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When horses are compelled to r
main exposed to storms at this season
the use of a robber blanket, with flan
nel lining, will be of valuable assistance
in the prevention of colds and. lung dis
eases. Troy Times.
The Poultry Monthly is of the opin
ion that Dominiques breed more true to
color than any other breed of fowls.
They are very hardy, mature early,
splendid layers, sitters and mothers,
and good table fowls.
Quinces can be grown in most lo
calities where apples thrive. The se
cret of success with this somewhat diffi
cult fruit is' mulching in winter and
heavy manuring in summer. Wood
ashes, leached or unleached, are highly
beneficial. The quince borer must be
dug out with a knife in the fall. Dead
twigs impair the vitality of the trees
and must be removed. .y. Y. Herald.
Apple Roly-Poly: Peel, quarter and
core sour apples; make rich biscuit
dough with baking powder or raised
biscuit dough, roll up, put in a pudding
bag, and then into a kettle of boiling
water with an earthen plate in the bot
tom. Boil an hour and a-half constant
ly. Before using the pudding bag
wring it from hot water, and flour the
inside well. Any kind of nice sauce is
good with apple roly-poly. N. Y.
Tribune.
There is no quicker or better way
of getting a mired cow out of a ditch
than attaching a chain to her head
wound around the horns and hitching a
pair of steers, or oxen, at the end of it,
and when the chain is taut and in a
direct line with her and the ring in the
yoke gently tap the team and pull gent
ly in the direction indicated, and on the
least pull the cow will begin to help
herself, and before she is hardly aware
of it will be safely landed on the ditch
bank, probably plunging and bellowing
with fright, but not hurt nevertheless.
N. Y. Post.
Diseases of the Horse's Teeth.
The diseases of the horso's teeth, at
well as the proper treatment of them,
differ-considerably from those of man.
Feverishness, loss of appetite, diarrhea,
and a number of other and widely dis
similar affections, cither arising wholly
from difficulty in dentition, or more 01
Jess severely aggravated by h, are so
frequent in" young horses, that, when
ever any of them occur, and are found
on examination of the mouth to be ac
companied with prominence and push
ing of the tushes, a crucial incision
ought to be made upon the gums. The
grinders of horses more advanced in
age are apt to become roughened in
the edges from irregular growth or from
irregular wearing of the enamel, and
may in this state give rise to bad ulcers
in the mouth, and ought to be rasped
.smooth. Part or whole of a back tooth
or other grinder sometimes grows to a
higher level than the rest of the teeth,
and penetrates the bars ahnvp it-, paiid.
ing serious ulceration, or interferes so to tne milkf but every such assertion
constantly and ruinously with mastics- always calls out so many experiences tc
uu (u iu ubuuiuu a gcuciiu JiuiU xur
Fcrfflbere mJ ftw Feed.
In a talk on dairy farming recently
iven by Dr. Voelcker to the students
rf the Royal Agricultural College, he
laid of the management of pasture land,
chat while in some places steamed bono
meal produces excellent results, in oth
ars it produces no effect at all, even
when applied in very large quantities.
This little item of experience, within the
comparatively .narrow boundaries of
England, besides suggesting caution in
the use of this fertilizer, also shows the
folly of some writers for our agricultur
al papers, who, because they see no
good effects of nitrogenous manures in
their own immediate neighborhood, pro
ceed to advise everybody else all over
this great expanse of country not only
to lay out no money for the costly nitro
gen of commercial fertilizers, but also
to pay no heed to waste of nitrogen in
their own stable manure, by overheat
ing in the pile, or by leaching out in the
yard most pernicious advice.
But Dr. Voelcker also expresses his
very decided opinion that the use of ar
tificial manures generally, and especially,
of guano or nitrate of soda, does not
pay on permanent pasture. He affirms
that his own numerous experiments
have taught him this lesson, and also
that those which Lawes and Gilberi
have been trying for so many years
teach the same lesson. But something
must be done to replace what is carried
off from the pasture in the milk and
meat sold, or it will surely run out,
sooner or later; hence his sound advice
to feed oil-cake to the pastured stocic,
and for this he particularly recommends
the cake so easily had in this country
decorticated cotton-seea cake, given at
the rate of two and a-half pounds per
day an animal, if both pasture and cows
are to be kept in good condition. At
.certain seasons 01 the year, as in the
spring, when the first grass is eaten, he
would give undccorticatcd cake, three
pounds a day; its husks are preventive
against scours; he would also use' this
cake if Indian meal is fed.
For feeding dairy stock in the barn
he quotes the use of bean meal and oat
meal, one or both as the case may be,
by a very successful Scotch dairymen,
who supplies a round of customers thai
want very rich milk. Voelcker himself
finds five pounds a day, a head, of a
mixture in equal parts of decorticated
cotton-seed cake, bran, bean meal and
oat meal to be as good or better than
bean meal or oat meal alone. Anotbei
dairyman, every one of whose Short
horn cows makes not less than one hun
dred dollars a year for him, gives one
bushel of brewer's grains, two and one
half pounds of bean meal, two and one
half pounds of Indian meal and forty
pounds of hay to each animal; and in
the summer, when the animals are it
pasture, he gives two and one-hall
?ounds of decorticated cotton-seed cake,
'hus it is seen that cotton-seed cake
enters largely into the milk ration in
English dairy husbandry.
Occasionally complaint is made in the
papers that tne cotton-seea gives a taste
THE DAIRY.
Feed the cow all she will eat and
digest.
In Dundee, Scotland, a dairyman
was recently lined 5 for selling milk
which had been kept in a room in
which his son was wnfined by scarlet
fever. Seventeen persons who used the
milk were attacked by scarlet fever
and four died.
The butter crop of Vermont is esti
mated at 27.000.000 pounds half a
pound for each man, woman and child
in the United States. The butter crop
of Iowa is estimated at 100,000,000
pounds, or nearly two pounds for each
individual in the country. Vermont is
one of the old dairy States, lor years
her products have had a National and
indeed, a European reputation. The
dairy interest of Iowa has grown
within about a dozen v
her
000,
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raise
scalawags as are now destroying the
dairymen's business out of their boots.
A little energetic action would do it,
anyhow. American Dairyman.
firm. in joni v
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j I fciriu l
aMwmrrirignten sucn a sec oi ;
want oi aueiooa; ana whenever any
such over-growth is detected, it ought
to be reduced to the level of the other
teeth. A general -irregularity in the
surface of the grinders, though not
marked " by any very observable prom
inence -in any one part, is sometimes so
great as to occasion quidding, and to
constitute great and almost incurable
unsoundness. a -
Caries, or rotting of the substance of
the teeth, occurs more or less in all ani
mals, but is peculiarly frequent and vir
ulent in man, and especially so in those
members of the human "family who
. think themselves most highly civilized.
One cause of this disease in man is the
want of a due degree of dental action,
occasioned bv the luxuriousness or soft
forms of food; another is the rapid and
mighty whirl of chemical forces acting
on the teeth from the great diversity
and rapid succession andpiquant nature
of the articles of diet; and a third and
chief is the adherence in their teeth or
their interstices of small particles of
easily decomposable substances, such as
flesh meat or animal sauces, or almost
any of the mixtures of the nio3t
relished dishes. Decomposition of
the particles is rapidly effected
under the combined "action of
the heat and moisture of the mouth,
and the oxygen of the atmosphere: and
an acid reiiilts which immediately at
tacks the phosphate of lime in the teeth,
and after awhile so far accomplishes
its decomposition as to set the teeth
perfectly a decaying. A little hole ap
pears which henceforth constantly lets
in the atmospheric air, the salivary se
cretions and the decomposing particles
of adhering food; and unless this hole
is promptly stopped with some proper
composition, a rapid decay of the entire
tooth, or its destruction, is inevitable.
Caries, though incomparably rarer to
the horse than in man, yet sometimes
occurs with such virulence as not only
to destroy one tooth, but to communi
cate the rotting to neighboring teeth,
and even to the jaw. When a carious
looth is found m the horse's mouth, it
should be extracted. Prairie Farmer.
Cost ef Fences.
fVchave always supposed that the
farmers of the United States were more
extravagant in the way of fences than
those of any other country; and while
we- still think so, there appears to be
more money spent on building fences
than is actually necessary in other parts
of the world. Prof. Scott, in his recent
book on "Farm Fences' in Great Brit
ain, estimates that for every acre of in
closed land in the United Kingdom
there are oyer five dollars invested in
fences, and that ,the annual main
tenance, -of these fences costs something
like seventy-five cents per acre. Tak
ing these figures in the aggregate, as
applied to the 45,000,000 acres- of "in
closed land in the United Kingdom, he
shows the capital invested in fences to
be nearly $250, 000,000, and the annual
maintenance and repair of these fences
to cost at least $33, 750, 000. He thinks
that the existing fences might be dis
pensed with, but don't tell how it is to
be done, or what can be used in their
stead. The fence question is ft very
important one in this country; and
while more fences are probably built
than is actually neeessary, we really do
not see how we could get along without
any kind of fence. N. Y. Sun.
the contrary, from those who have used
it freely, and whose milk and butter an
in many cases disposed of to fastidious
customers, that there can be no doubt
that if the cake meal is clean and good,
and is properly used, from two to foui
pounds a day may be given to each
animal, with good results. Doubtless the
larger the natural yield of the cow the
more liberally she may be fed with con
centrated fodder, as agcneral rule; bul
the careful farmer will always keep a
watchful eye on both cow and milk-pail,
especially when giving this high feed;
even if the health of the animal is kept
in prime condition, and allowing that
the richer the fodder the richer the
manure, it will depend upon the profit
with which the rich manure can be used,
on crops that bring good prices, whethei
very rich feeding pays, unless it pays ix
the milk. " "
Of the use of oat meal for cows men
tion is not often made in this country:
but when spoken of it is always with
praise. That it is better than core
meal there can be no doubt: it is rich
er in both albuminoids and fat; anc
the usefulness of these two nutrients,
and especially the former, for making
milk is shown not only by the results oi
numerous careful experiments, but by
the acknowledged usefulness of oil-cake
meal. Where this meal is used freely
there would be less use for oat meal:
byJ- under some circumstances it mighl
be advantageously substituted for the-
bran in the favorite mixture for cowi
of Indian meal and bran. N. Y. Trib
unc. An Agricultural Creed.
The following is the creed adopted
by a recent agricultural convention is
Canada:
Wo believe in small farms and thor
ough cultivation; we believe that the
soil lives to cat, as well as the owner,
and ought, therefore, to be well
manured; we believe ingoing to the bot
tom of thmgs, and, therefore, deep
plowing, and enough of it all the bet
ter if it be a subsoil plow; we believe
in large 'crops which leave the land bet
ter than'thcy found it, making both the
farm and the farmer rich at once; wc
believe every farm should own a good
farmer; we believe that the fertilizer oi
any soil is a spirit of industry, enter
prise, intelligence without these lime,
gypsum and guano would be of little
use; we believe in good fences, good
farm-houses, good orchards, and good
children enough to gather thermit; we
believe in a clean kitchen, a neat wife
in it, a clean cupboard, a clean dairy,
and a clean conscience; wo. believe to
ask a man's advice is not stooping, but
of much benefit; we believe that to
keep a place for everything and every
thing in its place saves many a step,
and is pretty sure to lead to good tools
and keeping them in order; we believe
that kindness to stock, like good shel
ter, is saving of fodder? we believe thatil
is & good thing to keep an eye on ex
periments, and note all, good and bad;
we believe it is a good rule 'to sell grain
when it is ready; we believe in pro
ducing the best butter and. cheese, and
marketing them when ready.
. i
The American Garden says that in
Its natural state the strawberry is gen
erally found growing in deep, rich and
moist ground, yet free from standing
water, and these are just the conditions
of soil that we endeavor to. provide fat
Its most successful cultivation.
Batterine and Boards of Trade.
Yes, they laugh at us at the West
when we say, on good authority that
the Boards of Trade out there are ma
nipulated by the owners of butterinc
factories; but we were told this by a
man who has eyes to see with when he
travels, and he'had just returned from
Elgin, t and he pronounced the whole
business of public sales on these boards
-a farce, and the chances are just about
ninety-nine in a hundred that he told
the truth. The American Cultivator,
that generally knows what it is talking
about, backs us up in this statement as
follows: "The butterinc and oleomar
garine men are again advancing the
price of fancy grades of creamery but-
ncy
We
ter m the West, lhese manipulators
of lard and tallow and grease need
quite a percentage of choice butter iff
their mixture to lend flavor and aroma
to the mass. Again, the higher they
bid up genuine butter in small lots, the
more they can obtain for the counter
feit by the ton." t Now let the farmers
who are not in the secrets of this little
game, and who belong to these boards,
institute inquiries and they will find
that most of the highest priced goods,
or rather the best flavored goods,
go dirictly to the olco shops and
are used for flavoring the very article
that cuts the market from undei
them. To be sure, if your butter sells
at top figures you get a slice of this
profit and it may be asking too much oi
your human nature to look after the
interest of the trade at large, but the
great mass of farmers arc not in the
swim, and they are the ones te take
this matter up and sift it to the bottom.
If energetically done you will probably
find that these butterine people have
got their men out concluding arrange
ments either with the makers or hand
lers of the best goods by which they are
to have absolute control of all the best
butter that is offered for sale, to the
entire exclusion of all outside buyers.
This is often accomplished, not merely
by paying more for it than the market
will warrant, which they sometimes
will do to freeze out their competitors,
but by private agreements the cash
character of the sale isturnedinto time,
delays of payment or shipment are
made, or in some way they get favors
not accorded to others. These oleo
people are the sharpest and most un
scrupulous men in the market, and like
railroad manipulators they work to
gether, and all the time with the one
sole object in view of accumulating
money by sharp practice and at the ex
pense of the innocent and hard working
farmer. We say combine and contrib
ute money to "ferret them out. Tlu
American Dairyman.
According to Belgian papers the
health of ex-Empress Cariotta, widow
of Maximilian, has so much improved
within the last five months that her
physicians entertain hopes of her re
covery. The ex-Empress is now in her
forty-third year, but looks; much older,
her hair being very gray. She has be
come thin and wrinkled, but her eyes
still retain their old animated expres
sion. The King and Queen of the Bel
gians often visit her at the castle of
Bouchonte, where she resides.
The ex-Empress can not afford to re
cover. She is happy as she is, and a
restoration of her memory would bring
her the keenest regret. She is still, in
her oA-n eyes, the wife of the fair young
man who was shot to death by Mexi
cans shortly previous to the termina
tion of our. civil war, and still the Em-
ress of Mexico. She went to Pans to
Louis Napoleon, who was the
r of Maximillian m the effort to
rt Mexico into an Empire, to save
usband and the Empire, so-called;
is Majesty had just received word
Mr. Seward to the eflect that he
get out of Mexico, and he felt
ust leave the well-meaning and
Irous young Austrian to his
Cariotta was refused an audi
and that was the last ac-
e intelligence that ever came
her weary brain. She never
how her husband was shot.
doesJJ'-'not know to-day that
exican Empire was a failure. The
grandeur over which she presided
ded away, but she thinks herself
ch an Empress as she was when it
d. The court which recognized
its Queen has been scattered to
ur winds, and most of the men
omen who .composed it are dead:
e Uueen is the (iucen still, with
ing, her companions, and hei
is about her. She reaches out
ands to grasp that of her imaginary
wnicn 13 paipaoie, anu tne nngers
hemselves on the rose leaves with-
tbe palm; but she knows not the
difference and she knows neither disap
pointment nor grief. It is a charmed
life, and it would be a pity to awake it
to the bitterness which it has so happily
escaped; to the knowledge that the
King is dead, the paper house has been
in ruins a quarter of a century, the
French Empire has followed the fate oi
the one that existed for a few days in
Mexico, "and the Emperor who wrought
the ruin has himself passed on, leaving
a childless widow more forlorn than
herself.
"Poor Cariotta!" exclaimed Maxi
milian as he faced the soldiers who a
second thereafter shot him. His sym
pathy was wasted, for she has been bap
pier during all these years than perhaps
any of the brilliant court that came up
so" suddenly and so suddenly passed
away. N. Y. Graphic.
Temperance Beadin;
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THE BUM-SELLER'S REMORSE.
AS ECHO FKOM CRUSADE TIMES.
" I have come home to you, mother. Father,
your wayward son
Has come to himself, at last, and knows the
harm he has done.
I have bleached your hair out. father, more
than the frosts of years.
I've dimmed your kind eyes, mother, by many
bitter tears.
Since I left you, father, to work the farm
alone.
And bought a stock of liquors with what I
culled mv own.
I've felt aslmmed to see you, I know
you down.
To think you had brought up a
his native town.
It broke
boy to harm
I'll never sell it
I'vo shut
I've jriven it all up, mother
more.
I've smashed the casks and barrels.
and locked tne door.
I've signed the Temperance pledge, while the
women stoou and s.ing;
The clerjrymen gave three hearty cheers, and
both the church bells rang.
Hut ono thing seemed to haunt me, as I came
home to you:
Of all the wrongs that I have done not one
can I undo.
There's old Judge White just dropping into a
drunkard's grave,
I've pushed him down with every glass of
whisky that I gave.
And there is youiur Tom Elliott. He was a
trusty lad,
I made him drink the first hot glass of rum he
ever had.
And now he drinks night alter night, and acts
a ruffian's part.
He has maimed his little sister, and broken
his mother's heart.
Then, there 1 Harry Warner, who married
Bessie Hyde.
He struck and killed their baby, when it was
sick and cried.
And I poured out the poison that made him
strike the blow;
And Bessie raved and cursed me. She is
crazy now, you know.
I tried to act indifferent, when I saw the
women come.
Thero was Ityan's wife, whose children shiv
ered and starved at home.
He had paid me. that same morning, his last
ten cents for drink:
Whcn'I saw her poor pale face, it made me
start and shrink.
mother, wrapped in
the merchant, my
There was Tom Elliott's
her widow's veil.
And the wife of Brown,
whisky made him f
And my old playmate, Mary, she stood among
the band.
Her white check bore a livid mark, made by
her husband's band.
I yielded, then and
and of-
It all just overcame me!
there:
And Elder Thorp, he raised his hand,
tered up a prayer.
I knew that he forgave me. and yet I had to
think
Of his own boy. his only son, whom I had
taught to drink.
So I have come back, father, to the home that
gave me birth.
And 1 will plow, and sow, and reap the gifts
of mother earth.
Yet, if I prove a good son now, and worthy of
you two.
My heart i heavy with the wrongs I never
can undo.
.Yrs. &. O. JfcYean.
. The Treatment of Dairy Cows.
Mr. J. A.
man, writing of the
Smith, a western dairy-
importance of the
feed and proper treatment of dairy
cows, gives some excellent suggestions
on this topic. He says that dairymen
are often surprised at the light weight
of their milk the next morning after a
cold rainstorm, through which their
cows have suffered unstnbled, and it is
only a natural result of such treatment.
lne cow does not eat as much, for one
thing; and another is. part of what she
does-eat goes to repair the waste of her
system in withstanding the effects of
the storm, and that keeps a per cent,
out of the milk pail, until she has re
covered from the effects of such ex
posure. It is also true that a cow, af
fected by short feed or painful expos
ure, not only loses in the quantity of
her yield of milk, bnt in the amount of
fatty matter it contains. In a word,
nature has so organized the cow that
3hereyenges herself on her owner'3
pocket, for cruel neglect and short
feed; and a farmer might just as well
try to dodge taxes and death as to risk
the unwise treatment of a cow. In
point of fact, when thus treated, she
takes the first and gives the owner
what skim. milk she cannot assimilate.
The only way to get a profit out of her
is to fill her so full that she runs over,
and take the surplus for your gold
mine. Midland Farmer.
The best bedding yet discovered is
sawdust.
History or an Oak-Table.
A handsome oak-table, elegantly
carved, stands in the parlor of an up
town house.
"How did it come into my posses
sion?" said a gentleman who was writ
ing at it to a reporter of the Sun. "Oh,
oddly enough. It wjis given to me by
a convict just released from the Con
necticut State Prison at Wethersfield."
"He made it himself?" asked the
visitor.
"Made it! Not he. But he stole the
money that bought it. O, no, I am not
a receiver of stolen goods. I will tell
you the story.
" About thirteen years ago 1 rented s
house from Warden Willard of the
Connecticut State Prison, who was
afterward murdered by the convict Wil
son. Ihe prisoners used to be lured
out to farmers, and brought back tc
their cells at night, and many of them
worked on the roads. Among the lat
ter was a large, powerful, full-blooded
negro, who was serving a ten years5
term for robbery. I made his acquaint
ance, and often prevailed on the keep
ers to allow him to pass an hour in my
house, where both I and my family
grew to regard him as a quiet, inoffen
sive fellow, who had gone :istray once,
but would probably lead an honest life
after his liberation. At last he
took mo into his confidence in
the most astonishing way. He said
the money he had. stolen had never
been recovered by the owners. He had
turned it all into cash and buried it. He
assured me that it amounted to fifteen
thousand dollars, and he offered tc
share it equally with me if I would dig
it up and keep it until he came out of
prison. Of course I refused, and
urged him to give up the money or tell
me where it was buried. He declined
to do either, and thereafter he lost no op
portunity to renew his proposal. At
last he was liberated, and left the prison
a few days after Warden Willard was
murdered. Three months later a negro
who attracted the attention of half Weth
erstield by the splendor of his dress
called at "my house. It was my old
friend, the convict.
" So you have dug up the plunder?'
I said.
" His face assumed a vacant expres
sion. What plunder yon 'ludc to sah?'
he asked.
"Why, the money you stole and
buried.'
"'Case of 'staken 'dentity, sah,' he
said, with dignity. I never stole nc
money. Never buried none. A lyin'
verdict, sah, sent me to prison.'
" 1 never saw him again; but a week
later an express wagon stopped at the
door, and the driver delivered this table
and a small parcel containing a hand
some set of iewelrv for each of my
an cnvel-
A Modern Moloch.
Two speaking diagrams have recent
ly been put in circulation. They are
maps of certain parts of Boston, desig
nating, by black blocks, the liquor sa
loons in the districts. They are hardly
more than a huge blot. In a district
near the Albanydepot, about six hun
dred fifty feet square, eighty-two sa
loons flourish. In a little larger dis
trict, near the Lowell and Eastern de
pot, one hundred and seventy-five sa
loons are seen. These little 'diagrams
show more plainly than words can do
what a grasp the liquor interest has
upon our city, a grasp that no ordinary
eltort can shake oit. if one wishes to
have his eyes more thoroughly con
vinced, he has but to take a stroll down
Merrimac street or Kneelaud street aft
er seven o'clock of an evening.
It seems hardly out of place to ask
for whose benefit is this enormous traf
fic? Few, if aliy, kinds of legitimate
business exist that cannot give a reason
for being, that can not justify their ex
istence by supplying some necessary de
maud, or ministering to the harmless
pleasure of their patrons. Directly, or
indirectly, all legitimate business bene
fits a community. If R. H. White &
Co., or James R. Osgood, did not di
rectly benefit our city by answering a
need among the people they would vet
indirectly benefit it by tile enormous
tax on their unsold capital, which thev
turn into the treasury. The liquor
tratlic confers no such benefits. It
answers a demand, but a demand of the
lowest antl basest appetite of which
man is possessed. The saloon-keeper
invests no capital, and in few instances
pays any tax besides the license. In
spite of this license, high license as it
is sometimes called, the saloon-keeper
pays the smallest tax in proportion to
the business done of any business man.
On the contrary, the whole community,
even inusu ronscienuousiy opposed to
By a recent law in Missouri licenses
are granted, but a high price is demand
ed for them. The money thus raised is
adderf"fo" the school fund, and, as a re
sult, commodious school-houses are be
ing erected, and the cause of education
has received an onward impetus. If li
censes arc to be granted the income de
rived from them should be sufficiently
large to cover all the expenses accruing
from tho liquor traffic. In other words,
the money derived from licenses should
be enousrh to build and maintain nine-
tenths of the alms-houses, prisons and
jails; three-fourths of the lunatic asy
lums; one-quarter of the hospitals, be
sides paying rive-sixths of the bills for
police officers and police courts. Other
wise the business is a burdensome tax
upon the sober and industrious elements
in the community, and should be resist
ed as an unwarrantable encroachment
upon the rights of the citizens at large.
Golden Rule.
Liquor in Elections.
The liquor sellers in this city are or
canizin" to control the elections. The
Herald says: About fifty met last week
to effect an organization to assist them
in securing a more lenient Excise law.
John Cavanaugh was elected Presi
dent, and M. P. Gillmore, Secretary.
Mr. Cavanaugh stated at length Ins
views on t-he subject and the course that
should be takeu by the dealers. He
claimed that each liquor dealer in thi
city controlled from five to ten votes.
and if the dealers wanted to put a stop
tj the police raids they must unite theii
patronage and support.
"If the 11,000 licensed liquor dealer
in this city, controlling, as we do, 10,
000 votes," would work together for the
election of a Mayor and a District At
torney," said Mr. Cavanaugh, '-there
isn't money enough in New York to de
feat any big brewer, if we should nom
inate him for Mayor. I don't cart
what the party is we join or whethei
we start one of our own. I am a Dem
ocrat, but I'll vote for the blackest Re
publican if he will say he is in favor oJ
a fair Excise law." Mr. Cavanaugl
then went on to .-ay that the licensee
dealers ought to be considered as hon
orable as other merchants, but the pub
lic would not discriminate betweer
them and the unlicensed dealers who
encourage vice. "This ring tindet
which we suffer originated at Police
Headquarters." said he, "and has grad
ually worketl down to the District At
torney's office."
A committee was appointed to per-
lect tne organization and secure the co
operation of the dealers in the othei
wards.
Mr. Corragin thought that by closing
the saloons on Sunday w hile those in
Brooklyn, Jersey City and the suburb
were kept open, the bread and buttei
were being taken from his mouth. Ht
was in favor of closing during church
hours, but keeping open for a stipulat
ed time during "the day. Mr. Pipei
wished no action taken on that subject.
"We don't wish to advertise ourselves
as law-breakers," said he, "though ev
erybody knows we are. For there is
probably not an hour in the day that
we don't violate the law. The law
says wc shall not sell liquor to children.
Yet I am afraid some of us do." The
meeting then adjourned.
The above shows what a powerful
foe is to be met by good citizens. In
tho last State election the linuor dealers
demonstrated their power. Now they
are preparing to take this city in their
own hands. "They can 'do it, "and they
will unless the friends of order anil
good morals are vigilant and faithful.
Ar. Y. Observer.
Where Is the Right of IV.
Some time ago I siw it proclaimed in
the press, by authority of a prominent
and influential clergyman, that he did
not favor abstinence from alcoholic
drinks, but. on the contrary, that he
approved their habitual use. It seems
to me there must be a right and wrong
as to this matter, and it ought not to be
difficult to find.
Some time ago a stranger to mi and
I were the only occupants of a carriage
on an English railway. The gentleman
knew me: he was a Tector of the En
glish Church. He commenced a con
versation brusquely by asking:
"Mr. Dow, do you (Temperance peo
ple) hold that to drink a glass of wine
is a sin for us?"
"We say nothing of that, but this is
our view. An intelligent man mint
know something of the sin. shame,
crime, horror, which in this country
come from intemperance. He must
the business, are heavily taxed in sup- know that intemperance conies from
port of the result nf tun t,-.. u:.. I v. .iri.r ,..,.. . . ,,
daughters. With them was
ope containing a . sheet of paper, on
which were the words: Well, yes,
boss. Dug 'em all up.' "-N. Y. Sun.
It is proposed by some of the
friends and .admirers of the late Will
iam Cullen Bryant to erect a statue to
his .memory in Central Park, New
York. As Mr. Bryant was President
of the Century Club at the time of his
death, the preliminary arrangements
for this tribute have been placed Under
the direction of that body. y. II Trib
une. . There is a club" for working
girls in London. Two nights in the
week are devoted to singing, needle
work and "cutting out," and five
nights to a school, a drill and in
struction in the Bible.
It seems incredible that the people of
a great city can be so patient and lon--suffering.
That thev will consent ?o
pay taxes for the support of paupers,
made paupers by the liquor traffic
that they will consent to pay taxes to
build jails and prisons to guard crimi
nals urged to crime through the liquor
traffic; that they will consent to pay
the bills of Judges and juries and police
officials, whose time is consumed carina
for the victims of the same traffic, is
one of the anomalies of human nature
Wars have been fought to lift burden
oi less weignt irom the shonlrior nP
oppressed people. Revolutions have
been successfully carried out to effect
a less change than the shifting this load
of taxation where it belongs. The
French people were hardly more taxed
to support the luxury of the nobles, in
which they had no part, than are tho
Temperance peoplo taxed to put money
into the hands of a few brewers, dis
tillers and dealers.
These are significant facts: Vincland,
N. J., has a population of 12,000. It
has no saloons or drinking places, its
police force consists of one man, to
whom it pays $75 a year. It has no
Police Court. Its bill for the support
of paupers is $400 yearly. Yonkers,
W. Y., has 15,000 inhabitants and 215
licensed and unlicensed dram shops. It
costs $37,000 each year to keep pnblic
order. Its Police Court is maintained
at a cost of $4,800, and its bill for the
support of its poor is over $15,000.
Yonkers, with its one saloon to every
seventy-five inhabitants, pays ninety
limesas much for the simnnrt. ;,"i
, City Government as Vineland with no
saloons. Vineland is a remarkably
pure city, but it is not an extravagant
statement to say that if no liquor could
? bo"rht in Boston the expenses of the
City Government would not be one-
quarter what they now are.
the dnnkinp- habits of soeintv. lie
must know, also, that these are"uphe(d
and perpetuated bv the example and
inlluence of the better classes of the
people. For a man who knows all this
to lend the intaience of his example to
uphold the customs whence all this
mischief comes, is a mortal sin. We
hold it to be a primary Christian dun
so to live that if all the world should
follow our example no harm could come
from it. If our example of total absti
nence should be adopted by all the
world, the sin, shame, crime and infinite
misery coming from intemperance would
cense in a day, and the world would be
relieved of nine-tenths of the wretched
nesy by which it is now cursed."
The rector made no reply. Hon.
Zeal Dow. in K. Y-Independent.
Temperance Items.
Hox.
said:
a pillar, nor quiet con
the opiate of a court
Theodore FitELiN-mirYsES
"If men will ernr;iro Tn this dis
astrous traffic, if they wiU stoop to de
grade their reason and reap the wanes
Of lniOUitV. let tlum nn lnnmii- Invo th
taw nook as
science with
license."
Sexatok Gahlaxd, of Arkansas,
never drinks. "I Was passing bv the
cemetery near my home one day,"" said
e " anl I saw the graves ofa dozen
brilliant men who began life with me.
every one of them hastened to his end
K i 7Sky- J maile up my mind tiia:
l nad drunk my share, and stopped."'
Fashion no lonor demands that
wines be offered callers on New Yesc's
Y- .Temperance must be popular
when it can break down a custom of
v u TT0n &tanling as this. One of our
ob llul ladies last year steadfastly re
lused to offer wine to guests; since "then
several large receptions have been held
without the introduction of liquors of
any kind Shtn Francisco Rescue
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