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tAT #t>^|ETH!NQ agriculti TO -Alton* P<Mte-H«w t» Vmy Ruk WaM» •»d Stable Floors -- Cultivating ~~ Beet«~w»u-Pocket for MaiestiMV- Paeding--The Poultry yap* i,' *P* FASH. About Pacts. <1:*' jt* v I* £-'<• r • 'i'- ' .?>V,v P«» .•••iVMKS "' %v ^ « 4 « v •: ' &{v 3 •„' #v > » V:$t& -' C :i0'- ,*'V- 'SQi this subject G. F. WHcd*.*J\ & -itfit State, WTlte» • u follows *- the •American Agricuttmiii: Last spring I dog Out a line of fence Iposts that had been In the ground more than twenty-one years, and had •occasion to compare the rela­ tive durability of chestnut and yellow locust. The chestnut posts were nearly All so far de­ cayed that they would readily break at the surface of the ground, but the IfettB* posts, to all appearance, liwl twenty years more of service in them «s posts. One gate post, locust, about one toot in diameter, was rotton to the depth of an inch 4n thickness around the outside. Beneath this the wood was sound, hard and uncolored. Jt appears a peculiarly of the locust that the wood does not readily become affected in its interior. Decay is complete as *%t as it goes, but it goes very owly. J have also refnoved a grapevine trellis, built with large posts over twenty years ago. All the posts were chest­ nut but one, and that was yel­ low locust. The c-hcstnut posts were decayed clear through, IMSOV- bat the locust was not affected ED POST. to the depth of more than half an inch. I think that post would stand fifty years more. Is it not worth while to grow yellow locust? The only drawback Is the borer, and that usually is not universal. The locust is easily propagated from seed, and is a rapid grower. I have known a stfed- ling to grow seven feet in height in one season. Under favorable conditions the tree will easily increase from half to three-quarters of an inch in diameter, •each year, for tho first twenty years. I should think it would be the best of all timber for railroad ties unless its hard­ ness prevents driving spikes. Figure out what ten acres Of locust timber well set »nd cared for until the trees attain a diameter of ten inches and a height of forty feet would bo worth. It might be a better investment than a life insurance. And cheaper, besides affording some pleasure in looking at it. The post as well as tho fence of tho future will be of iron. With the abund­ ance and cheapness of this metal it ought not to be very far in the future. The iron posts now on the market are either too costly, or too for durability. Probably angle Iron be the form and material of the future iron post, and I wiil here suggest a form for the opinion of experts. The two points at which a post should not yield, to stand well, are the bottom and at the surface of the ground. In this model sreat bearing at the surface is obtained by riveting to the post a section of much larger angle iron. The bottom of the post is simply spread by hammering when hot. This makes a P°8t in the illustra- tion^^Bpoursethi) post could be driven into^^K ground, and wind and frost ie affect it. Holes should bo tie wires in. Plank Walk* andrJBtnbl« Floors. ^reader \vill study the arraln in "of the planks ui_anx.iVfr!k,_or,. q,s inted in Figs. 1 aiid 2, it will be iat iu the first the grain forms successive cups or gutters, which catch And hold the rain water, which causes the plank to decay quickly. It will al­ so be seen that the same grain as it runs along the face of tho plank makes long, sharp splinters, which in rain and shine 11 4 % rt'i 1 'Ci* - {>$?& * • RilY i'i'-W" «e - fovi •mn'i x-\ sr GK-'M*' *<;• J, ., it,- • * Wp." Wclpi.' WK»o«4to' theastit /benefit Is their striking upward* to the mellow surface soil is importAnVsof'vlnff as a mulch and maintaining moisture for the roots. A hard or baked crust* especially if allowed to become h»test®l with grass and weeds, is often fetal to success or growth.--Ohio Farmer. U| iways le to i «oHb^r rio. 1. WBONG WAY. FIfi. I1H.IIT WAY. soon warp up and endanger the feet, and -tear the dresses and are unsafe in many ways, besides rotting out the planks so much quicker. Now turn this same plank over, as shown in Fig. 2. and it will be seen how each close grain makes a little roof over its fellow,and all liquids percolate through the loose grain and drain away, allowing the plank to dry -quickiy, while the splinters are no­ where to be seen. Planks and boards should therefore be laid properly as in Fig. 2 and not as in Fig.' I.--American Agriculturist. ________ Cultivating Field Berts. Beets for early table use are usually planted much too closely for profit, though if to be used while young the nar­ row spaces between the rows may be al­ lowable. But the main crop for stock, And these are also just as good for the table if grown without check, should be planted in rows throe foot apart, so that the work can be mainly done by the cul­ tivator. If the beets grow without any interruption, the laKgost will not be tough or hollow. These defects are caused by hot, dry weather, which shriv­ els the leaves. After this rains may start th«) beet to growing again, but it will never be as good as it would had growth never been stopped for a single (r'C THB CBCBABttl, Potash salts for Fruit Trees. . Almost all' fruit-bearing trees need •more available potash. Even if analysis shows this mineral ih the soil, its needs AD additional supply in soluble form. If wood atilies can be got they are the best, <AS they supply mere mineral elements deeded by the tree as well as potash. But potash «alts are mikh better than noth­ ing, and every tree that shows signs of blossoming should have an especially liberal supply. The earlier they are ap­ plied the better, for the spring rains and melting snows will dissolve the potash and carry it down to the roots. Grapes In Northern latitudes, i?/ ^Che summers in this continent ^re milch warmer than they are in England or any of the British Isles. It is the heat of summer rather than a continued mildness through the year that is essen­ tial to jiuccessful grape growing. In the growing season, between April and Oc­ tober, the higher the latitude the longer the sun shines eaclijday. Thus the grapo becomes possible even in Minnesota and Dakota, provided tlio vines are protected <dorin£ winter. Summer in these regions is usually dry and very hot, but a well- rooteiigrape vine is not eas^yinured by heat or drought. y > ry . Deep Transplanting a There are severs! reasons why in set­ ting out young fruft trees they should mot be set deep Ir. ,the soil. j. A deep hole is liable to become partly filled with water, to the detriment of growth, and causing it to become baked in summer drought. 2. The ~oil is more likely to be thrown in with the spade in large lumps And masses. Deep planting is often Adopted as a remedy for short roots which have been cut in digging, instead long horizontal roots which will hold rax UOU8KHOL& Wall-Pockot lor Macastova. ' TO make the article Represented in the en- jiraving, procure a A b o a r d t w e n t y - o n e inches long and ten wide; have it sawed to the shape shown ih the illustration, and cover with some pretty dark cloth or cretonne. TaKe two bands of rib­ bon each twenty-four inches long; or, if pre­ ferred, two bands of the material used. Embroider and tack them on the board, as shown in the engrav­ ing, being careful to leave the ribbon full enoughto slip the pa­ pers between it and the board. Place a screw-eye at the top of tie board to se­ cure It to the wall and finish tho ribbon ends with a small tassel. It is both serv­ iceable and pretty.--American Agrkml- turiat. fiWels tor tha Nek. These simple foods, tho base of which is usv'ly some one of the grains, play an iufk< lapt part in tho dietary for the sick, ir properly made; but the sloppy messes sometimes termed gruel, the chief merits) of which appear to be that they aro "prepared in ten minutes," are scarcely better than nothing at all. Like all other dishes prepared from the grains, gruel needs a long, continuous cooking. They should, when done, be the very essence of the grain, possessing all its nutritive qualities, but in such form as to be readily assimilated. In tho preparation of gruel, a scrupu­ lously cle&n double boiler or stewpan is of the first importance. It is a good plan in every household to reserve one or two cooking utensils purposely for tho preparation of gruels and other delicate food, and not be obliged to depend upon those in daily use, as utensils used for the cooking of fruits, vegetables, meats, etc., unl(*ss cleaned with the utmost care, will sometimes impart a sufficiently unpleasant flavor to the gruel to render it wholly unpalatable to an inavlid whose senses are preternaturally acute. If it is desirable to strain the gruel be­ fore serving, have a hair seive of a size to stand conveniently within a large bowl or basin, turn the gruel into this, and with a wooden of silver spoon rub it through the sieve. Have a second clean wooden or silver spoon if necessary, to remove that which hangs • beneath the sieve. On no account use the first spoon for the latter operation, as by so doing one is apt to get some of the grain into the gruel, and destroy its smoothness. When as much of the gruel "?ls possible has been Rubbed through the sieve, turn the strained liquor into a clean saucepan, reheat to boiling, and season as desired before serving. Hinta to Housekeeper*. USE newspapers to polish windows and mirrows. IK the surface of fine wood cabinets has grown dull go over it with a very little linseed oil on a soft woolen rags. PAINT on windows can, it is said, be removed by melting some soda in very hot water and washing them with it, us- sing a soft flannel. A FEW drops cf ammonia in a cup of rain-water, carefuyy applied with a wet sponge, will remove the spots from paint­ ings and chromos. To PREVENT flies from spoiling gilt frames and fittings, brush them with a camel's hair brush wet in water in which onion^have been boiled. PUT tea and coffee away in air-tight receptacles as soon as they are brought to the house, l^hcy lose much of their flavor by standing uncovered. It is a good plan to go over the bed­ steads before beginning any of the clean­ ing, as delay in these days when the sun has become strong is apt to increase the trouble there. PLASTER busts and statuettes may be cleaned, when it is not desired to paint them, by dipping them in thick liquid starch and drying, and when the starch is brushed off the dirt is brushed off with it. WE all know how soon cheese dries up and is unfit for the table, but this same waste cheese can be made as good as new, and very nice looking, by grating it fine on a horseradish grater. Prepare only as much as is needed for immediate* use, and you will find it good enough for anybody. WARM bread or cake can be cut with­ out becoming moist and heavy, if the knife, a thin, sharp one, is dipped into boiling water, wiped quickly, and the bread cut immediately, before the knife has time to cool. A napkin should be laid double on the plate where th«'P*rm slices are laid. ' THIS PULTBY XAKDw How to Pack Eggs. N It Always pays to pack eggs In egg Cases. They are self-counting; being uniform in size, and will carry the fragile fruit much safer than any other way. An exchange says that market reports quote eggs with such a large range in prices, because of the unjudicious management and unskilled handling. It is best" to make two grades, those absolutely clean and fresh and those not up to the stan­ dard in color, cleanliness or freshness. The Color of Eggs. It has always been our opinion, says an exchange, that food given to poultry has much to do with the color of the yolk of their eggs, and we still hold to that opin­ ion, and ss.y that the more fish, meat, cabbage, and stimulants you give your poultry, the lighter color the yolks on the eggs will be. If you want yellow yolk eggs feed the best yellow corn you can get. You will find this to be true and you hare only to try it to provo the as­ sertion- ' A Hardy Fowl. The Plymouth Rocksliave proved their great adaptability to variable climates, atmospheric changes and unfavorable conditions. They have the ability to stand the summer's heat and winter's frost; neglect bad usage, uncomfortable quart­ ers and poor food, without showing signs of deterioration. They make good for- lagers when at liberty, on the farm they become self-reliant and will provide for themselves a good share of their living for eight months in the year. They will bear oon&^ment well us they are neither wild nor ol. a roving disposition. They have a pleasihg appearance, one that would strike the ordinary observer with the idea of usefulness, nor is this idea illusory, as they embrace more practical merits than any breed that we know of. Tho farmer will find them his fowl In every inspect ... stock so at «yi* 'largest amount smallest cost. Liberal pot by any means imply ,1 feeding. At no time is it good y to feed stock more than they lg» clean. This is true whether fare "feeding for growth or to fatten JlSlrkct It is not necessary to keep IfUflag stock fat, and usually it is I^Mwtog feed to keep in any other condi- tton. But when you are feeding to fat­ ten it is an item to feed so that the larg- >A§t possible gain can be secured. A failure to do this Is a failure to derive the largest amount of profit in feeding, and the best gain with the stock. If fed more than they will eat thev will waste feed, and this is adding to the cost without a corresponding gain. After stock has matured, unless it is in­ tended for breeding, the sooner it is fat­ tened and marketed the better. It rarely pays to fatten matured fctock, only to finish for market, and with good man­ agement in feeding during growth, very little feeding will be necessary to finish off. Neither does it pay to feed stock after they are fattened for market. It requires the very best of management at this time to keep them from losing, and it will only be in exceptional cases that feeding after that time can be made profitable. AVith stock that have been fed and kept in good condition with the cxpeeta* tion of fattening in the fall, care should be taken when feeding to fatten is com­ menced, not to feed too heavy at the start. An economical plAn will be to gradually increase the quantity each day until you are giving thyn all they will eat up clean, and then keep this up. The stctck will thrive better and there will be less waste of feed than if too much is given at the start. The different foods should be fed in different ways, and as far as possible each kind should be given in a way that will secure the best return at the lowest cost. To many who are accustomed to wast* feed it may seem a small matter to econ} omizo in feeding, yetit is only by economy in the feed that we are able to fatten the largest number of stock and realize thi best profits from the farm products that are fed out. In other words, feed liber­ ally, but not wastefully.--if. J. III Foorm, Field and Stockman. ' Pig* A subscriber asks: 1. "How many pigs should be together in one pen, iand what should be the dimensions of the pen? 2. What are the causes of butter not keeping over four days? We work it well; have a spring; the cellar is cool and the crcan; is only one week's gather­ ing." The number of pigs is a matter of preference. Two pigs together will thrive better than one alone. Six pigs should bo a maximum number. They should forage when young, but a pen ten feet square will be ample room, if it be kept clean and dry after they are con­ fined. The difficulty of the butter is the age of the cream for churning. Three days' cream may be used, and if cream from a single days' milking can be used, it is better. Mixed cream (of different ages) causes the butter to be somewhat bitter. > - . 7, . A Simple Remedy. *f- It frequently happens that stock are quite badly cut upon or by barbed wire. Though not severe enough to need a stitch they heal slowly. Here is a sim­ ple remedy which will not only keep away flies, but will drive out maggots fronj wounds where they are found, and hearthem rapidly. Take the inside bark of the elder, and boil in lard until a strong salve is made. Add a little tar. Apply plentifully, and as frequently as necessary, and unless the wound is e: tremely severe, it will soon heal. . ! THE KlTCUXft "Made-Over" nitliM. Butter a dish and line it with cold mashed potatoes seasoned with salt, pepper, butter, and cream, and a moiety of minced parsley. Layer it with any kind of chopped meat or fish alternately until tho dish is filled. Cover it with bread crumbs or mashed potatoes, brown nicely, and serve with tomato catsup. Miuce cold steak or cold beef, free it from every particle of fat sinew, season with pepper, salt, and a little minced onion; place in a dish buttered and lined with cold maccaroni stewed or baked; pour over it cold gravy or soup stock, or a spoonfnl of Liebig's extract of beef in a little hot water. Cover with bread crumbs barely moistened In a little hot milk, into which two spoonfuls of butter have been stirred. Bake half an hour; serve with it tomato catsup. Minced cold steak, heated in a little water, with a teaspoonful of corn­ starch or potato flour seasoned with salt, pepper, and butter, poured over lightly browned toast, makes a nice breakfast dish. A few mushrooms added, or mush­ room catsup, gives zest to the dish. Butter a dish and strew lightly with bread crumbs. Alternate with thinly- sliced cold mutton and tomatoes p^k d and sliced or canned tomatoes may be substituted; season each layer with salt, pepper, and small lumps of butter. Spread the top fayor, which should be tomatoes, with slighly moisted bread crumbs. Bake about forty minutes, carry from the oven to the table. Serve hot, and with it Chili sauce. Innumerable are the ways of Serving over cold potatoes. Bring to a slow boil in a tea-kettle-boiler a quart of new milk, season with pepper and a large tablespoonful of fresh butter; thicken with potato flour or a teaspoonful of cornstarch or cerealine. Add the cold potatoes cut in large-sized dice and sim­ mer fifteen ihinutes. Stir frequently, pour into a dish, add the salt and keep the dish covered that the contents may retain their heat. In the country, or where milk is abundant, cold potatoes cut up and simmered for an hour, or longer, until the milk has simmered more than half away and the potatoes have assumed a glassy, waxy appear­ ance, are almost as appetizing as oysters. A teacupful of sweet cream adds a touch of deliciousness to an already savory dish. When thus cooked they require constant stirring, unless cooked in a tea­ kettle-boiler. Take cold mashed potatoes that have been well seasoned with salt, pepper, butter, and cream. Flour the hands, but do not add flour to the potatoes; make into egg-shaped balls, wash over with beaten egg, place in a shallow pan and bake a light brown. Serve hot, and edge the dish on which they are served with leaves of fresh parsley or fringed celery.--Women x Illustrated IForlH^- ^ f / A Honeymoon on Wheels. A young Viennese bridgegroom pro. cured for the most important trip of his life a new furniture van with three horses and a driver. The interior he fitted up in a most dainty, luxuriant wav, with every comfort and conve­ nience dear to the feminine heart. The cooking problem would arise to any one but lovers, but whether the dinner united the culinary art # with that of handling the reins, or whether tho young woman herself was a cooking school graduate, is not known. AnyJ way, the pair expect to spend a two- months' honeymoon at the cost of little more than a hundred dollars per month, rumbling about the countryin their own private conveyance with Buffet ac­ commodations. ITS EFFECT' BE TO RAISE PjHjJjr of It WfcuM MMra Everything Dear lApfe tb« People Would Want to Buy wltfc' CftNfti Xoaay. ' The Indianapolis J&krnal has figured out that the total i|®ver output of the world is -?140,OOO,OO0A year. Of this sum the United States furnishes t55,000,000. These figures are approximate only, and do not purport to be accurate. But they £re sufficiently so for the purpose of considering the wild-cat silver schemes that all sorts of money theorists, cranks aud speculators are presenting to Con­ gress. ' If the proposition to buy all the silver in the market,, from time to time, should be adopted, it would require an issue of $140,000,000 in Treasury notes a year, or $700,000,000 in five years, or $1,400,000,- 000 in ten years. Of course the business of the country will increase, and a great­ er amount of money will be required from year to year for its transaction. But the increase of money should be of good money, not money of an inferior grade. If large additions of inferior money arc created, the result will simply be to drive the good money out'of circu­ lation, and there will be no adequate in­ creased business. An addition of $700,- 000,000 in five years would cause every dollar in gold and in currency as good as gold to disappear out of sight. Tho effect of making cheap money and plenty of it would be to make everything dear that peoule should want to buy with such money. M<*n earning wages would be the principal sufferers. Men iu trade, buying and selling commodities: manu­ facturers making and soiling their own tisnpataai (^oyemment into ll® IBHWS- " The schwttfesof govern­ ment thns fer propoaqd by the Alliance leaders A» hs vision#? as the hopes that have been aroused in the bre«s# «t the struggling farmer. THE STORY OF A NEW PARTY. How Houthora Democrats Would Have It Appear. That is a very funny story which comes from Florida, safs the Chicago Inter Ocmn, about the plot of the North­ ern schemers in the recent convention of the Farmers' Alliance. These men, most of whom are not able to get from the Republicans\he offices they crave, went to Florida to turn the Alliance into a third-party organization. They had no other object. When the Alliance can­ not be made a political machine to grind th°m put offices they will have no use for it. The Southern element controlled the Alliance. Its leaders are Democrats, and they do not propose to have the organization turned to the disadvantage of the Democratic party. The Northern delegates were so informed at the out­ set. If the Northern representatives desired to form a third party in the North under the care of the Alliance, but with a new name, they would be gratified. 8o these farmers for politics or office only, from the North, met in a shed while on an excursion, and, upon a declaration of principles which one of them drew from his pocket, they formed a new party--a dozen of them. The Democracy applauded this--an Alliance party for Republicans was, of all things, the most desirable. The next day the Alliance met to agree upon a declaration of principles. The Northern delegates the^fpee or two articI^M*, UfceM and prediet thafc the threatened advance on these geods will bankrufltfce country. Tho Republicans believe Itttrt the increased duty an these wiil stimniAte manufacture in this conn- try and that in a short time the home competition will reduce the prices to a lower point than now prevails. -The free trade organs make much ado about the threatened advance of a quarter of a cent in the price of a tin cup, but they intentionally neglect to mention a reduc­ tion of two and one-half cents per pound on sugar after April next. Which is the more important? The friends of the McKinley law can afford to wait. The verdict of the American people will not be against the new tariff law when it has been fairly tested and is fully under­ stood. As thfe reaction has already come in England, so it will come here, and the reaction whan it comes will leave the Democrats stranded, high and dry.-- Des Moines Register. Kxehango Comment. A SUGGESTION to the rising politician--- Get a farm. DEMOCRATIC success and nkpnetajrj^In­ sanity go together. THE Farmers' Alliance is less interest­ ed in agriculture thaa in politics. A TEXAS paper says Cleveland will be the nominee of the Farmers' Alliance in 1892. Perhaps the Alliance in Texas are fishermen instead of farmers. FREE trade with European countries means the next thing to free trade and free labor from China. THE November elections gave the Democratic party just rope enough, and .INO THE EA! 8Ti THE O. »||| * .V'-: " v* 4 f - 1 's '• HOME" INDUBT Though slightly disfigured the grand old party faces the enemy with undaunted courage for the battle of '92t wares; capitalists, speculators, and the like would not suffer. They would raise tho price of what they had to sell In pro­ portion to the increased price that they would pay for what they bought. But the man earning wages would not find his pay increased in proportion to the higher prices of the necessaries of life. He would find a five-dollar bill as hard to get then as now, and go not near as far as now in purchases at the grocery, the meat market, and the stores. Labor would be the victim of cheap monejv as it is of hard tioies, when wares are low and employment difficult to obtain. The harvest would bo reaped by capital and by speculators. A period of cheap money would not be for labor a repetition of greenback times. Then wages were high because two mill­ ion men were taken from tho rankg of labor and were consuming all that labor produced. Now there is no such scarcity and demand for labor as then existed. It is probable that wages would be no higher than at present, while tho price of everything tymght with the wages of labor would be 20 per cent, or 25 per cent, higher than at present. , Who W1U They UtfT Ex-Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson replying to the question as to who will be the Presidential candidates In 1892, in.a recent interview said: "I must confess that I am not wise enough to tell. I found President Harri­ son very popular in the South. Harrison has had an absolutely clean administra­ tion; even Democratic malice could not attack it in the campaign just closed ex­ cept for its generosity to the soldiers. Harrison has followed the party. He has had no policy, so-called. He has had no favorites. I think he has subordinated everything to what he thought was party interest. He has not had, and his Cabi­ net have not had, the activity and warmth, perhaps, that many would have liked, but they have attended to their official duties so well that even Demo­ cratic criticism can find no lodgment against it. and that is a good deal. I do not think the President has any self- seeking in his purposes or actions. "As to Mr. Blaine, he is the conspicu­ ous figure of American politics to-day, as he will be as long as he lives. I think ho is the greatest individual force in the world to-day. I don't think he will seek the nomination. I don't think he really desires it; but I don't think he would refuse it. If he had proposed his reci­ procity plan In January or February, it could have beon publicly discussed and gone to Congress with the force of pub­ lic opinion behind it, and I think it would have helped us a great deal. His plan is likely to become very popular." Concerning Cleveland,and Hill: "Cleve­ land kept silent before the election, but has been very proline in speeches since. The Democratic party believes in fight­ ing men. Cleveland got his following in the party by his courage in dealing with the elements of his own party and his courage in putting out his tariff message He showed no courage in the late cam­ paign until after the light was over. As tho fighting Democrats reflect over it they will gradually become discontented with him. Hill left his own State and went around to help the outsiders. He made speeches on the field before elec­ tion, and Cleveland has made them at the banquet table since the election^ Cleveland's veto of the Silver bill, if1 silver legislature proves popular and is adopted by his party, will be a bar which he would hardly get over. Jf silver leg­ islation proves unpopular it .will help him to re-establish himself. This, too, would make practically certain his re- nomination in 1892. Yet there is % larger element of superstition in the Democratic than in the Republican party, and this element will not want to go into a fight with a man who has been whipped once. T^A|, &will ppive an ob­ stacle iuBlaine In The Farmers' tlon of agricult tively few politic ends in view, see a way to t Acuities that a: causes, and un i.-..: it: 1 :<U an aggrega- iy a compara- personal pretend to economic dtf- of natura^ ided farmers had been opposing the sab-treasury or, Government corn-crib and pawn-shop proposition. When, however, it was proposed in the convention, all the Northern delegates voted for it. This was a surprise for tho Southern dele­ gates. What did it mean*> They began to inquire, and, if the Jacksonville Tlmes-VnUm, is correctly informed, they found out that such Northern ex-Repub­ licans as Willets, of Kansas, confessed that they voted for it to make it an Al­ liance issue, which would compel inde­ pendent political action in the South and disrupt tho Democratic party. This was a cat of another color; and so the confessed dishonesty of Willots and others who voted for the sub-treasury scheme, in which they "never believed," was pfoclaimed. Then the conspirators disclosed a plot to debar from membership all editors who would not subscribe to a pledge to advocate tho the sub-treasury scheme and all measures which a legislative board should ap­ prove. As this board, of which ail the leaders, like Polk and Macune, who are third-party men, would be members, could require tho Alliance press, under this regulation, to support a third-party movement or drop out, It will be seen that the scheme was a very neat one. Its discovery by the jealous Democrats has well-nigh frightened the wits out of some of them, who think much m8re of the Democratic party than of the Al­ liance. As this story comes from Demo­ cratic sources, and from members of the Alliance, and discloses the duplicity of the Northern leaders in the movement, it is a timely revelation. V Financiering In tho Dark. There is no means of knowing how far the farmers are likely to follow the Al­ liance--In what numbers they are likely to act with that organization in politics. If we judge from the experience of the Greenback party, there is little danger that the wild and destructive ideas of tho Alliance leaders will ever sway a majority of the farmers. The pro­ gramme of tho Greenback party was never as shocking as that put forward by the Legislation Committee of the Farmers' Alliance in session in Florida. The foundation error is that more money must make better times. The Alliance committee argues that to double the amount of money in circulation is to double prices, but without doubling tho amount of money required to pay debts. It all seems very simple--the more money the less its purchasing power, and consequently the more the farmer would get for his products, and at the same time a dollar would pay as much of a debt as now. But nothing in finance is as simple as it seems to bo. If money were the sole medium of exchange, then an increase in the amount might be expected to in­ crease prices. But most transactions are conducted by credits, a system that has been extended enormously by the clearing house. It is important that the volume should not diminish beyond the proper proportion of bank reserve to credit, but it does not matter so much if the volume is increased, since much of the increase merely displaces credits, and jhas little effect on the price of things. The dangerous part of the Al­ liance plan is that which provides that money may be borrowed from the govern­ ment at a low and fixed rate of interest, without any regard for the conditions of trade and commerce.--Milwaukee Senti­ nel. Tariff Bill Beaetion. There has beon a notable reaction of opinion on the McKinley law in Europe. Those who have studied its provisions tind that it is not such a sweeping measure as it was represented to be. The London Financial Times says that "the excessive unpopularity" of the measure abroad "was largely due to ex­ aggeration on the part of the American Democrats, who have spared no expense or misrepresentation in raising opposi­ tion to the scheme." Other English as well as French papers have been com­ pelled to make similar admissions. The first reports sent across the ocean were in keeping with exaggerations which were circulated in this country. While the McKinley law reduces the duty on many articles and places many i \ • , . we know what It always does when it gets that. A GOOD many sagacious Republicans aro hoping for an extra session of the Fifty-second Congress, in order to give it plenty of rope. WE have no confidence, we repeat, in the statesmanship that refuses to accept the principles embodied in the Declara­ tion of Independence. THE new party leaders do not seem to have found the lymph that will kill the Democratic bacilli in the constitution of a Southern Alliance man. THE merchants who feel the pinch are those who believed the free-trade lies about the general rise of prices uttered in August, September, and October. IT is idle to suppose that the Farmers' Alliance will not organize a third-party movement in the South, where it already controls the machine of the dominant party. If it materializes at all, it will be in the North. IT is asserted by SenatorWalth that all the negro» s of Mississippi are "reasona­ bly content v^ith their condition." They have to ba in order to escape the shot­ guns of the Democratic guardians of public honor and morality. A PAPEB iu Tennessee heads a para­ graph, "The Murderous McKinley Bill," and then proceeds to give an account of the death of a man by falling from the roof of a wipoleu factory, the building of which had been encouraged by the new tariff law. IF the farmers of Kansas propose to imitate their brethren of South Carolina, then Senator Ingalls will be-succeeded by some wild man from the head waters of Bitter Creek, who has been in the habit of amusing himself at murder and the like. ONE good way to bring about financial calamity Is by predicting it. The Demo­ cratic statesmen have been a powerful factor in bringing about the present financial stringency by frightening timid owners of money to lock it up or hide it away in their old stockings. AMONG the thirty-five richest million aires in the United States there are only two who made their money by manu­ facturing articles protected by our tariff laws, and out of the 122 who are worth $5,000,000 and upward not more than twenty made their money in that way. THE platform of ' the Farmers' Alli­ ance demands "that taxation shall not be used to build up one interest or class at tho expense of another;" and yet the sub-treasury scheme favored by said organization ' is designed to have precisely such an effect for the beue£6 of the agricultural element * . . i A Tariff Pioturo. a During Oetobof, 1889, wo imported 8,282,580 doaen eggs. Tho McKlnloy bill duty on otTffs went Into eflect October 6, 1890. From tho 1st of: i»a>a»>r 4«>#fca 61k wo imported I 1,139.SO3 dozen eggs, but from to tho 31a* WO Imported only • • 123,589 dona. In othor word* the SBeKlnloy bill made a homo market for 1,019,698 doaen «(ss In 85 days. --Smm Tort-Prfw. ' AT Birmingham, England, a "penny- in-the-slot" machine has been devised for small consumers of gas. A penny put into the slot gives twenty-five feei of gas, or at the rate of 80 cents a thousand. The gas company thus are sure of their pay, and the consumer buys what he wishes from day to day. JOHNNY--I wonder why I can't make my kite fly? Elder sister--Perhaps the caudal appendage is disproportion­ ate to the superficial area. Johnny-- I don't think that's it. I believe thera isn't weight enough on the taiL • IXTO the grave ot twilight The red gleam fades away, . Ill the westering clouds grow soMM owlth love ot the dying day. Katiwap -Snr lMt City Gots a Ta--A Stoma. -1 [New York dispatch.] . The bltrzard predicted last night by " <be Weather Bureau got in on time. The snow began to fail at 3 o'clock this - morning and it fell as if it oMAnt bust- Aess. The storm extended, according to the reports of the signal service weather observer, from Wood's Holl, Mass., southwest to Lynchburg, Va., and west­ ward to Duluth, Minn. Bate ai tha* hour covered the Southern States fhMB Washington, D. C., to Jacksonvfife, ' Fla., along the Atlantic coast, and in­ land as far as the Mississippi River. The high wind, which at 9:30 o'clock had a velocity of thirty-one miles an hour from the northeast, caused the snow to form in many places into drifts Many of these drifts were nearly threo feet in height, and those who had ioi work their way through them found pedestri&nism anything except pleasant. The high wind, however, was a blessing V to many a householder, as it drove the snow in waves from off the roofs of - houses almost as soon as it fell. The storm worked so rapidly after it struck New York that early morning traffic was seriously impeded. Not since the blizzard has there been so pointed a reminder of the imperative necessity for improved rapid transit in this city. There was more or less delay on the West Side, but the East Side was seri­ ously embarrassed during the early rush, hours. Those who suffered most from the loss of time were the residents of Harlem. ; About 11 a. m. began a heavy sleet, which cut the faces of pedestrians like pin points and added to the misery :: of those who were forced to do any amount of walking. The snow iu^;' the West and to the south of the city I Interfered seriously with the progress of; mail trains in this direction. All the mails from the West via Pittsburgh, th» Southwest, and the South were several- hours behind time. The early morning .mails from the North and West, how-' ever, arrived on time, as the storm had not reached those points so as to stop; the progress of the trains. The trains? which arrived during the forenoon were^ further impeded by the heavy snow im v the streets, the mail wagons being un- " Able to reach the general postoffice within the time allotted for the transfer: of the mails from the railway stations to ; ̂ ;; that building. Mails from Brooklyn* were also delayed on the bridge. ' All the railroads running into New York have suffered from the storm, but. some, of course, have suffered more than, others where more exposed to the heavy. drifts. In Westchester County the snow is piled up along the tracks of the Hud- son River railroad, but has not thus far * A | Impeded travel much. • V'rii l .The delays on the railroads in New , Jersey were not so serious tills mornlngt as they were later in the day, when thet. , •* fast falling snow was drifted in some- \ places to a formidable height. Thet ;v j snow ceased falling at 8 o'clock and WAA C 1 :J followed by a slight rain and sleet sterm^ \ The thermometer rose to 39 degree*' S "j above zero. At midnight the wind WAA " northwest. The indications for to-mor» row are more snow or rain with a de-» cided lowering of the temperature. Reports continue to be received front . ,, -j all parts of Now York State showing A v "Vk heavy fall of snow and consequent lnter< rnption of traffic. In the Mohawk Valley the storm 18 unusually severe. At G o'clock this eve»* Ing more than eight inches of snow jha«|! fallen at Amsterdam, and it was Stilr snowing hard. Railroad travel is greatljf delayed, some of the through trains bi? ing from two to three hours late. Wes» Shore freight-trains have been stalled in?, the snow this afternoon and the Hangers'; have been started out. At the Pennsylvania depot it was re*; ported that Western express-trains wer* running from three to three and a halft:: hours behind time. The trains w being run cautiously, which was principal cause of the Belay, as the en~ . ' tire force of laborers out on each block! keeping the tracks free from snow, AB* :, the detention by snow-drifts hadbeen^ trifling. The Philadelphia trains were - from thirty minutes to an hour behindf' ,' I scheduled time and local trains w*»*^$C about half an hour late. Trains wer» dispatched nearly on schedule time. The Erie road experienced the greatest difficulty, and all through trains were from five to six hours late. ^ There was great difficulty occasioned* at the switches in the vicinity of that " depots by the snow and wind, whtehi^l made it impossible for the dispatchers^: to see the trains, and which deadttM## the sound of locomotive whistles. Travel!;' on thes West Shore Railroad in the upper; - part of New York suffered greatly. % Traqjic was entirely suspended on th* , Jefferson Division of the Erie Railroad,fv the Ninc^ph branch of the Delawareandfwd Hudson, and on two-thirds of the Scran- AL V ton of tho New York, Ontario and West- . / ern Railroad in Pennsylvania. Several. - coal and passenger trains were a ban- ' ry ; doned by their crews along the lines, .' „ J- S? ^ and are snowbound. -,v% » ? At Lockport, N. Y., the fall of snow ] ; has been continuous throughout the day, f s but is not heavy. The snow is not drift- S " ing badly. Temperature in the morning „ was reported at ten degrees above zero, f 1 and at one o'clock it had risen to twenty- five degrees. t At Ithaca, N. Y-, the storm continued 2 throughout the day, with street-car ^ traffic suspended. At Water town, N. Y., snow has been falling rapidly, accompanied by mild breezes. The thermometer last night was five degrees below, aud this morning four above zero. At Saratoga Springs the heaviest and most severe snow storm since the mem­ orable blizzard of March, 18£7, has been in progress, and this evening indications were that it will continue during the night. Eight inches of snow had already fallen and was being badly drifted by a stiff northerly wind. Country roads are already blockaded. At Albany over one foot of snow fell to-day and the storm continues. Rail­ road travel has been impeded all day, trains from the West being three hours and more late. Electric street cars are stalled on some of the lines and kept running with difficulty on others. The iron and slate roof of a section of the New York Central Railroad depot at West Albany fell under weight of snow this afternoon, burying four locomotives and half a dozen men under the wreck. Two men were badly hurt, but noae killed. Brief Prraonal Itenaa. JOTJM VEKN'R is now a handsome man. of 60, with head and beard quite gray,- and with eyes which sparkle with all the fire of 20. QUEEN VICTORIA has made known through Cardinal Manning that she will present no objection to the canonisation of Joan of Arc. Gov. HILL was asked why he had de» dined the invitation to attend the T Club's dinner in New York City. HI nothing to say on the subject,* 'Ink **4 ^ plied. "I did my speaking tion." This is * Mr. Cleveland mU&