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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-04-09
FARMERS AND rus TARIFF.


Philadelphia Press
Protection i to-day quoted by every free
trade paper as the FIRST. chief and only
reason for the losses sustained BY farmers
IA this country. the depression .u the price
ot their lands and the decrease in tho sell.
ing value oil The prodaets OF farming.
England has all the advantages of tree
trade. II has bad them for half a century.
As its population Is steadily increasing
and hall of Il Is in great cities, each acre
has mere and mere 10 do in supporting
population and should increase in value
In this country. also. in Is>o, I'll 20 cent
81 those at work we're on the land raising
something 10 sell In England only IA per
cent are thns occupied, and the labor OF
each inevitably has cioser ard larger de-
nsand. Yet one os the best authorities in
kngiand, Mr. Francis Fuller. one OF the
nsost capable land agents and aueiioneers
IN The United Kingdom rat the ,iepre-
citation from ISIS 10 tSse In rents in
England aasi " Ales alone Al Sf5a.u fn 90
year en se.noo 600 acres, the total
agricultural area et Eaglana and Wales.
a. assA swsee the acreage Of farms in
Pennsylvania al the lssI census. This
wss loss III one.thsrsi the rensai value
sndit represented tess ct 81 so GO 500 on
the selling value 81 this land. In ssidA,ion
tAe farmers ealtsyatsag this soil hal ist in
Zen wears 500 tsslos1 ia working capital
fse land Il England and wsles. there
fore. 50 area 4 Attn smaller than the cosa.
asnvd farms II New York and feaasyl-
sazssa. sc@t in value ard capital in ten years
~ tAss EXPERT essimsse. made hy . man
hsnsslsnS land all Ass life. ss.eai. 90 ssse
Al iass Sss under the srvess kind * srex
'ss.se, shsSa, in "gair kent. he best land
~ hSEsana, 81 sae gates 81 iansloE. BAD.
a. me sF~sch IT ene al sss members. Ms.
rsSsN'ssla. saiss. February q. l>S>. left up
lard 81 @AsAa acres at sFahse farm land
absolutely aacastsvxtesi
We wonder i there h zay seel in or cut
9 sny ty~s-srade ae~spasey ostsee who
ihsliAs tie gAryns VI this s.ass AID Nes fork
have issf SAasss.sssAao in ths lat sls1rn
yeas, cr ssslAsaseas. ar even st. 100 90.
Yea thtS IS she less IN Eagsayss and Wakes.
II y she s&ssgasts seeepEsi in al ssascas-
ssons. 7 y aans~d with spFsfuxzl ~ the
tons~D fssf Essa a has never been can.
tssssxFsest EAss dsrrv2se IN rent has sosse
81 xissse sSsA Ii y lsSiay nsarez $50 sssa.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-04-09


Dr.. Lyman Abbott thus addresses Rob
ert g. ingersoil in the North AHeysc1a &C.
rsew: lyon do not call yourself az atheist
bus al axnostic. You do nos know that
there Is no God. but yon do not know that
there il one. Wei. le: as for the mo-
men. grant that Ne are all agnosties: that
We none OF US know that there is tod;
that we only have faith that there Is one.
Is IL 50 impossible a faith that loyalty 10
truth requires It's overthrow? | believe,
indeed, that our faith In tod rests on the
surest OF ali foandations--o personal ac-
qnaintanee and fellowship with Him.
Herbert Spencer can hardly be accused OF
being subject to the decisions and super
stisions of an ignoran. and priest-ridden
intellect. IL is Herbert Spencer who says !:
Unlike The ordinary consciousness. the re-
ilgiofs consciousness Is concerned with
what lie- beyond the sphere OF sense. A
bfGse thinks only OF the things which can
be touched. seen, heard. tasted, etc. and
the like is true of the untAught child. the
deaf mute, and the lowest savage. But the
developing man has thoughts about exis-
fences which he regards as usually intan-
gibie. inandible, invisible: and yet which
he regards as operative upon him.
ft Is this consciousness Of a
tod who lies beyond the sphere of
sense, that our faith in God is founded a
faith which in ore form or another has
characterized the greatest. the profoundest,
the most luminous thinkers OF all ages !;
the greatest philosophers like Socrates. the
greatest poets like Goethe, the greatest
statesmen like Gladstone. the greatest
scientists like Isaac Newton. On
the one side il this faith Of the
wisest. the best, the noblest of
mankind; ON the other-what? This an
swer We do not know 1t will hardly be
sincerely contended that this faith. SO wit
messed, is so irrational that one who does
not know is bound by his loyalty otruth
10 attack it, Is il then 20 injurious TO
mankind that loyalty to humanity re-
qtiires him to attack It?'
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-04-09

Is recoverable, not by the use OF mineral Sc
daiives. but by recourse 10 e6ecsual tonic
treatment opistss and the like should only be
used ~ aaxsiiaries. and then a. sparingly AS
possible. Vigorous nerves are quiet ones. and
the most direct WAY TO render them 50 Is to rein
lorce the vital energies. That sterling invig-
GRANT. Hosteitsg's stomach Rltsers. viii be found
all-suncient for this purpose. since IL entirely
removes llnpe.fimeass 20 thorough digestion and
assimilation III the food, 80 that the body Il in
sared It's due amount of nouriShment and con
scQuentiy OF stamina Rheumatic ter denotes
sud affections Of the kianeys aud bladder are
also conatersrted by the bisiers. which is se-
sides pleasant medicinal stimaiant. Infinitely
purer than the raw excitasts of commerce
which react iataTiouSly upon the nervous sys-
tern.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-04-09

Youths Boys Children the largest and finest
have offered for and comprises the most choice
productions Of the mills both Of this country and
We done all that tact enterprise accomplish to
make the Premium Stock the West Our system of doing
business has been in city i'm
which have located and in this city have succeeded be-
y0nd most sangune expectations.
We secured the Of the people, that comb
dence has and will be abused always do
ADVERTISE We with the times in styles and down with the
times in prices No house in America has the advantages
ceded by foreign and American OF woolens
and other fabrics We buy thousands and such quantities dis
advantages conceded parties doing small business
and gives position in which recognize compete
tiOn No il he c0nsults his interest," will buy dol
lars worth OF clothing gents furnishing goods until he has
immense stock and learned prices We shall be
pleased to show goods whether wish purchase not
goods marked in plain figures and strictly price ALL
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-03

WE FOUGHT OUR WAY BACKWARD.
and pull to the door, for the wolves
might come that way. Then away /
went, led on by the black holes on the
white snow where Eben's feet had been
set on toward Hawkleigh Acres.
The bowling of the wolves grew loud
er, nearer heard mans voice, now |
saw little CLEAN of red light, and now
I was in the midst of it. Agreat crowd
of the lean, famished beasts pressing
down upon one man, who faced them and
still kept them little at bay by the
swinging lantern with which he flashed
the light in their eyes as he walked
backward. 1t was Eben.
was at his side in moment. l flour
ished the blazing log over my head, and
showered the sparks toward the beasts.
For moment they were held in check
by it. Eben turned.
'Great Powers! You here, Peggy"
he cried. But answered with shrek:
BE on your guard! Take one of these
pistols! Fight your way back; it's not
| far!'
He snatched the pistol. There was
| no time for words. We dared not turn
our backs. Facing the horrible Great
ures-how many shall never know
| we fought our way backward through
the deep snow, firing among them, and
finging the fiery sparks in their red
eyes. One or two dropped, but the rest
kept on, angrier and more determined
than before, until we stumbled and
nearly fell over the edge of the old
porch at home, burst the door open, and
dashed the burning brand in the face OF
the beast who strove to follow US,
slammed it to, and were safe.
We heard the fiends bowling outside,
but the bolts were strong, and soon they
rushed away to the chicken-coops and
the sheep-fold, where they found easier
| prey than we had been.
Nobody had been awakened. The
fire burned on the hearth, the lamp
was alight, there lay my spinning-wheel
on it's side. Had itreally all happened,
and was it all over?
was not a girl who often cried, but
the thought of what might have been
the end of it set me sobbing. l looked
at Eben, pale and painting. with great
scratch on his hand that wolf had
given him with it's teeth, and forgot
all my airs, and fairly threw my arms
about his neck.
ooh! Eben, darling" l cried; "what
should have done without you?"
'sYou do care for me, then?" he said,
and he sat down in the rocking-chair,
and took me on his knee, as if I'd been
little child.
We sat there until the gray dawn
broke, and then he went away; and l
never leased him again, and happier
couple never lived, ! think, than he
and !. At least, I never knew one
Amanda Reed Willstt in N. Y. Ledger,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-03
TWO STATE ELECTIONS.

The Administration Rebuked by the Peo
pie of Alabama and Kentucky.
The course of the Republican party in
Congress has thoroughly solicited the
Democratic party, if we may judge by
the elections held in Alabama and in
Kentucky the other day.
Reports from Alabama show in
creased Democratic majorities from all
sections, with the Republicans con-
trolling scarcely. a county in the State.
In Kentucky the Democratic majority
is far ahead of any thing known in re-
cent years. The majority for General
Buckner three years ago is increased
1875 per cent; that given for Cleveland
in 1883 is increased SO per cent Even
rock ibbed Republican counties, just
now penetrated by railroads and en-
lightened by the Courier-Journal, join
the Democratic ranks.
These returns indicate the feeling
aroused among the people by the revo-
lutionary methods of the Republican
leaders. Men who have never voted
with the Democrats on any issue see
that the republican party is a sectional
organization, ready to sacrifice every
interest in the South to some temporary
party necessity. They see the hope
lessness of trying to build up the Re-
publican party in the face of such tao.
tics, and so they cast in their lot with
their neighbors and friends.
This is the first response of the PEG.
pie to the challenge of Reed, Mckinley
and Davenport Now for the Congress
ional elections. Louisville Courier
Journal.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-03
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

If Reed falls he falls utterly.
TIL ere can be no stage at which he can
stop except the bottom. When he falls
he will drag down the whole conclave
in utter ruin. These be interesting
times.-N. Y. Telegram.
Senator Plumb has distinguished
himself by the enunciation of the prin-
ciple that the people have some rights
as we'll as the manufacturer. It's graf
flying to find that Blaine no longer
stands alone among Republican leaders
in his denunciation of the Mckinley
bill.-Chicago Globe.
If the man who tolls fourteen
hours a day wears overalls and a
checked shirt, and his wife wears a poor
quality of calico, how does 1t happen
that the fellow who never works at all
wears broadcloth, and his wife wears
silk? Please answer, some one who be-
lieves in taxing the many for the en-
richment of the few.-Alliance Herald.
--'Archduke Franz, of Austria has
large and very interesting collection
of relics of criminals who have been
executed. Among the relics are por-
tions of the ropes used in hanging the
Chicago anarchists" If he wishes to
add to the collection he might send to
Mckinley for the pen with which he
prepared his tariff bilL-Chicago Mail.
Blaine has become very trouble
some to the Republican leaders in the
House, and Reed. Mckinley and Cannon
are laying plans to drive him out OF the
Cabinet and destroy his influence in the
party. 1t is barely possible that they
may drive him from the Cabinet. but if
they do the Republican party will be
ready for its epitaph.-Cleveland Plain.
Dealer.
AS an example of pure gall, there
has been nothing lately to surpass the
spectacle of Blair, OF New Hampshire,
proposing rule to limit debate in the
Senate. If there had been such rule
when Blair was making his three weeks
speech on the education bill there might
have been some justification in putting
it in force. There is not likely to be
dllOGuOl pAoNoSd1ASA ~ A0oV 90 WAC"
Philadelphia Times
The truth which Mr.. Blaine Is
telling-that the protective tariff sys.
tenn in no way provides larger market
for the farmer whom it so severely
taxes-is not new truth atall. 1t is the
old truth upon which Democratic speak.
ers and newspapers have dwelt contin.
ually for many moons. And the farm
ers are beginning to understand it,
too, as Western elections and Western
political movements clearly shown.
Y. World.
The Republican conventions OF
Minnesota and Nebraska have declared
against the Mckinley bill. They both
favor revision of the tariff in the in.
terest of the producer and laborer. The
| attitude of Western Republicans on the
tariff is that of the Nebraska platform,
which says: ''The imported duties on
articles in common use should be
placed as low as is consistent with the
Profession Of American industries" '-
America
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-03
ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER B. $780,

like 1T A thing was seldom lightly
done with him. And if he had gone, t
could marry if liked. l had my choice
DR.. Crane and Lawyer Lynn, the
handsome music teacher and organist
at Tallahee, and either of the three
clerks at the store.
Rich, old men with forty COWS to
milk" and poor young men with peck.
cts lined with silk;' but you see didn't
love one of them, and did love Ebenez-
er. tried to think why, for there was
no denying that he was lean and lank
and had red hair I couldn't give my
self any answer. Somehow he was my
choice. He wasn't rich, and he wasn't
handsome, but the thought that he
would never come back again nearly
broke my heart.
I'd really intended to have a good
time, but the old boy was in me, Tempt
ing me, and I'd spun, without word
hardly, all that evening. Queer spells
like that come to folks, you know, some-
times. And he hadn't been cross; he'd
played with the children and told them
conundrums, and agreed with father
about politics, and listened to mothers
descriptions Of the style she used to
live in when she was girl.
1t was cold, winter weather, but
grew hot with my thoughts. / showed
up the window to cool my face, for I'd
never felt so in my life, except once,
when had fever. The marks of
Eben's feet going away from me were
plainly to be seen, where the light from
the room fell out on the packed snow.
Beyond all was darkness the road
dark; the sky dark: the bare tree
branches blacker lines on it's darkness.
The wind was rising; / heard it moan,
but | heard another sound also, that
made my blood run cold. A low, long,
dreadful sound that l knew only too
well. The bowling of a pack Of wolves.
The weather had been cold and every
thing frozen of late. The wolves were
fierce with hunger. The wind brought
their voices down toward me. knew
which way the wind blew. Eben had
gone that way. He hadn't a pistol; he
| hadn't even stick; and the wolves had
killed more than one man, on hungry
winter nights, on Hawkleigh Acres.
Had / been kind, had he sat with me
later, the beasts would have passed on;
but he had just gone out to meet them.
laundering on, angry and thinking
only of me, he would meet them, and
then ] gave shrek as l though,
what would happen. Then made ur
my mind to save him if | could, and
ran to the hearth A good, long brand
l had only put on while before was
blazing at one end like a torch, and
fathers pistols were on the wall and al
ways loaded.
buckled the belt around my waist
stuck them both into it, seized my torch
and only stopped to shut the window
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-03
his best reason for so doing is that paint
makes wood more durable.

his best reason for so doing is that paint
makes wood more durable.
Yet he need not be one whit the less
pleased that paint also makes wood
more pleasing to the eye. He need be
none the less glad, that what serves
use, also serves beauty. The practicle
farmer is not of necessity boor that
does not appreciate tasteful. handsome
things, that does not desire them. He
may have them. The successful farm
er should have them. But they are the
results obtainable from his farming,
not any or the means employed. Be-
cause he has produced good crops he
some effects. They are not part OF
his farming; they are outside of his
farming, though part of bis life.
The test question in farming is:
"Will it pay?' Not will it pay, if we
include in the pay some intangible, i'm.
of country life,' the gazing at sunsets
and waving grain, and green, cool
woods. Those things are very nice, it
is true, but in the pay for farming we
must include only hard, material
things that can be sold for ready cash
in the open market And If, with such
measure of recompense, an animal or a
crop, building or machine does not
pay, the wise farmer will not have it in
his farming.
OF course in determining whether or
not thing pays, we must consider the
continued productiveness of the
land. Mr.. Brigham is a farmer
for revenue-for revenue from his
crops; yet doubtless he does not
seek to raise as large crops as pos
sible and give little back to his land;
he may get more revenue from his
crops for some years by robbing his
land, yet he does not do that. VHe looks
to the future. He tries to increase the
productiveness of his land rather, that
every year he may get more revenue
from his crops. Every successful farmer
does this. Further, every successful
farmer, every farmer worthy of the
name, knows, and shows by his life that
he knows, that when the sole object is to
pile up dollars or to add acres to acres.
fearful mistake has been made; and
he knows just as we'll that the object OF
farming is to make money, and that,
other things being equal, tho more
money made the more successful the
farming. John M. Stahl, in Indiana
Farmer.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-03
Something taLearn.

There is one thing Southern breeders
must learn before they can reasonably
expect to sell their surplus stock, that
is to advertise more. Northern and
Eastern breeders know this, hence
poultry journal in those sections gener-
ally receives liberal patronage. while
Southern breeders growl and grumble
because they don't sell what they think
they should. A paying business can
not be established in one season. and q
man does remarkably we'll to make ex-
penses for the first year or two, and 1t
takes heap of ''git-up-and-git" to do
that we'll. Make reputation for hon.
est and fair dealing. and you are all
rirht.-Poultry Criterion.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-09-03
SUCCESS in FARMING.
some of the Essentials to Successful
Farming Set Forth.

some of the Essentials to Successful
Farming Set Forth.
The farmer should not be farmer
"for revenue only" and yet it must al
ways be that the revenue derived from
crops is the best evidence of success or
failure in fArming. Farming is eco
aomic, not sentimental; 1t is business
and its objective is the almighty dollar.
There may be other considerations, but
they are all secondary. There are other
corners to farming, but the financial
side laps over and covers nearly all its
surface. Man becomes a farmer because
he and others must be fed and clothed.
His labor expended on the soil supplies
him with what will satisfy some of his
wants, and with what he may exchange
for those things that will satisfy
his other wants. 1t is not sense of
duty or any aesthetic sentiment, but the
stress of necessity, that makes men
farmers. 1t is because of his wants,
and such wants as are often miscalled
base, wants of food and drink and cloth
ing, that man is farmer. Hence farm
ing is a very practical thing, and just
as it satisfies those wants it is primarily
successful. The larger the crops the
more fully those wants are satisfied,
and it does not matter whether those
crops are produced with the aid of an
ugly, implanted pillow or one handsomely
decorated. The painted pillow is the
better, not because it is handsomer, but
because .with it a greater product may
be made; it lasts longer.
! Unfortunately not few agricultural
teachers, by tongue or pen, forget that
farming is first OF all to grow big crops,
to make money; that it is intensely
practical and they prate about this and
that in sentimental vein, as if the
best farmer is the farmer that makes
his farm the prettiest. He may not
produce enough to meet his expenses;
he may have buildings and machinery
that it does not pay him in cold dollars
to have; he may raise fancy animals that
cost him twice what they are sold for;
yet, according to these leading lights o.
alleged agriculture, this farmer is high
ly successful. Heis a model. 1t lis com
mending such farmers and holding then
up as models that often brings book
farming into disrepute. The plain
actual farmer knows that commencing
such farmers is arrant toolishness, and
are disguised. The trouble is they al
low their disgust to go too far and cove
100 much.
i The man that is paying for farm AM
has notes to meet, or that must buy farm
machinery, groceries and shoes, an
that has in mind the visit of the tax
collector, is certain that it is cond
ton and not theory that confront
him. He must have material thing
that he can exchange for money or othe
material things He may paint hi
door yard fence and his buildings, bv
D - :. :.