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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-29
The Elections.

This net result Of the most desper-
/ ate canvass ever made by the republi-
! cans can scarcely raise their hopes of a
favorable result in November. In Oc-
4 t0ber, 1880, the republicans carried
Ohio by 1905. In that year they spent
their huge corruption fund mainly in
Indiana, then an October state. which
they carried by Darsey's admin stra-
tion Of soap and new s. bills. This
year, under the management of an In
diana politician. Pension Commission
er Dudley. the republican Indiana
methods and soap were concentrated
in Ohio. Mr.. Blaine was paraded over
the state. In Cincinnati, as the Herald
correspondent relates. five thousand
republican deputy United States mar
shals. an army of disrep1tableS. large
proportion of them not even inbabi-
tants of OHIO. were given control at
the polls, and will, Of course, be paid
out of the United States treasury for
their scandalous and murdeTous parti-
san work, and the republican head
quarters were actually in the custom
house, as they used TO be in New Or
leans in the old and corrupt carpet-bag
days. The seandalous scenes in Gin
c1nnati can scarcely fail to shock and
disgust reputable voters in all parts of |
the country with party which. under |
the eyes of its candidate and with his |
management, used such means to carry |
an election. The democrats have no /
reason to be discouraged at the result I
of yesterday. but on the contrary the |
Blaine men have spent their strength |
on blow which hurts them far more
than it does their antagonists. ~. y.
Herald
"The victory of the democracy in
West Virginia is the groundwork of
victory in the nation next month. Ii
proves that all the power of the repub-
lican and Butler parties combined is
insufficient to break the solidity of
democratic states. 1t insures Grover
S election by the aid of New
I ork and Indiana alone. The empire
state will prove true to its record. 1t
has tried Grover Cleveland and found
him faithful to his trust. 1t will give
him its electoral vote as it gave it to
lIoratio Seymour and Samuel j. Til
len. ~ 7. World.
after a canvass unprecedented in
,he history Of American politics, the
canvass which has placed the full
strength of their case before every {
Ioter in the state. and left no appeal
unused, no enticement untried, the re-
)uhlicanS have carried Ohio by q ma
ority six thousand less than that given
he republican ticket in the October
lection of 1880. If the supporters of {
dr. BLAZING can derive any comfort from
his result they are welcome to it.-Ihe
Times, l
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-29
Blaine's wretched subterruge

James G. Blaine has never owned an
acre of coal or iron land in Ohio. Just
so. In the same sense Jay Gould has
never ownedta mile of railroad track
in the United States. That is to say,
Mr.. Gould has never been the sole
owner of a mile of railroad, and Mr..
Blaine has never owned as an individ-
ual an acre Of Ohio land. Mr.. Gould.
however, is jointly interested as a
stOckholder in thousands of miles of
railroad, and Mr.. Blaine as stock
holder i'll thousands of acres of Ohio
coal and iron lands. This is the poor
subterfuge to which the great man re-
sorted in repeating last Saturday what
he asserted last July in relation to his
coal and iron interests. The denial
was with mental reservations false
fact, which is the basest form of pre-
Varication. The categorical negative
relates only to ownership i'll severalty;
but the intent was manifest to produce
the false impression that he had no
ownership in such property in any form.
His own signature to receipts and ar
ticles of incorporation constitutes, of
course, conclusive proof of lie direct.
- LOliiStiue (OlDieT-,TOlrunl
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-29
How They Manage in Toronto.

| searched the town, and found com.
paratiyely few liquor stores and no ten
ement houses. The Canadians do most
of their drinking at home. From six
O'Clock on Saturday night until Monday
morning you can not get drink in any
public place in Toronto, and there is no
winking at drug store clerks or shuffling
through side doors. The result of this
is that while many of the poorer fami-
lies store up good supply to last over
Sunday the greater number leave liquor
alone altogether, and give to their wives
the money which, under different sys
TEN, would probably he spent in mid
night revelry. If the men do get drunk
their wives put them to bed, and this
saves work for the police and the magis-
trates also. What occurred to me as
being interesting is that the papers
here publish the name of every man ar
rested for drunkenness. The list is as
tonishingly small, the boys who start
out to paint the town red'' being few
and far between. asked neof the
editors of the Globe: t'Do you think it
fair to print the name of a person who
happens to drink too much ?-the best
Of men do that at times" "Well," he
replied, ''it is the custom here, and
while, perhaps, it does not haze much
effect in diminishing intoxication, still
it does some good. Toronto CORES
Dondence Brooklyn Eagle.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-29
The Use of Milk.

Milk should enter largely into the diet
of children. 1t contains caseine, or
fiesh-forming material; cream and SUI
gar, which are heat producers; mineral
salts, for the bony structure; and water,
as solvent for all the other materials
necessary in nutrition. 1t should be
used with discretion, however not
drunk immoderately, but taken slowly
as food after the pattern given by ma
ture. Milk as taken is fluid; but as
soon as it meets the acid of the gastric
juice is changed to a soft, curdy, cheese
like substance, and then must be digest
ed, and the stomach is oYertasked if too
much be taken at once. A large glass
of milk swallowed suddenly will form
in the stomach lump of dense, cheesy
curd, which may even prove fatal to a
weak stomach. Under the action of
the stomach this eheesy mass will turn
over and over like heavy weight, and
as the gastric juice can only attack its
surface it digests very slowly. But this
same milk, taken slowly, or with dry
toast, light rolls or soft, dry porridge,
forms porous lump through which the
gastric juice can easily pass, and which
breaks up every time the stomach turns
it over. Milk should be slightly salted
and eaten with breadstuffs, or slipped by
the spoonful. Cows milk produces
less heat than human milk; a child
would grow thin upon It unless little
sugar were added. Wheat -four has
such an excess of heat-producing mate
rial as would fatten a child undnly, and
should have cows milk added to it to
reduce its fattening power.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-29
The Main Issue.

Everybody understands by this time
that the real objection to Mr. Blaine is
thatshe..is dishonest man. Superhu-
man efforts have been made to shift the
issue, but without avail. That is still
the great point. Is Mr.. Blaine an hon
est man? "A large majority of the .peo-
pie of this country believe he is not.
The most respectable newspapers OF
the country, including such sterling,
high-toned republican papers as the
Boston Advertiser, the New York Times
and Ereninq Post. and HdTper's Weekly,
daily denounce him as dishonest. and
prove it by his own letters. Yet Mr..
Blaine SAYS nothing to defend himself
from the charge. His course was diff
ferent on another matter. Mr.. Blaine
made haste to bring libel suit and to
rush into print with his story Of two
secret marriages. for which he has no
good reason to give.
Why is not Mr.. Blaine as ready with
his libel suits and his letters to per
sonal friends-to be published on their
own responsibility about his jobber-
les? Is it because he has no answer to
makes Is it because his own letters
prove all that is charged against him,
as the Cincinnati Commercial said in
1852 Or is he trying. by his appeal to
the mobile manhood and noble woman
hood of America in his private let
tiers. to divert attention from the main
issue-the question whether he used
public position for private gain? We
candidfy tell Mr. Blaine that the peo-
Die do not care whether he was married
secretly or openly. once or twice, thir-
ty-three or thirty-four years ago. But
il be has any explanations to offer for
the iObberies and falsehoods his own
letters disclose. he had better put them
out promptly. B0si0a Herald.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-29
Farm Gleanings.

Buckwheat, if sown thickly, is an ex
cellent crop for destroying weeds. Its
growth is rapid and dense, and it will
perhaps more nearly oyerpower weed.
than anything else that can bo sown- II
YOU have piece that was too wet to
work in the spring, SOW buckwheat now
and it will make a good growth to
plough in.
Ii Is important to raise cabbages on
land not recently devoted to cabbage
growing, otherwise there is great danger
from club root. One of tn best preven-
tives Of this disease is heavy manuring
and top dressing with lime. The Gin
sects' so frequently alluded to is proba-
bly, the result and not the cause of the
disease.
Coal ashes are valuable to change the
mechanical condition of the soil and are
good in the orchard especially as top
dressing for cherry and pear trees. They
are also good for squash vines and for
radishes They are yalueless as ma
nure food for grain crops.
4 correspondent of an exchange re
commends storing hay and straw in al
lefDdle layers III the HlONy q HlctuOu oS-
pecially applicable in the case of clover,
cut, as it should be, just as it comes into
blossom and apparently only partly
cured.
A Western farmer advises stringiDg
seed corn by tying the ears together
with husks in some place where the
grain can be saturated with coal smoke.
The odor, he says, repels squirrels and
worms from eating the seed. The seed
comes up quicker, the plants grow more
vigorously and ripen several days earlier
than from seed not so treated.
The best time to apply manure to
land is q year before it is to be plough
ed Thus it is equally distributed and
made Immediately available to the
plant. Applying it just before plough
ing does not give much real practical
benefit, at any rate not so much as by
the former plan.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-29
lone of the Fools"

Judge Tourgee once described him.
self as "One of the Fools" Just before
the June convention he printed in his
magazine, the Continent, an article i'll
which he pronounced Mr.. Blaine cor
rupt man and utterly unfit for the Pres
idency, and declared that the Republi-
can party would commit hard-khi if it
should nominate him. Notwithstand-
ing this solemn warning, Mr.. Blaine
was nominated, and in a few weeks
Judge Tourgee was on the stump adyo-
eating his election. He rashly Ventur-
ed into joint discussion at a New
Y York village with Colonel John r. Fell
lows, and was abashed and confused
when the latter read in full the Judges S
onslaught upon Blaine printed in the
Continent just before the nomination,
In few days however he recovered
sufficiently to write lengthy letter to
the Blaine organ in New Y ork, explain
ing that he had changed his opinion of
the author of the Mulligan letters, but
fear that his former oppo-
sition cannot be forgiven Whereup-
on the organ-grinder reassured him by
saying: The simple truth is that less
than almost any other man in public
ll16 uOcS MI. Dld1iI6 CpiC6iN6 OF Cuer-
ish personal resentments." So Judge
Tourgee has taken fresh courage, and
is again on the stump urging the cleo
ton of the man whom, few short
months ago, he stigmatized as a dema-
gOgue and trickster In the mean
time the press of the country is discus
sing the question: Was Judge Tour
gee right when he advertised himself
rs "One of the Fools?'
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-29
H.s Plea for Vocal Music.

EDTroR CLARION. most heartily en-
dorse the Plea for Vocal Music publish-
ed il a recent number of THE CLARION.
No branch of education is capable of con-
tributing more TO the elevation and enjoy
ment Of man, yet none, perhaps, is more
neglected than vocal music. Thousands
of dollars are spent for planes and other
instruments, and for the endless driilings
necessary to the skillful use Of them
while il may be truly said that not one in
ten who take lessons ever become really
proficient in the use Of the instruments
and Of those who do. very few are so situ-
ated for any considerable portion of their
lives as 10 keep up their praeticing, or 70
eniov the use Of the instrument IN any
wsy. Pianos are costly and very incon-
yenient to carry about, and withal require
such constant practice TO keep one accus-
toned TO their use, that the time and
money spent upon them may in many IN
stances Be said 10 be wasted. Yet the cry
Is for instrumental teaching, vocal culture
being scarcely thought Of Even those
Who cultivate their voices at all, lean for
ever on the keys, and are utterly incapable
Of singing printed notes without the aid 81
the instrument.
The human voice, on the other hand, i
the gift Of God and the most perfect instru-
ment Of music, which may be trained 81
small expense for our lifelong pleasure and
benefit. IN cultiYating the foice We q
once dignity ourselves and honor ou1
Maker. Nor does any species Of music sc
move the deepest passions ard sway tht
strongest emotions 81 the human sonl Il
vocal mesie. Eething touches The hearl
1s7ss a@.zff.er hrszas4. lSonrf and rntkfne
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-29
AProhib,tiOn Meeting in New York.

A mass meeting Of Prohibitionists
who favor the election of st. John and
Daniels was held at Chickering Hail,
New York, on the night Of the I7th.
About FIVE hundred people from New
burg, N. T., attended the meeting
When ex-GoT. St. John entered the
hall be was loudly applauded. IN his
speech Mr.. st. John denied that he had
entered into conspiracy with the Dem
ocratic party. The Republican party
had been in power twenty-four years,
and during that time had so carefully
protected liquor dealers that the num-
Der Of saloons in this country has in
creased during that time 70 175, 600.
The liquor dealers could not remain
In business without permission Of the
government. There was d liquor saloon
n the Capitol 1t Washington and there
wss liquor enough in the White House
to start half 4 dozen saloons. Some
people say will not be eleeted. 9 said
Mr. St. John. How do they knom !
wou II every man votes he prays
/ viii be elected By large majority.
But # ] am not elected principle viii
Sc elected, and that Is better than being
Presidents
After lively speech By Johu B.
Cough the meeting adjourned.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-29
The Tariff and Wages.

II a high protective tariff bring
high wages, and a low tariff. or fret
trade, brings low wages, win some pro
tectionist please answer these ques.
/ tions:
Why is it that the wages of strippers
and grinders in English cotton-mills,
producing medium quality of goods,
in 1850, after what the Irish World calls
five centuries of protection. amounted
to the prineely sum of $3.50 per week
of sixty hoursy
Why is it that the wages of mindeTs,
IN the same mills, in 1850, after five
hundred years of protection, amounted
to no more than S3.04 per week?
Why is it that, in thirty-three years
OF free trade, from 1850 to 1868, the
wages of the men Just mentioned in
creased 100 per cent, the hours of labor
being reduced to fifty-six per week at
the same time?
Since 17S9 there has been a duty on
coal ranging from Sc cents to $3.50 per
ton; since 1872 it has been as cents per
ton on bituminous coal. Why is it, Mr..
Protectionist, that the wages of miners
of soft coal in the United States fell
from S1.4 per ton in 1870 to rs cents
per ton in 1880, and to 80 cents per ten
in 1884?
Why is it that the wages of coal-min-
ers in free-trade England increased 43
per cent. under free trade?
Why is it that wages of builders in
free-trade England increased 80 per
cent under free trade?
Why is it that wages are higher in
free-trade England than in high-tariff |
Germany?
Why is it that the average wages of |
in boot and shoe factories in |
the United States fell from 81 cents for |
each pair made in 1870 to 35 cents in
1880?
Why is it that the wages of cotton
factory hands in the United States de-
creased IL per cent from 1870 to 1880?
The tariff on sugar is from l cent to
y cents per pound. Why is it that the
men working on sugar plantations in
his country receive only 65 cents per
lay?
Why is it that the wages of some of
he employees in the Cambria iron
works, Pennsylvania, are reduced to 81
ents per day?-Dsron (IH.) Sun.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-29
Joseph.s Brethren.

This is an embarrassing year for the
joys and the Bergners and the other
republicans who used to go about tell
ing hard stories ON Blaine. A great
many gentleman have been forced TO
support the @plumed knight" who used
tofake delight in showing up his ras-
calities when they were defeating him
in conventions. The only thing they
can do now is to swear that they never
said it," Witnesses pop up and con-
front them at every turn; still they are
better Off than such editors as Brother
Reid, Joseph Medill, and Halstead,
who are confronted every day with
their horrible utterances in black and
white. The only thing the unfortunate
editors can do is to say that they were
mistaken, and that they are now very
sOrry for IT. But as a rule these ablect
apologies do not count for much. The
truth viii stick out.-N. y. World.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-29
Transplanting Trees.

Until within the past few years it was
generally thought that quite young trees
could be successfully trsnsplanted, and
horticulturist arboriculturists invariably
recommended that young trees be select
ed for transplanting. HorticulturistS as
serted that two year-old apple tree
transplanted would become fruit
bearing sooner than a tree trans
planted at four years old, and
arboriculturists insisted that it was next
TO impossible to transplant successfully
any but quite young forest trees. The
experience OF the past twenty years has
demonstrated that old trees of any kind
may be transplanted as successfully as
young trees Full grown forest trees,
such as oaks, NAPLES and hickories, are
now removed for miles without injuring
them in the least. The method of remoV-
ing old trees is not so well understood as
that of removing young trees, and hence
evennow in the majority of cases the work
is not successful, and young trees are
generally chosen for transplanting, thus
compelling those desiring the luxury of
shade-trees TO wait number Of years
for the trees to grow. The season for
transplaEting old trees is in the latter
part of winter, the frozen earth sur
rounding the roots being elevated
carefully with them so as not to disturb
the roots, and all placed in the excava-
ton made at the new location. The
circle Of earth around the roots should
be large enough to secure as many of the
long roots as possible After the tree is
securely placed in the ground strong
stakes of posts should be placed around
1t and ropes or wires fastened in the
tree top and the other end to the posts,
to prevent the wind from moving the
tree about and disturbing the roots.
This latter requirement. being often
1neglectedls the reason for 50 much fail
nre in transplanting old trees. II the
branches Of the tree are large and spread
ing, a portion of them ought to be cut
out, confning the cut as much as posi-
to the last years growth. 1t is considered
lgoOd plan to trim 3 tree intended to be
moved year before the work of
removal is done. 1t is not necessary to
fasten trees in the manner mentioned
transplanted at the age of two or three
years, but trees older than that should
be so faStened.-Exehange.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-29
Not For James G. Blaine.

Over the signature of Many Stall
warts"-no names being given, an ad
dress has been issued in New York.
James &. Blaine and his career in
Congress is the subject discussed, and
great stress is laid on his enmity to
Conkling and Grant. The quarrel of
the Stalwarts and half-breeds in New
York is reviewed in bitter language.
At the beginning the address, which is
directed to the stalwarts of New York,
says:
you are asked to support James q.
Blaine for the Presidency, whatever
objections you may have to him, be-
cause he is the nominee of your party,
and its mandate to you cannot be DISC
beyed. Let us see. The case against
him on the ground of personal un-
wOrthinesS is overwhelming. Discard
ing all testimony but his own, contain
ed in letters signed by him and admit
ted to be genuine, you find him self
confessed as prOmpter of the railroad
lobby from the Speakers chair, and
greedy clamorer for his share of the
plunder secured by his rulings; broker
for those who sought favoritism at the
departments; q vender of rotten secur-
tiles at so cents ON the dollar to men
who wanted official favorS; the
meek, submissive, and acquiescing re-
cipient of a letter from a business
friend accusing him of borrowing
large sums of money with no intention
of paying them; of allowing his debts
to be paid for him without recognizing
the obligation; of acting as decoy
for sharpers-a sort of bunko-steerer-
to entrap his personal and political
friends in Maine into the purchase Of
bonds and stocks, and delivering to
them only portion of what their
money had alone paid for; of receiving
S25,000 from his friends to invest and
appropriating the same instead of in
v@sting it, and finally of impudently
begging this accuser for clean bill of
health in the form of letter written
by himself, and to be signed by the
man who held the letters proving the
falsehoOd of all he wanted him to
state"
Then follows the betrayal of Grant
by Blaine in Chicago in 1880, and the
forming of d corrupt partnership with
Garfield. In conclusion the address
SAYS:
aIf there are any stalwarts who are
willing to blind their eyes to his
(Blaine's) moral defects, and who think
that regular nominations are not bind
ing on any but themselves, they may
vote for him; but all who despise false
hood, corruption and party treason will
rejoice in the opportunity now afforded
them to put an end for all time to come
to the political aspirations of James
G. Blaine. Some will contribute to
this result by their action and some by
their inaction. but there will be enough
of both classes put together to spare
New York from the disgrace of cast
ing her electoral vote for this shame
less, mereenary, and political apostate.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-29
HOME AND FARM.
we CAN MAKE HOME HAPPY

Though we may not change the cottage
For mansion tall and grand,
Or exchange the little grass plat
For b5undless stretch of land;
VT there's something brighter, dearer,
Than the wealth we'd thus command.
Though We have no means to purchase
Costly pictures, rich and rare,
Though We have no silken hangings
For the walls 80 cold and bare,
We can hang them DER with garlands,
For flowers bloom everywhere.
Wecan always make home cheerful,
II the right course We begin;
We can make its inmates happy,
And their truest blessings win;
Il will make the small room brighter,
II will let the sunshine in.
We can gather round the freside
When thesevening hours are long;
We can blend our hearts and voices,
In happy, social song;
We can guide some erring brother
Lead him from the path of wrong.
We can fill our homes with music,
And the sushine brimming DER,
II against the dark inlruders
We will firmly close the door,
Yet should evil shadows enter,
We must love each other more.
Threre are treasures for the lowly,
Which the grandest fail to find;
There Is a chain of sweet affection
Binding friends of kindred mind
We NAV reap the choisest blessings
From the poorest lot assigned.