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THE * CAEN ESYILL m E ST AB □ SHttii8757 Alliance ^EaADE RS * AND THIRD PARTY EVANGELISTS. ■ zz 0fl6 Of The Many 1 ) 6771 - drogues Who T.1 Ed- ucauu^ tirnima Ganrdin L For- (it mtrs In Ways That Aro Not Dem- ocrat: °- -- Nasnviu.i Tenn., June 27 . - fSpecial to the St Louis Konub’ic I -The American will to-morrow publish the following sensational exposure of Editor Macune of the National Economist,national organ lit- of the Farmers’ Alliance The formation is given by a prominent Alliance officer and the American is prepared to substantiate it in court. “Another Moses, just engaged in leading the people out of the wilder- ness, is C. W . Macune, Charles Wesley Macune—the base tool of Jay Gould’s legislative attorneys, When the Ocala convention of the Farmers* Alliance met grave charges were made against Macune in,m- nrction with the Georgia senatorial contest, in which he figured as the special champion of Pat Calhounl head of the West Point terminal railroad lobby. A committee was appointed to investigate these charges, of which J. 11. McDowell ’ president of the Tennessee Alliance was amembor. That investigation showed from Macune’s ow n cunfos- sions, wrung by severe and tortur¬ ing cross-examination lrom Ins un willing lips, that Macune had g^nc from his home in Washington to Georgia to sid Pat Calhoun in his figbftor the United State, senator- ship svainst General Gordon. It showed that he went there on a free annual pass issued him by Calhoun’s road ; that he immediately began to ^fjrk the Alliance members for CaL houn, and that he received from tho latter several thousand dollars in money, which he said was a loan, D -. was also shown that he and Sledge bought out the Alliance Fai\a.«r,or gan of the Georgia Alliance,publish- ©dm , Atlanta, ... . . therefor . „_ ,000 nnr , paying / jucash; that lie used this organ to further the election of Calhoun, and also to defeat certain railroad legis- lation , . winch Cal! oun had , ,, been .iglit- , , nu kodni) mo.nky to lose. “Dr. Macune was thou, as now, Editor of the National Economist. He admitted that he had gone tc Washington __ T , to take , charge of this paper a penniless man, and that he had lost Sd 000 on hi, pane,” ret that he bad bought an $S 000 homo in 'Vashin-ton ashington, and and had Had nought Oim h- wiih Sledge a $7,000 paper ,n Allan- t»- He declined to explriu P w here be got the money to meet all these expenses when cross-examined on that point. 1 11 the absence of such explanation the conclusion is irresisc- ible that ho wot it frour the railroad comnsnv t'o’ win, e alto-nov he w- trvinv J gt else’ to ‘ ,ha senate and irhost* cause he espoused . against railroad bills pending in the Georgia legislature. These facts were all n Wrnn4y St^rs- f rom Mon tin© In m self 1 He :: concealed them until the questions w©ra driven home to him bv Fresi- dent Hall of the Missouri Alliance. All ... thac . of ... his expIoit> was Know n were obtmued from himself alone. “The committee prepared two re-- ports. One was ^whitewashing Zv re- ’ port; another gave the f tacts , as they have been stated above. McDowell and numbers of others signed the letter. McDowell declared that hit right hand should wither before he would ... report which , . . represent- sign a ed Jlacune as suy thing other than s “ dishonored ,. , , But secret man. some power, some hidden influence, begfi to work. McDowell withdrew hi- signature from the damning state¬ ment, prepared and attached it to the othor. Others did the 5 ** 'i AS II ai 11 ’ 0 f m* J'SOini, • stood ardmauhoo UotofJtl^e slcrci^pow er. FRANKLIN COUNT V 6A WEDNESDAY JULY 29I89I. xhe whitewash swallowed, “The whitewash report, thus al- m 08t unanimousl 7 signed, carefully avoided all statement of evidence. It was a general declaration of not guilty. But such wag the weight of the committee’s finding that it car - ried conviction to the convention and Hall’s single protest was drown- ed i n a hurricane of hoots and hisses. The evidence was never heard or known b v tb0 convention. But - these whit® washers are destined to drink deeply of the cup ot humilia- tion and fe.l heavily the hand of Jlacune crushing their manhood to the earth. Macune was chairman and had absolute control of the ecuti ''c board, so powerful to make or mar the fortunes of members of «■« »'der. He was the editoi of the "»tioual organ and controlled various other organs throughout the conn. was mighty in hi. power M,d >"«oiless in his exactions- i’res- tdent Pelk himself, who bated Ma. cune like poison,first felt the tyrant's ' and ' power, issued that famous proc- lwnalion declaring bis anathema U P n ^ lo ^ ire< * to openly assail a'member of llie order, which meant Macnne - In pm-suance ©f this p 0 I- icy he has demanded the resignation from the legislative committee of <! > Missouri, who has kept up hb lig t on Macune, though giving another reason for Ins demand. Hall, bjr the way, is the only farmer on the committee. Burkitt, of Miss- issippi, and others likewise bowed to the tyrant a.-d became his oho- dient and slavish defenders. In the meanlime we suggest for the dehb- erate and earnest consideration of honest Alliancemen whether they can safely trust the leadership of a man who t^kes the money and es- ponies the came of railroad monop- oly ami its hired lobyists, or men wh 6 conspire to deceive them as to the unworibmess of the former,and t0 k «P Wm »> a poriiiim of power and influence in the order.’’ AX IXTICKESTJXG LETTER. In this connection the following letter from Mr. McDowell to a friend who made inqu iries as to the Ma- cune matter is of inters!: Ci i’icn of J. H McDowell, ) . Pres. Tenn. State F. A & I. U., p Nashville, Tenn.,March 31 ,’81 ) My Dear Sir and Brother:—Jn re- ply to your favor will say there Wf.S so much of the testimony it would imp 0 3 S ijjj e for me to give it in dehail. It avas taken down by If. C. Demming, lri Harrisburg, him Pa. If you wou write and etfer him, say $5 to copy ’ it for you, I think 1 m H do it . Hall, of Missouri, ca a give )ou some strong points drawn out by him. Ills posfc-oflflce is Hub- burd,'Mo. The most damaging lie '(fiU) points! re- mcinpr asked if he sre: got any money front was Pat Calhoun during the senatorial fight. He replied that he got s?2,000 from bin, as a loan after the senatorial race E aa orer ’ Uo nduuttwi that the he had bought ^ a •«**16.WK»,and fine residence that in VVaslnngtonfor $3,000, paid $1,000 dow n and $100 a month afterward-; that he and Sledge had bought out the Southern Alliance Farmer, pay- ing “ $7,000 cash for a controlling ln - ,. e cst , and that, he favored and worked for the election of Pat Cal- hoi,n, a big railroad lawyer, and that ho went to Washington a poor man. M whore , r ’ H*“ he got ‘f' the -M’ssouri money to asked meet him the $ 10,000 loss on Economist, the ujou. ey to pay for bis residence and the ^7,000 for Southern Alliance > ar> mer * He i&iicd to answer except as a controlling interest in the Mercury of rexas, showing that he and Ma- tun * TJu Tveb ^ gans of other suites as well as the ua j_; ona l organ, m order to carry eveiylhing their n way. I give yon these points,but m your fight with hun don’t bring me Into it as ^ your informant, because I do nQt ant al thifl time t0 be for , ed , nl0 a controversy with Macune When I do I want the whole recoin - 1 that Demwing fortified has th^t I may be properly should he attafnpt to denv. 4 I rank 31cGaath,Oi i >e, of, Kan& is suothe r man who signed at : first a minority 1“ ‘VrL-r report with me giving . the , facts, ibis report, was atterwards withdrawn. Your friend and brother. J. H. McDow etl. ri» of peqswfftfi ofrx^rh; *ghts fixra np afeewl ot the bows of s'Sips tfietr k^knat%nre cotv enafchrd to sea a Jhfta&era Avofif enables the pas» | £bg & collision. GEORGIA fflUVORS IN GOTHAM, . Convention Of The Georgia We e kly Press Association. * _I_ The Members of the Fourth Es- « * <or te ,‘ ^ ,0ya anc ' * ly south Ent “ rt of " n Masons ff l B ° th ard Dixons Line. It was alrair.y body of editors Umt assembled in Atlanta at the fifth annual convention of the Gcor- Weekly Press Ataoeiation. These staunch men who so well rep- resent the talent and energy of the people of a great and prosperous state, and who are mighty factors m Georgia’, prosperity, and Georgia’s Democracy, came up to tire Gate City from every quarter of the “Empire State of the Soath N From the beautiful rolling lands of middle Georgia, from the alluvial slopes of the Atlantic and from the extreme southern section, where the grape purples beneath a warm sun and the peach catches the mellow glow of sunlight, representative editors came up to meet brother pen oil pushers of the Piedmont escarpment and be the guests of the brightest and the best daily in the South—the Atlanta Journal, The Journal opened the gates of Atlanta and the doors ot the Kimball House to the Press As- sociati '•«. Twenty rive of the hand- somest turnouts in the city carried ^ ie editors over Atlanta Monday af- ternoon, and we saw the Gate City at lts fairest and best, We were royally bariquetted a* the Piedmont club house, and the writ, humor and Honueneo of the orators ol the Geor¬ gia press furnished a ‘feast of reason and a flow of souk” The executive mansion was thrown open Monday evening, and the editors were elo- gam ly entertained by Georgia’s gov¬ ernor and his lovely wife and dan gh- ter. tjhe weekly editor has returned to hiss native heath with a soft spot in iris heart for every member of the Atlanta Journal’s corps of forcible writers, from courtly J Smith and gal- ^ lont Cabaniss down to brilliant Beal- er who has just’attained his’niajority, and Jack Cohen one of the youngest and brighest of the Journal’s staff. No other paper in this coun¬ try has so many gifted young writers on its staff as the Atlanta Journal. F. II. Richardson is one oi the com- ing editors of Georgia, Claad lieu- nett has already won a higni place in oeorgea . , oun, absra.Alex v A , Bealcr T> 7 is making a name for I’m self wherever the Journal it road,and Miss Connno Stocker, „’ society editor, is vomjgirls recognized as one f m ost gifted in . ‘ he sol f’ Thb weeWy editor aas admired the Journal, and to- day, as Editor Coleman oi the Ce- dartown Standard, would say, “he is h the Journal’s that he is hardl ,, , nls own „ And . ... u c tJU eIe S an t y * reciprocity which the Georgia edit- ors enjoyed at the fifth annual con- vo-.lion of the Weeklv Press Associa- . ' . '. rf , ’ , °’= --drawn ou‘ wo would that . the , Journals wish we were and not our own. the hup to new tore. Georgia’s mammoth daily the At- :snta i onstitntion, placed two e * e ” gr,nt Pullman Palaee Sleepers and ^ 7 — of the Pio.ns Association, and . j i> ^ ° f ° nC hn ” ared t 0 rs—wearing t be white | silk gold- f • x t r trmgec ac g s . c 1 ’ sUmped with t e ,efl o ug le of Georgia, and bearing the i»«rp- tion R ’ ‘‘Georgia tC, * la Weekly 7 Press Excur- sioii To New York ArraBgafl Bv At- Ian la Coa.titntioii,” toarafi )h , train in the dusk of a Jay d i) a >i the The metropolis....... “ Constitution 7 is the triend of ,,, * . * ';„ ’ ve ™ * T !i e Constitution 1 has the best new.- service daily . in the south, and ot any i; s editorial staff is made up of men and women whose names are houses, Bold words all over the Union. Clark Howell managing editer of the Constitution, is the y mngest ma who has ever occupied trie ie -ponsi We position of Speaker of the House never prouder of‘he Constitution j an ^ ne»er more in love with the great southern daily, than v htn enjoying lhc delightful excursion arranged by its g enial manag’ng editor. It was the kind ot roc *P r ocity that the rural editor is capable of appreciating, When the Georgia editor reveled in the dutiful scenery of the “Old Dominion,” and stood with uncover- e d head in obeisance to the “Mother otPresidents" and the home of illtts- ‘-vious men, when tearful and hallow- e d memories of antebellum days came trooping up at t!u sight of the Manassas monument, as the train 6 P ed 6w ‘ftly over the battle Wlls o£ Virginia, lie remembered that he was indebted to the Const!- fort be pictures of the ewir- S * 0,K And u hen tne lu-tpid waters of the Potomac were crossed and heart throbs quickened and patriot- by . ie majcs.ic splendor of the Capital, and the Georgia edi- tors finally trod tue laoroughfares of ootham headed by tb it veteran of Borgia crackers, Captain Newman, and took New York by storm, each editor constituted himself a commit tee of one to get up a resolution of thanks for Georgia’s popular daily, the Atlanta Constitution, I i:e Georgia editoi fuied like a king on the fifth annual excursion of the Weekly Press Association. At every point cn the route from the old red hills of Georgia to the metropolis, Jcors were opened wide to him and he was invited to come in and partake of the best without mon- ey and without price. And he w r cnt It was in the dawn of a bright July day mat a geaisl put) of Georgia Weekly editor-, one hun¬ dred strong, stood at the Jersey lanamg. Jersey City la y behind us, the first beams of the rising sun had kissed the rippling waters o!: the broad blue “Bhiue of America,” the domes and spires of the “City of Churches ,' 7 bathed m floods of morns ing light, loomed up soiitl of us, and New York lay m frontt 'Ve could n*t have approached the netropoli- m!dor fairer nu spices, A.*vro ^ked across the Hudson and saw such magnificent evidences ol the rnar- venous progress or man since Henry Hudson saile dup these same waters loss tban three hundred ye.-* ago, beautiful, weird impressions touched the heart, and a poet’s pen c mid have recorded sweet, and tender heart symphony. What can be said of New York that has not been w-iUcn rimes without number? The Georgia . editor who from goes a land where the people Ino down close to mother earth, and whose latest i otthe , , beauty , . and impressions magmf cence or southern homes, have been received from a dnvc over Peachtree the loveliest street of :he loveliest city “ulic south-a street taa t ,s famous from Maine • to , T . 0 ,,^ .ana, for its elegant homes-is ini- pressed wi' 1 the tall structures that line the narrow streets of New York The ^ p-oplewho e 1 live on the upper 11 floor of ten and , nfteen _ story . houses, are nearer heaven than Georgia editors usually go, at least while on ,,.,rt.i, New L ’ Y ''Y ha ’ ■ ..r wn until ' ‘litre 1 ,s no space for it to grow ,n any di- rectum save up in the air, and r.ew York i-growing upward at a mar- f* us - rt f thp juvilionairns f *h- w w GnuldA u * 1 '’ Yandar ‘ ‘ . on tic sidewalks and these mag- kuaTave j gtone homses of the money mono J kln £* al ° TUP run together togetuer in m blocks,and fail to create the pleasing impression of the lovely houses m d - saJroanded by flow . era anu mcau b^if o^u.naa ui iawn-* iawn... There u.e.e 15 no ‘ » in f ot ^ ce ‘ r liimg , huig ,n New i oik, save in the parts an<i squares. J OINTS OT IXTETEST ABOUND ABOUT XEW YOEIv. There i.- scarcely a spot m the me*-opol^ , oi toe New Wcrld w that . ’ replete wi.ii 1 .. stone ts not interest, and iu a sojourn of only a few days, the Georgia c-cdtors could not take ia many oi the sights around New Y orx. I he three mil on dollar Plaza ho- tei is a man el cf magnificence,and is ^ to be the most perfect hotel m phalt walks and drives, meuagerie aviary, aquarium, horticultural won- dtrs, tropical plants, museums of art, lake*, fountains, wilderness of trees, flowers, and thousand and one at* tractions, was fairer than the writer’s dreams of Eden This great pleas- ure ground m the heart of a great cut, is a place where one might stay and never grow tired of living, A number of the editors walked down a narrow street-but all of New York's streets are narrow for that .natter—lined with unpreten¬ tious looking buildings, but a street tliat is famous-A all Street. The Eden Muses, one of the finest temples of art in this country was a pomt of especial interest to many of the press club. Entenng the Eden Musee, our party paused before a group that will nev er lore interest or ic \ cop e w o ore te rat i- tions of the south. It re TVaa® at ® d the surrender of Lee to Grant at Appomattox. Tne heads and hgs mes of the L Dion and Confeder- ate soldiers, and the grouping and dressing were very realistic and were evidences that the modeling arid dres-d ig had been done by artists, Lee’s face was true to life. It was the face of a man who had fought and lost and who was surrendering right to might. Another group that interested us was Napoleon and Josephine. The Emperor of the French with the co j ( ] hand of ambition pushing from his heart the only woman that ever ] ove d him. One might spend a week in the Eden Museo ami still be interested Realistic representations are' given ot scenes and distingmshed persons from every quarter of the globe. When the writer stood beside the tomb of Grant with a Union and a Confedertae soldier, and saw the bine and the gray clasp hands at the grave of one of the greatest generals the Western World has ever produced, it seemed to us a blessed harbinger of a bless¬ ed day—a day when all bitterness will be dead, there will be no north, no south, no east, no west, and we will be one united people. We only north to do our brave rebel heroes justice in believing that they fought for conscientioislr what thev believe.-i was as as they bn- Ueve in heaven, and that to- lay southcu i courage would stand t >s grandly by the Union colors as it did by tho bonny Confederate flag,which , t in the stormy days of civil strife, symbol Ned the sacredness of south¬ ern rights and guarded the sancrity of southern homes. ^ New T York , viewed • , f ii om the dome o£ ^ World b ^^KtinT^oi ndi the highest buildmcr in t tho *^'2 r P , - .. of BaOokl\n » « bridge, T,T o the longest ous.- pen8;on brjdge in vor!(1> are Tisib!e £ar Mow . j ers tlTo city aml Brook | ?n ar6 see n m distance, ^. btatue of . f Liberty b * ErJightemmg k ® *he p World? and Cagt]e Garden ]oi) g f amous ag ^ Ian< jino- pl a2e of for- e goers from f every quarter ^ o. the t L P S 1 O 0 e *^i versl “o and Central parks seem like green Edens amidst the tall buildings of New York, and on tho west #ows the majestic Hudson, , J; B e * ,andcur u to the c splendid 1 scene of man’s marvelous Pvogre«s ° n ‘ ac " devemeBt5 ' The elevated and underground railways of New York were n 'Arveis to the Georgia editor. What can be • id of the sple, adid grandei”- of St Patrick’s, the fin est church in the United States? ri ^ we knelt one sweet Sabbath morn mg in the glorious white marble building, and listened to music,surely the dn- lest that has fallen upon mortal ears since the angels came io sing of the Babe •f Bethlehem, even diviner melodies were whisper ed to our heart, and 'fts were borne up, up, till it seemed that the gates of paradise stood ajnr and we lested at the foot of the great wfcite throne. Long si ent heart chords will vibrate forever to the touch of the impres¬ sion of beautiful, glorious “t. Pab- rick’s The Georgia, editors were the of the Morning Advertiser at Conr*y Island, the day of arrival iji New Yoik, enjoyed surf bathing and a sumptous sea shore dinnej, saw the fire works and Gillniore’s bajid at Manhattan VOLUME XV!.—No’28. Beach. And on the evening of the same day, were entertained at the Casino and on the following b at Pal- mers theater; when the orchestra struck up “Dir’e at the latter place there was a spontaneous outburst of applause from one hundred loyal southerners. The Georgia editors are unanimous in the verdict that the Advertiser is a great paper and they have returned to Georgia im¬ pressed with the idea th?t the New' York World is a very little paper in a great many respects. Who that has visited «lcn Island will forget it? Aa our steamer near* ed this Paradise of the jaded and weary, it seemed that we were ap- proaching a second Eden that lay fair and lovely out on the purple waters. It was to II. D. Wakefield, the clever business manager of the Atlanta Newspaper Union, that we were indebted for the day at Glen Is¬ land, one of the most delightful of the two weeks jaunt. On that day we dined royally on clam?, lobsters, blue fish, Georgia watermelons, etc , with wine thrown in for the anti¬ prohibition element of the.Pres 3 Association. Just as we sat down to dinner the faint sweet strains of “Dixie” floated to as from a hand off iu the distance, the folds of the Union flag fluttered iu the breezes from the topmost point of a building clearly visible on our right. And patriot!suiwas at a high pitch when President Underwood arose tc announce that we were nearly a thousand miles from horae.aimosl on New England soil, but .meeting still with old-time southern hospi tab ty. One hundred oeoi'gia editors a thousand miles from the “devil” and the cry ior “more o«py!” Georgia must have been lonely in the region-* of editorial ability. The day of days, the complete3t day for thol y r«is Association, ws'i the one spent al JjO. ir Lranch, one of the moat famoui sumi .or resorts on the American Continent. And v/hy? It was a south¬ ern man tuat opened the doors of West End TIoitel aid gave too Georgia Edifo’S a royal ■southern welcome, ari l when Mr. Hddr.jfch, proprietor or the West Ead Hotel, comes down south, as much of Georgia as one hundred editors are able to command, "will be placed at hi?“ dis¬ posal. When The Press Association eat down Id tho splendid dining hall of one of the timort hotels oil the Atlantic coast, elegant menu cards bearing the inscrip- tion “Welcome Georgia Weekly Press Association,” were placed before us. West End Hotel and cottages easily ac¬ commodate fifteen hundred guests. It has its private stables, dancing hall, and hail for theatrical performances- Several of our party went through Daly’s Club Housa at Long Branch, the finest zaxnb'ing bouse in the country. It is lined with mirrors rich curtains met us a; every turn and vra Vvalked on soft¬ est Persian rugp. It’ is a place of oriental splendor. Grants cottage is odc of,the most un- pre*entio is looking buildings that we saw at Lo eg Branch. The eye 3 of the Georgia editor never rested up on a fairer spot than Long Branch. Tfro splendid cottages, flowers, trees, level drives and grandest of til, the broad, blue Atlantic stretching away to where bine sky and blue waters seem to meet, make it a place that once seen will never be forgotten. Twilight was deepening across the purple waters, and the sweet splendors of a setting sun lingering about fair El- beron, haUowcdby the death of a na¬ tion’s chieftain,wlieu the Georgia dele¬ gation sail “goodby” to Long Bra.-ch and a dav'that that we were lo.fi to leave behind. One might write forever and a day of irs impreesioms of ootfi.ni>. ’iv e have brought home with us the pleasing recrilec ion that while we were m the north the north vvafe curs. IX THE CITY OK MAGNIFICENT DISTANCES. On the homeward journey wo stopped for a few hours in the National Capital, W. E. Stevens an old Georgia Newspa- per man, E. I\ Speer, the Journal's Washington ?nrrespondent, and Mr. 'Halcomb correspondent of the Macon . T n’cgiirfob, met o ir parly in Wsshington an i showed aa rouca of the city as could be oe^u in t he short time spent Mr. Speer with genuine Georgia hospi- talit) * opened th © dears of his elegant home to the ladies' d the party. The* majestic gre/adev” of the Capitol imore-sod ua with th ^ greatness of our governuL nl and when % ?e stood in the senate dumber and the hall of sentatives ^nr cheeks ting • W1 ’ co ^ scionssb^aneat the 'bought ’-cat Georgia has tfir.) n the maiuie oi Tothwbs, Hill and Ste pfians,about the shcuidei^ of Liv. ingston, Wina and ^ atsoa. No ci’;y on tfii3 continent has a larger number ci interesting buildings ; 03 D Washington. From the dome of tee Lipitol v. icgioa Voksnot like a city, but a disc of mage ifleent dvuc t L . The broad streets of Wash in gt »n all leal op tiie Caoitol. The whit. Hsass is a vary unpreien- tious looking buildiug by no means 8 pj en( jjj en0 ugh for the home of the president of a great ;natiou like ours, Hurried visits were paid to the Smithsonian Institute, Bateut Office, Treasury, Naval Observatory and other public buildings. * We saw the largest gun that has ever » been mavlv> 5n the United States, held in our band two million dollars of I ni el States bends, walked through vaulU thatco: tain nearly two billion dollars of silver, but we have returned to Geor. giasomowhat poorer ihaa when we left* The K . w C.atholie Univerdtv, toward the erection of whieh one woman alone contributed irSOO ,000,is one ef the grand- ing the city. we stood at the top of Washington monument 550 feet above the cronnd, lfig h ^ st monument in the world ex- cept Eifel tower, and looked down upon the fairest city on the globe. The Louis Home, Georgetown, th S >ldiet<» Hmn elegant private residences, and ths splendid government buildings »t the greatest repr.bl c on earih were clearly visible. And the limpid Potomac held no sinister gleams as it flowed calufly oaby Alexandria aud Mr. Vernon to the Cites [.cake. * e *uew that we were ju l*xe city o o a taut ia,um cat, mtliy would cross ttio oeauah. 1 l'o:uiu& U ot us in iim uaui lutuie,io Aiinoio u.e luau- g ira; o . m a DvUiGCialie prtSiUciu. rne jersey ior onrr^*.. iioisvem TOl .milk atut cueenc. wild Tlie fvreat sheep. northwest.jse*ms One herder to say^: be^oing “In aver my judgment there is niore money ck&elo In sheep just now than iu anything this country.” Well, the wool interest was down in the mouth long enough. It la time a boom started its Way. We should proceed in the selection and breeding of our cows with one thought clearly fixed in our mind, and Cyr* ia when a good, profitable milch cow is old enough to turn off, the prico that we shall get for her carcass—of whatever breed she may bo—will never make ue rich. The market is not groaning for old cow beef.—Western Rurak There are today thousands of favntatt in Iowa in independent circumstance* n-iiu commenced on Iowa soil thirty and forty years ago with a mare, a cow and a sow, and have raised familiesof inteU** gent children, now filling many of tn« etations of honor and trust In svate and nation.—Iowa State Register. For cows with young calves bran is f better feed than corn or corn moui, whin :»tc too rich P.nd heafinjr- The total debt of the United States IS now below a trillion. Tills July ft touched £093,000,000. Tho ten ricbetf estates in the Union could, combined, pay it all. Many good people are troubled about the constantly increasing number of divorces in this country, end are offering RUggestions to diminish that unpleasant gum total. There is one way to lessen (lie number of divorces that has not yet * been i nggosteri . :c'*pfc by an old cynic, and that is fl> dirrinLA tho nmulwr of mamatrii - What a City Government May Da Two j^cr.'i ttgo in Loudon the plan of electing the municipal officers by th© people wa3 adopted. The old city gov¬ ernment was not satisfactory, and Lon¬ don went in for making a clean bw t i and reforming it altogether. It was placed by tho London common council. Only persons of unimpeachable character were elected. The best citizens of Lon- don consented to serve their home town. Sir John Lubbock was made president of the council. Among such iSo n as h© “practical'’ politics would have been a© out of place as a hyena in a church at high communion. Sir John Lubbock has mnda his report of tho work accomplished by tho cotm- ciL It lias boldly tom down by whole* sale filthy tenement houses and prat san* itary apartment hotLses in their place. It provided l)athhouses for the London workingmen, and more than a thousand cricket and football grounds. It enforced courageously the doctrine tjjnt tho pub¬ lic parks vero for the peoplejay putting in seats, gymnasiums aud swings. Bf establishing a line of free fe-rry steaawf# it has made coal twenty-five cenfs^heap^P on the ton for a million of London’s in* habitants. The council next desires LoU- Jon to buy and place in its hands for management the gas and water supply c f the city, ft this shell be done th© world will have opportunity to sec hovf public works thrive under city goverri* meat ownership. The London common council waa tbtx$ inaugurated purely with the desf&n df governing London in the manner that ft productive cf most good for its citizen*. When shall we liave municipal govenj* ments rag for the same object ii Ak 3 ' 1 ' - :? eriajwort SaicM. ciafc Connecticut has an organization krxrwA ^ Bridgeport Suicide club, the chief rnie of w hich is that at least two tnem- bers shall depart this life every year. the five years of its existence tho fnfi tale of ten liave suicided, aud the naf tog feature of it is that tho club receivei many more applications for mernbersWi than it can consider. All this goes m gjj OW that many people stauffl ready 0 them rives” with little encourage menh—just enough to mofea tha act spec table. _