| Show editorials THE CEREAL CROPS CROIS OF OP THE TEL 41 UNITED STATES WE wn received today to day a copy of an extra census bulletin snowing showing the cereal productions of the united states by counties as returned in the census of 1880 F from brom rom nom it we glean the following items illinois stands at the head of the list as a grain producing state with he tho exception of barley and rye I 1 ll 11 L ba lai 1 acres in wheatland wheat and produced bushels in oats 1921 b acres aeres yielding bushels in corn ml acres yielding bushels in barley tarley acres yielding bushels in rye acres yielding bushels california stands at the head in barley with aeres acres 0 and bus bug bushels hels and pennsylvania in rye with acres and S bushels the great greab wheat states are illinois which raised in round num bers bera bushels indiana ohio michigan michin n iowa sil oal california fornia missouri 3 ODO and wisconsin ins oko Obo besides illinois the other great corn states were iowa which produced bushels Mis missouri souris irl ril indiana dlana diana ohio and kansas the chief producers of oats outside of illinois were iowa bushels new york pennsylvania wisconsin ohio 1 minnesota and missouri misso uril utah figures with wheat acres and bushel bushels oats acres and 3 bushels barley acres and bushels corn 10 acres and bushels bus bua hels heis rye acres and bushels the greatest wheat producing counties in utah were cache Ban San pete pote utah and weber cache had acres yielding bushels sanpete San pete acres yielding bushels utah 7 acres yielding bushels gail aul nul weber acres yielding bushels leads in oats with aenes acres and bushels followed by sevier with 2806 2805 acres and bushels bushela and utah with 2215 acres and bushels utah county stands at the head with barley 1774 acres and b bushels u sh followed by davis with V ith 2691 acres and bushels and weber with 1580 acres and bushels utah county also raised the most corn having 2933 acres and bushels salt lake comes next with 2844 2941 acres and bushels and weber with 1213 acres and bushels the thid entire yield in the united states in round figures was bushels of wheat of corn of oats of rye of barley and of buckwheat A QUEER conclusion THE new york express relates the particulars of a school election in flushing in which them there were two candidates a lady and gentleman women voted at the election and the man wag was successful the E ex x preb pread 3 uses this as an argument against woman suffrage and says here hero is where the inconsistency of womanhood appears to show how little real good the tile suffrage Buff rage would give to women for their own advancement van cement here was a clearly put issue both the lady ind aud and gentleman who were nominated for school trustees were persons persona of unimpeachable character and sal popularity all things being equal tile the women elected the man the fack fact b beara aars its own com eom comment ment to us this appears a strong argument in favor of woman suffrage it shows that the fear er expressed essed by its opponents that women if given tile the ballot ballat would elect persons of their own sex bex to office regardless of nica fica tiong is groundless in this case the women cast a majority of votes for the man they did not consider sex bex in the question they voted for the candidate they considered the most suitable we ve fail fall in this consist ent ont if the women had elected a woman some objector would hae have harped upon the fact as a proof that women ought not to be on entrusted trusted with tho the elective I 1 fran tran c hise because they would certainly use it for the purpose of putting women in office without respect TO fitness this case seems to us rather anin an indication di cation catlon of consistency th than an otherwise the fact does bear its 0 n comment but that com comment mentis is not logically against woman suffrage it is clearly and pointedly in its faver favor if it it has any real bearing upon the subject in a subsequent issue of the same paper we fial fini i this item of news the women have llave gained a second victory at fayetteville onondaga Clou county nty and have thus secured secured control of the school board now why cannot the express Er preas be fair and use the same I 1 logic in this caso case as in the other D does not the fayetteville fact also bear its own comment and in either case what real argument can bo be adduced against woman suffrage the opponents of the movement are reduced to strange and the ez express press has certainly reached a very queer conclusion c METHODISM ARD CHRISTIA unity AT the methodist ecumenical conference in london the subject of christian unity vas was reserved till the last day of the convention eleven days of discussion and debate had served to exhibit the existence of division within the body to a great extent and to sharply define many points of difference among the leading me men and the tho various factions of the methodist frate fraternity mity alty dr G george eorge read the essay on union and und a corre spon dent of a western journal who was 3 present states that in inconsequence conse of th the 0 experience of that eminent preacher in the conference the essay was considerably changed from the document prepared in his study at chicago dr george maintained that the multiplication of was the weak point in protestantism and espe bially in methodism A union of forces was necessary he held not only in foreign but in home fields of labor and in support of this proposition he instanced an ali american city of not more than inhabitants in which he said there were I 1 five different methodist church churches eg with another under contemn lation these churches belonged respectively to the M E church the M E church south the methodist protestants te the american wesleyans wesleyann Wesle the freo free methodists and the united united brethren A debate followed the essay which was participated in by dr crocker of the english methodist new now connection tion dr 0 H taffany of philadelphia d and rev wm arthur of london don each of whom expressed the view that organic union would lessen the power of methodism by rendering her less free to adapt herself to those national and individual peculiarities which prevail in the world from this it appears that these representative ministers were not even agreed that union anion union among 9 themselves would be beneficial and yet union is an essential feature of the christian church one of the signal effects of the operation of the holy spirit upon 4 different ra minds ads is to bring them to the unity of tho the faith till they are ure joined together rin in fin the same mind and the same judgment it is bad enough mohave ve in the world a number of jangling contending contend ng sects each professing to be the church of christ but here is one of them numbering hosts of adherents with large wealth much learning and great experience in the work of proselytism disjointed in its own body boily and not only disunited upon important tenets and measures but dis inclined to take steps forlin for an essential union within itself the lack of any authoritative standard of appeal was painfully manifest festin in the ecumenical conference and it must be evident to all who reflect upon the subject that while methodism may have done good in the world in turning sinners from gross evils to a better way of life that it has great aggressive force and is an organization with many points mints of merit yet it is destitute desi tute of divine authority and the chief characteristics tics bics of the tile church estable established shed by jesus of nazareth and is simply an institution of man originally it had bad a good object and worked towards it by admirable methods its simplicity faith devotion and sincerity were deserving of all praise raise and yet it was not set up by Y divine command neither were its ordinances administered by valid rand appointment but it has drifted t far away from its primitive good qualities and has become worldly mercenary nien nier cenary fashionable boastful and sometimes cruel and vicious towards di frening differing societies but whether now or at its inception giving it credit for all that is good in it as a system it ia Is man made it is a sect and it is a sect divided against iseff i self seif it is not recognized of god because never authorized by him and all ali its performances and ad ministrations administrations are therefore void in heaven and without effect in the word to come all the great gather gatherings of the lea ien tending leading ding religious bodies in modern I 1 christendom exhibit the same spirit of division disunion and contention shown forth in the methodist ecumenical conference at london and they never can arrive at that christian unity which many able men among them perceive to bo e an essential until they threw throw away their theli human devices receive the gospel in its falness ful ness and jire tire baptized by one spirit into one body the body of christ tho the church of his own establishment in which is his authority and wherein what is bound on earth Is bound in heaven and what is loosed on earth is loosed in heaven in it ia Is the power to decide all disputes dle die in it alone is the end of religious controversy THE TEE CONGRESS ON ox the 19 th hist the congress convened in bt st james hall ruffalo buffalo under tho the presidency of mrs julia julla ward howe the subjects set down in the pro gramme fo for r consideration aro are as follows scientific openings for woman women P Mis miss mary sMary watson whitney new york fl outdoor occupations sericulture mrs caroline M severance factory girls mrs elizabeth elizaboth B chace rhode island position n and culture of indian women miss susette Susett eija elja la Fie soho sebe nebraska influence of foreign study on qu american girls mrs ucinda lucinda li H stone michigan political education of women miss mary F eastman massachusetts guardianship of children status of the tho mother dmm Ift ther mrs belva A lockwood Ii district of columbia work of women in the reforms of the past century mrs luois lois G hufford Huf huff ord Tord indiana It Temperance nem perance 1 1 rev antoinette brown brown blackwell new jersey rescue work dr elizabeth Black blaek blackwell wellE england the ideal home homb mrs ednah D che cho ney massachusetts the pursuit of art mrs sarah W whitman massachusetts mrs zina D young and dr ellen B ferguson of utah expected to attend the congress the rho rhe new york derald herald in anotle noticing the meeting sagely suggests that it Is to be regretted that woman as a wife is not considered worthy of a place on the general list ef of subjects we endorse the remark the society was originally organized as the american association for the advancement of women no subject ia is of more importance to woman than that of wifehood and motherhood the leading minds in the movement are married ladies and they ought to understand that there Is no true advancement van cement for woman separate and apart from man mian some of the so called 91 strong minded 11 among them may dispute this but there should be enough of the really sensible class to recognize and present this important truth in such a way as to be of great benefit to their sex at large THIS is a great country it is said that it has not been all fenced in yet we are fifty millions of people which la I 1 a great number we excel other nations in many respects but the future historian will no doubt record that our superior excellence and was a determined and unconquerable disposition to spread ourselves on monuments iv whenever a great deed is performed it must be graven in monumental marble there is one feature about our monumental work works however which is peculiar to amer america ca we are very enthusiastic when we want we want it badly we vve are not content to wait the ordinary course of construction but our enthusiasm thusia thuska sm bubbles up and boils bolls over our orators and editors wax eloquent on the subject and our representatives plan and publish and procla mate till the great republic is worked up to fever heat and then thela all the resources of the nineteenth century are brought to bear upon n it and for a time that bonu men ment t fairly hums but there Is one great drawback to all this and that is that we commence with such enthusiasm and impulsive impetuosity that some hgr her hoze hoye ke cannot keep our stroke and consequently the last stage of the monument is much worse than the first and it lingers the county has now upon n its hands bands several monument monuments sy and among them is one to george washington first in war first in peace and first to have his monument started becent recent t news from the capital announces th t work is about to bb b resumed on this monument it is expected to add twenty more feet this season W when h en the height will be fee torjus t one half i of the total height to which I 1 it t is apropo proposed sed bed to carry the stone work gork rk now if the work is to move un at this rate in the future i T ej e at 20 feet a year wo we may expect it to ba finished sometime in 1893 provided that the world should not come to an end in the meantime on the whole it would seem better for a man who wants a monument ment nowadays to do like vanderbilt build one for himself while he lives and then he is sure of it ANCIENT AMERICA A VERY important association was formed in france in 1873 and has recently held a congress in madrid it is called tho the society of american isias and was wag organized for the purpose of gathering information concerning america amelica before its discovery 4 by christopher columbus the society has hoid held three congresses one at nancy in 1873 the next at luxembourg in 1877 and the third at brussels in 1879 the madrid congress in Septem september berof of ilis this year was opened by king alfonso alfonao in person and the madrid government voted it a credit for its expenses A large number of documents havo have been colef collected atell by the society which will throw light upon the condition of ancient america the rL searches researches of the society are divided into sections embracing history 1 ethnography linguistic and archaeology F pain spain possesses an immense collection of documents relating to these subjects in the national archives at blin Slin simancas ancas and seville king philip II 11 during his reign orde ordered red the collection of scientific and historic data in peru and a compilation was made which with maps and plans and copies of aztec drawings and models that have been preserved will no doubt provo of great assistance to the ois cis and of much value to science anything that relates to the early history of this continent Is ls of interest to the latter day saints hitherto every I 1 important m discovery on this subject has proved to be corm corroborative bom of the book of mormon and we wo doubt not that the work of this society will add further testimony to the divinity of the record records found and translated by joseph the prophet through the gift and power of god I 1 STREET tian THE tower system of electric lighting in does not seem to succeed any where either the lights are unsatisfactory is or the towers get out of the son sor or something else occurs to render them unsatisfactory of the system in denver the says W the electric lights from the four towers which are supposed to furnish sufficient light for the city send forth their sickly glares every alternate night or whenever the company seem disposed in their present condition they are an into intolerable nu siance forty similar concerns wilt not light the city unless they are improved the city council will of course not sign their stipulated contract with the electric company which provides provide that the city pay them theta per year in case ease the he light |
