Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — Page 5

AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.

A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOB OUR RURAL READERS. ttow to Keep Sweet Potatoes—The Care of Tulip*—Convenient Hoisting Apparatus—Caring for the Corn Crop—A Furrower and Marker, Etc. Substantial House for Swine. As many farmers have requested a description of my hop-house, I will answer the request through the American Agriculturist, writes A. H. Sheldon. The house is built for eight brood sows in the spring, or fifty pigs

PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF PIGGERY. in the fall, and furnishes plenty of room for this number. The size is twenty feet wide by twenty-four feet long. The pens are each six feet square, making the alley through the center eight feet wide, giving plenty of room to drive a load of corn under cover of the roof, to unload in the fall. Four of these pens are on each side, and one swill trough, eight feet long, answers for two pens. Over each trough is placed a swinging door three by eight feet so that any litter which may be rooted into them can be easily cleaned out, and the pigs can also be shut back until the swill is poured Into the troughs, a great advantage as kny feeder knows. There are little doors from each pen into the aliey. also into the yards on the sides of the house. These yards should have a board floor, unless the ground is very sandy and well drained. A small pen near a hoghouse becomes a mortar bed, after every rain, and the object of the small yards outside is to give early pigs sunshine and more chance for exercise than a six by six pen affords. Over each pen under the upper roof is a small window to admit air and light. This slides on the scantling which supports the lower roof. The outside posts are only four feet high, and the center posts eight feet. The roof is boarded and shingled. The house is inclosed with No. 4 boards, then paper and drop-siding are put on to keep out frost in winter. Large doors at each end can be

GROUND PLAN OF PIGGERY.

opened when occasion requires, but for every day use a small door, thirty by seventy-eight inches, is placed at either end. A well and pump should be placed where most convenient so that no delay will occur when feeding time comes. There is hut little trouble to provide places for grain and meal, but a bountiful supply of water is quite as important and often neglected. The cost of the house with lumber at twenty dollars per thousand, and shingles at three and and one-half dollars is about one hundred dollars. Several loads or sand or gravel may be profitably dumped into the pigyards each year.

Keeping: Sweet Potatoes. Regard must be had to the proper growing and handling of sweet potatoes in order to insure success in their keeping. They should be grown on soil suited to them, and early enough to fully mature in season, and when harvested handled without bruising. They should be planted early enough to mature before frost for tubers of frost bitten vines are doubtful keepers. Dig them when the ground is dry, if possible, that they may be dry and clean. Then lay them in a dark, cool room, or at once store them away in a frost-proof cellair or storehouse. The best manner to store them here is to put them in broad,shallow boxes (shelves will do). These may be placed one above another with a small space between them to give better ventilation. A light 00-vorine of dry sand or earth, •will to itheir preservation, as it will serve to keep the potatoes at a more uniform temperature, and absorb the moisture arising from them. The place of storage should be dry and ihave a uniform temperature, and that at about 35 or 40 degrees. Potatoes which have fully matured are thus stored in shallow Layers, and kept fabily above frost and moisture will seldom fail to keep well.

Feeding t'omtoritheVwt Profit. I am convinced that it pays, especially when steamed, to grind corn and cob for cattle, writes an experienced live stock and dairy man. I am not quite clear whether corn or oats is beet for sheep; I know corn is good. For store sheep, two fair feeds of it daily with plenty of good straw are sufficient; for fatters, hay with three feeds of the mixed meals, and dry bran with plenty of water. For cows—not using ensilage—l prefer cut and steamed cornstalks, with corn meal and bran, half of each by weight, liberally sprinkled on. In the absence of the steamer, I put on the cut stalks, slightly moistened, a regular ration of corn meal; some prefer it put on dry. For fattening steers I prefer the scalded fodder plentifully basted with corn and oat meal. Ihe meal will do well enough with hay and no doubt with ensilage. Corn thus ted, with close care, 1 have found to work wonders. Colts—except • fillies—will keep well on coarse fodder with a little corn twice a day. SMnrtng the Corn Crop. Corn should be cut for fodder as Boon as the kemels*begin to glaze on most of the larger ears. At this time if no frosts have occurred the leaves are mostly green, and if put in stocks

of from thirty-six to forty hills each and well tied at the top, the fodder will cure in good condition. The juices in the stalks will be sufficient to ripen the unmatured ears, so that husking may commence in earnest in about fifteen days. In dry sunny weather it will pay to leave the cornfodder spread on the ground for a day or so to dry out and harden, more especially if to put away in large bulk. It will also be found a good plan to sort the corn when busking, removing all silk and husks from the best, while the small ears, and that intended for immediate feeding, may be hauled without this precaution. If the best corn is cribbed without removing the litter it will make a fine nesting place for rats and mice. When husking corn-fodder many persons jerk the husks so spitefully as to remove them entirely, and being loose and short they are not bound in the bundle but left in the field to become weather beaten, dirty and useless as fodder; hence, caution should be exexercised on this point. The best ears should be selected for seed. As the stalks contain a vast amount of moisture they should not be placed in large stacks or in close barns until late in the season as they will he quite certain to heat and mildew, unless a layer of dry hay, or straw, he placed between each layer of bundles.

Planting and Care of Tulips. The bulbs of tulips are solid, fleshy, from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, and rather irregular in shape, as indicated in the accompanyeng sketch. They should be set

about three inches j deep and six inches apart,in rich, wellpulverized and well-drained soil.. The best time to prepare the bed is in September or October. At this season the bulbs ‘are entirely dormant and may be

obtained from any florist. After planting, a few mixed flower seeds ofhardy annuals may be sown over the bed. These will come into bloom after the tulip flowers fade, and will prove interesting and attractive. Those who are fond of bedding plants can plant the bed with Geraniums or Petunias after the bulbous flowers fade, if suen a display is preferred. They are of such a character that they will thrive in almost any soil or situation, and bloom satisfactorily if they have but half a chance.—Farm and Fireside.

A Remarkable Apple Tree. According to a report of the Committee on Fruits at the State Fair meeting of the Ohio Horticultural Society, Mr. Pierce of Miami County, presented an apple grown upon the sole surviving tree of one of the earliest orchards planted in that county, the tree being now about two feet in diameter, and still vigorous and very productive. It is supposed to be upward of eightv years. The specimens were large, of very bright crimson color with numerous small white spots; very smooth and attractive in appearance- It was stated that the first specimens began to ripen in July, at which time there would he many apples not larger'than hickery outs on thetree, whichwould ripen in succession until picking time, in the fall, when there would be quite a proportion which would keep till January. Some of the specimens shown were fully ripe, while others were quite green. The quality was so poor that the majority of the committee would not recommend it for propagation, but its sine and beauty were such that it wauld doubtless meet a Teady-sale. One Man Can Volt The cut explains a practical method for i®ne man to hoist grain, such as com, eta, into the corn-house in a bushel basket, says a'correspondent of Farm and Home. Two ropes are neoessary; one on the bottom of the basket, as well as the hoisting rope.

HOISTING APPARATUS.

The tottom irope will invert the basket every rime, inside of the granary, and between the two mopes the basket returns oat of the window automatically. This enables one man to stand on the ground and put a large number of baskets of grain out of sight in a very few minutes.

Ai»ut dotting Hen*. There will surely toe trouble with a setting hen if other fowls are permitted to lay im toer nest. There will be objections on the part of the breeding hen for wtoieh she is not to be blamed. And in the struggle it is certain that some eggs will be broken, when it is probable that one of the hens will eat the broken eggs. The setting hen will be apt to leave the nest when it is occupied by the intruder, and she may not return, when the eggs may cool and the chicks either die in the shell or soon after they emerge, from weakness. The only satisfactory way is to have a separate place for the brooding hens and to keep each one in a separate pen, from which she cannot get out, and to feed and water her in it. The pen should be three by two feet, giving the hen room to stretch her legs when she comes off to feed. The next box should be low and be well soaked with kerosene when it is prepared for use. This will insure freedom from lice to the hen and save a world of trouble and disappointment and consequent vexation. Choice of Breeds. The man who goes out hunting for the best breeds of live stock without any references whatever to his environments is hardly up to snuff. The best breed is largely such simply because it is best suited to some particular purpose, and whether or not that purpose is well filled depends upon kilAl surrounding* Let the

stockman study well ljis conditions as to grasses, grains, soil, climate, markets, eta, and he is not apt to make a mistake in the choice of breeds.— Nebraska Farmer. Treatment ot' the Garden. If possible all the weeds, grass and other stuff should be burned off the garden, and it should also be plowed late in the fall if possible. If this is done there is very little danger from cut worms and similar pests the following year, and a great many things can be sown in the spring that will have to wait until very late if the ground has to be plowed in the spring. Above all things the garden spot must be rich. The best manure and a great deal of it will be needed if there is to be a good garden, and pay for the work and care needed. A half acre of a good garden is worth ten acres of corn, and requires about the same amount of work. Sheep Shearings. V-shafed troughs are best for feeding grain. A lamb need not be despised because it is small. Sheep may be made the gleaners of the farm; the savers of waste. Give sheep plenty of water and salt and they will soon dean a field. To raise early lambs for market the ewes must be of good healthy stock. Ik raising early lambs is to be undertaken select out the breeding ewes in good season. Some breeders claim that early lambs grow faster, are healthier, and make larger sheep than late ones. One advantage with sheep is that if properly managed they eat their food cleaner than horses or cattle. Generally with wool shipped to market it requires a larger time to get returns than with almost any other farm product.

Water-Troughs. The best water-troughs for poultry are of wood, the usual shape, and made to hold a bucketful of water. The trough should be placed under a tree, or in some shady place. The objection to fountains is the tedious work of filling them. Troughs become slimy after awhile, but may easily be washed with soap-suds and an old broom. It costs but a small sum to make a trough, hence a new one should be made every year. The trough should be Ailed every morning, but should be rinsed well before Ailing. A Handy Tool. The back figure shows a piece of plank with cultivator tooth inserted. When you want furrows made, bolt one of these behind each runner.

FURROW AND MARKER.

Run a board across the rear ends of each runner and bolt it to each attachment to keep them down and in a line. When using it, toy a board from the main plank to the rear hoard and stand on it. The further back you stand the deeper the marker goes. I have used this for a number of years and pronounoedt a regular short cut marker and Sorrower.—M. Murphy, in Practical Farmer. Turnips Pevltry. A mess of turnips makes an excellent meal for poultry an the wintrer season, and especially ifor ducks and geese. They may also be used during the fall. Add a small qiiantitv of bran and ground oatefto the turnips and give the hens all they will eat, as such food is bulky, and mot -so liable to fatten them quickly asds the case when grain is fed exclusively. Hints to Hsuftekeepew. To prevent oil from oozing over the top of the burner, I;urn the wick down after the light iemut. At night, after a day's (traveling, rub the face thoroughly with vaseline or cold cream. The grease will prove a more effective cleaner than soap and water.

The thimble was first called the “thumb bell,” because itwasmsed on the thumb instead of tihe flngec, as.at present. The word soon •evolved into thumble. The word thimble iis comparatively modern. An ingeninus female has tort upon •the idea of a “dressalbum,” in which tiny cuttings of every gown belonging to its owner are to be chronologically arranged under the 4aites on \w,hich thev were purchased. Strawberries are so called •from ithe ’fact that they were aaoemtlv brought to market strung upon •straws. Raspberries are also called ifcom the peculiar rasping roughness of itheir leaves. Raspls-berry origiaaalLy. There is nothing more useful atoout the kitchen than sal soda. 14 will, dissolved in a little water, remove grease from anything,and there is nothing like it for cleaning hair brushes, which, by the way, should be cleaned more frequently than they are It is comparatively easy to exterminate black ants. The little red ants are, however, very hard to get rid of. A little powdered hellebore sprinkled around at night will as a rule quickly exterminate them. Care must be taken in using the hellebore, and in brushing it away in the mornidg, as it is poisonous. Powdered sulphur will frequently acewer the purpose.

Who Should Bow First.

New York society, so it is written, has decided that when a gentleman and lady meet on the street, the ene who first sees the other should bow. The old rule, that tho gentleman should wait for the recognition of the lady, is declared obsolete. The lady still retains the privilege of not noticing the gentleman if she feels so inclined, that is, after he has taken off his hat,she may cut him if she wants to. Well, perhaps it is the best plan. Under the old usage the gentleman could never be satisfied when a lady passed him without recognition whether she intended a cut or merely did not see him. By the imSrovement he will be left in ao sort of oubt —The Housekeeper.

ALL FOR CLEVELAND.

NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUBS HEAR HIM. The Ex-President Tells a Vs«t Throng In Ul3 Academy of Music the Principles Which Underlie His Campaign—Other Proceedings. Grover Spoke Nobly. It was a mammoth Cleveland meeting, the quadrennial convention of Dems‘ oratic olube that met in the Academy of Music, in New York, The great gathering cheered the mention of the ex-Pres-ident’s name in a manner which showed that the ebullition of enthusiasm came from the heart. A street parade of colossal proportions preceded the convention, and then the throngs surged toward the great objective point—the Academy of Music. The delegates were in possession of 4,000 badges, and the wearers represented every State in the Union. This insignia of Democracy was not worn by people who wear a badge for the badge’s sake, but by men who possessed votes-all wool and a yard wide, and knew exactly what they were going to do with them. In the Academy stage and galleiies glowed with the national colors, from which seemed to radiate a gentle benison to the enthusiastic thousands that crowded the building as no player folk have ever been able to induce them to do. From each side of the stage entrance portraits of Cleveland and Stevenson loosed down on the multitude, while the Ninth Regiment Rand added Its mite to the enthusiasm which seemed to bubble from audience and speakers.

—Chicago Times.

Chauncey Black called the wanvontlon to order. He spoke briefly ' regarding the issues of the campaign *nd then introduced ex-President Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland was received with ■nrolonged cheering. He said: Mr. Cleveland’s Speech. Mr. President and gentlemen. It affords me especial pleasure to extend to yon on this occasion a hearty welcome. As a citizen of this proud municipality I am glad to assure v<wJ that our hospitality Is always open and generous. In behalf of a community distingntalked for its Americanism and toleration In all matters of belief and judgment, I know I may extend a cordial greeting to those who here represent political thoughtfulness and sincerity. As an unyielding and consistent believer 1> Democratic principles, I trust 1 need not hesitate to pledge to the representatives of organized Democracy the good-will and fraternal Sympathy of this Democratic city. Your meeting la the oonncil of war which precedes a decisive battle, and your deliberations should be the preparations for stern conflict. All your weapons sod all your equipments are soon to be tested. Yon have organized and labored and you have watched and planned to insure your readiness for the final engagement now near at hand. This, then, Is no holiday assemblage, but an impressive convocation In furtherance of the designs and purposes for the accomplishment of which yon and those you represent are banded together. These designs and purposes, as declared by your association, are: The preservation of the constitution of the United States, the autonomy of the States, local self-government and freedom of election, opposition to the Imposition of taxes beyond the necessities of the government economically administered, and the promotion of economy In all branches of the public service.

These profession!* embody the pnrest pztrlotlsm and the loftiest aspirations of American citizenship. Though at all times they should suggest to us the strongest obligation to political effort, their motive force, as incentives to political activity and watchfulness, should be irresistible at a -time when the constitution is held in light esteem as against the accomplishment of selfish purposes; when State boundaries are hardly a barrier to centralized power, and when local self-govern-ment and freedom of elections are the scoff of partisanship. Those who subscribe to the creed of this association and make any claim to sincerity can hardly excuse themselves tor lack of effort at a time when the necessities of the Government economically administered have hut little relation to the taxation of the people and when extravagance In the public service has become a contagions plague. To those who hope for better things this convention of Democratic clubs Is a bright promise of reform. Unorganized good intentions and idle patriotic aspirations cannot successfully contend for mastery with the compact forces of private Interests and greed, nor is the organization always the most useful which has the widest extent. The real benefit of political organization is fonnd In Its nearness to the people and In the directness of Its action. Of course, harmony and unity of purpose are absolutely essential. In this view your assembling together is most Important, in so far as it promotes this harmony and unity by conference and a consideration of methods, and in 10 far as it inspires :that zeal and enthusiasm which will make more effective yonr work at home. Therefore 1 am sure that I can say nothing better In taking my leave of yon than to wish that year convention may be a most profitable aad enoonraging one, and that at its concluaien you may resume yonr places in yonr home organizations newly inspired to determined and zealous effort in the canse of true Democracy.

Organization of the Convention. The general business of the convention was then entered upon. Chauncey Black and Lawrence Gardiner were re-elected President and Secretary for the ensuing year, and Governor Boswell P. Flower was appointed Treasurer. Sentiment of the Resolution*. The resolutions adopted warn the American people of the danger which menaces their common liberties in the manifest purpose of the managers of the monopoly party to debauch the suffrage and to purchase another lease of the Presidency, and another majority in Congress, and, ultimately, to take permanent possession of the federal government, through the provisions of an unconstitutional and partisan force bill, designed by corrupt and unscrupulous conspirators and indorsed by Ben jamin Harrison and a Bepublican convention of officeholders and monopolists. They also denounce as un-American and unconstitutional the pillage of the people for the benefit of the few by unjuet tax laws; the squandering of the people's money in profligate expenditures, in subsidies and in jobs, and demand a return to lower

aud more equal taxation, more frugal expenditures and purer government, which can be accomplished only by the election of Cleveland and Stevenson.

Hon. \V. Y. Atkinson, Chairman of tho Democratic Executive Committee of Georgia, says, in reply to the published address of Gen. Weaver and various special telegrams which have been sent out from Georgia by Mrs. Lease, that they do great injustioe, not only to the Democrats but to the people of the State. - • = fte says: “According to his own admission, Gen. Weaver received a respectful hearing at Wayeross and Columbus. At Albany h.s speech was listened to by several hundred people, and no effort whatever was mode to prevent him from speaking. A prominent negro of that place, at the conclusion of Weaver's speech, took the stand to refute what he had said, and bitterly attacked Weavqr and the third party. Weaver was so indignant that a negro should attempt to answer him that he immediately left the platform. The only possible foundation for the greatly exaggerated egg story spread broadcast by Gen. Weaver and Mrs. Lease is that a small boy in the open-air audience at Macon threw an egg, and he was promptly, arrested and punished for It."

Major McKinley answers to the description ot the man who“never opened his mouth without putting his foot in it.” In his Philadelphia speech the Governor said: “If Congress should happen to be Democratic, then I want Benjamin Harrison President. He believes in sound

HOW LONG CAN THEY HOLD THE FORT?

Weaver’s Tale of Woe.

McKinley's Unfortunate Foot.

money, and will veto any Democrat,lc bill to corrupt and debase the currency of the United States." This is the same Major McKinley who was a year ®r two ago denouncing Grover Cleveland for Jhis 'opposition to the free coinage of sliver and intimating to the silver men how much better the Republican (party had treated them. The President Harrison whom he desires to toe re-elected In order that he may veto any Democratic bill for debasing the currency is the same who signed the Sherman bill for increasing the output of paper representatives of debased sliver dollars. Major McKinley followed tlhe utterance already quoted with this brilliant generalization: “Free trade and debased money go hand in hand. ” Of course, then England, which figures to all the Major's speeches as the frightful example .of a free-trade nation, is also the victim of debased money. Bat it happens, unfortunately for the verity of this dictum, that England is of all nations the most inflexible in hostility to any currency scheme which endangers the highest value of its money. The Major's speeches would be more influential if his contempt of facts were not so obvious. But an advocate of high protection has to ignore facts.

Michigan Democrats Nominate.

The Democratic State Convention to nominate a candidate for .Justice of the Supreme Court to succeed Chief Justice Morse, an elector-at-large for the western district of Michigan and a member of the State Board of Education, convened in Lansing. Chairman Carnpau, of the State Central Committee, called the convention to order and made a brief speech, predicting the election of the Democratic State and Legislative tickets and seven Democratic electors from the State. Upon assuming the chairmanship Governor Winans also spoke feelingly of the debt of gratitude he owed the party of his choice, and expressed a fear that he would never be able to repay the interest. Judge William Newton, of Flint, was nominated by C. R. Whitman, of Ann Arbor, and supported by Mark W. Stevens, of Flint, and others. J. H. Kinnane, of Kalamazoo, named William G. Howard of that city for the office. A call of the counties resulted in Newton's nomination on the first ballot. The nomination was then made unanimous. John Power, of Eecanaba, was nominated by acclamation for elector-at-large for the "Western District, and David E. Hoskins, of Jackson, was in like manner nominated for member of the State Board of Education.

They Are Thinking.

Our Republican friends are worrying because there is a significant lack of noise in the current campaign. It puzzles them and creates unpleasant forebodings. They miss the brass bands, the long processions of horse and foot, the ringing cheers, the shouts of defiance, the showy uniforms, the wavering lines of light, the flags, the banners and the transparencies with their gems of pclitical wit or wisdom. Why is this thus? is a conundrum to them. The question is not a difficult one. The people are not hurrahing this campaign. They are thinking. The day of election is not far off, yet there is a marked absence in that turbulence and excitement that have grown traditional, and thus far the campaign has been the quietest within the memory of man. Business has not been disturbed and confidence is unimpaired. Mr Harrison professes to see nothing in this to alarm, but his shrewder friends, who have nothing to look after but the course of political events, realize what it means. Men are not educated in political matters under the band wagon method of campaignings They cannot shout and acquire knowi-

edge at the same time. Noise is not oonducivo to successful mental investigation. Otherwise school ohildren would bo favored with constant orchestral music and philosophers could evolve their grandest theories In a boiler yard. The less the people shout the moro they think, and the more they think the more emphatic will be the vote by which they declare against the existing order of things. They declared their opinion upon national questions two years ago and the feeling then manifested against the multiplied evils of MoKinleyism has been greatly intensified through lessons of bitter experience and a broadfer knowledge of the great economic problem.

Gresham for Cleveland.

J rnoF. ti.iir.sHAM is one of the few men wearing the Republican label filing recent years who have succeeded hrretaining the respect and confidence of all the people. Tho fact that he Can no longer consent to remain identified with the party of piutocracv will determine many who have been hesitating.—St. Louis Republic. Judge Gresham has authorized the announcement that he will vote for Cleveland, and it is probable that before tho campaign is over ho will make some speeches in his behalf. If Harrison had any chances of carrying Indiana this would end them, and it will be a great help to the Democrats of Illinois. —Quincy Herald. Jt’UUK Gresham comes to the Democratic party bocause he believes in tariff reform, a onuse once supported by the Republican party, until it passed under th * control of men who demand a government that oan be used to advanoo

their private financial Interests. —Toledo llee. JrnuE. Gresham. is a very influential man and his example will bo followed by thousands who have desired to make the change, but who have been held back by various associations and party traditions. —Illinois State Register. The fact that such a man as Judge Greshum has gone In the direction they were looking will settle the question In favor of tariff reform and Grover Cleveland.—Louisville Courier-Journal. The announcement that Judge Gresham will vote for Cleveland, which can be relied on as true, will be worth many votes to the Democrats, especially In Indiana.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Where Judge Gresham leads a multitude of ids old comrades in arms and his friends and associates in civil life, hitherto Republicans,. will be glad to follow.—Grand ltaplds Democrat. And Judge Gresham is another notable instance of n distinguished lawyer who' has retired from criminal practice. —Milwaukee Journal. Wai.teh Q. Gresham from tills time forth will be quoted as a tariff-reformer. —Cedar Rapids Gazette.

Cleveland’s Letter.

Mh. Cleveland has carried the flag of his party to the front, if he be right his letter challenges the existonoe of the Republican party as advocating policies that are a menace to the prosperity of the country. It Is a bold, frank, and well-considered utterance, worthy of the past statesmanship of the republic. It is a call to every Democrat who believes In Democracy to take hiß place In the ranks and stay there until the battle shall have been won in November. —Philadelphia Record. Like all his previous public writings and utterances, Grover Cleveland’s letter of acceptance of this, the third Democratic presidential nomination tendered him, is vigorous, virile, and sound In every way. It is the utterance of a man unused to circumlocution and temporizing, and whose habit it is to walk in the straight path of his honest convictions.—Bt. Paul Globe. Mb. Cleveland's letter of acceptance will meet a hearty response from every intelligent and patriotic citizen who desires to see capable, honest, and constitutional administration of the government in the interest of the whole people, for whom It was framed and established, and not for the benefit of a favored few at the expenso of the many.—Rochester Union and Advertiser. The letter contains bristling points that will be remembered long after election. Sentences and thoughts which he gives to the country will inspire the Democratic speakers and furnish material for intelligent newspaper discussion. Mr. Cleveland’s letter will make him a still stronger candidate for the suffrages of the American people.— Toledo Bee. "Within a compass not equaling a third of the space occupied by Mr. Harrison’s letter Mr. Cleveland has treated every question of interest and importance before the American people in a comprehensive manner, which renders, his letter one of the most notable state papers in the history of” American politics.—Kansas City Star. The organs are hard to please. For some time they have grumbled because Mr. Cleveland did not write a letter, and now that it is published they are as inconsolable as though Mr. Blaine had indited another epistle of the kind that recently got mixed in the Maine election.—Milwaukee Journal.

Joins Grover's Ranks.

Ex-Attorney General Wayne MacVeagh has written a letter to John W. Carter, Secretary of the Massachusetts Reform Club, in which he announces that he wiil vote for Grover Cleveland.

BOMBSHELL FOR THE G. O. P.

fi-Attorney General Wayne MacVeaghi Cornea Out Boldly for Grover Cleveland. Ex-Attorney General Wayne MacVeagh, who held office under Garfield, has written a (otter to John W. Carter, secretary of the Massachusetts Reform Club, in which he announces that he will vote for Grover Cleveland. The letter says in part: “As both parties have presented unexceptionable candidates there is no reason why the ditlerences which exist upon questions of public policy should be discussed otherwise than in good humor and with entire respect for each jther’s opinions. “In the present campaign what may fairly be called the false alarms of the canvass will prove of little value because of the general confidenoe in the safe and coniervative character of both candidates. ” The writer finds himself in full accord with the Democratic party and finds it more easy to aot with them, because the Republican party, securing Its return to power four years ago by promising to preserve matters as they were, at once embarked upon what he regards as a reckless and revolutionary policy, even overturning all the safeguards of legislation in the House of Representatives in their haste to pass the force bill and the McKinley bill, both, to his mind, unnecessary and unwise measures. Truth About tho Tariff. Passing over the force bill with a reference to the earnest and widespread opposition thereto, and to the advocacy two yoars ago of the measure by President Harrison, General MacVeagh takes up the tariff, of which he says: “The economio evils, however great, of the McKinley bill and the unreasonable system of protection it represents are of far less importance, to my mind, than the moral evils which follow in their wake. In deciding for what purposes the masses of the people may properly bo taxed, it must not be forgotten that the taxes have a wonderful capacity for filtering through intervening obstacles till they reach the bowed back of toll and resting there, and therefore, the giving of bounties, under any form of taxation, is mainly the giving away of the wages of labor. The sad truth that the curse of the poor Is their poverty, is illustrated in nothing more dearly than In tho undue share they suffer of the burdens of taxation. “But even soph inequality and injustice are the lsast of its evils, for while such a system endures political corruption is absolutely sure to Increase, as such a system not only Invites but It requires the corrupt use of money both at the polls and in Congrosß. In to Silver. “The Republican party ought to be an honeßt-money party, and it would be If It oould, but while It demanded increased bounties for Its favorite manufacturers. It could not refuse Increased bounties to the silver producers, as the votes they control were probably necessary to tho passage of the McKinley bill. The poison of a debased currency is making Itself dally more and more felt In every channel of business and finance, and it is inevitably driving gold out of the oountrv and leading us to all the evils of a fluctuating and therefore dishonest currency based upon silver alone. “If Congress was to levv taxes upon tho people to oonfer bounties upon certain classes of manufacturers, it was very natural that the pension agents should also join hands to Increase their fees by an indiscriminate granting of penslous. The result is that nearly a generation after the dose of the war there is a steady increase of the vast sums passing through the pension agents' hands, until now the total amount, staggers belief and has become of itself a very serious burden upon the treasury. Surely there is nelthor reason nor Justice in legislation which destroys all distinction between the discharge of duty and the shirking of H, between loyal service and desertion of the colors, between wounds, received in. battle and diseases contracted in the pursuits of peace." i Immigration Abates. j There is still another great and increasing evil traceable, in his opinion, to the maintenance of an excessive tariff since the war and the constant meddling with it to make it higher, and that is the bringing to our shores of the vast swarms of undesirable immigrants. Just as the duties upon imported merchandise have been inoreased, so has the grade of Imported labor been lowered. As the Republican party Is now definitely committed to the poiioy of taxing the people for ihe purpose of giving bounties to such persons or interests as can secure the necessary votes in Congress, so the Democratic party is now as definitely committed to the policy of reetricting taxution to the needs of the Government for public purposes alone. Gen. MaoVenah is convinced that the good cause in which he is interested cannct hope for suoeess until the avowed polfoy of the Republican party on this subjeot Is overthrown. Until then the right of eaoh State to control elections within its borders will not be secure; there is no prospeot of our enjoying the single and staple standard of value whloh other civilised and commercial nations possess; there ie no hope of placing either our pension system or the regulation of immigration upon Jgsfc and proper basis; the purification or our polities will continue the “iridescent dream" which high Republican authority has declared it must always remain, and any pretended reform of the civil service must prove a delusion and a snare. Even ballot reform must share the same fate of betrayal in the house of its pretended friends. All these good causes are, in the very nature of things, the relentless foes of a system of government by bounties to favored interests, and such a system is their relent, less foe.

How Famous Rulers Died.

King David died of old age. Louis XVI. died on the scaffold. Richabd 111. was killed in battle. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. J ames A. Garfield was assassinated. Charles I. of England was beheaded. Louis V. was poisoned by his queen. Mustapha 11. was strangled in prison. Millard Fillmore died of paralysis at 74. Andrew Johnson died of paralysis at 67. Chester A. Arthur died of apoplexy at 56. Attila the Hun died in a drunken spree. Louis I. died of fever during a campaign. Darius Codomanus was killed in battle. James 11. died In exile of gluttonous habits. Achmet 111. was strangled by his guards. Nebva was suppoaed to have been poisoned. Henry VI. of England was murdered in prison. Emperor William of Germany died of old age. Gen. Geant died, of cancer of the throat at 63. George IV. died from a complication of disorders. Loris V. was poisoned by his mothel and his wife.