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All double find triple nnmber copies tt The Dispatch require a --cent stamp t'J insure prompt delivery. riTTSBPBQ.SPyiUY.SEP.l,18S8. EOYAI SILENCES. The Queen's speech on the prorogation of Parliament is more remarkable for its omissions than its commissions. Some oi the silence is more eloquent than words; while in other respects the omission to say anything is far from satisfactory to those of the Queen's faithful subjects who are inter ested in the omitted topics Ot the latter class is the failure to refer to the protection of Canadian sealers; and a Yery strong intimation is thus silently con Yeyed that Great Britain is not going to get into a quarrel with the United States on Canada's account But that significant tjciturnity is nothing beside the eloquence of the entire silence concerning the grants to the Queen's family. The loyal members of the House of Commons struggled and debated for davs to set the recently married princess in comfort, if not in good style. But it was exactly this strugcle and debate that has aroused the royal wrath. The Commons should carry the grants for the encouragement of matrimony in the roval family, without a word of debate the Queen thinks; and so the offending Com mons are dismissed with a superiority that passes over their offense as one would ignore the insolence of a street urchin. But it mar be less discreet than dignified for Her Majesty to thus indicate to the offending Commons' that they are beneath her notice. Some of these days she will want other grandchildren married; and perhaps the crushed Commons may not be so energetic in securing settlements for them. PUBLIC GBIT HEEDED. The arrest of that highwayman in the up per Michigan district furnishes the material for another discouraging estimate of the capacity of this generation of American cit izens for self-governrirent and self-protection. Here we hare the case of a single landed highwayman who, for the past fire or six months, lias been robbing stage coaches and railway trains, relieving whole assemblages of their money and teams at a single stroke, and practically holding large sections of two States under terrorism. "While it is not very pleasant to confront the business end of a loaded pistol, it might lie expected that twelve men at a time would be able to overpower a single-handed robber; and his final arrest by two men strengthens that opinion. A little backbone on the part of the public is the principal require ment to put down the highwayman's nro iefsion. THE COAL COMBINE. And now the report is renewed that a mysterious syndicate is going to buy up the coal mines of the Monongahela river. The previous statement is amended to the effect that the mysterious millions which are to consolidate the coal interests of the rirer into one concern now number 523,000,000. The majority of the coal men having denied the existence of any such scheme, it might be supposed that the projectors propose to get the coal properties without letting the owners know it. But as the owners have all expressed a willingness to unload their property on whoever wishes to pay the price for it, we may conclude that the mysterious gentlemen with 25,000,000 can have the mines since they insist upon it. It has already been shown that such a scheme can be of little avail in raising the price of coak It is the competition of other districts that makes coal cheap on the river, and it does not yet appear that the ?25,000,000 is going to buy all the coal lands between this and the Gulf of Mexico. The scheme may be a profitable one for the ne gotiation of trust certificates if the lengths to which that business has been pushed does not prove a serious obstacle. Beyond that it may turn out to comprise a centrali zation that will put miners wages down to the level of the Clearfield and anthracite districts. It will be an interesting study, if this combination materializes, to watch and see how that policy, which has been recom mended by some of the labor leaders, affects the living of the miners, who are not too liberally paid at the present time. AB0DX AN OFFSET. That report with regard to the outbreak of Texas fever among the Irrge herds of cattle in Kansas and the Indian Territory Las an interesting relation to the long stand ing fight between the transportation of live stock and the transportation of meat in the form of dressed beef. Of course it is hardly necessary to say that cattle affected witb such a disease should not be transported in either form; but the possibility of its being done and the results from such an abuse arc about equally grave in both cases. Naturally the opponents of dressed beef are ready with accusations that cattle affected with the Texas fever are liable to be slaughtered and shipped East as dressed leef, in which case the diseased characterof ihe meat cannot be readily delected. This may be true to a limited extent; but it is obvious that the Ijgst interests of the dressed beefindustry areon the side of making it certain that no such damage to the row tation or their product shall be possible. On the other hand, while the (detection of diseased cattle on the hoof is perhaps easier than in the case of diseased meat, it is plain that the results of shipping infected live cattle all over the country are likely to be far graver. Not only is it possible for the infection of the Texas fever to be spread U over the country by shipments of live stock, from "the infected regions, bnt we have recently had evidence that the old practice of shipping cattle diseased from "lump jaw" has extended, even to the cattle yards of this city. It is not permissible, therefore, to take the position that either one form or the other is entirely superior to the abuse of shipment in diseased forms. The fact is, however, self-evident that the true interests of both methods will be best subserved, in common with the public in terests, by placing them under a regnlation which shall render impossible the spread of disease by cattle on the hoof or the shipment of unhealthy meat "When that is done so as to place both interests on an equal foot ing, each can have the opportunity of demonstrating its capability for the supply of cheap and wholesome food to the masses. A FACILE FEAITD. The new development of the art of fraud ulent beggary, which is reported in our local columns, gives another illustration of the persistent inventions of the class which will take more tro'uble to get money dishon estly than to earn it honestly. It must also be said that it illustrates the readiness of a large element of the industrious and honest classes to offer themselves up as food for these swindlers. It appears that a clique of men have for some time been systematically deriving a regular income by representing themselves as a committee to sell tickets to balls, pic nics and other entertainments given in aid of an alleged strike at some of the mills. There was no reason why the representation of a strike should he confined to one mill; but in this case, at least for a short time past, it has been located at the Shoenberger works. The ball or picnic is an imagina tion; the tickets are stamped with what pur ports to be the Amalgamated Association seal, but is not; and the only strike is that which the swindlers make upon their vic tims' pocketbooks. Of course the responsible and upright managers of the Amalgamated Association are desirous of stopping this bleeding of the public in their name; and their warning ap pears in connection with the matter. It is necessary to say, however, that those who yield up their dollars on 6uch a representa tion are easy victims. Of course when they buy tickets they do not intend to go to the picnic or ball and have no means of discov ering that the proposed entertainment is a fiction. They cannot take time to inquire of the Amalgamated officer whether the strike is a reality. But without the desire of pouring water on onr own wheel, it is per tinent to point out that every strike in the mills of this city is duly chronicled in the press; and if business men will take time to read the papers they can ,be protected against this swindle as well as bunko. Bv a study of the local press, the public cannot only know what strikes are actually going on; but they will also be able to form a judgment as to what are worthy of the public support and encouragement WILL THE TOBIES FLOP! It is thoroughly in accordance with the precedents of modern Toryism that, when a reform has become inevitable, the Tory statesmen shall steal the credit of those who have labored in showing its necessity, and in educating the public up to it by bringing in the measures themselves which their opponents have long fought for. This was the course of Mr. Disraeli with regard to parliamentary reform, and upon the vic tories thus won he obtained his pre-eminence as a leader of Engljsh politics. It is not remarkable, therefore, that re ports that Lord Salisbury intends to bring in bills which will command the support of the Parnell party, and thus hopes to divide that wing from the Liberals under the leadership of Mr. Gladstone, commands at tention. His partial success in doing this, on the Irish University hill, at the session just closed, calls out from leading newspa pers the prediction that he will grant the Home Rule party their object in two or at most three steps, giv ing them next a land oill and then a respectable measure of local government That Lord Salisbury will do this only as a last resort hardly needs specification; and even if he should recant there are one or two points which it will be hardly possible to overlook. The first is that Lord Salis bury is not Lord Beaconsfield. He has neither his audacity nor his art at bringing the Bourbon element of Toryism to the sup port of a measure which they cannot under stand, aud which they must alwavs hate. In the next place, Lord Salisbury is person ally pledged against Irish reform too strongly to make the somersault with any great de gree of grace. But even if the Tory Government should concede the Irish reforms, the whole world would know that the building up of that cause was due to the united efforts of Par nell and Gladstone. The framing of the measure may be stolen from the Liberals, but the credit of originating it and carry ing it to victory will always rest with Par nell and Gladstone. THE B. & O'S. VINDICATION. The master's report on the case of certain stockholders of the Pittsburg and Conuells ville Bailroad presents a step in a law suit involving large sums and calling into question the integrity of the management of one of our leading railroad lines. The find ing in the case is more reassuring to the public than the opposite one would have been, as it certifies to the honesty of the management and declared that the finances of the corporation are administered legiti mately for its benefit It is impossible of course to go into all the voluminons details which this litigation that has been going on for two years, in volves. Briefly stated the complainants alleged that the 10,000,000 loan of thePitts burg and Conncllsville road was negotiated for the benefit of the Baltimore and Ohio, and was an unjust burden on the Pittsburg branch. The railroad of course' disputed this allegation; and in a report which makes a good-sized volume, It. B. Carnahan, Esq., the master, reports in favor of the railroad. He finds that the money has been expended in improvements of the Pittsburg and Con nellsville, the extension of its proper branches, the Increase of its rolling stock, and not for the benefit of the main line, at the cost of onr branch. It is certainly reassuring to learn that the Baltimore and Ohio has been conscientiously improying the Pittsburg division, and not burdening it for the improvement of other parts of the system. There was decided room lor improvement in some respects and one of the cases where the reform ha been visible is apparent at the foot of Smithfield stree. It is asserted that a promising student, at S the TJnion Theological Seminary hasgone insane through the useof cigarettes. The inference is obvious that only those can use cigarettes with safety who are destitute of brains. A coiempobabx remarks: "The progress of Christian missions is significantly illus trated by the fact that the King of Siam has given one of the royal palaces to the use of the missionaries." Possibly it might be equally correct to say that the lack of progress of Christian missions is illustrated by the same fact. It has been plainly as serted that one reason why the success of missions in the East was limited was the fact that the missionaries did not mingle with the common people or meet them on their own level of poverty and privation. The Founder of the Christian religion, when He undertook to convert the heathen world, did not do it from a residence in a palace. Jay Gould and C. P. Huntington as the controlling minds of a Southwestern railway pool, would present a beautiful ex ample of the philanthropy which is claimed to be the ruling motive of the pooling policy. Air esteemed cotemporary editorially notes the fact that Uncle Jeremiah Busk, in his address to the soldiers at Milwaukee last week, quoted a verse of the poem which our cotemporary cites as "We have drank from the same canteen." We, do not know whether the poem or Uncle Jerry Busk can be held to strict accountability for the gram mar of the quotation; but it would have been no more than professional courtesy in our cotemporary to have made the citation in accordance with the rules of Lindlay Murray. Canada's wrath at not getting into the Queen's speech cau be most completely" so laced by throwing off English allegiance. When that is done Canada will form the main topio of several Q ueen's speeches. One of the significant features of the last London strike is the fact that the London papers have plucked np independence enough to, indirectly at least, intimate that it is the business of capitalists to give their employes wages enough to preserve them from starvation, and to obviate trade dis putes which threaten social disaster. The Exposition is progressing with grand strides to the point where it can make good, its claim to be representative of- Pittsburg enterprise that will do Pittsbnrg credit. The Standard Oil Company and the Ohio Democracy have got together once more. Whether that amiable and taciturn old statesman, Henry B. Payne, is vindi cated or not in the election this fall, it may be taken for granted that the political work ers will sample the contents of the Standard Oil barrels. " That dispute about the right jf a pro cession to carry a flag through the Alle gheny parks bears very nearly the signifi cance of a tempest in a teapot Mr Claus SruECKEi-s' idea of build ing an addition to the White Honse out ot blocks of hardened sugar is, we hope, a little out oi place in Washington. In the New York City's government sugar might be considered n very useful material either for building political or publio edifices. It begins to be whispered around by the visiting members of the G. A. B. that Mil waukee's hospitality to the veterans was for revenue only. Thus far it is stated that the. revenne steamer Bush "has boarded fourteen vessels which it found prowling around Behring Sea." The number of sailors of which it 'made a present to these vessels is kept in secrecy in order that the exact degree of de pletion to the navy may not be made public. FAsniox again asserts that dresses this fall will be decollete. Ample assurance are given, however, that the bills will not be cut low. 1 -v One of the things that requires 'explana tion is that, so far as can be learned from the reports, when Bussell Harrison stepped on to the American continent at New York the other day, the other side of the conti nent did not tip up at San Francisco. PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE. These is said to be little doubt in England that Sir Edwin Arnold will be the next laureate. These is mention of Prof. W. H. Brewer as the successor ot the late Elias. Loomis at Yale. The finest diamonds visible at the Shah's visit to the Paris Exhibition are said to have been worn by Mrs. Wkitelaw Held. Tenkyson, Darwin, Gladstone, Lincoln, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe and Lord Houghton were born in the year ISO?. ' The death is announced of the Lancashire poetess, Fanny Forrester, She belonged to the working classes, at an early age developing a taste for poetry. Sho was a frequent contrib utor to journalistic literature. Harry; W. Slocum, who has won the tennis championship of America for the second time, is a son ot General Slocum, ot Brooklyn. Young Slocum is a graduate of Yale and a law yer. If he wins the championship next season he will retire from the tennis court and devote himself to courts of law. Gexekal Crook, the famous Indian fighter, wonders how so great a fraud as Sitting Bull could be made sneb a hero of. He says that the old Indian is an arrant coward, bat so full of conceit that he impresses people with his importance. "And no wonder he is conceited," adds General Crook, "for he has had offers of marriage from white women, and endless re quests for his photograph." The boose in which Oliver Wendell Holmes was born is still standing on the common at Cambridge, Mass., and Unow one of the college' buildings. It is an old gambrel-roofed house, and durldg the siege ot Boston it was the head quarters of the American officers. The Rot. Abiei Holmes, the host's father, was pastor of the First Church of Cambridge, where General Washington was a frequent worshiper. General NP. Basks has had a varied career. He was a "bobbin boy" in a factory, an actor E0 years ago, having played Claude MelnoUe in the "Lady of Lyons" at the old Na tional Theater, Boston, Later on he was 2 law yer, and still later a general in the army, Gov ernor of tlio Btatos ot Massachusetts, and Speaker of the House in the same Btate, He was also a member of Congress and Speaker of the Honse of Representative,' General Banks is now 73 years of age, and is the oldest living ex-Governor of Massachusetts. Mistaken for a Dynamiter New York "World London Letter. 1 A story is told of a Philadelphia lady who went to the House of Commons this week with a little velvet bag slung over her arm. Itwas just about large enough to hold a handker chief, a smelling bottle and a few keys. vSeven policemen stopped her and wanted to examine it "Of course, sir," siid one policeman to the M.P. who accompanied her. "you will guar rantee that the bag is all right" A Western Editor's Surprise, From the New York Trlbune'l A Western paper remarked the other day, "We have no doubt that our readers trill all agree with ns when we say that we ought to have cheaper gas." And the editor was very much surprised the next day when be received a note sinned "Many -'Readers." as follows: "Then why in Sam Hill don't yon put down the nriMM winfMnort" ?. . .-'v - rA THE PITTSBUKG T DISPATCH THE TOPICAL TALKBB. 1 Johnstown's Now Lenso of Life A Mana gerial Episode Saner Sue A Society Dialogue. If you want to see an evidence of the pluck of Johnstown businessmen, of the revival of that city's spirit ot Industry and enterprise, take up a copy of the Johnstown Tribune and count the columns of advertisements. On Thursday last the Tribune contained 26 col umns of advertisements, almost all of which were local. This is a wonderful showing for a city almost wiped out ot existence just three months ago, and it also testifies markedly to the prosperity of the Tribune. The town and the paper can be congratulated sincerely. Nioht before last Manager E, D. Wilt stood on the top step of the entrance to the Grand Opera House lobby contemplating the rush of several persons toward the box office. He ap peared to be in his usual serene frame of mind, and when they began to talk ot Marie Prescott and Richard McLean a sweet smile tinctured the austerity of his, mouth. "Away back last season," said Mr. Wilt, "Klaw and Erlanglerbooked Mariefrescott the week of September 0 at the Opera House. .Thoy wero my agents, and I heard nothing of the booking at the time. When i nearu ot it I supposed it was all right, because I thousht Marie Prescott played comedy or farce comedy of some sort. But some time last February I found out she was play ing tragedy, and more than that was not playing in first-class theaters. By that time I had Warde in tragedy for the week of Septembers and Marie Wainwright in Shakes pearean drama for September 23, with Booth and Modjeska following close. So I wrote to the Prescott people telling them I wanted to cancel their date. 1 explained why I thought thoy would profit by the cancellation of the contract. They refused, and have kept on re fusing ever since. They say thoy will play in my bouse the week of September 9. I say they won't. 'Bric-a-Brac,' a farce comedy, has that week. Mr. Klaw booked 'Bric-a-Brac' for me. He's my Now York agent." "Well, what does Mr. Klaw say about the matter?" "He says I'm crayz. Says Wilt's crazy," re plied the manager. So'the conversation ended. The controversy is not at an end. Mr. Beauregard, Marie Pres cott's agent, says be is instructed to proceed as if the contract bad never been in dispute. That means he will offer bis star's advertising to Manager Wilt, and, in the event of other means failing, call in the aid of the courts. Mr. Wilt savg he is reallv hunirrv for a lawsuit, and. as has been said, is supremely cheerful about'the affair. ' SAUCT SUE. Bne they called her Saucy Sue She whose eyes were brlRht'and black, She whose faulti were faint and few, She who, by a happy knack. Kept ten lovers on the rack, Sighing lond forBancy Sue. Who would win her? No one knewl Every lover had his day Every courtship went askew. Wrecked upon a little "Nayl" Many came, nut none to stay, Sighing loud for Saucy Sue. Sancy Sue, ahl your due Came at last and. won and wed, You're no longer Saucy Sue, But a matron staid Instead, Taxed to manage, it Is said, Saucy Susan number two, Two fashionable young women, one about 7 and the other perhaps 8 years old, wore spend ing last Sunday with another young society lady on the shady side of. 10, and very naturally of course the conversation turned upon dress. The two visitors were sisters, singularly alike in size, features and disposition, bat the elder possesses wonderful powers of imagination that her junior has not. It was the imaginative genius who led the talk. "I have a love of a white pique dress at home," she said, fixing her eyes on the frock of that material which her hostess wore. "So have I," said her younger sister. "And you ought to see the black lace dress my mamma gave met" "Yes-iandyou ought to see mine," calmly added the junior partner. "But the best dress I have is too1 lovely for anything It's a blue silk? , "So is mice," came the echo.; "No it is not," said tho elder sister sternly, "you have not got a blue silk!" "Yes, I have! and if you don't say I have I'll tell everybody you're lying." Just then tho Speaker of the House entered, and the debate was adjourned sine die. Hepbden Johns, i HENRI CLAT AND THE GOAT. Tbe Great Statesman Placed In a Peculiarly Embarrassing Position. The following anecdote of Henry Clay bas recently been published for the first time: As he came out of the Capitol at Washington one day, seeing a frightened woman in the street striving to ward off the attacks of a sportive goat, he gallantly, in spite of his years and office, seized the goat by the horns. The woman thanked him and sped hurriedly on. Mr. Clay would have liked to move on also, but tbe goat bad its own views about the interference with his in nocent amusement. As soon as the woman's deliverer loosed his hold on the two horns, the animal rose majestically on its hind legs and prepared for a charge In his own defence Mr. Clay now took the animal, as before, by the" horns, and thus for a time they stood, while a crowd of street boys gathered about, immensely amused at the unusual spectacle of a Senator and a goat pitted one against the other in a public street. As long as Mr. Clay held the goat by the boms all was well; but the moment the quadruped was free came a fresh preparation fora charge. Not a boy offered assistance, but after a while one ventured forward to make a suggestion. "Throw the billy down, sir." Mr. Clay at once accepted and adopted tbe report of that committee, and tipDing tie goat up essayed to pass on. Before he could fairly turn atfay, however, tho goat was np in lofty preparation for a new charge. Mr, Clay gave his enemy the floor once more and turned to his new adviser. 'And what shall I do, now?" "Cut and run like the devil," replied tho lad. Fashions In the West. From the Chicago Herald. 1 A popular attire in Nebraska is tar and feathers. The tar, which readily conforms to the shape ot the body, is a perfect fit, and tbe effect of white bed .feathers thrown with an unstudied art upon this dark background is very striking. Trust and No Trust. From the Oil dity Derrick. 1 It's a great age for trusts, and their terms are cash. DEATHS OP A DAY. David Dibcrt. David Dibcrt, an old and respected citizen of Johnstown, died at his summer residence at Eldgevlew Fark Tjwrsday last, at7P. M., of ty phoid feTer. He hid been ailing for two weeks. Mr. DIbert lost over (30, 000 worth or property In the flood of Johnstown, but had left tbe doomed city some time before the bursting or tbe dam. Mr. DIbert leaves a widow and eight children. The remains will be taken from lUdgevew Fark to-morrow on the day express to the family burial place in Johnstown. Welty McCnllongU. Tbeannouncementoftbedeathof Hon. Welty McCulIougb, of Ureensburg, and a member of the county bar, sent a shock through Western Fcnn svlvania on Saturday morning. Mr. McCullough died at his borne In Greensburg at 1 :30 A. jr., after a short illness which was not supposed to be fatal. Mr McCullough was born In Greensburg October 10, 1847, and made that town his home all his life. He was educated at Washington and Jefferson and frlnceton Col leges, and graduated at the latter In 1S70. He studied law with Hon. James IT. Logan and V. H. Markle, Esq., and was admitted to tbe bar In 1872, and since then lias been actively engaged as an advocate, not only In Westmoreland county, but through Wentern Pennsylvania cenerally.aud was recognized not only as a sound lawyer, but as a gentleman, and bad hosts of friends wherever known. In 1888. Mr, McCullough was nominated by Westmoreland ttenunucans ior ixrazress hr.K. clamatlon, and the nomination .was ratified by Greene and Fayette counties, and though the dis trict was strongly Democratic, ne was elected, the Democracy having Split and nominated two candidates, Gilbert H. Kafierty, of this city, and Dr. Donnelly, of Latrobe. Both as a lawyer and a member of Congress Mr. McCullough was recognized as a man of more than ordinary ability. AineetlnsortliePlttsburtbarhas been called for to-morrow morning at lo o'clock to take ap propriate actions Judge r Collier win preside. Tbe funeral wlll be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock at Greens burg, and will be conducted by the Knights Tera nlar oftureensburr. it will boattenaed bra enn. slderable number of people 'of this city, who will leave acre si i o'cjdck STjIfl&Y, SEMEMEER' , GHOSTS AND 1YIL SPIRITS. Same of tho" Strange Belief Entertained by People of Ihe East. From the New York Mall and ExpreM.3 i The dread of ghosts is common to all the aboriginal races of India and Cbina,and the only means employed to oppose tbelr rancor and mischievous dispositions is to build shrines tor them and to make them offerings. Any severe illness, any epidemic disease, as smallpox, cholera, etc, is attributed to tbe malignancy of certain of these spirits, who must be propitiated accordingly. In India the man tier is, perhaps, the most dreaded of all these demon ghosts, for when a tiger has killed a man the tiger is considered safe from harm, as the spirit of the man rides npon his head and guides him clear of danger. Accordingly It Is believed that lha only sure mode of destroying a tiger who has killed many people is to begin by mak ing offerings to tbe spirits of his victims, there by depriving htm of their.talnaole services. , In China the gho.'ta most propitiated aro of tbose who have mei a violent or untimely death, whether by design or by accident. Even women who die in child-bed, or wretches who are haneed for their crinies, are believed to have the same power of causing evil to the living as those who have been killed byany other violent causes, including poison, disease, lightning, etc' All thPKA nAlfloiV ailts aA fiftan ?laH- guisbed by some term denoting the .manner of 1 ins aeaiu. xuus me tiger gnost is ine gnosc oi ajrnan killed by a tiger; the snake ghost the ghost of a person who was killed b v a snake. In Africa the waddy and lightning ghosts are the most common, but the most dreaded spirit is the Sirocco ghost, which is reputed by the natives ' an implaca ble spirit Most of tbe deceased persons whose spirits are now worshiped were tbe an cestors of some of the aborgines. The cere monies observed in propitiating the ghosts con sist mainly of the offerings of fowls, pigs, goats, as well as of flowers and fruits, "of the recita tion and singing of certain prayers and charms before the.different shrines. A C0N6EESS OP SNEEZERS. The Best Record Mado by a rtiiladelplilan With Hay Fever, From the Philadelphia Kecord. J , The sneezers of the United States, who are known as the Hay .Fever Association, have Just completed their sixteenth annual session at Bethlehem, H. H. This organization, which Henry Ward Beecher puteuch life into, still meets regularly once a year, cracks jokes and tells stories to keep up the spirits of the hay-fever-victim members, talks of ways and means to dry up tear ducts and provide noise subduers for sneezers, and, in a word, fights an annual' battle against tle disease that makes such a market for pocket-handkerchiefs. Colonel MRichards Muckle. of the Public Ledger, and Dr. Edward Townsend. were among Philadelphia's delegates to tbe conven tion, and sneezed enough to give Philadelphia the reputation of being the biggest city in the country. Colonel Muckle made a big imnres fion by his speech before the association. There were tears in every eye and pocket handker- cnieis ai erery nose as ne torn oi ine $s,uuu lie had spent in 4& years to get the better of his nose. He said tnat cauterization ot tbe nasal nerves was the only remedy. He had tried it himielf. Time was when in going from Provi dence to Bethlehem he had sneezed 1,200 times according to a tally kept by the conductor, and used up so many handkerchiefs that he bad to make a wash line out of the hell rope in tbe car. On bis last trip he only snoze 25 times, and didn't havo to have a special car, thanks to his cauterization scheme. ' Tho sneezing and crying was redoubled when. Air. r.awara xownseno, or this city, tola tpe convention that hay fever was a moral disease; that it never attacked New York Aldermen or convicts, and that its wotst victims were alwavs brainy people like himself. President Lock wood in an address estimated that there were at least 200,000 sneezers in the United States, aUinoro or less addicted to tears. LIKE THE JEANNETTE CASE. Marble Workers Who Violated the Contract Labor Law to bo Tried. ISrXCIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. WASHWciTOir, August SL Information was received at the Treasury Department to day of a preliminary action In a case somewhat similar to that which is alleged in connection with tbe Jeannette glass workers. Borne time ago Bowker & Co., of Boston", marble workers, im ported 14 Italian marble cutters direct from Carrara. They were passed by tbe authorities at New York when thoy arrived, just as the Jeannette men were at Boston, and proceeded to their destination. After working for a short time the Italians discovered that tbelf em ployers were disposed to avoid certain terms of tbe contract. Several of them were so dissatis fied that tbey returned to Carrara wholly dis gusted witb American employers. This dis affection led to an exposure of the contract, and steps were at once taken, at the instance of labor organizations, to prosecute tbe viola tors of the alien contract labor law. The de fendant filed a demurrer, and Judge Call, of the United States Circuit Court, has just over ruled the demurrer and the caso will be tried. THE KIND TO SAIL IN. A Yacht Tlmt Cnn't Sink Nor Capsize Challenge to the World. (SPECIAL TELEQEAM TO THE DISPATCH.! New Yobe. August 3L The maiden trip of the unslnkable and non-capsizable new silling yacht, the F. JU. Norton, belonging to the Nor ton Naval Construction and Ship Building Company, of New York and New Jersey, was made on Thursday, from Tottenville down the lower bay to Sandy Hook, and then up to Tompkinsville, S. L, where the extraordinary craft now lies. The performance of tbe ves sel gave entire satisfaction to the designer, Captain F.L. Norton.who was on board with his family. She worked up to Sandy Hook against continual bead winds which were very un steady, and blew at times in very heavy puffs. From tbe Hook up to Tompkinsville the boat had to stem the ebb tide close hauled. Captain Norton within the next ten days will issue a formal challenge to any yacht, of any build, of any flag, to race the F. L. Norton from Sandy Hook to the Bermudas, or around them and back to Bandy Hook, the race to start at any time between October 1 and IS; the terms and conditions to be bereafter agreed upon. WALKER BLAINE'S ABSENCE. He Seems to Have Been Swallowed Up in New York. ISrnCIAL TELEOkAM TO TBS DI8PATCH.1 Washington, August 3L A great deal of curiosity is manifested at the Department of State in regard to the mysterious absence of Mr. Walker Blaine. He was duo two weeks ago, and sent word to brothe'r officials he would bo on time. He left Bar Harbor and came as far as New York. There ho was heard from about two weeks ago, and since that time no trace of him can be found. Friends who know all the circumstances of his lively tussle with a down East buckboard a few weeks ago in which he got decidedly the worst of the con test, fear that the accident may have affected him moro seriously than was at first supposed. At any rate, much anxiety is felt here among those who aro most intimate with him and with tbe Secre tary's family. Telegrams were sent to-day to every place it was thought possible Mr. Blaine could be, but as yet no tidings have been re ceived. It is as though New York had swal lowed him. AUTUMN DREAMS. When tbe maple turns to crimson, And tbe sassafras to gold; When the gentian's In the meadow And the aster on tbe wold; When the moon is lapped in vapor. And the night Is frosty cold; When the chestnut burrs are opened, And the acorns drop like hall, And the drowsy air is startled With the thumping of the flail With tbe drumming of the partridge, And the whistle of the quail ; Througn tho rnstllng woods 1 wander, Through the Jewels or the year. From the yellow uplands calling, Seeking her who still is dear; She is near me in Die autumn, bhe, the beautiful, is near. Through the "smoke of burning summer, When the weary wings are still, I can tee her in the valley, I can hear her on tbe bill, In the splendor of the woodlands, In the wbliper of the rill. For the shores of earth and heaven Meet, and mlngleln the blue; She can wander down tbe glory To tbe places that she knew, Where the happy lovers wandered In the days when life was true. So I think whendays are sweetest, And the-worldls wholly fair. She may sometimes steal npon me, Through the dimness of tbe air, With the cross upon her bosom, And the amaranth In her hslr, i Omco to her, -all! to. taeet her, And to bold ber gently last. Till I blessed ber. till sho blessed me s .That were happiness at last,. That were bllsr,beyondour meetings Jfcjn the autumn of the past. - r; .il -a.js. Jrar7.. AT-iTtft . b..mhi qM-ru ? mnnn tun rfinnvn. - . ia f-K-i ii in ii I ii 1 1 II ii it i.-v: -."Tiri, .. - .jt. MiMr rf T . .Ml nil 1 1 1 i . 1 1 i IWIIIM "li - ffiSft. AfJITYOPBfiUJCBH. Washington Dnrlng the Heated Tarts A DallAaalalwratlOfl A Lack f Qf Yonug Millionaire Good Prospect far rf Little Fn. 4 s rCOBBXSFOXDZlrCX OT T8X DISPATCH.J Washwotok. D. 'U. August 30. Since. Washington bas come to be a city capable1 of. supporting, summer hotels it bas not been idullerthan at this time. It reminds one of some city of the far sont&land, where there H nothine the livelong day to stir the blood to en thusiasm, where tbe flowers and the breezes and the trees constantly provoke languor and indolence, where there is nothing but love and music and symphonies of color, where the lotos niiglftvwell flourish as in any country of the world, and where 'all men aadwomen might eat of it and forget that thereMs any struggje tor life or.any creature called death. Dreams' float in the atmosphere, oven for tbe workmen tearing up the street, and for tbe scrub women who are at this moment flocking Into the Treasury building to oaop up tbe diurnal ac cumulation of civil service spittle and tbe sift ing dust of tbe aspnaltum. The crude greens of the trees and verdure are softened by the sweet decay of autumn into a grateful russet. She warm gray that, tints tbe evening ot life. Tbe citizen goes abont his work merely to keep up appearances knowing there is nothing to sell aud nobody to buy. Tbose favored mortals, the employes of the State, dream through the six and a half hours ot tbe easy work of tbe slackened season, and skip out to the country Jin (he early after noon to be wooed by tbe crickets and katydids until the following morning is well advanced. The hotel clerkrdoes little but admire himself and bis diamonds, especially the former, by all odds tbe most magnificent thing in Washing ton in the absence of tho President and Cabi net. The correspondent, that most patient and persistent of all animals after tbe mule, makes his rounds Of the departments and tbe hotels, getting little news, in good sootb, but building up valuable acquaintances with the hundreds of new statesmen who have lately come Into office through the cunning of that Napoleon of politicians, Mr; Matthew Stanley Quay, with out whose generalship the gentlemen who now sit in the chairs of the chiefs would be howling; outside ot tbe city walls. ' In short, we are atour best and loveliest, i sort of heavenly stagnation, which, alas! will soon be ntterly despoiled by tbe politicians who will come to, make unnecessary laws, and tbe dear ten thousand who will return from tbelr summer flirting to live here again a shott, season of their lives. j A Doll Administration. We common people who never have any leisure, to whom a vacation has never come since we lived in tbe mysterious world beyond our birth, have been having a restful, grawfal time, without Congress, without the courts, witho ut scandals, everything moral and quies cent as a dried-up duck pond. Maledictions upon the house hunters who are already be ginning to haunt the streets looking .for dwell ings for the "season;" and let me tell them here and now tht tbelr coming will be in vain. for we're not going to have a tithe of the at tractive gayetyor the last four years. The young millionaires of the last administration will have no counterpart in this. Among all of tbe new comers there is not one Whitney or one Mrs. Whitney to take tbe frigid edge off from tbe administrative formality and melan choly, and launch forth into genial, liberal, un inquirlng, high-flying. The society of the last administration may have been "a pace that kills," but that sort of murder is picturesque to us cynical outsiders, who are here to be amused, and have a right to grievously complain of any administration that does not trrnish the highest order of social cir cus. The spectacle of the grand entrances and hippodromes, and ground and lofty perform ances of tho fashionable circle, tbe "social trust," as it were, are a part of our entertain ment that we cannot dispense with in that season when we are forced at any rate to en dure an infusion of alien blood, but a grave fear is expressed that the features of Govern ment embodied in receptions and state dinners, gossip, and paper bunts, will be sadly lacking under the operation of this old-fashioned, economical, spirit-of-my-grandfather adminis tration. Under Cleveland everything had an aroma of cakes and ale, but nobody seems to be able to forecast what perfume will be wafted from the drawing rooms of tbe new dispensa tion, where tbe worm is read that produces tbe elixir of the still, and the fire of Old Tokay, is ever quenched. StUI Some Fan Left. But let ns not despair. There is at least a pleasure in the pathless woods of speculation, and until the doom of utter tameness falls and spreads its final pill over all things merry and bright, let us look with hope npon the pros pects ot the professional newspaper humorist, the sad-eyed punster, the face dripping with pathos of tbe manufacturer of machine jokes, tbe fellow who has become bald burnishing old stories and sellbjg them for new, the martyr going into a consumption with midnight pere grinations searching the very stars for a comic saying. Lacking tho circus, these will keep us amused, tor tho more the want in the brilliancy of the official going and coming, tbe greater the opportunity for the writer of droll things, and things semi-wise, and things ironical: and tbe prophet of the present, a prophet of full stomach and ruddy complexion, looks abroad over the field of the coming "season" and fore tells more food for' fun than there has been in a decade of Sundays. I think the people are becoming each year less reverential of the so-called rulers of the land, fictitiously also at times called public servants. There is a disposition among writers to rail at that which is comical, or grotesque, or mean, or crude, or suggestive of the swelled head, even when it is in lofty place, and it looks as though the targets for the journalistic javelin would be legion. A World of Compensation. The Democrats were somewhat humble in office. They felt they were on trial. They were a novel experiment in laundering, and they felt the eyes of tbe world upon them to know if tney would wash. There was some thing tbe matter witb their soap, and they went forth soiled as they . came. Tbe Republicans were vain of their rennalssante. Behold, wo are white and clean, said they, as though it were a matter of native purity, instead of a superior quality or quantity of soap, and every man-of them imagines that he is in some way one of the elect. Therefore, though the circus may fail of some of its attractloas, there is on the horizon a mir age of the fun tbat is coming in the domain of, official assumption, of blunders, and quarrels of the party family, and fatal jealousies, and contempt of small men in high positions shown by big men In lower positions, tbat promise to I take the place of even the paper hunts, tbe social scanuais, ana ine love maxing ui a nice new President and his nice new wife. This is a world of compensations. If we can't find fun in one way we will in another, if we want it. E. W. L. EDITORIAL EXPRESSIONS. Chicago Timet: As the ex-Treasurer of Vinton, la., is only short 10,000 in his accounts he will probably be punished severely. Chicago News: It will require another Columbus to discover a suitable sito for a world's fair within easy reach of New York. Philadelphia Times: rhe London strik ers Imitate their American brethren in defining liberty to mean the power to deprive other worklngroen ot the liberty to work. Baltiuobe American: A great result In this world is achieved by great lator. Tbe man who dreams and dreams, expecting to wake up and find himself famous, generally dreams on until he rests In his grave. N ew Yobk Scrald: Perhaps Mr. Bull will kindly allow a few Americans a chance to do business in this country. We should like just a corner of tbe earth to stand on, if we do not trespass too much on his rights. ' Philadelphia Telegraph: The decision of JudgoMcConnell, of Chicago, that tho mur derers of Cronin must be tried together is all right, butwhat the people want to bo assured of is that they will be banged together. ST. Louis Globe Democrat: Now that the labor strikes in Londsn are aboutover.Jtis to be hoped that the Democratic papers will ex plain howIt is that suqt things can happen in a free trade country. They have been assuring us tbat strikes are to be expected only under "the blighting Influence of a protective tariff." Washington JPost: "I don't wani no re ception," pleaded Sullivan. "Weave me no gaudy chaplet," murmured Depew by cable. But Boston could not refrain from honoring her idol, and the Spellbinders of New York are planning a banquet all the same. Tho plain unostentatious life may seem monot- ODOBvbut its spared tbrpenaitiea of inch cos mopolitan renown. .'. &.' ' S-" t; -1 il ""." ?"" '"" rv"i- i o .xm'fti'' ' nimmrmmuiL t flppwt &w9 MsWPWJtih "i i nsssffTeaaravastaviansassa.1 Nsnr-Y$f, 'Awn t.-Mv. " WJMvwMHVMt J JhWrff wife sr wteh nia wWU Hm Mmatkwr hs)(t avsMsuc A RyasiBiMbisinitlv.'He and isrsft boardfSwlwbadbdlmllsrsxperieaciMk their wsteoes and their laaeBady, b4 Hss.1 WbIMmmm simtot 'Tfcy MdJSMir sMr ta apolioeeorttkkattro, was J. maBde4-Jrs.WWtre bas aearfcHisUf, behind her. bsls tbdughtflro8ntmra planter. When 14 yews old she ran wy frosa home and marrisd Captain Wailingfotd, V. ft. A. Sfee lived wftk Mm a'shert Msae, get a U veroe awl married sfeTeitMr sw la qaM tapU saeceesiW Wurkm mtid Ut lulu,, Philadelphia'"' a4.eii!no for all sort ut offenses,- roa draakeaeeM to horse theft sad. Wganay,'"o ' sgatest a sttttt. railway ccHBjHwy here aliMtaS-oMtTMasMl a suit against Usote 8a-frlK0,eW. SlMSMe tried to aMee! ?( stlitamife for the purpose 'of boWtog Waf,rrano. 8ae bas done time on the isf4 sad In" yesftea tterles. Nevertheless, se Is fat and jelly ad nas the face ot a JaaaeeBt year-old girl. IwreHMel CaMaStfek. A certificate ros JUed in tbeooaatyolwVs, office to-day showing tbat tho oajHtal stook ot the Commercial Cable '.Company has been la creased; from 9e.oee.066; to ia.e.m It; it signed by Directors Jote W Maekay, Geo. S.. Coe, Hector DeCsstro, A L Chandler aad J, DaCastro.The Stock js Issued to take, up out standing bonds.., -j Smothered la a Bake tJve-. '" ' Antonio Gulliano,'a laborer, entered a aewly built baker's oven under the sidewalk la Beath Fifth avenue this morula? lev the purpose of testing tbe strength of the support. Wbtte he was at work 12 feet from the door, thereof eel-' lapsed and be was entombed. Ten annates afterward five vrorkingmen had- dag- a beta through tbe debris and bad brought QoiHaaa' to the open air. H was too late, however. Her'f was black in the'"face .and- breathing" bat slightly. He died BBortly after being removed to the hospital. Gone to Europel Senator Prank Hiscock, Senator William B. Chandler, Cloyd Chandler and Edgar Fawcett sailed for Europe to-day. ' Arrangemenu for Labor Day, Some 20.000 worklngmen are preparing to march In theb!gLabo Day parade next Mon day morning. They will represent 40- labor or ganizations. The Urand Marshal of the day will be George Cavanagb, of the Amalgamated, order oi Carpenters apd Joiners. Tbe proces sion will march through some five miles of streets and dlsbandfat Stuyvesant'Square early enough in tho afternoon to allow the men to attend 10 orl2 worklagmen's picnics in Har lem. Jn tbe evening a monster 8-hour meeting wllll be held in Cooper Union. Brooklyn, New ark and Jersey ,Clty will celebrate (he day sim ilarly. Increase la Telegraph Sates. Tbe Western Union Telegraph company has informed its customers tbat commencing Mon day, rates between New York, Boston and Philadelphia will be 20 cents and one cent ex tra for each word over ten. This is an advance of from 15 to 33 per cent: A Tblef In a State Boom. Paul Halmont, the Frenchman who helped to steal 165,000 francs from B. Journal" Co., a firm of Parisian bankers, was a prisoner on the Steamer La Gascogne, for Havre, to-day. He occupied a stateroom in the cabin. He waived examination before United States Com missioner Osborne last Saturday and agreed .to return to Paris for tnat i Another Pretty Thief. Notorious Annie Dugan.with a dozen aliases, is again in jail. She is charged with being accessory to the burglarizing of Mrs. Hazle ton's house, In Brooklyn. SheUs a remarkably handsome and stylish woman, oi easy manners and pleasant address. She leads a gang-of thieves who are giving the police in New York and Brooklyn any amount of trouble. Tbelr plan of operation is to nave Annie make friends with respectable people and get an in vitation to .enter their houses. If the place promises a rich haul a telegram Is sent to the lady of the houSo that some relative is very sick or in great distress in a distant part ot the city. Annie always happens to he visiting the place when the telegram arrives and offers to go with the people, which offer is generally accepted. The confederates then enter tbe house and clean it ont. The gang stole 900 worth of goods from the Hazelton house. CONGRATULATIONS SENT C. 0. D. It Cost Dr. Holmes Ninety Cents to Read a Stranger's Message. Bevxblt Fabjis, August 3L A curious in cident in connection with the 80th birthday of Dr. Holmes was the reception of a telegram by tbe genial autocrat. The sum of 90 cents was dentended by the messenger boy 25 cents for delivery for an unusual distance and S3 cents for the telegram itself. Tbo doctor paid the sum demanded and opened the envelope. It was a dispatch of congratulation from an en tire stranger. "Hem," said the poet, "I am much obliged for bis good wishes, but I don't know him and I wonder, just a little, why be made me pay 00 cents for them." A Peripatetic Party. from the Providence JournaLl Tbe Greenback party talks of holding State conventions here and there; which means prob ably that be bas contrived to possess himself of a considerable number of free passes. Geographical Information. From tbe Buffalo Courier. All Gaul is divided into three parts: Paris, tho remainder of France, and Boulanger. . TRI-STATE TRIFLES. Such, subscribers ot the Cambridge News as cannot be divested of the idea tbat an editor can jnst as well eat, drink and wear cordwood as anything else, are thus Invited to get a move on: "Those of our subscribers who wish to pay their subscription with wood will confer a favor by hauling it while tbe roads are in good con dition. Last fall a large number promised to deliver tbe wood, but put it off until the fall rains made tbe roads almost impassable, and then refused to bring it. Briug in your wood early or brlng'the cash to pay your subscrip tion." MbS-Mabt WATJOHAstak, of Londonderry township, Bedford county, aged 81 years, a few days ago surprised her relatives by walking from tho home of her son Frank" to the resi dence of her son Ben, a distanco ofN six miles. She was very llttlefatigued. At Milford, Pa.,a monument bas been erected to the memory ofTomtJuick, known as "The Indian Slayer." He was the first white child born within the borough limits. He was bom in 1734, and his father was slain by the Indians inl7d. ' A suit to settle the ownership of 1300 found In a hollow stump in an Erie cemetery in May last by boys who were chasing a chipmunk, has been heard by Alderman Cole, of that city. Mrs. Berringer claims that the money belonged to her mother, who ohce said she had put it where bankers and thieves could not make way witb it for it was at abont the time of the fail ure of tbij Erie County Savings Bans; Kaxtb, 2,000 feet above tho ocean, has capac ity for making 29 miles of clothes-pins dally. The nnrlfvinff department of the Erie Gas Works is an efllcient whooping consli hospital. 1 The fames of the spent lime give Immediate re lief. The superintendent says: "Erie doctors now send whooping-cough patients down here everyday. Last Saturday wehjd 19 callers. They all returned noma well." Workmen taking out sawed lumber on Ran som's Island, near Williamsport, came upon a petrified log 60 feet long, which they could not lift. A melon fell off a Wheeling truck and split lengthwise. A dirty-faced boy Immediately sprang out of nowhere, lit on one of tbe hemis pheres, gate bis face a header into its liquid depths, and presently emerging.'spluttered the ecstatic renMrkT'.'It's a sloppy day whenldoa't mm r I A tart-tha tm P . -OftlM adr lanes amas? -Mr. vr. k.v Alva. fwaiattlM 2 saMtol A. atwasad ta bar room at tb 4 rsasiaay. Me., tks af tta, tewttMssa to di before aba saadawa s isurs,l p aw nam a ; .In. a cowboys' taaraasaaa) jrria,A,T.,jaba Lsa roped steers ta . attaatac. tbia beb evwnuetBAstaass. Joaa ?ss a JHUM unn aau a asasasa. , AeatarkaWe wedding uesBeo, AB4L, seesaw, m W, was wedded to lbs. 1 aas seea arsaai sears, parties bad beaa wed and tbey were icioaipealidaSl IiMHMMJidsiaai saeir grsmiuaiBH lu. A. young ohm , la Maine, wbe ttres ia a leases 1 trie ot rflIyrrted esantet 1 aedeie. seesss ta be aet tbe beet sseters the otber aerfit. tnilsad dedfe tee visit, IwfirvMed tbe i w up, auu oaiy oner WSJ tbeir ohoieen tnUstteas c toe nrwe waaaenuiee away. , . Tbe elm Wee-that s waiters hossestead at DtgttHHmtii.U" OMes in t&e State, aad its MeaJMi beekaatbeatieaayforJW yejijs Baetaea, waose laaiay aave hease for taasaasa leaath a whea be was a bey, 90 Ann ace. mramr mm jara n lanow, oireasLfereaeeMtaebaee.ud i JUgH. -AliyetWektralaaa thePe Bailroad was meeked eav ffaesday aajatiat j t-omerov, ra aaa a ear laataiawg w was was torn open and the lrfas aMwai at esses . The I porkers oaBofted tnraagh asMa iior raues, ana xae SMsesaea I eiuaea taa; were na Deeaa-i Tbe next moraine tee reflread ! to work, aad attar seoattae; Mai ceeded ia recovering every aav m w Two josng ladles TitWafJa nave been ssowntae usual . tentiooby two yoang men of taat m other night the men jocosely ladies to go ta PhSlJetbBrg aad set the girl acceated tbe baater. aad started lq a carriage. AtPbilHpsbnajc ister was ont oi town, aaa. it oeti the Dartv concladed to "return to et married next day. Next day tbey e tier of it and the weddiaos ware- off. Had tbe minister been at hoate noiaoouDitnaiine two ooupie been married. A&hamokin Yoancr rau whekeav cured to a vause ladv of that ottr. araaoeed au stral to tbe romantic cemetery a few since. She. demurred at first, bat as be aaa going away to Atlantic Ci?y she &aerea seated. At the, cemetery they sat Mf' watch the moon, and the voear aamlML asleep. Presently his lips moved wtmaailtsWl deariug speech, and be breatbed ate aasse, "Mollie." His lady love, aflame wMh aieaagq jumped up and gave him a push tbat-sea W agbj tbe4 tteg rolling down the bank and crass lngsbrongh the brush till a railiafstooDed htaa Jlteetbe- 1i VmrllMtnsn ....rt 111 aAlni. XT la -n H.Mllillll. by the sea, and the betrothal la huag trVfc- : Clty.Ind., is one of the natural earteseMes oi that region. It received its same over 78 years ago. when a pioneer erected hie cabiaoa tee hill and began a clearing. The seMer was so disturbed by tbe frequent aad of tea violent shaking of the earth that he decided tc was un 'saf e to live there and removed ta another snot. He often stated tbat tbe shocks were so strong tbat the dishes in tbe cupboard rattled. The rocking jar or shaking of the bill would only occur at intervals sometimes several months between spells, and always the worst aad most ililUliUliSfr ,tfM- violent in damp, heavy, wet weatterTbe bin w, is still uninhabited, and all attempts to sofvoB tbe mystery hare failed. -- The "Avery oak" is an ancient tree which stands on land now owned by Mr. J-'T. Clark, Dedbam, Mass-, and where once stcod -'-the house of Dea-Averyafter whose name the -f tree; was called. It is much older than theW town, which is 233 years old. It measures IS feet in circumference near tbe bottom of the trunk. .Its top has been mucn twisted'and -torn by the storms of centuries, but tbe tree is 1 still cherished as a proud specimen of tbo V stately growth of its old companions of the forestr Seventy dollars was offered for it to be i used for timber in building the frigate Ceesti- tution, but refused by the owner. Tbe tree is imprinted upon tbe town seal. It has been pre- ? sentea to the Dedham Historical Society by Mr. Clark. " ' On of the most accommodating prison- ' ers lately beard from is named Jack Meeds, and he 13 now a resident of Alfred, Mentor a limited period. He aad another prisoner named Dalton were taken to Alfred jail In a wagon Tuesday by one George Haley. Oa the way the driver found his road blocked by two work teams, and tbe driver, whose team was on the right hand side, refusing to budge, Haley tried td drive byn-im, with the result that the wagon was over turned. While the driver's'' attention was occupied in holding the horse, Dalton started on a run across the field. Meeds, instead of showing a disposition to follow, beld, the horse while Haley ran Dalton down and brought blm back, helped patch np tbe broken harness, and finally offered to walk np it Haley would give him his mittimus. The team was repaired at last, and the trio reached the jail without further mishaps. FUN AND PHILOSOPHY.,! . Wifely Care. "John,Jdo tie aknotinyow' handkerchief before you go to bed so as not to JerV get to get up to-morrow at i o'clock." tlltjmde Blatter. "-liSBfe A Consoling Thought "No," sobbed the widow. "I sball never find John's equaVibnt p-perbaps 1 c-can flndh-hls equivalent, l-fifer-per's Bazar. . . ;3. Briggs Hello, Bragss! I've jaatgot, back from the lakes, you know BraggsI'a very sorry, my boy, but I haven't got "eeaU-si Terrs Haute Express. US Jake Flathers looks like a JreaklKBlf wonder why he dresses scr terribly lond.'gAlfg Well the poor fellow Is quite deaf and I suppose , he doesn't realize lt.-LigM. J0B$7 What Need to Ask. "Are yoa still at Vassar, Miss Jonkins!" j "Yes." "FT " "And what Is your favorite course?" "Oh, dessert, by all means." Harper's Bazar. Self-Preservation. Wealthy Old Gent What! Marry my daughter. You are being up ported by your father." Snltor Yes, sir, bat my father is tired of sup porting me. and I thonght I'd better get into an other family. i'eut lork Weekly. A Good Suggestion. "Ed? Why, he' goin' to take out a license to write poetry,, IF think." Didn't know they bad to have a license to write poetry." "Waal, I'm party sure they do, 'etrz I heard id talkln 'bout poetical license. "Harper's JSasar. Sure Enough. "Bosalind, do you know what tbe people here are saying?" "Ho, mother. Wlfatr" That yoa are going to marry Mr. Van Ant werp." "How ridiculous. Did you ever knoiraglrlto marry the man to whom she became engaged at a summer resort?; ' Harper' tSatar. - Bad Place for Footpads. First Footpad Where ye been? - i Second rootpad-Down la Kentucky. 'Jlott starred. "Ye did?" Yes- Fast T rAmliftn'it rtn ilrnnWtt men. I found they hadn't any money, because thtvM pent it all; tbed Ibegun goto fer'sobermen, bat I found they hadn't aby money, or they wonlda'tJ 'a been sober. Kentucky la no place ftr bar- workln' genu like us." Sew Xork Meekly. An Unexpected Call. The fenrtain had risen on the last act of the play and the diabolical plot of the villain was aboat to be exposed ia alU itshldeoatness. "k, 8addenlyherewas a commotion near the eal trance and a voice called ont breathlessly: . "Is Dr. Kallowmell in the audience?" -Jgf With tbo grave, preoccupted manner ofajaan on whose skill the life of some fellqw, crea ture might depend, the doctor arose frontlhts eat near tbe stage aad passed slowly dewpUhe aisle. ' JSS "What U it?" he asked. 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