<5RAI.ll 01,n PARTY. CLKVELANtVS ATTITUDE TO WARD HIS PARTY. Alla Miara In llm liowitfall of Pomnc rt«y flr»*P «ontlUloim Tl»*t An ll«» hln«l lh« llo:i«l Inutio -Tlte l’rrtt* AuuiiiirI I'm* or*. Ths I'rioltlsnt'a lfM|)nn«ll>lllt.r. The Cleveland administration re mains, uml nothing else is loft of De mocracy. The president Iihh sue osslod In isolating himself from his party in u momentous crisis of Its fortunes. Tho party Ims boon ovor vtliohnoil ivilh defeat. but the admin istration Inis liecn separated so fur us was practicable front ilillism uml Dor maoism. 'I lie president uppurontly was convincoil during tlio tariff strng lfl« in conn resit that the party was doomed to ilofout, amt lie Inis acted for bis own solilsh Interests in min imizing tlio ofTocts of tlio impending catastrophe upon the fortunes of the administration. lie 1ms loft Turn many nml Senutor Hill In the lurch. Ho tuts allowed tlio (iortnan turllT to far vetoed by the |sviplo without pro test from him after he suffered It to hooomo law. lie is now prepared to bold Senator Dorman uml Senator Hill responsible for the collapse of Demo crutie policies, and to discriminate between party defeat and the udmin 1st rut ion's neutrality. 171 From one point of view the presi dent lias ach'd discreetly. Dorman ism and Ilillism have boon under lire, auil the administration has escaped direct public condemnation. Dis heartened ami demoralize!! Democrats can now point to the Cleveland admin istration ns the only thing which lias been rescued from the tidal wave and the landslide, the cyclone and the avalanche. It Is the only stronghold remaining to the Democracy, and it will Is) the only available rallying }x)inl for the next party campaign. If the administration hud entered into Iho Tammany, llill and Democratic tariff canvass, it might have strength ened the party materially, but it could not have delivered Democracy from impending disaster. In the end it would have converted party defeat into an administration disaster. All men now know that the pres!• «lent was right when he declared that tbe Democracy could not face tlio peo ple after passing tlio Dorman lull with its outrageous discriminations •and violations of principles. His judgment is fully vindicated, says the New York Tribune. The famous Wilson letter lias the force of prophecy fulldicd. In antagonizing tiornianlsm ho involuntarily recoiled from a policy which was destined to end In party ruin. Tlu> prostdont may have had an instinct for forecasting the tend encies of public opinion. Ho fovsuw the effort of purty pledge-breaking ■and disloyalty to principlo, but ho larked the courage for acting upon hf» convictions. If ho had vetoed the tariff bill, which neither his con acicnco nor his judgment permitted him to sign, the Democrat lo party and tho country would bo vastly better off to-day. Consistency required a veto after tho Wilson letter. The president Mim-hod. IIo had condemned tho (ionium tariff and was under moral obligations to vote it. but ho suffered it toboeotno a law without his •signature. ft may turn out that the president in isolating tho administration from tiie party has acted with as little srourag© ami discretion as he displayed in dealing with tho tariff bill. Ho has maintained strict neutrality, and has not broken silence since tho ♦ditchings letter was written, lh' lias allowed tho party to tight its own liattlcs without aid from the adminis tration. Ho lias assumed to bo an idle 8)iectator, who was not account able for tho issues raised, and who was not called upon to identify him self with them. In like mtiunor ho allowed tho Oorman bill to become a law without connecting himself with it, but the responsibility for its enact ment qyuld not be shirked or evaded. Tho bad law is now in operation be "cause ho lacked tho courage to veto it, and tho Democracy is overwhelmed '■with disaster to-day because bo was ‘.false to his convictions and did not ffnlhiw his instincts. His silence dur ing the canvass has done irretriev able damage to his party without re leasing him from responsibility for ruinous policies which he might have defeated. A Miinint l-xtinpi*. TheNow York constitutional amend ments wore carried, including1 that prohibiting all gerrymanders, which was opposed by the Now York Sun and the Dcthocratic press of the state generally. In this particular the Km jpire state Republicans have sc* an ex ample of fair dealing in politics which .should bo followed by Pennsylvania, Ohio and other states. The condi tions are favorable for inaugurating a .reform in a matter which has been a national reproach for thro—quarters of a century.—Cincinnati Times-Star. HU Misery Ha# Plenty ot (omjmnr In the midst of the gloom that sur xoands him. it must be some comfort ■ to Springer to rolleet tliatif his claims to the p'.a-o taken by Wilson had been aitowod, things miglit not lie •quite as. ilaa as they are. Hut there is no us bln keeping that tariff bill of his any longer, the one ho oarrie 1 in his pocket when he set out for Wash ington at t lie optuing of the special .session last year. t»rovt»r*H iiu*y at the i'r lu ll.r.ry Watterson is right in eon •deniaing Cleveland for his ‘-dull, seif carrm known that tho gold roservo was slipping away and the revenues wore fulling below the expenses of tho government. It Is serious for one reason because It. was an admission on the part of the administration thut. the drainage of gold from tile government vaults has not. yet been checked, though as long ago as congress was driven into tho, unconditional repeal of tho Sherman silver law Mr. Cleveland blandly as sured the country that it would then stop at once. 1 I it lH HorioiiH for another reason, ' which in tliut the announcement was mi undisguised confession thut the Democratic tariff law comes very far short of that which was promised, and that It does not bring Importations enough to help the treasury in its trouble even a little bit. And it was just as plainly a confession that there Is no hope that the Imports will Im prove so as to give relief until tho business of tlie country greatly im proves, and that there is no prospect that it will so improve under tho con ditions imposed by Democratic gov ernment.. There is still another side to tho ijiiestion that, is very serious, and that Is tlie assumption of tin- president that tie is in possession of unlimited power to use tlie country’s credit whenever he may see lit,without taking tlie trou ble to consult congress on the subject,. There are many who do not thir'r as Mr. Cleveland does about, this; but that male's no difference to him. lie saw no reason for waiting a week or two for congress to convene, but gate the mandate to buy gold in an oiT-lmml way that suggests that congress hui parted with its constitutional right to control the opening and closing of the public purse. What can lie done by one administration can bo done by uii other, and congress should do away with all uncertainty and speculation on tho subject, at once. Hut, everything else nsido, it is a grave condition of affairs tliut made this issue of bonds alvlsublo even in the estimation of a man so self-con tained and ull-suiUeiont as tho present occupant of tlie White house. With no emergency calling for an extraord inary expenditure of money, and with the power to put our finances beyond the possibility of a gold drainage, to see our interest lioaring debt mount ing upward by $|OO,f>;>0,()0') a year calls for tho most serious considera tion on the part of every sober-think ing man.—Kunsas City journal. In tho night Direction. The constitutional amendments adopted by New York state in the late election that are ot more than a local issue are: Abolishing the oilier of coroner. Providing that no bill shall lie passed by the legislature unless it shall have been prink'd und upon the Hies for at least three days. Providing that the speaker of tho assembly shall lie tho next in order of succession to the lieutenant gover nor when the gubernatorial otlieo shall become vacant.. Doing away with the id,00 ) maxi mum limit which the law new tlxos as tho sum that may be recovered in actions for death by accident. Providing when tho lieutenant gov ernor shall refuse to put a question tho senate shall bo at liberty to choose a presiding otlieer who will put it. Providing that no inmate of a char itable institution shall bo deemed to have gained or lost a residency by the reason of being such an inmate. Allowing the use of ballot machines at elections. Prohibiting public officers from tak ing passes. Forbidding convict contract labor. Separating municipal from general elections. We offer them as suggestions to other constitutional amenders. Th» Famous down Quartet. Governors Pennoyor. Waite, Tow elling and Altgold have all been prac tically retired, while Governor Till man, like tho unshorn customer in the barber-shop, is awaiting tho word ‘•next.” Tho country never saw such a perch of gubernatorial roosters be fore aud may it never soo their like again. Hi.'ting; the Nail on the Hoad. Colonel Watterson lifts his voice above the wreck to say that "the lie publican party is now what it has al ways been.” It is. undoubtedly, and that is why tho people want it to re sume control of tho government and bring back the good times that it al ways brought to pass. <>rau«l UUI >IW*ouri. Heretofore (». O. M. has stood for grand old man, referring to Glad stone: but it now means tirand Old Missouri, and will continue to mean that as long as the old state continues 1 to roll up majorities for the 11. O. P. A Vc.ir 5*mi a Half lionet*. j The Republican national conven | tion which meets a year and a half | hence will be a halcyon and vociferous ■ a'd'iiir. Republican nominations for j president will mean something hero I after, as they used to do. 1 nil Ife Objnct*. ; Judge Holman's famous ‘-I object’ i has been overruled by the overwearied : people of Indiana. It will be useful : now merely as Holman's politic* epitaph. IT WAS STEALING A RIDE A Owdljr Tarantula Captured In n Kali war Car. A young man with much excitement, minified with big I wads of perspiration on hit face, came into the smoking car of an Krlo railway train as it was get ting along toward the meadows of Orange county the other day. Ho carried a dinner bucket in one hand and pressed Its lid down with the other. Hi-wns tho express messenger, says the New York Sun. ••I've hajfifed something,” ho ex claimed. ••Can any one tell me what kind of u pup it is?" A hijf man with long whiskers and hair and a cowboy's hat, who was smokinjf strong plug tobacco in a clay pi|s>, said: ‘•Homme see it?” Tho young man held the dinner Imcket at arms’ length and raised the lid. The big man looked into tho bucket. ‘•A t'rantuly, by cedar!” he said, and took tho bucket from the young man. • " 1 raimnj, UN sure as guns: no continued. “A eitizen of Bermudy, this chap is. And u boauty, too!-’ Tho big man got out of his scat and passed tlio dinner pail around among the passengers. It was nearly half full of something that seemed to be all hair uml claws and eyes. No one seemed pleased with the sight except the hirsute big man. It was a taran tula, sure enough. A unanimous re quest was made by the rest of the passenyens that the hideous spider lie pitched out of a window. Hut the big man gazed at, the deadly thing with undisturbed interest. “Where did you run ag'in him?” he asked the express messenger. “(’aiue out of a lmneh of bananas in my ear, ’ replied the young man. “I cornered him. ami 1m jumped into | my dinner bucket and I shut him in. What is 1m good for?*1 “Ihds a lirsl-class benefactor of the coroner when lie's to home,*’ said the big man. “If thorn's any feller cit izen of your'n that you'd like to see J have a funeral at Ids house, jist, take ' this stowaway from Bermuda home with you and turn him in your fellow citizen's garden. If your fellow cit izen fools around much in his garden you'll see crape on his door in less than two days. The frnntuly iapi/.cn for keeps to them as hnin't been vac cinated for t'runtnlies. If I was you. young man, I'd take this chap and let your locomotive run fiver him. A good strong locomotive is about tho onty thing that kin tackle one o’ these chaps and make a success of it.-1 The big man handed the dinner bucket back to its owner, who took it and carried it away. When the train left 11m next station he came in and saiil the train had met tho tarantula, and that twenty feet of grease spot uml a pint or so of legs ami hair lull indicated that tho locomotive had won. IHl. 1- ALLS OF" LABRADOR. Greater ’lima Nln^arit and Siu'|iaaiu; ' Any In tho World Sixty thousand square miles of an iroti-lwaring formation, a new lake larger than (irunde hue Mistassini, and the proof of the fuel that the big falls of the Hamilton river are the largest in Arnoi-iea, if not in the world, aro among some of the diseoveries of value made by Messrs, how and Kalon on their sixteen months" exploration of tho interior of the great habrador ] peninsula, which terminate 1 by tin- j return of the explorers to Quebec and ] their disbandment at Quebec. j After traversing habrador last yeai I from south to north, and sailing from j I ngava buy to Hamilton inlet, where i they spent the winter. Messrs, how and Katon ascended the Hamilton river to the grand falls on ire, and succeed ed in taking a splendid lot of photo graphs of it with the ice rones and other surroundings. The remains of the burned boat belonging to liowdoin college expedition were found below tho falls, and, further on, the bottle containing a record of their trip to that point. The river fails 800 foot in less than six miles, with one clear steep fall of more than doo feet. The stream above the falls is as largo as the Ottawa. Helow the fails it narrows into a can yon of only 80 or 40 feet wide, with steep walls on either side, hundreds of feet high. Mr. how brought back beautiful specimens of labradorite of the most beautiful kind of the gem. It exists in large quantities. Tho iron ore deposits to which ref erence has been made extend from latitude eO to I'ngava. and aro very rich. Whole mountains of tho ore were found corresponding with the ore of Marquette, Michigan and contain ing millions of tons. Tho large lake Miehikamaw, in the northeast.is more than 100 miles long, not narrow and full of islands like Mistassini,but from thirty to fifty miles wide. Several lakes larger than hake St. John were seen by tho party, says the New \ork Advertiser. Tito eountrv to the north is a perfect net work ot waterways, and these contain such lisli in abundance asOuananiche brook and luke trout, whitefish. etc. ••What arc you doing, Freddie *’ said tho painfully smart boy’s uncle. “I)rawin‘ pictures on my slate." “What is this supposed to rep resent ?" “A locomotive.” “Hut why don’t you draw the cars?’ ••W hy—er—the locomotive draw* the cars.” llouml to Have Fun. “Any of them farce comedies coin' on?” asked the rural visitor of his companion. “Don’t seo none in tho paper.” “That’s too bad. Anyhow, we kit. go out and visit the loonutic asylum." —Indianapolis Journal. Influence at .Salli. Tha domain of experimentation Is but begun. \Ve have not yet found out what soils are best adapted to certain fruits and vegetables. We have been raising sweet potatoes for a good many years, but have still many problems to solve. The writer was on South Water street, Chicago, last week, and casually got interested .in sweet potatoes. Jersey sweets had been selling at 3-1 per bar rel, but had later declined in price, all other growths keeping steadily below them. A very tine barrel of sweets was announced as on sale at $i, “This,” said the salesman, ‘‘is a fine barrel of Illinois grown potatoes.” On being questioned he said that Jersey potatoes ulways were best in quality, then came Illinois, and then Maryland. The other localities ranked lower. Jersey potatoes sell best, in spite of the fact that they have to be trans ported further and are consequently more exposed to deteriorating condi tions, and would be, we suppose, more likely to rot. A trial of the quality of these tubers will show that there is no locality in this country that will grow a sweet potato as fine as New Jersey soil will grow it. This is generally speaking, for there may be localities in other states that are identical in com position to the New Jersey soil, and that if known would produce as line sweet potatoes. It would be interest ing to know the exact composition and texture of the New Jersey soil used for this product, it would be interesting also to know the different soils in each state. The state of Maryland has al ready begun this good work. A map has been made, showing by colors and diagrams the soil in every county and township. A man can sit down and with the map tell quite accurately what kind of crops should be raised in eueh place. livery one knows the great difference there is in the same apple when grown in different states. This is more the result of soil differ ence than anything else. The moral to be drawn from these few remarks is, that we have got to get acquainted with the soil with which we are work ing. In other words every intelligent farmer should know the exact analyses of his soil for the first twelve inches in this view these regions have always been treeless, and the author holds that the nature of the soil and (ires have been secondary and not the principal agents in causing the condition. The explanation proposed seems to have a substantial basis, and is deserving a place among those which have pre ceded it. Sweet and Irish Potatoes. Sweet potatoes and Irish potatoes should he dug us soon as ripe, says Southern Planter. I)o not let the crops remain in the ground until the tops are all killed by the frost. The roots are very apt to deteriorate after the tops are frosted, and are more difficult to harvest clean and dry, as they should he to keep well. After frost the weather is apt to be broken and showery, and the work of digging and housing or pieing to he delayed. Do not store them in too great quanti ties in one pie or house, as they are certain to heat and spoil. Fifty or sixty bushels are quite sufficient to put in one lot. Carefully sort them before storing, and take out all damaged or slightly decayed roots. These, if left in, will soon rot and in feet the whole heap. Store them on high, dry ground, if not put into a root house, and cover with straw and allow them to sweat before covering with soil. After the sweating is over, cover with dry straw to the depth of six inches, and beat the soil solid. This will keep the pie at an equable temperature and preserve the roots. If stored in a house it should be well ven tilated to allow the moisture which will arise from the sweating of the stored roots to pass off. and then after this is over the house should be closed and kept at an even temperature dur ing the winter. This temperature should not be over 50 degrees nor be low 40. I’ndcr these conditions the roots will remain firm and sound and will not sprout. The English Hog. The illustration in connection with this article shows the old English hog, after he had been improved by genera tions of selection und breeding. He is hardly to be compared to the hog of the present day, but is a very great im provement over the wild boar, illus trated two weeks ago, and also when THE ENGLISH HOG. depth. When this knowledge becomes general it will be easy to make compari sons in the experiences of man and man. As it is at present, like experi ments give contrary results on differ ent farms.—T. F. H., in Farmers’ lie view. Cause of Treeless Plains. Prof. S. E. Tillman says between the highlands of the Appalachians on the east, of the Rocky mountains on the west, and south of the line of the lakes, lies the great lowland basin of the United States. A large portion of this area is devoid of trees. The treeless region includes both the prairies and plains, the former lying mainly east of the Missouri and the latter west of this stream. The former are usually very fertile, the latter generally more or less arid. The absence of trees is one of the most striking, impressive and strangest features of these lands. In the prairie region there are occasional forest areas of considerable extent, but on the great plains there is no growing timber save the stragglingeottonwoods that closely border the streams. Va rious theories have been proposed to explain the absence of forests from such large areas. Prof. Lesquereux suggested that it might be owing to the unlit chemical quality of the soil, due to the lacustrine nature of sediments from which it came. Prof. Whitney attributed the lack of forest vegetation to the physical texture, fineness of the soil, and asserted that such vegetation in the United States, except tin' coast belt, is nearly coinci dent with the glacial gravel. The most commonly advanced and the most popularly accepted view is that the great fires, which at intervals sweep over the regions, have destroyed and kept down the tree growth. The fact that trees grow and flourish both on the plains and prairies, when. planted and protected, renders the first two theories unsatisfactory, and it would seem that if forest or other fires des troyed and then prevented forest growths that they would also obliterate the grass. Then, too, it is known that such fires do not kill the roots of trees, but only the growth above ground. Mr. J. \V. Redway has recently, in the London Geographical Journal, offered a new explanation for the absence of trees. He thinks that the carrying and distributing of forest f-ceds has been mainly done through the agency of water, and that the spread of forest growths without this natural or some artificial aid would be very slow, lie thinks that our treeless areas have never been overflowed by running streams since they became dry land, and, consequently, they have never been sown with a forest seed. Wherever the water of running streams has spread seeds have been carried and forests have appeared. According to compared to the Irish pig’, shown last week. This better type was brought about by crossing the wild boar on a Chinese sow. I; will be noticed that the legs are much shorter, and the meat portions well developed. An early writer says: “It will weigh more in proportion to size than a wild boar, and is withal a better animal in all the pig points.'’ The descendants of this old breed are now seen principally in tiie western counties of England, where hogs of immense size are still raised, but greatly improved, when compared with their ancestry, all of the points of the improved English hog being much finer, the carcass thicker, and the propensity to fatten greatly increased. The breed is exceedingly prolific, the sows, which are excellent nurses, often having from twelve to eighteen pigs in one litter. It is sup posed that the Berkshire and Hamp shire came originally from this stock, but by some early cross obtained their present characteristics. on Irrigated Lands. In a query to Irrigation Age,answered by \V. C. 1* itzsimmons, are given some points on the profitable culture of the castor bean between orchard rows. The result shows that the bean has not been so profitable where grown exten sively as might seem it would have been. During a course of years the average gross receipts in southeastern Kansas were only ?■->.> to S.i;, per acre. And as a crop to be grown while trees are maturing for Waring it does not com pare with root crops, especially pota toes. 1 ,U'!T Pbodvctiox.—Mueh more food eon be grown on an acre devoted to fruit than can be produced with any kind of gram, fruitgrowing also pro vides a greater amount of work and re quires a larger number of helpers. To the extent that fruit growing is substi tuted for grain growing there will naturally be an increaseof country and farming population. This is what is most needed to make land valuable. The growingofgrain makes the land poorer, especially where the ! giain is sold. Where fruit is grown i the chief loss to the soil is in the min- ] eral elements, and the sale of the fruit | | brings money to purchase these. Sell- i j tng grain never returns enough to re- I ; Store the fertility expended in growing j ] ( Ill.NESE \\ ATKlt YeGETAM.KS. — In ! ! China many of the shallow pools have I their bottoms planted with edible ' j lilies, lotus, water chestnuts, water ] spinach and other vegetables which | thrive in marshy lands. These grow : rapidly, and iu the warmer sections ! i produce more than one crop each year. | It might be wise to try some of theso 1 | water vegetables in this country, as . j they will furnish a greater variety of i I food than already exists here. I Perfection In C»to Housekeepers frequently ironH. why it is that they cannot'make £ cuit and cake that are light and i»ul able and that taste as delicious as fs biscuit and cake made by their moth™ and grandmothers, the delio-htfl! memory of which even to this d, creates a sensation of pleasure to th palate. The trouble arises from th highly adulterated state of the m, terials they have to work with m! ticulurly the cream-of-tartnr and iS used to raise or leaven the IW Creara-of-tartar and soda that are no, procurable for domestic purposeseor tain large quantities of lime, earli alum and other adulterants, frequent! from 5 to :r> per cent, and consequent) vary so much in strength that no pe, son can tell the exaet quantity to or properly combine them, to insur perfect results. From using too mue or too little, or because of the udultei ants in them, bitter, salt, yellow t heavy biscuits or cakes are frequentl made. These adulterants are also ii jurious to health. All this trouble may be avoided b the use of the popular Royal Hakin Powder. Where this preparation j employed in the place of cream-of-ta! tar and soda, its perfect leavenin power always insures light, flak, digestable biscuit, cakes and past™ that are'perfectly wholesome and hi from the impurities invariably presen when the old raising preparations at employed. The Royal ISakiDg Powder, we ar informed by the most reliable sciei tists, is perfectly pure, being mad from highly refined ingredients, can fully tested, and so exactly prop™ tioned and combined that it never fail to produce the best and uniform r< suits. An additional advantage in it employment comes from the fact tha bread or other food made with it ma' be eaten while hot without fear of iii digestion or any unpteasant results while being equally sweet, moist an, grateful to the palate when cold. A Curious Coincidence. Not so long since a stoway was foun dead under the main hatch of one e the National lino of steamers. He iia concealed himself before the steame left Liverpool and died of suiToeatioi ( uriously enough, in his pocket wa found a novel entitled "Doomed on th Deep. ”—Chicago Times. (food resolutions kept actively in praiio are longest ] reserved bt mp i Mimw-✓//* Hr«. Louisa Mat loch IndigesfionTroubSdMe And I was a constant sufferer. The poison ii my blood made my limbs a solid mass of sored I happened to read an advertisement of Hoodl Hood 1 Sarsa parilla £ures Sarsaparilla in the paper ind I at once prevailed upon my husband to let me try it. I pot one bot- _ _ _ _ . tie and it did me so much pod that I kept using it until I had taken twelw bottles, and now I am entirely cured, ila Louisa Matlock, Bonita, Texas. Hood'S Pills are purely vegetable. 55c. WILL CURE CATARRH £Pfc£jJalEU into each nostril. i&Lx BKOS.,5 UP-TO-BATE CLyiS«‘!» Sold direct to consumers AT i'*'1 —• [ ever be ft rc. offered. 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