r W 1 Y p ITT INCOME TAX REVIVING A new terror rises up to deepen the dismay of the abject bondmongers It is Hint if war comes there will bo smother tax agitation for income tax One of their organs remarks with bated breath If the income tax is im possible under the constitution as it stands there would certainly be a movement to amend the constitution in Unit particular This is dreadful to think of Such a peril is quite enough 1o put all thoughts of preserving the national honor and dignity out of mind If the fool people are likely to get at the incomes of those who run the gov ernment as a business enterprise for their own profit and make them pay for their privileges what is the use of living St Louis Post Dispatch Democratic Gains The spring elections continue to re sult favorably The disreputable per formances of the Republican Congress men at Washington the vacillation of I resident McKinley and the prospect that Banker Gage with Grosvenor Dingloy and the rest will hatch up some national bank linance schedule which will rob the people by means of taxes and bank issues to pay interest on large aiinis of borrowed money have disheartened the Republican masses Everywhere there is Demo cratic gain Chicago has been swept sis by si tornado and t he reform ele ment there has encountered a defeat similar to that which it experienced here in New York The group of Ohio cities has gone back on the Republi cans Cincinnati which gave nearly 20000 majority for McKinley has boa carried by the Democrats by 2000 ma jority The same change is to be found in the returns from Columbus Cleve land Dayton and Toledo Milwaukee as to have a silver Democratic Mayor The general disappointment at the non arrival of the promised McKinley era of prosperity has disgusted the peo ple md has started them upon the road of reversing the fraud of 1S9G New York News Let the People Buy Bonds A New York bank president is quoted -as saying that the government could readily obtain from the great financial interests of the country all the funds it needed if bonds were issued This is true no doubt But the biggest finan cial interests of this continent are the interests of the masses of American citizens who create the wealth of the nation They are the ones who should lirst be considered if bonds are put on the market If these Government se curities backed by the superb credit of the United States are excellent iri vestments for the bankers they are equally good investments for the wage earners and the farmers It is the peo ple who fight the battles and pay the taxes of the Government They are entitled to the foremost chance when bonds are to be sold Philadelphia Bul letin Taxation to Make Up Deficit Whether we have war or peace with Spain we shall have to pay the cost of trotting ready for Avar and suggestions for internal taxes are heard here and there But it is misleading in the pres ent condition of the national income to call these proposed taxes war taxes Why should not the ruling political par ty in Congress face the fact that its rev enue laws do not bring in enough iu come to meet the expenditures of the Government on a peace footing There should be no humbug about increasing taxation because of making war or - making ready for war What the treas ury demands is more revenue than THngleyism produces whether for war or for peace Boston Tost Too Much of a Stale Fiction Lot us be done once and forever with The ttale fiction of Spains honor being involved in the preservation of her ter ritorial integrity It has bven said her public men still say she cannot re linquish Cuba without compromising her honor Was her honor then com promised when she relinquished Mexi co V And Guatemala V And ten or a dozen colonies in South America And when she receded Louisiana to France And when she ransomed Cuba by giv ing up Florida And when after re gaining Florida she once more and finally relinquished it for cash under fear of military compulsion New York Tribune Dincley Wisely Keeps Silent The Dingley bill isnt such a howling -success that its author is howling about iit loud enough to be heard Dingley isnt saying a word in these exciting times Dingley isnt defying the gal leries like the fearless Johnson of Indi ana He is sitting timidly watching his monumental deficit bill and waiting for the opportunity to amend it to get more revenue when the stress of war may be pleaded as an excuse instead of an -absolute failure of the bill itself Utica Observer The Maine Count Remains The Maine disaster is the main count in our indictment against Spain It is our supreme justification for driving Spain from Cuba It is the high and conclusive reason upon which the na tions expect us to act and they will justly lose respect for us as we will lose respect for ourselves if we do not act New York World Favorite Son of Old Glory Fitzhugh Lee returns from his long -and difficult experience at Havana to J find that the whole nation honors and loves him Few public servants have been more promptly rewarded for dis tinguished services Not long Mgo ho was the favorite son of old Virginia Now he is a favorite son of old glory New York Sun Trusts Number 200 Now An export who has canvassed the growth of trusts finds that fully 200 such organizations are now in exist once with a total capital in stocks and bonds of 3U2000000 This does not i include many business and manufac turing combinations in process of for- mation for there is scarcely a week I that the announcement of a new pool or trust of gigantic proportions is not made The capitalization claimed for existing trusts is equal to per cent of the aggregate capital credited to all manufactures in the lTnited States by the census of 1S00 New York journal of Commerce Bir Standing Army Not Wanted It would lie hardly possible to state a plainer proposition than that the genius of the people of the United States is opposed to the creation of si consider able standing army President Jack son who had had in his character more of the military spirit than any of our Presidents never asked for it Presi dent Taylor another military hero looked with abhorrence upon the thought President Grant never took a step in that direction These men all had experience of what standing ar mies were Boston Herald What Plain People Think The plain everyday people of the Uni ted States hold that si nation is like a man when it has received an insult and a blow it is high time to fight Fur thermore people unhampered by books feel that for a nation like this to sit idly by and watch cowardly barbarians like the Spaniards torture and starve wretched noncombatants almost with in cannot shot of its boundaries would amount to a national compounding of crime Kansas City Times What Grosvenor Didnt Explain Mr Grosvenor has not explained how Wsill street came to know of the post ponement of the Presidents message before Congress knew of it and while that body as a matter of fact was waiting for the message But Mr Grosvenor is not expected to explain Like the gentleman who held a prom inent position on a certain front porch in Canton some time ago he has for obvious reasons nothing to say Co lumbus Tress Post McKinley a Tenderfoot President McKinley resorted to di plomacy with a nation skilled in its arts by centuries of practice while he had but his own inexperience the aid of liis Canton lawyer and that of an old man tin this dotage When a tender foot sits in a game with an expert lie is pretty apt to get the worst of it Sagasta was not slow to take the ad vantage of him St Paul Globe Republicans Growing Scarcer While Grosvenor valiantly protests against the injection of politics into the discussion of the Spanish question at the same time he boasts that if there is a Avar it will be a Republican war Judging 13 the results of last Tues days municipal elections there are no now enough Republicans in the coun try outside of Rhode Island to make a very formidable army St Louis Re public Patriotism Bounded by Pelf Trust us to preserve the honor of the nation shouts the broker We will keep that honor secure for a con sideration War is hell shouts the excited dealer in options and in an un dertone he adds It depreciates the price of my securities The patriot ism that is confined to pelf seems to be iu the saddle now But it is riding for a fall Omaha World Herald McKinley Cant Cut Loose If President McKinley could but mus ter up the courage to cut loose from Hanna and his stock gambling friends it would perhaps be possible yet for him to regain in some measure the confi dence of the people But with Hanna he is like Sinbad with the old man of the sea astride his neck Kansas City Star Political Paragraphs After the army and navj have evict ed Spain from Cuba why not employ them to evict Hanna from the cabinet meetings Chicago Dispatch Just how an act of war such as the blowing up of the Maine can be arbi trated is hard to undertsaud Memphis Commercial Appeal A circus manager has offered the Government the services of twenty five patriotic elephants But with Hanna on its hands the Government hesitates Exchange In the memorable language of Am bassador John Hay it looks as if Con sul General Lee was determined to hold her nozzle again the bank till the last galoots ashore Boston Herald The thievery and jobbery the bad faith and chicanery which have brought the Republican State machine into bad odor are sufficient to bring a heritage of defeat Pittsburg Dis patch It would take old Grover and Olney about three m tes to decide whether we should have peace or war with Spain and in view of the way they cut J Bulls comb three years ago there is not much doubt about which they would choose Memphis Scimitar IHE FARM AND HOME MATTERS OF INTERESTTO FARM ER AND HOUSEWIFE Value of a Fnst Walking Team More Attention Should Be Given Green Crops How to Grow Celery Best Varieties of Potatoes for Seed The Walking Horse We hear a great deal about the run foot- for stcVjk Dairymen have less la I bor to perform in spring and cummer i as the cows can be put on pasture and consequently feed themselves Never theless there are many points from which the matter of producing milk and butter at the lowest cost may be viewed Every dairyman should first know the characteristics of the cows in the herd With the aid of the scales he should be able to estimate the amount of food consumed by each in dividual and by the use of the milk tester he can keep himself informed of what each cow is doing Unless he uses ning horse and nearly as much abouithese precautious he Avill be opera tin the trotting horse but very little about the walking horse The first two are valuable in their way but neither o them is as much needed in this coun try as the last A slow walking team makes work drag iu spite of every ef fort of the driver Farm work must be done Avith the horses at a walk and a slight difference in the rate at which the team gets over ground makes a great difference in the amount of work accomplished The great trouble with most farm teams is that they are allowed to get into the habit of dragging along at the rate of about two miles an hour even when going unloaded and this habit becomes fixed and impossible to rem edy for the farm horse that gets in the notion of going slowly will poke along in spite of any urging that may be used There is much farm work that is very light on the team Cultivation is not heavy work and drawing a mow ing machine does not call for more than a small fraction of the power a horse may exert without injury Haul ing loads to market is not heavy work when the roads are good and all these kinds of work should be done with the team walking at a rate that would keep a man on a comfortable dog trot all the time The fast walking horse is made in breaking the colt He usually wants to go too fast and is held down until he comes to believe that his gait is to be a dragging walk If the colt is trained to walk up briskly but not trot if he is never allowed to trot uu til he Is thoroughly trained to walk is fast as he can without trotting there will be no trouble about his walking in after life When the colt that is be ing trained begins to lag touch him geutly with the whip to let him know that he must move up a little more briskly but do not strike him bawl enough to hurt and excite him Make him keep on walking as fast as he can and the habit will soon become a fixed one and his value will be increased Farmers Voice Green Crops Farmers should give some attention to green crops whether they use the entire pasture or not Green crops af ford a large variety and cost less than any other foods giving large amounts of forage and assisting in keeping the land in good condition Rye crimson clover red clover cow peas green corn rape and oats are all suitable for producing green food in abundance and as rye and crimson clover give a supply in the spring before grass has made growth of any consequence they should always be in the line of rotation Oats and peas broadcasted together may be seeded now if the ground is not frozen and they will give a larger amount of green food on the acre than can be secured from three or four times that area of pasture and the forage may be cut off and given to the animals at the barn When the green food is no longer suitable for cutting sheep may be turned on the remainder and will find a fair proportion of food Later cow peas may be sown and they will leave the land in better con dition than before It is not too soon to sow Essex rape and as many farm ers have not given it a trial those who will make the experiment with rape as green forage will not fail to give it a place on the farm hereafter It can be cut or eaten off several times during the year and yields enormously sheep being very fond of it while cattle and hogs also relish it highly Philadelphia Record How to Grow Celery Dr S B Partridge of East Bloom field N J is raising celery on a large scale on the bed of a reclaimed swamp He set 125000 plants last year of the dwarf Golden Self Blanching and pro duces from 1500 to 1800 dozen branch es of celery per acre marketable at from 20 cents to 30 cents per dozen His celery kept for winter market is placed in trenches made by means of a crib 1G feet long and 14 inches wide which is placed in the row and filled with celery Then a deep bank of earth is thrown up on either side to the top of the celery after which the crib is taken up and moved forward its length and the same process is repeated The trenches are left open at the top until the approach of cold weather when they are covered with straw and earth New England Farmer Selecting Potato Seed In choosing varieties of potatoes for spring planting it is advisable to select those that have been recently produced from seed provided of course that their quality and productiveness have been tested and are generally known The variety that is newly produced from seed is generally more vigorous then than it is likely to be after a few years contest with potato bugs and the blight and rots which all help to de crease potato vigor and produetiveness But it is not advisable to plant pota toes however good which are very un like standard sorts and whose good qualities are not generally known There is so much difference in potatoes that the mere fact that a potato is a potato is not enough with most con sumers to secure a market for it until fter they have given it a trial The Food of Dairy Cattle With the advent of the growing sea eon begins a lessening of the cost of in the dark There is a wide difference in the capacity of cows even when of the same breed and this difference may be suchas to cause a loss from one cow while the other gives a profit In a herd of from twenty to forty cows there may be some excellent animals and the entire herd may give a profit yet among them may be some that en tail a loss and at the- same time in crease the cost for labor In a recent test at the Pennsylvania Experiment Station it was found that a cow in a herd that produced 295 pounds of but ter in a year only gave a profit of 30 while another cow that produced only 270 pounds in the same period gave a profit of G0 The capacity of one cow was to digesit and assimilate the food better than the other The profit was not in the quantity of butter produced but in the reduction of the cost Straw as Mutch In grain growing localities farmers have a cheap supply of excellent mulch in the straw of the grain crops they raise In most cases no better use can be found for this than to use it as a mulch for trees set recently If the ground is plowed the soil under the tree should be covered with at least enough straw to keep the surface from becoming compact By keeping the surface soil loose and friable air is en abled to enter it and this is absolutely necessary to give vigorous growth to the roots Quite often in planting trees deep holes are dug iifto the subsoil and earth without any vegetable mat ter Is thrown to the surface Some mulch around the tree so far as the subsoil extends will prevent it from becoming hardened and excluding air Food for Young Chicks It is useless to attempt to raise young chicles on corn meal dough as such food is mot sufficient Very young chicks should be fed three times a dajr and millet seed should be scattered so as to induce them to exercise in seek ing the seeds An excellent food for young chicks is bread made of the fol lowing substances Sifted ground oats 1 pound corn meal 1 pound bran pound middlings pound ground meat 1 pound ground clover 1 pound salt 2 ounces bread soda 1 ounce The bread should be crumbled given dry and on clean boards allowing no food to remain as it will become sour if un eaten The Cream Separator Recent German trials indicate that the separator removes from milk and cream not only the dirt and slime which pass through the strainer but the great er portion of bacteria As cows are usually cared for and handled there is always some dirt and dandruff from the cows ndder gets into the milk This cannot always be caught in a strainer but if any passes through it is included with the slime which remains in the separator bowl The German trials in dicate that most of the bacteria remain with it Grape Vine Fertilizing Grape vines usually need very little manure other than mineral and that chiefly potash In European coun tries it is the habit of vineyardists to burn the primings each year and apply the ashes No other fertilizer is used In fact stable manures are objected to as they make the vines grow rank and the fruit Avill lack the flavor that belongs to fruits whose vines are only manured with the ashes Much of the excellence of French wines is possibly due to this sparing use of manure Productiveness of Strawberries As many as 10000 quarts of straw berries have been grown on an acre A plot 50 feet square will produce over GOO quarts in the same proportion It is not every grower who receives 5000 quarts per acre but a garden plot can be made to give larger proportionate yield than a field Hints to Beekeepers Adjusting boards should be used in hives of all weak stocks Colonies having defective queens are always the foundation of trouble Colonies selected for breeding should contain a good supply of drone comb Little wooden troughs holding about a pint of sirup are good for feeding bees The supply of drones depends entire ly on the amount of drone comb fur nished Colonies selected for breeders should be pushed by early feeding to their ut most limit Do not feed in the morning as it tends to cause robbing and to make the bees restless It is just as necessary to select for the production of drones as for the pro duction of queens Pollen is always stored in or near the brood nest and here is the place where the bees will cluster Bees are not apt to attach comb to cloth so cloth divisions between frames serve as a guide Queen cells should never be retained in any colony except one that is in a natural healthy condition Be sure that the entrances to the hives are kept open The bees want good fresh air o breathe Confine each colony to only as many combs as the bees can conveniently cover giving more combs as needed ym V 0 tnit t yv - w j u r v gm urn w 9m Something About Roads A correspondent writes the Indiana Farmer from Bicknell that State in these words While at the Worlds Fair in the Transportation Building I noticed a section of some foreign corduroy road that was claimed to have been built some years before Christ The cost of building stone roads in many parts of the State is bound to be large owing to the lack of suitable material in places Some of our people here think that we have plenty of material in our limestone hills to construct good stone roads Others think it would be cheap er to bring it by rail from the north and east Be this as it may to build good roads in this county will cost a good deal Some think it would be best to make a loan of long standiug and let posterity help pay the debt In my opin ion if some of the other callings would pay as much taxes in proportion as the farmers do the surplus would go a long way toward making good roads I do not think there are many farmers that are willing to have their taxes enlarged very much at this time Doubtless there are more people here interested at this time about dirt roads than any other kind That our roads have been abused is a fact known to everyone As a general rule it appears that our road supervisors sole object is to splash over his work and receive his ill gotten gain And on the other hand the men that go on the road to work are too apt to be watching the sun and asking what time it is They dont work like they do at home What is the result The roads are washing away bridges have broken through culverts are filled fences thrown down and people compelled to drive around bad places What is to be done In the first place in certain places there are more roads than men to work them I think the law exempting men from work on the roads on account of age or disability if they possess property is not fair Men usually use the roads more after the age of 50 than they do while young er because they are often worth more and have more produce to haul and of ten possess saw mills wheat thrashers and other valuable property If not able to work let them hire Who would think of exempting one from taxation on ac count of age or disability Are the roads not as important as the taxes Where is the country that lias no roads Take the roads from our coun trj and the streets of our cities will grow up with briars Farmers ought not receive pay for cleaning their fence corners next to the roads If the land belongs to the road let the supervisor work it and the briars will not grow If it belongs to the farmer let him clean them without pay Perhaps supervis ors should receive more pay and then be held strictly responsible for the work they do They should make week ly trips along the roads take out ob structions turn water from roads fix up bridges culverts etc THE KAFFIR WHEN OFF DUTY South African Mine Laborers Lead a Monotonous Life Life on a South African mining prop erty can hardly be monotonous The report of a traveler fresh from the cape gives a curious insight into one phase of labor on the Rand It used to be the custom of the Kaffir on receiving his salary usually 5 per week to salJj forth and invest all his earnings in bot tles of brand j He would theu return to his hut squat down and drink it like beer until he succumbed This went on regularly among the mining staffs of all the large companies until in or der to prevent a weekly cessation of labor the companies adopted the meth od of inclosing all their native em ployes inside a compound and spur ting them in like prisoners until their lime of service has elapsed Visitors to the compounds often take ir a pound or so of the native coarse to bacco for a handful of which the Kaffirs under stress of their depriva tion of tobacco as well as liquor will often gladly exchange fine old native bracelets and knobkerries The native method of smoking is peculiar Aftee the pipe is filled several long pulls are taken and the smoke swallowed The bowl is then taken off the stem is in serted in a bowl of water and the water is sucked through it and swal lowed also Then comes the tug of war The man who can hold out long est without coughing is considered a hero After a short time the smoker will convulsively cough for fifteen or twenty minutes and one can quite un derstand why the Kaffir is not allowed out to buy tobacco In the case of the traveler who gives these details the mine manager asked him to cease bar tering the vile stuff for native trinkets otherwise the whole relay would be unfit to go down when their time came The Kaffir usually returns home after six months or a year at the mines and is considered a rich man He buys two or more wives and takes his ease while they do all the work Pittsburg Dis patch Good Thing to Lose lonr Job Many men who have fair salaried po sitions are contented to thus go through life having no higner hopes and alms than simply to do their work well and never expect to be anything more than a clerk all their lives They thus be come dwarfed in their mental capabili ties and If they live to be old their ser vices gradually become less and less valuable to their employers Had some men of this stamp lort their positions early in life the struggle that they would have lieen forced to make would have tended to develop what was best in them Many of the most successful business men of to day would not have achieved their present financial positions had they always remained clerks Had they had their choice perhaps they would always have been clerks but many of them lost their situations ami this very fact was the door which open ed up the way to starting a business of their own So should these words catch the eye of any young man recently dis charged let him take fresh hope and courage and resolve to do something for himself If he is made of the right kind of stuff and is contented to start in a small way and be satisfied with slender wages for himself for a few years his chances for whining a com petency are good To such a man al though the loss of his situation at lirst seemed a misfortune in the end it will prove one of the greatest benefits that ever befell him Hardware Press Blunders Probably no article on typographical errors ever appeared without contain ing a typographical error unless the proofreader has been fortunate enough to intercept on the way to the press Uitt mistakes which seemed to be predes tined for that very list of mistakes Ai queer blunder recently appeared in u Xew York journals elaborate article out blunders In this article the following pam i graph occurs The account of the locomotive strik ing a car and cutting her into calves is perfectly understandable No doubt this would have been un derstandable if the word car had been printed cow as it was written and as it stands in the traditional joke which forms the basis of the story With some of his other stories the au thor of the article had better success He tells of the author of a classic Ro man drama who by the undesired aid of the printer made his hero exclaim Bring me my togs instead of Bring me my toga He relates that one of Mr Blacks heroines once perished from swallow ing a dose of opinion instead of opium and that once there was a proofreader one of a sporting eleven who had read for the first time the title of Dickens Cricket on the Hearth Impossible said the proofreader you cant play cricket Ln a fireplace andihe corrected it to read Cricket oat the Heath A famous and dreadful blunder was once made in an advertiseinemt where mistakes of the sort are comparatively infrequent by reason of greater care a blunder in an advertisement may bo expensive The advertisement of a great manufacturer of marmalade was made to read Blanks preserves are not to bo eaten A b had dropped out before the eaten It was probably an engraver and not a compositor who made a wed ding invitation read Your presents is requested instead of presence Bar ring the grammar this version would be well enough in a great many cases An old English newspaper mention ing the absence of the prime minister said Sir Robert Peel with a party of fiends is shooting pheasants in Ire land This might have teen nojoke in an opposition paper but this one was friendly to Peel instead of being fiend ly to him Uncle Bills letter We had a note the other day from nude way out west Been gone some twenty year or more an is by fortune blessd no sent his photergraph along an iu his- letter said Hes livin on a ranch alone an never yet has wed I guess the Maynard girl still lives ho wrote ans pretty still She who was known as Roxey when I to her was Bill Wc showed the photergraph tor her she read the letter through An with a little sigh she said a little nervous too Well Mr Smith deserves good luck a noble heart God knows An then her face turned strangely like a white and wilted rose Perhaps the kind words tetched a chord that straightway felt a thrill She who was known as Roxey when I to her was Bill Ah undercurrents of all lires Around her children play She has a husband who is kind an yet who knows that day When she remembered that one heart ia all the world of care Still turned to her in tenderness an thought her pale cheeks fair She felt a pang of deep regret longed for the old dream still When one was known as Roxey an one was known as Bill Chicago Times Herald The Bayonet The bayonet is said to nave derived its name from the fact that It was first made at Bayonne France and its ori gin illustrates the proverb Necessity is the mother of invention A Basque regiment was hard pressed by the ene my on a mountain ridge near there One of the soldiers suggested that as their ammunition was exhausted they should fix their long knives into the barrels of their mnskets The sug gestion being acted upon the first bay onet charge was made and the victory of the Basques led to the manufacture of the weapon at Bayonne and rta adoption in the armies of Europe We can never tell by the looks of a man on the streets if he is going to a church social or to sit np all night with the corpse of a friend Worrying about people has to be han dled with rare judgment to keep l from becomdng nagging Everyone occasdonalrywondeTs ho anyone so nice caa dasucu a thing1