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To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sfr: At tho
meeting of the military order of tho Loyal
Legion of the United States at Delmonico's. Dec.
9. Companion Harris recited "Sheridan's Ride"
There is a good deal OF humbug about that ride.
There was a shaking up At Winchester, 1t is true.
Gen. H. g. Wright, class of ls4l, West Point,
had reformed tho lines. The Johnny rebs had
got drunk on the good commissary whiskey
found In our camps, captured by them.
Sheridan was q power, 1t Is true. He was an
Insignificant Captain ofthe Thirteenth Infantry
May IA, 1861. He was Quartermaster of Major
Gen. Henry Wager Halleck's headquarters, not
an eminent position. on the advance TO Corinth.
Major-Gen. Henry w. Halleck. not juetly
esteemed. procured him the appointment as
Colonel of the Second Michigan Cavalry, Volun-
teers. Sheridan's career showed Gen. Halleck's
sagacity.
Major-Gen. Henry Wager Halleck appointed
Gen. U. S. Grant, at that time not OF irreproach-
able military record. to the command Of tho
forces which took Forta Donelson and Henry.
Again Hnlleck showed some SaEacity. l had
somewhat to do with 1t.
He sent Sherman to Lancaster. o.. when tho
papers called him crazy. to rest for a month.
Sherman. acting as Inspector-General under
his orders. directed all the troops near ST.
Joseph. Mo-, and along that line. under Pope. 10
fall back. Hallock was forced to countermand
all his orders, recall him, and send him home
to Lancaster. o., to rest and recover. Sherman.
returning TO st. Louis. was placed in command
of Benton Barracks. to restore order out of the
chaos created by Gen. Saul b. Curtis. q good
General, but an expressed politician. Curtis
won the battle OF Pea Ridge. Mo-. and had other
distinguished successes. lie had been highly
distinguished In the Mexican war. He hired
laundry women and bakers Mt $40 TO $50 per
month at Benton Barracks. Sherman, under
Halleck's orders, stopped all that. and taught
soldiers TO bake their own -four aud wash their
own shirts. &c.
This is true history; no aRimadversions on
any ono are meant.
Henry Wager Halleck Is esteemed by some .
very devil. But give the very devil his due.
He gave the start to Grant. Well, Sherman
wanting rest. Halleck gave II to him without
Issuing any formal order. Sheridan. an inferior
officer OF the QuartermRster's and Subsistence
Departments AT Headquarters, was by his inter-
position appointed Colonel OF the Second Michi-
gan Cavalry, Volunteers. Consult Cullom; con-
suit history.
Whatever tho army thought Of HAlleck, ho
did these things and died without Just credit.
The Western troops called him "Old BrainS.'
President Lincoln and Secretary Stanton had
profound esteem for him.
SCHUYLER HAMILTON.
M~ajor-General Vols, U. 8. A,
NEW YORK. Dec. 3.
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The Cubans in Guanabacoa.

The latest tidings from Cuba show hat
the patriot forces. which have several times
threatened Guanabacoa, on Friday boldly
dashed into the place, drove back it's de-
tenders, and set fire to portions of the town.
The significance of this exploit is that
Guanabacoa is in the suburbs of Havana,
only about half a dozen miles from it by
road. fewer across the bay, and practically
under the guns Of the capital. We can
easily believe that, from the large
forces ut WEYLER's command. detach-
ments were hurried to expel the raid
ers, who. however, had doubtless made
off as soon as their work was accom-
plished. But the moral effect Of the dash is
obvious, since it has brought home to the
people of Havana a sense of the aggressive
strength and close presence of hostile forces
which the Captain-General says that he
searches for in vain.
OF late the operations Of MAcEo in Pinar
del Rio province have been the centre of at
%tention, together with those of WEYLER in
the effort to dislodge him. But now the CO.
operative movements of patriot forces in
tended to distract the Spaniards in that
campaign begin to be seen. The moves Of
GOMEZ and MAcEo are we'll timed. and a
dash like that upon G~uanabacoa is of a kind
to be understood in Spain.
We have heard much for months to the
effect that the recognition of a state of war
in Cuba is not a question Of sympathy, but
of facts. Be it so. What further facts are
we waiting for before according to the pa
triots both belligerency and independence ?
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-06
treatment of the liquor question in this

treatment Of the liquor question in this
State.
This underbred fellow also tells Senator
RA1NEs that the law IL FUNDAMENTALLY
productive OF evil" and calls It that inva-
lided thing;'' yet In simultaneous letters to
the Police Department and the Building
Department he charges specifically that the
evaslons of 1t are due to the lax enforce
ment OF its provisions and those OF other
laws relating to hotels. He implies further
more that the District Attorneys Office In
largely responsible by being in "afhliation
with the criminal classes" and that "the
supreme purpose Of its efforts" Is not ITO
treat criminals so as to make law-breaking
%disreputable and dangerous"
The liquor law which bears the name Of
Senator RAINEs introduced a principle in the
treatment Of the liquor question which has
proved so valuable in practice that 1t 10 not
likely ever to be departed from in this State.
IS a method of raisingrevenue 1t has proved
successful beyond expectation, and it has
taken the liquor saloons out Of politics and
relieved them from tho political extortion
and blackmail to which previously they had
been subjected, with great consequent de-
moralization in the police force.
With a view to discovering il amendments
of provisions of the law are necessary, Sem
ator RAINEs and his committee are due
ing an open investigation, of whose fairness
no question is made. The purpose In to
remedy any defects which may have APP
peared in the operation of the law. PARK
HURST has seized this opportunity to insult
Senator RAINEs, and to reveal anew the
coarseness of nature which makes him the
blackguard he is.
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Revenue.

For the five months preceding the assem-
bling OF Congress tomorrow the deficit In
the national revenue Is forty million dollars.
Yet some politicians are said to discourage
efforts to remove this deficiency promptly,
as though the criminal folly of the present
Administrations fnanciering had become
fixed too firmly for its successors to walk
the path Of reason.
One reason for immediate &C tion toward
changing the tariff is the need OF wen
and, In case some think It better to let that
condition Of affairs continue o while longer,
there is q second reason, of almost equal
strength, in the need OF limiting immediate
lmportations which it Is the certain inten-
tion of the next Administration to limit,
but which will be abnormally increased II
the day Of Limitation Is postponed until
soma time in the future.
For instance, wool, which the freak re-
formers of the WILSON bill, in treachery to
the Democratic tariff principle of revenue
only, made free, Is certain to be subjected
to duty by the Republicans. and, therefore,
q duty should be put upon it, and revenue
be made to flow from it before the close of
December. The immediate adoption of such
a policy will decrease very greatly, when it
comes, the inevitable disturbance incident to
another broad Encouragement Of the tariff.
The simplest and most expeditions, and. so
far as we know, the wisest treatment of the
tariff, pending changes to be made more
deliberately, is the DrNGLEY bill, with all
its defects. But DTSGLEY or no DTNGLEY,
the task OF reducing the Federal deficit in
revenue should not be put Off until the next
Congress, not even if it meets in extra ses-
sion on the fourth Of next March.
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The Rumors as to Mr.. CIeveland's
Treatment of the Cuban Question
in To- Morrow's Message to Congress.

in To- Morrow s NeSSa&e TO congress-.
Not one of the many printed rumors as to
what Mr.. CLEVELAND will say about Cuba
in his message to Congress is worth a but
ton. Lots of the rumor-mongers pretend to
have genuine information upon the subject;
but then they contradict each other at al
most every point, and hardly any two of
them are in agreement as to anything of
which they tell.
Speculation, therefore, is in order.
We do not expect that Mr.. CLEVELAND
will make any disclosure Of a surprising
kind relative to the Cuban-Spanish question.
We have had the opportunity of learning
something about the relations between the
Spanish Government and the American, and
we can say that the sentiments of the men
who carry on the correspondence between
them, have been made manifest through
their conduct. 1t is certain that the Presi-
dent is not likely to give US any new infor-
nation about the state of things in Cuba, or
about the war there, or about the purposes
n prospects of the belligerents.
We do not expect that Mr.. CLEVELAND
will max any startling remarks as to his
own desires or designs in the case of Cuba.
1t would not accord with his habi Of mind
to do so, though he unexpectedly upheld
the rights of Venezuela n year ago.
We do not expect from him any sign Of
bravery, or of regard for the liberties of an
oppressed American people. He had the
opportunity to perform n great and good
deed half a year ago, when the belligerency
resolutions of Congress were presented to
him, and he has had other opportunities for
hnnnrnlla garyipa eiura than He baa "a
jected them all. He has skulked upon
every occasion.
We do not expect that Mr.. CLEVELAND
will notify Congress of any change in his
mind as to Cuba, or will ask Congress to act
In such a way rs would authorize him to
adopt a better policy regarding the Spanish
Cuban question, or will seek the judgment
OF Congress at all as to any feature of the
case. The unexainpled failure OF his Ad-
ministration has not brought about any re.
duction of his self-suficiency.
We do not expect that he will inform
Congress that he has notified Spain that
she must put a time limit upon the war
against Cuba, or that there will be inter
ventiOn on the part of this Government If
she shall still be unsuccessful at the end of
the specified time, let it be three months, or
half a year, or such n period as Spain her
self may be pleased to fix. The war has
already been prosecuted by Spain for nearly
W years, without a word Of remonstrance
from this Government.
We do not expect that Mr.. CLEVELAND
will give utterance to any such language
about Spanish atrocities in Cuba as Spain
heard from President GRANT at the time OF
the last Cuban revolt. The Spanish Cap
tain'General OF Cuba has violated the law
of war in "A monstrous manner; but, though
this Government has "A right TO enter iti
protest against such shameful crimes a:
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Tradition In Kentucky.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sUS-Sfr: Not being entirely
conyersant with the dead languages or words therein.
1 am pleased to call on THE Sun for enlightenment
Recently, while coming into the town OF Winchester,
XIV. over tho Lexington pike. l noticed on the fence,
among other advertising matter. one To this effect;
John Blank, Expert Undertaken" Ia that adjective
tho hest one that could have been used in the busI.
hessi Arriving in town. discoyered that Mr. Blank
a arm which advertised itselr a. 80 4 So. MORT.
cIans.' Now what about the orthoEraphy, rtymolo.
gy, byntak, ana pTos0uJ VI s1As "Ofu "mOrticiAn ~
Does II gof TRAYKLIKh.
CINCINNATI. o.
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Free wool IL regarded as the corner stone Of
tarln reform.-St. LOuts Republic.
Tariff reform1 what's thatr Where arc the
reformersr Four years ago the Democratic
party said that It was for reforming the tariff
on the principle that protection is robbery and
that the tariff must be laid for revenue only;
but all they did was to mako another tariff for
protection. adopting as their own the alleged
robbery. and throwing revenue to the dogs.
What tariff reform up to date may be no fellow
can find out. But 1t is certain that free wool IL
in its nature q corner stone OF protectionism.
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Our pig iron should be melted and our cotton
spun and woven Mt home. thus giving greater I'm.
ployment TO labor and establishing home markets for
our agricultural p"rodurta-GOrer1ior Johnston OF
Alabama.
Has the Eagle Of Protection screamed so loud
or 80 ubiqultously as 1t screams to-day since the
foundation Of the Governments We are COM
PEELED to think not.
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OF the UNITED PRgss and NEW YohK AssociATEp
PREss Il. at 81 to 20 Ann street. All Information
and documents for public use instantly dissent
mated to the press OF the whole country.
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u oar 1fyNds seho Japor Us rth nanusortptp for
pubtosttoS Wfsh 10 haze rejected articles retrrned thsy
must IN al cases send stamps for that purposs.
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Ifon the a bdny Express.
Dr. Parkhurst IL to New YORK city hat 4 akin d,s.
ease is to an individual. There is no telling in vha,
spot he win break out next
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-06

A suit was brought against Eleonora Duse,
the actress. by " firm of theatrical managers in
Man, TO recover an amount equivalent to
$4,000. as damages Tor a breach OF contract
to give a series OF performances under the direc-
tIon of the complainAnts. 1t is now announced
that the litigation has been settled by the Day
ment Of nearly $4,000 by tho defendant. There
was a similar suit commenced in Brooklyn
some years ago against Lillian Russell. who
wanted to change her managers and had TO break
Contract in order TO do so. This also was com.
Thousand dollars.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-10-14
DeLand, Fla, Wednesday, October IA. 1896.

tom was to go into his fields about
Sept. 1, and select the largest and
best ears of corn for his next years
seed, and he was noted for always
having prime crop of corn.
A gardener in the same state al
ways had the finest nutmeg melons;
his custom was to take the first and
finest melons that ripened and saved
the seed; in this way he always had
the earliest and best melons, and
everybody wanted Cunningham nut
meg melons. Today South Florida
has several very choice early free
stone peaches, the result of early and
careful hybridizing of A. I. Bidwell
of the peento and honey, and from
these others of great value may be
expected. This year we had here in
Orlando, large fine peaches ripen Aug.
l. Fifty years ago nothing but little
Seeding apples, pears and peaches
were known, but by careful selection
of seeds and cross fertilizating and
pollenization, we today have the best.
+ should be pleased to hear from the
Doctor again on this very important
question. Geo. I'll. Wright.
Orlando, Fla.
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or two hundred outside and treat the
same as those under cover.
[ would be glad if the growers
would give their ideas as to distance
to plant, as experience has taught
them, no theory alone, mind. We
will have competition ere long and
the finest fruit will hold the road.
l am planting a part of mine 18 x30
inches and part 30 inches each way,
so in time [ will have an opinion of
my own. 1 planted Porto Ricos six
years ago 36 inches apart each way
but that was before | moved to the
sand hills of Polk county.
Then | had no great amount of
money, still [ had more than I had
experience in pine culture, or rather
as to frostless localities, so called in
Florida, where as now / have much
experience actual and otherwise. But
as to the honeywell we won't say
anything about that.
AS l am talking about pines, the
best kinds to grow and how to grow
them, have some twenty varieties
to judge from and could say some
thing of the varieties, but space for
bids this time.
But what I am after is to find out
first howto grow the handsomest, the
best and largest apple and at the
same time the best shipper, and so [
think are most of the growers.
Can you tell me, no theory now
mind, have enough of that, facts are
what we want from actual expert
ence.
Then we want our fruit marketed
through state organization and 16
to we can supply the United States
with the best fruit in the world.
B. M. Hampton.
Frost Proof, Fla.
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For the Florida Agriculturist.
Selection Of Seed.
Frost Proof, Fla.

I have read with much interest DR..
Howland's article on characteristics
of different kinds of pineapples.
am pleased to read an article from so
able pen. The Doctor incidentally
touches upon very important point
in fruit growing, and one worthy of
further consideration. That of selec-
tion of plants to grow pines from.
Too much cannot be said in favor of
careful selection of the strongest
stocky plants or suckers, to get the
best results Gills should not be used
when first class suckers can be Sc
cured. What is true of pineapples is
true of all fruits, grains and vegeta-
bles The choicest of seed, that which
ripens first will bring the best re-
suits.
Some years ago I knew farmer in
Iowa that raised about 600 acres of
corn per annum. His universal GUS
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s. Der AnnuDI. ID adV1' &C

apparently more hardy than the COM
mon red clover, and stands the drouth
better. 1t yields two to three tons Of
hay and six to ten bushels of seed to
plant, the honey is very white and of
excellent quality, but it's greatest val
ue lies in it's ability to store up plant
food and at the same time send down
it's deep feeding roots far into the
subsoil to gather and bring to the
surface elements of fertility that
would be otherwise lost. Early III
May the flowers appear and the field
changes from deep green to a bril-
liant crimson, making a sight to be-
hold and to remember. It's great
beauty surprising anything ever seen
in field crop. Every farmer should
SOW a field of crimson clover and
every lady that loves beautiful flow
ers should scatter a few seeds in her
flower garden.
If any of the readers of the Agri-
culturist would like to test a little
crimson clover seed [ will send a sam
pie package by mail for couple of
stamps for postage.
L. Staples.
Grand Rapids, Mich, Box SOB.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-10-14
For the Florida Agriculturist.
Making Butter for Market.

Last January the writer received a
letter from j. b. Smith of Guilford
county, North Carolina, and will take
the liberty of quoting from it, as the
reference made by Mr.. Smith to his
own efforts in dairying, making and
marketing butter in smallway, will,
[ think, interest and instruct others,
who like he may be entirely new and
without experience in dairy mat
ters. Reading what he writes will be
something like an experience meet
ing.
81 began last spring to sell butter
made and marketed under directions,
largely from you. Although [ COM
menced at a most unfavorable season,
when most of the buyers had made
contracts for the year [ found no diff
ficulty in making a contract with a
first class restaurant for all [ could
make, at 25 cents cash, and that,
when they admitted they could and
were purchasing fairly good butter
at from Is to IS cents per pound.
Their customers now want no other
butter, and they-the proprietors-
mplain that I do not furnish them
nearly as much as they want.
"Of course [ could increase my
number of cows, but the extra cost,
thereby entailed, would absorb too
much from my profit on butter until
have grown more forage. And
have choice young COWS of my own
breeding coming on just as fast as l
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For the Florida Agriculturist-
Crimson Glover.

The value of crimson clover for the
purpose of a fertilizer crop is the
chief subject of thought at this time
by farmers in many states. Reports
received from all parts Of Michigan
show that crimson clover passed the
winter we'll and large crop of hay
and seed was secured. Crimson clo-
yer is native of Italy and other
parts of Europe. 1t is not entirely
new to this country, but only recent
ly begun to attract attention. 1t is
an annual and must be sown in it's
proper season, this extends from the
first of August until the last OF No
ve1pher. The seed terminates very
quickly and grows very rapidly, and
makes a good fall and winter pasture.
1t seems to flourish in all soils and is
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For the Florida Agriculturist.
About Ramie.

I hope the Indian government have
succeeded in solving the problem of
fitting ramie for manufacturing, for
it has been before the public for 40
years to my certain knowledge. [
saw samples of it in New York at a
fair about that time.
There is much to do yet before it
will be used much for special machin-
cry will be required for it as the sta
pie will not admit of being worked
on cotton or wollen machinery, but it
may perhaps be done on flax ma
chimes. A. J. A.
Orlando, Fla.
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For the Florida Agriculturist.
Covering and Planting Pines.

Covering and Planting Pines.
AS [ was renewing my subscription
ta- your estimable journal, thought I
would just take the platform for
moment too, for that seems to be the
order of the day. [ will just remark
that there has been many precious
moments thrown away in windy dis
courses in this section as elsewhere.
All; me. If the same energy was
displayed in the various callings Of
every day life, wouldn't things hum
though?
All, yes; could we but utilize nine
tenths of the talk towards cultivating
our groves and fields, Florida would
loom to the front in great shape.
But we can't; talk don't count, and
theory is but little better without
practice.
as rule the groves look well in
this section, considering the chance
they have had of getting even one
days work, q mean good, honest
work,) to being neglected Is.
But the wind can't blow forever, I
presume, and the lucky ones will step
in and the unlucky ones step out, and
things will go on about as before, and
those who have known us so much of
late will know us no more, not as
long as the office holds out, I trow.
Let us look at our pines a little, for
be it known, these sand hills will yet
be known in that line, and for the
quality of the fruit as well as guam
tity that yet will be produced
All we want is transportation and
this we must have ere we can hope to
grow the most luscious of all fruit,
extensively.
But to cover or not to cover, that
is the question time must solve. For
these hills, amid these deep lakes to
protect them from frost. Life is too
short.
Most of those interested in the
pine industry in this section, are look
ing towards covering in the future.
From nv own observation those that
have been covered, have done much
better as a rule in this section than
those uncovered. Those planted the
fall before the freeze and under cover
have a full crop this year. scarcely a
plant failing to fruit, while those
not covered failed to set anything
like full crop.
But then again those under cover
undoubtedly had better care, and
more fertilizer as a rule. Those un-
der cover mostly being costly plants
of choice varieties, and we all know
that one is more apt to give a thor
ouch bred better care that scrub.
am covering my choice plants,
but at the same time shall leave one