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BYKIi D.AKS.
.IRONTON. . - - MISSOURI.
WOODEN BOOKS.
The S!nSnUr Library That Botanist II a
ulleeted.
In a retired street of Cassel stands an
.old-fashioned roomy house, the depos
itory of the Natural History Museum
df Hessen. The most unique and inter
,,Hirig of the various collections is the
;b-called "Holzbibliothek," or library
-of wood, consisting of 546 volumes in
-iolio, octavo and duodecimo, made from
trees growing in Wilhelmshoehe park,
nd representing 120 genera and 441
.species. On the back of each volume
is a red morocco shield bearing the
common and scientific name of the
"tree, the class and species to which it
belongs according to Linnaeus, speci
mens of the moss and lichen peculiar
to it, a bit of the rind or bark, and, if
it is resinous, a drop or two of the resin.
The upper edge shows the young
wood cut crosswise to exhibit the rings
.nnd pith, while the outer edge is of old
"wood, cut in the same manner, to illus
trate the changes which take place in
the texture as the tree gains in age
And size. The top cover is of unripe
wood, in the rough; the under cover is
planed smooth; the front edge shows
polished grain and also the fungi to
which the tree is liable when in the
stages of decay or disease. Attached
to the front edge is a cubic inch of ma
ture wood, on which is noted its spe
cific weight when the sap is flowing in
-the early spring, again in midsummer,
and still again when thoroughly dry.
Under this is given the degree of
heat, Reaumur and Fahrenheit, obtain
able from a cubic inch of dry wood in
a cubic foot of space, that given out
by the same quantity when it becomes
a glowing coal, its diminished size
and weight when charred, and the
properties of the tree, together with a
description of the soil in which it flour
ishes best. The interior of the book,
or box, contains a complete history of
the tree, especially of the organs of
nourishment and fructification. There
are capsules with seeds, the germ-bud
with rootlets and first leaves, a branch
with leaves in various stages of develop
ment, the flower from the bud to a tiny
blossom, the fruit from the embryo to
its full maturity, and last of all, a skele
tonized leaf.
The author of this really marvelous
work was Carl Schiedbach, of whom
little is known save that he was a Hes
sian born, was manager of the men
agerie at Cassel from 1771 to 1785, was
bailiff of the domain of Weissenbaden,
now Wilhelmshoehe, in 1795, and died
in 1816, leaving a widow, but no chil
dren. The library remained in Schiedbach's
possession until 1799, when it passed
into the hands of Landgrave William
IX., of Hesse, for the consideration of a
life annuity of about 1,600 marks.
Fuseli, in his "Art Lexicon," says:
'At first Carl Schiedbach fed tame and
wild beasts in Cassel, but afterwards
turning his attention to science he
raised himself in a short time, by
means of talent and enormous dili
gence, to the position of one of the
greatest scientist in Germany. Buff on
appreciated him and tried to induce
him to go to France, but in vain. He
was a mechanical genius, and though
he never had a lesson in drawing or
painting, he was a connoisseur of art.v
Baltimore Sun.
COULDN'T SEE THE PICTURE.
6he Was an Impressionist, bnt lie Was an
Iconoclast.
She was a fair young artist, and he
was the swellest society man of her
acquaintance. He bad called at her
studio, in the most immaculate attire,
to see the picture which was to make
her famous; she wore a painting apron
which was anything but spotless, but
her greeting was unabashed.
"What a delightful place," he said,
as he picked his way in and out among
the appurtenances of her calling.
"I'm afraid you will find it a little
untidy," she demurred. "You see I
just finished my picture half an hour
ago, and I've been moving everything
about to put it in different lights. Let
me find a place for your overcoat."
"Not at all untidy. No, I'll keep my
coat on, thank you; I haven't long to
stay," he replied, as he came into vio
lent contact with a cast of Homer on a
light stand and caught it deftly in his
arms. "Pray accept these flowers."
"Yellow chrysanthemums! O, how
lovely. I shall make a study of them
standing on a window ledge with snow
banked up outside and a skull beside
them. I shall call it 'Death and winter
close the autumn scene. Won't you
sit down while I hunt for something to
put the flowers in? But be careful not
to sret the chair with the broken leg."
"Thar.ks, I can take care of myself.
Do you know I often wish I had be
come an artist; my artistic instinct is
so unerring. What a charming sketch
of a a snowscape that is."
"That? O, that is a morning mist
on the mountains I'm an impression
ist, you know."
"Ah, how stupid of me. But, you
see, I'm a little near-sighted and I left
jny glasses at home."
"What a pity! Now where can th3t
Drown jar be? O, here it is," and she
deftly opened the brushes out of it on
-the tea table and proceeded to arrange
the flowers in it.
"That is a delightful study of of
capple blossoms over there."
'That? O, that is a sunrise on
O, you mustn't sit on that chair; the
"It is quite firm, thank you."
"That meadow in the sketch over
yonder is a wonderful bit of color; how
calm, how peaceful it isP
"That is the lake off Lincoln park on
. stormy day impressionist greens,
you know. Do try this other chair."
"No, thank you, the light is excel
lent here. But you have not yet shown
:me the picture you promised."
"Why, no; that is, I can't now; it"
"O, you artists are too modest. I
-must see it; I want to get. a really
good impression of it before it is ex
ihibite:J." "As for that, you must have gotten a
rreally good impression of "
'Your style; yes, of course. . But I
vrant to see that picture especially.
You intend to exhibit it, don't yon?"
"I I think not. I had intended to,
rbut now- "
"O, you must not be so retiring. You
-must reallv let the jury sit upon it;
xhey "
"That is now impossible, I fear," she
replied in accents of calm despair, "for
.you have been sitting upon it for hall
ja hour." Chicago Tribune,
FATHER'S VOICE.
Only dreamicc. Bothin-j mora,
ach auia so roue j- years
Herding sheep 'twas when the war
Filled the land with blood and tears.
Just a little boy strain.
Tending sheep, with brother J ohm
Both of us are bearded men.
And the years creep on and on.
But I dreamt, with strange delight. .
Of the scenes of long ago:
There the woodland to our right.
There the cherry grove below;
There the happy childhood home.
There the sheep-shed, long and wide
There toe creek that tossed its foam
Galnst the rocks on either side;
There the schoolhouse by the lane
Where I learned my A B Cs:
There the clearing where the grain
Nodded to the summer breeze.
In my dream T saw it all.
Lived my childhood hours in one.
Beard the voice of father call:
It U daylight come, my son!"
O'er his grare the rain and snow
Many years have fallen deep.
And I only see him now.
Only hear him, in my sleep
And the old home does not seem
As it did in other years
Only when I sleep and dream
Dreams of Joy, to wake In tears.
When upon the bed of death
I at last am called to lie.
And my slowly ebbing breath
Comes with labored sob and sigh.
I can in my pain rejoice
That my last day's work is done.
If I hear my father's voice:
"It is daylight come, my son!"
A. L. Bixby, in Youth's Companion.
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CHAPTER XVIIL CoNTisrrElx.
From Gen. Waterson's aocount we
learned that there were about fifty
people in the building and they were
taken completely by surprise,-but so
admirably pre-arranged was" the plan
that they had no opportunity to give
alarm and were all shut up in one room
and a guard placed over them, after
which the invaders had .the building to
themselves. Everything was done with
the utmost expedition and the nicest
pervision, and at two o'clock the regi
ment was in possession of two million
dollars in coin. It was ten minutes
past two when the column was set in
motion, and at that time there was the
most confused notion in official circles
as to what was going on. The idea
that an armed regiment had taken pos
session of the United States deposits
in the heart of the city in the middle of
the day appeared to be too incredible
at first to be alarming. It was there
fore two-thirty o'clock before the first
attempt was made at police head
quarters to take summary action and
call upon the reserves. The rumors
spread like wildfire through Wall street
and Printing House square, and when
the regiment moved, Wall street, Nas
sau street and Broadway were choked
with people. But Sen. Waterson
handled his men with admirable skill
and the solid column was not likely to
suffer any serious interruption from
merely angry or suspicious crowds. By
the time the newspaper bulletins got
the first wave of intelligence, the regi
ment was at the foot of Courtland
street. It had marched through that
usually choked thoroughfare with a
tactical adaptation to circumstances
that was amazing. It marched in force
through the two ferry gates; took pos
session of two boats; put everybody off
but the pilots, and the vessels started
just as the first division of the reserves
marched into West street, three blocks
away.
At this point the state line, which
was no embarassment to the soldiers,
interposed an invisible barrier to the
authorities.
New York stared across the river in
bewildered astonishment and then re
sorted to the telegraph and the utterly
futile police boat.
Hendricks' close calculation of time
was again shown here. His agents ar
rived in Jersey City with fifteen min
utes margin, and that was enough to
enable them to take possession of a
train of ten cars on the Pennsylvania
road and get in motion before the or
der had arrived to hold all trains.
: On the ferryboat Gen. Waterson and
his officers encountered a number of
passengers with large portmanteaus.
They were there by prearrangement
and brought the change of garments
with them. When the boat arrived at
the New Jersey dock the officers were
in different apparel and were protest
ing most bitterly against the impu
dence and insolence of the soldiers.
The general and two of his aides are
known to have got back to New York
on a returning boat. At least one hun
dred men had gone out of their uni
forms while on the water. This was
easily enough accomplished, seeing that
they had but to take off shirt, trousers
and hat. These articles of clothing
were weighted with their arms, tied
to the empty and open knapsacks
and flung into the Hudson. On the ar
rival of the boat they followed the
troops with the crowd and were unob
served. Half an hour later whn they
were looked for they had disappeared,
most of them returning to New York
by various routes.
Gen. Waterson, we know by his own
account, put up at an obscure down
town hotel where he registered as
John Fielding, of Newark, and that
same night reached an up-town ren
dezvous where he freed himself from
the gold and then gave himself with
curious zest to watching the course of
events and of public opinion in the
city.
CHAPTER XIX.
The regiment left Jersey City at half
past three with eight hundred and
6eventy-five men on board. It had not
crossed the Jersey flats when the en
gineer was locked up in a closet and
the engine taken in charge by one of
the general's own men. The first act
was to cut the telegraph wires when
ten miles out at a secluded spot, and
here twenty-five more men were
dropped. The train was then run with
a view to land the men at the best
point and to keep ahead of the special
that it was believed would be on its
heels. Gen. Waterson's report leaves
ns in no doubt as to how his plan dis
posed of the forces. Fifty got off at or
near Newark. Twenty-five were
dropped at Waverly and twenty-five at
Elizabeth. Fifty were disposed of at
Bahway and one hundred before reach
ing New Brunswick. Between Deans
and Monmouth Junction another hun
rim
dred left and at Princeton Junction, at
the suburbs of Trenton, four hundred
more disappeared. Fifteen miles out
of Bristol the remaining hundred
dropped from the cars. The engine
was then reversed and the train
started spinning backwards to meet
the special.
Most of these men adopted the plan
that had been t ried at St. Mary's. They
started at once in diverging lines
and disappeared in the surrounding
country.
The excitement in New York over
the affair was widespread, and was
fanned into a flame before evening by
the news that came from Philadelphia
that the United States mint had been
similarly robbed by another regiment
that had seized a train and gone to
Lancaster.
The next morning full details of the
two exploits were printed, and there
was no doubt that they were both
parts of one plan. But no one appears
to have suspected the exact method of
the regiments or their plan of subse
quent disintegration. The popular
imagination planted an armed force
in the field somewhere and added un
told resources of men out of its own
terrors. Something of this feeling was
reflected by the press and the action
of the secretary of the treasuiy, for all
the endeavors were directed to the in
terception and capture of an armed
force which as the reader knows did
not exist. New York now recalled .the
St. Mary's affair which it had formerly
treated as a western practical joke,
and the Louisville papers were rather
exultant at what they called an eastern
dose of the joke.
But it must not be supposed that the
central police-office at New York had
been entirely led astray by these
events. It had quietly arrested six
men whom its sharp-eyed detectives
had recognized as being in the ranks
of the visiting regiment, and on one of
them was found five hundred dollars
in gold. The superintendent, who saw
underneath the surface what he con
ceived to be a vast and brainy con
spiracy, summoned his best men; put
himself in communication with the
secret service bureau at Washington,
and very soon began to formulate some
of the inevitable deductions. In this
he was fortunately aided by one or two
circumstances. He obtained from the
Washington bureau the photographs of
the men who had boarded the Corin
thian, which photographs had been
forwarded from England. One of the
persons in the group was discovered to
be Fenning. The other circumstance
was that the Washington bureau had
sent two men west on his trail and
they had disappeared in Tennessee.
With these facts before him, it did not
take the superintendent very long to
focus his suspicions upon western
Tennessee.
CHAPTER XX
The one man who seemed to have
the clearest comprehension of all this
was Hendricks, who, from his retreat
underground, watched by some in
scrutable process every move that was
made. Gen. Waterson reached Laran
on the 20th of July. He left New
York just six hours before the police
began to look for him, and he found
that four hundred and fifty of his men
had preceded him to the Laran. Dur
ing his absence the sanitarium had
been burned to the ground. This took
place on the 8th. On the 9th Gen.
Luscomb's party had been attacked in
the rear. The general had been killed
and his men routed. Those that es
caped got in at Covington and re
ported the sanitarium burnt and the
gang gone eastward. In the public
mind this appeared to explain the ap
pearance of the regiment in New York
on the 12th.
About ten miles east of the Laran
snugly perched on the side of a wild
glen is a solitary Swiss cottage. It is
bailt of stone and looks down upon a
rugged but beautiful country. It is
just three miles from the town of
Hoxie on a branch of the Tennessee
railroad where there is a post office
and telegraph station. The people in
the town understand that an eastern
literary woman who has an enormous
mail has hired the place on account
of its seclusion and salubrity. She
has a pony and two servants, one
of whom is a man, and she comes to
town frequently with her pony to
mail her letters, get her papers and
meet an occasional visitor from the
east whom she takes back with her.
This literary woman is Mrs. Hen
dricks. In her pretty little boudoir
on the secoud floor she has a tele
graph instrument built into the wall,
and she communicates constantly with
Hendricks in the Laran by an under
ground wire that has been laid with
great care and expense through the
wildest and most unfrequented part
of the intervening country and which
enters the cave through an artesian
drill that is hidden by four feet of soil.
In a fragment of a preserved letter
of Hendricks he says: "This wire cost
me more trouble and labor than any
thing else. It had to be laid at inter
vals after a careful survey in order to
avoid observation, and it had to follow
the unfrequented ways and escape the
possible surface water courses, for if it
had been bared and discovered my
enemies would have had the iron clew
that ran to the heart of my mystery."
The man servant in this establish
ment is none other than Fenning. The
room in which he and his companion
toil at their mail is tastefully furnished
and the windows on the inside are pro
vided with steel blinds. The two Royal
Dane mastiffs that have already been
seen at the sanitarium lie at full
length on the rug. They can be de
pended upon to hear a footfall on the
mountain side before it gets within a
hundred feet of the house.
In this comfortable and secluded re
treat Mrs. Hendrickt is at work during
the latter part of July. The mails are
kept guardedly down to a correspond
ence of necessity and to the daily pa
pers from the large cities.
We can thus see how indifferent Hen
dricks was to the prospects of a siege.
He could safely and secretly direct the
movements of a vast organization scat
tered through the country while ho
and his immediate forces were safe
from molestation or disturbance while
their supplies lasted.-
On or about the 2Sth of July,
Fenning succeeded in getting Mrs.
Hendricks to send for Miss La
port's assistance. But that young
woman refused to leave Laran volun
tarily. Fenning suspected the in
fluence of Stocking. Mrs. Hendricks
was sure of it. Preparations were then
made at Fenning's suggestion to send
her at night under a strong guard to
meet him somewhere on the route,
when they were interfered with by the
news from Laran. This was on the
80th and Hendricks telegraphed;
"Something of our secret fs urteied i
by the government. How much. I do I
not know. Watch the papers. A j
United States gunboat anchored in the
river this a. m., opposite the bayou: a
strong force has been ashore. The
probability is that this is one feature
of a general movement and other forces
are concentrated. It is therefore fool
hardy to send Miss Franklin at this
time."
It was Mrs. Hendricks custom to read
off these messages to Fenning while
she was at the instrument and he
wrote them down with a pencil in
order to be sure of their meaning,
burning them immediately afterward.
They never suspected or ever knew
that they were read by somebody else. .
But they were, and it is that curious
fact which enables us to follow the
details of his operations.
In the interval between the collision
with Gen. Luscomb and the departure
from Laran of Mrs. Hendricks and
Fenning, Calicot had had ample op
portunity to cultivate the acquaintance
of Miss Laport, whom he knew only as
Miss Franklin, and as the two young
women in the place were thrown much
together, he saw a good deal of Miss
Endicott. The doctor, who had found
him a well-read man, had become quite
attached to him and had told him a
great deal about Miss Endicott's pe
culiar temperament and condition.
The .young woman herself enjoyed
Calicot's society, and he and Miss La
port spent most of their evenings visit
ing her. On one of these occasions
she had lapsed into her trance condi
tion and the doctor was not present.
Something that was learned from her
lips made Miss Laport and Calicot con
sult long and carefully. The very next
night when they were alone with her,
she again passed into an abnormal
state, and Calicot, with his compan
ion's concurrence, questioned her. The
doctor was busy elsewhere; there was
no fear of interruption. Miss Laport
got the packet of hair that she knew to
be Mrs. Hendricks', and Calicot, with
curious interest, listened to the girl.
Then it was that she described the
scene in the Swiss cottage and read the
telegram which Fenning had written
down with a pencil from Mrs. Hen
dricks' lips. Calicot was puzzled. He
had no means of finding out where
this place was. Miss Endicott could
only describe what she saw. She had
no explanations to make, but it sud
denly dawned upon him that he had in
this young woman a complete offset
to Hendricks' secret advantages. Miss
Laport acknowledged to him, in corrob
oration of what he had heard, that she
had refused to go away without her
father, and now that she had learned
of the preparations to send her to Fen
ning, she was visibly alarmed. Calicot
encouraged her by every means in his
power. He pointed out to her how
great an advantage their discovery
gave them. She listened to him help
lessly; but they became confidential
confederates. He cautioned her to say
nothing to Stocking at present and got
her to use her woman's influence with
the girl to carry on the experiments.
When he was alone the discovery
filled him with ' all manner of con
jectures and alarms. It kept him
awake all night in an effort to make a
correct deduction from the informa
tion furnished. The next day he
cautiously endeavored to test the truth
of Miss Endicott's vision. He met
Hendricks in the rotunda, and after a
polite salutation said: "It is impossible
for me to wander about in this place
and not hear the men occasionally dis
cussing your affairs. I have just heard
something that leads me to believe
that a war vessel is watching the
bayou. Is that true?"
"Yes," replied Hendricks. "She ar
rived yesterday morning. I expected
her before."
He then walked away as if disin
clined to talk further upon the sub
ject. So this piece of information was ab
solutely correct. Calicot saw that the
affairs of Hendricks and his men were
now too urgent to leave them much
time to think of him and the women,
and he resolved to improve the oppor
tunity with Miss Endicott. Miss La
port made the task an easy one, for she
brought Miss Endicott into her apart
ment, gave her an invalid chair and
admitted Calicot. He observed that the
girl did not suffer in her trances when
the doctor was not present. She even
acknowleged that the doctor fright
ened and pained her, but volunteered
to take the packet of hair and tried to
do what Calicot desired. She closed
her eyes a moment, gave way to a little
tremor and then said: "Yes, there
they are. He is reading the papers to
her." Calicot very soon discovered
that she could not repeat what she
heard, if, indeed, she heard anything
at all. Whatever her special gifts
were they appeared to be confined to
vision. She could read the title and
the type of the paper in Fenning's
hands and she saw his lips move. He
was undoubtedly reading to Mrs.
Hendricks, and she was summarizing
the intelligence in dispatches to
Hendricks. It was not difficult to
direct the girl's mind to the news in
front of Fenning, and she read it off
with her body bent forward as if
straining to perceive an indistinct
object and speaking slowly like a child
conning a lesson.
What was Calicot's astonishment to
hear her, in this manner, convey the
import of the matter before her strange
vision.
He learned that the success of the
authorities in tracking the source of
the widespread Junta conspiracy to
western Tennessee, had led to some
curious developments. The New York
police had succeeded in linking to
gether several mysterious events which
pointed to the fact that the master
spirit of this new danger to social
order was no lass a personage than
the audacious pirate who had robbed
the Atlantic steamship two years ago.
The United States government had
taken means to stamp out this social
istic rebellion and the gunboat
Arapahoe had been ordered to
Memphis; the Sixth United States in
fantry, with battery A and troops A
and F of the Twelfth cavalry, had
been ordered to report at Paducah
from Leavenworth; orders had also
been forwarded for two companies of
the Fifth United States regiment at
Fort Benton, Tex., to proceed to
Memphis. Gen. Harvard Carroll was
placed in command of the forces with
his headquarters at Paducah
Here the girl stopped, and Calicot
with allowable impatience asked her
to go on: "He has laid the paper
down," she said; "I cannot see ft and
he has got up. He is looking for some
thing. It is a writing-pad. He sit
down beside the woman he is writing."
"Yes, yes. It is a telegraphic mess
age. Can you read it? It comes from
Hendricks. "
to bs cosrnrczn.
PROTECTION FOR A PURPOSE.
What Tom Bead's Candidacy
la IS 96
Will Mes.
It now seems probable that Thomas
B. Reed or some other republican
leader suspected of being opposed to
McKinleyism wiU be the next presi
dential nominee of the monopoly
party.
Reed is said to represent that ele
ment which wants moderate protec
tion, or, as some of the Maine con
gressman's admirers define it, "a tariff
which will exactly measure the differ
ence between American and European
wages."
This, of course, is a confession that
the republican party has heretofore
been legislating profits into the pock
ets of manufacturers instead of wage
to workingmen. It is, moreover, a
confession which will involve- protec
tionists in more serious complications
should they attempt to make their
-"moderate" policy a permanent one.
They will have some difficulty in ex
plaining, for instance, how the differ
ence in wages will go to employes and
not continue to stick to the hands of
employers. There is no special law or
virtue in a moderate tariff which com
pels the protected class to be more
generous to wage workers than when
they are operating under a high tariff.
The manufacturers are the first re
cipients of the swag, and if the swag
be a "moderate" amount it is less
likely to be passed on to workingmen
than if it be a large amount such as
McKinley favors taking from con
sumers. In the latter case they might
be shamed into voluntarily dividing a
part of the plunder with the em
ployes, but where the amount is small
the protectees would hold on to it and
look for more.
These moderate protectionists should
also explain their attempt to arbitrar
ily fix a limit to American wages. If a
twenty-five per cent, tariff raises
wages will not eighty or one hundred
per cent, duties make them higher? At
what point does a tariff cease to en
hance the pay of employe and begin to
augment the profits of employer? If
"protection" booms business and
makes workingmen prosperous Amer
icans will never be satisfied with the
miserable amount which measures the
nominal difference between wages
paid on two continents.
And what is that difference? Proteo-
Do Your Bebt For thk Country, Democrats, For Here's a Coxkt Arm y ' Bkadt
to March ox Washington Again, Next Yeah. N. Y. World. ' '
tionists of the Reed type refuse to con
sider the relative purchasing power of
a dollar in America and of a dollar in
England. They also carefully elim
inate from discussion the well-known
greater efficiency of American labor
over that of Europe, a factor in itself
sufficient to account for any real dif
ference there may be in wages paid.
The average American mechanic
bears the same relation to a European
worker as does a modern mechanic to
one out of date. The improved ma
chine usually costs more than the old
one, but it is always more economical
to its owner, just as the higher paid
American is less expensive to the man
hiring him than is the European to his
employer.
Farmers now use self-binding har
vesters to do the work which was once
performed by the old-fashioned cradle
and manual labor. If congress were
called upon to pay to each self-binder
purchaser a bonus representing the
difference in cost between the old and
new instruments it would be doing
for farmers what for thirty years it
has been doing for manufacturers.
Farmers who use modern machinery
ask for no "protection" against their
less fortunate neighbors who struggle
along with antiquated tools. They
know that if government pap should
be doled out at all it ought to be given
to the men who use cheap machines
and cheap labor. And yet a majority
of Ameiican farmers continue to be
lieve with a religious zeal that rich
manufacturers using improved ma
chines (American workingmen) ought
to be protected against their European
rivals using slower and less effective
machines ("pauper" laborers).
Tom Reed's candidacy in 1896 will
mean the emphasis of this wages lie.
McKinley has not been averse to ad
mitting that some of the tariff profits
should go to the manufacturers. In
fact, he invited the mill bosses to
Washington to write the bill which
bore his name. Presumably, Reed, if
elected, would invite laboring men in
proposed protected industries to come
to the capital and write the tariff
schedules.
That is what workingmen should in
sist upon doing, should "moderate"
protection win in 189tt. But they
should also make certain that the tariff
profits are delivered to them direct.
Manufacturers should not be permit
ted to handled the mouey because, ac
cording to the Reed doctrine, they
have no right to it.
The people from whom these profits
would be filched will have nothing to
do with such deals except to bear the
robbery meekly and call it patriotism.
Chicago Herald.
The historic gentleman who al
lowed himself to be caught between
the devil and the deep sea presented
no more pitiful spectacle than will
Tom Reed pext year hesitating be
twixt his duty to the republican ma
jority in congress and his fealty to his
presidential boom. There will be a do
nothing congress until the presiden
tial election of J 896 is settled. Chicago
Times,
THE TAX ON INCOMES.
A Uw That Is a Step la the Rig ht Dft
The income tax law. It is confidently
predicted, will by the : present con
gress be practically nullified by with
holding the appropriations necessary
to carry it into effect. The wish is
probably father to the thought; but
there is a good deal of reason to doubt
the accuracy of the prediction. Those
who make it also predicted that Presi
dent Cleveland in his message would
either recommend such a course or
show in some clear fashion his dislike
of the tax and the: law. - That predic
tion was not verified. The president
said nothing whatever about the in
come tax law. It is quite possible
that the other prediction may fall
equally short of verification. It cer
tainly should not be verified. Con
gress owes to itself and to the country
the completion of the work it under
took in passing the income tax law.
Its failure to ' appropriate the funds
necessary to carry out the law was a
blunder. That blunder should be
rectified. If the courts shaU there
after declare the law unconstitutional,
as it is said the courts will, that, is not
the affair of congress. Its .duty will
have been done when the law it un
dertook to pass, and supposed it had
passed, has been completed in accord
ance with the clear intent of the jegifr
la tors. . t- ' :
The entire scheme of revenue fo
the coming and succeeding years hi
based on the collection of this tax; and
for that reason, if for no other, it
should be perfected so that it may not
be necessary to unsettle the business
of the country by the formulation and
discussion of any new scheme. It U
not an ideal method of raising revenue.
The Free Press has pointed out more
than once that it is in many ways one
of the most objeetionable methods to
which resort can be had for the pur
pose; and chiefly because of the diffi
culty in enforcing it equitably and in
securing honest returns from the peo
pie upon whom its incidence falls. It
has the merit, however, of bringing
under the notice of the federal assessor
a class whose contribution to the cost
of the federal government is infinites
imal in proportion to the benefits it
reaps from such government. Under
any other system the millionaire pays
scarcely any more toward the support
of the federal government than the
day laborer; and whatever may be the
difficulties in the way of compelling
him to bear, honestly and fairly, his
just proportion of the burden it is but
simple justice that he should bear it
If the income tax tends to make him
bear it it is a step in the right direction,
even though because of the nature of
things and of taxpayers it falls . short
of completeness.
The house passed the income tax law
by a large majority; and it is not con
ceivable that it will hesitate to make
the necessary appropriations to carry
it into effect. , It is possible, of course,
that the senate may, by filibustering,
defeat the attempt of the house to per
fect the act the country has learned
to expect almost anything from the
senate. But if the senate shall do this
it will add materially to the burden of
public disapproval under which it now
rests, Detroit Free Press.' ..
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
t
The crack of the monopoly whip
makes the talkative anti-McKinleyite
republicans take it all back. Chicago
Herald. t
The official returns show that
the republican majority in the Fifty
fourth congress will not be quite so
large as the democratic majority was
in the Fifty-second congress. Boston
Herald.
If, as a Columbus correspondent
reports, Gov. McKinley has already
picked out the men who will serve in
his cabinet when he is elected presi
dent, he has simply counted his chick
ens before they are incubated. Kan
sas City Times. .
The hungry republican brigade
of bounty and subsidy-snatchers who
affect to be having great fun just now
at the expense of the star-eyed god
dess, will have a better understanding
of the situation if they bear in mind
that "the eternal years of God are
hers," and ruminate upon the old Ger
man couplet:
'To some she Is the goddess great, to some
the milch-cow of the field;
Their care is but to calculate what butter
8he will yield."
Louisville Courier-JournaL
Turning- and Twisting.
It seems to be the hardest thing in
the world for a republican statesman
to get himself reported accurately.
First there was Sherman, whose tariff
views were misrepresented. Then it
was Reed. And now it is Babcock,
though it is explained in the case of
the latter that he was deliberately
misrepresented by an agent of the
United Press. It is rather a startling
oincidence, however, that all the men
spoken of should be misrepresented on
the same subject and in the same way.
Nobody seems inclined to misrepre
sent them on any other topic than the
tariff. Nobody charges them, lor in
stance, with admitting that the force
bill was a blunder. Lodge, of Massa
chusetts, was reported to that effect;
but he does not claim to have beeu
misrepresented. Perhaps' ihe other
gentlemen referred to aW1 peculiarly
sensitive on the subject of- McKinley
ism. Detroit Free Press
AGRICULTURAL HIHTja?
THE SMART FARMER.
. There la a farmer who Is yy
Enough to take his ee.
' And stndy nature with his II.
And think ot what h ee. K
t a . ....... .-.., i , t . ... . -
Be hears the chatter of the fl
As they each other tt.
And sees that whan a tree dkk
It makes a home for bU .
A yoke ot oxen he will uu
. ! With maay haw's and rr.
And their mistakes he will zoo,
When plowing for his pp.
.: Be little bays, but much he sells.
And therefore little oo;
And when he hoes his soil by spell
Be also soils bis hose.
Golden Daya
ABOUT LEAF CURL.
As Explanation of the Rapid Spread est
the Destructive Pis e.
..The leaves and twigs the only
portions of the peach tree which are
known to be' affected, by the fungous
disease popularly called leaf curL The
chief cause of the spread of this dis
ease is doubtless owing to the fact that
the mycelium is perennial in the leaf
buds, that is, iti passes the late sum
mer, autumn and winter months in the
tissue of the leaf buds, and in the fol
lowing spring grows out with the de
veloping leaf; multiplying more abund
antly in certain portions than in oth
ers at times: .. : I I
When the buds are taken for "bud
ding" young seedlings in the nursery,
if they are taken from an affected tree
the disease is quite sure to be trans
LKAF CURL.
mitted to every young tree which is
Btarted from a bud which contains the
perennial mycelium. Since all of the
affected leaves fall off from diseased
trees at quite an early period, and at
the time of budding the seedlings in
August there is probably no sign of the
curl in any of the leaves, it would be
impossible to discriminate between the,
diseased and healthy trees, or the af
fected and free branches.
A selection in Mayor June of healthy
trees for budding purposes would pre
vent the transmission of the disease)
through nursery stock.
Efforts have been made to check
leaf curl by the use of the Bordeaux,
mixture, but the Cornell station in its
recent bulletin considers it uncertain
whether the spraying has proved suc
cessful, "i The disease known as plumi
pockets, or plum bladders, and which,
is manifested by hollow, spongy and
abnormally enlarged -fruit, belongs to
the same species of fungi. N. Y.'
World. "
UNLOADING CORN .FODDER.
A Method That Has Boon Used with Satis.
.. ". factory Results.
My son and I devised a method for
unloading corn fodder In' the barn and
have been nsiug or yra with most
satisfactory results. . Get as many
pieces of K-inch.rope 18 feet long, as
vou want to haul shocks at one load.
Make loop at one ei.3 of each piece.
Lay one of, them on the bottom of the
hay frame with the ends extending be
yond the; ends pf the frame. Lay one
shock; of fodder on this with the butts
say to the right. Put on another rope.
then -lay, on anptner snocK who ua
butts to the left. Continue this until
the load is complete. In unloading
put the free end of the rope tnrougn
the loop on the other end, araw up
tightly, tie a knot, making another
lnnn or sincrla bowknot. Take off the
hay fork and in its place put a plow
nlAvis. Pass the clevis throuirh the
last loop, start the team, slowly al
lowing the rope to tighten aoout me
fodder, then go ahead. The accom
panying illustration explains the
method of attaching the rope to toe
clevis. James P. White, in Farm and
Home.
Floor as Stock Fd.
In a recent number of the Breeder's
ftft.ttA. Prof. W. A. flenrr calls at
tention to the fact that low gndes of
flour are now frequently otrerea as
prices that make them a cheaper stock
food than the wheat itself. Home
grades contain the germs of the wheat
grains, which can be detected in toe
flnnr aa dark snots due to the oil in
the germs turning color. These germs
are exceedingly ricn in protein, tne
most valuable part of food. For feed
ing horses, flour can be spread over
moistened hay. For cows it can bo
fed in the same way, or over cut fod
der, but should generally be mixed
with bran. For pigs it can be made
into slop, eitner straigni or mixea
with cornmeal or other materials at
hand.
Beat Way of Feeding Wheat.
The majority of reports commend as
the best and most economical way of
feeding wheat: To horses, whole,
mixed with bran or corn and fed dry;
to cattle, ground coarse, mixed with
one-third ground corn and fed dry or
fed in the sheaf; to milk cows, ground
and fed as slop; to hogs, ground
coarse, soaked and fed while sweet to
pigs or young growing hogs it is very
superior to corn in the production ot
bone and muscle, but for hogs being;
finished for market one-third corn
added will increase tne fat; to poultry.
fed in the aheaf or whole cooked
mixed with brun,