People's party of Michigan is not a part of it. TEN YEARS OF PROHIBITION IN KANSAS. Kansas Farmer (Topeka), Dec. 30.-The Executive Committee of the Kansas State Temperance Union has issued a New Year's address, reviewing the work and progress of Prohibition in the decade during which it has been the law of the land. The Committee sums up the practical effects under five distinct heads, from which we quote, and each of which is backed by ample argument: French Revolution. A very large majority of half a century ago nobly boasted, this Govern- National Prohibition party in America, and the the members of both the Alliance and the Grange ment boldly took the initiative "in advance are in favor of order instead of anarchy. | of all other nations in summoning the civilized These grand men only ask for equal and exact world to a common effort to put down and dejustice for all men, and will be satisfied with story nefarious traffic reproachful to human nothing less. The Anarchist, who cries out nature. It has not deemed that it suffers any that the system of laws under which we live is derogation," he added, "from its character or utterly bad and should be torn down, proposes its dignity, if in seeking to fulfill this sacred no remedy, and has no plan that is not founded duty it act, as far as is necessary, on fair and on annihilation, but the men who are working equal terms of concert with other Powers havso earnestly through the Alliance or the ing n view the same praiseworthy object. Such Grange seek for a remedy and believe that were its sentiments when it entered into the until that remedy is found it would be the solemn stipulations of the Treaty of Ghent; height of folly to take a blind leap into the such were its sentiments when it requested abyss of destruction brought about by the use to concur with us in declaring the slave trade of violent means. piracy." It cannot be that in this new year of our Lord 1892 our Government is really going to go back on its record and bring ignominy on itself by refusing, or neglecting, to ratify this most humane treaty now pending in the Senate. THE WORLD Does Grow BETTER.-Grows the world better or worse? After all, that is the vital question. Whatever of history we read of the year that is past, its real significance is the answer it gives to this momentous Pittsburgh Christian Advocate, Dec. 31. query. Upon the whole, doubtless, the world The fate of the Brussels Treaty for the supdoes grow better. There is a mighty meaning pression of the African slave trade now rests in the fact that it seeks and means to be better. solely with the United States. Eighteen In the old days, when war was the chief, Powers were represented in the Conference esteemed the only really noble, human occu- which framed the treaty, and it is not binding pation, when a spirit of selfishness pervaded until ratified by all of them. Up to last week all classes, of which one now reads with a all had signed but France and the United shudder, when laws were cruel to an extent States. Last Saturday the French Senate which almost passes belief, when the poor man approved, and as the Chamber of Deputies had no hope and the rich man no compassion, had taken similar action two days before, this when the world was one vast mill of unre- completed the action of that country, and left quited human toil, millions wearing out their our country alone in its tardiness. The time lives for the enrichment and the luxury of the for approval expires Feb. 2, 1892, so that but pampered few-the years came and went with little time is left for the Senate of the United almost no light on the human pathway. And States to act. Its failure would be a lasting still, a light there was; faint at first, but grow-disgrace to the country. The treaty for the ing; and now, save in certain regions which suppression of this great curse would then fail are still habitations of cruelty, there is light through the fault of this Christian Governeverywhere. There is now a chance for every ment! We hope the Senate will act promptly. man, if he be a man, and not a brute.—Chicago Standard, Dec. 31. to it. THE LIQUOR ISSUE. THE BRUSSELS TREATY. THE PEOPLE'S PARTY IN MICHIGAN AND PROHIBITION. New York Voice (Proh.), Jan. 7.-The account given on another page of the organization of the People's party of Michigan shows The Advance (Chicago), Dec. 31.-The how the leaven of Prohibition is working in United States Senate has one special and su- the farmers' industrial societies. At the Conpreme duty before it-to ratify the Brussels vention held in Lansing, the Prohibition party Treaty for the suppression of the slave trade was not represented, and there were but few and the rum traffic in Africa. This treaty will members of that party in attendance as indifall to the ground unless ratified by all the viduals. Yet after a contest of two hours the seventeen Powers which were represented in vote was 125 to 63 in favor of a radical Prohithe International Conference. This Confer- bition plank and against the nationalization ence met in Brussels the 18th of November, plank. The contest was afterward renewed, 1888, and remained in session almost continu- and in the face of a delegation from Grand ously for eight months. Nearly all the signa- Rapids, who declared their determination to tory Powers have already decreed their assent bolt if the plank was maintained, the ConvenOur own Senate, at its last session, to tion voted again in favor of it by a vote of 109 its deep disgrace, staved off the consideration to 47. There are now, therefore, in the of it. Through Secretary Blaine's influence State of Michigan two parties with much the 'the time for its ratification has been extended same platform. One of them is auxiliary to Feb. I. The importance of this great inter- to a National party that stands for Nationnational measure is still but scantily under- al Prohibition. The other is, so far, a stood. As Sir F. Buxton in the last Fort- State party only, or, if considered as an nightly declares, great as is the curse auxiliary to the People's party organized of the slave trade, the curse of drink is infinitely worse; the very air of Africa reeks with rum and gin, imported by Englishmen, and, he might have added, from Boston. What is the use, asks Mr. Buxton, of sending missionaries to convert the heathen, if our traders in heathen lands thrust upon the natives a poison which destroys them with more cer tainty than any war, pestilence, or famine? It is not flattering to American patriotism that our own Government should be found lagging among the very last in giving its confirmatory assent to an international measure so humane and of such stupendous importance, affecting the well-being of more than one hundred millions of exposed and helpless people throughout a great continent. Senator Chandler of New Hampshire must look back with any emotions other than of pride to his own pettifogging objections last winter to action being taken on this matter in the Senate. There was a time in the early history of our Government when, as Daniel Webster just in Cincinnati last May, it is an auxiliary to a creased. First. There can be no doubt in any intelligent and candid man's mind, that the use of intoxicating liquors among the great body of the people has vastly deSecond.-The Prohibitory principle is vastly strongerin he judgment and confidence of the people now than it was ten years ago. Third. The execution of the law, while not perfect, as could have been expected. while not all that its friends desire, is probably as good Fourth. The experience of the past ten years has taught us that the Prohibitory Law, for its best success, must have behind it a constantly aggressive and mani fest public opinion in its favor. Fifth. The experience of the last ten years has shown us that Prohibition contributes to the material prosperity and growth of the State. THE SALE OF LIQUOR AT THE WORLD'S FAIR.-The Chicago dailies of Tuesday contained the announcement that the local Directory of the World's Fair has decided to allow the sale of liquors at restaurants at the Exposition. on some time ago, but the powers that be MISCELLANEOUS. fools THE FAILURES OF 1891. New York Tribune, Jan. 2.-The annual statement of failures by Dun & Co.'s Mercantile Agency presents some features of great interest. The number of failures is larger than in any previous year since these records began, but it does not follow that the number has increased out of proportion to the number of firms in business. There were 12,273 failures in the United States during the year 1891, against 10,907 during the year 1890-an increase of more than 10 per cent., but there was at the same time some increase in the number of firms in business, so that the number of failures to every 1,000 firms increased from 9.8 in 1890 to 10.7 in 1891. Nevertheless, the proportion for the last year is not remarkably high, for in 1888 and 1889 there were more than ten failures to every 1,000 firms in business, in 1886 and 1885 more than eleven, and in 1884 the proportion was 12.7 failures to every 1,000 firms. It is noted also that the proportion of failures to firms was much greater in the Southern States, owing to causes which have been fully discussed, than in the East or in the West. In the Eastern and Mid " dle States the number of failures to every | retail price being fifty cents a can. In 1848 he | are clamoring for additional structures of like 1,000 firms in business was only 9.63, and in sent a half dozen cans each to Queen Victoria nature. These must come in course of time. the Western States only 7.74, while in the and the President of the United States, both The project of bridging the Hudson is by no Southern States the number was 17.09. On of whom acknowledged the receipt of the means a vagary now, and the benefits that the other hand, the aggregate of liabilities goods. Mr. Crosby is still living, and has seen must come from it are of vast importance to of firms failing was almost exactly the same his small output of canned tomatoes in 1847 the community. It is to be hoped that the for two years, $189,868,638 last year, against grow to 3,405,365 cases in 1891, the greatest fair promises of the engineers can be fulfilled $189,856,964 in 1890. These are large amounts, amount ever canned in any year, and the retail and that the river may be spanned within the and greatly exceed the liabilities in either of the price fall from fifty to ten cents per can. New next three years.—New York Herald. years 1885-89 inclusive, but fall below the ag- Jersey, the State which furnished Mr. gregate for 1884, 1878, 1875, or 1873. The Crosby, the first canner, leads in the canned proportion of liabilities to every firm failing product, having furnished 950,833 cases last LETTING LIGHT INTO AN INSIDIOUS SCHEME. was reduced to $15,471 in 1891, against $17,- year. Maryland is second, with 744,000 cases. -The public should be warned against the 406 in 1890, but in 1884 the average was $20,- Indiana, Delaware, California, and New York" Mutual Poultry Co.," which appears to be a 632, and in 1878 it was $22,369. A more stand next in the list in the order named, while new alias for the notorious J. M. Bain. That instructive comparison will be possible when Pennsylvania is sixteenth, having produced fraud has been so frequently exposed that the full returns of clearing-house exchanges only 15,000 cases. advertisements of 'great bargains dated throughout the country have been compiled, from Zanesville, O., do not "take" as they so that the ratio of insolvent to solvent busiformerly did. Business being dull, the humbug takes up a new dodge. Some benevolent woman in Chicago has written long letters to all the papers telling, of the wonderful chances offered by this " Poultry Co." It is the same old game-you pay $5 for a setting of eggs and the " Poultry Co." will guarantee to buy all the chickens you hatch out at $1 each, or to sell you hens and buy all the eggs they lay at fifty cents per dozen. This "Co." is located at a little town near Zanesville. These letters from the. Chicago woman-the R. N. Y. has already received four copies exactly alike-have been printed by many of the city papers as a matter of news. It is about the most cunning fraud of the year, and many poor people will be caught by it. Nine-tenths of the eggs that are received by the trusting dupes who answer this letter have been bought in the city markets at twenty cents a dozen, and are either boiled or so old that they never could hatch. The "Co." can thus easily guarantee to take all hatched chickens.-Rural New Yorker. so, ness may be estimated. From the published returns for eleven months, and for three weeks of December, it may be inferred that the aggregate of exchanges in 1891 was about $57,000,000,000, and if the proportion of liabilities to exchanges was $3.33 in 1891, against $3.18 in 1890. But in 1887 the proportion was $3.27, in 1884 it was $5.15, and from 1875 to 1878, inclusive, the proportion was more than $6 to $1,000 exchanges. " PARTIAL STATEMENT OF THE POWERS AND BEAUTIES OF THE NEW YORK "WORLD."— The World intends to and will elect another Democratic President this year, as it elected Grover Cleveland in 1884. placing a Republican Administration the World will do it for the best good of Republicans as well as Democrats. What can the In dis ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AND THE UNVERACIOUS CHRONICLER. Letter from Robert Louis Stevenson, New York Evening Post, Jan. 4.—A letter purporting to describe a visit to my honse appeared in the New York World of Sept. 27, and has been recently brought under my notice. I remember the visit of Mr. Jones more clearly than he does himself. I remember my first words on being introduced: "I am afraid I am not very fond of interviews." And I remember THE CANNED FOOD INDUSTRY. his reply; "This is no interview; this is merely a visit." Whether or not Mr. Jones is Philadelphia Times.-The growth of the to be considered a man of his word is a point business of canning vegetables, fruits, etc., in of no general interest. But the future of a the United States has been phenomenal. country, even a small one, is of more moWhile M. Appert, a Frenchman, was the first ment; and it may, in critical times, be to master the art of preserving food in her- affected by the sayings and doings even metically sealed cans or jars, his invention of such persons as myself and Mr. dating from 1805, the business did not assume Jones. Now, he has put into my mouth sentigreat proportions until transplanted to the ments on the political situation in Samoa United States. In the early years of Appert's which may be his own, but which are not, and discovery it was applied chiefly to the preserv- which never have been, mine. From begining of meats and vegetables for use on ship-ning to end of the interview there is no phrase board. Appert's process was patented in Eng- that fell from my lips as it was uttered, almost land in 1810, and he established a permanent none that is not marred with childish blunders; business in Paris in 1812, which is still con- and in many cases I can have said nothing, ducted by his grandson. The business was because I have never thought anything, even transplanted to America by Thomas B. analogous. These facts and sentiments he Smith, of Philadelphia, in 1837, who began at must have found where he found the name of that time to preserve green corn. Isaac the native who took his horse, the bell which Winslow, who had learned the process of he believes himself to have rung, "the cocoa- forces of Plutocracy, Monopoly, and CorrupSmith, erected a building on Market street nut palms and breadfruit trees which he obtion, of the Billion Dollar Congress, the War for this purpose in 1844, removing to Griscom served upon my lawn, the stag's head over Tariff and the Money Power in politics, hope street two years later. About 1848 meats and my study door, and five out of the ten rooms to accomplish against such a campaign of eduother articles began to be preserved in tins for which he is at the pains to describe in my cation, of appeal, and stimulation as the World shipment to the Pacific coast, the earlier pack-house; or where he lost the gentleman who was will conduct? The World puts heart ing having been made chiefly in glass cans or good enough to accompany and introduce him. and conscience into its work as well as brains. bottles. The business was given a great im- I only name a few of the more wanton absurdi- It is the handmaid of Justice, the unraveler of petus by the war, when tin almost superseded ties of his account, sufficient to show Mr. mysteries, the detecter and the terror of Crime, the use of glass. The articles to which this Jones for what he is, a man incapable of see the friend of the friendless, the help of the method of preservation has been applied most ing, of hearing, or of being taught. Of late poor, the strength of the weak. Realizing extensively are salmon, peaches and small the papers have been somewhat busy with my- that its power comes from the People, it fruits, corn, tomatoes, and other vegetables. self and my family. A passage, for instance, gives back to them freely whatever service its Recently the canning of meat of various kinds lately made the round of many papers in Eng- influence and its resources enable it to render. has become an important branch of the industry, land and the the States. It purported to be an-From the Prospectus of the New York World cut in point of value and amount the first extract from a private letter of Mrs. Steven- for 1892. cur articles named easily lead all others to son's; she can only repeat the form of words wrich the canning process is applied. The already used, that she can have written nothpacking of corn, which as before stated orig-ing, because she has never thought anything, inated in Philadelphia in 1837, has grown to an immense volume, the pack of last year reaching 2,799,453 cases of two dozen cans each. This is an increase of more than 1,200,ooo cases over the previous year, but only about 400,000 cases more than the average pack of the last five years. Strangely enough Pennsylvania, the State in which the industry began, furnishes an insignificant part of the present output. The Pennsylvania pack last THE NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY BRIDGE. year was a trifle under 50,000 cases, while-The presence of a handful of men in a vacant Maine, which now leads in the industry, fur- lot in West 67th street yesterday [Dec. 30] nished 614,894 cases. New York is second means much to the future of the city. They on the list with 536,814. Illinois and Indi- had gathered there to witness the beginning of ane jointly furnished 476,735 cases, and the construction of the great North River Maryland and Virginia 461,240. The first Bridge. Twenty-five years ago such a pro even analogous. The friends to whom we packing of tomatoes as an article of ject would have been thought chimerical and as little other than insane. Since that time PUBLIC SPIRIT IN NEW YORK.-When the public-spirited citizens of New York set out to be generous to any undertaking, the way they refrain from vulgar haste and lavish recklessness would delight the heart of Queen Victoria herself. Several thousand cubic feet of unoccupied atmosphere, towering nobly where Grant's monument is not, testify to the openhanded, empty-handed appreciation Gotham; and now there is a stately vacuum in the city's contribution to supply a silver service to the United States cruiser named after it, the New York. A few big sums have been paid in, aggregating over $2,000, but the printed list shows a descending ratio in such items as: "A Patriotic Dramatist". Hoffman House (Brooklyn).. .30C. .........25C. ....... IOC. of When it comes down to one-cent contributions New York will furnish an imposing array of names and coppers.-Boston Pilot. Richter, A Painter of Picturesque Portraits. Maurice Thompson. Chautauquan, Jan., 9 pp. Sheshadri (Narayan). The Brahmin Apostle of the Out-Caste Mangs. George L. Smith, LL.D. Miss. Rev. of the World, Jan., 4 pp. With portrait. EDUCATION, LITERATURE, AND ART. Execution by Electricity. The Clause of the Law Restricting the Freedom of the Press. J. W. Schwartz. Drake's Mag., Jan., 5 PP. A concensus of editorial opinion. Library (A Minister's). The Rev. S. B. Ervin. Quar. Rev. United Breth. in Christ, Jan., 6 pp. What the library should be, etc. Marble Faun (The): An Allegory, with a Key to the Interpretation. Martha Tyler Gale. N. E. and Yale Rev., Jan., 10 pp. Meininger Marvels (The). John Carboy. Drake's Mag., Jan., 5 pp. Illus. Describes the work of the Meininger Company. Pliny (the Younger), Some Letters of. Samuel Ball Platner. N. 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Reciprocity agreements with the West India Islands and some other British possessions are made public......The American Historical Society and the American Forestry Association hold their annual meetings in Washington......College men hold a meeting and conference in Brooklyn......Bishop John Loughlin, of Brooklyn, dies.. ...................The annual Charity Ball is given in New York City. The French Chamber of Deputies votes final approval of the Tariff Bill. .Mr. Gladstone receives congratulatory messages on his eighty-second birthday...... The Japanese House of Representatives is dissolved by Imperial decree...... The Indian National Congress opens at Nagpur. •Wednesday, December 30. Reciprocity treaties with Guatemala and Salvador are signed in Washington......A daughter of General Sherman marries Dr. Paul Thorndike, of Boston......One of the Glendale (Mo.) train robbers and a female accomplice are arrested in California......A coroner's jury declares the brakeman, Albert Herrick, responsible for the disaster on the New York Central, and the train dispatcher accessory. It is stated that the Grand Vizier of Turkey has asked France to renew relations with Bulgaria......Fifty Nihilists are on trial in Warsaw......The Indian National Congress adopts a resolution in favor of a Legislature for India...... News is received that the British advance column has occupied Hunza. Thursday, December 31. Minister Montt receives a dispatch from his Government stating the progress made in the Valparaiso investigation......The International Commerce Commission makes a decision in the case of the Boston and Maine Railroad in the matter of free passes......The Albany Argus is designated as the State paper for two years......In Indianapolis, a woman whips a man of some local reputation as a pugilist, in a prize fight for $500...... Another victim of the N. Y. Central disaster dies. An explosion occurs in Dublin Castle......Many Russian Nihilists are arrested in Paris for an alleged plot to destroy the Chamber of Deputies and the Russian Embassy......It is reported that thousands of Chinese lost their lives in a severe gale at Hong Kong. Friday, January 1. The President and Mrs. Harrison hold the usual New Year's reception at the White House, which is largely attended by the officials and diplomats at the Capital......The Governor of Kansas appoints ex-Congressman Bishop W. Perkins to succeed Senator Plumb...... Roswell P. Flower is inaugurated Governor of New York at Albany.... A party of non-union men in Arkansas is attacked upon a train and driven into the swamps by a mob......The Diva Patti arrives in New York City after a rough passage from Europe on the City of Paris. New Year's receptions are held by President Carnot and King Leopold. The new Spanish tariff is promulgated......Renewed lawlessness is reported in North China...........Another native war seems imminent in Samoa. Saturday, January 2. L. C. Laylin, a Sherman man, is nominated by the Republicans for Speaker of the Ohio House......The public debt statement shows an increase of $2.794,749 in December......News is received that Captain Hardie, 3d Cavalry, had dispersed another band of Garza's men.... The convict miners are returned to the Tennessee mines at Coal Creek with a guard of soldiers..... General Montgomery C. Meigs, of the U. S. Engineer Corps, retired, dies at Washington.......... The Royal Canadian Insurance Company is bought by the Alliance of England. It is announced that France is about signing a Commercial Convention with the United States......The King of Portugal opens the Cortes in Lisbon ......It is stated that the Bishop of Carcassone refused to obey the French Government and went to Rome without permission....:. Tribes in Tangier are reported in rebellion against the Sultan. Sunday, January 3. Information is received that one of Garza's lieutenants, an American, had been captured by United States troops on the Mexican border......Cold weather prevails throughout the West......It is stated that Jay Gould has been threatened with death by a crank, for whom the police are now looking; another, who insisted on marrying Miss Helen Gould, has been arrested. Influenza prevails in Belgium...... The British bark Childwell is run down by a steamer and fifteen of her crew are drowned. Monday, January 4. Garza is said to be surrounded by United States troops in Texas...... The Democratic caucuses at Albany choose Mr. Cantor to be President pro tem. of the Senate, and Dr. R. P. Bush to be Speaker of the Assembly......Republican Senators meet in New York City, and favor taking no part in the organization of the Senate......The Republican State Committee issues an address to the people of the State in regard to the action of the State Board of Canvassers......Negotiations are said to be in progress for the consolidation of the New York and New England and the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroads. The Pope accepts the terms proposed by France for conciliation between that republic and the Vatican......Guy de Maupassant, the novelist, attempts suicide while insane from the grip at Cannes......A detachment of the Salvation Army is attacked by a mob at Eastbourne, England. Tuesday, January 5. Both Houses of Congress are in session; in the Senate the following nominations are received from the President: James W. Dill, of Iowa, William L. Lindsay, of Kentucky, and William R. Morrison, of Illinois, to be Interstate Commerce Commissioners; Andrew P. McCormick, of Texas, to be Circuit Judge; a resolution is passed, authorizing the charter of a ship to carry corn to Russia......In the House many Bills are introduced...... It is stated that negotiations for arbitration of the Bering Sea dispute have been stopped by Lord Salisbury's further demands......The friends of Senator Sherman claim an assured majority in the Ohio Legislature for his reelection to the United States Senate over ex-Governor Foraker......The New York Legislature convenes at Albany; the Governor's Message is read in both Houses; Dr. Bush is elected Speaker of the Assembly; Mr. Cantor is elected President pro tem. of the Senate; Walker (Dem.) is seated and notices of contest are filed against four of the Republican Senators......The Supreme Court of Connecticut decides that Governor Bulkeley is the lawful Executive of the State...... The warship Baltimore arrives at San Francisco......The Sheriff and Sheriff-elect of Seward County, Kansas, are killed by a mob in ambush; the District Judge is besieged in his house by forty men, armed with Winchesters; a county-seat war is the cause...... ..Eight persons are killed in a collision on the Wabash Railroad...... Mrs. Robert L. Stuart's will, filed in New York City, leaves about five millions to public institutions. The Bulgarian Government refuses the demand of France that it should withdraw the decree expelling M. Chadourne......In the French Chamber of Deputies a resolution is passed demanding that energetic measures be taken against those responsible for the condition of the Panama Canal Company ...Emperor Francis Joseph dissolves the Hungarian Diet......The Queen of Roumania, "Carmen Sylva," is dangerously ill. is Mr. Edgar Fawcett. Never falling into the snare OF SAUL. Rev. Joseph S. Exell, M.A., Very Rev. Dean Howson, D.D. 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