.  S 

Assistant  in  Chemistry. 

E.  A.  A.  Grange,  V.  S 

Consulting  Veterinarian. 

AV. B.  Barrows,  S.  B ..  . .. 

Consulting  Zoologist. 
R.  H.  P e t t i t.  .Assistant  in  Entomology. 
Botanist. 
Chas.  F.  Wheeler,  B.  S 
Librarian. 
Mrs.  L.  E.  Landon 
T.  T.  Lyon.  So.  H a v en 

In  charge  of  Suh-Station. 

K.  Ii.  Taylor,  Lapeer 

In  charge  of  Apiary. 

Sub  S t a t i o n s. 

Grayling,  Crawford  county,  SO  acres 

deeded. 

South  Haven,  A'an  Buren  county,  10 

acres  rented;  5  acres  deeded. 

The  Farm  Home 

Reading  Circle 

MICHIGAN STATE 
AGRICULTURAL  COLLEGE. 

THE  AIM OF THE  FARM  HOME  READING  CIRCLE 

The  fundamental  purpose  of  the  Agri 
cultural  College  is  to  educate 
farmers' 
sons  and  daughters  toward  the  farm  and 
not  away  from  it.  She  is  doing  this  and 
i n  addition  is  making  it  possible for  those 
who  cannot  afford  a  college  course  to 
become  posted  on  agricultural 
topics 
through  the  Farm  Home  Reading  Circle. 
One  of  the  objects  of  the  Farm  Home 
Reading  Circle  is  to  recommend  the  best 
books  for  the farmer,  gardener  and  stock 
breeder  to  read,  and  at  the  same  time  to 
furnish  an  opportunity  for  the  farmer  to 
buy 
reduced 
prices. 

those  books  at  greatly 

The  course  of  reading  outlined  has 
been  prepared  by men  who  are  authority 
in  their  special  lines.  The  books  offered' 
in  the  course  are  thought  to  be  as  good 
as  can  be  secured  at  a  reasonable  figure. 
The  privileges  of  the  F a rm  Home 
Reading  Circle  are  not  limited  as  to  age 
or  occupation.  Anyone  who  is  a  resi 
dent  of  Michigan  may become a  member. 
One  of  the  most  commendable  features 
of  this  course  of  reading  is  that  you  can 
read  alone. 

You  do  not  have  to  organise  a  society. 

M E M B E R S H IP  COSTS  NOTHING. 

ADVANTAGES  TO MEMBERS  OF THE FARM 

HOME  READINC  CIRCLE. 

1.  An  opportunity 

to  pursue  a  sys 
the 
tematic  course  of 
direction  and  with  the  aid  of  all  depart 
ments  of 
the  Michigan  Agricultural 
College. 

reading  under 

2.  The  publications  of  the  Michigan 
State  Experiment  Station  are  mailed  free 
to  members  of  the  F a rm  Home  Heading 
Circle. 

3.  You  can  secure  standard  books  at 

greatly  reduced  rates. 

4.  You  not  only  secure  the  benefit 
yourself,  but  you  get  a  certificate  on  the 
completion  of  each  book  which  cannot 
fail  to  be  a  source  of  satisfaction  to  you. 
5.  You  can  receive  a  prompt  answer 
to  any  question  in  regard  to  farm  topics 
by  applying  to  the  college  through  the 
Secretary  of  the  F a rm  Home  Reading 
Circle. 

Full  information  in  regard  to  how  to 
join  and 
the  different  courses  offered 
will  be  furnished  promptly  upon  appli 
cation  to  the  secretary, 

H E R B E RT  W.  MUMFORD, 

AgrictjHuial  College,  M 

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t r a i n i ng  a l o ng  practical  lines. 

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t h e o r i e s. 

J ^ O /?  THE 

YOUNG 

MAN  w ho  is  a m b i t i o us  to  b e c o me  a  u s e 

ful  American  citizen,  s t r o ng  a nd  self-reliant,  or 

THE 

YOUNG 

to 
wisely  c o n d u ct  t he  affairs  of  a  h o me  — and  t h e re  a re  no 
h i g h er  ambitions—there  can  be  no  b e t t er  place  t h an  at 

w ho  would  p r e p a re  herself 

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Our  last  Catalog  s h o ws  t h at  WE  HAVE  S T U D E N TS  FROM 
J A P A N,  SIBERIA,  S W E D E N,  S C O T L A N D,  ENGLAND,  ARMENIA, 
QUEBEC,  ONTARIO,  NOVA  SCOTIA,  ELEVEN  S T A T ES  AND  T HE 
DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA  IN  OUR  C O U N T R Y,  BESIDES  F O R T Y-
NINE  C O U N T I ES  IN  MICHIGAN. 

We  number  among  our  post-graduate  students,  men  and  women  from  the 
University  of  Michigan,  Amherst,  Oberlin,  Olivet,  The  State  Normal,  and  many 
other  institutions  of  learning. 

But  our  most  laudable  pride  is  in  the  work  our  graduates  are  doing—they  occupy  positions  of  honor 

and  trust  in  all  the  walks  of  life,  and  their  work  is  a  proud  monument  to  the  training  received  here. 

WE  HAVE  THREE 

COURSES 

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If  you  wish  to  know  m o re  a b o ut  t h e se  c o u r s es  you  can  get  o ur  catalog 

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by  writing  to. 

President  J.  L. SNYDER, 

AGRICULTURAL  COLLEGE,  MICH.