May React

The saloon people went too far last eek n asking to be allowed to keep open later in the evening, for it is the general opinión that ii the storekeepere are satisfied to close atOor 7, the saloonkeepers Bhould be williag to close at 10, and we presume the most of them are. It was b mistake to outrage public opinión, and the Mayor is to be commended for vetoing the bad measure. The whole tliing was probably a cheap scheme of the city attorney "to put the Mayor in a hole," as he hiniself would express it. But, if he is not eareful he will put his frieuds in a hole ñatead. A recent decisión of the Suprenie Court in a Grand Rapids case, has given enlarged powers to a city administration over saloons, and the more they resist the present laws, or try to get more advantages, the more they stir up the people to simt down on them. They had better sail close to shore, and not let the city attorney get them into any more holes. A Tammaoy slate bas been made up, vith ( rOV. Klower, of New York, for preslent. ín that event the reput)lcans ould effectually smash Flower with reo. W. Childs, oí Philadelphia. Xo aan in the democratie party eould deeat Childi. In [892 we imporced wooleo goods to o the value.of 136,792,900. Vccording to the estimates of the free rade Reform Chit Committee, the imirtations of woolens onder the tariff iropoaed by the Reform Club would le ibout f75,000,000 n lsiii. That is, the free traders want to pay 40,000,000 less anuually for Lmerican goods and labor in this one ndustrv than we are now paying, and to hand the money over to foreign manifacturers. - N. Y. Press. There are many garden luxuries com111011 to the liouseliolder in villages which the average farmer does uot have, nul vet would enjoy. A bed of asparagus is one of these. After it is once started it takes little care to keep it productive. Auy boy or girl could do for it all that is needed, and uothing pays better for itself in lusciousness than asparagus. Fresh cut, cooked for breakfast, it is a dish fit for a king, if he deserves any better breakfast than au ordinary man. Witíl the second season it begins to be productive and will be good for years to come. Fifty plants will be enough for an ordinary family. They need rich land and should be set in rows six feet apart. The latest advices respecting domestic and foreigu crops are favorable to the future course of our exchanges. The extensive failure of fodder crops in Great Britaio and on the Continent will naturally augtnent the deinand for such surplus as we may have of corn and oats. It seeins reasonably certain that there will be a more or less serious shortage of wheat across the Atlantic whicb, with a prospect of at least an average surplus of that cereal on this side, suggests a probability of better prices for it. The importa of merchandise may be expected to decline materially; and, with the probability of f ree exporta of produce, we have therefore a fair prospect of a healthier foreign trade balance being soon established. - Henry Clews. The tact that the flow of gold has commenced coming our way, from Kurope, is a pleasing one for all the American people as well as for the government. ín round figures the imports of merchandise for the twelve ïnonths ending May 81 were $108,000,000 greater than the imports for the preceding year, while the exporta decreased $174,000,000. In the year endiug May, 31, 1892, the exceas of exporta over imports was $194,000,000. On the other hand the imports of the year ending last nionth were less by $88,000,000 than the imports of the twelve months before. In the light of such figures the wonder ia not that gold has been exported freel from the United States during the las few months, but that the outward move ment has been no greater and that i seems to have ceased for the presen, When this country buys in foreign land nearly $100,000,000 worth of merchan dise a year more than it sells to th outside world, and wheu it has an enoi mons drain to endure in the form o dividend! and interest on America securities owned in Europe, it is evi deut that we have a big balance to settle in some way.