THE iPITTSBURGF DISPATCH. "TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 1893. llje mam ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 184. Vol. 47. No. m. Entered at Pittsburg Postnflco November, 1SS7, as second-clus matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. EASTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE. BOOH 78. TRIBUNE BUILDING. NEW TORK. where com plete files of THK DISPATCH can always be found. Foreign advertisers appreciate the convenience. Home adTcrtlers and friends ofTHEDISPATCH, while In New York, are also made welcome. THE DISPATCH Is regularly on sale at Bren tano's, S Union Sanare, NewYorte. and 17Avede l'Ooera, Paris, France, where anyone who has been disappointed at a hotel news stand can ob tain It. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH, rOSTAOK FBEZ rjf THK UNrTED STATES, juilt Dispatch, un Year 8 00 DxitTDlSPATOR, Per Quarter ! 00 Dailt Dispatch. OneMontli 70 Dailt Dispatch. Including Sunday, 1 year.. 10 on Dailt Dispatch, Including Sunday, m'ths. 2 so Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, 1 month CO BckdaT DlsrATCH. One Year : JfO Wxkxlt Dispatch. Our Year .. 155 The Dailt Dispatch is delivered by carriers at JS cents per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at SO cents per week. PITTSBURG. TUESDAY. SEPT 13. MM. TWELVE PAGES THE GOrERKOtt SHOULD ACT. The disposition of the Governor to rely on the means prepared for fiehtinj the cbolora, as pidicated in his reply to an In quiry whether he would talce action for raisins a temporary loan, is disappointing. It shows that Governor Pattison hardly appreciates the gravity of the situation and the importance of having everything in readiness to fightthe disease if it makes an appearance. We have the testimony of the State Board of Health that it is unsupplied with the funds necefsary to make a vigorous campaign, if it should become necessary. The preat and wealthy State of Penn sylvania has so stiuted its sanitary organi zation that in the time of need it is unable to provide the means of isolation and pro tection that Ohio and West Virginia have in readiness. Any care for the protection of the people will take nrgentmeasures to supply this need. It is true that it is nec essity to go outside the regular routine to raise the money; but the precedent set in the Johnstown case fully covers the present emergency. The need is not less imperative, as. it involve the health of 5.000 people, and the requirement for prompt action is equally urgent It is be yond question that if the Governor will take action the sum of 550,000 necessary to pat the sanitary authorities in fighting trim can be raised in a few hours. There should not be another day's delay in doing so. At th:s writing it is reported that a case of cholera has been discovered at Jean nette. It is to bo hoped that the report will prove unfounded; but the possibility illustrates thf nee.l of action. With the Stato Board in funds it can take such prumnr m-nsures of isolation and disin fection that a single case need not give nny iToumi for alarm. With its action hampered for lack of funds a single case m.iy b the starting point of a disastrous epidemic ' The Governor should act to raise the money needed for a vigorous fight against cholera wherever it appears without an other hour's delay. U2f ATTRACTIVE FUNDS. Th political project of the New Tork World to raise a fund which shall capti vat1.1 the doubtful voters of the North west, and thus give the World a first mortgage on the expected Democratic ad ministration, has struck a new obstacle. It fell early into the sere and yellow leaf of half-dollar and dime contributions; but the new trouble is such as bids fair to make the doubtful voter refuse to deal w'ih the World fund at any price. Contemporaneously with the raising of this fund, the World' enterprise has undertaken the function of sending re porters to violate the quarantine and to open communications with the people on the quarantined steamers. The notes which come from the infected vessels lie cheek by jowl as it were with the drafts, checks or other negotiable papers which are to charm the voters of doubtful States. This is strictly calculated to give the World no pleasing reputa tion with the expected recipients. "Hon olet" is an old proverb as applied to money; but when the currency may carry a cholera germ it is justifiably in bad odor. A draft of cold air is bad tor some people, but a monetary draft that comes from the same drawers as the missives from the Normannia has much more fatal possibilities. t No doubt people in the Northwest might be found to accept the World' fund3 under ordinary conditions; but it would be a decidedly appropriate ending of its pending project! if everyone should de velop the instincts of virtue and self-preservation to the extent of declining to touch the currency which carries such possibilities as the comma bacillus. AX ENGLISH EXAMPLE. The recent failure of some large build ing and loan associations in England, which are the counterpart of the national organizations in this country, calls atten tion to what The Dispatch pointed out as the danger in such organizations, early In the history of their formation. The same danger has been demonstrated in this country, though fortunately to a Ies3 extent than seems to. be the case in England. The national associations find their ration d'etre in the ability to collect sub scriptions and lend money all over the country. This widened scope permits money to be taken from where it is plenty and loaned where it is scarce. But against this advantage is the fact that the success of local building and loan associa tions lies in the thorough knowledge of the security on which money is lent, and the strict supervision over all the opera tions. These safeguards it is impossible to establish to the same degree in the national associations. Every holder of a angle share in a local organization has data on which he can determine the value of the property loaned on, the disposition of the association's money and the care of Its managements. Not even the officers of tin organization whose operations are scat tered over a dozen States 3anknow its condition with the same thoroughness. Not only are the opportunities tf or dis honesty multiplied In geometric ratio by the expansion of the field of Operations, but without any deliberate malversation loans may be made on overestimated' security, collections may be hard to ob tain and the organization finally falls into unprosperous circumstances. This Is the case in England, where failures to the extent of $20,000,000 to 525,000,000 have occurred simply by neglect or mismanage ment, the. most criminal charge in any case being the concealment of the true state of affairs. . It Is possible for building and loanasso ciations on the national' scope to be man aged honestly and successfully. We are glad to believe that there are eminent illustrations of that fact. But the strict supervision which "makes the local associa tions a near approximation to absolute security cannot be attained as fully in the larger organizations. AN EXAMPLE NEEDED. There is pertinence in the fact that the steamship company whose vessels have broughtthe great majority of the cholera cases now in quarantine in New Tork is a regular offender in this matter. Before the cholera commenced its westward Jour ney from Persia It brought the typhus fever into this country and secured the introduction of infected immigrants by concealing the truth. Its agent was in dicted at the time, but no adequate punishment was inflicted. The same record has been enlarged in the cholera the first place the port whence this line starts adopted the policy of shipping immigrants liablo to be infected to all parts of the world, and Is now suffering a fearful penalty therefor. In the next place the steamship company has per sistently crowded its steamers with immi grants when infection was certain, and then secured cabin passengers under the false representation that there would be no steerage passengers on its vessels. Later, when this course is destroying its best paying traffic, it professes to devote certain steamers to the work of bringing the dangerous immigrant traffic to the United States; and finally when its passengers are quarantined in New Tork bay it shows itself very lax in the work of providing the best care for those whom it has misled into very perilous circum stances. Its whole course has been a re markable illustration of the greed for gain overriding every consideration for human life and the public health. Such facts show the necessity for vigor ous prosecutions in every case where the health laws are violated. If those respon sible for bringing the typhus fever into this country on the Normannia last win ter had been adequately punished, a greater degree of . care might have been exercised by the company against the cholera. As it Is, this offender should be given to understand that it Is the object of constant suspicion and watchfulness. It might be salutary, too, If Americans who travel abroad should bear in mind that a company which has demonstrated its readiness to expose them to deadly in fection for the sake of the passage money is not a good one to patronize. HEALTH THE MOST URGENT. At their first meeting of the fall session yesterday Councils had matters of the utmost importance brought to their atten tion. The Mayor's veto of the purchase of additional park lands was not only ex pected but foretold in The Dispatch some time ago. Parks are to be en couraged, and Chief Bigelow deserves much credit for all that he does and tries to do to Improve the city in this direction. But parks are not a first necessity, and such comparative "luxuries must give way to more urgent demands on the municipal treasury. The proposal to add fifty new men to the police force for the better defense of Oakland and the East End naturally follows on the rapid growth in those districts. These matters, In common with all else, however,' must give place at this time to the prompt and careful consideration of ordinances dealing with Pittsburg's clean liness and consequent health. Those measures providing for a proper disposal of the city's garbage, for the arrest on sight of persons depositing refuse in places other than those prescribed for the purpose, and putting an end to the iniquitous pest pit system on Mt Washington, should all be considered with the utmost care and passed into law with the maximum amount of promptness in a satisfactory form. NO NEED OF PANIC. Two oplnions'on the cholera were pub lished last week, both of which have no slight value. Prof. Virchow, of Berlin, whose scientific position and special studies of the disease give him especial authority, rendered one of them. Sir Edwin Arnold, who has been familiar with it in India, gives the other. Both are valuable as showing the methods of fighting the disease publicly and privately and as showing the Heedlessness of panic Virchow's authority that thorough quar antine will stop the cholera is reassuring. The difficulty is not in arresting the disease, if quarantine is efficient, but in making quarantine so efficient that no loopholes will be left by favoritism or neg ligence. It is importa nt to learn that ab solute quarantine gives sure protection against this disease. It is also Interesting to have the assurance of Virchow that "cholera is less dangerous than diphtheria and other diseases which cause less com motion." To the same tenor Is Sir Edwin Arnold's statement from his experience. He says it is "a disease of dirt and cowardice' "It is not a thing for a healthy person to fear. "Drink," he says, "no milk or water that has not been boiled, scald your vegetables' and take five drops of hydrochloric acid in half a cup of hot tea and you can walk unharmed in the midst of cholera." Cold weather, he asserts, will check the dis ease. These authorities give us every reason to hope that the disease will not become epidemic 4n this country, this year at least With a vigilant fight made against it at quarantine, with energetic work done in the way of cleaning up all our cities, and with the frost season near at hand, the probabilities are very much against Ub getting any headway this fall. But the same constant vigilance will have to be exerted all the winter and all next sum mer to prevent its spread next year. By all means let every immigrant passed by quarantine officials receive a certificate to that cflect. But when this has been clone It will still be incumbent on local authori ties to make an liispoctton on their own ac count to. ascertain whether dangerous symptoms nave perchance developed since the tokens of safety were issued. In the fullness or -precautions nlono lies security, and chances must be taken nowhere, President McLeod ought to compile a new system of logic to explain his method of reasoning as to the advantages of illegal combinations. By the discovery of a fifth satellite of Jupiter, Prorcssor Barnard, of the Lick Observatory, has demonstrated several Im portant things. He .has shown Ills own powers In patient, .painstaking researohi he lias proven the Immense valno of the sew telescope, and has placed this "young" conn, try far ahead or the Old World astronomloal scientists of to-day. What with a circus and the Exposition open In this city simultaneously, it Is evi dent that Pittsburg is doing what It can for the oountry. There is horror enough la the actual danger from cholera without carelessness in spreading false alarms, and It behooves evory medical man who comes Into contact with symptoms warranting suspicion to In vestigate the case or oases most thoroughly, and give the public warning or reassurance according to the result of his diagnosis. This city looks to its Councils to defend it from disease, and in this matter Councils must have the hearty co-operation of every Individual. The utterly unfounded panic-stricken condition of Babylon on account of the pro posed transference of healthy quarantined passengers to the hotels opposite the village on Fire Island augurs 111 for the cool-head-edness and presence of mind necessary to deal with the disease to tho best advantage if It shall actually effect a landing. HlLli has bought a residence at Albany, and his silence warrants theassumptlon that he is busy sawing wood for winter fuel therein. It it were not for tho number, of letters already published bearing that postmark, Cleveland's friends might excuse his delay In writing the one epistle in which the country is to some extent interested, by the paucity of postal facilities at such a rural fisherman's resort as Buzzard's Bay. New .Terset folk believe in running no risks. They are disinfecting tho telephone transmitters so that they may not transmit disease. . Lieutenant Peaky is to be congratu lated on his safe return from tho realms of snow and ice. But It should be a colder day than any experienced in this country before scientists follow in his footsteps to risk human life In soenring useless geographio or other scientific! knowledge. Mars and his two moons make a pretty poor showing In opposition to Jupiter and his five satellites. Since this is to be a campaign of educa tion, there Is a grand opening "for philan thropists In the establishment or night schools for the benefit ot politicians and others open to conviction by sound fact and logical reasoning. Groundhogs occasionally come out too soon. Just as summer cars now and then re tire too early. "When apolitician receives nominations for Congress trom rival and widely differing political parties, it may bo assumed that there is. something radically weak about his backbone or the principles of thoso who so "honor" him. That mission of our war vessels to Vene zuela amounts to a warning of "hands off" to England. Citizens anxious to have their votes counted in November will do well to get Into training by making a close and exhaust ive not to say exhausting study of the much-disputed Baker ballot law. When the Point has been squared, mathe maticians will please notice the desirable Innovation. Of coarse there is nothing new under the sun, but the discovery of a fifth satellite of Jupiter Indicates that there are still some of the old things unknown to the inhabitants of this little glooe. Venezuela may yet be the scene of war fare more serious than internecine revolu tions. The news irom Loon Lake as to Mrs. Harrison's health is of such -an alarming na ture that the President as a man will receive the sincere sympathy of tho whole nation in his time of trouble. UNION is strength no less in the adoption of quarantine measures than in anything else. Councils never had a better opportunity to exhibit their usefulness than that afforded at this time in the prompt framing of sufficient measures for protecting the health of the city. There is no great demand for American consulates in Europe J ust at present. Allegheny's water supply is undoubt edly in need of improvement. And mean while drinkers will do well to. boll such water as is obtainable before imbibing. The double-decker has not yet given all passengers the cold shoulder. WITH FAME AND FORTUNE. The son and namesake of Henry W. Giady, of Atlanta, will enter too University of Virginia this autumn. Among the possible successors to Senator Dawes in 1893 are Henry Cabot Lodge, Will iam W. Crapo, John D. Long and George D. Robinson. John E. Redmond. M. P., the leader of the Parnellite branch of the Irish National ists, is distantly related to the family of tho late Mr. ParnelL Succi has begun a new fast at Naples, with a committee of doctors to watch him and observe the phenomena of circulation, respiration, weight, etc., anting the progress ive periods of his abstinence from food. Mn. Gladstone is about to go abroad for the purpose of spending a conple of months in the South of France as the guest of Mr. Stuart Rendel, who has acquired so much lame and distinction as the host of Mr. Gladstone. Or Sir a Euan-Smith, the British Minis ter in Morocco, whom a native addressed as Honored Enormity, supposing this to be a very fetching compliment, it Is enthusias tically stated by one of his admirers that lie Is "a crack shot and a skilled hand at pig sticking." Count Pourtales, of the Foreign Of fice, in Berlin, will be married on September 20, in the St. Mattbai Chnrch, to the Countess Glcela Kanltz, daughter of Prince Leopold's Court Marshal. The Emperor and the Prin cess Frederick Leopold will be present at the ceremony. E. F. Scott, one of the wealthiest colored men In Virginia, went to Clifton Forge sev eral years ago without a dollar. He now owns 18 houses and lots, a hotel, and a large amusement ball, and is putting up a large building on Main street. Ho also runs a wood and coal yard. Yuno Kiuno Ten, the writer of an article ln'the September Forum entitled '-A Chinaman on Our Treatment or China," was edncatod in this country and Is now an Episcopal minister In Shanghai, where he Is devoting himself to the work of Christian izing bis people and Improving their social condition. ' One of the most remarkable blind men of the century is John B. Herreshoff, the Rhode Island boat-builder, whose fast yachts have made him, famous on all waters. He has been unable to see since he was 15 years old but so keen are his other senses that he car ries ln'hisinind perfect pictures of his grace ful boats. FBOK DOWN 1HE BAT. What's new to-day from down the Bay, Where yellow Asks are flying? Ask of the wares that w&ah new graves Ana sob beside the dying. What's new to-day from down the Bay, Where eye are red from weening? Ask of the gulls that shun the hulls Where pestilence is sleeping. What's new to-day from down the Bay, Where song is heard, and sighing? Ask of the J est that scorns the pest And laughs above the crying. What's new to-day from down the Bay, Where Death comes with the steamers? Ask of the lire those who survive You cannot wake the dreamers! Gio, A. Maddeh. PITTBDUBO, Sept. 12. i ' CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT. Eight weeks from to-day the Presldental canvass or 1S92 will culminate in the casting of the ballots. A comparison of the progress up to date with that of' 1838 shows that matters were considerably livelier four years ago. Indeed, tho campaign was virtually on all summer because of the long session of Congress and the consideration of the Mills bill. Impetus was given to affairs by the return or Blaine from Europe on August 9. A nattering reception in Now Tork was followed by a speeoh-raaking tour of New England and active work on the Stump in Maine. In the latter part of Augnst, Thurman began to swing around the circle, attracting far more attention that Mr. Stev enson has succeeded in securing In a similar effort this year. Harrison was also active in speech-making and hand-shaking at the same period. The Maine election was an ob ject ot great interest, and the majority of upward of 20,000 recorded on September 10 was received with groat rejoicing by the protection press. It is argund tnat the struggle to keep oat the cholera has diverted public attention this time. It is a curions coincidence that just four years ago yellow fever was ravaging the South, bat it failed to obscure politics to any large extent. Another coincidence might bo found in the fact that, while now Demo crats ore charging President Harrison with partisan idoas in proposing retaliation against Canada, in 1883 President Cleve land's opponents were making the same Insinuations. On August 23 Cleveland sout a, retaliatory message to Congress urging complete non-intercourse with Cnnada as a result of the- fisheries imbroglio, and for a time this action occupied a prominent place in the canvass. Harrison's letter of accept ance was thp later one in 1888, and came out on September 12, but tho campaign was then already well under way. "John Smith has been nominated for Governor of Now Hampshire," says the Philadelphia Ledger, "and If the family in the Granite State proves at all clannish be will have a splendid majority." f- Pebjiaps more interest is taken in the political situation in Kansas.tho land of Simp son nnd Peffer, than in any other Wostern State. W. M. Smith, a prominent Republi can of Topeka,has J ust visited national head quarters as the representative of the' Kan sas llepubllcan State Committee, and some of the Republican candidates for Congress In that State, to secure speakers from other parts of the country to addross the people of Kansas on political questions during the campaign. In speaking of the outlook in that much-diseased Commonwealth, Mr. Smith said that the Republican candidates for Congress In the several districts con stituted the strongest delegation ever placed before the people of Kansas. "It is the aim of the Republicans there," he said, "to clear up tho Slate, elect tho Presldental electoral ticket, and all the Congress men. The campaign was opened along the whole line on the 1st of Septem ber, and two picked men spoke in every Congress district. Nearly all the Congross candidates have already made from 30 to SO speeches. One of thoui has spoken 70 times. Democratic fusion on the electoral ticket with the People's party has disgusted a great many Democrats, who will vote with the Republicans to save the reputation or the State, which they consider to be in Jeopardy. Tho Republicans have adopted a badge bearing tho motto, 'Stand up for Kan sas.' A great many Democrats are wearing it. The motto is also used on stickers, on letters, etc. The determination is not to have the calamity shriekers howling against tho financial and commercial prosperity of the State." A meeting: of all the Democratic candi dates in South Dakota has been called for to-day to discuss tho advisability of with drawing the Democratic electors and indors ing those ot the People's party, with a divis ion of the Stato offices. Colonel Whipple, the Republican candidate for Governor of Arkansas, has been trying to explain what hit him. He is disposed to blame the Australian system for his overwhelming defeat at the recent elec tion. He says: "The mode or polling, and especially the formof the ballot, disclosed a deliberate and cunningly devised scheme to embarrass and clog tho voting and work the disfranchisement of the voter. The ticket an omnibus one, two feet long first pre sented to the voter when he entered the booth, contained in this (Pulaski) county 110 names. The voter was authorized to vote for but 50 candidates, and 'was required to erase' from the ticket 60 names during the small space of five minutes, un der penalty of being denied a vote. To do thlspioperly required the examination of a 11 the 110 names on the ticket. It was a tax on even the most alert. Again, if the voter could not road his ticket, tho law required that while the eleotion officer, who alone could assist him, was makinr the tedious examination of his ticket with him not only the polling room but all the booths likewise should be cleared. This was a serious inter ruption to the voters." The complete re turns from Arkansas show that the Demo cratic majority is larger than for many years. West Virginia is one of the States which Candidate Stevenson thinks domands his personal attention. He has promised to speak at Huntington some time" during the campaign. " The campaign on the Pacific slope is more advanced than on the Eastern coast. Particularly is this the case in Oregon, where the new party Is actively at work. At the election held on the first Monday in Jnne last the total vote cast was about 75, 000, of which the Republicans polled 31,000, the Democrats 25,000 and the Populists 10,000 for their respective candidates for Congiess. Both tho Republican candidates were chosen but the combi.ied votes of the opposition exceeded the Republican vote by 10.000. Tho Pe ople's party cast nearly 23 per cent of tho total vote. This pai ty was not organized in all the counties or tho State at the June election. In November tho party will have a thorough organization in every county and voting precinct of the State. The E resent Governor, Sylvester Pennoyor, wno as been twice elected Chief Magistrate, ran each time as a Democrat. Pennoyer is the only Democrat who has been able to overcome the natural Republican ma jority in the State, but Governor Pen noyer no longer murshals the Democratic legions, having cono over for all practical purposes to the People's party. At the June election the Governor made an address ad vising the Democrats to put their votes "where they would do the most good," and thousands of them took his advice and voted for tho People's party candidates for'Con gress. When asked by a newspapor report er at that time If he had abandoned the Democratic party, Governor Pennoyer hu morously answered by saying he was like the old Indian who, having lost his way la the woods, was interrogated by the white man for whom he was acting as guide if he was not lost. The Indian promptly and In dignantly replied: "Injun no lost; wigwam lost." He claims that the traditions of the Democraoy are for free sil ver, and refuses to follow the Chi cago declaration on the quostion. The contest In Oiegon Is thoroforo between the Republican and People's party. Joseph Nessick, of Chester, Pa., a large manufacturer and life-long Democrat, has left the part'. Ho says: "My reasons are that the Democrats al lowed the free' trade element to override them at Chicago by adopting as a plank of their platform that protection was a fraud and that It was unconstitutional. As I do not believe this to be truo I cannot consist ently support it." It may interestthe bulk" of the Pennsyl vania voters to know that fences are a cam paign issue in some portions of the State. John Hamilton, a Republican Legislative candidate in Center county, has written a lengthy letter, in the course of which be says: "I have been asked by various per sons to define my position in regard to the fencolaws or the Commonwealth, and par ticularly to state whether I am for or against a fence law. I lmvo no hesitation in saying that I am in'favor of a local option ience law, which will permit the citizens of the various counties of the State to vote upon the question and determine lor themselves whether they wilt have fences or whether they will not. This will allow such counties as Lancaster, Bucks, Berks, Chester and other similarly situated to abol ish fences if they so desire, and will permit counties having a largo amount ot waste land to continue to fence if they see fit. No one acquainted with the situation in the Eastern and Southern counties of the State, wheie for many years fences have been abolished, except as far as individuals choose to fence for their own convenience, supposes that these counties would permit a general law to be enaoted requiring them to again fence their property and involving them in an expense of many millions of dollars; and since their senti ments are backed ny the vote of such cities as Philadelphia, Beading. Lancaster. Leba non, Harrlsburg; Pittsburg and Allegheny their -wish could not be successfully op posed." As Center county is overwhelm ingly Democratic it is to ue feared that Mr. Hamilton cannot carry It. even on the fence Issue. The weather is not adapted to the Demo cratic 'gum-shoe campaign" In tho Buckeye State. OUR MAIL POUCH. Criticism or tho Recent Institute. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Another annual session of the Allegheny County Teaohers' Institute has come aifd gone. There were so many misstatements and unmerited eulogies made concerning the work done in the Institute and those who did it, that I feel constrained to namo some of them. One report says: "Tho idea of dividing the teaohers into classes origin ated with Prof. Hamilton." This is not oor rect. Your "Mall Pouch," August 29, 1831, contained a communication which made that suggestion. But while the attempt to classify teachers this year was made, owing to its management the best results were not realized. There were four c'asses. A, B, C, D, to be instructed in different rooms nt the same time. Class D, was forteachors of ungraded schools. This class occupied the large audience room. At certain periods the teachers, indiscriminately, were di rected to retire to classrooms A, B, Band C, and tho overflow to return to room D. The retiring and overflow returning, especially the latter, disturbed the harmony or order of room D. Principals, grammar, inter mediate, primary ana mixed school teachers rushed for the room of their choice, nnd if too late to get In bad to return to room D. Those who remained lu room D did not re ceive the Instruction given in the other rooms at all, though the teachers of the un graded schools teach every branch taught In the graded schools. This was unfair to the teachers of room D. On the first day the teachers paid 7S cents each for a card which was numbered, hence each toacher was numbered. The Superin tendent rould. have assigned lrom 1 to 175 to room A, from 175 to 350 to room B, from 350 to 525 to room C, from 525 to 700 to room D for tho first assignment. They could then have been moved from room to loom till each teacher could have heard all In each room. It would have been better, howover, to as sign a certain number of teachers to a par ticular room permanently, except for the general exercises, and dliect the Instructors to past from room to room. It cannot even be said that the instructor of a room cov ered more ground on the same subject by staying there, for he did not have the same teaohers before him euoh time, owii'g to tho haphazaid securing of seats. But, supposing he had the same teachers each time, to the exclusion of all otheis, was that doing jus tlco to the others? In my letter to The Dispatch, August 19, 1891, 1 not only asked that the teachers be divided and assigned to different rooms, but I nrged that, if ono school building would not answer the purpose, to seoure as many buildings as was needed. Tho High. School buildln; would havo served tno end had more rooms been used. But do these Instituto lectures develop the most flttingsubjectsnnd prepare the listen ers for doing better work in the schoolroom? Are the discussions or our school laws, the elaboration of "lads," with thoir treatment as compared with that or measels, the eulogizing or great educational men and the haranguing on kindred topics the fittest subjects to prepare teachers for the school room? If so, then our late Institute was a success. Certainly the teachers had a social "outing." The teachers meet once a year for relaxation; it doesn't cost them much, only 75 cents for card, the amount paid for boarding, car tare and time. Of course the time should not be considered, ns they have nothing else to do and they receive $2 per day for attending. The resolutions submitted at the close of the Institute praising everybody, especially an interested lew you tickle me and I'll tickle you wero passed unanimously. You would have been spotted as a crank to op pose them, and you know that the thought lul weigh them tor what they are worth. An after-resolution was submitted by the' State Superintendent, limiting the granting or "provisional certificates" to one person for three successive years only, the teacher to be examined each year, and at the end of which time said teachor must either secure a "pro essional certificate" or drop out of tho profession. One half or more of the teachers now bold "provisional certificates." When this was placed before the convention, nine-tenths or the teachers were terror-stricken." This vote or the teachers or Allegheny county would be nsed by the "few" as a lever next winter to influence the Legislature to enact this lesolntlon into a law, thus cutting out some or the best teachers tn the county. Pittsburo, Sept. 10. Teacher. JDPITEE HAS FIVE MOON'S. The Greatest Discovery of Our Tlmo Just Mde Through thn Lick Glass. Chicago, Sept. 12. "Prof. Barnard has earned a niche lor himself beside Galileo, Horscbel and other men of that kind and the permanency of his lame is as secure as It can be." S. W. Burnham, the well-known astronomer who recently resigned from the staff of the Lick Observatory to accept the position of clerk of the United States Circuit Court In this city, made the remark to-day and showed the following telegram: "Mouxt Hamilton Observatory; Sept 12 "E.!-. Barnard sends greeting toS.W. Burn ham, with a fifth satellite to Jupiter, of tho 13th magnitude; period, 17 hours and 38 minutes: distance from center, 112,100 miles." "The discovery of this satellite, which was made by Barnard Saturday," continued Mr. Burnham, "is the greatest astronomical achievement of the century, and will cause the world or science to ring. It simply means the addition of another body to the solar system, which is, in these days, a most stupendous discovery. It is far greater than the finding of the satellites of Mars, for these two bodies were more or less easy of observation. Barnard's work makes an ad dition to the solar family in a field that was well worn out, and which was thought to have been so thoroughly sifted that astron omers gavo up the task of looking for fresh lacts. Then, too, Jupiter has been the most observed of all the planets, for tho reason that it is so very large nnd such a grand body withal that it invites inspection. "I can tell you that this will bo grand news for the astronomers of Europe. Barnard Is an able man and an observer who does not waste his time. This is the first good work of any moment that bas been done with the Lick telescope, and if such observations as this are continued, the big glass will serve to bring us on new lights elsewhere in the uni verse, and turn up startling discoveries at the most unexpected places. Barnard Is an enthusiast whose heart and soul are in his work. He works for tire pure love of the occupation, and of the science, and does not do it for pay. And it is men like this that bring to humanity such an Immortal dis covery as this." THE DEADLY TB0LLEY WIBE' Kills Two Horses in Quick Succession and Almost Electrocutes the Driver. -Dallas, Tex., Sept. 11 The trolley wire on the South Dallas Rapid Transit Railroad broke some tlmo last night, was pulled out to one side and tiedto a telephone polo. This morning a wagon with two magnificent horses attached turned the corner, and the near horse came in contact with the wire. A flame shot up from the side of his neck, kill ing him inlils tracks. When he fell the otherhorse stepped upon him, and he, too, fell stone dead. The driver, John Peterson (colored), came In slight contact with tho wiro nnd was. knocked off his feet, and for the tlmo being it looked as If be, too, had been killed. ' ' hy Gram? I Huldlng Back. Boston Traveller.! Perhaps Mr. Cleveland's letter of accept ance Is delayed by his consideration of Peck's Statistics. DEATHS HEBU AND ELSLWIIERE. Levi G. Loomls, Milwaukee Pioneer. Levi Goodrich Loomts, the first white man. except Solomon Juneau, to set foot on the present site of Milwaukee, died IlicreSundar night, sited 83 years. On July 23, ISM. Mr. Loomls landed at the mouth or Milwaukee rlrcr from a birch bark caioe, having raado the trip from the upper lake with a number of Indians. On going ashore lie fongd Juneau living In the Indian Tillage nearby. Mr. Loomls remained with him a few months and then went to Chluago. He reached the World's Fair city when there werojnst three houses In the flace. '1 hough he claimed Chicago as a residence, le was In Wisconsin most of tho time, engaged In trading with the Indians. Obituary Notes. TnE Earl of Essex, in England, is dead. Bexator Goddabd, who has represented Man itoba la the Dominion Senate since 1830, died at Winnipeg yesterday morning, aged 7. FAR-REACHING CHARI1X Mrs, Benjamin Thaw Sends a Handsome Contribution to Iowa No Mors Bugs on Bonnets Tiaras Coming Into Vogue Goislp of Society. The trnly charitable can find many field of work away from their own homes, as well as in their immediate vicinity. Pitts burg has dozens of lnstitntlons established for the relief or assistance of people who are compelled to depend upon the gen erosity of the self-denying women who devote their lives to deeds of mercy. Charity knows no particular place for its works. It can travel thousands of miles on errands of mercy, and it cares not if the neighbors never hear of what It bas done away from home. The truth of this Is illus trated by the fact, that, has been made known through an Iowa newspaper, that Mrs. Benjamin Thaw, of Pittsburg, has Just contributed $300 toward the expenses of the Home of the Friendless of Cedar Baplds. Of this sum $200 is to be expended in and around the Homo, and $100 to bo added to the Lucy Hisley Memorial Pnud. The ladles or the Board of Manager feel very doeply the gonerosity of Mrs. Thaw, as is shown by the report of the Secretary, which ends with this paragraph: "Words cannot ex press our appreciation of this noble woman's generosity, but the comfort of the friendless ones has been greatly enhanced thereby, and could she see thoir happiness after being rescued from the wretched places they have called home, she would leel amply repaid for her kindness to them." Pitts burors. who know Mrs. Thaw so well, will heartily echo tho sentiments ot the Board of Managers of the Home far the Friendless of Cedar Hapids, la. Bugs have crawled down from the bon nets and havo taken up their quarters on the chatelaine, to hold the wateh that It is now tho fashion to wear at the wafst. The entomological specimon may bo a spider, a katydid, a beetle or a butterfly. Most of them are or gold, with the head beautifully Jeweled. Diamonds, emeralds, rubies, opals or pearls, very small, are used, and the effect Is brilliant in the sunshine or electric light. At tho back of the Insect, ont of sight, is a strong safety-pin to hold the waichcbaln in position, so that the bugs are uoful as well as horribly ornamental. This ideals something entirely new in iewelry, and it seems to have caught the feminine fancy with more thau usual strength. A tiara is something th.it always adds to tho grace or a woman's coiffure. The new est conceit in these headdresses is a crescent of gold, set with pearls or diamonds. It is higher in the center, over the front of the head, than at the sldo,and gives a stately air to the wearer The wearing of a tiara is a dainty fashion, and the women ol Pittsburg appreciate this fact, as Is seen from the In creasing number of them worn. They will be the propor thing nt weddings and recep tions this tall and winter, and the full-dress toilet will hardly be complete without them. Diamonds or pearls, as is well known, never look more beautiful than when nestling in a woman's hair, and It is a remarkable truth about thee Jewels that they look equally well among all hues of hair black, blonde, auburn or even white. Ax interesting lecture was delivered last night in Grace Reformed Church by Mrs. Anna M. Moore, a missionary to Japan, the subject being tho home life of Japanese womon and their children. Mrs. Mooro wore the picturesque costume of Japan, and very grncolui she was in tho flowing robe of rich, flowered materlal.wlth its great bell sleeves, and silk facings. The lecture was lull or in formation, and was listened to with the closest attention by a largo audience. Mrs. Moore isagieat admirer of the. Japinese, and she1 gives them credit for beini as high ly civilized as the Americans in most re spects, and more so in some. Ihe savs the educational system of that country is the best In the world. J. S. McKeah and wife, of Freeport, held their silver wedding Saturday. A large number of friends and relatives were pres ent. A $100 set of silverware was presented, to the happy couple in a neat address by S. E. McKean, of Washington, Pa. Among thoe present from a distance were F. S. McKean and wife, of Flatwood; 1L S. Eastly and wife, of Kittanning. Foclal Chatter. The Shadysido Academy opens to-morrow mornln?, and will be addressed by iter. 1L T. McClellan, or the Bellefleld Presbyterian, Church, who will ipeuk on "Some Lessons From School and College Life." Dr. aid Mrs. Charles A. Wilson, of West ern avenue, returned last evening alter several months' absence from the city. The doctor, who has been very siok from pneu monia, has fully recovered his health, and returns to resume his practice in Allegheny. E. H. Flick, Esq., City Solicitor of Altoona, who lor .everal weeks past has been danger ously ill, is now rapidly recovering. Mr. Flicic is a son-in-law or John O'Connor, Esq., of the Sontlisido, and his many friends and acquaintance's in this city will be pleased to learn of his convalescence. The Ladles' Aid Society of the Southside Hospital will hold a meeting in St. Mark's Guild house this afternoon. They will dis cuss the arrangements forth fair soon to bd held for the benefit of the hospital. It is hoped that there will be a full meeting, and that there will be representatives irom all parts of the two cities. Dr. asd Mrs. Frask n. Wade, of North avenue. Allegheny, aro visiting tho Doctor's sister, Mrs. Lovl C. Wado,-who is the widow of the late Hon. Levi C. Wade, founder of the Mexican Centtal Railroad, and wno died a few years ago, leaving n estate valued at several millions. Mrs. Wade has a lovely homo near Newton Center, not far from Boston. Dr. and Mrs. Frank H. Wade have been traveling ever since tho first of May COLLINS YEKbUS CH0LEKA. Lottie Collins In quarantine Is only half a blessing, because the "Boom-de-ay" es caped. Chicago Mail. Lottie Colliks need not worry. In her case hope deferred will simply swell the box office receipts. Washington Post. It is feared that Miss Collins' famous'song 'has reached that stage of degeneration where fumigation is futile. St. Joseph Gazette. Ta-ra-ra-booji-de-ay " Lottie may be losing two weeks' salary by being quaran tined, but she is getting several million dol lars' worth of advertising, more or less. Chicago Globe. The yonng English woman who Is to sing "Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay" is qnarantlnad In New York harbor. Both she and her song should De thoroughly fumigated before land ing. SL Louis Republic Lottie Collins, the London concert hall singer, is tied up on the Normannia, which is In quarantine in lower New York bay. The ta-ra-ra-boom is in the right place for once. Philadelphia Ledger. Lottie Collins might thank the shining stars under which she was born that she is endeavoring to reach New York instead of London. If she were forcing hor presence upon London, for instance, she would be branded as a rejected immigrant and sent back. iVtU) I'ort Advertiser. If there are no more casos of cholera on the Normannia there area million of free and enlightened people willing to wager the little money they havo left after the New Orleans affair that the high kicker did more toward repelling tho scourge than all the disinfectants In the country. Cincinnati Times Star. BELLEFONTE'SBLTJE LAW CSUSADE. The Unrighteous Determined to Have Sun day Malls and Train. Bellefonte, Sept. 12. Special. An at tack upon the bine law adherents is booked for this place. An application has been sent to the Postoffice Department at Washington for a Sunday mail and a petition will soon be presented to tho Bennsylvaula Railroad Company for a Sunday train. On the other hanu- ministers are holding meetings to protest against any such action. Next Snnday a number of arrests will be made. Quality Better Than Quantity. Chicago Inter Ocean. One big Democrat has been knocked out and another will go In November. Corporos lty doesn't always tell. Tho Sjmj O d Story. Detroit Free Press. Corbett again demonstrated at New Or leans that knowledge Is power. Heady for Another Fight, Washington Star. Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Harrison will now take their corners. C0RI0US CONDENSATIONS. Uncle Sam has 2,800,000 beehive, The first iron wire was drawn at Hnr. embers tn 1331. , The greatest depth of the AtlaaUu Ocean is 27,326 feet. Among the nobility of EngUnd, 21 per cent have no children. ', In Southwestern British Coiombla there are fully 1,000 wild horses. On Ball, an island in the Indian Archi pelago, east of Java, the burning of widows still goes on. -Trln Corea sheets of paper pass for moneyj one sheet Drings one quart Of rice, or 20 sheets a piece of hemp cloth. There are still 14 different places on this globe where cannibalism is practiced, but the custom Is gradually dying out. Statistics show that 7,000 persons are murdered in this country every year and only one murderer in 50 is punished. An asylum for mothers-in-law is being built in Austria by a wealthy Austrian woman, and provision has been made for BOO occupants. Of 14 first-class racers now on the Atlantic four are German built, one halls from Franco, six from the Clyde, two from Belfast and one from Mersey. Out of a total of 73,324 paupers in alms houses In the United States in the year cov ered by the eleventh censns, 91.15 per cent were white and S.85 per cent were colored. There is a certain island in the Baltic Sea to whose inhabitants the body of the sun is clearly visible in the morning before It rises, and likewise in the evening after it sets. The Chinese have a kitchen god, which is supposed to go to the Chinese heaven at the beginning of each veir to report upon the private life of tho families under his care. The proposed underground electric rail ways for London, if sanctioned, will be 10 feet under the Thames, 63 feet beneath Reaent's Park, and 85 feet below Oxford street. Bricks made of plaster of paris and cork aro now used in tho constrnctlon of powder mills. In ciso. of explosion they offer slight resistance and are broken to atoms. , The central Sahara registers a mean temperature of97in July. Central Australia boasts of 91 In January, a mean which is attained in South Carolina and Arabia In midsummer. . The largest number of men enlisted from the 13 States of America during the Revolutionary, War was 80,761 in 177& Tho aggregate of troops furniuhed the Union army in the war of 1861-65 was 2,320,27 Between January 1, 1890, and Jnne 30, 1S91. 7,150,3.50 silver dollars were coined in the United States mints. The total value of the production of sliver in the United States from 1881 to 1890 Inclusive, was $184,053,000. " j A cigar contains acetic, fomic, butyric, valeric, and proprionic acid, prussic acid, creosote, carbolic acid, ammonia, sulphur etted hydrogen, pyridine, viridine, ptcollne. and rnbidlne, to say nothing of cabaglne and burdockic acid. In the regalia room of the Scottish kings in Edinburgh castle, one can still see, among other vatuablo relics, the coronation, crown of tho great Robert Bruce. It is a plain circlet of gold, heightened with four spikes having trefoil heads. Missouri City, Mo., has a cat with eight legs and fonr tails; Moberly, Ma, has an albino with pink eyes and white, kinky hair: Springfield, Mo., has a ten-year-old boy, who weighs 180 pounds and has two exf flngors and two extra toes. A strange custom is followed by Mex can farmers. They use oxen of one color the morning nnd another color In the aftc noon. Thev do not know why, but tht know that it must be the ruiht thing to d because their lorcfathers did it. According to Dr. Lauder Brunton, co water is a valuable stimulant to many, if n all people. Its action on the heart la mo stimulating than brandy. His own expet ence is that sipping half a wineglass ot col water will raise his pulse from 76 to ove 100. ' A tunnel, the largest in the world, hjj been projected .and begun, praotically, uit der Simplon, to supersede the famous rodd over thomountain constructed by Napoleoju The "Konte of the Simplon" is 33 miles Ja length: the tunnel will be a trifle less than. 12K miles. The costliest paintings of modern times are Meissoniers "18U" and Millet's "The Angolns." M. Chauchard gave $170,000 for 1811" and $150,000 for "Tho Angelus." Henry Hilton, In 18S7. piid $66,000 for Meissonler's "Frledland, 1807," and presented it to tho Metropolitan Museum of Arts, of New York. English oak is scarce, lots offered for pare nowadays commanding large prices. At a sale or some oak trees in Burghley Park recently from &) to XSO each were paid for trees. Half a dozen of the bet trees sold for 81. .80. 12, -CS'i, Gl and X8L One tree containing 150 teet or lumber, sold for XSO. A vear ago an oak was sold for X 110 nearly $600. A new material for paving is now being lntrodnced in London. It is composed of granulated cork and bitumen pressed into blocks, which aro laid like bricks or wood pavlnr. The special advantage of the material lies in its elasticity. When used for pavement it gives a soft thread which Is exceedingly pleasant, recalling the feeling of a carpet. Experiments on a considerable scale are being made in the German army with aluminum, as a means of lessening the weight which the mon have to carry. This Is tho case, for instance, in the First Regiment of the Foot Guards, in which ten men out of every company have received the various articles oi their equipment either bound with or constructed of aluminum. A Frenchman bas recently made im portant advances in the work of photo graphing colors. One of bis plates gives a view or a stained glass window containing red, green, blue and yellow; others show a group of flags, a partly colored paroquet and a plate of orange with a poppy lying on the top. The shados ot the objects, as well as their colors, are faithfully reproduced. In the west of England, particularly on the borders of Dartmoor and Exmoor, thero are speculators who earn considerable in comes by rabbit-catching. A middleman who bought up all the rabbits In a district on the eastern side of Dartmoor, and sent them , to dealers in the Midlands and London, earned In a fow years a sufficiently large sum to onablo him to retire and live in a house of his own building. FOETBY EN FASSANTi rOREWAaNXD IS VOBKARMED. Oo get yourself a good stont club,' Or ax. or gun. or tnlfe. And be prepared to ase it in The coming campaign strife. For we shall hare by that same old Inscrntabllious plan. The person we should kill on sight, To-wlt: The straw vote man. Detroit Free PrtS. It is over, though long delayed, At last I bare seen m; Idol fall I let the dream like an Image fade With the unredeemed promise to call. Smi th. Gray 4 Co. ' JfonfJU. ALL SEASONS ARE ALIKE TO HER. The other day in the woods she flirted, Away from the city's giddy whirl: k Suspendered. necktled and-fancr shlrted. A flashing and radiant summer girl. She has left the groves and the fields of clover. She Is back again to the city's din. The summer flirtations all are over. Apd the autumn conquests now begin. As long asTlo marriage compact binds her The girl of the period is in for fan. And each successive season finds her . Btady aud willing to be wooed and won. Acts lark Press, He loved a literary girl, Twas one of Cnpld's saddest pranks. For when ho sent a rythmic pearl. She penciled it, "declined with thanks." Washington Star WAT, NAT. A man will shovel in the coal, And the carpet he will beat. And he'll worry himself with stocks and bonds For bis wife, upon the street. He'll build a fire in the kitchen stove Each morn at the break of day. Bat he won't put the studs in his wife's clean I , shirt, Ue'cause be alu't built that way. Clothier ant Furnisher. ".A:., , - . ...vtdr'X. ,-VAifou-...,. . - .rVi..iu-Jii4'iJat: v5BOk .MuXiaiAMXiJ'A J&Mk&tf&etMt bt mmmmmmmmmimsmiwimmmm ,
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