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MORRILL'S GREAT SPEECH.
As It Was Overlioiiril by W. A. CrofTut,
During Kohounml.
Text: "It Is our duty, it sroms to tne, to retain
the rovenuo tux on tobacco nnd alcohollo
spirits, onilTCduco tho tariff on tho laborer's
clothing, food nnd other neccsiitios of lire."
Orovtr Cleveland.
(Senator Morrill, of
S Vermont, tho fatlior of
- tho Senate, will riso in
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his seat with the above
text in his hand, and
cltingly romaric) :
Reform is demanded, as
all will allow;
Tho Surplus is big and
tho burdon is heavy;
Tho Revenue must bo
diminished, but how
Dopends on tho
of taxos wo lovy.
All I have hinted at
during the Session
As sources from which
it should come,
MlRht be conveyed in tho simple expression:
"Spare Tobacco und Rum!"
(Chorus by Sherman, Edmunds and -Fryc,
whllo tho orator waltzes gracefully up and
down the aisle) :
Slap all the tax on poor folks' backs,
Dut spare Tobacco and Rum I
Tho grades of Tobacco, as all will allow.
Arc vital essentials of human existence;
So race ever grow to bo famous, I trow,
Without Its oxpectoratory assistance;
Woolen coats, jackets, and blankets, and
dresses
Aro luxury's sum-So
I repeat what the sentence expresses:
"Spare Tobacco and Rum !"
(Chorus by Hoar, Hawley and Illscock, while
the orator waltzes gracefully, etc.):
Slap all the tax on poor folks' backs,
liut spare Tobacco and Rum!
Rum is nfnond whon Adversity racks;
it makes tho heart warmer and moves tho
pulso quicker;
Always it tortures mo whon there's a tax
Laid on that Primal Necessity Liquor!
Teoplo can live without blankets or jackets-Tax
them and voters aro dumb'
Wherefore I shout, amid Revenue's rackets:
"Spare Tobacco and Rum!"
(Chorus by Piatt, Plumb and Palmer, while tho,
u uif. ;
Slap all the tax on poor folks' b'irks,
Hut spare Tob.tcco nnd Rum!
Taxes of millions a year
Laid upon Liquor inspire me with loathing;
Lot us repeal 'em and not intcrforo
With a similar tax on tho Laborer's clothing.
Duty on food und apparel no'cr vexes
Aught the Industrial scum-So,
us I said, in apportioning taxes,
Spare Tobacco und Rum .'
(Full chorus, by Stanford, Stewart, Stock-bridge
and other Republican Sonatoro, who
join hands and dnnco around tho Father of
tho War-Tariff In a ring, singing):
All wo shall ndvocato during tho Session
As sources from which it should come,
May be conveyed in tho simple expression:
"Spare Tobacco and Rum!"
Slap all the tax on poor folks' backs,
Rut sparo Tobacco and Rum !
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(Two or three Now England Senators, and ten
from the West, moodily rof uso to sing, and slldo
off into the cloak-room to consult.) I'uck.
THIS YEAR'S FIGHT.
Why the Democrats Can Not Logo It
UnJest Thiy Fall to Fight.
"Xo taxation for surplus" was the
President's admirablo message to Congress
and tho country. In suite of tho
protests of tho ablest Republican thinkers
and journalists of tho country, tho
Republican politicians and Presidential
candidates have- joined issue for
tho campaign on this point. Both
Blaine and Sherman, difl'eriug widely
in other tilings, liavo agreed that taxation
for surplus is not unconstitutional;
not unjust; not illogal; not extortionate;
not dangerous to financial
.stability; not destructive of commerco
nnd irade; not onerous to tho mercantile
classes; not burdensome to work-ins;
not an oxtoVtio'ri'ironi tho whole
pc'Mj'ie. Never before wore- tho lino
m sharply drawn on this question at
(lie opening of a Presidential campaign.
Never boforo was tho Republican
part' forced"to mass its strength
to defend tlio most untenable point in
it3 fallacy; was the Deal-
ocratic party hi a position which
mauds victory so surely.
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Sinco Sherman made his bid for tho
Presidency at Springfield, tho Republican
party his mado blunder after
blunder, but the supremo blunder is
this defond tho negative
against Mr. Cleveland's strong, plain
and manly affirmntivo proposition that
taxation for surplus is dangerous, unconstitutional,
and under any circumstances
unjustifiable.
A fight joined on such issues has tho
possibility and tho probability of political
revolution in it tho breaking
down of tho Republican linos in places
where they havo always held against
every attack; of the loss and gain of
States that havo boon safely Republican
sinco tho party came into existence;
of .a great Democratic triumph
that will complete tho disorganization
of the Republican party.
Wo havo a scmnro fight on a plain
issue at last, and we can not loso unless
avc fail to fight. St. Louis
lican.
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MERE OBSTRUCTIONISTS.
Tho Uncuylncr nnd Crumbling Condition
of the Republican Party.
Timo was when Republican party-ism
stood for something. But sinco
tho election of President Cleveland it
has beconio a political negation. I'or
threo years tho Republicans in Congress
havo proved tho merest obstructionists.
They havo declaimed in their
platform and from the stump against
tho accumulation of the surplus and
tho continuance of oppressive taxation,
but in Congress they havo contented
themselves with opposing tho consideration
of bills brought forward by tho
Democrats for tho abolition of reduction
of unnecessary taxes. On tho
great economical question of tho time
they havo not attempted to formulate
any positive policy.
When the President was confronted
with a vacancy on tho bench of the
United States Supremo Court and undertook
to fill it by an appoiutmont
from tho circuit in which the vacancy
existed, they pursued their modern
tactics of obstruction. They raised
tho groundless and ridiculous objection
to tho appointment of Judgo Lamar
that his sympathies aro Southern. In
fact, they mado a sectional plea for his
rejection by tho Senate when the appointment
was necessarily sectional,
as all appointments to tho Supremo
Bench must inevitably be, on account
of the sectional division of the country
into judicial circuits. After obstructing
tho action of tho Pr. sident
as long as they wore able .a halt was
called upon their absurd folly by threo
Senators of ihoir own party.
In tho election
case the obstructive idea took possession
of the minds of the Republican
leaders in Congress. Although two of
the most prominent Republican members
of the Committee on Elections
had joined tho Democratic members oi
tho committee in reporting to tho
House that Mr. Thoebo had not mado
out a case, that Mr. Carlisle was clearly
entitled to his seat and that thero
was no ground for a reopening of tho
case, and although these Republican
members of the cominitteo addressed
tho House in speeches unequivocally
and emphatically in favor of confirming
Mr. CaiTslo in his seat, tho petty
trick of obstructing the adoption of tho
report ol tho committeo was resorted
to by the Republican side of the House.
Somo thirty members were paired
and absent and the Republican
leaders of the House, with a
breadth of statesmanship that would do
honor to a moot congress of
school-boys, seized the opporunity . to
leave the House without a quorum by
sitting silent in their seats whon tho
vote on tho contested election caso
was taken. When brought to book
they based their obstructive action on
the false ground that tho case ought'to
be reopened in order to enable Thoebo
to take further testimony! A most
transparent subterfuge, but sufficient
in tho judgment of such eminont statesmen
as Tom Reed and Tom Browne to
cover their deceit. Mr. Thoobo has
had more than a year to tako his testimony.
As was proved boforo tho committee,
his attorney had plenty of
money to rako over tho district for evidence.
But ho utterly failed in' his attempted
assault on tho election returns
which gave Mr. Carlisle tho seat,
and two honest Republican mombers of
tho Committeo on Elections declared
that Mr. Thoebo had not laid any
ground for a reopening of tho case.
But tho party of obstruction, tho
moribund, decayed nnd crumbling Republican
party, played its pantomimo
to tho qm. Ilarrisburg (Pa. Patriot.
After Boss Chandler h. cast his
Senatorial drag not ovor all tho Southern
States, perhaps ho will move to investigate
somo recent attempts at railroad
logislatioi' up in New Hampshire.
And then, again, perhaps ho won't.
Boston Herald.
Private and confidential to William
E. Chandler: This is 1888, and
not 18G8. Wo just thought wo would
mention it, you know, as it scorns to
have slipped your mind. Boston Globe.
OUR CALIFORNIA LETTER.
Sacramento city. January 21, 1883.
ISpeclal Corrospondenco.l
California, tho largest State In tho Union
except Texas, is 700 miles long with an
average width of 250 miles. Tho Siorra
Nevada and Coast Itango of mountains run
parallel, northoust nnd southwest, tho
having nn altltudo of from 8,000 to
14,000 feot; tho CoksC Itdnjro lrom 2,000
to -1,000 foot, and fjhoy aro divided by a
number ot valloys and rlyers, tho principal
ono boing tho Sacramento valley, 200
miles in length and 4C miles average
width, through which runs tho Sacramento
river, a navlgablo stream for about 150
miles from lt3 eutranco Into Sulsun bay, a
Btuall bay at tho head of tho bay of San
Frunclsco.
Sacramento valloy proper includes tha
counties of Sacramento, Yuba, Butte,
Colusa, Sutter, Yolo and Solano,
these being bordorod by tho mountain
counties of Amador, El Dorado, Placer,
Novada Sierra, Plumas, Shasta, Trinity,
Mendocino, Lako and Napa, affording a
great variety of soil and. climate, owing to
tho diiferenco in elovatlo'n.
Tho soil of tho valley counties bordering
upon tho Sucramonto river is principally a
dark, rich adobe nnd alluvial soil, and well
adapted to tho growth of cereals. Along
tho foot hills varieties of soil from blacic
udobe to light snndy soil appears. Tho
lower slopes of tho mountains contain different
soil, somo being sands, of light color,
others light clay, and much a deep red clay.
Tho summits aro moro rocky and volcanic,
and tho soils vary, somo being clay hills,
sandy ridges, loamy meadows nnd deep,
rich valleys in tho very tops of tho mountains,
boing tho fajorito rosort of largo
herds of sheep and cattle during tho sum-
j mer montha
Stretching along tho foot-hills and up tho
mountain sides to tho altltudo of 2,500 feci:
is what is known as tho ." thermal belt." Ic is
in this belt where tho warm air lingers whon
tho sun goes down, and to which the warm
nir rib03 when tho first rays of tho morning
Bun ore thrown upon tho valley. Tender
plants nnd fruits aro grown
in profusion, as was fully demonstrated at
tho Citrus fair held In Orovllle, Dutto County,
in December last This " thermal bolt " is
also noted for Itswondorful curative qualities
in lung and asthmatic complaints. Dut very
littlo good Government or railroad land
near tho railroads or rivers remain. Land
is worth from $5 to $500 per acre according
to location and improvements. In tho foothill
region land Is selling from $5 to $50
per acre. In tho valley bordering on tho
Sacramento river largo ranches of from
1,000 to 00,000 acres havo been tho prevailing
feature. As population comes in
theso will bo subdivided and on their rich
alluvial boll thousands of small farms, tho
homes of thrifty families, will bo established,
but this can not bo accomplished
until tho population Increases and there is
ii demand. The population ot this groat
fetato is about 1,500,000, but it is capablo
of supporting 10,000,000 people.
1 1 All this vast region of soil, water und
j climate, unsurpassed by any other, now in
vites population not lazy, shlftlees, impecunious
persons, such would 3oon starve
or bo found begging but men with brain
and muscle, and enough money to give
j them a fair start, enough to sustain them
whllo improving tho lauds, to mako them
produco that for which naturo intended
thorn such men, If with families so much
tho .becter.oan J&ft,jbundn,ut opportunities
to socuro nt modj sudh a homo an
will bo pleasant 'and profitable. A man
with a family willing to help him, if ho has
irom $1,000 to $3,000 in hand, is safo to
mako a beginning which, if ho is judicious,
should lead him to prosperity,
i Two branches of tho Central Pacific railroad
leaves Sucrainento ono on tho cast
side of tho valloy, via Marysvillo and Chieo
! and tho intermediate towns, tho other on
tho west side, via Woodland Willows and
Williams nnd intermediate towns uniting
at Tehama, tho now head of navigation on
Sacramento river. From thence tho road
is continued to Portland, Ore., this road
having been completed within tho last
s.xty days, oponlng up country wonderfully
rich in funning timber and mineral products.
Until tho past five years tho raising of
'wheat and barley was tho principal occupation
of tho farmers of tho Sacramento
valley, tho grain being transported to
Europe on ships, but tho completion of three
railroads tho Central
Pacific, Southern Pacific and tho Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe, with tho prospect of
other roads noon coming, affording increased
facilities nnd reduced rates of
given a wonderful Impetus
townrd raising fruit, and California
will soon bo considered tho garden spot of
tho world The Sacramento valloy has supplied
of tho fruit sent Eust, and
tho " Fruit Growers' Union," an association
of farmers, in tho year 18S7 sold their fruit
In Now YorX"Tihd Boston on tho nuctlon
plan, and with gratifying succosa It will
bo tried In othor cities this coming season,
with reduced rates of transportation, so
that sixty million of people in tho United
States can afford to purohaso theso California
fruit?, progress and
tho fruit business will be something
wonderful '"Vr
Tho largest grain-growers in tho valloyu
do tholr plowing with gang plows and
their harvesting with tho latest improved
machinery. Consequently farm hands in
tho past had employment only during a
portion of fliu year, but sinco the fruit and
vino businesses coming to the front, moro
and continuous labor is required, and in
some of tho moro advanced fruit districts
during tho fruit picking season tho school
vacations aro oxtondod in order to allow
tho obildron to assist in securing tho crops.
Dry.goods, clothing, and, in fact, all tho
lighter class of goods can bo purchased us
cheaply as in tho Western Stutoa Heavy
goods, whero froight Is an Important item
of cost, aro moro expensive.
Banks, both commercial and savings, aro
plenty, tho current rate of interest nt this
tlmo boing sevon to nine per cent per annum.
IlQ.tc.1 accommodation both good
nnd reasonable, fair board being oLtalnod at
twenty-five cent3 per meal and tour dollars
per week. First-class hotels chargo from
two to four dollars per day for room and
board.
There tuo plenty of good newspapers,
churohtjs and flobool Tho writer, in his
wanderings over tho mountains and through
tho vnll ovh of tho central portion of this
wotuierfftrB'tf.to, could not help noticing
the cosmopolite character, froo and nosy,
hospltab v character of the
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DISHORNING A BULL.
The Only Succcsrul Way or Subduing
Cruel and Vicious AnlmiiN.
I have n Jorsoy bull coming two
years old, which somo times seemed to
bo filled with vigor beyond his capacity
for containing, and while leading him
to water ho would often act like it colt,
jumping about, and I became almost
afraid to walk before him (though I
showed no signs of this to him), and
finally decided to havo his horns taken
off befonj ho did any damage.
Ho was thercforo taken to a neighbor
who had dishorned twenty-six of his
own herd, and put into a stall mado of
two-inch plank and just wide enough
to admit an animal, his shoulders being
oven with the front end, when a
piece of timber was placed below, another
above, his nock and against his
shoulders, his head drawn around to
tho side and firmly tied; a timber was
also put acrosa tho stall under the animal
just back of his forelegs, raising
his feet from tho floor; the hair was
sheared off closely at the base of tho
horn, and with a moat
(narrow blade) tho horn was cut off as
near tho head as possible, leaving it
like ono naturally without horns, which
was perhaps of an inch
on tho skin. When done, tho head was
tied to tho other sido and tho other
horn cut oft", both of which left openings
about three-fourths of an inch in
diameter into tho headland into which
was put a very littlo cotton to keep out
dirt. Ho bled very freely on one side,
but. on tho othor very littlo, and was
taken homo a different-looking animal.
After one week matter formed in ono
sido and forced tho cotton out and continued
thus for a week, when it dried
up, at Avhich timo the cotton was taken
from the other sido and it also rah a
little, at which I was at first alarmed,
but learned it was necessary to force
out the saw dust which had fallen into
tho opening.
Some writers say "It does not hurt
them," but this depends upon what is
menut by "hurt." It is a painful
oporntion, and in this caso affected the
animal somewhat for three weeks; but
after dishorning r.nd examining a fresh
beef head, I became fully convinced
that no permanent injury could ariso
from the operation, if properlv cared
for.
I can now lead the bull or enter the
stall .with perfect safety, which is a
great satisfaction, and I would not
have the horns replaced if I could.
I have since witnessed the dishorning
of several head, and havo even seen
tho blood spurt out; but there is no
possible danger of over-bleeding, as I
can understand. Some animals began
to eat immediately after the operation;
but I do not think they were in, tho
(mood lai eating, nft it w:;ssonIv
featuring tin? appetite. Sewerdl
cows gave a smaller flow of milk fovjono
day after being dishorned, So the owner
told mo, and ho weighed tho milk; from
which please form your own opinion,
but my observations urn that it will
affect their appetites a couple of days,
though cases mav differ.
In cutting off the horns, I prefer to
have them cut back on tho skin so as
to leavo tho animal like, or nearly, tho
natural hornless ones, which may bo
half an inch, though one can tell by
feeling tho head, and this does not
cause r.ny more pain, as far as I can
learn, than it would to leavo a stub
horn; and though you may look six
inches into their heads after removing
tho horns, do not feel alarmed tho
brain is safely inclosed by a bono protection
but before dishorning, ox-amino
a head if possible, to learn for
yourself, and you can tako off horns
practically as woll as any one, if you
have a little nerve.
I think oarly in tho spring or fall is
tho best time for dishorning, thero being
no Hies or seriously cold wcatlior,
though I know of some operated upon
in mid-winter, in this northern region,
that camo out all right. H. M.
in Country Gentleman.
They Feel at Home.
In a St. Paul shoo store whero there
is a sign that reads, "None but gentlemen
employed as clerks. Ladies may
feol perfectly at homo when purchasing
goods hero," the other day a clerk went
to tho proprietor and said:
"Don't you think we'd bettor pull
down that sign?"
"What for?"
"Because tho women read it and sit
down on tho floor when trying shoes
on." S. Paul Globe.
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Tcaclict "Class in physiology,
itaml up. Bodkins, how do you distinguish
organic from inorganic
matter?" Bodkins "In the organic
world every individual springs from
Homo parent, while inorganic
aro formed by chemical laws."
Teacher-1-"Very good. Givo an
of an inorganic substance."
Bodkins "An orphan." Life.
A novel scono was presented on
Grand Traverse boy recently. A tug
and an ico boat were out on tho bay together.
Tho ico was about two and
one-half inches thick and tho ico boat
had tho best of tho tug as far as speed
was concerned.
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OF GENERAL INTEREST.
It is a curious faetithat one out of
ovcry nine persons you'mect on Broadway
is a Hebrew. T;hey number in
New York City about 120,000, and with
their wealth and intelligence, if ever
organized politically as a partj, would
exert a strong, if not controlling
on local politics.
Tho young folks of West Deer Isle,
Me., have organized thoTonguo Guard
Society, whoso object is to guard
against saying any thing improper to
or about any one. Each offense is
punished by a lino of one cent, to bo
placed in a box in tho church, tho fund
to go towards buying a circulating
library.
In tho United States arsenal at
Watortown, Mass., thero is a machine
for testing the strength of iron and
steel substances, which is looked upon
as a wonder of mechanical skill and
power. It can test to a nicety, and
with equal ease, tho tonsilo strength of
a ponderous iron or steel bar, or of a
wire, or ovon of n, single hair.
It is said that there aro two sisters
living near.. Delta, whoso ages aro
between lift' and sixty years, who
havo not seen each other in six-four
tcon years. They live only
miles apart, and aro oil per-.
fectly friendly terms. No cnuso what
ever is assigned for this seeming indifference.
Dulton(Ga.) Citizen.
In tho district court at Waco Tex.,
Andrew Miller, a negro prcachor,
charged with tho theft of a cow, when
brought for trial, wished to open the
court with prayer. Tho judgo ro
quested the sheriff to tako tho prisoner
to the judge's private olfico ami let him
pray. After prayer tho prisoner was
convicted of theft, as charged in the
indictment, and given two j'ears in tho
penitential'.
Tho avorago watch is composed of
175 different pieces,' comprising upwards
of 2,400 separate mid distinct
operations in its manufacture. The
balance has 18,000 beats or vibrations
per hour, 12,900,080 in thirty days,
J57,C80,000 in one year; it travels ono
and 43-100 inches with each vibration,
which is erjual to 9 miles in twenty-four
hours, 292. miles in thirty days,
or 3.558J miles in one year.
Tho latest "fad" among wealthy
families is to burn "driftwood" in open
grate fires. This wood is gathered
along tho seacoast by Eastern parties,
packed in barrels and shipped through
tho country. It is mostly wreckage.
A great part of it has once boon tho
material of ships' bottoms, and was
sheathed with copper plates. Tho copper
salts havo impregnated tho wood,
and when burned it gives out most
beautiful green and peacock blue
Jmnnics. k- . t
J?" In jinrA of, India v ild elonhaj? .
.givo a groat ileal -out rouble to porsonsL
employed in road iinHbviug.f rightcning
tho native workmen and destroying
their work and knocking down their
houses. A herd will come along the
newly made road, and reaching a
temporary bridge will send their
lightest member across to tost it. Being
mado to support bipeds only, it
will generally give way, whereupon
tho herd will express its disapproval of
such workmanship by promptly demolishing
it.
During avolent thunder and lightning
storm at Middleton, Fia., lately,
an immenso ball of lire was seen to fall
in tho forest near mo town. Searching
parties were sent out, and parties' of
negroes found it, but they were too superstitious
to handle it. It struck a
big pine, demolishing it and splitting
tho rock into two pieces. Ono weighed
about two hundred pounds and the
other twenty-live. It sank into tho
ground nearly eight feet. -It appears
to be of iron ore covered with opaquo
white cystals.
Turk's Island, ono of the West
Indies, is only 7 miles long and 1.V
mileswide. It contains 2,500 inhabitants,
three-fourths negroes. Tho only
product and export of tho littlo island
is salt and sponges. Of theso it sends
out annually 2,000,000 bushels and
2, GOO bales of sponges. Two-thirds of
tho salt goes to the United Statc3 and
the rest to tho Canadian provinces as
fisher' salt. Tho best part of the salt
is piled up outdoors in stacks 15 to 20
feet high. It is pure, dazzling white
and trying to the eyes; in fact, so much
so that thoso who work at tho salt
usually wear goggles.
At 10:30 o'clock on a recent
the people of Middletown, Pa.,
who had not retired at that hour were
startled by their natural gas lights
and fires suddenly springing up a
distance of a foot or so. Then .
tho lights leaped to tho coil-
ing and the stoves roared liko fur-
naccs. Tho people rushed through tho ,
streets warning their neighbors, and
but for tho prompt action taken tho
town would havo been sacrificed. The
surplus gas was caused by tho ball or
safety valve of tho gasometer bcinS'
either taken off, or falling off, thereby
throwing the entire pressure' of th
well, ninety pounds, on tho service
lines. Tho pressure was throw" on in
every house, and almost every oUe had
left the gas burning.
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