ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, IMS. VoL A No. 357. Entered at Pittsburg l'ost office, November II, l&ST, as second-class matter. Business Office G7 and99 Fifth Avenue. News Booms and Publishing House 75, 77 and 79 Diamond Street This paper baring nioro than Double the circulation of any other in tho Stnte outside of Philadelphia, its nd vantages as an adver tising medium will be apparent. TElULs OF THE DUsFATCIL rOETAGE rnEE IN THE UNITED STATES. JUnvr DisrATCit, One Year. J 8 00 DAILY DlsrATClI, Per Quarter 200 Daily Dispatch. OneNonth " Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday, one rear 10 00 Dailt Dispatch, including Sunday, per quarter -50 Daily dispatch, Including Sunday, one month. - SO Eokdat Dispatch, one year. ISO Weekly- Dispatch, one year 1 23 TnE Daily- Dispatch is delivered by carriers at 15 cents per week, orincludlnglhebundaycdltlon, at 20 cents per week. PITTSBURG, TUESDAY. JAN. 29. 1SS9. TAX ON uTTNATUBALIZED WORKMEN. The bill introduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature by Representative Campbell to tax manufacturers employing foreign-born unnaturalized labor 25 cents per day per laborer is a rather novel form of proposing to shut all foreigners out of the country, at least so far as the manufacturing industries are concerned. Of course it is evident that the effect of this would be to tax the laborers themselves. No manufacturer would employ labor sub ject to such an enactment unless he could get it at least 25 cents per day cheaper than the labor of American citizens. It is plain then that unless the unnaturalized laborer could afford to pay a tax of 60 or $75 a year he would have to live on air during the five years required for naturalization. It is possible that those who live as the Huns and Italians do might stand that burden; but the immigration that is desirable would be excluded from labor in the factories. The effect of such an enactment would therefore be to fill our poorhouses with the unnaturalized labor that cannot find agri cultural employment, aud probably to ex clude all future immigration except, possi bly, that of the lowest class. AN UNDIVIDED RESPONSIBILITY. The communication to The Dispatch this morning, upon high buildings, is valua ble and timely because it conveys element ary information as to leading rules; and it is well that the public should know at least some of the things which regard for safety calls for in putting up the immense struct ures which are now the fashion in business quarters of this and other cities. The writer raises a point which is open to debate, if not indeed to vigorous dissent, when he states that the owners rather than the architects or builders are responsible for neglect of fundamental requirements. It may be taken as a probable fact that owners often endeavor to limit the cost of their buildings; that, as in other enterprises, they seek to get the most for their money; but that any considerable number of them would be so monstrously stupid from a busi ness point of view or so criminally reckless as to seek cheapness at the known risk of safety, it is impossible to believe. But if such cases arc met with, and we are sure they must be very rare, it affords no excuse whatsoever for the architect and builder who go on with the work under those condi tions. The indiscreet or the grasping owner may not have the technical knowledge which would enable him to realize the dan ger of building at certain seasons, or of adopting one quality of material in place of another, or of changing specifications as originally drawn by the architect. But it is the architect's and builder's very business to know all of this; ana it is as clearly the duty of either to refuse to proceed in the face of any possible serious danger, as it would be the duty of a physician to refuse to have his prescription dangerously altered by a patient who knew nothing of medicine. The letter of our correspondent is valua ble because it spreads among non-professional folk certain facts, the general knowl edge of which may help to lessen the num ber of future risky adventures. But it would be a sad mistake to tolerate for one moment the idea that if owners, either through ignorance, or mistaken economy, or any other cause, occasionally seek to have buildings put up without proper regard to safety, there is any sort of justification for architects or builders co-operating with them. The public will not accept any line of reasoning that leads to so lame and im potent a conclusion. NOT SO EASILY BANKRUPTED. It is somewhat surprising to find a Phila delphia paper objecting to a bill to provide for and edncate children without support, as wards of the State, on the plea that if it were passed it would bankrupt the State, There is room for exception to the bill on the ground that it might be perverted to relieving parents able to work.from the care of their children, as well as from the sus picion that its real aim is the perpetuation of the orphans' schools. But in view of the fact that it is a plain public duty to care for all destitute children, the plea that it would bankrupt the State of Pennsylvania to do its duty, has about as much cogency as a plea that it would bankrupt a Yanderbilt to pay his wife's dressmaker's bills. The fact is that counties and cities have to dis charge this duty anyhow; and U is well worth considering, in connection with the abstract question, whether it would not be performed better in the orphans' schools of the State thau in the poorhouses and asy lums of the local governments. profits of bloodshed. The real stake at Samoa is indicated" in the statements of the correspondence of the New York World from that island. The foreign trade there is in the hands of three trading companies. One is English, another American and the third and most aggressive is a German corporation in which Count Herbert Bismarck, Herr von Puttkamer and other German officials of high authority are asserted to be financially interested. If this be true, it affords an adequate explana tion of the earnestness with which the Ger man navy is being used to give the pet cor poration exclusive control ot the Samoan trade. The probability that it may be re peated is in the aggressive support of the German East African Company which is given by the German Government. We have always thought though there is a great deal in onr politics that required re form, that we were better in such respects than foreign nations. The use of Govern mental position for private enrichment which would be political death to an American official, if found out, is taken as a matter of course in the nations wher privileged classes are an institution.. Cer tain interests get themselves unduly taken care of here; but the spectacle of Govern- ment vessels fighting to advance the fortunes of Cabinet officers would turn anv adminis tration upside down. The mere suspicion that such a thing might be at the bottom of Mr. Blaine's Peruvian policy was the severest stab that statesman experienced while in the Cabinet. There is nothing so discreditable as this on our side of the Samoan quarrel; but it must be admitted that the American com pany by itself does not appear to be a very shining light. The sale of arms and liquor to the natives is prohibited by treaty; but the American company hassoldtooneparty, and the German to another, arms and am munition of the most obsolete sort at extor tionate prices; and are reported to be taking mortgages on the Samoan plantations in payment, Thesjpte of affairs which has thus been prodaced for private enrichment at the expense of the unfortunate islanders is calculated to raise1 the question whether civilization is civilized. "WIDENING NARROW STEEETS. The movement to widen Diamond street from "Wood street to the market, and to open an arcade through the market house, comes very pertinently and shows a happy dispo sition to make the best of a great disaster. The present is the time at which the ex pense of converting that alley into a street of moderate width will be the least, and it should be carried through. Theonly criticism possible is that the proposition to make the street forty feet wide is too modest. In these days when buildings tower 80 or 100 feet in the air, fifty feet make a narrow street and sixty afford none too much width. The Dispatch has urged the importance of establishing a greater width of streets, that are obviously destined to be rebuilt and requiring conformity to the line in the erection of new buildings. If such a course had been adopted on Smitbfield street in 1870, it could by this time have been a mag nificent street seventy feet in width. The march of improvement on Fourth avenue has reached Smithfield street and stops there. If property owners on that street above the new postoffice, would agree to widen it to 60 feet, ahd get a viaduct thrown across the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St Louis Railway, the necessity for rebuilding would reduce the expenses to the actual appropria tion of the gronnd. In ten or fifteen years that street of lawyers and lodgings would surpass Fifth avenue it the hump is not re moved. On Third, Second and First aven ues, there are equally promising fields for such improvements. The example of the Diamond street property owners should stir up others to emulation in the enhancement of their property. THE NEW EXPLOSIVE. The discovery, by a Pittsburg chemist, of a new powder which is more powerful for small arms than any previously in use, is an interesting indication of what the United States can do when its attention is turned to providing the materials of war. With fast dynamite cruisers, dynamite cannon a. possibility for cast steel heavy artillery, and a new powder for small arms, among our late warlike products, it will be seen that we are prepared, if it comes to the test to repeat the achievements of the days when our monitors and Parrott and Bodman guns reduced the old world navies to the con dition of old junk. According to the state ments given elsewhere, the explosive power of the new powder is somewhat less than that of dynamite and probably considerably below the later inventions known in Europe. But the claim of superior safety and its adaptability to fire-arms, with the possibility of mating A cannon in which it can be used, will, it substantiated by experience, make it far more efficient in war than the old explosives. Give Pittsburg a little time and she will make it appear the part ofwisdomforthe old world to leave us alone. A VEBY WEAK PLEA. The plea that the responsibility for the failure of this Government to act on the Samoan question lies with Congress, is an attempt to let Secretary Bayard, through about the smallest hole, that is practicable for a flexible backbone. The Executive Department has charge of our diplomacy; and it is its duty to act in such matters. The idea that Congress which has had no official knowledge of the subject until within the past two or three days should have a policy marked out and'instructions for the navy that ought to have been issued a month ago, is simple puerility. A single instance will serve to show the weakness of this attempt to shift responsi bility. When the question was that of taking away a captured steamship from a weak power like Hayti, there was no at tempt to lay the burden on Congress. The State Department could then order out the fleet and act with a great deal of eclat It makes a great deal of difference when Mr. Bayard is dealing with some one of whom he is afraid. SHINING IOt SMITH. The morals of the New York legislature have always been more picturesque than pure. Assemblymen and Senators of the Empire State have done a great many things that would entitle them to distinguished places in the Rogues Gallery. In keeping with the tendency of the Hew York law maker to break the laws, a notorious saloon keeper named "Silver Dollar" Smith, who represents a New York City district in the State legislature, has achieved new fame by first losing all the money he possessed, and then winning it all back again, in a gambling saloon. Smith gained his riame of "Silver Dollar" by paving his saloon with coins of that denomination. The dollars in the floor drew custom to the bar, and Smith has waxed fat When he adventured his pile with the tiger yesternight he was unlucky. He lost all he had. Undaunted he returned to his saloon, dug up a hatful of the dollars, resumed play and this time made the tiger give up no less than $8,000. Brand new dollars now glitter under the feet of Smith's customers and constituents. Probably the reward which this novel breach of the laws against gambling will bring to Mr. Smith will be increased busi ness aud some such bauble in the popular gift as a Senatorship later on. It is such striking pieces of statesmanship as this that make the career of the legislature in New York so piquant and pleasing to the tax payers of the State. Here in Pennsylvania we can hardly hope to see brilliancy of this sort in our legislators. Philadelphia does her best to produce lawmakers of the "Silver Dollar" order, but it is only in a half hearted way, and usually the legislature at Harrisburg conducts itself with a show of resp ct for the laws and a sincere reverence for Mr. Quay. The novelty of the submission of a large contract for a traction road to the work men, and making the bid in accordance with their terms for wages, is reported in another column. This would indicate a step in the direction of making the work men sharers in the contract if it were not for the suspicion of a suggestion that slightly shaded wages may secure the con tract But why may not the practice be varied by tfie labor unions taking terms of the mill-owners for renting their works, and then bidding on such contracts themselves? "Vith five weeks left before the Fiftieth Congress will end its existence, that body hasevidently determined that it will not do to go back on its record. Therefore it will continue to do nothing to the end of its term. The statement in our correspondence, elsewhere, that prohibition does not pro hibit, on the cornplanter reservation, seems to require amendment in accordance with the fact stated, that it does prohibit on the reservation, as tne Indians have to go else where to get it. If Pennsylvania should adopt prohibition, it would not impeach the efficacy of that regulation to have our citizens go over to "West Virginia and paint its mountains red. If the lambs continue to refuse to come in and be shorn it is hard to see how anything more can be done, unless the Standard meets the producers once more and makes another agreemeent Department estimates, submitted with out recommendation on account of "the late ness of the time," should demonstrate the necessity of filing the estimates earlier. Ap propriations are not to be made without full scrutiny by all the officials who have any thing to say in connection with them. Each traction line appears to need to learn by experience that while speed is a good thing, it does not pay to smash up vehicles or fracture human limbs in order to attain it The best method known to produce a thaw, or to stave off a heavy fall of snow, is to buy a new sleigh and a fast trotter. To make more sure of warm weather in winter time, invite your best girl to go sleighing. Of late years this recipe has never been known to fail. France is almost as much at a loss to know what it shall do concerning Boulanger, as Allegheny to know what it ought to do about a second-class charter. That combination of newsboys and boot blacks who got up a pool for burglarizing the wrecked bookstores on "Wood street, ap pear to have a taste for literary thefts. After a session at the reform school they may be qualified to go into business as professional dramatists. The prospect of an ice crop is still a good deal like the grapes of Tantalus, dangled before our eyes but just out of reach. Mb. Halstead claims Mr. Harrison as an old friend, and says that the President elect did not tell him any secrets. This is in the nature of proof positive of Mr. Har rison's long acquaintance with Mr. Hal stead. PERSONAL FACTS AND FANCIES. Cardinal Newman plays the violin ex quisitely. Senator Hale gave a breakfast yesterday morning in the room of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, in honor of Mr. aud Sirs. Blaine, at which a number of Senators were present Ax observer of parallels in life finds that Cliauncey M. Depew, Alonzo B. Cornell, Eras tus Wiman, Warner Miller, Dan Lamont and Ella Wheeler Wilcox's husband all make close confidantes of their wives and behave toward them as if they were'still courtiers uncertain what the answer of the ladies would be tf mar riage was proposed. An American-born member of the British House of Commons, Mr. Channing, a grand nephew ot the great Unitarian divine and anti slavery advocate, has placed himself on the Radical side cf the British land taxation ques tion. In committee on the local government bill and on the hustings he has advocated the division of all municipal and county rates be tween the land owner and occupier. At present the occupier pays all. Mrs. Stanford, wife of the California Sen ator, has a Chinese cook in her employ who is becoming a nuisance owing to his overweening ambition. Mrs. Stanford sent him to a cooking school in this city in which he learned all the scientific, features of the gastronomic art The result was that on his return to Washington he displayed a desire to serve a banquet every day. He is not happy unless the Stanfords are giving a dinner party every 24 hours. There is a growing conviction in Mrs. Stanford's mind that the Chinese must go. ADJUSTING THEIR SALARIES. A Proposed Plan to Equalize the Amounts Pnid Certain Postofflce Officials. Washington, January 28. The Postmaster General has sent to Chairman Blount, of the House Committee on Postoffices and Post roads, a proposed plan for the classification of clerks in all first and second-class postoffices. The plan is submitted at the request of the committee, it having under consideration a bill for a more equable and effective classifica tion of clerks in postoffices of the classes named. Under tho proposed plan the salaries of a?sitant postmasters at first-class post offices cannot exceed SO per cent of the salary of the postmasters at their respective offices, and are to be graded in even hundreds of dol lars, from $1,500 to not exceeding $3,000, except the assistant postmaster at New York City, whose salary is fixed by this classification at 53.000. The salaries of superintendents of mall and superintendents of delivery cannot exceed 45 per cent oi tne saiaryoi tne postmaster, anu are to range from $1,300 to $2,700. The salaries of the superintendents of registry and super intendents of money order divisions cannot be greater than 35 per cent and 40 per cent re spectively, of the postmaster's, or exceed 52,100 and $2,400, respectively. As to the super intendents of the registry divisions, exception is made in the cases of the officials in New York, Chicago and Washington, where this offi cer's salary is fixed at 4U per cent of that of the postmaster. All subordinate offices and clerkships are also classified and the salaries attached to them readjusted. The general effect of this classification of the present force, it is said, would be to increase the aggregate of salaries by about 300,000. THRASHED THE SEXTON. Sirs. Lnttln Objects to Being Charged With Stealing Flowers From a Cemetery. Special Telegram to The Dispatch. Huntington, Con., January 28. On Satur day A. J. Burgess, sexton of the Long Hill Cemetery, drove up to the bouse of C. E. Lattin with the delivery clerk for the Birming ham feed mill. Mrs. Lattin saw Burgess, and, grasping awhip, she ran out and began thrash ing him as he sat in tho wagon. Four or five times the whip cut him across the head and shoulders, until he caught it and took it away from the woman. Then she went to the barn and got another whip, witlj which she renewed the lashing. Before Burgess could grab the second whip Mr. Lattin came up and stopped his wife. Burgess went to Sbelton this morn ing to obtain a warrant for her arrest, ana it is expected the case will come up before Justice Toinlinson to-morrow. The occasion for the whipping was a publica tion in a local paper some time ago that Sirs. Lattin, or a member of her family, had been stealing flowers from the graves in the ceme tery of which Burgess bad charge. It turns out that Mrs. Lattln's danghter has carried away an emblem that had been left on a grave, but she had done it at the request of a friend. The lot owners had been troubled tor a long time over thefts of flowers and' plants, and the Burgess had been too quick in branding the Latuns with being the thieves. A Limited Liability Company. From the New York World. 1 It should be distinctly understood that even tinder the most liberal interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine this Republics is a limited lia bility company. THE TOPICAL TALKEPu. More Six-Footers New Vie for Cable Cars Remarks of a Critical Sort. The Helen Barry company, which is travel ing through the country under tho manage ment of J. M. Hill, has obtained the title of "The Six-Footers." A number of tall Repub licans will take a melancholy interest in the fact that this lofty name has again come of association with Burr. W. Mcintosh. The big athlete, reporter and actor is figuring at pres ent as a comedian in Miss Helen Barry's com pany, and his six feet two Inches is nearly matched by the height of two other prominent actors associated with him, Messrs. Mordaunt and Colville, who are both over six feet tall. Miss Helen Barry is considerably above the average height of woman, having 5 feet 8 inches of stature. It is not wonderful, there fore, that the company should have earned in the giddy West the title of "Tho Six-Footers." V To give the signal service prophet his due it must be said that he hit the mark in his bulle tin published on Sunday. Rain changing to snow, with colder and northerly winds, pre sented a fair picture of the peculiar weather which we enjoyed two days ago. Some days ago a family living in the East nnd received a cablegram from one or its mem bers, a young lady, who is staying in Europe. At the breakfast table this message from across the ocean was read aloud, and paterfamilias re marked: "What a comfort it is to receive a cable like this!" Whereupon f small son said: "Bid it come in the cable cars, papa?" In one of the magazines for this month Mr. Seymour Eaton announces that he has a beau tiful book to sell which will act as an "open se same!" to the United States Civil Service, In which he states over 40,000 positions are now filled by men and women who succeed In pass ing the examinations. The author says the ex aminations are easy, and that political influ ence is no longer needed to obtain appoint ments with salaries ranging from $750 to 2,000. In fact, Mr. Eaton, or the man who wrote the book he publishes, seems to possess some de cidedly exclusive information about the civil service. f The name of Eaton in this connection sonnds familiar. Wonder if Seymour Eaton is related in any way to Dorman B Eaton, the father, as one may say, of his country's civil service, or what Mr. Dana calls, cruelly enough, Chinese civil service? AT a time when our cousins across the sea are howling so piteously because Prof. Bryce has dared to say that humor is more at home in America than England, it is unfortunate for John Bull that his pet artist, George Du Marnier, should have contributed such an ex quisite specimen of what the publishers of our London cotemporary, Punch, labeled humor. The specimen, which appears in the January Harper, is a picture of the conventional Du Manrier type. A really pretty girl, slender, tall, and possessed of the Du Maurier regular ity of featnre, twanging a banjo, stands face to face with a handsome, etberealized, stout calved young Englishman, also provided with a banjo. The following heading and dialogue occurs beneath the picture: BANJOVIALITIES. (THE iKEIMASONKT OF ART.) lie I beg your pardon bnter would yon be to very kind as to give me the G? She-Ob, certainly. (Gives it.) He Thanks, awfully! (Bows, and proceeds on his way.) Several experts have examined this picture and the legend accompanying it, but until Harper' furnish the key next week no hope of discovering the joke is entertained. A large reward will be paid to any man who will point ont a scintilla of humor in the picture or the paragraph. FAITH HEALING. Cures Resulting From tho Medical Applica tion of Hypnotic Influence. Correspondence of the Dispatch. Boston, January 28. In the last number of the nineteenth Century Dr. C. Lloyd Tuckey describes a visit to Dr. Liebault of .Nancy, in France, a place long celebrated as the seat of one of the modern systems of faith healing. Dr. Tuckey states that he went to Nancy with the expectation that his work of observation would lead him to reject the pretensions of the system. He states, however, that he was brought to admiration and conviction. It must be observed, however, that the sys tem of Dr. Liebault is not that pursued by the so-called faith healers of this country; but Is rather a sound method of medical practice based upon the use of the mesmeric, or "hyp notic" influence, as it is now the pnrase to call it. Of course, the observer scouts the idea that the remedy can have any valne in structural diseases which are independentof the action of the mind. Dr. Tuckey found, however, that the treatment was of distinct value in a large range of chronic maladies, especially those in volving the nervous and digestive systems. It infrequently acts in a singularly effective way in cases of hysteria, rheumatism or paralysis. It seems also to be of use in the enre of alcohol ism and other vices, such as the tobacco habit He states that under the influence of the hyp notic persuasion persons may abandon such practices without the slightest desire to return to their evil ways. Even In tbesingularly fixed opium habit it is said to produce good results. Twenty years ago I found my way by chance to the establishment of a certain Dr. Blum hardt at Boll, in Southern Wurtemberg, in wmcnmoretnaniw patients were in tne pro cess of treatment by the method of prayer alone. I saw there some striking instances of success in the treatment of chronic diseases snch as rheumatism, which were only to be ex plained by the effects of the singular convincing power of the reverend doctor as to the efficacy of his appeals to the divine grace. The most striking instance was that of an old peasant woman, so cramped witn rneumatism that she had to be brought from the wagon to the house in the arms of ber sons. The minister placed his hands upon the cripple's head, and prayed for her relief with such fervor and assurance that even the cold-minded critic was not sur prised to see the woman rise up and walk as she had not done for many years. PBOF. N. S. Shame. STERILIZED AIR. The Invention Which Is to Revolutionize Future Snrglcnl Operations. St. Louis, January 28. Mr. T. S. Tinsley, a prominent architect and inventor, of Kansas City, is reported to have discovered a method of producing sterilized air. The value of the discovery Is stated to be that all surgical opera tions can be performed by its use, without danger of subsequent inflammation. Mr. Tins ley claims that the sterilized air will destroy all germs and micores which exist in the - mosphere. His Idea is that the inflammation on wounds is due to the action of microbes, and that if they are eliminated the wounds will heal rapidly at the first intetion without suppuration. Dr. Halley, a surgeon of Kansas City, has become deeply interested in the discovery and is having constructed an operating room ad joining his rcsidence.and prominent physicians there express the belief that the discovery will revolutionize the present way of -treating wounds. The first experiment, to which lead ing surgeons of the country and members of the press will be invited, will take place in a short time. IT IS THE FAY0RITE J0DRNAL Of the People of tho Oil Country The Dis patch Complimented. From the Oil City Blizzard.) The daily doings of the lawmakers at Har risburg, published in The Pittsburg Dis patch, are as reliable as complete, being from the pen of Robert Simpson, formerly of the Blizzard. The Dispatch, by the way, con tinues to be a favorite journal with the people of this section of the State. Its news service as well as its special correspondence, both home and foreign, is complete, its editorials are able, fearless and in sympathy with the masses, and in its enterprise, judgment and expendi tures it justly ranks among the leading papers of the country. PITTSBURG G0LD-HUNTERS Find Quantities of the Precious Metal In the West Virginia mils. Special Telegram to the Dispatch. Huntington, W. Va., January 23. A man just arrived here from the hill section of Wayne county, reports that four men who went there from Pittsburg last fall to prospect for gold, bave met with success in surface min ing, having taken at least $40,000 worth of the precious metal during the past winter. . Tbe weather has been so mild that tbey could work almost every day. They have attempted to preserve the greatest secrecy, and have so far succeeded that few persons know of their good luck. CONSTRUCTING HIGH BUILDINGS. An'Architect Lnys Down Soma Rudimentary . Rules for General Information- Com plaints Abont Owners. To the Editor of The Dispatch: The terrible disaster of the 9th Inst to tho Willey building, under construction on Dia mond street caused by the sudden wind storm, about noon, on that date, involving the destruction of a number of contiguous buildings, the loss of so many lives, and the more or less serious injury of a large number of persons, 'suggests some thoughts on the form, arrangementand manner of constructing our modern,- high, city build ings, which, while not new, and not unfamiliar to our architects and builders, do not receive tho consideration which their importance demands. As a preface to my remarks I would like to say that an effort is often made to hoIiTthe architect and builder responsible for imperfec tions and defects, such as inferior and insuffi cient work and materials, lack of necessary pre cautions, and a too hastv construction at an un favorable season, when the owner himself is rightfully responsible therefor. A competent architect would rather design a thoroughly substantial building, if permitted, as it costs him no more so to do, while a reputable builder would rather erect such a structure, if paid for it, than a defective one. Every architect and builder knows that the owner almost invariably wants too much for his money. He selects his architect and in forms him that he desires a building of such a width, length, height and depth, containing a certain number of apartments, composed of certain materials and finished in a certain style, suggesting, often, some other building he has seen as an example, and concludes with the charge that the cost must not exceed a given sum. and the building must be finished by a stated time, the season frequently being the commencement of winter, and the limitations as to cost and time often not exceeding one-half what is required to insure a good bnilding. An bonest, experienced architect will inform such a cuent at once tnat such a building cannot do properIyconstructed and completed in the time, and for the sum demanded, citing the coming winter, etc., to which the owner retorts that his friend or neighbor had bad a similar building erected for about that sum during an equally unfavorable time, and, 'if you will not undertake it, I will have to employ some per son that will, but I prefer ydn, etc, etc" The architect is thus induced to take the contract, and promises to do bis best to comply with the owner's requirements; and, knowing that a handsome and novel design will be exacted, he proceeds to prepare it, keeping down the cost in every possible way, but still when the pro posals are received they greatly exceed the sum named by the owner, and the architect must perforce proceed to reduce the cost by reducing the quantity and quality of the ma terials, to approximate the limit set, changing a first to a second-class building; but he is not permitted to reduce the size or change tho general appearance of the building, and what should have been a tborongbly substantial structure becomes a cheap, second rate affair, but still within the limits of the buildinc laws. This much in explanation of the positions of the architect and builder or contractor, and I now proceed with the suggestions referred to. First The stone foundation or cellar walls of all buildings of six to eight stories, and from 80 feet to 100 feet in height above the street level, should be at least 2 feet 6 inches in thickness, bnilt of durable sandstone in regular courses of large size, well bedded in and slushed with the best cement mortar, and well bound to gether, and these walls should be started at a proper depth on a good, natural foundation, or upon piles and concrete, with large projecting footing courses, increasing the breadth of bear ing from one-half to the fnll thicknesses of the walls, according to the character of the ground on which they stand. Of course, piers and partsof walls required to support extra weights, per superficial foot of their areas, must have extra foundations and footings. Second The brick walls of such buildings should be at least 26 inches in thickness for the first fourth of their height, 22 inches for the second, 18 inches for the third, and 13 inches for the last fourth, and no walls should be less than 13 inches thick. They should be built of the best hard bricks and the best cement mor tar, well slushed and well bound together, anu they should be bnilt and kept absolutely plumb or vertical. They should never be built too rapidly, and in the spring and fall the brick should be dry and the walls kept dry. Brick work, stone work, plastering, eta, in which mortar and cement are used, should never be done in freezing weather, as the adhesiveness of mortar and cement is destroyed by freezing, leaving them no better than so much dry sand, so that the brick and stone of such work are kept in place by gravity alone, and the work would be better without such mortar and cement Third Narrow buildings and buildings of small areas sbonld nof be continned to the heights mentioned, unless supported and pro tected by adjoining buildings of equal height; or, if small and unprotected high buildings are erected, the walls should be extra heavy and substantially braced from floor to floor, as con structed, with heavy timbers, which should re main until the roofs are completed and the mortar of the walls is well set or dry. In fact, the walls of all buildings should be braced or stayed In this manner, as erected, to insure their stability and to keep them vertical, as it is well known that the tendency of all outer wails, built from the inside in the customary way, is to settle or incline toward the inside of the structure, which is caused by the weight of the floor beams and scaffolding on the inside, and, usually, less solidly constructed por tion of the walls. Had the walls of the last story of the Willey building been connected by a tier of ceiling or roof joist when the storm came; or had the walls been well braced as suggested; or had the front wall been the same height as the others, as stated in the fourth section of these observa tions; or had even a substantial storm front been carried up with the walls, the disaster might hare been avei ted. Fourth All the walls of a building, that is, the front, side, back and par tition walls, should be carried up uni formly, and well bonded at their junc tions, to insure a homogeneous and well knitted structure, so that all parts may settle equally, and that unsightly and dangerous cracks and separations may be avoided. There fore, as Is generally the case, when the front is of such a character, in workmanship and ma terials, that it cannot be prodnced and con structed as rapidly as the plainer side and back walls, the latter should be purposely delayed, in order that all the walls may go up together, and be thoroughly united. The end and aim of all mortar and cement, as is well known, is to compact the materials of walls, etc, into one mass, but time and favora ble conditions are necessarv for its action and Operation. Therefore, the "too rapid construc tion of buildings, and their construction at un suitable times, are the frequent causes of weakness and inability to withstand compara tively light wind storms, etc. even when the materials are the best, the mortar not having had time and opportunity to operate. The owner is almost invariably responsible for tho too rapid construction of a building, and for its construction at an improper season, his ar gument being that such a contract has been ex ecuted before, and that therefore, the objec tions cannot be well founded. The contractor is thus induced to repeat the risk, and while he may come out unscathed he may also be in volved in Irretrievable ruin. Fifth Where lines of girders and columns are required in a building, they, too, should be introduced as it progresses; the floor-beams or joists, if possible, should be continuous, from side to side, or, if jointed at the girders, they should be joined together across the same; they should have good bearings on the walls and girders, and should be well anchored in or to the walls. The custom of boxing or gaining joist into tbe sides of wood girders is not good practice, as the girders are greatly weakened thereby, and a slight spreading, or outward set tlement of the walls, will draw the joist out of their bearings in tlis girders, leaving them, sometimes, almost entirely unsupported. On the contrary the floor beams, or joist, should rest on the tops of the girders, and, If not con tinuous, they should be lapped and spiked to gether, or otherwise substantially connected. But these are details, with which every archi tect and builder is familiar. The effect of this disaster will surely be to make all architects, builders and owners, more watchful and care ful, else its lesson will have been in vain. T. SCJUAKE. Allegheny, January 28. COERCION NOT CONVERSION. Cardinal Gibbons Would Fight the Enemy Oaly With the Sword of the Spirit. Baltimore, January 23. At the dedication of the new Catholic church, St Paul's, on North Carolina street yesterday, Cardinal Giboons, in the course of his sermon, said: "We were informed recently by the dally news papers that u certain anti-Christian Sunday school was organized in tbls city for the pur pose of advocating an infidel doctrine. Several ministers appealed to the municipal authori ties to suppress tbe school. For my part, I would be sorry to see the arm of the civil law nsed toward the suppression of this school. Coercion is not conversion. Our divine Savior never bad recourse to tbe arm of the law or the sword in teaching bis doctrine. "The only weapons we ought to use are the weapons of argument and persuasion in deal ing with this school. The only sword I would draw against tbe enemy of Christ Is the sword of the spirit" i i- -f, in.,. . .. 7",--.. i , , , .J'.iii.relnBgBbfllOTgqBBWiWlsaffgMEaBB gfa'MBPaigBsBBBrllftlHnraH. . AT THE THEATERS. Laughter, With Morn or Less Reason, Is All the Stage This Wek Affords. Tnere is nothing new and nothing very good at the theaters this week. "The Two Johns" once more bob up rotundly at the Bijou, and a regalranized edition of "Fantasma," with a nominal "Hanlon attachment, is the bill of fare at the Grand Onera House. T. C. Stewart and Paul Dresser are the Two Johns at the Bijou Theater. They create laughter by tricks that are apparently as popu lar as ever, and they are surrounded by a com pany of decidedly clever people. The imeis past for reasoning the why and wherefore of the perennial attractiveness of this absurd play. People like it as they do oysters tbey can't tell you why. Probably from the look of the crowded house last night and the appear ance of the box office sheet "The Two Johns" will coin money in the usual remarkable way. There is no reason why the laughter which thousands enjoy at the Two Johns' expense shouldn't keep up for many year3 yet This time there are some points in it, but not enough to deserve mention. It is about the same case with "Fantasma." Children will be justifiably .pleased with its tale of fairies and demons, the absence of plot, tho pantomime business, tho harlequin ade tricks, the tinseled scenery, the limelight and the farcical work of Francois X. Zetner as Pico. A good many grown-up people In the audience seemed last night to enjoy the per formance also. The Opera House was very well filled. Further than this serious criticism on "Fantasma" is uncalled for. Hnrris'Theater. The man with the laugh attended Harris' Theater yesterday to see "A Cold Day." and he had his laugh with him. He needed it It was bandy, and he made good use of it. For a real dark case of the blues there could be nothing better prescribed than a dose of this same farce-comedy of Joseph Arthur's, especially as it is presented by Messrs. Ransone and Fisher and a bevy of pretty girls with sweet voices and grace in dancing. As laughter is the main object aimed at, the performance must be called a success, though just why Mr. Ran sone whose imitations and horse-play, by the way, are clever should think it makes a come dian any funnier to burst forth in an oath on every possible occasion and a couple here and there thrown in for luck, it would be bard to say. An oath isn't a funny thing, even on the variety stage, and an audience containing as many ladies as that attracted daily to Harris' Theater doesn't care particularly to be offended quite so frequently. In other respects the play will bear listening to throughout its three acts. The Academy of Music. There is no reason to complain of the quality or quantity of the programme at the Academy of Music this week. Ferguson and Mack's European Celebrities are worthy of the name for the most part, and they present an all around variety show of very even merit. Be sides Ferguson and Mack themselves the fol lowing artists are notable: Frank Moran, Jenna and Wentwortb, Mile. Nelson Balzac. Joo Hetherton, Larry and Lizzie Smith, Queen Hetherton and Dick Hume. Casino fllaneom. There are unusual reasons for saylngthat the Casino Museum gives a good return for the public's woney this week. The World's Great est Novelty Show contains some well-known artists, the Zublens, Joe Morton, Miss Jennie Santford and Billy Santford, the comedien. The star of the curiosity ball is the woolly girl of Minnesota. IT WILL BE A SUCCESS. The St- Wcnceslaus Church Congregation Pleasantly Openn Fnir. The congregation of tbe new St Wenceslaus Church, on Main street Allegheny, opened a fair in their new school building last evening. The proceeds of the fair are for the benefit of the new edifice. Tbe decorations were pro fuse, and the many booths and stands were very pretty. The Gerniania Band gave a con cert last evening. A large ciowd was in attend ance. The fair will continue for six weeks. The Cathedral Band and the George Schad Drum Corps will also givo concerts. INDIA BROUGHT TO OUR DOORS. An Illustrated Missionary Sleeting nnd En tertainment in Allegheny. An entertainment, subject, "An Evening in India," will be given this evening at 7:45, at the Second U. P.. Church, Stockton avenue and Sandusky street, Allegheny, by Miss Emma Dean Anderson, returned missionary from In dia, and Dr. Sophie Johnson, a native of India. It will consist of talks on manners, customs and religions of Hindoos, SikbsandMobammedans; display of costumes, cooking arrangements and other curiosities of India. The must interest ing parts of the talk will be illustrated. AMUSING THE LITTLE ONES. Children Give an Entertainment at tho Home of the Friendless. Tbe Sunday school children of the First Christian Church, on Stockton avenne, Alle gheny, gave a pleasant entertainment at the Home of the Friendless, on Washington street, last evening. The little ones enjoyed the evening very much. The entertainment con sisted of songs and recitations by the school children, the pantomime, "A Sleeping Beauty," and a flag drill. Nineteen young ladies took part in the drill. Wedded Lnst Evening. There was a delightful though entirely un ostentatious little wedding at 151 Fifth avenne last evening, with Miss Kittle E. Sapp. of Mt. "Vernon, O., as tbe bride, and Mr. Ellsworth McCombs, of this city, as tbe groom. The knot was neatly tied by Rev. C. E. Locke, and the worthy couple were the recipients of many warm and substantial congratulations. The bridegroom is one of the most popular brass workers in the Westingbnuse employ a gentleman richly deserving and now richly re warded. Entertaining College Students. It seems to be tbe wide-awake and energetic Inspector who "gets there" in these days of progress. In that view of the case. Mr. Charles J. Smith, principal of the Iron City College, last ovenlne not only instructed but highly en tertained the institution's patrons and friends by engaginc: Mrs. Monroe, of Washington, to deliver to them her excellent illustrated lec ture on "The Civil War." The hall was crowded and the lecture was a real treat. Gayety in Sewickley To-Nlgbr. Choral Hall, Sewickley, promises to be the gayest place this evening, nnder the manage ment of the St. Stephen's Episcopal Church Ladies Aid Society. There will be a supper, followed by Gernert and Guenther's music, un der the special management of Mrs. Herbst, McKelvy, Gilmore, Liggett, McLane and other ladies of tho church. Snpper nnd Dance. The Minerva Social gave a supper and dance last night at tho hall of Company B, of the Knights of St. George. About 200 conples danced to the music of the Cathedral Band, and supper was served by the ladies, making in all a very pleasant affair. Reception nt the Herbsts' Home. At the charming Sewickley home of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Herbst last evening a most enjoy able little reception was given in honor of Miss Clara Russell, of Indianapolis. TOO MUCH INDUCTION Causes a.Lecnl Fight Between Telephone nnd Motor Companies. Special Telejrram to The Dispatch. Akbon, January 28. What is to be a stoutly contested case began here in tbe .Common Pleas Court this morning. The Central Union Telephone Company asks that the Spragne Electric Motor Company and tbe Akron Street Railway Company be restrained from running their electric street cars in this city, and from extending their line until they remedy the in duction which has made it impossible for some of the telephone subscribers to use tbeir in struments. Hon. John S. Wise, Mahone's Nemesis at Chicago last summer, appears for the street car company, and A. A. Thomas, of Chicago, for tbe telephone company. The telephone company was in operation here first and claims that the street car company should rnn return wires along Its line, so as to remedy the trouble. The attorneys for the electric railway argued to-day that the telephone line was not put up properly and should be provided with return wires, which would be much cheaper than re turn wires on tbe electric road. Florida the Only Laggard. Washington, January 28. The electoral messengers from all .the States except Florida have arrived and deposited their certificates. It is thought that the missing messenger will arrive before midnight ODD PHASE OP CITY LIFE. Entertained at a Dinner la Jail. miW TORE BtTRIAC SPECIALS. 1 New York. January 23i Frank Dudgeon entertained five friends at dinner in the Ray mond street jail yesterday. The dinner was a very fine affair, consisting of eight courses of game, fish, and meats. Four kinds of wine were served with it. Dudgeon is awaiting in jail the result of a Coroner's Inquest into the death of Kitty Cody. He was intimate with Miss Cody for nearly two years, and eventually married her on her deathbed. Her death was caused by an operation to which he is thought to have been accessory. Dudgeon's annual in come is $20,000, A Victory for Striking Girls. The girls who were locked out of the feather working establishments last week think they have achieved a great victory to-day. Early this morning three pickets, whom they had placed on guard before a feather factory, were arrested for intimidating women seeking work. Feather workers, In a terribly agitated state of mind, crowded the Courtroom, when Mamie Spencer, the most offensive picket, was called to the bar. Mamie swore that she was 14 years old and hadn't Intimidated anyone. Theowner of the factory, before which she and her com panions were posted, swore hard to the con trary, but lost bis case. A Broadway firm has engaged ten of the striking girls at union wages. The rest of the strikers held an all-day meeting at Cooper Union. Funeral of lingo Frltsch. The funeral of Hugo Fritsch, the dead Con sul General of Austro-Hungary in New York, will take place next Wednesday. It will be at tended by all the Austrian and Hungarian so cieties in the city. The Austrian Minister and attaches of the Austrian legation will come from Washington to attend the services. An Argument Against n Tnnnel. The Aldermen of the Committee on Docks tried to learn something to-day abont the Long Island Railway's plan for a tunnel under East river. Rey Stone, President of the railway company, told them that the tunnel would be 4 miles long and would cost about So,0jX).0C0. When well under way, Mr. Stone thought, the traffic through it would net the city $60,000 a year, and tbe railway companysomewhat more. P. C. Baker and a citizen's committee warned the Aldermen against giving New Yorkers a tunnel through which they could slip away from city taxes. The hearing will be resumed to-morrow. Cured of Hydrophobia. Two months ago Mrs. Jacob Minute, of New ark, was bitten by a mad dog. She at once went to Paris to be treated by Pastenr. Prof. Roche, a pupil of Pasteur, treated her 20 days, making 31 inoculations. Pasteur told her tbat her case was so far advanced that three days more without treatment would have rendered her incurable. Mrs. Minnte returned yester day on the steamship Ems. She tninks she has been cured. Courted bnt Escaped Matrimony. After an acquaintance of two weeks Miss Minnie Schefland asked Louis Wieglitz to marry her. He accepted. He was tremendously fond of her, she thought, despite tbe fact that she had to do tho proposing. He took her to balls and theaters, and on steamboat excur sions. As soon as she set a wedding day be tried to be less attentive to her. Her father and mother became alarmed and compelled him, by threats of a lawsuit, to sign an agree ment to marry her. Miss Schefland bought her trousseau, and fruit cake, and engaged a .cler gyman. An hour before the time appointed for the marriage Wieglitz wrote her tbat be couldn't marry her, as he loved another girt She fell ill of brain fever. To-day sho had re covered sufficiently to cause Wieglitz's arrest in a 5,000 breach of promise snlt Yictlms of a Fnrnnnce Flue's Burst. John Leonard, one ot the eight firemen in jured by the bursting of a furnace flue on the steamship Republic, yesterday, died to-day. James Collins, another victim, will probably die within 24 hours. The injuries of the othtrmen, though severe, will not prove fatal. Mayor Grant Warned by White Caps. Mayor Grant found this letter in his mail this morning: To tbe Mayor Grant City: Please do us a favor by closing them bad bouses in tbe city. Better look after something else; better regulate the streets tbat they dump no ashes in day time that people get spoilts there cloths with it Also not to allow anybody to put them wagons or cards on tbe sidewalk to keep people back from there work, and last to make owners of houses have the sidewalk cleen from snow and ice before 9 or 10 o'clock every morning. Else we see yon at residence. White Caps, Division No. 60, City. LEADERS WANTED To Restore Wall Street to Its Old-Time Excitement and Brilliancy. Special Telegram to The JJispatch. New York, January 28. The situation in Wall street has shown only insignificant changes. In some respects there has been a limited improvement, confidence showing a slight revival and prices resisting depressing influences with rather more firmness than usual. The restricted volnme of business, how ever, was discouraging, and never was theneed of a few bold, active traders more apparent Listlessness, in fact, has been the chief char acteristic of the market, neither good uewsnor bad making any particnlar impressions. What with railroad agreements and the cessation ot cutting on the one hand, and the passing or reductioitof dividends on the other, the opportunities for activity and manipula tion during the past month hare been alto gether exceptional; and were it not that we have lost many of the old-time leaders. Wall street would in all probability nave been the scene of some very active and exciting times. Such men as Woerishoffer. Vanderbilt and others, who either through brilliancy or power commanded a large following, are now totally wanting; their successors have yet to make their appearance: and while it is partly true that the absence of the outside public is against their development. It is also true tbat the out siders can uever be induced to take bold while leadership of some sort is not forthcoming. Leadership is what the market most wants, and, at the same time, what it most lacks. NEW YORK'S LATEST. A Movement for Narrow Houses They Bring More Than Old-Slyle Ones. From the New Vork Sun. The uptown movement is all for little narrow houses built three on t o lots, or eight on five lots, and yet so well finished and lavishly orna mented that they fetch more than a splendid, big, old-fashioned house in tbe old parts of town! Those who like elbow room call these new little dwellings "horse-cat houses." One cannot swing a cat in any room in such a house, and in tbe bedrooms the custom is to use pat ent beds and to shut them up in tbe morning in order to make room in which to dress. It is said tbat nine in ten of these houses are sold or rented to the new comers in town. Old resi dents who have lived in larger houses cannot be induced to move into these little boxes. SENATOR YANCE LOSES AN EYE. His Fbyslclaus TJnnble to Ascertain the Cause of His Trouble. Washington, January 28. Senator Vance to-day had one of his eyes removed. He bas been suffering severely for some time, and the physicians bave not been able to ascertain tbe direct cause of tbe trouble, which took the form of a separation of tbe retina from the ball of tbe eye. The operation was successfully performed and the Senator is resting comfortably. It's a Wonder now We Live. From the New York World.! A Philadelphia physician has Been making a study ot chrome-yellow poisoning for more than two years, and be comes to the startling conclusion that many victims succumb to it who are supposed to be overcome by organic diseases of various kinds. Tbe more science looks into questions ot this kind the greater wonder it seems to be that anybody manaees to live, much less to maintain vigorous health. Mexican Clgnrs Can't Come Here by Mali. Washington, January 28. Assistant Sec retary Maynard bas informed tbe Collector of Customs at Corpus Christl. Tex., tbat cigars cannot be imported from Mexico through the mails, under the postal convention with Mexico. CDEIODS CONDEKSATIOBS. The chief of an Australian tribe deliv ered the following temperance lecture in ona line: "One drink is too much; two ara not enough." New York has a restaurant that sort of reverses things. An establishment fronting Central Park roads has a sign "Ladies' Res taurant; Reserved Seats for Gentlemen." By spraying the region of external eyo with ether Drs. Henoque and Fridel, of Paris, render tbe dental nerves Insensible, and extract teeth without pain or general antethesia. In Liverp6 the rate of mortality is 18.8 per cent Every fourth funeral is that of a child under 1 year old. and every second funeral is that of a child under 5 years old. The thistle at the antipodes seems to at tain a most vigorous growth. Its root pene trates to a depth of from 12 to 20 feet and this root, even when cut into small pieces, retains vitality, each piece producing a new plant Leopold, King of the Belgians, has never slimed a death warrant and, although the statute has never been repealed, capital punishment is practically abolished in Bel gium. In Richmond, lie., a young lady's stockings began to blaze while she was warming her feet before an open fire, recently. She sprang and plunged her feet into a wash-bowl half full of water that luckily was near, but not'until two feet of hose had been burned to a cinder. A horse ran away at Cartersville, Ga., the other day, and after running against a moving traip, and knocking himself down, ha ran into tbe waiting room of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, where he was captured amid great confusion. A section crew on the "Wisconsin Central Railway, when about three miles east of Junc tion City, ran down a large lynx, which threw the band-car from the track. Tbe anfmal then charged the crew, who were armed only with shovels. After quite a desperate fight Foreman Beats succeeded in dispatching the beast. The grandest railway station in the world is said to be tbe terminal station in Bom bay, India, of the Peninsular Railway, known as the Victoria building, which was completed in May last and named In honor of the Em press of India. The execution of tbe work oc cupied ten years, and the cost is estimated at 518.8CO.O0O. The total length of the principal elevation is over 1,500 feet. Alfred Daniel, of Douglas county, Georgia, is 82 years old; was never sick a day in bis life; was never in bed at sunup; never lost a tooth, has been to six logrollings thi year; lifts more than most men; often indulges in coon and 'possum bnnting: bas been a deacon in the Baptist Church for 58 years; was never drunk in his life, and an oath lias never escaped bis lips. He is tbe father of 26 children. 13 now living; has 70 grandchildren, and a number of great-grandchildren. Chicago's widespread reputation as a divorce town causes some queers things to come through the mails to her lawyers. Not long ago one of the most noted attorneys caught this from Rising Sun, Ind.: "Dear sir Inclosed find $5, for which please mail me a divorce from mv wife. I'm sick and tired of her. John Smith." The same attorney re ceived this one from a little town in Wisconsin: "Sir My wife's name is Jean. I must bave a divorce at once. Send it C. O. D. Money Is no object ." A very interesting discovery was re cently made in the vicinity of Cambridge, Eng. A field was being levelled at the back of St John's College, when the workmen cut into a Saxon burying ground. For several days no notice was taken of the matter, and numbers (the workmen said hundreds) of skeletons and urns were destroyed. The excavations then went on for six wceki nnder thp supervision of memoersoi tne .rt'-Tiqnarian committee, ami. as a result, a nnni.,-r of skeletons, about 10U urns, and a large number of weapons, urns and ornaments have been placed in the Antiquarian Museum. Anything to save time is New York'tf motto. The newest thing is a shop where men and women may have their shoes mendedwhilo tbey wait Customers see the latest shoemak ing machinery in the window, and behind tho machines a row of lasts at which men prepare the work for the machines. A woman goes in, has her shoes taken off, pnt on the lasts, trim med of all tatters aud shreds, fitted with new heels and soles, put into a sewing or nailing machine, an.l made' good as new almost half 33 quickly as it has taken to write these words. Patching is the only work that is done in the old-fashioned way. Entire new shoes are madu to order by the pair in two hours. It has just been discovered that the shrewdest New York bootblacks aim to be come the owners of. several complete boot blacking outfits. They cannot, of course, use all of these themselves, but tbey lease them to other boys, charging usurious rates therefor. If he rents bis brushes to one boy and his box and footrest to another ho exacts from each one-quarter of hi daily earnings. If herenH the whole concern to one boy, that bov must give him half of his Rains every day. Not in frequently the thriftiest of the youngsters make as much as $10 per day by this scheme. "While a heavy train was palling up a grade near Carlisle station recently it parted, leaving but three cars attached to the engine, which, of course, increased its speed consider ably, and thus the accident was discovered. When they had connected the train and started up again tbey passed a car lying alongside the track, and the condnctor remarked that some fellow must bave had an accident the night be fore. It was not nntil be reached Du Bois that he fonnd ont that the car was one of his own train, which had become detached and fallen over when the train parted. It seems strange that a car with 40 tons of coal could escape from the middle of a train and nobody find is out A Chicago woman named Jane Trover lives In a flat with no companions but cats. A few nights ago Herman Sindlcr, who occupies the floor above, became so enraged at the bowl ing of the feline colony that he captured ono member of it and pounded out its brains with a club. To square matters .Mrs. Trover on the next evening piled pots, kettles, chairs, tables, etc, on the stairway, and when Mr. Sindler sallied forth, clad in his finest raiment be tripped over a skillet and, plunging into the lot, rolled down an almost interminable stairway. Kettles, chairs, etc., bruising bim as he went. The magistrate before whom Mrs. Trover was then taken pronounced the joke very funny, but placed the joker under a heavy bond to keep the peace. He also decreed tbat the cats must go. SIFTED DOWN. Neglected wife Charles, why are you so cold of late? Evasive husband I guess It' because my under wear is not heavy enough. Drill Sergeant I say, Schmidt, have you any Idea of how slow and t tupld you are? Private Schmidt I don't know. Of course jou don't, but let me tell yon that an Egyptian mummy Is frisky compared with you. Musical Item. One of these dollars is a counterfeit, ma'am. Mow can you tell? Simply by sound. Just tap It and hear how clear the genuine sounds. That's tenor. Notice when I tap the other one. That's base. A Considerate Judge. Judge Miss, how old are you. , Witness Well, I mm 30. Thirty what? Well, between 30 and 40. I'll put your age down at 33; I guess you won't lose anything by that. Art Note. Mr. Highliver Lawyer Marsh still Insists that portraits can be painted by the aid of spirits. What folly! Mrs. Hlghllver-Wcll, my dear, some spirits may be able to paint portraits, but they certainly can paint a man's nose a beautiful red. There U yonr own, for Instance. Prolonged silence. Fastidious About Fowls. Guest (at tempting to carve) What kind of chicken Is this, anyhow? Walter-Dat's a jrenulne Plvmonth Bocker, sab. Guest (throwing up both hands) That explains it, by George! I knew she was an old timer, but 1 had no Idea she dated back there. Take 'er away. I draw tbe line on tbe henhouse of the Mayflower. Disappointed Men. Often as we laugh over the old epitaph. "1 was well, f wanted to be better. I took medicine and here I am," we overlook Its general application to the attain of life. At with health, so with business; nine per sons out of ten Ignore the secret of content: they are constantly striving after something different to what they enjoy. A spirit of enterprise Is not to be discouraged, but we protest against a habit of change the habit of shifting from one business to another. Tbe world Is full of seedy, disap pointed old men, who are picking up a precarious living at tbe back dour of life, because they have. In the course of their lives, tried a hundred dif ferent ways ofmsklng a llTlnjr and neverocrse vered in one, because success was not Instantan eous. To few men or women is It given to do more tban one or two things well, but almost any pur suit may be crowned with success If pushed with singleness of purpose and a determination to sur mount all obstacles. All from Tcxat Stftingt. y
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