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P1TTSBURO. THURSDAY. JULY 4, 1883.
A GSEAT NATION'S BIBTHDAT.
To a nation which appreciates its liberty,
iu resources, its history and its future so
keenly and so constantly as ours, the anni
- Tersary of its birth is a day that must bring
tha liveliest and most pleasureable emo
tions. During the other three hundred and sixty
fpur days there is the rush and bustle of
business. The million exciting incidents of
constant, risible growth, occupy the mind
so fully of themselves that there is little
time or disposition for review of the na
tional life. It might even be thought, from
the intensity of political disputes and the
hot discussion of questions of the hour, that
at times there is cause to be out of conceit
with the workings ot some of our institu
tions. But no estimate would be more su
perficial. The United States is the happi
est, most enlightened, most prosperous and
most promising nation that to-day exists, or
that has ever existed. This is not the lan
guage of buncombe, or spread-eagle rhetoric
It is about as simple and modest a statement
as can be made of a great and important
fact. Every intelligent citizen of the coun
try knows it to be true; and many intelli
gent citizens of other and less favored coun
tries are fully aware of it also.
It is well that this feeling is part of the
national life. No matter whether it is ex
pressed in the explosion or fireworks as is
the custom of our times; or iu verse or state
ly oration as was 'more the habit of years
past; or whether it be but the silent thought,
the personal and quiet acknowledgment of
each one to himself, it is well that the
fourth of July should not pass without tes
timony that the citizens of the Kepublio are
deeply, earnestly proud of their heritage.
The science of government seems easy
where success end prosperity are the con
spicuous results; but how much the form of
government has to do with the welfare of
the citizen can best be studied by eontrast-
ing the state of things in Europe with that
in the United States. It is not merely the
grinding poverty iu which masses
of people live and die there
poverty which signifies conditions
of life such as have no parallel here; but
what is more painful yet, the virtual exclu
sion of vast numbers from opportunities to
betid themselves. Added to this, and
largely the cause of it, is the humbugging
show ot royalty and hereditary aristocracy,
and of immense armies maintained at enor
mous expense to keep the peace peace
which might well be universal but for the
personal and dynastic ambitions of royal
- families and their courtiers, who depend
wholly on force to sustain them alike against
internal and external enemies.
Every succeeding Fourth of July but
adds another chapter to the proof of the
wisdom of the founders of our republic. A
cloud of sorrow because of recent great
physical catastrophes, hangs over the Fourth
which is ushered in this morning, but even
these dreadful occurrences are not unat
tended by features which serve in their way
to show forth the magnificence ot the na
tional character. The instantaneous and
splendid sympathy and noble aid which the
whole land extended but a few weeks ago
to stricken Johnstown shows that the spirit
of our people is as grand as their political
destiny.
A NEW DIPLOMATIC LIGHT.
It is assuring to learn through the unoffi
cial channel of a private letter from Hicks,
of Wisconsin, that he is booming the diplo
matic business in Peru. Hicks, it may be
remembered, is the otherwise unknown citi
zen who was appointed Minister to Peru on
the strength of a Senatorial signature, which
the Senator forgot all aboui until, upon pro
testing against the appointment, he was con
fronted with his own handwriting. But it
seems that the adventitious Hicks, upon his
own statement, is the right man for the
place. He has been welcomed by President
Caceres, who has asked him to dinner and
done everything to make Hicks feel at home;
and Hicks certifies that he has eaten the
dinners and received the visits from the
Peruvian President, in an enthusiastic
manner, calculated to solidify the relations
between the two American republics. So
long as dinners are to be eaten, and other
festivities partaking of the nature of a blow
out, are to be gone into, Hicks is certain
that he was born for diplomatic greatness.
If it had not been for that unwitting Sena-
tonal signature the country might have for
ever remained in ignorance of Hicks' mar
velous capacity for diplomatic feeds.
BOOHS TBUST VALUES.
The multiplicity of trade organizations,
taking the form of trusts, is generally re
garded as an indication that trade is pass
ing under the rule or combination, and that
this modernized form of monopoly is the
latest development of commercial method.
The purpose of the original trust to secure
the enjoyment of exorbitant profits, by the
suspension of competition, is without ques
tion; but the adoption of the same form of
organization in branches of business where
it is impossible to smother competition, in
dicates either that there is a great deal of
ignorance and miscalculation as to the pos
sibilities of the trust, or else that another
motive is at the bottom of these organiza
tions. The public evil of these organizations is
generally regarded solely as bearing on the
increased prices which they will attempt to
levy upon the consumer. This is unques
tionable, provided they are successful in
their purpose of abolishing competition;
but it is no less plain that a great many of
the reported trusts will be utterly powerless
to accomplish that end to more than the
most temporary and transient degree. The
rumored Pottery Trust, which has just re
ceived notice throughout the newspapers of
the country, is a case in point. If a com
bination should be formed to control all the
pottery factories in the country, and thus
put up the prices so as to yield an excessive
profit, it wonld not be a twelvemonth be
fore a host of new factories would spring
into existence. These factories would either
have to be admitted to the trust, or else
their competition would make prices lower
than ever before; and the final result would
be wider and more irrepressible competition
than existed at the inception of the combi
nation. It is hardly possible that the keen-sighted
business men who are engaged in organiz
ing these trusts all over this country, and in
England as well, arc so blind that they can
not see this point; but the fact is that there
is another and more prompt profit from the
organization of these combinations, which is
probably the real purpose in their creation.
That is the profit of passing off upon de
luded investors the shares in the trusts at
prices largely above their actual value. It
is the same game as the negotiation of
watered railway stocks, in a slightly altered
form. The public has got the idea that
everything in the shape of a trust is going
to be enormously profitable; and therefore,
it is concluded, investors will be ready to
snap up trust certificates at almost any price
which the organizers may choose to put
upon them. So long as this delusion pre
vails there is, therefore, an enormous and
quick profit in buying up the factories of
almost any industry at from five to ten
million dollars, capitalizing them at twenty
or forty million dollars, and unloading the
shares on the confiding public This is un
doubtedly the sole purpose of such English
enterprises as the Brewery Trust, and prob
ably the salt combination; and there is
little reason to doubt that the same idea is
largely responsible for some of the Ameri
can trusts which are already floating their
certificates on the Ifew York Stock Ex
change. Of course this phase of the matter does
not modify the obnoxious and wholly dis
honest character of the trust. Where they
cannot make a legitimate profit by extor
tion from the consumers, they propose to
secure the same end by the delusion of in
vestors and obtaining money under false
pretenses. Either method is a violation of
the equities of trade and finance, and
results in concentrating fortunes in .he
hands of thp unscrupulous few at the cost
of the public.
A SPLENDID INVESTMENT.
The discussion as to the practicability
and cost of a canal to connect the head
waters of the Ohio with Lake Erie, which
appears in our local columns, gives a clear
idea of the importance of the project, and at
the same time indicates the possibility of a
surprisingly small cost. The statement
that water transportation to the lakes could
be secured at but little more than the cost
of a railroad ior the same distance puts the
case in a strong aspect.
If a canal ot that sort can be built for
anything like the figures given, there should
be no delay in urging the project to a speedy
realization. It would be satisfactory to
have the United States Government build
it; but if there is any difficulty about that,
Pittsburg should be prompt to supply the
comparatively small capital needed to se
cure its great benefit A demonstration of
this is afforded by our experience with the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie road. About the
amount stated as necessary to construct the
canal was put into that railroad project,
and within five years, besides the value of
the stock as an investment, the road gave
Pittsburg an increase of indnstry and values
worth several times its cost. Yet the cheap
ening of freights for Pittsburg's funda
mental industries by the railroad wis about
one-fourth what it would be by the canal.
Such a waterway as is outlined in our
local columns would make Pittsburg inde
pendent of railroad combinations on coal,
ore, coke and iron freights. Five cents per
ton toll on the freights which Pittsburg
alone could furnish would pay interest on
the cost of the canal, and with that toll the
cost of the freights could be cheapened one
half. With such a benefit in view, it
would seem plain that our industrial inter
ests should lose no time in taking steps to
secure its completion.
POINTS FOB BEFOHM.
Mr. Chauncey M. Depew rarely talks for
publication without giving the newspapers
a good many subjects for discussion. The
discussion may not always be favorable to
Mr. Depew's views, bnt the topics which he
presents are invariably fresh and interest
ing. An example of this sort is presented
by his recent statement on behalf of the
President, whom Mr. Depew took under
his enlivening protection a week or two ago.
After certifying to the harmony which ex
ists between the President and Mr. Blaine
which seems unnecessary since Mr. Joseph
Manley got the Augusta postoffiec Mr.
Depew proceeds to draw a picture of the
effect of the rush after office which is very
instrnctive. Four thousand applicants for
ISO consulates are pointed out by Mr. De
pew, and his belief is asserted that this pro
portion will be maintained if not increased
through all the departments. Consequent
ly, " public business is at a stand-still."
The testimony of Mr. Depew that the dis
tribution of office on the principle of the
spoils system results in keeping pub
lic business at a stand-still after the admin
istration has been in operation four months
ought to suggest some very pertinent con
clusions. It is a tolerably strong inference
that a system which would distribute offices
on an entirely different basis than the con
sideration of political service would be very
superior to the one now in force. Mr. De
pew omits to draw this conclusion, but when
he puts the premises for it so very percepti
bly, he approaches very closely to the condi
tion of the hated mugwump.
But this is by no means all. Mr. Depew
goes on to say that "the whole country
seems to think that Cleveland removed and
replaced all the officeholders and that
vacancies can be made everywhere. The
fact is that he removed only about one-third
of the place holders." This is also an in
teresting and important point, as bearing
upon the relative sincerity of the two ad
ministrations in their reform professions.
We do not remember that Mr. Depew made
any such statements with regard to the
small proportion of removals by the Cleve
land administration, during the campaign
which resulted in Mr. Harrison's election.
Of course Mr. Depew Is now making good
the omission, with the intention of im
proving his influence with the present ad
ministration for the purpose of having Mr.
Cleveland's example followed.
The remark of the Providence Journal
that "President Harrison has a Eoumania
for every Sowden," indicates that the
esteemed Journal has not yet mastered the
personal aspect of Pennsylvania politics.
It seems to have an idea that President
Harrison is consoling that Democratic Con
gressman, Mr. Sowden, of Allentown, who
was suppressed by-PresIdsnt Cleveland for
voting according to the interests'of hUon-
stituents on the tariff, by appointing him to
the Roumanian Mission. This credits Presi
dent Harrison with an unwonted degree of
liberality in appointing Democrats to diplo
matic posts. The esteemed Journal fails to
perceive the vital difference made by the
introduction of an extra "n" in the name.
There is a decisive distinction between
Congressman Sowden and Mr. A. Louden
Snowden, who has received the Roumanian
appointment.
Now that gubernatorial dignity has got
on its ear over the question of the introduc
tion of President Harrison at Woodstock,
Mr. Henry C. Bowen may well feel that he
has nothing further to ask for from this life,
in the way of getting himself advertised.
EnoDE Island is disgusted at the dis
covery that the repeal o its prohibitory
law will require an extra session of the
Legislature to provide some regulation for
the liquor traffic As that body has met
twice already this year, Rhode Island can
hardly be blamed for feeling that it is
likely to have too much of a good thing.
Perhaps the vote of Pennsylvania on pro
hibition may be partially accounted for by
the knowledge of the public that, by voting
the way they did, they escaped the calamity
of an cztra session of our Legislature.
What the Governor of Mississippi is say
ing to the Governors of Louisiana and Ala
bama will be regarded by the pugilistic
crowd as much less appropriate than the
proverbial remarks that passed between the
Governors of the two Carolina.
Beceetaet Noble gives the administra
tion a certificate of character by testifying
that not a word of profanity has been heard
at the Cabinet meetings since the administra
tion was organized. We are glad to know
that the Cabinet is so exemplary, but still
the certificate is likely to create our special
wonder, as to whether it did not require the
prompt adjournment oi the Cabinet meet
ing when it was learned that Montana had
gone Democratic
Yesterday was the kind of a day that
is calculated to restore hnman belief in the
benignity of nature If we can have such
weather as that for the Fourth of July, the
previous meteorological transgressions of
1883 can be given.
Geneeal SHEEMA2 recently indulged
in some sarcastic remarks to a
Chicago reporter on the policy of Chicago
in annexing all the outlaying agricultural
districts. The consequence is that the Chi
cago press is unanimously beginning to in
timate that the General pursued an entirely
unjustifiable course in whipping the South
ern armies so thoroughly as he did.
The railroads are doing a good business,
and it they can break themselves of the bad
habit of cutting each other's throats and
laying it on the inter-State commerce law,
there is no reason why they may sot do well
this year.
The industrious efforts of some of our
Chicago cotemporaries to represent that the
wages of Pittsburg ironworkers are being
cut down, and that the Pittsburg Belief
Committee is stealing the supplies for the
Johnstown people, which Chicago did not
send, may be taken as proof presumptive
that expansion of area does not produce a
proportionate largeness of mind.
Cokcebts in the parks form a summer
night feature which will add greatly to the
attractions of Allegheny, and which will do
the same for Pittsburg when Pittsburg
gets some parks.
A CLOUD-bubst at Peoria, 111., last
week, is reported to have ruined many
thousands ot gallons of milk. From the
character of Pcori a product the presumption
is that the water made the milk too rich.
Peoria's fame as a whisky center is calcu
lated to create the opinion there that if
water gets into anything it will ruin it.
The action of the trnsteesof the Polytech
nic Institute, reported elsewhere, indicates
that the new institute will soon materialize
into an actual and gratifying fact.
Mb. Henry George and the Socialists
seem to be having pleasant time in Lon
don. He tells the Socialists that all the re
sults they aim at can be achieved more
speedily by the 'single tax idea; and the
Socialists cheer the announcement in a
manner which indicates that they are as
trustful as Mr. George is sanguine.
The people in the streets of London seem
to have entertained a pardonable doubt as to
whether the Shah or Salisbury was most de
serving of their jeers.
The sporting columns seem to be unani
mously of the opinion that Sullivan Sand
Kilrain are not going to fight with their us
ual offensive weapons, namely, their
tongues. But before being very confident it
may be wise to wait till the returns are
all in.
PB0MINEKT PEOPLE PARAGRAPHED.
CABDiXAl Ne-voian has been spending
some time at Malvern, In promising health.
Me. Goschen Is the only leading member of
the British GoTermnent who is not also a mem
ber of the Cobden Club, and it is said that he Is
about to join it.
Gkneuai. J. W. Binoi-eton. once s leader
of the Illinois Democrats, has retired alto
gether from politics, and spends most of his
time among his books.
A fixe crayon portrait of the Key. Dr. 8. K.
Smith, author of "My Country. 'tis or Thee,"
has beon placed in the library of Colby Univer
sity. He was for many years a trustee ot that
Institution.
Mrs. M. TnonESES-, Henrik Ibsen's talented
mother-in-law, has recently celebrated her
seventieth birthday. Telegrams and gifts of
flowers from all parts poured in upon the old
lady, whose Action is very popular in Bweden
and Norway, and who was first introduced into
the world of letters by the p"Bet Bjornson.
The London Star says that Miss Mary An
derson is gradually recovering her health, but
she is living almost incog. In the outskirts of
Hampstcad. It was always a favorite suburb
of hers. Even when her headquarters were in
Brompton she would drive up and spend all
the summer afternoon on the heath, which had
the samo attraction for her that it used to have
'for Charles Dickens. She has collected by this
time quite a museum ot theatrical curiosities.
The trophy she most values is a dagger given
her by Lady Martfn, which was always used by
the donor when she played Juliet. So It was
passed direct to Mary Anderson from Helen
Faucitwith all the associations of a great
Chlcngo'a Bicycle Craze.
From the' Chicago News.:
The bicycle craze has filled the boulevards of
this city with a confused jumble of spidery legs
and skeleton machines for devouring distance.
Apparently 99 persons out of every 100 habit
ually ride bicycles. The 100th person rides a
tricycle. Not only does every one ride those
noiseless contrivances, but every one rides
them at great speed.
These Horrid Torrid Days.
From the I'hlladelphlm Inquirer."
Variations in the weatherTnowadays are lim
ited to a single letter. When it Isn't torrid its
horrid.
THE TOPICAL TALKEB.
A Lnrgc.Slzrd Small Mm-A Theatrical
Injustice Mr. Klgby'a Be.
The flood ot May and June destroyed or
gravely damaged -no less than 15 bridges In
Dauphin county, this State, and It was business
connected with the rebuilding ot those bridges
that brought George W. Cnnkle, the Demo
cratic County Commissioner of Dauphin, r to
this city day before yesterday. He was accom
panied by bis Republican colleague, and all
yesterday spent many hours in -negotiations
with the Pittsburg bridge building firms. All
.the new county bridges will be of iron, and
Pittsburg will have a chance to bid for allot
them. An unusual "demand for iron bridges Is
one of the results of the flood that is not harm
ful to Pittsburg.
Mr. vunkle Is not a large man physically; in
fact his best friends would confess that ,ho is
only a medium weight, but all the same be cots
a large figure in Harrlsburg politics, and en
joys the distinction of having won the Connty
,Oommlssionership by a handsome majority on
the Democratic ticket in a Republican county.
Mr. Cunklc's suocess maybe attributecTuin part,
to the power of the press, for Mr. Cunkle has
the reputation of being the best pressman in
Harrlsburg. He has been pressman in most of
the Harrlsburg netrspaper offices and still Is
in charge ot The Telegram! pressroom. He is
a Dleasant and large-hearted man, and the
Democrats of Dauphin ought to keep such a
good representative In office as long as they
can.
There Is a disposition again this summer
among the New York dramatic critics to make
nasty flings at Margaret Mather, the tra
gedienne. The usually fair Chat Nolr is the
latest to abuse Manager Hill's cast-off protege.
Says tho paper with a French nime: The
healthy part of dramatic management can be
found In the results attained by the two
American actresses, Margaret Mather and
Jullat, Marlowe. The former was "managed"
for nearly fire years before she was put on the
stage. Her reception was bought for her. The
decline of patronage was steady. The woman
was not a great actress. In Marlowe's case we
find the order of things precisely reversed.
She began as an unknown. In Boston she
opened with less than 860 In the house. At the
end ot the first week the box office reported
nightly receipts of over 31,200. This speaks
well for critical and popular opinion. The only
success of utter incompetency that our stage
has had in recent years has been that of Mrs.
Langtry.
It Is not true that Margaret Mather played to
less profitable business last season thau she
had previously enjoyed under the astute man
agement of Mr. H11L because the public sud
denly bad a rush of discernment and resolved
that she was not a great actress, but simply
because her company was Inferior, she carried
no scenery and was otherwise handicapped by
incompetent management In Pittsburg Miss
Mather is as popular as ever, and all she needs
to draw crowded bouses again is generous and
shrewd management. Her rating is high in
Pittsburg.
Miss Minnie Maddern has not had any too
much prosperity on the road ot late years,
owing to bad management, awful support and
general lack of means, besides personal bad
judgment on her own part as. to her own abili
ties. Yet nobody would dare to say that Miss
Maddern is not a genius. Properly managed
she would be recognizedastbe greatest actress,
in a certain well-defined field, America has to
day. V
CiiARX-ffCE Bigby, who was staff artist of
The Dispatch a year or two ago, seems to
have reached a congenial atmosphere in the
artistic department of Puck. Mr. Rigby had
such an evident and egregious bent toward ex
travagant caricature that it was sheer waste of
time for him to depict the world about him
seriously. fl
Mr. Rigby's cartoons in the Graphic, of New
York, have Increased his reputation, but he
plainly had not reached his proper plane until
the doors of Puck opened to him. It seems
likely that he will rival in the most eccentric
forms ot caricature that rampagious ridiculer
ot persons and things, Zimmerman, whose
pencil now serves Mr. Arkell's Judge. Puck
has rather needed a little more pictorial fun of
the broader sort of late than its excellent staff
of artists have supplied. Mr. Bigby can be re
lied on to fill the bill.
HEW TORE SEWS K0TES.
Amid a Sbonl of Whales.
WIW YORK BUREAU EriCIALS.
New York.-July 4 The schooner O. M.
Marrett, which arrived in port from Cuba to
day, narrowly escaped being, wrecked upon a
shoal ot whales last Monday. When the cap
tain went on deek early iu the morning, he
says, the water around the ship was filled with
dark spots and lashed Into foam, as if breaking
upon a reef. The .schooner had run into an
immense shoal of whales, which were moving
southward. He repeatedly struck the big fish
with such force that her whole bull shook and
articles In the officers rooms were thrown to tho
floor. She got ont of the shoal shortly before
S o'clock In the afternoon. The whales must
have passed close along the shore of Long
Island. The presence ot so many whales so far
south is the result of the breaiting up of ice in
the North Atlantic. The numerous icebergs
seen lately by Incoming steamships Indicate
that a great change in the Ice fields around
the North Pole is occurring this season.
linen Are Someirhat Combnutlble.
While lighting the gas to-day in the Palais
Royal, a fashionable millinery store. Bertha
Abels, a young shop girl, dropped a burning
bit of paper into a mass of laces. In a minute
everything near the girl was ablaze. She was
too frightened to run. Her screams sum
moned the bookkeeper to her aid just as her
skirts began, to burn. He wrapped a blanket
around her andehouted to the other employes
to run for their lives. The building was event
ually cleared of SO girls and 20 men without
accident. Miss Abel, waslonly slightly burned.
Firemen extinguished the flames after an hour
of hard work. Loss. 25,000.
Scalped by the Machinery.
Mary Muldowney. in the employ of the Cen
tral Carpet Manufactory, at Plalnfield, bad her
hair torn completely from her head by a belt
and shaft near which she was worklngto-day,
and the hair came ont by the roots and large
pieces of tha scalp were wrenched off with It,
She is in a critical condition.
Depew Not In a Story-Telling Mood.
Chauncey M. Depew, with bis wife, young
son and several servants, sailed on tne steam
ship Adriatic for Liverpool this moraine A
score or more of his friends were at the dock
to give Mrs, Depew flowers and to hear Dr.
Depew tell a farewell story. But Dr. Depew
was not in a story-telling mood. He. looked
tired and worried. He will visit London and
Paris, will pass August at the Exposition and
return early in September.
DEATHS OP A DAT.
William M. Lyon.
In the person of William M. Lyon, who sudden
ly exnlred at S o'clock resterdar mornln? in thn
Slononeahela Home, death has taken away one of
the oldest and best known Iron manufacturers In
Western Pennsylvania. The deceased waa 89
years of ace, and up to the hour of his death be
had always enjoyed good health, and his sndden
demise was a great surprise to the many friends
of Mr. Lyon. William M. Lyon was born in
Harrlsburg In 1809. His father" was John Lyon
and his .mother was a daughter of the late Hon.
William McClay. The family came from Tyrone.
The young man was called to Flttsburg by his
father In 1833 to take charge of the Sllgo Boiling
MUI, which was then owned by Lyon, Schorb &
Co. Mr. Lyon succeeded his father In the firm,
and he afterward owned the entire plant. InlSSS
Mr. Lyon purchased the old Monongahela Iloose,
and he at once established his residence and lived
there ever since. In IMS, after the fire, the
present hnlldlng was erected by Mr. Lyon. In
1874 he-sold the hotel to J. McD. Crouen, Charles
J. Clark and A. H. Miller. In 1S75
be retired from actlre business altogether,
by disposing of the rolling mill to Colonel Wm.
rhllllps andi Alexander Nlmick. There have been
very few business Interests In l'ltubnrg during
the last 50 years with which Mr. Lyon waa not
more or leu identified. He waa one of the organ
Iters of the Allegheny Valley ltaliroad Company,
lie helped to start no tha Safe Deposit Hank, and
he waa a large stockholder and a director in that
institution from its organization nntll Ma ueath.
Be waa also one of the original promoters of the
l'UUburg and Lake Erie Ballroad.
As a result of fortunate speculations Mr. Lyon
became very wealthy, bnt during the panic of
ISTt he lost heavily, but after a few years he re
covered from that misfortune, and at the time of
his deith be waa still considered to be worth about
(1,000,000. He owned about 1.000 acres of -valuable
iron ore land In Center county.
tie was nercr maxnefi. out ue leares Tovtr
brothers and one sister. Jasaea B. Lyon. Ueorge
W. Lyon, 8. Stewart Lyon, Thomas i Lyon and
Mrs. Jane L. Aycrs.
IHTENT1KG AN ALPHABET.
The Hard Taak Successfully Performed by n
Hair-Breed Cherokee Indian A Ve,ry
Renarknbls Feat Under the Circum
stance. From the Iioolsvllle Courler-Jodrnal.l
One ot the most remarkable achievements of
the uncnltivated'hnmaa mind was the inven
tion ot a syllabic alphabet for the use of his
people by Sequoah. alias George Guess, a half
breed Cherokee Indian. S equoah was bora in
Georgia, probably about the year 1770, though
some authorities fix his birth seven years
earlier. He never knew his father, grew np a
perfect savage and distinguished himself in
war and the chase, until a swelling knee ren
dered him In capable ot active pursuits and
confined him to his cabin. He knew no
language except Cherokee, and, of course, was
wholly illiterate.
Eequoah's attention seems to have been first
attracted to literary matters by a circumstance
which ocenrred whllo he was a warrior. His
tribe captured a letter" from the whites, and
made repeated effcrts to decipher it, but, ot
course, were not successful. Some discussion
arose about the "talking leaf," astbe Indians
styled any specimen of writing; and the ques
tion arose whether it was an invention of man
or the gift of God. All the Indians, except
Sequoah, maintained the latter position, while
be espoused the former. He was, however, un
able to convince them tbat he was right. They
believed tbat the "talking leaf was a gift from
the Great Spirit to the white man alone, and
cited as proof a legend that had long been cur
rent in their tribe.
An Interesting Legend.
According to this legend the Great Spirit
created We-Ha-Ye, the Indian, and gave him a
book; afterward he made Yo-We-Na-Go, the
white man, and presented him with a bow and
arrow. The elder brother was not prompt In
devoting himself to the book, but seems rather
io nave treated it as doors are treated oy ami
schoolboys of all races; and so negligently did
he keep It that bis younger brother found
means of stealing it from him. The Indian was
then compelled to content himself with the
bow and arrow, and to gain his living by the
chase. From this the Cherokees argued that
the Indian had forever forfeited the use cf
letters.
This reasoning did not convince 8equoah.
He denounced his fellow Cherokees as fools
and stoutly maintained that be himself could
write, and tried to provo it by scrawling char
acters upon a rock. His claims were treated
with derision. Nothing daunted, be set to
work to invent characters for all the sounds in
the Cherokee language. At the beginning be
made the mistake of attempting to invent a
character for each word; and it Is no small
tribute to his perseverance that he invented
and recorded over 5,000 characters. It grad
ually became evident to blm that this system
would not work, owing to the great nnmber of
characters required, and upon much reflection
he hit upon the idea ot dividing words into
syllables, and Inventing a character for each
syllable.
In the prosecution ot this work Sequoah
found himself embarrassed by tha want of an
accurate ear. To remedy this he engaged bis
daughter In the work, and from her derived
very valuable assistance. He availed himself
of many Ingenious methods tn make complete
his collection of the sounds of the language.
He went to hear speeches by members ot his
tribe, and whenever a sonnd occurred for
which he had no character he at once supplied
the deficiency.
Two Terr Difficult Tasks.
An English spelling book having accidentally
fallen into his hands, he used the English let
ters, as far as they wonld go, to denote Chero
kee syllables. The other characters be Invented
himself, about the year 1821, or, as others say,
1826, he had his system complete. His char
acters numbered 80. Having completed his
alphabet, his next task was to get it adopted
by his tribe. This was a work of much diffi
culty. He sent his daughter out of bearing,
wrote down a passage and read itto the braves,
then called the girl back and had her read it to
them again. They wondered, but doubted
still. Then he persuaded the tribe to select
some of the brightest ot their boys to learn
the new art, and to this they at last agreed.
When the time for examination arrived the
pupils passed the ordeal In triumph, and the
Cherokees were at last convinced tbat the
lalkine leaf Is not the exclusive property of
the white man. Sequoah then became the
principal of the Indian schools, and was held in
great honor until his death, which occurred in
Mexico in August, 1813. This alphabet was
cast into a font of type and is -still in use.
When we consider that the art ofwritine has
usually been attributed to the geds, as being
something beyond the reach of finite In
telligence, we cannot but admit 'that the life
work of Sequoah was a most extraordinary
one.
It Is true he bad the first suggestion from his
knowledge- that the 'talking leaf existed
among the whites, but his methods were his
own, and he wrought out the great problem
without other assistance than that obtained
-from his daughter. -Wuile his invention had
long Deen anticipated, bis work must ever
stand as a monument of the capability of the
human intellect when united with unbending
resolution and tireless perseverance.
CAMPBELL HAS A R1TAL.
Either Kline or Hard as the Candidate of
the Free Trade Element.
CixyshASTD, July 3. A movement was
started here to-day, the object of which is to
force Congressman James E. Campbell out of
the race for the Democratic Gubernatorial
nomination. Virgil P. Kline. Esq., of this city,
is the man who will be expected to lead the
light; A meeting attended by a score or more
ot prominent Democrats was held to start the
Kline boom. Among those in attendance were
Hon. M. A. Foran, Judge John C. Hutchins,
Jndjre E. J. Blandln, Arnold Green, Esq., E.
M. Heisley and United Btates Commissioner A
J. Williams. There was also a liberal repre
sentation of the Free Trade Club of Cleve
land. .
The availability of Campbell, Neal and the
other Democrats who have been mentioned for
the place was freely discussed, and the merits
cf Mr. Kline sou. forth. The object of the
Cleveland Democrats Is to get a man who will
correctly represent the Democratic tariff idea,
and Mr. Kline is said to be such a man. He Is
a pronounced revenue reformer.and was hearti
ly in sympathy with the tariff ideas ot Grorer
Cleveland. He Is an able lawyer, and is un
trammeled by factional quarrels. It was open
ly asserted that Campbell Is Bnce's mata, and
Mr. Foran declared emphatically tbat 'there
must be no mixing of the Senatorial question
with the Gubernatorial fight. It is believed
here tbat Charley Baker will get the compli
mentary support of Hamilton connty. and that
Kline can be counted as Cincinnati's second
choice. ' ,
It was decided that a united effort must be
made to secure for Mr. Kline the solid support
of the Northern Ohio delegation to the Bute
Convention, and to use every effort to secure
bis nomination. Mr. Kline has consented to
permit the nse ot his name, and from this time
on the fight for the Northern Ohio candidate
.will be an ainrresslve one. It is also said that It
is not Improbable tbat an effort will be made
to Induce Frank Hurd to accept the nomina
tion if these means of beating Campbell fail.
TRI-STATE TRIFLES.
Five years ago Thomas, son of Edwin Yea
ger, of Allentown, Pa swallowed a cherry
stone, which lodged in his lung, and was treat
ed for consumption by local doctors. In Phil
adelphia on Friday a doctor removed the stone
from the boy's nose, whither it had made its
way from the lungs,
A Philadelphia drugstore's best tooth pow
der customer has falsa teeth.
In an Arch street, Philadelphia, car the
other day a deaf and dnmb lady who was given
a seat by a modest blonde gentleman made
him crimson with confusion by her gesticula
tions of thanks.
The wblte-tailed blackbird that has been
missing for several seasons has reappeared at
Exton, Pa.
Henry Whitney, who had a piece of his skull
an Inch and a half square knocked oft by a,
train two months ago, has left the Erie Alms-'
house Hospital. His case Is a remarkable one,
as the brain was exposed through the terrible
hole in his skull, but it is now closed over
without any trephining treatment. He re
members nothing at all of the accident or of
his hospital experience.
While a young lady was picking cherries at
Mr.James Vandetender's place in Danvilie,Pa.,
a couple of days since the limb of the tree on
which she stood gave an ominous crack, and
but for her ready wit in jumping on a neigh
boring roof she would have been badly wound
ed, It not killed.
PascnaU Thorobury, a fanner of East Go
shen, Chester county, Pa was,mowing grass on
Baturday, when his machine collided with a
huge snapper,. Ho stopped the team at once
and laid the stunned snapper aside till quitting
time to have a supper off It. v When he went
back for It later he found it had flapped away.
A new species of bird has appeared In the vi
cinity of York, Fa. It has a white cap. a red
breast and a long tail. It ests-voraciously of
locusts, and even the heads ot wheat and
buckle berry stalks.
IMP0ETED, GLASSWOKKERS.'
Important Papers Wow nt Boston to be Ex
amined at Washington The' Maxim
Gun Absent Officials Eclipse Ob-
Special Teleeram tc The Dispatch.
Washington, July 3. It is expected that
within a day or two the papers In the case of
the importation of foreign glassblowers under
contract at Pittsburg will be returned from
Boston, where they have been lent to aid the
Investigation of the matter by the customs
authorities of that city. They will then be
passed upon in the Miscellaneous Division of
the Treasury Department and referred to As
sistant Secretary Tichenor for final' examina
tion and decision. The department takes con
siderable interest in the case, as Jt is a charge
tbat a prominent worklngman has been en
gaged in the importation of worklngmen con
trary to law, and it the accused be found guilty
it is evident his punishment will not be miti
gated by the fact that be Is a laboring man.
SOO Shot In One Mlnntr.
A board of naval officers have almost com
pleted their report upon the wonderful Maxim
gun, which was tested at the Annapolis prov
ing sround a few days ago. and there is almost
no doubt that the report will be entirely fav
orable, and tbat it will recommend the adoption
ofthecun. Two ot the guns were tested, one
ot the 45 caliber and the other a one pounder.
The former fired easily at the rate of SOO shots
a minute, and the latter 300 a minute. After
the first shot, the action of the gun is entirely
automatic, even to a continual shower bath for
the cooling ot the barrel, and the gunner may
go away and leave the weapon to do Its deadly
work, without oversight from him.
Tho Administration Vacates
The White House Is now deserted by all ex
cept the clerks and servants, and will be re
lieved of the presence of office seekers at least
for several days to come. There was a great
rattline of trunks and shouting ot expressmen
this morning until the summer goods of the
President's household were got away for the
train. Mrs. Harrison went the round of sev
eral of the fashionable shops, and then, with
the remnant ot her family, accompanied by
Secretary Halford, took the train for Deer
Park. The hick ot popular curiosity was in
striking contrast to the first departure of Mr.
and Mrs. Cleveland for Deer Park, when they
avoided the correspondents and embarked In
Swampoodle amid the cheering of several hun
dred hoodlums. The administration is now
mainly conspicuous for Its absence. The Presi
dent, Blaine, Wanamaker, Noble and Clarkson
are absent, and the remainder are escaping
work as much as passible, The President is
expected to return Monday, but he will leave
again the last of the week for Deer Park.
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To Observe the Eclipse.
A conference was held between Commodore
Walker. Captain Pbythian and Prof. Hall,
of the Naval Observatory, and Prof. Simon
Newcomh, Superintendent ot the "National
Almanac" at which It was decided that the ex
pedition to view the total eclipse shall starf
aoout the 1st ot October on the new cruiser
Baltimore, to be commanded by Captain
Schhjy. There will be two parties. One will
be headed by Prof. Todd, of Amherst; the
other by Joseph Rogers, of Washington, ex
pert in solar photography, these cbiefs to
choose their subordinates. The Secretary of
State will set permission from the Portugese
Government to land at St. Paul de Loanda,
on the west coast of Africa.-and the two sta
tions will be near Maxima, on tbeTuanza
river. The center of totality will strike the
coast about 100 miles south ot St. Paul do
Loanda.
Wanamnker'a 300 Heads a Daj.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has come to
the front in a new role. He is at present act
ing as the Lord High Executioner of the post
office department. General Clarkson, who has
been working the ax on the necks of the
fourth-class postmasters with great rapidity
for seven or eight hours a day since March
last, is absent for a few days. He has gone on
a yachting party down the Potomac. It was
generally supposed that while he was gone, the
work of beheadinc the fourth-class postmas
ters would be suspended. Not so, however.
Mr. Wanamaker was disinclined to let the good
work be interfered with. He has therefore
assumed charge of the cleaver himself, and
heads are falllnc into the basket at the rate of
300 a day. Two hundred and fifty was the
average nnmber that General Clarkson could
dispose of in one day. and he will probably
learn with regret tbat his chief can beat him at
his own game.
THE PERUYIAN NITRATE KING.
Once He Was a Poor Englishman but Now
He Is Worth 810,000,000.
New Yoke, July 3. There Is. now at the
Victoria Hotel a boiler riveter who left bis
native country, England, 23 years ago with a
few pounds in his pocket to seek his fortune
in South America. He Is now worth ?10,000,
000, and within the last few months he bas ac
quired literally potentialities of wealth beyond
the dreams of avarice. His name is John
Thomas North. He Is commonly called Colonel
North. He Is the honorary Colonel of the
Volunteer Engineers of the Tower Hamlets.
He is also known in England as the "Peruvian
Nitrate King."
Colonel and Mrs. North have the rooms occu
pied bv Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland .when they
boarded at the Victoria, and their friends
have the surrounding rooms on the same floor.
Colonel North is a large man of about 15, of
florid complexion and auburn accessories.
He hadn't much to say of his trip when a re
porter called, and Dr. Russell, at his request,
did the talking. The famous correspondent,
who looks a little like Prince Bismarck, no
longer writes f or tbe Timet, having been pnt on
Its pension list. He is part proprietor ot and
editor of tbefrmy and Aavy (fazette. He
accompanied Colonel North's party. If not
exactly as a historiographer, at any rate with
the intention ot writing about the parts of
Chill he visited. There was yellow fever at
Rio when the Gallcla arrived there, so Colonel
North and bis friends were quarantined on
reachins Montevideo. On their arrival In
Chill, the first place they visited was Coronel,
where Colonel North owns 30 square miles of
coal and iron lands, which apparently will
richly reward their developer. In order to
bring them nearer a market Colonel North is
buildtne a railway along tbeHlo Bio to Concep
tion, which is to be opened in the autumn.
After inspecting this railway. Colonel North
and his party went to Santiago. There Colonel
North made an offer to President Balmaceda
for concessions oi tne remainder of tbe nitrate
deposits in Tarrapaca. the province which Chill
wrested from Peru In their recent war. Al
though Colonel North has made 2,000.000 out
of the concessions he already had, he got what
he asked for, despite Balmaceda' s policy to
have ChlH'develop her natural resources. Of
course the Colonel Is to pay a handsome sum
for the privileges be thus obtained.
A week was spent In Santiago and then tbe
party set out for Tarrapaca. On tbe way it
stopped at Huasca, where Colonel North nsed
to work as a boiler riveter. Iquique and Pisa
aua, towns on the coast built on sand banks, to
which water as well as provisions have to be
brought, were next visited. They were but
hamlets before tbe nitrate deposits were de
veloped, and now the first contains over 20,000
inhabitants and the second halt as many.
Colonel North's only competitor in the nitrate
business is the 'famous oenora Conslno, tbe
richest woman In Chill, who is now Urine in
Pari
PENSION BUREAU EULES.
Secretary Noble Writes a Little Letter to
Commissioner Tanner.
Wasotnotox. July 3. Secretary Noble has
addressed a letter to Hon. James Tanner, Com
missioner of Pensions, In which be calls tbe at
tention of 'that osucer to the following regula
tion, applicable to tbe Pension Bureau Order
No. 108, January 'A 1885:
"Owing to the pressure brought to bear from
all quarters to take casds ont of their recular
rder, and as at thislate date poverty and hard
ship from further delay can be alleged of al
most every applicant alike; therefore cases will
be taken out of their order only when such cause
therefor is shown to the Commissioner in
writing as would satisfy the other worthytclaim
ants whose claims precede tbem, should they
know the facts, that such action is proper.
Hereafter no case will be advanced tbat Is not
clearly within this rule."
The letter of tbe Secretary centlnnes: 3t!s
hereby further ordered tbat this rule be ex
tended so as to embrace cases, only where the
applicant is In very great destitution or at the
Eoint of death. This regulation will not only
e strictly enforced, but attorneys, agents or
others persisting In applications contrary to its
language and spirit will be disbarred from
Eractlce before the department. Yoa will
ave this made public"
Easily Pleased.
From the Philadelphia Press. 1
Fashionable people at the seashore are more
than ordinarily indifferent to the cbcracterand
extent of their bathing suits this year. In a
wordjllttlo or nothing Is good enough for
them,
THAT LICENSE C0U1T.
Editorial Opinions of the Philadelphia Papers
a the Manifesto lisaed bv the Jadgea
A General Review of the Case.
The Licens eCourtmetyesterdayandmsdean
order directing that wholesale licenses shall
Issue to all brewers and bottlers who have made
applications, and have not withdrawn them, the
Clerk ot tbe Court to pass npoa the sufficiency
of the securities offered. This is the result of
the decision of the Supreme Court in the Pros
pect Brewery case, and will doubtless be re
graded as rather extraordinary action. The
License Court accompanies its order, however,
with a statement in which it argues that it has
nothing else to do under the ruling of tbe high
er court, and It shows considerable feeling, pro
voked by tbe tone and temper displayed all the
way through the Supreme Court deliverance,
which has already been pretty freely criticised.
The License Court accepts tbe superiorautbori
ty of the other court, of course, but without be
ing convinced that it Is right. It was probably
never intended by the Supreme Courtin taking
the position It did tbat licenses shonld be given
to people not of good moral character, convicts
and common drunkards who for years have led
the most abandoned lives. Yet this Is tbe in
terpretation put upon tbat decision which was
substantially that licenses should be granted
where no remonstrances as to the moral
character of the applicants bad been tiled.
We believe the License Court bas taken an
unnecessarily extreme view of tbe matter, and
tbe suspicion will be aroused that It has been
influenced to it by tbe unnecessary severity of
the language used by tbe Supreme Court. It
has been allthe way through a most remarkable
proceeding, tho temper of the higher court
havlns apparently been aroused by the almost
despotic exercise of authority by tbe License
Court. Tbe result will not be to render liquor
selling more free, as it in no way affects the re
tailers. The restrictions are not so essential
about tbe wholesalers. The order made by the
License Court yesterday, however, must have a
tendency to make the act concerning wholesale
licenses odious. It will compel material
chauges In that law when another Legislature
can get at it. If tbat provision of the law which
enables objections tobe heard by evidence,
Setltion, remonstrance or counsel means that
runkards, convicts and people of bad char
acter cannot be refused a wholesale license
except on a written remonstrance filed, then it
will have to be made plainer. It seems pretty
plain now. but there is certainly something
wrons witu it J.ne inquirer,
A Very Unmaal Come.
Tho Judges ot tho License Court have taken
the very unusual coarse of entering what may
be called a protest against tbe recent decision
of the Supreme Court overruling their Inter
pretation of the wholesale liquor act. No one
can doubt that these Judges conscientiously
endeavored to do right, and that where they
erred it was through an honest desire to serve
the public welfare. The sense of this and the
feeling that tbey have been undeservedly re
buked, must be the justification for this extra
ordinary proceeding. But if the License
Judges felt compelled by their self-respect to
defend their course, that same self-respect
should have forbidden tbe petulant order to
their clerk to issue wholesale licenses to every
body who has applied, without regard to
dharacter or habits. To say tbat the decision
of the Supreme Court requires this is to put
upon it a forced construction that is neither
logical nor sensible, and that presents tbe
Judges In tbe attitude ot cbildrsn who "won't
play any more."
They are required by the letter of the statute
and by its authorized interpretation to Issue
licenses to citizens of tbe United States ot
temperate habits and good moral character,
and to none others. Their duty to inquire into
these qualifications was expressly affirmed.
The confusion that has arisen between two dis
tinct acts is mainly due to their own practice.
As long as this construction was not overruled
it was accepted without question; but now tbat
tbe law has been clearly defined any further
disputation is mostunbecomlng. If the License
Judges have hitherto administered the law, as
tbey understood it, with conscientious care
and in an endeavor to do right and justice, it is
none the less their duty to do so still. They
promote respect neither for the law nor for
themselves when they petulantly refuse to per
form their functions because they think they
have been badly treated. 27te Times.
A Sober nnd Admirable Defense.
The reply of the License Court Judges to the
strictures of the Snpreme Court on their Inter
pretationand manner of enforcing the whole
sale license law is a sober and admirable de
fense of their action and an able exposition of
tbe law. They do not admit that they read tbe
provisions of tbe retail act into the wholesale
act as the Snpreme Court assumes, but base
their action on the much more tenable ground
that the general practice throughout tbe State
under tbe wholesale law as It stood prior to
1887, a practice sanctioned by many decisions
of tbe Supreme Court, gave them a discretion
In granting wholesale licenses having regard to
the moral fitness of the applicant as well as
his citizenship and habits of temperance.
The existing wholesale laws In force in 1887
certainly required the Court to take cogni
zance of those three things and ln-wlthholdinc
licenses because tbey deemed the applicants
morally unfit to receive them, their action was
not without authority of law. even though tbe
Supremo Court disapproves and overrules their
conclusions. The Pren.
Good FIghtera to be Admired.
The Judges ot the License Court are quite
right in characterizing their published com
ment'upon the decision of the Supreme Court
in tbe Prospect Brewery case as an. unusual
course. But none the less will their fellow
townsmen be pleased af. their action, for tbe
American citizen loves a good fighter, and finds
no fault with the small boy who resents some
times deserved chastisement by kicking and
biting his chastizer. Perhaps the proper se
quence to the ruling oi tne supreme court was
the order tbat every wholesale license asked for
should be granted, though it looks a little bit
"previous." The evils of unsatisfactory laws
can be, and must be, corrected by legislative
action, and not by the extra-judicial discretion
of any court. The trouble with the youngmen
through whose hands the applications for
liquor licenses must pass haiUpparently been
that, excited by praise which they well deserved
for their Integrity and courage, tbey fancied
tbey were themselves the law Instead of Its
ministers.
Just now they are very ancry at their elders
in years and judgment, and think it their duty
to show tbe people just what iniquities will be
Sosslble under the decision of tbe Supreme
ourt. Perhaps under tbe sting of phrases
they don't like tbey may realize that soma of
tbe harsh criticism they have put on persons
with less chance than themselves to hit back
has also hurt. The service of the four J cages
constituting the License Court has been of
great benefit to the city. That Is a fact which
cannot be too much paraded. It is, however,
never to be accepted as safe doctrine that the
law itself may bo ignored for even the public
benefit. It was as a question of law that tbe
A'orth American took issue with the zeal of
these Judges, and upon a question of law it is
scarcely probable that outside ot their own
number anyone will be found, except in the
partisanship ot friendship, to hold tbe Judg
ment of the Supreme Court of the State im
paired by the dissenting views ot these juniors.
The North American.
TOO OLD TO LEAKN.
I am sumtbla ofavet'ran, Justs turnla' eighty
year,
A man that's bale and hearty and a stranger tew
all fear;
But I've beerd some news this morntn' that has
made my old head spin.
And I'm coin' to ease my conshuns If I never
ni&B: aff'ln.
I've lived my four score years of life, and never
'till to-day
Waa I taken for a Jackass or an lgn'rant kind o'
Jay.
Tew be stuffed with such darned nonsense 'bout
them crawlln' bugs and worms
That's a killin' human beln's with their micro
scopic germs.
They say there's "microbes" all around hnn tin'
for their prey;
There's nothln' pure tew eat or drink or no safe
place to stay.
There's "mlaemy" in the dew fall and "malary"
k In the sunt k
Tain' safe to be outdoors at noon or when the day
is done.
There's "baetery" Inthewaterand "trlcheeney"
In the meat.
"Ameeby" In the atmosfee'r, '"calory" la the
heat;
There's "corpussels and pigments" In a human
beln's blood.
And every other kind of thing exlstln' sense the
flood.
Terbaeker's lull of nlckerteen," whatever that
maybe.
And your throat will all get puckered with the
"tannin" la tbe teat
Tbe butter's "olly-margareen, " it never saw a
cow.
And things Is gettin' wus and was from what
they bejust now.
Them bugs Is all about ss. Jest a waltln' for a
chance
Tew navigate oar vitals and tew 'naw us off like
plants.
There's men that spends allfeMme huntln' worms
jest like a goose.
And tackln' latin names to 'em and lcttln' on 'em
loose.
Now, 1 don't believe seeh nonsense, and don't In
tend to try;
If things has come taw such a pass I'm satisfied to
die.
I'll go h'ang me In the sutlar, for I won't be seen a
fool . ,
AS tew wait until I'm pittned by a annykially-
,cool, Xrtv tort AvtniJta- ut.
CUKIOUS iqOBDIKSATiOXa.'
There were 1,266 persons who died fros
violence la New York dnrfng tbe year ending."
with June.
John Moore, of Indiana, declared him
self guilty of robbery, paid a constable 52 to
arrest him. and then hired a carriage for J3 to
take them to tbe county jail.
-Mr. B. B. Wilkes and A. S. WIIHmb
son, ot Emanuel county, Georgia, a few days
ago.saw a rattlesnake abont six feet long swim
from one side to tbe other of the Altamaha
river, which is a distance of more than ball a
mile, without resting. He seemed to be com
pletely exhausted when he reached the bank.
One of the funniest things that has hapv
pened in Greenville. Tenn., for some time was
the shooting of a negro the other night by a
poltcemas. Tbe cop blazed away at tbe man
and shot him in the elbow.tbe ball glanoingand
striking the negro in tbe cheek. As be spit ths .
ball out, he said: "Look heab, white man, you
quit dat shoottu' at me; f us' thing yuh knows
yuh gwlnter brake some 'speetable pusson'i
winder glass."
H. P. Braziel caught a genuine flying
fish in Sterrett's creek, near 8eynburs Point,
Fix This was unlike any flying fish which
has ever been written about, In that it bad two .
perfectly formed bird-like wings in addition to '
fins, also four legs resembling those of a large
spider. Tbe wings were beautifully tinted bka ,
the prisms ot a rainbow, and when drawn out
of the water with an ordinary hook and Una
the bird-fish flew to a height of soma six or
eight feet.
As an example of the spirit which ani
mates tbe German army, and which donbles Its
force. Prince Kraft Hohenlohe tells a fine
story. At the battle of Cbateandun a battory
found Itself without ammunition under a ,
heavy fire. What was to be doner The officer
commanding ordered the gunners to take their
places on the limbers and sing the "Wacbt am
Rhine," "in order." as Prince Kraft says, "that
they might pass the time agreeably while wait-
lng for fresh cartridges."
Another unbreakable substitute for
glass, a French invention, consists in immers
ing wire in a heated state. In a thin paste
formed of soluble glass, gelatine and glycer
ine, or glucose, in proportions varying accord
ing to the use for which the material is de
signed. When nearly dry, tbe sheets are
dipped in a concentrated solution of cbrome
alum or bichromate of potash. Any desired
coloring matter may be incorporated with tbe
gelatine, and copal or other protective varnish
applied to the surface.
A New York dealer in sporting goods
has Invented a now tent for the nse of hunters
and those who camp out. It is called an "um
brella tent," and, as Its name indicates, folds
up after the style of a parachute. The tent Is
about seven feet high and of sufficient width to
accommodate two persons. It is made of can
vas, bine and white in color, and its covering
falls to tbe ground in wide folds, that may be
spread out far enough to allow a good-sized
man to lay down under it. When folded np it
has the appearance of one of the large sun
shades tbat used to be so familiar on top of the
Broadway stages. Tbe tents are becoming;
quite popular, on account of their neatness and
being so easy to handle.
A peculiar accident occurred the other
afternoon to a St. Paul youth named Eph
Wells. Wells and another lad proceeded to a
lake near the city early in the morning on a
fishing excursion, and angled duringthe entire
forenoon without getting a bite. Wells was
fishing without a rod, and bad the business
end of his line adorned with a large frog, the
other end being wrapped round bis linger. Sud
denly a large fish seized the bait and made such
a determined rush therewith as to cause the
strain on tbe line to cnt the young fisherman's
finger almost to the bone. Surgical aid was ob
tained, and it was at first tboueht that the
member would hare to be amputated. Opera
tion bas been deferred, however, and It is now
hoped that the finger may be saved without
resorting to amputation.
Fiye Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., men who
went forth on a 24-hour fishing trip, took the
following provisions: One dozen cucumbers, 5
pounds flour. 1 dozen bread, A dozen lemons, 5
pounds granulated sugar, 5 pounds pork. Scans
corned beef. 6 cans tongue. 3 pounds green tea,
3 pounds Java coffee, 3 cans milk, 4 cans
feaches, 4 cans apricots,! box pepper, sack salt,
can pineapple, 8 pounds roll bacon, 5 pounds
tomatoes, 4 pounds cheese. 1 bqttIeWorcester
shire sauce. 1 bushel potatoes, I bottle catsup,
1 bottle chow chow, 1 bottle pickles, box
matches, K pound candles. 1 gallon oil, 10
pounds pail lard, 22 pounds of butter, 5 pounds
ginger snaps. 2 pounds soda biscuit, K gallon
vinegar, 0 cans corn. 6 bars soap, 2 dozen
cookies, 1 bottle mustard, 2 dozen eggs, S
pounds onions. Id pounds ham. several bottles
of (brand not mentioned).
An Italian in Boston, who had sta
tioned nlmselt close by tha entrance to tbe
circus grounds, that he might more easlly'dis
pose ot tbe fruits which he had to sell, became
so interested in the appearance ot two Turks
who escaped from the grounds, and had been
strolling about, tbat he forgot all about the
wagon load of bananas which were beside him,
until he tnmed suddenly and observed a horse
attached to an express wagon calmly eating
from tbe stock of bananas as if tbey had been
placed there for his especial benefit. The
spectacle ot a horse eating bananas was so
amusing tn the bystanders that they didn't call
tbe owner's attention to it, but when the
Italian who owned the fruit, and the Hiber
nian who drove the horse, began to argue with
each other, there waa more excitement than
was heard inside the circus tent;
A London paper prints the following
interesting Item: According to a communica
tion recently addressed by the eminent scient
ist, M. Brown-Seqnard, to tbe French Academy
of Medicine, it appears tbat be bas prepared a
concoction warranted to inf use fresh doses of
vital energy Into constitutions shattered by age
or illness. As yet, for there Is no public record
ot its trial as a recuperative and revitalizing
agent, all that can be said Is that it is intrinsic
ally compounded of revolting materials. Tbe
physiologist, it is stated, cuts out certain pans
of living animals, such as guinea pigs, and the
pieces of quivering flesh, pounded together by
the pestal and mortar of pharmaceutical com
merce, are made Into a kind of a paste with
water. Tbe essence of this compound is then
injected under the skin of the patient with a
syringe similar to tbat employed by the votaries
of morphine. It is needless to say tbat the
resniu of M. Brown-Sequard's experiments are -awaited
with eagerness by elderly Fausts.
FENNY HEN'S FANCIES, x
On & dead pull, being nut in harness,
one of Iiarnnm's elephants lately drew a load
weighing over four tons. If a coal dealer had him
he could be made to draw six tons of coal. De
troit Irttfrut.
Kentuckian Sir, I come of heroic stock.
My lather, grandfather and great-grandfatter art
'died with thtlr boots on. Octogenarian hangman,
at the other end of the bar Fact, sir, Ihung'em.
myself Philadelphia In-juirtr.
Didn't Want the Earth. Subscriber at
ths telephone Hello, Central!
Central-Hallo!
Bubserlber Give me the First National Bank. ,
Central-Anjthtagclse?-PAfbirfDAa Pre.
THI BIO HEAD. !-" -
These spreeing mortals often find
In painting objects red;
Tbey often come out way behind
Because they got a head.
Philadelphia Prttt.
Strange Sounds in the Adirondack!.
Miss Boston Papa, I find our Professor of I"a
thology very Interesting.
Mr. Boston Our what?
Miss Boston Our professor of Pathology our '
guide yoa know. Aieio York Sun.
He Knew That Before. Husband "Well, - .
my dear, what did the magnetic physician say to ".
you?
Wife He sars I am a sick woman, and that my .
nerrons system Is not In equilibrium. Ha says I
am too positive.
Busbaud Humph 1 I could have told you that
and saved a couple of dollars. Sea lork tnw ' '
Practical Cooking School. Young Hus
band So yon want a cook. I thou iht you at- -tended
cooking school before I married you? ." ,
Young Wife So I did, but we studied only
ornamental cooking. 1 know nothing about '
breads or meats or the eomm on courses, but 1 can f
make a lovely tint of cake frosting, and know how ..
to arrange an exquisite, bouquet for the dinner s. '
table. Omaha Worla. : -'
"Kow, grandpa," said a little Chicago, lL
year-old, as she entered her grandfather's study.'.ir
"If yoa are not oo busy we'll play .sebool '"
awhile." .-i JjJ-
"All right, my child," said the professor -
good-humoredly, "1 am ready. Where are your ' '.
booksT"
That Is for you to say, "said the' little one'
severely. "I'm going to be the teacher." - - ,
Tbe professor collapsed. Chicago Tribune, , ""Ssis
liove and Economy. "Laura," said thoL
joung lady's mother' not unkindly. 'It seemst",
that Viin 1H tha Mttnmad r,lh.li,w 1-. .- -"
u Wt. . J..W . . b - - M-... . .
evening."
"It was solely for economy, mamma,"' answered
the maiden. '
"There la no nse trying to beat the gas com-, es",
pany, my daughter. I have noticed that tbe shut- "?'
ting offof the gaa is always followed by acorre- A
spoBdlnglncreaseofprcssure." ' v j
Well, that lessens the waist; doesa.'t'Mt
mamma, dear!" replied the artless glrUAnd her
food parent could find no more to say. Ttrrg
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