Before Another Issue Of The Democrat

Congrega will be iu session, aa ít coavenes next Wednesday, Deo. 7. The firet thing to olaini its attention will be to figure for the holiday vaoation. Lovers of law and order will be glad to know that üerr Most, the New York anarohist has been found guilty. llis friends will eodeavor to him get another trial, but in our opinión, this one is suffleient. I am a staunoh republican, bnt I would be a very dishonest man if 1 did not Bay that I tbink that Cleveland' administraron bas been highly creditable. The American abroad has no cause to blush and I for one will ehed uo tears if Mr. Cleveland is reelected. - Andrew Carnegie. A great many republioans feet the same -way and why should they not as no man can fail to see the difïerenoe between the republican and the present democratie administraron. The Michigan club held a secret meeting last Friday night, but some talkative men let out the faot that the leaders of the party in the state, are in favor of the endorsement of prohibition principies. Senator Palmer said he "was of the opinión that the time had come for the repub licans seriously to oonsider whether they would adopt prohibition in Michigan." The prohibition question is the chief issue of the day, and until this question is settled the people will take no interest in national subjeots, and it is very probable that prohibition will be submitted to the people next year. The exact relations of forest growth to rainfall and water supply are not yet faily understood; but euffieient is known to niake it olear that the removal of the foreste tends certainly to the substitu tion of occasional flood and tempest tor mild and frequent rain, and almost certainly to a diminution of the aggregate rainfall of the year. The import.inoe, therefore, of preserving and renewing our foresto oannot be overestimated. From all sections of the country there have come during the past seauon reporta of disastrous droughts ; and even now, at a time which is usually wet enough to suit the most ardent lovers of moisture, one of our sister cities- Fort Wayne, Indiana - is suffermg for want of water. There is still enough to drink, but the elevators, the engnes that run the lighting apparatun, and the flre department are seriously cnppled. The citizens of Fort Wayne probably never knew before how many of the comforts and conveniences of oivilization were dependent apon an abundan t water Bupply. It may not be generally known that even in Michigan, while there has been uo widespread complaint of dronth the diminution of the rainfall has been great enough to produce serious cqnsequtmces. The proceedings, just published, of the State Board of Health show that from Marchto September the rainfall feil far below the average for the nine years from 1878 to 1886 inclusive. They show, also, a murked increase in prevalance of typhoid fever notwithstanding the effort of the board for the prevention and reRt riotion of the dioease. No Btronger argumenta can be furaished for the preservation and renewal of our foresta than those drawn from snch faets as