Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1901 — Page 3

POLITICS OF THE DAY

The Tariff Revision Fisht. That tariff revision will be the rock Upon which the Republican party will split in the next Congress finds strong proof in a review of the political situation by the Washington correspondent of The Philadelphia Ledger, who is known to be one of the best political prophets in the country. The fact that the present tariff bill suits only the men behind the trusts Is plain enough, and that substantial revision all along the line is demanded not only by the voters at large, but by the general independent business community, is equally plain. The Republican party wants to appear as the patron of the latter class, but is bound hand and foot to obey the behests of the former. Hence this two-horsed straddle is proving uncomfortable and Is likely to result in a catastrophe.

The proposition for revision .came from Mr. Babcock, a Republican member of the Ways and Means Committee, to whom Speaker Henderson is under special obligation, which will force his reappointment on the committee. The defeat of Henderson for the Speakership would solve the problem of getting rid of Babcock, but he is too strongly Intrenched for that. Henderson will stick to the Speakership; Babcock will retain his place in committee, and the Western Republicans will back him up in the demand for a reTision of the tariff bill, so as to get leverage undy the trusts. The only tope left the latter is to so emasculate the Babcock proposition as to take all ▼alne out of it, and this is what they are now preparing to do.

To show the'alliance between the trusts and the Republican agencies of propagandism it is only necessary to point out the interference of the Home Market Club, of Boston. Through its representative that club enters upon a "vigorous denial that the present tariff makes the trusts possible, and makes the astonishing declaration that it really promotes competition. “The assumption," says this agent——"of the Babcock bill is that the steel trust, so-called, is not only an evil, but a result of the tariff. Now, everybody recognizes that it is in no other sense the result of protection than that the 4ndustries which it carries on may have been established in this country under the inducement of a protective tariff. But there are many other concerns en--gaged in these industries besides the United States Steel Company. They ■are independent and competing. One of the objects of protection is to develop competition among home industries. Now, if protection is withdrawn, the smaller and independent companies will be more injured by it than the combination. ■ This is so plain a proposition that it does not need to be fortified by fact or argument. Therefore, Mr. Babcock’s bill would defeat one of its purposes, and I have yet to find the man who can see how it would protect consumers of iron and steel goods in this country or compel those of any other countries to pay any more <han they pay now. A protective tariff should be equitable and national, extending alike to all industries that are subject to foreign competition. To amend it piecemeal is to introduce inequality and Injustice. There is absolutely nothing to defend or justify it from a protectionist or a Republican point of view.” From this it Is plain that the Republican party, handicapped by the obligation wliich it is under to the trusts, will be unable to give that relief to which the people are entitled, and that the Democrats must take it into the next campaign, where alone it can be discussed upon its merits. Speaker Henderson and Mr. Babcock can hold their places in Congress and be thorns in the sides of the elephant, but their hopes will be finally crushed out, until the people shall have a chance to talk the matter over for themselves.—Atlanta Constitution.

Some Third-Term Reflection*. The Louisville Courier-Journal approvingly quotes this sentence from President McKinley’s statement: “There are questions of the gravest importance before the administration and the country, and their just consideration should not be prejudiced in the public mind by even the suspicion of a thought of third term.” But our Louisville neighbor adds that this principle applies as pertinently to a second term. Bo It does. In the campaign of last year every public question was subordinated to the re-election of William McKinley to the Presidency. Every movement in the Executive Depart- * ment or in Congress looked to what would take place at the polls in November rather than to a just and final settlement of “questions of the gravest importance.” And now what will take place? The personal ambitions of Mr. McKinley having been satisfied, will he drop party and personal politics and devote his second term to real statesmanship and the carving In history of a great name Cor himself? We do not wish to disturb the general amiability prevailing over the President’s course, fear not. As the first McKinley term was devoted to the re-election of Mr. McKinley, the second McKinley term may be devoted to the election of Hon. Marcus A. Hanna to the Presidency in 1904. And what would that be but a third

term of the McKinley Presidency! Mr. Hanna has “shied” a little at the mention of his name for the Presidency, but he surely' would not be the first man in the history of the country to order the office to get behind him, along with Satan. If Mr. Hanna wants the Presidency there is nothing in his power that Mr. McKinley will not do to get it for him. There is no limit to the Indebtedness of the Executive to the Senator. That “politics is war” has come to be almost universally accepted. Political campaigns are not conducted on Christian Endeavor or Sunday school lines. What Mr. McKinley might be able to do to promote the nomination, and election of Mr. Hanna hesitate at anything for of his office. He might be called on to do many things against which his moral sentiment would revolt. He might

be required to take many steps that he would not regard as in perfect line with the high plane he assumes in his statement. But could be/efuse? Did Mr. Hanan hesitate at anything for him? Did not the Senator carry about on his broad shoulders for several years great loads of denunciation and a multiplicity of charges that be was guilty of “low down politics” in national affairs? Didn’t he bleed the affluent for campaign funds, and kick the civil service regulations to death to get money out of the Federal officials and employes? And he did it all for Mr? McKinley. Mr. McKinley buttoned his frock coat around himself, planted the forefinger of bls right hand under the upper button, wreathed his Presidential face in its sweetest expression, and accepted all that had been done for him; and he did it with such consummate grace, and with such color of unconsciousness that there bad been anything even Irregular, that the “goody good” people blessed him from the bottom of their hearts. The President is reciprocal in his nature. Could he allow small scruples to stand in the way of conducting his second administration so that on the 4th of March, 1905, his welcome at the Executive Mansion would be to the man who had “landed” him twice? There is no man who has fair familiarity with the politics of the last half a dozen of years, and who will patiently and honestly think the matter over, who will not grant in his heart that President McKinley’s second term will be available for all that it can do to secure a third term of the McKinleyHanna combination.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

The reinocratic Dantrer. The effect upon the Democratic party of the South, of legislation looking tn the elimination of the negro from politics, is looked forward to with the gravest sense of danger by Democratic leaders whose thoughts extend beyond the mere gaining of an office to-day. 'Two evils they foresee. One is the moral certainty of the South losing in importance by having its representation cut down in Congress and in the Electoral College; the other, the possible consequence of the Southern white people dividing and fighting on political lines as soon as the fear of black domination is removed by the elimination of the negro as a voter. Congressman Livingstone, of Georgia, and ex-Governor Oates, of Alabama, are among the Democratic chiefs who foresee these dangers and have raised their voices to sound the alarm. So far they have been unheeded. It is not certain that their stand will call a halt. The men who make laws, themselves officeholders and representing the officeholding class, take no thought of the morrow. It Is popular now to move against the negro. To go with the current is easier than to oppose it. Charles Sumner and Thad Stevens, far-seeing as they were, committed the blunder of making voters of negroes and adding to the political strength of the South almost as much as was represented by the addition of the negroes to the white population. They thought the negro vote would hold the Southern States Republican, with the help of the white Republican# In those Slates. Their error lay in not taking account of the truth that a solid negro party would compel a solid white party, and array the political forces along ethnological lines. The added votes of the Southern States due to the enfranchisement of negroes gave the Democratic party control of Congress and enabled it to elect Cleveland the fl rot time. Disfranchising the negroes means the subtraction of their representation In Con-gress-and this representation Is expressed In Democratic terms. The Democratic leaders in the South who perceive these dangers and do not cry out against the present tendency are falling In duty to their people.— Fort Worth Register.

A Signal.

In Sumatra, if a woman Is left a widow, immediately after her husband's death she plants a flagstaff at her door, upon which a flag is raised. So long as the flag remains untorn by the wind the etiquette of Sumatra forbids her to marry, but at the flrot rent, however tiny, she can Iny aside her weeds and accept the first offer she-has. The coffee tree In a wild state will grow to a height of 80 feet; wbek cultivated it Is pruned down to five fotr convenience In gathering the crop.

GARDEN AND FARM

AN ORNAMENTAL PLANT. The castor oil bean plant is one of 1 the prettiest and most ornamental that can be used along borders, its leaves being a beautiful green. The cotton plant can be grown in this section to the blossom stage, but will not mature, though the seed should be planted in hotbeds early and transplanted. The canna is another very pretty showy plant, and it makes a fine contrast with castor bean plant. CULTIVATION SHOULD BE THOROUGH. Good cultivation need hot be deep, but should be thorough. Stirring the surface soil to the depth of an inch is sufficient if the weeds and grass are destroyed. The object of cultivation should be to stir the surface soil so as to provide a mulch as a covering. ADVICE TO BEGINNERS IN FARMING. Beginners in farming, especially those with limited capital, should endeavor to produce early and late crops, so as to have cash coming in all the time, if possible. One of the essentials for quick returns is poultry. The hens should lay every day, with good management. One or two good cows will also be found serviceable, as milk, butter and eggs are cash at all seasons. Small fruits, such as strawberries,, currants, gooseberries, raspberries and blackberries, soon give returns, but grapes and orchard fruit require more time. On a small farm it may not pay to depend upon the cereal crops. Stock, fruit and vegetables give better profits and bring in cash long before the harvest comes for corn. There is nothing that will give larger and quicker profits in proportion to capital invested than fowls, and as they multiply rapidly the number can be increased every year. The fowls will also consume much waste material that cannot be otherwise utilized.

DON’T CLIP WINGS. The clipping of wings is, to say the least, a cruel practice, and often results in the loss or injury of our most valuable fowls. The temptation to go to the highest portion of the roost is too strongly inbred in the fowls to resist, and they will invariably manage to get to the top. Then, in their haste to get down, they fall, head over heels, having no means of protection. I have seen fowls attempt to fly from a perch fully ten feet from the ground, invariably with the same results. The fence can always be built high enough to keep them in the yard, and, aside from all injury the clipping does, their beauty is so marred that one should refrain from such unnecessary mutilation. A fence four feet high will turn Brahmas, while six feet will keep the Leghorns at home. The co«t of wire is so moderate that every one may easily provide a good fence for the yards without resorting to any cutting of wings.— Home and Farm. WATER AND FEED FOR SWINE. Have a care that your hogs are comfortable at all times. One should be prompt in everything pertaining to their 1 care. Profhpt to feed at a certain tinje and prompt to water, and right here Is where many an otherwise good swine ■ breeder and feeder is remiss. He neglects or forgets to water the fattening hogs. or. as is often the case, he thinks it unnecessary. When hogs can get clean, cold water to drink, they always prefer it to dirty, unless their taste has 1 been perverted. Hogs fatten faster when given nothing but slops and the water they get from a filthy wallow. A hog wallow is a nuisance pure and ’ simple, especially if near the watering place of other stock. It is not of much value to the hogs. Let it be abated. A hog likes a variety in his diet. He will eat up all the small unsalable potatoes, and grunt his satisfaction while so doing. It is almost impossible to over- ! feed the hog if fed carefully.— Swine , Advocate.

MODERN IMPROVEMENTS. A correspondent who signs herself "Granny," in the Pacific Farmer, has up-to-date ideas as to hatching chicks; I do not wish to detract one whit from the hen. bless her, but when I had fixed up a nice, warm, dean nest, with a set ting of eggs therein, and had place I biddy on them, I expected her to do her part, but lo I and behold when I peeped in, the next morning, to see how biddy was getting along. I beheld a conglomerate mass of straw and eggs, while biddy. standing up. resting. I suppose, after her recent work of destruction. I tried to possess my soul in patience while I emptied that nest and fixed it all over. Then 1 got another hen that I was sure wanted to set. from the way she clucked, but when in due time I looked at that hen also, the sight that met my eyes was enough to arouse the righteous indignation of almost anyone. Then I went and sat down and watched my incubators running until my anger cooled Hens arc all right to lay eggs, and to set, too, if you have the right kind, but you cannot depend on Leghorns, not even mixed ones; at least that is my experience. Sometimes they will set two weeks and then leave the nest. So I say give me an incubator every time, and right here let me tell you a secret about them. If the heat radiator and pipes are far enough from the eggs, you can put in two layers and thus make one machine do the work of two at the expense of one; but be sure and change them every day, putting the top ones underneath and vice veria. If you are not certain about the heat just put in a few at first and keep them on top until the first time you test them, when you can easily tell if it is too hot

In one of my machines the heat so 'close to the top laydr of effgs'that they were abdut- all' killed, but in my other erne two layers are just as safe as'one. • ; o FERTILIZERS FOR THE POTATO CROP- •> ' , The potato crop is a very important one, especially on land that is costly, aS the crop must first pay interest on the capital invested before it can give a profit. In those sections where early potatoes are grown for market, fertilizers are used in large quantities, and even the late potato crop is treated liberally in that respect. If the farmer does not use fertilizers he may lose in yield of crop, and if he ujes too much fertilizer the tost may be too great in proportion to the gain in potatoes. The most profitable crop is not necessarily the largest that can be grown, but the one that gives the largest crop at the least cost Experiments on Long Island, conducted by Professors Hall and Jordon, and published in bulletin No. 187, of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, show results that are contradictory to the practice in that section, and, as .custom and practice seems to be followed almost everywhere until overthrown, the Results should be interesting to all who grow potatoes. It has long been claimed that potash in the soil is the most essential plant food for potatoe>. but recent experiments teach that nitrogen and phosphoric acid, rather than potash, seem to be the ingredients most necessary for the production of good crops. The mixture used on Long Island contains 4 per cent, of nitrogem 8 per cent, of phosphoric acid and 10 per cent, of potash, equivalent to 80 pounds nitrogen, 160 pounds phosphoric acid and 200 pounds potash in each ton of fertilizer of the pure plant foods, and not “salts.” as the 200 pounds of actual potash would represent about 400 pounds of muriate of potash. Of course, where The land is rich in any one of the ingredients mentioned, or when stable manure has been spread, or seme leguminous crop turned under, the proportions of plant foods given as fertilizer must be governed by the conditions as well as by the previous crops grown on the land. Four years’ tests with various amounts of fertilizer, during which 500 pounds up to one ton per acre were used, show that 1000 pounds is the largest quantity that can be used with profit, the money gain on 1000 pounds being nearly twice as much a- for 500 pounds, hut the money gain grew’ smaller when more than 1000 pounds were applied. It is evident, however, that growers should use as much fertilizer as possible, or as much as the crop will bear, provided the gain in potatoes keeps pace with the expense. For instance, if 1000 pounds of fertilizer will give more profit than 500 pounds, allowing for all possibilities from manure, plowed-imder crops and other plant foods already existing in the soil, then it is cheaper to use too pounds than a smaller quantity. Growers who content themselves, therefore, with the application of from 200 to 400 pounds of fertilizer per acre on potatoes, may save the expense of fertilizer, but they lose the gain that might be derived from a greater amount. This rule applies also to other crops. The farmer who uses fertilizers should not be too economical in thejr application, as he loses time, labor and crop by not using the full limit of fertilizer that his crop will bear. On the Long Island farms the lapd is made to produce to its fullest capacity; hence as much as one ton of fertilizer per acre has been applied, and with profit; but the experiments show not that too much was used, but that half a ton gave a la/ger profit in proportion to cost, though rdoo pounds per acre is regarded by many farmers in the United States as an exceedingly heavy application upon one acre.

Which fertilizer to use for potatoes depends.< as stated, upon the conditions of the soil, climate, rainfall, etc., but the experiments mentioned demonstrated that the usual formula of 4 per cent, of nitrogen, 8 per cent, of phosphoric acid and 10 per cent, of potash is one that may be altered with advantage, as the potash may be decreased to one-half, or even one-third, without reducing the yield of potatoes. Nor did an increase of nitrogen over' the 4 per cent, make a gain in the crop. It is evident, therefore, that the potato growers have been too extravagant in the use of potash, and that a formula containing 80 pounds nitrogen, 160 pounds phosphoric acid and 70 pounds potash per ton will give as good results as the same proportion of nitrogen and phosphoric acid with 200 [•ounds of potash. It must not be overlooked that failure to secure a good crop may not be due to the fertilizers. If there is insufficient moisture, an inferior variety of potatoes used, or the land is not given thorough cultivation, there will be a diminished yield, but if the conditions are favorable the limit of 1000 pounds should be applied. The formula for potatoes given in the experiment is the result obtained on Long Island, where the soil may be very different from that of other localities; hence each farmer must understand the nature of his own soil, as some soils may be richer in one substance more than in others. Tn the use of nitrogen only a portion should be nitrate of soda, as it >s very soluble, dried blood or tankage supplying the remainder. Superphosphate is excellent for its phosphoric acid, and if from bone it will contain about 3 per cent, of nitrogen, but. as only 8 per. cent, of phosphoric acid is necessary, there will not be enough nitrogen from that source oaly; hence nitrate of soda should also be applied. Professor Lanciana declares that in ancient Rome there were buildings tex affd twelve stories high. Thus vanishes the claim that modern civilization is responsible for the “skyscrapers.” Mexico buys all of its shears and diarp-edged tools from the United States.

War Tax Wiped Out July 1.

Millions of dollars wilt M saved aa- ' nually by business men as a result of! 1 amendment in the wdr revenue- tai ' net that went Into effect July 1. It ' is no longer necessary to pay taxes on these things: ' ; Bank checks, 2 cents. , Bills of lading for export, 10 cents. , Bonds' or obligations try guarantee , company, one-half of 1 .cent on each , Certificates of damage, 23 cents. . Certificates of deposit, 2 cents, < Certificates not otherwise specified, « 10 cents. < Charter party, *3 to <lO. < Chewing gum. 4 cents each fl. ’ Commercial brokers, sss. 1 Drafts, sight, 2 cents. * Express receipts, 1 cent. * Insurance. Ute. 8 cents on each * $100; nartne. inland, fire, 14 cent on - each $1: casualty, fidelity and guaran- ‘ ty, % cent on each sl. . ‘ Lease. 25 cents to sl. Manifest for custom house entry, 1 $1 to $5. Mortgage for conveyance in trust. ' 25 cents for each $1,500. , Order for payhient of money on , sight or demand. , Perfumery and cosmetics, % cent , for each 5 cents. , Power of attorney to vote, 10 cents. < Power of attorney to sell, 25 cents. < Promissory notes, 2 cents for each • SIOO. Proprietary medicines, % cent for • each 5 cents. < Protest, 25 cents. • Telegraph message, 1 cent. • Telephone message, 1 cent. ’ T’nlted States money orders, 2 cents ' for each SJOO. ' Warehouse receipts, 25 cents.

THE ENLARGED CONGRESS.

It Will Have 386 Members, and the Electoral Collette 47<i. Probably the people of the country do, not yet fully realize that the House of Representatives which they will elect next year will be allotted on a new ratio, and will be much larger than any House ever chosen before. lu the House of Representatives which was elected last November, and which will meet next December. t) • are 357 members. In the House whi .1 Wjll be elected in 1902 there will be 389 members. The ratio- for representation in the House established just after the taking of the census of 1890, was one member for every 173,901 inhabitants. The ratio established under the census of 1900, which will go into operation in the election in November, 1902, is 194,182. The next House will be 29 members larger than the present one. Of course, the electoral college will be enlarged to the same extent. The electoral vote In the canvass of 1900 was 447. The vote in the election of 1904 will be 470 through the recent addition to the membership in the House, and there is a chance that it may be still*further enlarged, because the admission of Oklahoma and perhaps one or two of the other territories to statehood No State lost any members through the recent readjustment of representation in the House and in the electoral college. Arkansas. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, I.ouisiana. Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Washington, West Virginia anil Wisconsin will each have to choose -one member more next year than they chose last year. Minnesota, New’ Jersey and Pennsylvania will each gam two members. Illinois, New York and Texas will each gain three members.

SENATOR KYLE IS DEAD.

South Dakotan Expires at His Home in Aberdeen. United States Senator James Henderson Kyle died Monday night at his home in Aberdeen, S. D., of heart failure,

after an Illness lasttwo weeks. He was 47 years old and had two more years t|o serve of his seconfd term as Senator from this State. The attack which has proved fatal was similar to the one which prostrated Senator Kyle at Cleveland two yeatx

SENATOR KYLE.

ago. His death was not unexpected. The dead statesman was born in Xenia, Ohio. Starting ns a teacher, aftfr graduating in civil tngineering at the University of Illinois, lie took the degree Of D. D. at Oberlin and became pastor of a church in Utah. Moving to South Dakota in 1886 he was elected soon thereafter to the State Senate and in 1891 to the United States Senate as a silver independent. Since .McKinley's term began he had become a Republican nni Was candidate for a third term. His term would have expired March 3, 1903.

“YES, IT IS HOT ENOUGH FOR ME.

HOT SPELL BREAKS ALL RECORDS.

Since the United States weather bureau was organised there la no rword of any hot apell such as that which has marked this early summer in the first year of the twentieth century. The hot wave is as long and as broad as the; country itself. The greet death rate in New York. according to the national weather officials, was due to the awful humidity.

PULSE of the PRESS

Earl Russell may find that our divorces are too fragile for export purposes.—Detroit News. Why can’t we trade Dr. John Alexander Dowie for Aguinaldo or the Sultan of Sulu?—Topeka Journal. After all, Montana politics apftear to be quite decent -when placed in comparison with the Pennsylvania article.—Topeka Journal. In certain cases a sheriff with a backbone is worth more than the three brunches of a State government.—Detroit Free Press. And now the New Jersey Supreme Court gets into line, declaring street railway franchises taxable, same as real estate.—Detroit Free Press. The mothers’ congress of Michigan appears to have run short of mothers again, so elected a spinster to lead their efforts.—Detroit Free Press. The Mayor of Pottsville, Pa., started out with an ax the other day and chopped down the billboards that disfigured the streets;—Denver Post. Judging from the action of the grand jury, Chicago is about as congenial a place in which to do business as Dowie could find.—Detroit Free Press. Cuba's population may be turbulent, but we don't remember having heard of either lynchings or Pennsylvania charter grabs in the island.—Detroit News. There is no greater w’onder of the world than the marvel of the evolution of city transportation as seen in American streets. —Grand Rapids Press. What will it profit J. Pierpont Morgan to gobble the earth? He can’t take it away with him, and his doctor won't let him eat anything.—Topeka Journal. Mr. De Lima appears to be about the only one who is thoroughly satisfied with the decision of the Supreme Court. He gets his money back.—Rochester Herald. The King of England is a deuced lot more particular about the domestic records of women acquaintances than the Prince of Wales ever was.—Detroit News. Dr. Dowie neglects to add, however, that he was also undoubtedly the party that caused a sensation in natural history circles by conversing with Balaam. —Grand Rapids Press. Dowie has got it into his head that the Chicago doctors want to kidnap him. It is difficult to understand what they would with him unless they wish to examine his gall.—Topeka Journal. It seems strange that nobody ever thought of applying to The Hague arbitration commission to intervene in the war between the Salvationists and the Volunteers. —Topeka Journal.

If John Bin. will audit his war ae count carefully he will see that it would be a strok of economy to stop the war and give every surviving Boer a farm and a life pension.—Philadelphia Ledger. Sam Jones, the evangelist, started In with a salary of S3OO a year. Now his income is estimated at SI,OOO a month. There is no disputing the fact that advertising pays. —Buffalo Times. “Dr.” Dowie says he does not know he has a head. That’s getting nearer to facts than anyone expected. And now. will be acknowledge that he has not any organ except a gall?—St. Paul Dispatch. In a Missouri county a murder trial is beiug conducted in the open air to accommodate the attending crowds. The same desirable facilities will no doubt be offered the people to see the hanging.— Denver Post. That California woman who, on account of her children, stopped a paper that had on several occasions printed the word “hell,” should also see that ■here are no Bibles lying around loose an her home.—Denver Post. It is much pleasanter to joke over night clothes, sweaters, horse blankets and bath robes in connection with the burning of the West Baden hotel than it would be to make appropriate comments upon a tragedy.—Detroit Free Press. The groat battle of the century is now to be waged, the combatants being science and civilization against the mosquito. Tiie advantage.of force is with the alliance, but, then, the mosquito has the skill and training.—Baltimore American. Fred Funston says that octopus steak is the toughest proposition he ever tackled. He was born too late to dine from mules that bad outlived their freight wagon usefulness, ns our soldier boys of the Civil War were sometimes compelled to do.—Denver Post. The most wonderful story of Kentucky chivalry over published is thaj of Col. “Jack” Chinn, the celebrated fighter who was with Goebel when the latter was assassinated. Col, Chinn has sworn off from drinking whisky because his wife asked him to. And he is a man of his word.—Buffalo Tinies. In denning out Pekin it must be admitted that the allies also cleaned it up. They considerably reduced the death rate and put the entire place in a very fair sanitary condition. Civilization may advance with a gun and a plunder bag, but there is always a cake of soap concealed aliont her person.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Home is the thing men fight for. No man would go to war to defend a boarding house.” This is one of the pithy things said by a delegate to the congress of mothers. It describes the Transvaal situation in n nutshell, nnd explains better than a volume of exposition the secret of thfit determined resistance to English conquest.—Anaconda Standard. So many government officials are engaged in writing for the magazines and newspapers that the people will noon bOgjn to wonder when they find the time to attend to the duties for which they are paid out of the public treasury.— Washington Post. Since his death it has been fottnd that the supposed-to-bave-beou murdered Millionaire William M. Rice of New York has two sisters living in lowa. Both are widows.' are over TO years old, and both bare had to support themselves taking in washing. If Rice was not mnrdereA ho ought to hare been.- Buffalo Time*.