_ “BESTOKATION.”
HOW ‘’BUSINESS PROSPERITY”
IS "RESTORED” BY DEMOCRACY.
“Trade Retlral” of 1800 AfTnrda an
y Unp.'cccdented Record of Failures—
Great Results of Tariff Reform—
Lawyers and Sheriffs Overworked.
The total number of business failures
In the United States during the past
thfC'e months Is 4,512, by coincidence
exactly 700 more than in the like quar
ter last year, an increase of almost one
fVftli. The only preceding quarter In
w.bltf) the total number of failures was
as ’large as 4,000 was In 18S5, imme
diately following the panic of 18S4,
when the total was 4,050. In no like
darter before or since has the num
ber ,of failures been as large as in the
past tjiree months, although in the first
quarter of 1894 there were nearly four
thousand business failures reported—
3,909—compared with which the in
crease during the past quarter is about
qpe-ninth.
After a year of extreme depression,
following the panic of 1893, and par
falling behind the work of the Mc
Kinley law, which they denounced as
inefficient. Even in Its closing months,
when Importations had fallen oft by
reason of the expectation of reduced
tariff rates, the McKinley law produced
more revenue than has the Gormar.
law. Its receipts in the last nineteen
months of its operation were forty mil
lion dollars greater than those of the
first nineteen months of the Gorman
law, while as for its first nineteen
months, the McKinley exceeded the
Gorman law by eighty million dollars
in its receipts. Here is a statement
which shows, in three lines, the com
paratve revenue producing qualities of
the two laws, whether In the beginning
or closing periods of the McKinley act:
McKinley law receipts first
19 months.$566,919,004
McKinley law receipts last
19 months. 521,819,675
Gorman law receipts first
19 months. 481,423,509
In every particular, the new law has
been a failure, whether In customs re
ceipts or internal revenue receipts.
McKinley the Protection I a t«
“The year 1890 found him at the head
of the Ways and Means Committee and
; leader of the house. In that position It
fell to his lot to frame and secure, the
j enactment of the McKinley law. (Ap
plause.) That measure has made his
name familiar In all the world and has
made him exceedingly unpopular In
almost all the world outside of the
United States. (Great Applause.) But
it has correspondingly endeared him
to his countrymen. Time has vindi
cated his labor. The last three years
have been years of trial. They have
been years of Democratic rule: they
have been years of education for the
American people in the school of practl
American Grownf
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Foreign Countries
t during the livo fiscal_v)eoirS,
1694 and 1895
•fieularly after a year In which there
7w«s a moderate boom in leading com'
■mcrcial and industrial lines and a gcn
, ‘Ihdyance in prices, as in 1895, it
>JWuid have been natural to expect a
r year with conditions looking to im
provement, the outcome of which could,
of bourse, hardly help lowering the
cCnmerctal death rate.
tie most unfavorable feature of tho
rffort concerning the quarter's fail
ures is the relatively heavy Increase of
■labilities compared with gain in num
of embarrassments. Thus, while
th| increase in the latter is 18 per cent,
as compared with the first quarter of
and about 11 per cent, compared
the first quarter of 1894, total 11a
litlcs aggregating $62,513,000, are
put 30 per cent, larger than in the
spondlhg period.one year ago, and
per cent, larger than In the' like
. &rlod two years ago. No correspond
ing period during the previous fifteen
years has presented so large a toftl of
liabilities as that the statistics for
Wglch arc now made public. In the
«ftt quarter of 1895, when there wore
Opy 4,050 failures, total liabilities
amounted to $41,464,000, nearly one
tnlrd less.
ifli is when we come to records from
Western and the middle states that in
$f£ases, not only in number of embar
rassments, but in aggregates of Indebt
edness, becomes striking. The western
athtes show an Increase of the num
ber of failures of more than 45 per
«ent., 1,205 compared with 830 a year
ago, but with respect to liabilities the
increase there is more than 200 per
<Cpnt. $16,906,000 as compared with $5,
96,000. The states of New York, New
Jjpraey, Pennsylvania and Delaware re
port 1,030 business failures, against 910
d year ago, an Increase of only 13 per
opnt., but they furnish $21,102,000 of in
debtedness for the first quarter of 1896,
against $17,445,000 in the like quarter
last year, an increase of 24 per
cent.
a In New York City alone the total
xtnmber 0f business failures by quarters
Jumped from 165 last year to 258 this
/year, about 50 per cent., but the total
liabilities Increased from $4,924,000 to
$8,296,000, nearly 70 per cent.
tluee IAim is Urn.
Tbs Democrats have tost heartland
no calcuatlon upon seeing the re
pts under the Oorman law equal the
diturea. They are astonished to
that in every particular the law
ts tailing short of its promises and
cal experience. As a result the Ameri
can people know a great deal more
about the tariff now than they did In
1892. (Applause.) Every business man
has found out that: no matter what
kind of business he may be engaged In,
the tariff has a close, direct relation to
him, and the wage-worker has learned
that his prosperity depends on the
maintenance of a protective tariff
policy, As a result, in every sec
tion, in every state, in every country,
In every municipality, in every
mill and mine and furnace and
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hnMs
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during the two
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forge and workshop — everywhere
throughout alt this broad land where
capital Is Invested or labor Is em
ployed, William McKinley Is the ideal
American statesman, the typical Amer
ican leader and the veritable American
Idol. (Great Applause and Cheers.)
Ah. Thml
With Mr. Cleveland as President
there will be a feeling of security for
every honest industry In this great re
public.—Col. John McAnerney, presi
dent of the Seventh National bank, la
the New York Times, Sept. 80, 1893.
Indeed, colonel.
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How lictnifgl Farmer* Operate This
Department of the Farm—A Few
Hint* a* to the Care of Lire Stock
•nd Poultry.
HE BABCOCK
test has come into
extensive use with
in the past few
years and is likely
to be used still
more in determin
ing the value of
dairy cows and of
the many different
milks and creams
brought to factor
ies for the manufacture of both butter
and cheese.
As so much depends upon the accu
racy of this test where thousands of
dollars are to be divided among patrons
annually, it Is of the utmost import
ance that, inasmuch as the sample
tested is necessarily small, all meas
urements should be made with the
greatest possible accuracy in order to
secure uniformly reliable results.
It has been found that many of the
I3abcock bottles and pipettes now in
use are inaccurately graduated. In
view of this fact and of the tflfflculty
in securing bottles and pipettes which
can be relied upon, the Pennsylvania
Experiment station has undertaken to
supply as standards to any resident of
the state desiring them, a tested Bab
cock bottle and pipette at a price suffi
cient to cover the original cost and the
expense of testing and postage. In this
connection, owing to the wide varia
tion found in cheap dairy thermome
ters, the station will also undertake to
supply to residents of the state desire
their spring and summer pasture.
Then when your pasture “plays out”
rin the toll, or .about, September, 15 tqj
October 1, you will have fine food la
your lots for your hogs, where they
will root at Intervals whenever the
ground Is not frozen too hard until the
following May, when they will have
received as much real benefit from one
acre of artichokes as from five of corn,
at a very conservative estimate—some
say ten acres. The hogs will also leave
enough tubers in the ground to serve
as seed for tho next crop. It is a hog’s
nature to root. In fact, his hogship is
never happier than when he is root
ing. An artichoke patch can truly be
called a hog’s drug store. A hog’s ob
ject in rooting being to obtain roots,
which his appetite craves, and which
serve the same purpose for him as a
blood cleaner or spring medicine does
for the human being. Ayer, of sarsa
parilla fame, can fully explain this.
After a hog has eaten artichokes to his
heart’s content, the rooting notion will
have been put entirely out of his head
and he will not root up his spring or
summer pasture. A wealthy hog
raiser (Mr. Booher) of the writer’s ac
quaintance, and who has made 480
acres of $100' land from hog
raising for the pork market,
says he would not bo without a big
annual patch of„ the tame artichoke,
and that he has had no hog diseases
in his herds since he has allowed them
to root In his artichoke patch to their
heart’s content.
He claimed that a sow will never eat
her pigs if she has been previously
given a good feed of artichokes. The
artichoke (tame sorts) is a wonderful
soil enricher, fully as good as red
clover.
Tho writer cuts the tubers to two
eyes per piece and plants precisely
same .as potatoes, and cultivates pre
cisely same as corn. They grow about
eight feet high and grow so. dense
that weeds have a hard time in an
artichoke patch. The artichoke stands
RESULT OF CROSSINGS ENGLISH AND EAST INDIAN CATTLE.
Our Illustration shows a" cross' be
tween some English cattle (presum
ably shorthorns), and some Indian
breeds. The United States, consul In
Ceylon says that these crosses are
an Improvement over . either, of t^e
■ -parent breeds, so far as use In India
Is concerned. They will stand the pe
culiarities of feed and climate better
, than the imported cattle, and have
., more useful qualities than the native
Nellore cattle.
tag ii a tested thermometer as a stand
ard, under the above conditions.
The station has also prepared a bul
letin containing lull and explicit direc
tions for the use of the Babcock tes:
which it will mail free to all who may
desire it.
E. Hayward.
Pennsylvania Experiment Station.
Artlobokm for Ruga.
Hitherto the growing of this valu
able tuberous rooted perennial has
been almost wholly neglected, and
greatly misunderstood. During the
past few years the “tame" or domes
ticated sorts of the artichoke have been
imported from Europe, and are grad
ually making their way to an exten
sive cultivation in the United States,
Canada and Mexico. It is In place in
this connection to mention that there
is a deep-seated, long-standing preju
dice against tho artichoke among the
farmers of the United States.
But there Is "wild’’ rye and “tame"
rye, “wild” onions and “tame” onions.
“Wild” barley and "tame” barley.
“Wild” lettuce and “tame” lettuce,
etc. Almost every grata and vegetable
cultivated and used as food by man has
ItB namesake In a noxious and often
times dangerous weed. The artichoke
Is no exception to the general rule.
The wild artichoke being Indigenous
to most localities (wherever the soil
Is suitable) In North and South Amer
ica. It is merely a bad weed—a dan
gerous peat, which produces few and
small tubers and spreads its long
fibrous roots out a long distance and
deep down into the soil, making Its
extermination a difficult task. Many
farmers who have seen it growing un
derstand It fully. But the same farm- 1
era do not understand that there Is a
difference—a vast difference In the
wild artichoke and the “tame” arti
choke. In fact they are as different
as is wild and “tame" lettuce, or is
wild and “tame” rye.
VUt iUQ vuo )/uov tv FI J VU1 D
er domesticated aorta of artichoke' have
been Imported from Europe and are to
a great extent becoming known and,
cultivated on this continent, as a cheap,
healthy stock food. The “tame” ar
tichoke can be aa easily grown as born
or potatoes, and on land that will pro
duce 50 bushels per acre of Indian
.corn, 500 bushels per acre of artichokes
can be easily grown. The writer fre
quently does this and has grown over
90 bushels per acre on ground that
had never been manured. Their great
value aa a cheap, handy, healthy hog
food has been so thoroughly aired in
the press of the country the past few
years that an enormous demand has
been created for them.
As a pork producer they cannot be
excelled. A good plan is to plant all
your lots to artichokes about May 1,
or as soon as your stock la put on
drought much better than the potato,
and there is no insect that infests
them to the writer’s knowledge, of sever
alyears In growing three kinds of them.
The "tame” or domesticated artichoke
should be replanted every three years
as they run out, or in other words, the
—ground needs a rotation of crops.
They are very easily and entirely ex
terminated if the young tops are
plowed under when about one foot
high. Artichokes are valuable, not
alone as a hog food, but for any kind
of stock and poultry, and also for
horses. Poultry Just about live in an
artichoke patch in warm weather,
where they hide from hawks In the
shade, and scratch out the young
tubers. The tubers are highly prized
for milch cows as valuable milk pro
ducers. The writer feeds the tubers to
his horses every spring. Horses pre
fer them to any other food after they
have become accustomed to them.
They completely take the place of oil
cake and condition powders, making
horses shed nicely and clearing them
of worms. The writer has tried sev
eral varieties but has finally settleu
on the White Jerusalem, Red Jerusa
lem and Mammoth White French as
the most valuable sort to grow in the
central west Illinois.
B-rr«<l l'lymonth Roden.
For ten years I have been raising
poultry. During that time I hav^ kept
the White and Brown Leghorns, White
and Barred Plymouth Rocks. Of all the
breeds, I prefer the Plymouth Rocks.
My poultry house is an ordinary frame
building, but comfortable. I feed soft
food in the mornings and whole grains
in the evening. I do not confine myself
to one grain but try to give a variety.
As to the market, I can sell all the
breeding fowls I want to dispose of in
the home market. I have never failed
to get eggs in winter, though in the
very severest weather they of course
fall off some. One year I lost almost
an entire flock from cholera. I was
away from home when they took it,
and in five days nearly all of them died.
I lost but two chicks after I got home
and could attend to them. 1 find lice
the greatest enemy of young chicks.—
W. H. Reid in Farmers' Review.
Milk in New York.—The milk supply
of New York increases at a fair pace.
The daily consumption. by the city is
in the neighborhood of 100,000 gallons.
The consumption of cream is about
3,500 gallons per day, and of condensed
milk in excess of 12,000 gallons for the
same time.
Care for the Crown.—When setting
strawberries, be sure that the crown
is not covered with dirt. A litttle at
tention in setting it even with the
ground will do much good. Also see
that it is so set that the water will
not wash the mud over it
'at THE AMATEUR REHEARSAL.
The Star Rode a Wheel In a Fink Silk
Gown.
“I think you were to enter on the
right instead of the left,” said the man
ager, according to the San Francisco
Examiner. "Yes, that would be a great
deal better.”
“But the left side of my hair is
much prettier than the right,” said the \
star, decidedly. “I can always do it j
better. The left has got to be toward :
the audience.” I
“But you will have to face Sir !
Thomas anyway, and he is over here
by the side-board,” the manager ex- j
plained. !
“Well, we’ll turn the stage around,”
said the star, cheerfully.
“I’m afraid that will confuse the
others,” said the manager, apologetical
ly. “You see, there are only a few more
rehearsals, and they have all practiced
this way.”
“They can easily get accustomed to
it,” said the star. “In an amateur play
looks do make such a difference. I’ve
been in loads of them. Of course you
are used to professionals, and that is
quite different, I suppose they have to
be fussy about exits and cues and
things like that.”
“Yes, we consider them quite essen
tial,” murmured the manager.
“With amateurs it’s all clothes and
looks,” went on the star. “Now, tell
me, would you wear pink Dresden silk
or white moire in the second scene? I
can’t make up my mind.”
“But, considering it is a garden scene
I and you come in on a wheel-”
I “I won’t wear a bicycle rig,” broke in
j the star. “They don’t suit my%tyle at
all. I'll do anything but that.”
| “I suppose the bicycle might be left
out altogether,” said the manager, with
a perplexed frown. The star turned on
him indignantly.
“Leave.it out after I’ve broken half
the furniture in the drawing room and
ruined the carpet and torn three dresses
learning that entrance!” she exclaimed.
“Indeed, I won’t. The audience can
suppose I’ve been receiving at a tea
and came home on my wheel—or any-^
thing else it chooses. I don’t care.”
The manager gave up the point and'
reflected it was a good thing that stars
were usually dependent on salaries.
“I wish before the next rehersal you
could manage to learn a little more of
your part,” he said, deferentially.
“Then we can tell better how it will
go.”
“Oh, I’ll know it all right when the
time comes,” said the star. “I never,
can make up my mind to learn it till
the last minute. Why, last time I
acted I left out two of my most impor
tant speeches at the dress rehearsal and
mixed the others all up and the man
ager had perfect fits, but in the play
the next night I didn’t have to be
prompted once. That’s just the way I
am. I can’t help it.”
“But it would greatly help the oth
ers if you have the speeches more ex
actly, so they could have their cues.
All of them are not so experienced as
you.”
“Well, I’ll learn the ends of the
speeches anyway, so that they can tell
what comes next,” said the star, gra
ciously.
“I know a lovely skirt dance,” she
added, after a moment’s reflection. “It
might be a good idea to run it in in the
garden scene.”
“Do you think it would be exactly
suitable?” suggested the manager. “You
see you are there to stop a duel between
your brother and the man you are in
love with.”
“Oh, I can always get it in some way.
I managed it even in 'Romeo and
Juliet,’ ” said the star, easily. “I can
say something about being downheart
ed and dancing to cheer up my spirits,
while they are loading the pistols and
talking with their seconds. It would
look prettier in the garden scene than
anywhere.”
WISDOM
I want to help you grow as beautiful
as God * meant you to be when' he
thought of you first.—George MacDon
ald.
Blessed Is the hand that prepares a
pleasure for a child, for there is no
saying when and where it may bloom
forth.—Jerrold.
A life of real virtue, of nobleness, of
true greatness, is not an accident. It
comes, if it comes at all, from lofty
aspirations, from incorruptible mo
tives, long cherished and held sacred
as life itself.—John Learned.
Not only to the God that is above us,
but to the God that is in us, let us di
rect our,prayer; and to that God let our
Importunity be such that, like the man
of the parable crying for bread at mid
night, it cannot, will not, be denied.—
John Chadwick.
Much of life is only fragments—U9
finished things, broken sentences, in
terrupted efforts, pictures left uncom
pleted, sculptures only half hewn, let
ters only partly written, songs only
begun and choked in tears. But not
one of these fragments is lost if it has
love’s blessed life in it.—J. R. Miller.
In our keen look at the strong out
ward practicalities of life, do not let
us forget its inmost secret of power;
that all. noble thoughts, all noble pos
sibilities of life, spring out of this Love,
or touch their finest meaning in it;
that there is no factor like it in the
makeup of the world.—Brooke Her
ford.
To be religious is not to be a seer
of visions and a dreamer of dreams. It
is not to be a dweller on the Mount of
Transfiguration. It is not to be rapt
iu sweet and serene meditation. It is
to be yourself, and being yourself, to
take the nature which God has given
you and use it in his service by using
it for your fellow men.—Lyman Abbot.
The first newspaper advertisement
appeared in 1652. _
Forage For Swine.
Next to alfalfa, sorghum is probably
the best green forage plant for bogs.'
Wherever alfalfa grows, it is advised to
plant alfalfa along with sorghum for
hog pasture. A good authority as C. C
Georgeson of the Kansas station advis
es having a few acres in alfalfa for hog
pasture the greater part of the summer,
and in addition grow a piece of cane,
cultivating it as when growing for su
gar, and feed this in the fall to fatten
ing hogs.
The iron grasp of scrofula lias no
mercy upon its victims. This demon
of the blood is often not satisfied with
causing dreadful sores, but racks the
body witli the pains of rheumatism
until Hood’s Sarsaparilla cures.
“Nearly four years ago I became af
flicted with scrofula and rheumatism.
liunning sores broke put on my thighs.
Pieces of bone came out and an operation
was contemplated. I had rheumatism in
my legs, drawn up out of shape. I lost ap
petite, could not sleep. I was a perfect
wreck. I continued to grow worse and
finally gave up the doctor’s treatment to
Well
take Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Soon appetite
came back; the sores commenced to heal.
My limbs straightened out and I threw
away my crutches. I am now stout and
hearty and am farming, whereas four
years ago I was a cripple. I gladlv rec
ommend Hood’s Sarsaparilla.”’ URBAN
Hammond, Table Grove, Illinois.
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla
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Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
HnoH’c Dill,, cure l*ver ills, easy to
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