7 7s yeiw$wit THE PITTSBTIRG DISPATCH, THtmSDlT, MAY 14, 1891 V "S IJeBigpftt ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8. 1846. Vol. 40, Xo. SG. Entered at Pittsburg Postofficc, Xovcniber 14, lsST, as second-class matter. Business Office Comer Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. EASTERX ADVERTISING OrFICE, ROOM a. TRIBUNE BUILniXG. XEW YOKE, where com plete files of THE DISPATCH can alwaj s be found. Foreign adierticrs appreciate the convenience. Home advertisers and friends or THE DISPATCH, while In New York, are also made welcome. ITTEDISrA TCH is regutarlg on Sale at Bnntano's, F VniM hjuare, Seio Y'rk, and 17 Are tie VOpera, Pari, Ijrcncc, ic'icrr anyone who las beta disap 3Mi:itedcta hotel n'ictt stand can obtain 1 1. TERMS Or THE DISPATCH. POSTAGE TRFE IX THE UMTED STATES. Daily DisrATCU, One Year t 8 M Duly Dispatch, PcrQnarter 2 W DULYDlsrvrcn, One Month "0 D ULY DisrATi 11, Including Sunday. 1 jear.. 10 00 D OI.Y DicrATCH. Including Sundaj. S m'thj. 2 D ILY Dii-fatcii. including Sunday 1 m'lli.. 80 SfxPAY Disvatth. One Year ,. 1 50 Weexiy DitrATCH, One Year 1 25 Tiic Daily DiSPATcn isdelUcrcd by carriers at 15 cents per vo-k or, including Sunday Edition, at 20 cents ijt w eel. PITTSBURG, THURSDAY, MAY It, 189L THE HIGH SCHOOL EXPLOSIOX. The sudden tempest which has broken into the calm that has prevailed over the Central Board of Educatiou draws atten tion to two matters. One is of little moment. The other is so important to the conduct of the highest department of the public schools as to call for decided action, though the -tep taken by the board in disciplining its faculty was of rather too sweeping character. The first point brought out by the affair is the persistent survival among the youth of the High School tliat wit and personali ties are closely allied. 'I he existence ot the idea may perhaps be excused among the young people by the opportunities they have for observing outbreaks of the same delusion in much older people. The effect of education ought to be to correct the error that it is funny to speak of "fellow itudeiiK members of the faculty and fish mongers," or to hold out the promise of "a chromo of the facultj " as a consideration. But the methods taken to restrain these antique attempts at humor show an utter failure on the part of instructors to learn how to guide the joung idea into more genuine and original realms of humorous fancy. It is certainly not in the line of liberal education for an instructor to break out into a rage with the pupil, and to do use a cumulative system of humiliation for her to revenge that lapse into thread bare humor. It is clear, utiles the facts have been wantonly misstated, that the members of the High School facultj involved in this case can be of little value in the real work of in struction. Whether this makes it neces sary to discharge the whole faculty is a more doubtful question. THE ALLEGHENY SCANDAL. Politics are attaining an- exceedingly lively stage in Allegheny. It seems to be Vine of the unpleasant features of the poli tics of the Xorthside that the development of a real acta e fight must comprise some exceedingly unpleasant features. In this case the charge is that an at tempt was made by friends of a candidate to buy from one of his opponents an over due note made bj the candidate, at 50 per cent on its face value, the consideration to purchase in addition the support of the holder of the note. There seems to he on both side an unflattering agreement that fifty cents on the dollar is full value for the commercial paper of the candidate: but in other respects a very different story is ton! on the oiher side. It is there alleged that the oncr was made simply to retire the ui.p.iid note of the candidate without any attempt to influence the political action of the candidate on either side, lmt to prevent the use of the note to in jure the candidacy. With this dispute- as to ital details, the matter will remain undecided, except for the conclusion that it does not sound par ticulaily nice on cither side. It is also per tinent to remark that in future candidates f or 2-esponsiblc public positions will do well to effect a compromise 011 their overdue debt before the canvass commences. WHICH STATEMENT WAS UXTItUE? The latest report from Madrid, in the shape cf cable telegram to the Xew York Herald, states that the reciprocity treaty ivhk-h John W. Foster was sent there to negotiate failed of approval In its place a convention was adopted to last until "ulyof next jear, when Spain will be at liberty to make terms with the United States, from which she is now restrained by the "most favored nation" clause withot'icrs. The com, ention, according to this state ment, admits to the United States free of duty sugar, honey, cocoa, coffee and skins from the Spanish W"st Indies, while coal, ice, wood, boots and shoes, fresh and salt meats and Lutter from the United States are to be admitted free to the islands. The duty on flour is reduced from 3 50 to 51 50 per barrel and com in the same pro portioiL Drj goods and machinery get no advantage from the convention until Spain is able to free herself from treaties with Great Britain, France, Germany and Belgium, which --ive them as favorable duties on those staples as any other coun-try- This looks like rather one-sided recipro city as far as it goes. But it must be re membered that even-thing which we give in this matter is already on our free list, while we gain in some important respects, such as the admission of flour and meats. But it is somewhat pertinent to ask w hether the former report that the reciprocity treaty was rgrecd upon was bogus, or whether this statement of its failure is un true. There seems to have been some en tirely unnecessary falsification on one side or the other. SUCCESS TOR THE FESTIVAL. The opening of the May Festival has already demonstrated the hold first-class musical renditions have upon the people of Pittsburg. A very large attendance at both concerts shows that the public has lost none of the interest, in sustaining sucli events, that has marked nearly all festivals held in this city for the past ten years. There is as usual some talk heard among what Mr. Arnold termed the Plulistine ele ment that the programmes arc too heavy. It is undoubtedly the case that many of the renditions contain a musical quality somewhat abstruse; but a comparison of these programmes with those of tho earlier musical festivals will show that the public accepts and enjojs a grade Ot classical music of far tevcrer rank than they did a decade ago. It might have ben possible for the organizers of this festival to have been a little more conciliatory to the popu lar tasto for musical sweetness without lowering the artistic character of the con certs as a whole. But when we see the re sults on tho popular taste of an education in classical programmes we can hardly blame the enthusiasts in that line for in sisting on a somewhat rigorous pursuit of the same policy. The temporary auditorium furnished by Mechanical Hall is all that could be ex pected under the circumstances. But there are constant reminders that it is only a make-shift, and its use will tend to emphasize the general eagerness for the time when Pittsburg shall enjoy a well- appointed, permanent and adequate music hall. ' A LEGISLATIVE 31JSCAKRIAGE. The Commonwealths of New Tork and Pennsylvania have a companionship in misery as regards their legislation, with some unimportant variations of detail. Xew York got a ballot reform law that was not the genuine article, and did not succeed in getting a road law at alL Pennsylvania has its ballot reform measure turned into something exactly the opposite of reform, and succeeded in getting a road law passed which had so little of the promise of road making that the Governor's veto of it yes terday was received with tolerable satis faction by supporterc of the original bill. The grounds of the veto, given else where, are such as are permitted by the weakness of the bill; but if the measure had not been juggled they Would have been inadmissible It may be correct to consider a bill which would turn over State funds, to be spent according to the old method, as an appropriation for a be nevolent or local purpose. But if the bill had provided full guarantees for building adequate and permanent State highways not even Robert E. Pattison could have afforded to go on record as calling that a local purpose. The criticism that the bill attempts to repeal some hundred laws without naming them, as repuired by the Constitution, is a sufficient commentary on the slovenly manner in which our leg islative work is done. On the other hand it is necessary to remark that the reference to the fact that the bill passed the House by a bare majority is something outside the province of the Governor. Commenting upon the defeat of the road bill at Albany the New York Journvl of Commerce argues that the proposed appro priation would be "the best possible in vestment the people of this Commonwealth could make;" and it adds that "a county that should lay out a large sum of money under impartial and judicious supervision in the construction and maintenance of improved highways would furnish the best boom possible to speculation in real estate. " This is exactly the position which The Dispatch has held throughout its agita tion for road improvement It started the movement, and has kept it up on that principle. But it is ital that the expendi ture of the State shall be "under impartial and judicious supervision" forsecuring per manent and durable highways. The fatal facility the Legislature has for spoiling anything it takes hold of is exemplified by the way in which it wiped out from the bill whatever guarantees there were that the State funds should secure good roads. Under these circumstances the support ers of real road reform can hardly blame the Governor if he does veto a bill which so miserably fails 'to meet the purposes which inspired it The actual realization of the reform must await the time when the people of Pennsylvania get sufficiently in earnest to elect legislators with capacity to pass needed legislation without turning it into a mockery. CHAISITABLE LOG-ROLLTXG STOPPED. The Governor's veto ax is evidently ground to such an effective edge that the authors of ill-considered or shady legislation may well tremble for the fate of their off spring at the Governor's hands. Besides beheading the "maltreated road law, Gov ernor Pattison served notice in the shape of a veto message yesterday thathe will in flict the same crusher on all appropriations for charitable institutions in excess of the amounts recommended by the State Boaid of Charities. This reduces to futility the efforts of members to log-roll for their pet institutions and" enlarge their appropria tions by skillful trading. Hereafter all efforts in that line will have to be confined to the Board of Charities. Fortunately, as the Governor says, the fault of that body is not in the line of making appro priations too small, but it is rather in the other direction. Under the new rule the Governor has established it is probable that the funds will be more equitably dis tributed than under the rule of legislative favoritism. THE CHARITIES COXTERENCE. The Eighteenth Conference of Chari ties and Corrections, now in session at In dianapolis, has a largo amount of work mapped out for it The proper care of de pendent paupers and juvenile criminals is one of th1 foremost subjects before the sociologist to-day, and presents to him a question of great magnitud'. Interestc-l discussion of this subject, such as is now going on in Indianapolis, will do much toward awakening public interest in the matter, drawing, as it must, attention to the number of persons whose welfare is under consideration. Statistics have in the past been given in this connection, but statistics without explanation are, in many casts, figures wasted. This meeting will, however, give both facts and reasons, and w ill thereby make its objects known. The flattering reference to Pennsylvania made by the President in his speech will be pleasing to all citizens of the Keystone State, anil particularly to those of this section, in which ono of the finest insti tutions m the country for the care of the insane is situated. That our State should be particularly mentioned in this con nection is a matter of pride. . AX ITALIAN'S QUEER CLAIM. Siguor Corte, the Italian Consul at New Orleans, who is going home, but who has not yet gone, makes good use of his oppor: trinity to draw some attention to himself." But he can -be forgiven for this, as he is not the first njan who has done the same thing since the lynching startled the world. Nor would his remarks be -worthy of no tice were it not for his reference to Mayor Shakespeare and the leaders of the mob. nis statement that he saved the lives of these gentlemen, however has a most ""peculiar sound, and the aver age reader will say that the Signor is a stranger to the truth, or that any law yet remaining in Louisiana should be applied to his disaffected countrymen who happen to be subject to it. The lynching should not. have occurred, hut killing the Mayor and the mob leaders would not make a bad thing better. Two wrongs do not make a right, and Sicilian vendettas are not popular in this country. It is hoped, for the good name of his countrymen, that the Consul's insinuations are but promoted either by a desire for notoriety or by indiscreet potations of grape nectar from his native land. The Buffalo Courier, Brooklyn Maple and Mobile Register are favorable specimens of tho Democratic organs with Independ ence enough to dlsapprovo the unfair and partisan act of the Democratic Legislature in Michigan for the election of Presldcntal electors by Congressional districts. There is no doubt thatthls legislation was passed to gain a partisan advantage, Just as was tho case with tho force bill..; Such legislation is always unfair; and the organ which ex poses the unfairness of its own party is a public benefactor. The oxample ought to inspire some of the Bcpublican organs that are praising these outspoken Democratic papers to show a similar frankness with re gard to the Republican policy of creating pocket borough States simply to manufact ure Republican electoral votes. Sir George 1L Pullman has had the courts go back on him, both by a decision against his vestibule patent claim and by that of tho Supremo Court Supporting the Pennsylvania tax on his business. Conse- quently Pullman has no more use forjudges; but he captures the administration by paying the expenses of the Presldental trip and cotmts himself even. The gain of seats in the Cortes by the Spanish Republicans from over forty 'leading towns, including Madrid, shows a steady progress in tho work of that element in Spain. Tho Republicans of to-day are very ditferout from the Republicans who held tho control of tho Government after the downfall of Isabella, just as the Government of tho Queen Regent is a v ery different one from that of the dissolute grandmother of the present King. Instead of resorting to revolution tho supporters of popular govern ment have been content to accept tho repre sentative institutions of a constitutional monarchy and to trust to education to do tho rest. Recent success shows their wis dom and promises well for a steady and peaceful revolution In Spain. The amendment to the bill providing for the appointment of a State bank inspec tor by the Governor, which changes tho ap pointment to the Auditor General is another illustration of the inability of this Legisla ture to riso above the level of peanut poli tics. TnE "sympathetic strike" has been a phenomenon of trades unionism which is sharply disapproved of by the press at large. Rut when the eighty firms composing the Xew York Lumber Dealers' Association lock out all their men at once in order to force the end of a strike affecting only one of their number, in what material respect does it differ from the sympathetic strike? Some of the combinations of employers seem to be very successful in demonstrating that they arc ready to take steps as bad in principle and mischievous in practice as the most wanton strikes and boycotts. The record of this Legislature bids f air to bo that every measure good or bad w hich is urged upon it will get so cut up in tho hands of the law makers or their wire pullers that its author cannot recognize it. Word comes from Vienna that Prince Karl Lcchinstcin has been ariested for swindling his sen-ants, but that he pleads for release with the promise that if let off he will "emigrate to America." There might be objections on ourpartto this Infraction of our immigration laws, if it were not for the extreme eligibility of tho titled swindler to confer tho title- of princess on some am bitious American heiress. That would be tho most successful swindle of his career; but it Is to be feared that he would find many willing victims. There seems to be a very decisive meas ure of the prominence of two statesmen when the leading items of a single day's new s -n ere that Mr. Blainehadan Indigestion and Mr. Gladstone had a chill. WmxE we have not succeeded in getting a road law that w ill do any good, it is a com fort to know that rural communities With the necessary enterprise to ci cate good roads for themselves are able to do it. Some por tions of Delaware county, this State, are already moving in that direction, while Pas saic county, X. J., hamlet contracts for build ing 100 miles of macadamized highways. The rural section that creates good roads for it self will gain an impetus in prosperity that will very shortly repay the cost. TnE popular movement against Italians may yet resolve itself into a demand that the eminent Italian nobleman Chevalier Georgio Pullmano shall obey tho laws or go. Noting the remarkable increase in the debt of the Argentine Republic, the Phila delphia Inquirer says: "Farm mortgages and inflated currency did it." We think the cstccmed cotemporary has got the cart be fore the horse. Extravagant expenditures not quite up to tho limit of $1,000,000,000 for a single Congress, but extravagant enough was the cause, and the inflation and debt were the results of the extravagance. The news that the Cobden Club is about to dioU o will rob our political campaigns of a time-honored and hard-worked bugaboo. Mr. Arkell's declaration that he is the wicked partner in those anti-Maine edi torials leads a cotemporary to remark that Mr. Arkell appreciates the value of a good advertisement. Some peoplo do consider it a good advertisement to exhibit oneself in the character of a donkey with a bray of national extent, rast experience renders it no injustice to suppose that Mr. Arkell's . idea of advci tising is of that sort. TnEREis a possibility that a fire-boat, such as is wanted by Chi Jf Brown, would not have been superfluous last night. PEOPLE PABAGBAPHED. MacMahon and Bismarck are the only prominent actors in the Franco-Prussian w ar remaining alive. Texxysox, poet and masculine milk maid, declares that one third milk and two thirds water is the proper mixture. Miss Flobence Speed, who was married in Louisville to Mr. Josiah McRoberts re cently, is a greatniece of the poet Kcdts. ChaunckyM. Depkw is the latest vic tim of the Xew YoikSun. That Journal calls tho genial talker a Ynnkcebritaimogerman ohlbernamerican. Marshall llALSTEAD,of tho Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, it is said, will soon wed Miss Glenn, tho charming daughter of Presi dent Glenn, of the Commercial Gazette Com pany. Guy nn Maupassant, the French au thor, is a man of 40, a cynic and a hypochon driac. In manner he is eccentric and brusque even toward women. In his literary work ho is a prodigy of industry. Mrs. Kate Trait, of Milwaukee; is a lawyer and court commissioner; her husband is a lawyer, and ono of her danghtors has been already admitted to the bar and two more arostudying with the same end in view. Miss Enrni Boyd, who is about to marry Gnstavo Coqueliu, a brother of the two Coquelins, is not an American lady, as has been stafed, but the daughter of Captain Arthur Boyd, who was lately retired from the British Life Guards. B.KV. O. H. W00LSTON, of Philadelphia, says he had for years preached about life and peoplo from tho standpoint of mere the ory, bnt a newspaper reporter gavo him a hint four years ngo, and ho dropped theor izing and became practical. George M. Pullman has given to the 'St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, what is prob ably thomost complete hospital ward In tho w oild. Ho gavo orders that it should be the best and the most beautiful place in the world for-stckand crippled children. The ward consists of two rooms, and has accom modation for 22 little ones, - General "Vlangally, the newly-appointed Rnsslan Ambassador at tho Quirlnal, is a most experienced diplomatist Tho General is not a military officer, but is ac corded tho rank of General in compliances with tho regulations of Peter the Great, by which officers of the civil service, In Russia hold corresponding military rank 'to that of then-military conferes in the Tciium,tor gen eral service under tUo State, THE ROAD BILL DEAD. A Veto Message Setting Forth Pattlson's Ob jections to the Measure He Also Hits a Reading Hospital Appropriation Grady's Resolutions on Taxation. HAimisBciio, May 13. Governor Pattison lias recorded two more vetoes. One of them is on tho read bill, which was not entirely unexpected. In disapproving of this bill the Governor sdys: "I herewith return without approval Sen ate bill Xo. il. This act increases the num ber, alters the term and provides a new method for the election of township road supervisors, authorizes them to .sub-district townships and to appoint read masters at their discretion; to purchase machinory and implements for road-making; to join with tho supervisors of other townships in main taining highways; creates the office of town ship treasurer and township collector, pro vides for their compensation in part py pen alties imposed on delinquent taxpayers; es tablishes fixed salaries lor supervisors; pro vides for a report of the township authori ties, nnd accountability to the County Com missioner and Secretary of Internal Affairs; establishes a special class of roads called -nignways;7 aiwrs the proceeaings in a case of road Views and contemplates tho appro priation of Stato moneys to townships of the commonwealth, without, however, making any appropriation for that purpose. Reasons for the Veto. "The objections to this measure seem to me to bo manifold. Its purposes are so numerous and diverse ns to expose it to the constltutipnnl objection of containing more than ono subject Whatever popular de mand exists for the enactment of legislation on tho subject of roads and road making will certainly not bo satisfied with the provisions of this bill. If they are to become effective at all they could be made so only by liberal appropriation of State moneys, for which, as I nave said, neither this .bill nor any other legislation as yet enacted has made pro vision. "Even if Hnnh rrrnnfc worn mnile it iq verv doubtful whether tho plan of distribution proposed bv this bill would bo eniiltable. satisfactory or constitutional. Tho basis of distribution which it proposes is the amount of road taxes collected and expended by each township for road purpose3 during tho preceding year. This would put it entirely within the power of rich and populous rural districts, such, for examplo, ns adjoin large cities nnd boroughs, to receive a largo share or the Stato's bounty, which would be ap plied w here, perhaps, it was least needed for tuo purpose of general road improvement, whilo remote, sparsely settled and compara tively poor districts, where road improve ments weromost desired, would receive littlo or comparatively nothing. Xo Benevolent Appropriations. "Moreover, tho policy and propriety of the grant of Stato moneys, raised by general taxation, to particular districts or communi ties, is extremely doubtful, if not absolutely forbidden by the spirit of the constitutional provisions declaring that there shall bo no appropriations for benevolent purposes to any community and that the Commonweath shall not assume the debt of any city, county, borough or towmshlp. The present enact ment proposes to distribute to some of the districts of the State, forutmrolv local nur- Eose that of road making moneys which ave been raised by taxation upon aU tho citizens of the Stato. "The roads of the townships only are to be constructed nnd repaired by tho aid of State moneys, while those Of municipalities are to be provided for by local taxation. This is a discrimination wholly unwarranted by fie Constitution. "Fuithermore, I cannot ignoio the fact that this bill parsed the House of Represent atives by a oaro constitutional majority. That majority, it is notorious, was only se cured with treat difficulty, and I violate no confidence in saying that since its passage in the ono branch of the General Assembly, a number of mombers, whose votes were re quired to make that majority, have commu nicated to me their opposition to and pro- n.-5i;i uuuuisb iuu uiii in us presenc iorm. "Of the 103 members who comprised this majority, baiely one-fifth represent districts nffectotl by tho bill. It was Imposed upon tho communities affected by It against the votes and protests of n large proportion of their representatives. The Crowning Objection. "Finally, if there were no other objection to this bill, a. sufficient ono would be afforded by the fact that there are at present special nnd local road laws to the number of several hundred; governing as many townships of flie Stato. If the pres ent bill is to hnve any efficiency, it must re sult from its operations as a general road law, binding at least on tho townships of the State. "The section which proposes to repeal all special and local law s inconsistent w ith it is not sufficient for that purpose, according to uwimuiis ui uur oujireiuu uuurt. 11 luey re main, as they certainly will under the bill in its present form, it will utterly .fall as a measure to Secure uniformity of road laws. Other reasons forcibly suggest thcmsel es for n dlsappioval of this measure, but I deem those w hich I have sot forth as ample to justify a veto of the bill." Money for Private Charity. The second veto of tho Governor is of a $2,000npproprlation forthe Reading Hospital. He says in a message to tho Senate: "This is the first bill which has reached mo during the present session of tho General Assembly making an appropriation of money to institutions that are not under absolute control of tho Commonwealth. The beneficiary of this net is one of that lame class of private chaiitlea which depend, In more or less degree, upon tho bounty of the Commonwealth, but are not subject to its contiol. "At the present time I can form no idea howmauy appropriation bills of this class w 111 bo presented for mv approval; what total amount of appropriations they willln volve, or what relation this amount will bear to the revenues to the Commonwealth after the payment of its usual ordinary ex penses and the necessary appropriations to institutions absolutely under its control. I deem it proper, thcrolore, to improve this opportunity to present reasons for my action upon iius mii, wnicn may inuicato tome Legislatm e my attitude toward others of its class, The State Too Lavish, "I have heretofore indicated my sense of the Commonwealth's primary obligation to her own charitablo institutions, established by her laws and controlled by her own official. I am not willing to take any risk of the State Treasury being embarrassed by approving appropriations made to private charities beyond tho power of the Stato to take proper care of its own institutions. "The net of April 24, 18C9, provides that charitablo institutions desiring to receive State aid shall bo tho subject of inquiry by the Board of Charities, through its general agent, into the ground of such request and the result of such inquiries is to be embraced in the annual report of this board. There is no just gronnd for apprehension that the Board of Publlo Charities has stinted these institutions in passing upon their demands. Indeed; thero is a widespread public feeling that the State has been and is apt to be too lavish in its grants to institutions not snb ject to its control. Only exceptional cir cumstances, in my judgment, will warrant any appropriation of money in excess of the amounts recommended by the.board." The Equalization of Taxey. The following preamble nnd "resolutions were presented lo-day in the Senate by Mr. Grady: "Whereas, There is a widespread demand for tho enactment of such mensnres as will bring about the equalization of the taxation and the relief of local taxation onrealestate; and "Whereas, Ilonso bill Xo. 210, known ns the, bill reported by the majority of the Rev enue Commission, lifts met with vigorous protest and opposition on tho part of people and prcs; therefore, be it i;ooivcu, innt tno louowing action on tho part of tho Legislature be 1 ocominended. in Older to nrovide for the relief of local tax- ationby an increased tax on corporations ' and by the relinquishment of part of the State levenuo for locnl purposes namely: First, tho nassairo of House bill Xo. 210 bv substituting House bill Xo. 403 amended with such a rate of taxation upon thonctual value of capital stock of corporations ns will yield not less than $4,000,000 of capital stock: Sec ond, amendment of the Stato revenue act ot 1889 so that tho tax on personal property, bonds, mortgages, monoys at in terest, etc., shall bo raised to 4 mills, and that tliroc-fonrths of- the umountthus real ized be retnmed to the counties for relief of local taxation, which will. In cffect.be the lovying of a 3-mill personal piopcrty tax for local purposes. Consequontnipoti this will be tho raising of therate of taxation on banks from 3 mills to 4, nnd the optional rate upon the par value of shares from 6 mills to 8. Third, tho appropriation of not less than $4,000,000 unnually.for tho support of the pub lic sehooR Fourth, tho pasiago of House blU Xo. 133, providing for tho distribution among counties, cities, boroughs and town ships of all the moneys secured from retail liquor licenses: and bo It further "Resolved, That tho Secretary of Internal Affairs bo and ho is hereby requested to obr tain nnd furnish in printed form, before tho next session of the Legislature, for; tho in- lonnation 01 tne puuuc nnu tno use or the Legislature, occuratotatistics as to tho act-. ual Value'of tho real and personal property in the several counties within the S state sul- jecf to taxation.tho rates of taxation therein, the objocts for which tho taxes are issued, the practical operations of the laws for assessing and collecting taxes, and de tailed Information as to local revenues and expenditures. MANAGERS OF CHABITIES MEET. President McCnlloch Pays Pennsylvania a Tribute as to Its Insane. IxDiAKAroLis, May 13. The Eighteenth National Conference of Charities and "Cor rection began its sessions in this city to-day. Governor Hovey, Mayor Sullivan and others delivered addresses of welcome, to which Governor Campbell and others of the Con ference suitably responded. James Whlt- comb Riley gavo a character study in the form of a unique poem. The leading feature of to-day's proceedings wns the address by O. C. McCulloch, of In dianapolis, on Stato and Xatlonnl registra tion of the dependent, the defective and the delinquent classes. As to tho Insane, he said: "Massachusetts receives weekly re ports from all lunatic hospitals, and has a detailed notice in cao of death by violence. In Xow York the Stato Commissioner of Lunacy registers all insane, with such .changes as may occur. Minnesota keeps no central record of tho insane. Michigan re ceives quarterly reports from asylums and yearly reports from the insano in- .county poor houses and elsewhere. Xew Jersey keeps only tho usual hospital records. Wis consin receives no special reports and keeps no registration. Pennsylvania has a very careful system of registration of its insane, in the oflico of the Commissioner of Lunacy, dating from 1883; receives also reports of dis charges, paroles and deaths. Illinois koeps lists of its insane, but not very thoroughly. THE BALLOT BILL BuTTCHEBY. ScnAXTOir,J?fpuN(can.' Tho Republican ma jority in tho Legislature cannot afford to perpetrate any foolishness on tho subject of ballot reform; if they persist in tho foolish and short-sighted policy of the Senate Com mittee on Elections the Republican party will have to pay a very serious penalty. Du Bois Courier: The Republican party has nothing to fear from honest and sincere ballot reform, bnt it will have a great deal to fear if the Republican Legislature should pass tho deformed bill prepared by tho Sen ate Committee, and undertake to call it a fulfillment of the paity pledge on tho sub ject. Altooita Tribune: Senator Mylln, of Lan caster county, who is Bald to be slated for Auditor General, Is a member of the Senate Commlttoe which has destioyed tho Baker ballot reform bill. Unless he can show that he Is an honest, earnest friend of ballot re form he had better not run for a State office this year. Tho fatoof Delamatcr would be JiUbUUl IU 1,13. Readiso TTorfcl-Itisnotat all surprising that ballot reform is in danger of being ef fectively killed so far as the present session of the Legislature is concerned. The peoplo haro been foolish enough to send a lot of politicians there whose interest lies in stav ing off the day when a free and secret ballot will put an end to the nefarious noliticul trickery that for so long has had a grip upon tho State. CHAJiBEHsmnto Valley Spirit: The fine Ital ian hand of the bosses is apparent in the amended Baker ballot reform which was re ported from the Senate Committee. Its en tire features arc so changed since Its intro duction in the House that it would puzzle tho gentleman from Delaware county to rec ognize his own progeny. Trnly tho way to honest ballot reform seems to be beset with all sorfs of obstacles. Altoona Times: Tho practical politicians did their work and did it well. Unless tho ballot reform bill can be put in abetter shape, it might Just as well bo dropped, for as it now stands tho measure is a perfect monstrosity and is infinitely worse in its features than the present system. Tho Re publican bosses are unwilling that any measure of electoral reform shall pass. -The people, however, are watching proceedings closely, nnd will have something to say in the neajjfuture, AViLKisnARRE ttecard: Tlio action of the Senate Election Committee.composed of Sen ators Cronse.Keefer, MylIn,P6rter, Steele.Mc Donald and Monnghan, in amending the ballot reform bill as they did, was a piece of rascally insolence or insolent' rascality, J nst as you choose. Let the Republicans of tho State arouse themselves and compol the passage of a genuine ballot reform law, and the mischief makers will bo defeated In their first encounter. If wo fail to do this the snecess of their plot and tho defeat of the Republican party in tho next campaign is all but certain. Xow is the time to fight it out. DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE. Rev. Dr. TV. TV. Xewell. Eev. J)r. William "V. Newell, one of the most successful Presbyterian clcrfrymen In his State, died Monday in Andover, Mass., aged 83 j ears. Ills chief pastorates', previous to ills golug to Xew York, were In Brighton, Mass., In Boston and In Syracuse, hut his most Important work was done in the Allen Street Preshyterian Church, In Xew York. Dr. Xewell had been Moderator of Synod, Vice President of the Xatlonal Temperance goclerr, and a prominent supporter of the Evangel ical Alliance and other organizations of similar character. Dr. Xewell often contributed to relig ious periodicals and alo wrote several books which met with public favor among them "Continental Sketches," "The Angel Bride." "Household or Peace," "The Rescue," "The Christian Mer chant," a sketch of the late William E. Dodge, "License or Xo License" and "Revivals How and When. " Jeremiah G. Harris. Jeremiah G. Harris, who in 1883 edited President Jackson's personal organ, the Xashtlllc Union, diei In Xashvllle last week. InlSUMr. Harris was commissioned by Daniel Webster to lslt Europe as commercial agent. When Mr. Polk became President he appointed Mr. Harris a dis bursing officer of the navy, which office he tilled until his death. He served with Commodore Perry In the Mexican war, and was with him again as pay master of the United States fleet in Japan. A. W. Train. A. "W. Train, a leading lawyer and politi cian of Southeastern Ohio, died at Zancsrllle yes terday of paralysis. He was a director of the Zjnchvlllc and Ohio Hirer Rallwav C'omDanv and attorney for the Baltimore and Ohio Railway Coin pau. Obituary Xotes. Willis D. Waud, a leading citizen and Repub lican ofMadlson, Ind., Is dead. Lloyd Bakbour, Member of Parliament for Paisley, Scotland, died yesterday. J, B. JOUXSTONE, the English dramatist and provincial actor. Is dead at the age of 83. William A. Kelly, a well-known morocco manufacturer, of Lynn, died Monday, aged 71. KEV. Dr. J. D. WlCKlIAM, class of 1815, Yale's oldest living graduate, died Tuesday, at Man chester, Vt aged M. Cyrus White died Monday at Rockvllle, Conn., of congestion of the brain. He was a well-known em elope manufacturer. 3IARIOPROTII, a celebrated French author, editor ofthe Jorfd'Ordrennd founderof the Rome Inter nationale Cosmopolite, Is dead In Paris. Albert F. Carter, one of the best known scientific agriculturists In Xorthcrn X'cw York, died at Watcrtown Friday, aged 80 years. Robert E. Krtey, a retired actor, died In Chica go, Friday, of pneumonia. He was 44 vears old, and lormerly acted In Boston mid other cities. Jonx Roach, City Controller of St. Paul since 18G4, dropped dead on a car as he was en rontc to a railway station to meet Ills wife. He was 60 years old. D. Speraxza, a physician of note throughout the West, died recently in San Francisco, of heart disease. He was horn In Italy 70 years ago, and had written miny ballads and several operas. REV. C. V. SrEAii,ofObcrlin,0.,ilIed at Constan tinople Sunday. For many 5 cars he was principal WniewoSscmin-.?? It PmsiieldVaVarC,?ri SKS5Sr "rLibmat'olerYln. Ie Prof. Alexaxore Edmuxo Becquerel, physician and author, died Tuesday In Paris. Pror. Uecquerel was born in Paris on March 24, 1830. He was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences in July, 1863. Kbexezeb Hinds, wllo died In Randolph, Me., Sunday, was tho oldest resident of that town, being 02 years of age. He was one of the leading ship builders of tnc State, and it is estimated that he constructed more than 70 vessels. Paul Mora, who died in London recently, was an Italian by birth, and of late years had conducted the music at tho South London Palace. He traveled In tlili country vears ago with Adcllna Pattl, his lather, Joseph P. Mora, having brought the Pattl family to America. JCDQE DE WITT C. QuIMBV died at his home in Farsippany, X. J., Tuesday afternoon of pneu monia, after an Illness nf three weeks. He wns (SO years of age. He was commlioued Lar Judge by ex-Goveruor Green four years ago. Previous to blsappointraenthohad never occupied a county .oilice, but had had several local offices. CosroRAL Suermax WoonuuLL, of Company E of Mt. Pleasant, died of aeuto spinal mcnhiglUs at 5;30 o'clock j cstcrday evening. Ho had been suffering from grip for some time; and Bundar evening nccame unconscious and remained so until yesterday morning. From that until the time of bis death be was in a semi-conscious couaiuoa TALK OF THE TOWN. A 'Wanner Atmosphere at the Great Festi valConcert Costumes Shrouded, but a Fine Display of MUllnery The Startling Trumpet Mrs. MeilkCsBon Mot Seidl's Hand Forest Fires and Our Clouds A Man Snubbed. Xo unkind currents of air chilled tho en thusiasm of thonudtehce at theMay1 Festival last night. On Tuesday evening the warmth of the afternoon persuaded Manager Jenks that if nny thing the auditorium was likely1 to.be too warm,"so he ordered tho windows opened, only to find ere the performance be gan that he had admitted a cold wave whicH no subsequent caro could subdue. Moreover there was a laxity about door-clos-ing and the foremen In their zeal to protect the audience from a roasting helped to give them a freezing by bringing a hose.from tho street hydrant through an open window. Xono of these errors oc curred last night and the hall was very tol erably warm. Still a host of handsome dresses will have to go unsung because they were hidden under wraps and furs. The costumes were nearly all out of sight, but pretty faces wero not, and so the parquet nnd boxes and the long ascent of tho bal cony were very pleasant to tho eye. In the parquet particularly the glory of bonnets and hats was a compensating feature. An industrious observer managed to count two hundred bonnets In tho parqnet which seemed to have been specially made for the restival. Thus are the arts co-operative, nnd mnslo gives a helping hand to millinery. Tho mated that nil the new head dresses in the hall must have netted tho milliners nbont 10,000,or$10jiplecefor 1,000 hats, a low esti mate when one box contained millinery dis tributed among four women to the value of certainly $150. Another notlceablo feature in the attire of the audience wns tho preva lence of the white vest in combination with masculine full dress. At a distance the men wearing tho whito waistcoats appeared to have nought on but tho clawhammer coat. A Xew Turn to an Old Aphorism. Iris said thatnsMrs.Antonla Mellko re tired from the stago amid thunders of ap plause after her superb performance in the duo from "The living Dutchman," she re marked to her colleague, Mr. Theodore Relchmnnn, "Apres mol, 10 deluge!" Mr. Reichmann appreciated the wit of the fair cantatrice when thenextnumberproved to bo Saint-Saens' "The Deluge." Playing Upon tho Andlence. The trumpet call announcing the resump tion ofthe concert after the intermission did not startle so many peoplo last night as it had done at the opening concert. On Tues day evenine when the trumpet's alarum broke upon tho buzz of conversation it was amusing to notice how many heads were bent down to see what number it was that began with snch a warlike note. The admiration for Director Anton Seidl steadily Increases. Aside from his wonder ful musical talents the personality of the man is highly picturesque and prepossessing. Tho clear-cut classical features of Mr. Seidl are not all that his admirers love to bring within the focus of their lorgnettes. Ills hands are singularly small and shapely, and the left hand ho is especially fond of extend ing toward the orchestra, now pleading with it lor "piano" effects, now gently urging a crescendo and again tearing tho full force from violins, brass and wood with a gesture of imperious commnnd. There is a fascination, no doubt, In watching that slight left hand assist tho baton In the right to sway and modulato or urge to supreme effort the superb body of players which Mr. Seidl has gathered about him. The Shadow of Forest Fires. Whex Signal Service Officer Baldwin was asked whether the curious hnze that hung over the city yesterday might be attributed to the forest fires which are burning at various points on tho western slope of tho Alleghcnles, ho said: "There is nothing so difficult to decide certainly as the cause of atmospheric phe nomena. The clouds which have since noon to-day.rolled over the heavens, cloudless nil the morning, may have their origin in the forest fires. The conditions of the ntmos- ptiere to-uay are unusual m several respects. Tho humidity to-day is very low, that Is to say the air Is dry to an unusual degree, and we might expect the sky to bo clear. The clouds are singular, nnd I do not think they mean raluforthebarometerisstill well above 30.00 and steady. They have been having heavy rain south of us, but we are not likely to get nny for a day or two. In May It Is not easy to prognosticate further ahead than this. Tho clouds of smoke from tho burn ing woods may affect tho sky here, though the overcast condition this afternoon can be accounted for on the theory that the low pressure area In which Pittsburg is included at present Is feeling the effpet of two high pressure waves, one to tho north nnd ono to the south, which this morning's observa tions show." Travelers on- the night trains across the Alleghcnles report extraordinary sccnciln the mountains where the forests are blazing for mile after mile. Tho fires light up the ridges on both sides of the Alleghenics and some especially brilliant conflagrations have seared the hillsides above tlio Juniata. Around Johnstownthe sky is darkened by day and made red by night by numerous fires on the high gronnd. Allegheny county has not much forest land left, but email blazes among the pine woods and brush are as common jnst now as they are usually in September after a very hot, sum mer. Along the railroads sparks from the locomotives are constantly setting lire to the grabs, and Kmsworth linti a w ami experi ence two davs ago when tho brash and turf behind tho fort AVnyne station and along tho creek caught fire and blazed aw ay for several hours. Many of the small towns in the county havo had Pittsburg's experience as to disastrous fires during the last three weeks. At Glcnfield fire has wiped out two big stores and other valuable buildings and three barns on sepa rate larais within a radius of ton miles, and all near Economy havegono up in smoke since Mondav. The drv weather is blamed for a largo percentage of these losses. Farm era look very glnm at the prospects of tho hay harvest. Benedict ns a Shopper. A MAiuiiED man went into Home's yester day to get a pair of gloves for his wife. He had tolerably clear instructions, and man like, he took tho first pair of gloves offered to him. 'Tho young woman who sold the gloves had Just shown a dozen pairs to a enstomerof her own sex, who hadn't the slightest idea of buying nnything, but desii ed to sec tho new shades of tans and grays In which summer gloves are coming, so sho sighed graternlly when the man small credit to him jumped at the first pair taken from its tissue cae. Thereupon Benedict, laying the flattering unction of his kind's superiority to his-soul, remarked to a fair shopper nearby, an acquaintance: "Men may not be wonderful shoppers, but they have not half the difficulty women have in getting suited." "Perhaps, when they are not buying for themselves," replied the champion of the fair sex, "but a man's troublo begins when he takes home the result of his shopping. The timo he doesn't waste In the store, nnd more, too, is squandered in tho explanations ho has to offer his wife In Hen of tlio gloves or what not Bhe commlssioncd.him to buy." And tho average husband w III admit tho truth of this Impeachment. PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO. vnputui j.tinj -i'iwu, j.. ,f. i, OUll UI1U P. J.Torsytho returned from Hnrrlsbnrg last evening on ino limited xuey were the coul operators' coinmltteo Who protested against tuo report of the commission to revise tho mine laws. Joshua Rhodes left for New York last evening. Ho says business is not only dull, out prices are uauiy uemoralized. A poor jnatket brings everything down to rock bottom. . f S. Aj Tagcart, JL W, 'Calendar and J. B. Griggs, local delegates to tho Y. M. C. A. convention at Kansas City, got back home yesterday. They said the meeting was very 'enthusiastic. Congressman W". A. Stone returned from Washington j esterday. H9 was stirring up the Supervising Architect about selecting a site for tho Allegheny postoffico. Mrs. L. I). Rutherford and two dauch- ters, of loungstown, are among the guests at the Schlossor. They are attondlug. the May Festlvnl. J. A. Seanght, of TJniontown, passed through tho city yesterday on his way to Louisville to attend tho Scotch-Irish conven tion, t W. D. Rider, of Cambridge: O. E. Jones, of Jamestown; nnd J. H. Uoldsborough, of Bradford, are stopping at tho Dnquesue. Chief Engineer J. Jv. Becker, of the Pan handle, with a party, left tor Louisvillo last night on railroad business) Ji M. "SVilsonof Clarion, and Dr. R. A. Bullard, of Wheeling, are registered at the Seventh Aventie Hotel. . "MUs Mollfe McKenn. a .sister of the Postmaster, went to Philadelphia yesterday W VlOlb UlVliW-W H CHURCH AND SOCIETY . History of One Church and 'the Painting (if Another Social Xotes. An important and interesting feature of tho quarter centennial observance of tho Elghthtrect Covenanter Church' that begnn an tho 10th and will close on tho"18th was the discourse delivered last evening by tho Rev. Dr. McAllister, the pastor. The "Covenanter Church of Pittsburg" was the subject upon which the reverend gentleman spoke, and,a large congregation was in attendance! to hear the words of history. In treating the subject Rev. Mr. McAllister spoke from the text, "Remember the days of old, call to mind the years of many generations, ask thy father and he will tell thee thy elders, nnd they will show unto thee." Tho church history the speakerdivided into three periods the two first extending over a third of a century each and tho Inst over a quarter of century. Beginning with 1S0O and the in stallation of Rev. Dr". John Black, aro'nhd whom the history of the church centers dur ing that period, the discourse traced .the event up to the present time. A glowing tribute wns paid to the- Rev. Dr. Black by the speaker, who pronounced him a wonder fully Intellectual, moral, patriotic and spiritual divine. His ministration, Dr. Mc Alllstcr said, was the period of tho develop ment of the testimony- of the Covenanter Church against the godlessness of the written Constitution of tho United States. Dr. Black was one of the leaders in formulating the testimony and giving it its power, but was among those who, at tup close of the period, abandoned the testimony. Why the Xew School Was Formed. The reason of this, continued the speaker, could not have been any change on the part of the nation in regard to the evil of slavery; it wns, and must have been, a change of view regarding tho nature of tho Xatlonal Gov ernment and its written Constitution. The United States was affirmed to be by those who abandoned the testimony a confedera tion of sovereign Commonwealths and not a nation, and with that view they maintained that acknowledgement of God and His lawa were properly made by the State, and find ing such acknowledgement in State Consti tutions, they forsook their testimony against the "Federal instrument." That lead to a division in the church, according to Dr. McAllister, which occurred in 1833. The larger part of the congregation remained with Dr. Black and the remainder left them in possession of; the Oak alley hcurch and built a new church on Lacock street, Alle gheny, In 1S36. Dr. Thomns Sproull was in stalled as pastor, and tho period was de- votou to nnti-stnvery work, nnu witnessea the anti-slavery triumph. A portion of tho Allegheny congregation returned to Pitts burg in ISGj, and built the Eighth street church, installing as pastor Rev. Dr. A. M. Milligan. Under his ministration the church increased in membershin from 58 to 323. He served 19 years, and took a prom inent part in all branches of church work until death claimed him. The work Innngurated by Dr. Milligan tho development of the natfonnl reform, tho great movement for the maintenance of tho Christian features of the Government, Sab bath laws, the Bible in the public schools, the oath of office, and the authentication of these by a suitable nmendment to the Con stitution of the United States, has been pur sued by the congregation of the church since his death. The missions controlled by tho church are the Messiah, Allegheny, the Bir mingham, tho Springfield, Lawrencevllle, and the Moorheau, in the Eleventh ward. 'The church organized mission work among the Chinese, and carries on to a large extent missionary work among the deaf mntes, having 12 of the latter on the communion list. The reception at the U. P. Orphan Asylum yesterday afternoon and the dinner of the Fourth Avenne Baptist Church tendered tho visiting delegates to the general meeting of the U. P. Women's Society were social events of considerable importance a'Ud magnitude. At the dinner, presided over and served by tho Allegheny and Pittsburg ladles, over 700 were dined. Twenty long tables wero beau tifnlly laid with immaculate linen and pretty china, and wero ladendd with all tho snb stantinls and dainties of the season. A special table for the Execntlve Committee was provided and graced with souvenir cards, a similar provision was made for the wnite-rooeu pages, jirs. uowan, ine presi- uent, was tuo recipic .s 01 a mammoth bouquet of fragrant rose. that adorned the table of the Executive Committee in addition to its other deco rations. The reception at the Orphan Asylum occnpled tho hoars between 4 and G o'clock, and the managers and officers of the Home constituted a Reception Committee. Much interest was evinced by the guests ia the asylum and memorial hospital, which are the only ones of their kind nnder the U. P. auspices In the United States. The littlo inmates, about GO, Wero all arrayed in their holiday attire and assisted greatly by their sweetness nnd brightness in entertain ing tho visitors. Tea was served with light relieihments in tho reception room. The Xewsboys' Home will soon assume shape on paper at least, as a committee was appointed yesterday afternoon at the regu lar meeting of the Board of Managers to make investigations concerning plans for tlie building and report to the managers. Tho committee consists of T. J. Keenan, Miss Kato McKnight, Mrx. C. L. Mngee, Mrs. C. A. Xlcola, Mr. T. P. Day, Mr. R. Thaw and Mrs. II. II. Byram. After the Homo has been sat isfactorily constructed on paper tho real building will be commenced with as mnch haste us is possible, strike and all things con sidered. .The annual election of officers and managers of the Home also occurred at the meeting yesterday and reunited in the fol lowing: Rev. George T. Purves, President; Thomas J. Keenan, Jr., Ylcc President! A. C. Kerr, Record ingSecrettiryjIIenryJicKnight, Financial Secretary, nnd T. P. Day, Treas urer. SInnagers Mesdames J. T. Patterson, R. H. Lecky, Ormsby Phillips, V. A. Xlcola, J. D. Carson, 11. II. Byram, C. S. Magec, W. A. Magee, J. O. norae, C. A. Seaver, -C. A Palnter, James J. Kay, W. G. Wllklns, J. Fultwood and Lucy Kramer; Misses W. Craig, K. C. McKnight, E. McCreery, Etta Clark, Annie Vanklrk, Mary Reed, Ellse Meicur and Louise Speer; Messrs. nilnry Rrunot, Edwin Z. Smith and Major Samnel Kilgore. The ruins of Christ M. E. Church have be come Immortal on canvas through tho clev erness of 3llsg Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of Dr. Hamilton, and a promising young artist of tho School of Design. The young lady from tho window of the .school sketched the outline and complete! tho pict ure, which looks n onderfully like the poor, dilapidated original across the way. The Colonel James Hull PostTXo. 137, G. A. R., is to bo congratulated, as Mrs. iiary Copley Thaw, widow of the late William Thaw, has arranged to present to It an ele gantly bound set of record books said to be the handsomest ever given to a military organization. Especially in Pittsburg. Franklin Repository. All abominablo nuisance girls who walk 'three abreast. PLAYS TO COME. Tnu great spectacle "The Last Days of Pompeii" will certainly bo seen nt Recrea tion Park beginning some day In July. The giLirantoo subscription now amounts to $12,500. "The Pathol" is the namo of a new melo drama of a sotnew hat familiar order to which wo are to be Introduced nt the Duqnesne Theater next wvcck. It issald to bo a Strong picture of modem life's seamy side, with a real patrol wagon, horses, etc., as the central ugure. Axo-ruEn now comedy drama of a sensa tional chamctor, "The Midnight Alarm," ia coming to tho Bijou Theater next week. James W. Hnrklns, Jr., is tho principal actor as well as author of tho piece. The title of the play hints at the the engine, trucks and real horses that with some realistic scenery are tho play's chief strength presumably. It must bo honestly confessed that a good many Pittsburgers are cm-ions to know what sort of a Cleopatra Fanny Davenport will make, nnd her engagement at tho Grand Opera Honse next w oek In Sardou's play of that name which the Bernhardt has also essayed Is looked forward to with a good deal of interest. Mr. Mayer, her manager, promises that the production shall havo all tho scenic features that huve been so mnch tnlkcd of, and the company, in which Mel bourne McDowell is Included, Is unquestion ably a strong ono. Madame JaxAuscuek's long admired per formance of Schiller's '!Marie Stuart" which wns produced in splendid form last night, was preceded on Tuesday by her amazing and wlerd-llke embodiment of Sir Walter Scott's "Meg Merrilles," and to-night she will give a final representation of Queen Sessin "Essex or, the gueen's Favorite." A specially Interesting event is announced for to-morrow night, when a new drama'.by Mr. J. T. Martin, will be produced for tho first timo on any-stage. It is a drama Of the .-- a 1t !! rt 1v 44f jftTM sm A 44 uitivii-uuiuwoiiM in Aba bimiukuii uuii ju tensely dnvmitlc in incident and Interest. Tho title is. the "Harvest Moon," and Madame Janaunchckwill create the char--ucter of Mrs. Oakku. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Sedalia, 3Io., has a park which nobody can get to. The tallest man in Parsons, Kan., U named A. Short Inch. It is estimated that every seal consumes about ten-pounds offish dally. I A young Philadelphia fellow advertised . for a wife and his sister answered. In 2Q years there has been uo counter felting of Uncle Sam's postage stamps. During; the past ten years 43 railway mqil clerks have been killed by accidents while on duty, and 479 were Injured. Thirteen more women than men voted at the municipal election in Cawker City, Kan. A cdw belonging to a farmer pear Mar sbaUtown, la., is the proud mother of triplet calves. A Baltimore man had earache contin ually for 11 years. Finally he recovered and delight drove him insane. During the past year there were over 5,000,000 pieces of matter withdraynfrora the mails because of incorrect or insufficient addresses. In the text of the Encyclopedia Britan- nica thero are 10,000 words-which have never been formerly entered and defined In any dictionary. A Newton county, Ga., man is to bo tried by his chnrch for interfering writh tho will of God, because he pnt lightning roda on the bouse. A distinguished Egyptologist has re cently unearthed, with a lot of his mummies a will probably made 4,450 years ago, but, curiously, quite modern in form. It keeps three large Chicago factories busy to manufacture the locomotive head lights and railroad lanterns that are used ia this country. The factories give employ ment to 1,100 men and boys. A Detroit policeman has been acquit ted upon'trial for not entering tho church upon his beat in which a mad dog was cre ating a terrible commotion. He swore thathe thought they were only electing a deacon. In France the Government still levies a tax on doora and windows. To the peas- ' ant in his small hut this tax amounts to a little moro thnn3 francs a year, but In tho small towns It rlsos to 17 francs annually for each family. A full-grown wild boy, aged about 18 years, has been captured at Enoch's Point, Australia. His body Is said to be covered with hair about four inches long, the hair of his head being four feet long and his nails live inches long. Object glasses for microscopes are now made In Germany of glass that contains phosphoric and. boraric acid. It is stated that wih lenses made of this glass an object one-twenty-thouandth of an inch in diame ter can be distinctly seen. What's in a name? Thomas Lawless is in a St. LoniS hospital on account of a bat tering he got while trying to save a youn? girl from insult by a couple of rowdies, and James Thoroughgood has been sentenced to death in Delaware for felony. A beantlful piece of sculpture from an cient Ephesns has reached the British Mu seum. The relic forms part of a marble bull, tho head being exquisitely carved, while tho figure of a goddess appears on tho body. Ic is supposed to bo 2,000 years old. It is asserted that the idea of the slot machine is very old. In an inn in one. of tho rural districts of England the tobacco for the guests was kept in a box which was opened by an English penny: this box was certainly, so the landlord averred, 150 years old. Here is a decidedly queer advertisement which appeared last week in a Liverpool newspaper: Wanted, immediately, in conn try, a Christian homo (clergyman or doctor preferred) for a lady (Protestant), baby, and child. Lady of intemperate habits. Address, stating terms (moderate), C 100. A Columbus, O., man owns a very yonug chicken and a very old dog. Tho little chick follow tho dog around the yard, refusing to run with its mother and the rest 01. tne oroou. xnouogin return st-ems ue llehted with his feathered companion, and, will watch over the little chick as if it was of his own kith and kin. The public debt of the United States shows a gratifying decrease within tho last tenyenrs, the burden per capita having been reduced from $3S33 in 1880 to $14 63 in 1890. The indebtedness of the States and Terri tories has also decreased $67,218,760 dnrlng the decade, reducing the per capita from $3. 9 in 1880 to $350 in 1890, . Lexington, Ga., has a town marshal well equipped for his dnties. A few days agot it Is said, ho. had occasion to arrest three evildoer in a bunch. He gathered one under each arm, their legs dangling in tho air, and drove the third along in front, and in that way proceeded to the calaboose, where all three prisoners were locked up. A West Virginia man has a mule that when thirsty nnties bis halter, pulls ont a pin to open the barn door, goes to the pump, nnd, taking the handle in his teeth, works it nntil he illls.tho trongh, quenches 'his thirst nnd returns to his stable, shutting the door after him. He then enters his stall and brays until his owner comes to fasten the halter. It is a curious fact that the lobster question on the shore of Enstern Xewfound land will solve itself in a few years. A lobster grows for seven years. Xot long ago three lobsters were sufficient for a can; now seven are required. This shows that the lobsters are being ennght in snch quantities that none can attain maturity a fact which Soints to their speedy extinction in Eastern ewfoundlaud waters. The indebtedness of the world for 1890 and 1880, as far as it has been possible to col lect tho data for tho present bulletin, witlf the amount of incrcase'or decrease, is as fol lows: Foreign nations, debt, less sinklnsr fund 190, S23,nai,075,0: ISSd, $23,4S1,572,1S.. The United States 1S90, 915,0tS2,H2; 1880, ly!K2,517..'lGt. States and Territories Mt fc23,107,8)3: 18S0, $290,326,043. Comities 1890, $141,950,845; 1880, $124,103,027. There have probably been 40 patents in n3 mady years of the water grate.as used on hard coal burning locomotives, and a few that bnrnsoft coal. To thooe who think that to them belongs the credit for the original idea" It may bo of interest to look back a few vears. At tho Museo Borbonlco, Xaples, Italy, there are carefully preserved many copper and bronze tools and utensils, ex humed at Pompeii, nnd among them a small, vertical boiler of copper; this has a Are box and a smoke fine through the top, a door on the side, and water grates composed of small tnbes of copper crossing the flro box at the bottom. Pompeii was destroyed more than 1,800 years ago. WITH "WILD "WITS. A certain "queen of Hanover once upon a time, when traveling, stopped at an Inn called "Tne Golden Goose." She remained two days to rest herself and retinue, and received ruch -entertainment as was needed, and, for the same was charged .XO thalers. On her departure tbe landlord besought her with obsequious deference to favor him with her patronage on her return. "If you desire that, meln liebcr mann," replied her majesty, 'yon must not again take me for your sign. Arvonaut At a big shooting party in England, Gerard Start, now Lord Arlington, was one of the guests. One of the party who had not surcceded in making himself popular, said to "him on the morn Ins; or their dppartnre: "Wonld you mlud telling . me. Start, what you generally glTC these fellows In the way of tips?" "Certainly: I'll till yon with pleasure. I glre the gamekeeper so much, and the butler so mncli, etc.. but," lie added, "iryouwlll ' allownc to give yon a piece of advice. If I were In your place, I wouldn't give them anything at all. You'll never be asked here agalnl What's, tho met" Truth. limit: $2. He started iri with many a chip, Of Whites a dollar-reds or twos. Alas! From him each one did slip. And now he has a cai-c of blues. TAfe. Dunder What a chilly Jlay! Head (with thoughts looking backward)-Chmyl I should say. She promised to be my sister last nlght.--t'Aicajo Times. The Elderly Bachelor Emma, I look -npon you with the fondest or feelings. My heart U 3 ours ; will you be my wife? Emnia Have yon asked my mother yet? "To be snrc 3) years ago but how did you hap pen to know ltr' Fliegende Blatter. "He is a very discreet man who never says cither too much or too little. '. At'a business meeting, the chairman announced: J' "Brother Skinner submits 'his resignation as"t' mcmGer'or this society. 'What action shall bo' taken upou ltr" . "I move you, sir," said one of the parliamenta rians Drescnt. "that the resignation be accented. . and that a Vote of HiankVbe tendered' to rotafr SUnner.x-XotctU Citizen. 'j - vr
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