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-THE FARMER IS OF MORE CONSEQUENCE THAN TIIE FARM, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IMPROVED.

Northern Michigan ed as the fruit belt of the country. In this goods boxes, containing ammunition and built; but the saw mill, the dam, and the Kalkaska County. I belt are a number of apple orchards plant- | bullet moulds had not been opened since Davison family were there. East of the BY. A. E. PALMER. ed which bid fair to be successful. Plums I .grossing Lake Erie. But there was the and eherfies also do well. Small fruit of Davison pond a crooked, narrow pathway l game, and in a hasty council of war it was had been under brushed, over which a few Kalkaska county in no essential differ- all kinds adapted to this latitude yield rsoon decided that Moses should go home ent jErora many of like subdivisions of abundantly in all parts of the county. pioneer wagons had found their way, | and get the gun and the small dog, Rover, leaving their hub marks on the trees as Michigan, is largely made up of two class- Oats for the last three or four years have ! and I should stay and watch the bears. 1 es of soil, very good and very poor. About not done well owing to the drouths, and they passed. Late on a November after- j h&d an ax, and when the bears grew un- noon I had left Lapeer on horseback, and one-half of the county originally covered for the last two years have suffered much , easy and began to climb down to" escape I miles before I reached Davison's mill the with pine is, under any present methods of from grasshoppers. Spring wheat is also | would pound on the tree and drive them up black clouds of night settled down upon farming practically worthless, and this uncertain. But winter wheat and rye can Sgain—then I would stand and wait—but the woods. To follow the crooked path I constitutes the plains land along the Man- always be depended on. Clover, timothy, ; dear me the time seemed long, for the air must depend on the superior sight and sa- istee and Boardman rivers. orchard grass and other grasses produce was full of hungry mosquitoes—such clouds gacity of the horse, for I absolutely could The other half,' timbered with maple, abundantly, but in common with other of them I had never before experienced, not see the horse under me. Like Tam beech, basswood and elm, is" for the most parts of the state there has been a difficul- not even in the old Tonawanda swamp. O'Shanter "we skelpit on through dub and part a heavy sand loam, with clay pre- ty during the last two or three years ex- But between brushing off mosquitoes and mire," but not having the inspiration of dominating in a few localities. A notable cept in shady places, in getting a good pounding up bears I had plenty of employ- his "auld Scotch drink," we did not de- feature of this agricultural portion of the catch owing to the dry and hot summers. ment, and time moved on as it has a way spise the surroundings. It was cold and county is the numerous streams and lakes All the farmers are now suffering from the Oi doing under most all circumstances. A damp, and miles of deep woods lay be- and an abundance of pure water on nearly effects of a diminished hay crop. This, crackling of brush caused me to turn my tween us and the log bridge at the saw every section; the surface is rolling but not together with an unprecedently light grain tread and behold the mother bear. She mill. The faint, low howl of a wolf was rough enough to preclude cultivation. harvest, make the outlook anything showed no signs of haste. On the contrary heard from the distance, which was soon As is the fact with all timber countries, but bright for the coming winter. There she exhibited great deliberation and pres- repeated in louder tones in which other agriculture was but secondary to the tim- is, however, at present an abundant supply ently came to a full halt near the foot of a voices seemed to join. Soon it was an- ber interests in the earlier development of of fall feed in the pastures, and if the pres- large tree 40 or 50 feet from where I stood. swered far away, in another direction, but the country, hence it is about ten years ent mild weather continues for a few weeks And now, to use the language of our illus- onward we plodded, for sure enough what since agriculture and horticulture began to longer, it will very materially help in carry- trious president, I "was confronted not by else could we do. But the sounds drew receive careful attention, but progress ing our stock through the winter months. a theory, but by a condition." The young nearer and the voices more numerous. along this line has been rapid, the transi- Contrary to the belief which seems to bears were restive, and gave forth piteous Wolves answered to wolves and revealed tion from the lumberman to the farmer, prevail in the southern part of the state, moans, and assayed to come down from the fact that there were wolves on both from the homesteader to the agriculturist, the writer after several years of experience their tree—but thump, thump, went the sides, and in front and rear. My horse from the log house and barn to the more can testify to the adaptedness of the coun- ax against the tree, and up again went the snuffed violenty and essayed to run, and I pretentious frame building, from the small ty for corn, In fact it is by far the most bears. Somehow my intellectual powers was compelled to hold him with a tight ill-kept garden patch to the large, well- successful grain crop we can raise. Last seemed peculiarly active, and it occurred rein, for the idea of being dumped in a fenced acreage; from the stump-covered hole year in spite of the severity of the drought to me that if I could tree the old bear I mud hole and left alone had no charms for me. Had I been in a singing mood my in the woods to the clean quarter section, he husked upwards of eighty bushels per would have a fine time when the rifles theme would have been— the introduction of machinery and im- acre. This year it is running somewhat came. Of course I had heard that old she proved breeds of stock, all indicate a de- above that figure. About three years ago, bears were apt to be a little saucy when gree of prosperity and surelv foretell the within a mile of Gaylord there were about their young were molested, but I balanced "Oh, solitude, where are thy charms?"-- possibilities of agriculture in this county. 120 bushels of ears harvested per acre, and'- j this question fairly and decided to take the but I left the wolves to do the singing, and I^ipevt^^y. the adjacent waters bf of excellent quality. The varieties, the horse to jog along as best ho could. I for the ¿Ranees. The ax I k new I could depend •vLake.m&ugan,, fcKe clinwtic conditions aio most part, however, are the flint. The sea- could distinctly and repeatedly hear the ^ori , and supposed I mi£ht 'Upon the clog, very favorable to the growth of both large sons are considered too short for the heavy brush crack beneath the feet of the wolves, but in this last I soon found my mistake. and small fruits, with the bare exception dent, although some farmers are now be- but I saw no glaring e}-e balls, as most per- Having decided to "move upon her works." of the^grape and peach, the quality and ginning to raise dent corn with tolerable sons would have done under like circum- I tirst walked with a firm step—very firm I coloring being far superior to that of very success. It is believed that it will be all st ances. At last the sound of the horse's imagined, and my grip on the ax helve many more of the more southern counties. right when it becomes acclimatized. hoofs told me we were crossing the log was such that it is strange that I had not Potatoes, corn, hay and wheat constitute bridge; and if there had been any danger The chief reliance however of our farm- pinched it in two. The bear was steadfast it was now behind us. the bulk of our farm products, the potato ers is potatoes. The abundant yield and until I had covered half the distance, and, being the general money crop with a rap- superior quality has gained a reputation raising the ax above my head I yelled at While we were building the Goodrich idly Increasing acreage, ranking third in for Otsego county far and wide. This year the dog and leaped forward with "a pretty saw mill in the winter 1836-7, venison was the state in the yield per acre, with the the crop is immense, amounting in many big bound. It must have been my threat- our principal meat, for if our own rifles market facilities of two railroads, the pos- cases from 250 to 300 bushels per acre. ening attitude which conquered the bear, failed to secure a supply, it was readily sibilities seem only limited by the market But ,with the price fifteen cents per bush- for she at once retreated. But it is due to purchased of the Indians. It was the cus- demand. Corn is largely grown both for el and having to pay $1.25 a day for dig- her reputation that she retreated "in good tom of our cooks to hang out the fresh forage and grain, in connection with the gers, it is evident that we shall have to do order." There was nothing like conster- meat to freeze, on the corner of the board- silo contributes materially to the success of a good deal of heavy work for very little nation or undue haste about her move- ing house, until the wolves tore it down the dairy, which, although yet in its in- money. Mangles, carrots, swede and ments. But the poor dog skulked and and devoured it, while our 20 workmen other turnips are grown with success. fancy, is being rapidly developed and I be- cowered behind my heels. ' He had proved within were locked in their slumbers. This lieve is destined to be one of the leading Taking it for all in all, this is not a bad himself very formidable among the black was a little more than we could peaceably agricultural interests. county for a good thrifty, industrious squirrels of York state, but the black bears endure, so a wolf trap was obtained and The surplus of hay, grain, garden vege- farmer with a little capital if he is pre- of Michigan were a game he did not fancy. set in the woods just below the hill on tables and perishable fruits have for The pared to rough it for a year or two at the Well, I could not tree the old bear and which the Free Methodist church now most part been, and for a number of years start. The statement that has been made after chasing her two or three hundred stands. Night came, and the men were to come, will be marketed in the many on high authority "Give a man a team and yards I hastened back to make sure of the at the supper table when a terrible outcry lumber camps and manufacturing villages eighty acres of land in northern Michigan cubs. Still it was a long fight with mosqui- was heard in the direction of the wolf trap. of this and adjoining counties, at an ad- and he will starve," certainly does not ap- toes before the guns arrived, and once or Business at table was suspended—knives vance in price over the general markets, ply to Otsego county, as scores of well-to- twice the old bear showed up but she would and forks were dropped without ceremony, • an advantage of no small proportion. do farmers can testify. not let me tree her. Finally my two and a general stampede was made to the But of the future possibilities of agri- Gaylord. brothers, Moses and Levi, arrived, bring- wolf trap. Sure enough, we had a genuine culture more depends upon the develop- ing with them two trusty rifles full grown wolf, and as wolves when caught ment of the farmer than the land; more Memories of Early Michigan, rest of the story is soon told. I -and the are the meekest kind of animals, he sub- upon energy and brains than upon the soil rifle bearinar the heaviest lead took the v. mitted to be bound and led in triumph to or climate; more upon those educational -—a — and soon wrought down three young bears, while the the boarding house, to the edification of all features offered in the Grange than upon HON. ENOS GOODRICH. opservers, especially the women folks. other rifle was reserved for the old one. the brawn or sinew of the yeomanry; more There is one more wolfish incident that A BEAR STORY. but she never showed up, and thus ended upon contentment, unity of action, with my first and last bear hunt. should not be lost to history. Jemmy every effort directed to a specific result, A few bears were occasionally met with, But in hunting wolves I was never a suc- Morris was a raw Englishman and a ditch- less acreage and more intensified culture, but they were by no means plenty, and it er. He had never seen a wolf, and his cu- than upon the results of political action. cess. Wolves were as abundant as deer, never fell to my lot to have but one en- the woods were literally full of them. riosity was strong. He had been told that Yet all this is true of us as a class, without counter with them. It was a "muogy" if he would rub his boots with asafetida reference to locality, and Kalkaska county Their howls at night were as universal as day in June, 1836, when in company "with the whippoorwill, and attracted no more at- the wolves would follow him. So he pro- is in nowise so much different from the my oldest brother, Moses, I set out from cured the nostrum and I lent him a rifle, other agricultural counties of Michigan as tention. But the wolf burroughed in deep the homestead, (now the farm of my timber, while the deers grazed and gam- and he marched boldly forth in the early to preclude her from being classed fully up nephew, William Goodrich,) to find the evening, making a circuit of perhaps a to the average standard of the state in ag- boled on plains and openings. In the water power on the Kearsley, where the wolf the bump of caution is wonderfully mile, and climbing a low branchy oak at ricultural and horticultural possibilities. ° village now stands. We had seen and pur- the bend of the mill pond a few rods west Kalkaska. developed. Bold and aggressive when chased the ground the previous October, protected by the shadows of night, he is of where the Goodrich creamery now but there was no road or pathway to guide cowardly in the day time. I haVe repeat- stands. Here, comfortably perched upon Otsego County. us, and we drifted too far down stream, edly scoured the woods after dawn of light a limb, he waited the arrival of the wolves. BY JOSEPH GLASSON. striking the Kearsley on the ground now where they had held carnival all ni^ht, Nor did he wait in vain, for in due time occupied by the Goodrich cemetery. As without ever catching a glimpse of the first they came in numbers. Cautiously they The extreme southeast portion of Otsego we neared the stream we saw some black approached at first; but when emboldened county for the most part is pine land, the wolf. Many were the deer they slaugh- animals rooting in the leaves on the flats tered, but the instances of their attackfng to approach near the root of the tree, soil is light sand and of but little value for across the creek, which, in our York state Jemmy levelled the rifle and pulled. But agricultural purposes. Apart from this human beings were very rare. It was very simplicity we took to be hogs. But as we seldom I could see a wolf, and never yet to his consternation the gun refused to "go the county is composed of good hardwood walked and talked carelessly along the off." He applied a fresh cap and repeat- land. The soil is a" sand and gravel loam, got a shot at one. Once or twice I have hogs, to our surprise, left off their rooting had them unpleasantly near me in the deep ed the process, but again and again it only mixed with clay. Eunning diagonally and began to climb the nearest trees. The snapped. He might have raised help from from the northeast to the southwest, and woods and dark nights. From 1836 to 1842 cubs, for such they proved to be, climbed our town was a part of Lapeer county, and the boarding house by a few energetic yells, passing about one mile north of Gaylord, precipitately up the branchy trees, while but he was too plucky. The night was the county seat, and averaging perhaps often on public and private business we at the same time a huge she bear made a were called to Lapeer, its county seat, be- long, and his seat on the oak limb grew four or five miles in width, there is a rich very deliberate retreat through the thick decidedly uncomfortable, and not until belt of rolling land, which may be regard- fore the first road had been constructed. brushwood. Well!!! we had no gun. Our The present village of Atlas was not then daylight in the morning did the wolves re- (Continued to page 5.) -4 \ i Vi THE GRANGE VISITOR. DECEMBER 5, 1895.

tion is remuneration. It may be money. pensive to get rid of. A cheap and effect- the public, tell their true convictions and It may be health. It may be food for his ive remedy to destroy them would be wel- reveal their true character, rather the tone ambitions. Each man has to take counsel comed. Of the above named weeds the Sheep Feeding. or spirit and the motives of their lives, of his preferences as among the different milkweed causes the greatest loss. There even when most carefully concealed the kinds of remuneration and choose for his F. S. BLACKMAR. has been no kind of weed especially bad bad motives and the evil spirit breathe on employment the business which remuner- this season. All the more common kinds the page. It is for this reason that letters This subject has been discussed over and ates him in the most satisfactory terms. yield readily to good cultivation. I think are frequently a better means of promoting over again, but time and experience natur- Puddling iron commands great wages in many farmers make a mistake in letting loye affairs than personal association. It ally would bring out new ideas of the mode money. It is an unhealthy and uncomfort- the after summer crop of weeds go to seed. is very difficult for a man to conceal his true and manner of handling them so as to real- able occupation. A man may follow it if It pays well to go through corn, potatoes, self when writing a letter to a person he ize the greatest value in dollars and cents he prefers money to health and comfort. and other hoed crops, in late summer, and take s to be his friend. The character of at the time of marketing and with as little destroy all weeds that would otherwise go On the other hand farming is highly healthy the man stands out clearly and distinctly labor as possible. to seed. and very comfortable in the independent in the letter and on the printed page. Southern Michigan is one of the greatest livelihood it assures, and it is to be expect- Many of our weeds have been brought It is this tone, apart from style and sheep feeding sections, anci Hillsdale coun- ed, if there is any such thing as compensa- here in seeds bought in other parts of our apart from the substance of what is writ- ty ranks second to none in this great in- tion in social conditions, that farming will country, and farmers would be glad to buy ten, that gives confidence in the mind of dustry. But of coarse there are a great return a proportionately small money wage. seeds free from weed seed, but have heard the reader and makes many writers strong many things one must take into consider- For a man who puts money as the first re- of no method to do so. in the affections of their readers. No man ation. One must have barns or sheds so muneration, farming is not a proper busi- THEODORE GUYER. can afford to have a paper come into his- arranged as to have fine ventilation and ness. For a man who prefers other kinds Eastport, -1 ¡itrim County. family that is tilled with malice and un- free access to fresh water, and many other of remuneration, farming might be a very charitableness, that breathes a vindictive things for the comfort of the sheep. It is grateful employment. About twenty years I have talked with farmers in very important that there is plenty of nice regard to and hateful spirit. He cannot afford to ago farming loomed into prominence as a the losses with weeds. They think the cultivate this kind of spirit in his children. hay and straw to carry them through, aside money making employment. Prices were feeling is not as great as it will 1 from grain, as this is not the only neces- >v and A\ e regard, therefore, the selection of sticking high under the influence of expen- by, if they continue neglecting the cutting sary food required in sheep feeding. Sheep books and papers that are to be placed be- sive production, while production was of weeds. I think those that have losses feeding has become a science as well as a fore the family as a matter of very great being rapidly and tremendously cheapened are slip-and-go-easy chaps, and consequent- importance. One cannot touch pitch' and practice in order to reap the most profit- by the improvement in machinery and the able results. ly do not realize the loss occassioned by not lie defiled, nor can any man afford to economy of effort. The farmer's market weeds. It is very easy to get rid of them come in contact with a writer who draws, was clamorous for his produce, for every- BARN ROOM. in their infancy if you use the proper tools. his inspirations from a bad heart or an im- . thing was booming and everybody was The thrifty farmer destroys them in time, pure mind; much less can he afford to bring One of my barns is 95 feet long, 35 feet prosperous to an unnatural extent. while a shiftless chap lets them go till there his young people in contact with this kind wide, and contains 8 pens, holding 50 to The fact drew a great many men to the are ninety-nine. of influence.— Wallaces Farmer and Dairy- each pen, racks and grain trough in one farms who bad no business there, and who There is a variety of opinions among man. which forms a partition for each pen. never would have gone there except under farmers in regard to the weed occasioning There are four hydrants, one affords water a misapprehension. They went there to the greatest loss, owing to difference in for two pens. Racks and doors raise in a make money, and it is from them, in then- soil and season. Some say ragweed, others Electricity in Agriculture. slot and as manure accumulates, raise them inevitable disappointment, that the cry peppergrass, tumbleweed, and pigweed. The introduction of electricity m the arts six inches at a time. Have three tubes for about depression largely comes. In speaking for myself I would say pus- has been of vast value to the public, as ventilation. Use the.same tubes for drop- It is altogether likely that farming is de- ley is the most troublesome, while as a well as to the manufacturer and his em- ping hay from above. There are double pressed. A reaction from the boom is un- rule the pigweed occasions the greatest ployes. While the harnessing of it has a doors to each pen facing the east. The top doubtedly felt. But the soil still teems loss, as it entirely destroys a hill of corn or motive power for street-cars has thrown door is three inch lattice diamond shape. with plenty, and the fullness of the earth is potatoes,, and I have known it even to de- out of employment thousands of horses, This door I leave open all kinds of weather there for him who will gather it. Th§ stroy an oat crop. the end is not yet. The recent contest of and then it gives plenty of air and light. Be- farm promises still what it always has Thi•oug h this section we have had a weed, road motors in France has awakened new sides these I have five windows. Straw is promised. It is not the fault of the farm the proper name I am not able to give, confidence in this method of propelling ve- stacked to the west of my barn, and three if they who go to it expecting too much some call it redroot, others a species of hicles for business as well as pleasure. It doors that raise which let the hay fall in. are disappointed. pigweed. The root is red and a very rank is reported that several New York mer- Granary above; a tube extends from this to Discontent will adjust conditions. While grower. The seeds are very small, black, chants have sent in orders for vehicles to be a hopper below which is attached to my there are men upon the farms who are not and glossy. It has a sort of prickly fuzz propelled by electricity and used for deliv- hay fork car and this runs the length of satisfied with the remuneration farming and is adapted to a dry season. ering packages in the city. the barn. We push it by hand from pen brings them, the towns are full of men who Farmers think that it is impossible to W hile as yet the great inventions widen- to pen, which is very convenient and labor long for just that remuneration. Men who get seed free from weed seed unless they saving in feeding grain. ing the use of electricity have not led to its ought to be puddling iron will not long relv on their own resources. introduction on the farm, French scientists stay upon the farm, and men who ought to A FEW SUGGESTIONS. The laws are not enforced in regard to have made a line of valuable experiments. be farming will not long puddle iron. But cutting weeds along the roadside, and They have succeeded in quickening germi- 1. In buying your sheep or lambs do everywhere , there is still defective adjust- that would be a great step in the right di- nation of peas, beans, and corn by the elec- not buy every bunch that is for sale. Take ment. The mistake of the father will not rection and until that is taken it will be dis- tric current. As batteries and powerful a few more days time—by so doing it en- prevent the mistake of the son. One gen- couraging and useless to try to have pure engines are too expensive and complicated ables you a closer selection. eration will seek the farm with eagerness seed. I would hold up both hands to en- for farm operations, a new invention has _ 2. Buy as uniform a lot as possible, be it and the next loathe it. The eternally de- L force that law. j. M. PARK HURST. been brought out to act as a fertilizer, and light or heavy weights, and for this reason: fective adjustment gives rise to friction, Greenville, Montcalm County. is called the geomagnetifere. It consists In market, a uniform bunch looks better, which expresses itself in complaints and ? — of an ordinary pole 40 to 50 feet high, on sells better than a load of uneven ones talk of depression. ^ Reading tor Farmers' Families. top of which is insulated a row of copper though the.quality lie the same. > spikep to collect electricity from the atmos-:. 3. In putting in the barn, grade as A good book read by a farmer's son or Weeds. phere. An insulated wire transmits the closely as possible for size, also quality. daughter frequently changes entirely, or fluid to a network of galvanized iron wires By so doing it will enable you to handle The average farmer seldom takes into at least modifies, the entire current of their buried four to six feet under the growing each pen to a better advantage and better account the loss he sustains by his careless- lives. One of the most valuable acquisi- crop. An increase of 50 per cent ' in yield judgment. ness in allowing the weeds to take up the tions that any young man or woman can is claimed, and grapes thus treated contain 4. Do not keep too great a number in space they do among his growing crops. have is a taste for good reading. By good higher per cents of sugar and alcohol and each pen—not to exceed forty to fifty. Farmers, as a rule, complain a good deal reading we do not mean reading without the perfume of flowers was stronger. Have a yard outside each pen to avoid about poor crops, but judging from the any bad or immoral tendency, but reading, It is claimed that a geomagnetifere 60» going among them at feeding time. One looks of their fields a great many of them the subject matter of which enters into one's feet high will enrich the ground to the great mistake is made by many by ap- have at least one good crop, and that is moral and intellectual fibre, like iron into same degree as 10 times its cost in manure. proaching them suddenly. I always call weeds. Now then, brother farmer, to- the blood, and gives tone and vigor to his It has for some years been supposed that them which attracts their attention. My morrow morning go out over your farm thoughts and actions even afterwards. electricity assisted leguminous plants in ap- experience is that once badly frightened and make an estimate of the loss you have We suppose there are a few men of ma- propriating free nitrogen from the atmos- they will never get over it and will not do sustained the last season on account of the ture age who cannot look back over their phere. The study of agriculture is of so- as well. Consequently never allow stran- weeds. Look over the meadows and see if past lives and recall two or three books profound interest to the world at large gers to go without the feeder along, and the hay would not have been better if you that have given tone to their thinking and that we can confidently hope this new fac- that as seldom as possible. had only seeded heavier and had less weeds. acting in all after life. On the other hand, tor in civilization will yet be made to serve Do not disturb them too early, will say Examine the cornfields and make an esti- one of the worst things that can happen a the agriculturist.—Breeders' Gazette. 7 a. m., and not later than 4 p. nr, and mate of the number of bushels of corn you young man or woman is to fall into the tend well their water tanks, for they are have lost, because the weeds have taken habit of reading bad or immoral books, great drinkers when it is before them con- the nourishment the crop should have had. and next to this is the habit of reading Farming is seeing how much labor and stantly. Much more can be said on this But very few farmers I think, take into books which are not immoral, but abso- capital you can put into the business at a subject but think I have already taken too consideration the loss they sustain 'an- lutely useless and beget a habit of mental profit.—Z. A. Gilbert. much space and perhaps wearied you with nually by not taking any systematic meth- trifling, which is a most serious barrier to this explantion, but at at 'any time that I ods to exterminate the weeds. A few I success in life. Butter fat, not commercial butter, is can enlighten anyone on sheep feeding I think realize the benefit they receive by de- It is somewhat difficult to secure the the only right way to express results in will gladly do so. claring war on weeds. You can tell them proper kind of reading for the farmer's dairy tests.—Hohtein Friemn Register- 6. One more important point and I am as you pass their farms—the fields look family, or, for that matter, for the family done. Regularity and cleanliness are very tidy and the roadsides are nicely seeded to of any person, but not because this class of One of the great things to overcome in important points in being a successful grass instead of everlasting weeds. books or papers are scarce. In fact, the the state and in the farmers' institutes and sheep feeder. We have laws for keeping our highways world never was so full of them, but be- associations, is to reach the masses, who- Moscow. free from noxious weeds, but I never saw cause the vast amount of reading, whether are the ones to be benefitted, with the bet- or heard of their being enforced. It would in newspapers or books, is the veriest ter gospel of better methods. The state The Profit in Farming. be hard to tell what weeds are most trou- kind of trash. The American people are a association, whether agriculture or the blesome or what ones cause the greatest reading people, and reading with them is a dairy, only reaches a few hundred, and of The following editorial from the Detroit loss, the least are bad enough, L. E. W. fixed habit. We never realize how little these few, there are few who are in real Tribune will interest our readers: Bedford, Calhoun County. we lose from lack of access to the daily need, as they are the advanced part Farming as a business is needlessly suf- of papers until we go out of reach of them. farm community any way.— John Gould. fering in reputation and just now when the 1 judge by the appearance of the farms At first we feel lonesome, but after we tillers of the soil are expressing their dis- throughout this part of our county that have been away for a week or two, with Where do you keep your fire insurance satisfaction with conditions, it is proper to there is a difference of opinion among nothing to read but weekly papers, or if policies? I have just been looking over ask how much of the dissatisfaction may not farmers as to the losses occasioned by we travel where we have no special inter- ours. We use to keep the policies on house not be due to unwarranted expectations, and weeds. Some keep their farms almost free est in the papers and then come back, we in the barn, and barn policy in the house. to a misapprehension of the nature of the from weeds year after year, while others are surprised to find, in again endeavoring You see we don't want to have the policy calling of agriculture. Possibly the condi- are quite indifferent about them. But to cateh up with the world's progress, how on a building burnt up with the buildings tions which farmerg have selected as afford- without doubt the result of the two meth- very little we have lost. A man who could Lately we have been trying a new plan. ing them satisfaction are after all abnorm- ods of farming is decidedly in favor of the have a weekly paper which would give in We keep all of them in a mason fruit cany al, and not to be expected to endure longer former. a condensed form the substance, the gist, sealed up, on the ground under an ever- than the abnormal influences which accom- There is no particular method followed the cream, of all that has happened in the green bush in the yard. It is a large bush, panied them. What is true of all kinds of in exterminating weeds, in this locality, interest of humanity, would save a world and the dead leaves under it are used to- business in the United States is doubtless that I know of. Some use salt to destroy of time, expense, and trouble. cover the can.—T. B. Terry. true of farming. The extraordinary in- Canada thistles where they are in small Apart from morals, and apart also from crease in population during the ten years patches, but for large fields close pasturing preceding 1890 caused a great industrial the value or worthlessness of their matter, Wants More. is the best and cheapest way to destroy there is a vast deal involved in the tone of exhilaration, which of course disappears them that I know of. The laws relating Hillsdale County, Mich., 1895. when the stimulus is withdrawn. the books and papers that men may read. Mr. O. W. Ingersoll, to the cutting of weeds in highways are Character is revealed more clearly in what Each separate employment followed by not enforced as well as they should be. Dear Sir: Kindly send enclosed order a man writes than what he says. In speak- men has its own peculiar remuneration, ex- Our roads are yet new and the highway for paint as soon as possible. I sent you ing most men are on their guard, except pressed in peculiar formula. By no means labor is much needed for their improve- an order for 10 gallons last spring and like when talking in the intimacy of friendship. is remuneration expressed entirely in the ment. it very much, it looks so glossy and nice. In writing, they usually,unless there is money return. Everything which flows Truly Yours, The Canada thistle, milkweed, and quack some partisan or selfish consideration to from a man's business to give him satisfac- grass, are most dreaded and the most ex- WM. EGGLESTON. serve in which it is necessary to deceive See Adv. Ingersoll's liquid rubber paint. DECEMBER 5, 1895. THE GRANGE VISITOR.

! in the work, and devoted to it, has made Worn m% Wo UK. ands that fall into an early grave from the ! j numerous contracts with firms, issued a same cause. Tender, loving hearts rent subject, and in nearly every place regret j trade circular to Granges and is putting j tor no sin of their own and they sink into was expressed that a whole course of dem- The Eternal Goodness. this line of business into more systema- an untimely grave, whose lives might have onstrations could not be given. This meth- tized order than ever before. In education od of scattering culinary wisdom was fol- Oh friends! with whom my feet have trod blest the world had men by their votes Xhe J we are pushing, quietly but effectively I quet aisles of prayer, given them their property rio-hts. The lowed for two winters, all the expense being I trust, in several ways. Through the state ye east winds borne by the society mentioned. And love of man 1 bear. woman's work committee, co-operatino- and rattle mens' .bones! Blow ye west Such a plan of teaching is necessarily with the state superintendent of public in- I trace your lines of argument- winds and shake, and shake them more un- 1 handicapped by the great expense, and struction, educational literature and ques- 1 our logic linked and strong til no web of excuse they may weave further work is necessary. Great good can i weigh as one who dreads dissent tion blanks are furnished every Grano-e. will cover this wrong o'er; until be accomplished by teaching young o-irls And fears a doubt as wrong. ' Patrons are urged to visit district schools, In the city public school, girls learn5 the But still my human hands are weak I and suggestions as to how thev may be im- Uk6n uWith uuited breath will see fundamental rules of cookery, both theo- To hold your iron creeds; I proved are offered. The farmers' home that their wives have their rio-hts by retrically and practically, but it is too Against the words ye bid me speak reading circle has been fostered by the much to expect that the ungraded school My heart within me pleads. just law. Some men are just, others have Grange and its books are becoming more the heart to be, but are sold out to pro- I can have cookery added to its overbur- Who fathoms the Eternal thought? and more familiar in our homes. Under crastination, while the many float alono- II dened course. Who talks of scheme and plan '•> thè auspices, too, of the woman's work upon the river of Time all regardless of [ Each state has an agricultural college for I he Lord is God! He needeth not committee, a noble charity is being carried death. I hope if the arrow of my pen is the benefit of the farming population, and The poor device of man. on, by taking so-called "fresh air" children not sharp enough, if it has not' enough many of them admit girls on an equality I walk with bare, hushed feet the ground and women into Grange homes for a few upon it, that it may make a lasting im- with boys to study botany, entomolo<4 l e tread with boldness shod- weeks in the summer. This is a compara- 1 dare not fix with mete and bound, pression, I hope some sister's pen may and other interesting subjects of valuem tively new work, but about 200 have been The love and power of God. fasten it in a sure place that man will practical life. A few of these colleges rec- so sent from the cities into the country on Ye praise His justice; even such grant woman her rights in property. ognize that scientific housekeeping is as orders, or requests, bearing Grange seals. HELEN A. BAKNAKD. His pitying love I deem; essential as scientific barnkeeping, and i e seek a king; I fain would touch Grange assemblies and county or tri- have established courses in domesticecono- r The robe that hath no seam. county picnics to which are added address- Farmhouse Fare. ni3 - Ye see the curse which overbroods es and instructive programs under the di- In New England the Storrs Agricultural A world of pain and loss; rection of the Grange are summer educa- "Farmhouse cookery," as the expres- I College of Connecticut, under President I hear our Lord's beatitudes tional features that are growing. Colonel sion is popularly used, has come Koons leads in the advantages given to And prayer upon the cross. Brigham, Master of the National Grange, to convey the idea of scrimping and the girls. It provides a course of domestic More than your schoolmen teach, within spent 10 days in Michigan last summer, | meanness, or of extravagance and indigesti- science with lectures and practice in a Myself, alas! I know; speaking to as many large audiences. At ble profusion. One of the greatest authori- kifehen laboratory. Too dark ye cannot paint the sin, ties on dietetics says that in rural New-Eng- the farmers' institutes this winter the President Murkland of the New Hamp- Too small the merit show. Grange will have its representatives each land we find American cookery at its worst. \\ hile these criticisms of country fare are shire college regrets that as yet no instruc- 1 bow my forehead to the dust, to do work both as a farmer and as a Pat- tion is given in domestic econoniy and I veil mine eyes for shame. ron farmer. exaggerated, they contain a large grain of And urge, in trembling self-distrust. truth, and as the nation's life-blood comes cooking in that institution; it is the inten- A prayer without a claim, Briefly touched, these are some of the from the country, it is important that it be tion to do so as soon as possible. Girls things we have done. It is not boasting, have been admitted to the Rhode Island 1 see the wron« that round me lies, properly nourished. tor there are so many ways it might be agricultural college, but no course in do- 1 feel the guilt within; The causes of this unscientific country- better, could we only all see at once the ad- mestic economy has been provided for I hear, with groan and travail-cries cooking are several. Until within a few The world confess its sin. vantage of genuine co-operation. We are, them. President Goodell of the Massa- years a majority of the women who lived chusetts agricultural college states that Yet, in the maddening maze of things, however, not disheartened, but agree with on the farm had to work on a wholesale such instruction has not been provided for And tossed by storm and flood, the sentiment expressed in the i'ollowino- plan. They stocked the cellar with bar- To one fixed stake my spirit clings- paragraph from Brother Horton's annual the reason that there has been, as yet, no I know that God is good! rels of salted beef and pork and with bins demand for it. Since opening the college address last December: "Never be dis- of vegetables and apples, and they dried Not mine to look where cherubim couraged and always persevere. Our prog- twenty-seven years ago, but four women and preserved fruit in quantities. When have applied, and these have studied but a And seraphs may not see. ress may be slow at times, but remember it came to cooking, the wholesale plan was But nothing can be good in Him that we have, during the existence of the short time. The Maine state agricultural Which evil is in me. followed. The enormous Saturday's baking Order, accomplished great things and that college, according to President Harris was a necessity, because one must wash, provides no instruction in domestic econo- The wrong that pains my soul below fruitful opportunities are before us. All iron, churn, sweep and dust on days syste- I dare not throne above; of the reforms and good work demanded my. I know not of His hate—I know matically set apart for these several kinds His goodness and His love. by great and progressive and industrial in- of work and could not get through with It is probable that when the demand terests cannot be performed in a day. Men her tasks if she stopped to cook everything comes, as it surely will, all these institu- I dimly guess from blessings known who have become impatient and joined fresh for each meal. The rows of pies tions will follow the example of the west- Of greater out of sight. ern agricultural colleges, which more gen- And, with the chastened Psalmist, own other organizations that promised to give baked at Thanksgiving time that would His judgments too are right. all kinds of assistance and to revolutionize keep until March, the fruit cake and the erally admit young women and give do- almost everythin— J g in aI* singlanisiec seasoOCilDUnU havuuvee pot of doughnuts, were great helps to the mestic science an important place. This I long for household voices gone, will give the farmer's daughter an oppor- For vanished smiles I long, been disappointed. We have every reason busy woman to tide her over emergencies. But God hath led my dear ones on to be satisfied with the order of Patrons of Economy was unnecessary on account of tunity to become as expert in feedino- hu- And he can do no wrong. Husbandry. "—Jennie' Budl, in Orange the abundance of raw materials. Hence man beings as is her brother in feeding the 'Juad runner. plain cooking was undervalued and recipes cows. One great obstacle to progress I know not what the future hath comes in the conservative instincts of the Of marvel or surprise. were prized according to their extrava Assured alone that life and death gance. human race, which are often developed to His mercy underlies. Woman's Rights and Property. a greater extent in the country than else- Then again no great advance step could where. The rugged individuality of the And if my heart and flesh are weak Ho, Patrpns, have you gone to sleep up- be taken readily because the exigencies of farmer s wife, cultivated by the self-reli- To bear an untried pain, on this important subject? If so, arouse The bruised reed he will not break housekeeping in an isolated way tended to ance begot of her isolation, is not always But strengthen and sustain. as the time of State Grange is near I would the retention of old customs; and when one converted at once. There is a o-reat deal have you all alive to this subject. Let me must combine bakery, laundry, dress-mak- of clinging to the ways that reach back al- Ho offering of my own I have, draw a picture from real life, and as you Nor works mv faith to prove- ing establishment and dairy under the most to the brick-oven days. A woman I can but give the gifts He gave.' look upon it may every scene pierce your same roof, there was little time, streno-th may acknowledge that there is a cake rec- And plead his love for love. very vitals and you resolve that somet'hino- or inclination for study. ipe that she does not own, or one possibly shall be done to redress woman's wrond Neither has there been much opportunity better than she uses, but let the subject re- And so beside the silent sea in reference to property. " 1 wait the muffled oar; for study. The original investigators, the late to such common but necessary' topics No harm from Him can come to me THE L'ICTUBE. students and teachers of domestic science as bread-making or cooking eggs or meat On ocean or on shore. have been city people, talking first to those and her almost sneering " f always do thus | was an orphan, left with a fine nearest them; expenses for attendance at and so shows her conservatism and non- I know not where His islands lift property. As she grew to womanhood, Their fronded palms in air- the city demonstration lectures and classes receptiveness. But a second lecture may was sought and won by Levi it was a I only know I can not drift have been costly, even if the time could be tempt her to a trial, and by degrees she Beyond His love and care. union of hearts, cemented by a true, undy- found, and this gives another reason why may learn enough to discard some of her ing love. Betsy placed in Levi's hands O brothers! If my faith is vain, progress has been slow in the farmhouse. pet indigestibles. her property. They left their native state If hopes like these betray, Granted that there is considerable bad Pray for me that my feet mav gain and made them a home in a newer part of While cooking instruction is recommend- cookery in farmhouses, due somewhat to The sure and safer way. * a neighboring one. Years went on. They ed to all, and will benefit every woman ignorance of what contitutes good food Jed a very happy life, their family this a nei hbor Ihe season has already opened with new u » tells how a thing is done aptitude for cooking; her soda-raised bread, oi that that what property there was be- organizations and calls for instruction for the housekeeper is interested. The cook- fried meats and sodden vegetables were de- longed to them (the children,) When the beginning early so that the coming winter ing teacher comes in here as an important testable. She did not intend to injure her truth pressed itself upon her, her heart ought to show good gains in Granges and help; in a broad way she is the neighbor family through their diet, but she undoubt- broke and reason fled. The children loved members. ° who says, "See how I mix and bake," and edly did. Being a woman of quick intel- their mother, but they loved the mighty her hearers are interested and, to a degree lect and progressive ideas, had she lived The next session of the State Grange is dollar and never realized for a moment mitative. In recognition of this the^Bay to-day she would have studied and prac- to be held in Lansing, December 10-13 what their mother was suffering. When ¡State Agricultural Society, whose purpose ticed until she had conquered the problem the officers of the law came and bound Since the 1894 session several important of existence is largely educational, devised of preparing good food. As to the notable Betsy to take her to the retreat made by results have been obtained. At that session a plan for having lectures upon cookery cook, modern instruction would have law for raving maniacs, the daughter the Grange discussed various lines of legis- given in farming sections. The president, taught her to be less extravagant, to make wrung her hands, crying and saying "Oh lation and, finally, through its executive Mr. J. W. D. French, well known in Bos- better combinations without detractino- mamma, just speak to me once a^aTn and •committee chose four distinct questions ton for his progressive ideas and oood from the appetizing qualities, and to have you may have all the property."- Wild upon which it would throw its effort and works, enthusiastically made the pTans nourished the body hotter.—A. E. Whita- glaring eyes only answered her back. The influence. They were: 1, For an appro- with the assistance of the writer of this Jcer, in New England Kitchen Magazine. officer called the daughter by name, say- priation of $5000 annually for farmers' in- article, for lectures at farmer's meetino-s stitutes; 2, the establishment of the office !??> . , if you had thought of in diflerent parts of this state. Mrs. Anna of a state tax statistician and the appoint- this before you might have saved your Barrows was engaged as the lecturer, and In all human action those faculties will ment of such an officer; 3, for better pure mother, but its too late now, your mother her program brought into use those thino-s be strong which are used.—Emerson. lood laws; 4, against the proposed unit will never know you again." Oh, the an- that the farmhouse affords in abundance school system. Every one of these meas- guish of that hour; for Betsv had been and which, unfortunately, are not always one of the tenderest of mothers, so lov- Farming is a perpetual study. When ures were treated as the Grange desired made the most of. She brought out new ing and kind. we get to work we often think we cannot not m every detail, but as a whole The uses of the apple and potato, and savory Now, who was the most to blame, the take time for study; but we must study attitude of the legislators and of the press combinations of cheese. The too much voters, or the lawmakers who robbed this hard is we expect to make our mark. I toward the Order was indicative of "What neglected mutton and the tougher portions woman of her true rights and placed the believe a good way for young persons who do you wish ?'' It has not always been so. of beef were made appetizing and attract- heart-rending temptation before them over cannot attend college to get an education the ive. In the audiences were almost as many year the co-operative arm of which they fell ? The sin of the curse that would be to take from one-fourth to one- men as women, and many of the former •f Michigan State Grange has been de- tell upon that noble wife lays at some- halt of their time for study and the rest took notes for the wives who did not come. veloped. orthy Master Horton, tireless body s door. This is only one of the thous- tor muscular labor .—Correspondence Mir- Ihe lectures implanted an interest in the ror and Farmer. 8 THE GRANGE VISITOR. DECEMBER 5, 1895.

the farmers feel that this College is their show them how it helps and how, in con- College and that they have a part and lot Notice. CHARLOTTE, MICH. nection with the institute, it aids them in i in its government. More than that, he their farm work ami farm life. The Michigan State Grange will meet in The Official Organ of the Michigan State Grange. Representative hall, Lansing, December would attract to the College a large body The State Grange of Michigan never did | Published on the First and Third Thursdays of Each Month 10th, at 10 a. m. of students who would come there drawn a better piece of business than in originat- | EDITOR : by his personal influence and power. He ing and securing the passage of this farm- I HOTELS- would be loyal to the institution as a farm- Several Lansing hotels and a first-class L. BUTTERFIELO, LANSINQ. MICH. ers' institute bill. Thousands of farm

a eXChan8eS and aU articles fOT ers' college. We do not know that Gov. boarding house near the capitol offer then- ^should b™ s ent Publication homes will be blessed, and tens of thous- Luce could be persuaded to accept this terms to Patrons in this issue of the VISIT- MANAGERS AND PRINTERS : ands of farmers encouraged and inspired. OR. Members in attendance will be attent- work, for the position is an arduous one, PERRY <£ MCQRATH, CHARLOTTE, MICH. ively cared for at anv of these. The Hud- To whom all subscriptions and advertising should be sent. and in some respects a thankless one. But son House will be headquarters for the ex- we are full of confidence that if Gov. Luce THE GRANGE AND LIQUOR CONTROL. ecutive committee and officers. Tfnciabs°ofe noS,a Cents for Six Mouths, xn Clubs of 280 more 40 Cents per Year each. could be tendered this position unanimous- The temperance question is thought to i RAILWAY FARE. SSren^eddVanCe- &nd d*<™«nued « ly, and if he would accept it, the College effect dwellers in cities and villages more ! 0 be by The rate of one and one-third railroad ^Ordlr^n™« ^ Refristered Letter, Money would at once enter upon a new era of than it does the farming classes. In the i uraer or Draft. Do not send stamps. fare can only be secured on the certificate 2U notioeB ^ould be mailed no prosperity and of usefulness. cities and villages is consumed by far the later than the Saturday preceding issue. plan. The purchaser of .a ticket to Lansing The other man is Ex-President Edwin I largest portion of liquor. In the cities and not more than three clays before the meet" t the Postoffice at villages the dire results of the liquor traffic Claslmatte r Charlotte. Mich., as Second Willits. When Pres. Willits was at this Col- I ing assembles, will pay full fare and ask for a certificate, which, when properly lege he gave to it an administration full of are seen at their worst; drunkenness, pov- signed at the State Grange, will entitl e EXT ISSUE, DECEMBER 19. vigor and strength. He was respected by erty, and crime feast on alcohol in these centers of population. At the same time, I him to a return ticket at the Lansing sta- the students and admired by the people. tion for one third fare. Tickets will not be JOUR WORK. Since leaving, he has been for nearly five the temperance question is an important honored unless presented within three days one for farmers to consider, because the The following has been approved by the State Grange as years the real governing power of the after the adjournment of the meeting. It a fair statement of the objects the Grange of Michigan liquor traffic effects farmers vitally from is understood that Sunday will not be\eck- ™w, and the special lines along which it proposes to great department of agriculture at Wash- SSL« • °?,e J^ery Grange iu the state will work 11 the several standpoints. In the first place, oned as a day. Notice that no refunding nni^f iW f departments, so that by a more ington; he has met educators in agriculture united effort we shall rapidly increase our numbers, their sons are frequently and continuously of .fare can he expected because of failure extend our influence, and attain more and more complete- from all parts of the world. He must of parties to obtain certificates. ly those ends which we seek. brought under the temptations of the sa- have become broadened in agricultural Officers, delegates and all other persons OT7R OBJECT loon. The city is inhabited largely by | is the Organization of the Farmers for their own improve- work. He, like Gov. Luce, is an old man, thinking of attending State Grange will ob- ment, Financially, Socially, Mentally, Morally. but is also vigorous. The only criticism men who were once country boys, so that serve that it will be absolutely necessary for We believe that this improvement can in large measure each person to obtain a certificate from the be brought about: we have ever heard of Pres. Willits' ad- every parent on every farm in Michigan is 1. (a.) By wider individual study and general dis- agent where the ticket ix purchased, to the cussion of the business side of farming and home keeping, interested in city government and in the o / , i>co~"peratlou 'or financial advantage. ministration at this College was from some point where the meeting is held, otherwise I. (a.) By frequent social gatherings, and the mingling liquor traffic in the cities, because that I together of farmers with farmers, and of farmers with who thought that there was a tendency to the purchaser willbe unable to obtain the ex- People of other occupations. parent may have a boy or girl whose fu- cursion rate returning, and will be obliged (b.) By striving for a purer manhood, a nobler woman- "boom" the mechanical course to the par- hood, and a universal brotherhood. tial eclipsing of the agricultural work of ture welfare and happiness will be affected to pay full tariff fare in either direction. 3- Py studying and promoting the improvement of by the status of the liquor traffic in the our district schools. the institution. We do not know that JENNIE BUELL, Secretary. . (b.) By patronizing and aiding the Agricultural Col- city. Then there are the taxes. Every- Ann Arbor, Dcc. 5, 1895. leges and Experiment Stations in their legitimate work of Pres. Willits could be secured, but if he scientific investigation, practical experiment, and educa- body knows that the liquor traffic breeds tion for rural pursuits. could be, there can lie no question but he (c.) B y maintaining and attending farmers' institutes • For Discussion. reading in the Beading Circle; establishing and using would lend to the College a dignity and crime, insanity, and pauperism, and the circulating libraries; buying more and better magazines EDITOR GRANGE VISITOR: Among the and papers for the home. strength which would renew its life and care of criminals, the insane, and paupers 4. (a.) By diffusing a knowledge of our civil institutions, cost money, which the farmers must pay. questions you recommend for discussion in and teaching the high duties of citizenship. put it "on its feet." (b.) By demanding the enforcement of existing statutes, Then there is the higher interest which Subordinate Granges and through the and by discussing, advocating, and trying to secure such VISITOR is one above all others that inter- other state and national laws as shall tend to the general Either of these men would, in our judg- justice, progress and morality. every citizen has in the good of the com- ests not only farmers, but every man and ment, be successful; they would restore mon state. The temperance question, woman in this broad land of ours. We re- confidence in the College, and that is the THE TROUBLE AT THE AGRICULTURAL therefore, is an important one to farmers fer to No. 3 which reads thus: "How can COLLEGE. first thing to accomplish at this juncture. simply because the farmers are citizens. the farmer best aid in solving the temper- ance question?" Asimilar question was The difficulty regarding President Gor- There may be other men who could do this, but we do not know them. The Board The question then arises can the farmers proposed for discussion through the VISIT- ton at the Agricultural College seems to OR several months since, and except a short cannot afford to try any experiment at aid in solving the liquor question? It have been one of misplaced judgment. article we furnished no response was made seems to us that there is not any doubt about We have nothing personal against Mr. this stage; the man who comes to the Col- to the request. It is surprising and as- this; it seems to us that they can aid ma- Gorton, but in our opinion he was not at lege must have been a tried man some- tonishing that a question or matter of such terially; we would go even farther and say magnitude should receive so little attention all fitted for the position of president of where; and the better he is acquainted with that it is their duty to aid, and that in a from farmers, "good Patrons," Christians the College, the protestations of several M ichigan and its people, with Michio-an large measure farmers can solve the liquor and other good citizens. Being a Yankee city newspapers to the contrary not- farmers and their needs, with the Agricul- and the son of a Yankee, we claim the question. Their influences and their votes, withstanding. The chief blame that can tural College and its policy, the more suc- 1 ankee's privilege of answering this ques- if unitedly directed toward abolishing the be attached to the action of the Board of cessful he will be, other things being equal. tion by asking others, therefore we will evils of the liquor traffic, will settle the Agriculture consists 1st, in ever having ask a few, hoping they will be carefully liquor question. It is their business just weighed in the scale of justice and common chosen President Gorton; 2d, in not dis- INSTITUTES IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN. as much as much as it is the business of sense, and if not found wanting answers missing him a year and a half ago when The Board of Agriculture has just held dwellers in cities. It is for their interest will be promptly given. How is the farm- they must have known that he was not the er, his home and property protected from thirteen institutes in the northern counties just as vitally as it is for the interest of man needed; 3d, a mistake in policy in not swindlers, thieves, robbers, and murder- of the lower peninsula. These, including their friends in the cities. It is their duty. putting before the public a few cogent ers? Is it not by the strong arm of the four in the upper peninsula held the last of law of which he is one of the law makers? Now the question comes home to the reasons why he has not given satisfaction. October, make seventeen held this season, How is our live stock and fruit trees pro- It is probable that the members of the or just one-fourth of the entire number to Grange of Michigan, which is the repre- tected from contagious diseases ? How do Board themselves see and own their mis- be held. Many of these institutes were not sentative farmers' organization of the we protect our sheep from dogs? license the dogs, -then tax ourselves to pay fo. takes. But all this talk about "autocracy" largely attended, while some of them were state, can and should we aid in solving the and "desire on the part of a few of the liquor question? We have answered this killed and mangled sheep, or kill the dog? fully as well attended as many held in the What did the farmers do several years ago faculty to become president," and that sort already in saying that the farmers can and southern counties of the state; but invari- when patent gate, drive well, and other of thing, is the sheerest nonsense. The ably, whether the attendance was small or should help solve this question. Yes, in swindlers attempted to fleece them ? Would College still lives, and no farmer of balance large, the institute workers report interest our judgment, the Grange should take a we license a gambling house or anyone to or sense will allow his mind to be poisoned and enthusiasm. In many of the counties strong stand in favor of temperance, not teach our boys how to become expert pick- against the College by newspaper froth. only by resolving that they favor temper- pockets or thieves? Would we allow the the farmers did not know what an institute vending of unhealthy food in our markets, This very time, when city newspapers are ance, but by taking such action as shall is; they had hardly even heard of such a or nuisances on our streets ? Would we crying the old cry, "abolish the Agricul- thing, to say nothing of attending one. show the people of Michigan that the State suffer a mad dog to roam our streets or tie tural College," is just the time for the They did not know exactly what to expect, Grange proposes to do all in its power to him up with a rope of chaff, then cry, mad farmers to rally to the support of the Col- but in those very places those who attend- settle this question satisfactorily. We are dog keep out of its way! or would we kill the dog? Does a good farmer allow his lege, to assert that it is their College, and ed went away saying that that was the a temperance body. We are interested in to signify in what direction they would all phases of the liquor question and its stock to go without shelter or proper food smallest institute they would ever have in during our severe winters, or spend the evil results. We can not afford to remain like to have its policy extended or abridged. the place, that they would tell their friends money needed for the comfort of his fami- and neighbors, who would surely attend silent. We can not do our duty while in- ly for liquor? Where is the farmer or In our judgment, the great need of the the next institute. active. other sensible person who will say through College at this moment is a man- There the VISITOR that liquor ever did him any The practical question is, what can we should come to this College a president The benefits of the institutes in these good when used as a beverage, or deny do? Of course our readers know that we who has such standing, ability, and force northern counties would be hard to meas- that it is the greatest evil of our day? How have been advocating the establishment of many who use liquor or tobacco ever fig- as to honor the College by his acceptance ure. Not only have the people received a state liquor commission along the lines ured up the cost of these nuisances? Sup- of the presidency; a man who will be rec- instruction of a nature which they appreci- of the Redfern bill, and our judgment pose ten cents per day is spent for one or ognized as a friend of agricultural eduea- ate, but they have received inspiration. even both of those worse than useless in- would be, and our hope is, that the State cation; a man who has definite policies and They have discovered that they themselves dulgencies, and that is a low estimate for Grange will see fit to make this very com- opinions regarding agricultural education; have experiences worth something, that the average consumer. It would amount mission bill one of its leading topics, and a man who will restore confidence in the they can talk if they will, and that the in- to the very little sum of $36.50 for a single will request each Subordinate Grange in year or $1,825 in fifty years, the value of a College among all classes of citizens. Are stitutes are to be a source of benefit to Michigan to thoroughly discuss this ques- small farm. Suppose the Corbett and there such men? We think so, and we them financially and socially." Fitzsimmons fight had been arranged to tion during the coming year, to the end take the liberty of naming two men, either It is a noticeable fact that in those coun- take place in Michigan, would it have been that at the session of the State Grange in allowed? No, that would have disgraced one of whom would fully answer the re- ties where the Grange has been at work quirements, and who would honor the Col- 1896 we may present a united front on this our state. Prize fights are prohibited in successfully for a number of years, there all the states we believe and prohibition lege, rather than be honored, by accepting subject. was no trouble in getting a good institute, does prohibit in that case at least. And We also want to say that we care less the presidency. while in those counties where the Grange yet is such a fight where two bullies pound whether this Redfern bill is endorsed than is not known, the farmers were less ac- each other a tithe as bad as the saloon The first one of these is Ex-Governor we do to see the Grange take some for- customed to such meetings, the attendance fights, riots, murders, caused by these li- Cyrus G. Luce. Gov. Luce is an old man, ward step, and some bold, active step in censed dens of iniquity? Suppose a dog was smaller, and the discussions less spirit- but he is still vigorous of body and force- favor of temperance. The great thing is fight or even a cock fight had been an- ed. Those who have attended these north- ful of mind. He is a lover of the College, to beat the saloon. Whatever method is nounced to take place at our last state fair. ern institutes have noted this fact espec- Would it have been permitted ? Certainly one who believes in it. He speaks for it, used, or whoever is the originator of any ially. It is an interesting 'commentary on not. If it had been would good citizens ap- he always stands by it, he is thoroughly method, is of little moment. The great the real work and power of the Grange. proved of it or attended the fair ? No, it would familiar with its history and workings, he thing is to make progress. We want to have killed the fair, state agricultural so- knows its needs. He has the confidence of The Grange has an opportunity in these call the especial attention of delegates to ciety, and all, and it ought to. Suppose a nearly all classes of the people, and espec- northern counties which it should not let State Grange to this liquor question, with band of cut-throats should invade our ially of the farming classes. No man that go. They are hungry for organization. We state weekly and murder even one of our a hope that the State Grange may take citizens each raid, how long would we-tol- could be named would do more to make must go to them with the Grange and active steps. erate it? And yet the saloon murders in DECEMBER 5, 1895. THE GRANGE VISITOR.

Sl^nc ?bout that number. 1200 for the farmers' wives, all others being in- saloons in Detroit, 1200 schools of crime vited in. It was a decided success? by for the farmers and for the country in this half century. Gone are the wolves, the direction alone will shed a halo ¿f dory 5 D ty th6 vote of all present. deer and the bear, but right there the most fift? 1 i T "4 of the around the Order for all time to coma whoi 7J 0therwise ^and city. By As the topic of "House work made eas- extensive creamery in Michigan has for two ^lerance or permission are they ier, was discussed, many practical lessons iiut there are many specific objects which or more years been turning out from 40<> has accomplished in various P*tnl JTS and miDe ? Not hy mine were given of how the farmer's wife may to 600 pounds a day of the choicest cream- ways that are well worthy of note. hearte wp U ^6rS' Can- we in our shorten her hours of hard labor and find ery butter, all sold at tip top price in the n0t re& onsible time for recreation and rest. The charms iniquityiniauitvoe umiU putt as well ask God to clef/away our forSs many tears were shed. It is doubtful if m the lives of farmers and their families in any will ever forget the lessons taught I rJeSpe^Vanud the umny chanSes for the better which have been inspired by the There is more catarrh in this section of the WUWhte 5? gl'0.UIir wMe ^^th- borne may fail to do their duty, but such country than all other diseases put together ing. When the rebellion broke out had truth m ust ever ring in their ears. teachings and influence of the Grange we acted as cowardly in quelling it as we thousands of farm homes have been made curahW»6 'p* feW Was to be in-' „ „ . HELEN A. BARNARD. do m opposing this great whisky rebellion Kalkaska. happier and better, and their inmates curable i or a great many years doctors pro- where would this nation be now? Sup- been made happier and better, and thev nounced it a local diseas, and prescribed local A Union of Forces. remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with pose that Europe combined should demand local treatment, pronounced it incurable ecl- I iflf u-e°ume ,tho recipients of manV ca tarrh that we should furnish them with 10 or '>0 WORTHY EDITOR AND PATRONS:—I think SfJITfh" t to be a constitutional thousand of our citizens each year that I the higher and more blessed enjoyments taSnt . n-ef0rf r£qulres constitutional it would be a good idea to form a plan for of life, which are the reflections of refined treatment Hall s catarrh cure, manufactured b?.C°nsi-ned to servitude or uniting the different farmers' organizations tastes and cultivated thoughts. by U Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the onlv • "oiild we comply? Not as lony working together than they can sino-ly and current literature of the day, and the dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address cruel and damnable we ever had to contend Each will help to strengthen the rest, and footsteps of these awakeners of it will tend to destroy a bad feelino- of rcsr-^M ££ CH®?E,£ & Co., Toledo, Ohio. onn ? mg A coho1' whose draft for 60,- thought are now reaching the farm homes ES^aold by druggists, 75c. jealousy that may exist between neio-hbor- 000 of our peop e yearly we are honoring. j _—_ «•>»« wnvccu neitjQi of the nation and with other Grange teach- sod societies. Every locality needs a » Not only that, but we are honoring his ; . 'J '^nuy uceus a good ing* are exerting a powerful influence in molding the minds of the people into the draft for millions of dollars of our hard live organization, but I know of some in- noblest and best types of character and earnings that he may "lord it over us" stances where it has been done too well by through saloons, bribery, or intimidation. citizenship which the world has ever organizers who were after fees instead of known. C orn Now, whv do we bow down to the rum good of the order." The result was two Several states have established Grange powers V\hy license saloons? Because it • or three local societies started and faded JS a vigorous feeder and re- Readmg Circles and others are preparing is right, honorable, elevating, and there- out where one would have been a success to follow the same plan, thus bringing the sponds well to liberal fertiliza- lore we need them ? Oh, nG; if that were .Local lodges should get together occasion- Grange up to the highest point of efficien- the case no license would be required. But ally; it is of mutual benefit to the visitors tion. On corn lands the yield cy as an educator of the people. we license them because they are an evil a and entertainers. We of the Grange know increases and the soil improves nuisance, a crime. What, license a crime ? The Grange has carried out the principle this from the pleasant Pomona meeting in if properly treated with fer- license a man to degrade and make drunk- the past of happy memory, and the joyful of fraternity in the Order by establishing and observing such rules in regard to the tilizers containing not under ards out of other men? Where are the anticipation of many more in the future. outsiders and the slaves that grovel at the arbitration of difficulties among its mem- It the farmers' condition is to be improved 7% actual ehariot wheels of King Alcohol to come bers as to practically rid farmers of petty it is imperative that they meet occasionally from m the future, or where is the farmer law suits, thus saving them large sums of and work for the needed condition them- who has a boy to spare for his service ? money, and what is of much greater im- selves. If left for others to do, our op- Yet his ranks must be filled with some- portance, developing and fostering a spirit Potash. body s boys after the old topers drop into portunities will be no better, and that of friendship, harmony and sociability in drunkards graves which is rapidly takina- seems one trouble at present. Farmers by, neighborhoods and towns, which is of un- A trial of this plan costs but place. J & right, should have better represetation in told value in promoting happiness and in- little and is sure to lead to law making bodies, and will, if united for Our State Grange will meet soon. Win creasing prosperity among the people profitable culture. it speak with no uncertain sound upon the equaSandl nghtBeach.s to all. W. D. BURLEAKS. (To be Continued.) • pamphlets arc not advertising circulars boom- liquor question ? Will the members stand n^lf, , lerS'buVare Practical works, contain- up like men and be counted for God and I write you this note today that you er? SSi i5lTi S the subJect of fertilization, and Memories of Early Michigan, the askin farmers. They are sent free for sobriety ? Is not the suppression of saloons may know that the ladies' meeting yester- ! GERMAN KALI WORKS, of ten—yes a hundred times more import- day was a grand success. Every lady pres- v. 93 Nassau St., New Vork. ant than the pure food bill which we have ent voted that they felt paid forbeing j HON. ENOS GOODRICH. clamored for with such persistency ? We there. Mrs. Mayo's talks were inspiring , see no necessity for a state commission to and we all went from the meeting feelinS I (Continued from page 1.) linquish their expected game, investigate the liquor or saloon curse. We that it was good for us to be there, and we and slink back to the deep woods. But » a are aware of its enormity now, we see it go to our work in the future feelin«r that it wavass a with our eyes and hear the shriek of its our calling is of the highest. We hope long time before poor Jemmy heard the — -BV— victims. We go deep into our pockets for that these meetings may form a part of the last of his wolf hunt. I think his roostin«- means to care for the victims of our stu- tree stands there till this day, but I have a Work FeeIin READY FOR THE RACE. pidity and negligence and we know it well L% t - S7 that it not heard of Jemmy Morris for the last f ° new phase of the question can be will be a Godsend to our farmers wives. brought out. All we have to do is to out- ELSIE WTLIE GILBERT. | PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., Adrian, Mich. law the business. Then enforce the law as What the Grange has Accomplished. rigidly as we do against other murderers- It is not within the province of finite tor saloons are murder mills runnino- Un der special charter from us, and we can beings, nor within the scope of human ut- annul the charter at any time we please. terance to tell all that the Grange has ac- Ihen all we as farmers, good citizens! complished during the brief penod of its Christians, have to do, is to join forces and existence. Not until "the books are declare a war of extermination against our opened" will all of its deeds of love, of greatest enemy, the enemy of God, and charity of mercy and of the uplifting of HEADQUARTERS everything that is good and pure. Then humanity to a higher, nobler Ld purer the saloon will go. When these questions life be fully portrayed. have been satisfactorily answered we will It. is possible to give a little of what has present others. D. WOODMAN. been done by the Order and bring to MICHIGAN Paw Paw. pffnVTt 6,K the results of associated eiiorts by the farmers of this county. Notice to Michigan Shropshire Breed- In a country of such vast proportions as ers. ours, with such a variety of soil, climate STATE GRANGE The annual meeting of the Michigan and productions, and such a diversity of Shropshire Sheep Breeders' Association farming interests, it is a source of much will be held at the Hudson house, Lan- congratulation and encouragement, that (which convenes December 10,1895) sing, on Tuesday evening, December 17, the farmers m all sections of the country 189o, at 7:00. Every breeder' of Shrop- have laid aside their differences of opinion, shire sheep in Michigan is urged to be if such existed, and united their common present. HEEBEKT W. MUMFOKD, Secre ettorts to improve their condition, protect tary. their interests, obtain a better recognition AT— tor agriculture, and to secure a greater de Constitutional Amendments. gree of prosperity for themselves and the Tor Action ot State Orange. country at large. Amend Article IX, Section 2 of the Con- Soon after the Grange came into exist stitution, by striking out the words, "Nine ence, the farmers saw that thev were N G men and four women, having received the greatly deficient in a practical kn6wled

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Insomnia. at beautiful things with a beautiful wom- as gooQ as mm jon so over and over uo what. I can toward making Willough- an. Arnold Willoughby sat by Kathleen's again, both in London and here, but never From the Herald, Baltimore Md. by's path in life a little smoother and eas- side and drank it all in, delighted. He till today have I ventured to ask you. I ier for him. I wished tc do so for his own Mrs. Jessie Shea is a young married half made up his mind to ask her that didn't dure to ask, because I was so afraid sake before. I shall wish it a thousand woman whose tidy home is at 855 West very day whether, if he ever could succeed you'd say me nay. And now it has come times more for your sake in future." Lexington Street, Haltiuiore. For many in his profession, she would be willing to to this, I must speak. I must! X can't Tears stood in his eyes. He spoke ear I months Mrs. Shea was a terrible sufferer link her life with a i>oor marine painter's. keep it back within myself any longer." from a nervous affection which resulted in nestly. seriously. He was one of those rare He didn't : lean to make her Lady Ax- Every woman is flattered by a man's general debility and superinduced that men who rise far above jealousy. Kath- minster. T at was far from his mind. He asking for her love, even when she means oftimes incurable malady, insomnia. A leen was touched by his attitude—what ! would not have cared for those "whose to say "no" outright to him, and it was Herald reporter called at her residence re- woman would not have been? For a mo- ]cently , and was shown into the neatly fur- mean ambi ion aims at palaces and titled something for Kathleen to have made a merit she half regretted she could not an- j nished parlor and told that Mrs. Shea names," as George Meredith has phrased conquest like this of the American million- COPYRIGHT, ISB4, BY GRANT ALLEN. swer him "yes." He was so genuinely in would be down in a few minutes. Soon a it. But he wanted to make her -Mrs. Ar- aire whom every girl in Venice was ea- ger to be introduced to. She felt it as love, so deeply and honestly grieved at her light step was heard tripping down the nold Willoughby. stairway and Mrs.'Shea, radiant with health Kathleen Hesslearave, a pre tty young Eng- such. Yet she drew back, all tremulous. inability to love him. Of her own accord ! lish artist, and Arnold Willi luiihìjy. a Bohe- As thev crossed o • toi Lido ae "was and the vigor of voting wotnauhood. en- "Plet don't, Mr. Mortimer," she rnian amateur, meet casual y at. the lìoyal full of a new discov ilia 1 made a few she wok his hand. "Mr. Mortimer," she j tered the room. when asked if she had academy gallery in London. They hf pleaded astl le American tried hard to seize used Dr. Williams' l'ink Fills, with a days before. A cur us ir lent had hap- said truthfully, "I like you better this j tual views upon art and upon the stupidity of her vacant hand. "I—I wish you would smile which betokened the utmost satisfac- pened to liim. In minute than I have ever liked you. You the judges who have rejected their pictures; not. I kno w you're very kind, but—I tion the young lady replied, "Yes, I have Kufus Mortimer, a rich American idler, joins die of papers at h is lodgings which liis have spoken like a friend. You have spo- don't want rou to take it." used them, and hadjl not heard of them 1 them. He is a friend of the Hesslegraves and landlady had bong it to tie up half kilos ken like a gentleman. Few men at such is surprised to ffnd Kathleen in the company "Why not >" Mortimer asked, drawing doubt if I would have been here to answer of rice and rnacaror i, he had come, it ap- a moment could have spoken as you have your call." of Willoughby. whom she knows as a common back a little space and gazing at her ear- sailor dabbling in art. CHAi'TEK II— Kath- peared,,upon a wonderful manuscript. He done. Believe me, indeed I am deeply nestly. Continuing, she said: "About two leen lives with her mother in fashionable lodg- hardly knew himself at the time how im- grateful for it." months ago 1 had an attack of what the ings. The aristocracy visit there, and one day •"Because,, " Kathleen answered, finding portant this manuscript was to become to "Thank you," Mortimer answered, doctors termed nervous prostration. My at a reception the company discuss the mys- it hard indeed so to phrase her feelings as tery of young Earl Axminster, who has fled him hereafter, but he was full of it, all brushing his tears away shamefacedly. appetite left me entirely and what little not unnecessarily to hurt the young man's, sleep 1 got, and it was very little, 1 assure the count ry disguised a sa sailor. Canon Valen- the same, as a singular discovery. Americans are more frank about such tine, the lion of the party, thinks the aristoc- "I like you very much—as a friend—that you, was not by any means refreshing. On "It's written in Italian," he said to matters than we self restrained Britons. racy of England is well rid of him. His habits is to say—but I could never love you." the contrary, when 1 awoke from a nap I are too good. Ill—Willoughby is the earl. He Kathleen—"that's the funny part of it, "But, oh, Miss Hesslegrave, after all, "You thought you could once," Morti- had such a tired feeling that 1 was loth to is stranded by the failure of the picture, re- but still it seems it's by an English sailor, what poor comfort it is to a man who asks fuses help from Mortimer and goes to sea to mer replied, with a face of real misery. try to get to sleep again. 1 continued to and it's immensely interesting—a narra- your love, who loves you devotedly!" lose flesh day after dav until 1 was almost a earn money to continue the study ot art. IV— "I could see you thought it once. In Ven- Mortimer pursues Kathleen on love's quest. tive of his captivity in Spain and his trial They turned with one accord and wan- shadow compared with my former self. ice here last year you almost hesitated, She likes him and with difficulty holds him off. by the inquisition, for standing up like a dered back along the sands in silence to- As soon as 1 began to take the Pink V— Mortimer, Willoughby and the Hessle- and if your mother hadn't shown herself man for her grace's claim to the throne of ward the rest of the party. So far as Ru- Pills 1 commenced to improve. 1 am no graves meet in Venice. Mrs. Hesslegrave is so anxious to push my interest with you alarmed at Kathleen's enthusiasm over the England." fus Mortimer was concerned, that picnic longer troubled with nervousness. 1 have I really believe you would have said 'yes' a good appetite, experience none of the sailor painter and his works. VI and VII— "What's the date of it?" Kathleen ask- had been a dead failure. 'Twas with an The young artiBts roam through romantic old then to me. What has made the difference feelings incident to indigestion, and I sleep ed, not knowing or not catching the spe- effort that he managed to keep up conver- palaces together. willoughby a guest at now? You must—you must tell me." as sound as a healthy child. The pills are Kathleen's home. The maiden half reveals cial Elizabethan tinge of that phrase her sation the rest of the afternoon with the "I hardly know myself," Kathleen an- certainly all they are represented to be and, her love for him. and both confess to them- grace, instead of her majesty. mammas of the expedition. His heart had as I believe I owe my life to the fact of selves that they are in love. VIII and IX— "Oh, Elizabeth, of course," Arnold an- swered truthfully. received a very heavy blow, and he hardly having used them, 1 shall always cheerfully Mortimer proposes and discovers Kathleen's "But I must hear it," the American an- passion for Willoughby. swered lightly. "Such a graphic story! sought to conceal it from Kathleen's ob- recommend them to my friends and other And the queerest part of it all is it's writ- swered, placing himself in front of her in servant vision. persons whom I find to be suffering from an eager attitude. He had all the chival- the maladies of which they cured me." ten in cipher." Sad that in this world what is one man's CHAPTER IX. rous feeling of his countrymen toward Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain, in a "Then how did you make it out?" Kath- loss is another man's gain. Arnold Wil- women. Rich as he was, he felt, and condensed form, all the elements necessary BY THE BLUE ADRIATIC. leen asked admiringly. To her mind it loughy, seeing those two come back silent April in Tenice, yonng ladies aver, is rightly felt, it was a great thing to ask to give new life and richness to the blood seemed a perfectly astonishing feat that from their stroll along the sands together, "just too lovely for anything." And Ku- such a girl as Kathleen Hesslegrave for and restore shattered nerves. They are any man should be able to decipher such a looked hard in Kathleen's face and then in also a specific for troubles peculiar to fe- fus Mortimer utilized one of its just too the gift of her heart, and having wound thing for himself by mere puzzling over it. Mortimer's—and read the whole history. males, such as suppressions, irregularities lovely days for his long deferred project himself up to make what for him was "Why, easily enough," Arnold answer- He felt a little thrill of pleasure course and all forms of weakness. They build up of a picnic to the Lido. that fatal plunge he must know the worst ed, with a smile, "for happily I took it through his spine like a chill. "Then he the blood, and restore the glow of health to forthwith. He must learn once for all then pale and sallow cheeks. In the men they Do you know the Lido? 'Tis that long for granted, since I found it in Italy, the has asked her," Arnold thought, "andshe and there whether or not there was any effect a radical cure in all cases arising natural bulwark, "the bank of sand which language was Italian, so I soon spelled it —she has refused him. Dear girl, she ha9 chance left for him. So he stood with from mental worry, overwork or excesses breaks the flow of Adria toward Venice," out. Those sixteenth century people al- I refused him! I can trust her after all. clasped hands, repeating over and over of whatever nature. Pink Pills are sold in as Shelley calls it. It stretches for miles ways made use of the most simple ciphers, She prefers the penniless sailor to the rich- again: "You must tell me, Miss Hessle- boxes (never in loose bulk) at 50 cents a box and miles in a narrow belt along the mouth almost foolishly simple. Any child could est man this day in Venice!" or si* boxes for $2 50, and may be had of all of the lagoons. On one side lies the ocean grave. I have a right to know. The feel- read them." It is always so. We each of us see things druggists, or direct by mail from Dr- wu. and on one the shallow pool of mud banks ing I bear toward you gives me a claim to Kathleen looked up at him with pro- from our own point of view. Any otb^r Hants' Medicine Company, Schenectady, and canals. This is the only place near know it.'' N. Y. found admiration. For her own part, man would have taken it in the sam® way Venice, indeed, where a horse can find "I can't tell you myself," Kathleen re- she couldn't imagine How on earth it could as Arnold Willoughby. But Kathleen foothold, and on that account as well as plied, a little faltering, for his earnestness The Companion Calendar for 1X90. be done. "How wond. v«:" zhe exclaim- went home that evening very heavy at The publishers of The Youth's Companion for the sake of the surf bathing it is a fa- touched her, as earnestness always touches ed. " You must show it .... .-,,0 some dav. heart for her American lover. He was so are sending to their subscribers free, an art vorite resort of Venetians anil visitors in women. "I shall always like you very calendar which will be highly appreciated. And it's interesting, is it? I should love kind and true, so manly and generous, she spring and summer. The side toward the much, Mr. Mortimer, but I can never love Four elegant water-color paintings are repro- to see it." felt half grieved in her heart she couldn't duced in all the beauty of color and design of lagoon rises high and dry in a sort of na- you." "Yes, it's interesting," Arnold answer- liave saia "yes" to him. the originals, and of such size (7!4 x 1(1 inches) tive breakwater, like the .lofty Chesil beach I "Do you love somebody else—will you that they may be framed with line effect. ed. "As interesting as a novel. A per- that similarly cuts, off the English chan- tell me that?" the young man asked al- The first two pictures offera striking contrast, fect romance. Most vivid and amusing. nel from the shallow expanse of the Fleet | most fiercely. [TO BE CONTINUED.] —a blustering March day in the sugar orchard, The writer was a man named John Colling- and a peaceful scene in midsummer. Then fol- in Dorsetshire. Its opposite front descends Kathleen hesitated and was lost. "I— ham of Xorfolk, the owner and skipper of | lows tile noonday rest in the harvest-field, a in a gentle slope to the level of the Adriatic I I don't know myself, Mr. Mortimer," she charming bit of color with a foreground of an English bark. He was taken by the and receives on its wrinkled face the thun- answered feebly. gohlenrod and brilliant autumn foliage. The Spaniards off Cape Finisterre and thrown winter walk to cluirch over the snow-covered derous billows of that uncertain main, Hor- Mortimer drew a long breath. "Is it into prison for six months at Cadiz. After- fields is the last of the series. ace's "turbulent Hadria." Hither, then, Willoughby?" he asked at last, with a ward he escaped and made his way to Ven- To all new subscribers to the paper w ho send Rufus Mortimer brought his guests and sudden turn that half frightened her. their name and address and $1.75 at once, the ice, where he wrote this memorial in ci- friends one bright April morning when Kathleen began to cry. "Mr. Morti- publishers offer to send free this handsome Cal- pher to the council of ten, whom he desired endar, lithographed in nine colors, the retail the treacherous sea was sleeping calmly mer," she exclaimed, "you have no right QUALITY to employ him, but what became of him price of which is 50 cents. The Companion free like a child and no breath of wind from to try to extort from me a secret X h»*e every week to January 1, 1896, including the in the end I haven't yet got to. ft takes the Dalmatian hills disturbed the tran- Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's some time to decipher the whole ot it." double numbers, and The Youth's Companion quil rest of its glossy bosom. COUNT? That was all for the moment. More im- fifty-two weeks, a full year to January 1,1K91. They crossed over partly in Mortimer's Address, THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, portant concerns put the manuscript after- If you are particular about what own private gondola, partly in a hired bar- 195 Columbus Avenue, Boston. ward for a tinm out of Kathleen's head, kind of NURSERY STOCK ca—a hencoop, as Arnold Willoughby ir- though in the end she had good reason in- reverently called it—from the steps of the you set—If you are anxious to Special Offer deed to remember it. However, just then, get started right—If you want to as soon as they landed. Rufus Mortimer Send us fifty cents and we will forward to you Molo. As they passed out of the harbor feel easy knowing that what you at once, a beautiful, genuine Japanese fan. This the view behind them rose even lovelier hurried her off to admire the view from fan retails in the large stores at 50 cents each. than usual. That is the way to see Ven- the top of the Lido, and he took excellent buy will prove to be HEALTHY It is of tine parchment and highly decorated. ice. Its front door is the sea—it breaks care she should have no other chance that and TRUE TO NAME, write us We have often obtained a special price npon day of private conversation with Arnold | this fan, and fully warrant it as being the best npon one full face as one looks at it from to-day, or call on the SECRETARY we have ever offered. To every purchaser of this the Lido. We who arrive at it nowadays Willoughby. fan wo offer by the long and tedious railway embank- They lunched al fresco on the summit of YOUR GRANGE and learn FREE ment over the shallow lagoon hardly re- of the great bank, looking down on the about us. the American Home Journal for one year. This sea to the right, and the long stretch of is a monthly paper and contains bright, fresh, alize that we are entering the city of the and entertaining news. The regular subscrip- doges by its back door. We come first the shallow lagoon to the left, with the We have a large tion price for this paper is 50 cents for one year. upon the slums, the purlieus, the Ghetto distant towers of Venice showing up with line of choice We do not care so much about your money' or But the visitor who approaches the Bride all their spires in the middle distance, and about selling the fan. as we do to introduce to Apple, Pear, Peach, Plum, von the beautiful, illustrated American Home of the Adriatic for the first time by sea the jagged range of snowy Alps gleaming "1 shall always like i/ou very much, Mr. Journal. R. Ü. LEE Pub. from Trieste or Alexandria sees it as its white in the background. As soon as they Lynn, Mass. Mortimer." Cherry, small fruit plants, makers and adorners intended he should had finished Rufus Mortimer managed to never told yet to anybody—hardly even to and shrubs. see it. As he draws nigh shore the great get Kathleen to himself for a quiet stroll myself. Mr. Willoughby is nothing more buildings by the water's edge rise one aft- along the sea beach. The sand was hard Our low prices may surprise you. than a friend and a companion to me." er another before his enchanted eyes. He and firm and strewn with seaweed. Hera But the American read her meaning Can sees Eortuna on her golden ball above the and there a curled seahorse lay tossed up You through her words for all that "Willough- Dogana di Mare, he sees the doge's palace by the tide, and innumerable tiny shells WEST by!" he cried—"Willoughby! It's Wil- with its arcade and its loggia, he sees the glistened bright like pearls on the line of Money. loughby who has supplanted me. I was Make clustered cupolas and spires of St. Mark's, high water. MICHIGAN half afraid of this." He paused irresolute he sees the quaint volutes and swelling Kathleen felt a little shy with him. She for a moment. Then he went on much NURSERIES, domes of Santa Maria della Salute. Then guessed what was cojning, but she pre- lower. "I ought to hate him for this, Benton Harbor, Mich. By buying your Strawberry, Raspberry and as he nears the Molo the vast panorama of tended to ignore it and began in her most Miss Hesslegrave, but somehow I don't. Blackberry plants direct from grower. War- beauty bursts upon him at once in all its conventional society tone," Have you heard Perhaps it isn't in my blood. But I like fiield, Crescent, Michell's Early, and Lov- detail—the Bridge of Sighs, the famed Li- that Canon Valentine and his wife are R. MORRILL, O. E. Fifield. ett's Earlv. at $2 per M. Others according. him and admire him. I admire his cour- Prest. Sec'y and Treas. Catalogue free. R. S. STAHELIN, Bridg- on Column, St. Theodore on his crocodile, coming out here to Venice next week to age. I admire your courage for liking him. man, Mich. St. Mark on his airy pinnacle, the Piaz- visit us?" P. S.-See Confidential Trade Circular, p 40. The worst of it is I admire you, too, for In writing please mention \ ISITOR. zetta, the Piazza, the Campanile, the Clock Mortimer gazed at her with a comic lit- having the simple honesty to prefer him Tower. He lands by the marble steps and tle look of quizzical surprise. He had got to me—under all the circumstances. I finds himself face to face with the gor- away alone with her after no small strug- FOR SALE Gold and SiWer Watehe«, Blerelet» know you are doing right. I can't help Tricycles» Guus and Fistol», Carsi, geous pilasters of Sansovino's library, the gle, and he meant to make the best of this admiring it. That penniless man against At reasonable prices, a choioe selection of Buggies, Wagons, Carriages, Hafes, facade of the great church, the porphyry At? Price Sleigh», Harness, Car l lops, Skids, solitary opportunity. "Havel heard that American millions! But you have left my April and May Poland China pigs. Can furnish statues, the gold alabaster, the blaze of pairs. Pedigree with sale. O. P. C. R. Cor- Canon Valentine and his wife are com- heart poor—oh, so poor, so poor! There mosaics, the lavish waste of sculpture. respondence solicited and communications ing?" he asked, withasort of genial satire was one thing in life upon' which I had promptly answered. With a whirling head he walks on through in his voice. "Now, do you think, Miss fixed it, and you have given that to Wil- it all, amazed, conscious of nothing else JOHN BOWDITCH, Hesslegrave, I planned this picnic to the loughby, and, Miss Hesslegrave, I can't save a phantasmagoria of glory and thank- FT" Hillsdale, Mich. even quarrel with you for giving it!" ing heaven in his heart that at last he has Lido today and got off with you alone Mention VISITOR. seen Venice. here for nothing else but to talk about Kathleen leaned forward toward him that bore, Canon Valentine, and that stick This was the view upon which the occu- anxiously. "Oh, for heaven's sake," she of a wife of his?" pants of Rufus Mortimer's gondola look- cried, clasping her hands, "don't betray "I I really don't know," Kathleen fal- ed back with delighted eyes that April me, Mr. Mortimer. I have never breathed Sewlnr IKUIHI Aeeordeone, Orranj, Pianos, Cider Bllfc tered out demurely. Cub Drawer», Feed mill, Stoiee, Kettles, Bone Mill, morning. But this was not all. Behind a single word of this to him, nor he to me. Letter Presses, JnekSrrewi, Trnrk«, Anvils, Haytntters» Mortimer gazed at her hard. "Yes, you Prest stands, Copy Boots, Vises, Drills, Road Plows, and above it all the snow capped chain of It was uncanny of you to find it out. I Lawn Mowers, Colfee Mills, Laches, Benders. Dump Carts, do," he answered at last after a long the Tyrolese Alps and the hills of Cadore ask you as a woman, keep it—keep it sa- Com Shellers, Hand Carta, Forwes. 8erapers,Wlre Fenee, pause. "You know it very well. You Fannlnr Mills/ Wrinjers, EnelneJ, Saws, Steel Sinks, rose fairylike in a semicircle. Their pen- cred, for my sake, I beg of you!" Grain linmps. Crow Bar«, Boilers, Tools, Blt BraMJ, know you're playing with me. That isn't Har, stork, ¿levator. Railroad, Platform and Counter SCALES* ciled hollows showed purple, their peaks Mortimer looked at her with the intens- what I want, and you can see it, Miss Hes- Send for free Catalogue and see how to save Money, gleamed like crystal in the morning sun. est affection in his eyes. He spoke the GUITARS, UX So. JeBeraon 6t., CHICAGO BCALE 00., Chicago, m. slegrave. You can guess what I've come Cloudless and clear, every glen and crag plain truth. That woman was the one ob- MANDOLINS, Ask Secretary of your Grange for our Illus here for. You can guess why I've brought pinked out by the searching rays, they ject in life on which he had set his heart, trated Catalogue. Aug. 15 tf you away all alone upon the sands." He BANJOS, stood silhouetted in pure white against the and without her his wealth was as worth- trembled with emotion. It took a good , solid blue sky of Italy. In front of them less dross to him. "Why, Miss Hessle- VIOLINS. deal to work Rufus Mortimer up, but when regarding the St. Mark's and the Campanile were out- grave," he answered, "what do you think FINEST ON E7SRTH. once he was worked up his feelings ran Pntit NIwwif from the tMHofsetorer to tb* tiler. IH UT. FOR prices of the fa- lined in dark hues. 'Twas a sight to re- I am made of? Do you think I could sur- aOlu U1C6CI to per cent. the Healer's Profit. away with him. He quivered visibly. MICE* RAN'l.E «nil SB.OO OP. — . » no mons fruit lands, joice a painter's eyes. Arnold Willoughby prise a woman's secret like that and not "Oh, Miss Hesslegrave," he cried, gazing PARTICULARS general farms; and Kathleen Hesslegrave sat entranced keep it more sacred than anything else on tub soiled states Basic so. wildly at her, "you must have seen it CINCINNATI. O. and city property, write to E. H. ALLYN, , as they looked at it. earth? You must have formed indeed a Real Estate Agency, Friederick Block, long since 1 You can't have mistaken it. very low opinion of me. I can use this Nothing rouses the emotional side of a You must have known I loved youl I've Traverse City, Mich. man's nature more vividly than to sraze knowledge but for one aim T-i tr..i— 8 THE GRANGE VISITOR. DECEMBER 5, 1895.

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