We Are Sadly In Need Of More Rain

The showers we havo airead y had, have done soine good. Still thcre has not been enough rainfall to do the shade trees any good. Hundreds of them are dying and unless we have rain, and lots of it, soon in any more will be too f ar gone to revive. DtTBíNQ the íirst ten month.s of the McKinley Tariff the aggregate of bank olearings in the United S tatos was over six billón dollars greatcr than during the first ten months" operation of the (orinan TaritT. This represents an average of $600,000,000 a month more business transacted during the McKinley Tariff period than at present. We believe that today the wool growers are more in need of Proteetion than they ever were. In Australia the prospecta are that the supply of wool will, before long, be very largely increased, owing to the abundant supply of water that is now being secured there by artesian wells. The American wool growers have had a hard time of it ar.d they are equally entitlcd to Protcction with the woolen manufacturera. Now that the city owns a ñrst-elass road roller and stone crusher, their is no reason why we should not begin at once to have bettcr streets. The oouncil cannot, of course, go beyond its means in making new streets, but it should. at once, stop all dirt work except what is absolutely necessary for safety and put cvery dollar of the street fund into permanent macadamized roads. It will result in an Incalculable sarlng in the long run. The question of the homceopathic faculty Is still an unsettled one, at least o far as some of the chaira are concerned. There seems to be considerable opposition on the part of somc our citizens to the regents offering to make an excoption in the case of Dr. O. R Long and allow him to be dean of the dopartment and at the same time reside in Detroit, i f hc would accept the position. It is claimed that this is a concession to the friends of retncftal. We do not sec how it necessarily implies anything of the sort. DURINU the four years from 18ÍK) to 1893, inclusive, the average number of miles of rail road built was 4,685 in each year. During the year 1894 only 2,247 milos were built, less than half the average of the four precedí ng yearg. Kither from lack of funds or lack of conlidence, or both, the railroad companies wero unable, or unwilling, or both, to extend their milcage when the country was Buffering from a Trade administration. This falling off of more than 50 per cent in the demand for material and labor is spread among all the industries that are dlrectly affoL-ted by railroad consumption. Now that they have an assurance of good timet and I'rotection again,there is more nusintss activity in these directions. The number of new bicyole eompanies that are being organized and the million of dollars being put into new factories for supplyinj? wheela for next year would surprise most people could they realizo how i-apidly this business is developing. It does not cost, at the outside, more than STO.00, if it does that much, to manufacture the very best wheel on the market. The éharp competition that in certain to follow the Lncreased output next year is sure to Ijring' the prioe very near the cost of construction. At least the time has praetically passed when wheela can bc sold for thrce or four time? the cost of manufacture. ANDREW JaCKSON, good enough in in his way in his day, would turn in his gravo if he knew of the cae of the Alleghcny letter carriers. It was Andrew Jackson, as is tvell-known, who first applied the doctrine, "To the vietors belong the spoils." to American politics. Whatwould be his horror, then, to learn that at Allogheny three lette r carriers rere removed for not properly doing thoir work, and that these three letter carriers were democrats, and the only demócrata among the furty postmen at the Allegheny office. The men were removed by orders from Washing" ton. Seriously, thoiigh, this caso is the best possible evidence of the growth of the civil service reform idea in American politics. A few years ago who would have dreamed it posible that aftor a President had been in office for more than half his term but 7+ per cent of the letter carriers in any office would be members of the administration party, and that these would all be removed for not doing their work